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Michael Shellenberger.

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Whole World Can See Lula And Moraes, By Forcing Bolsonaro Into Exile, Are Turning Brazil Into A Banana Republic

Meanwhile, the fake news bill Lula’s government backed has been stalled since April 2024, right around when David Ágape and Eli Vieira, both exiled, and I published the Twitter Files - Brazil.
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Meanwhile, Lula has little in the way of an agenda beyond the censorship he promised more of in his victory speech, which could further corrode his legitimacy. He won 51.8% of valid votes after losing the first round 47% to 45%. Datafolha’s last pre-runoff reading had 41% of voters rating his government bad or terrible against 35% good or great; 50% disapproved of him.

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We’re Happy To Announce “The Left’s War on Reality”

The Left dominates major societal institutions from the media to law to medicine to academia. If we are to prevent the harm it seeks to enact on nations, communities, and individual lives, we must understand how and why it wages war on reality. Please go to Amazon now to pre-order your copy of our book.
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The damage is a feature, not a bug. The borders weren’t left open by accident. Doctors knew that their “care” could sterilize confused adolescents. And blue states openly boast of spending billions of dollars to maintain a population of street addicts.

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