The past is a foreign country. You could drive through Afghanistan as a hippie woman but places like Vietnam were worn torn and China was closed off to the outside world.
Now you can backpack through Vietnam and tour the Forbidden City of Beijing but the old hippie trail is nearly impossible to recreate.
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In the 1918 election, when most of Ireland voted overwhelmingly for Sinn Féin under Éamon de Valera, Trinity College Dublin and a constituency in South Dublin were once again the only places outside Ulster to elect Unionists
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With Lula’s win, we are now one step closer to preserving Earth’s largest rainforest.
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Gadi Eisenkot is the father of the so-called Dahyeh Doctrine used against southern suburbs of Beirut in '06: disproportionate retaliation and destruction of civilian infrastructure to establish deterrence. Then used in Gaza.
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Orange Order: “Catholics have a visceral hatred of the Orange Order”
“Some of our main problems now is with the middle class who believe they own the Ormeau,” says Noel Liggett, District Master of Ballynafeigh Loyal Orange Lodge, No 10, whose Orange Hall stands on the Ormeau Road.
“If you drive down the Ormeau Road in a bit of sunshine, you’ll see the coffee shops, all the guys sitting sipping their coffees. The older Prods will be down the side street, not really taking part. They look on us with contempt.”
Read the full interview here: irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/…
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The PBS documentary on Jonestown is genuinely amazing but there’s this great bit about Jim Jones’s career as a door to door pet monkey salesman where they talk to this woman and she’s like Oh yeah I remember Jim Jones. Bought a monkey from him. Anyways the monkey hanged itself.
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“the racist u-boat that kills you” basically perfect nazi technological artifact no notes
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Lana Del Rey gives $100 to woman trying to escape an abusive relationship while “rubberband” by Tate McRae plays in the background.
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FT’s report on Lula’s comeback says Flávio Bolsonaro’s “nine fingers” jab in the final debate, mocking the finger Lula lost in a factory accident at 17 while working nights, became a turning point.
The attack let Lula draw a sharp contrast between his own working-class history and Bolsonaro’s background, helping shift momentum in the runoff.
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From afar, Lula winning and Vucic losing on the same day is hard to ignore. A crystallization of a kind of global anti-nationalist wave that's as real as the steady far-right march we've all spoken and written about for the past decade. And it's cresting a week before US midterms
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LUIZ INÁCIO LULA DA SILVA
PRESIDENT OF BRAZIL 2027-2030
FOR THE FOURTH TIME
MOST VOTED MAN IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
IT'S OVER, WE WON⭐️🚩
L ∆ U Z
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I suspect that, when the final decision was made, more Brazilians preferred Lula—who, for all his faults, still represents the old Brazil (coastal, Catholic, Portuguese, SoDem)—over another Bolsonaro, who embodies the newer Americanization trend in Latin America, complete with its neo-Pentecostal craziness.
In a sense, Lula stands for traditional Brazilian culture and mores, whereas Bolso reeks of foreign influence and distinctly un-Brazilian ideas.
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"Growing anti-Indian rhetoric within the GOP is pushing some lifelong conservative Indian American voters to reconsider their allegiance to the Republican Party" huffpost.com/entry/gop-india…
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I think the fact that Marissa Mayer would voluntarily disclose this to a reporter is a pretty good demonstration of how deeply the culture of Silicon Valley has diverged from the rest of humanity
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The middle class Lula created coming in to save him from the chud revolt
(Using Poliwave.com)
Lula is losing votes in the rural areas compared to 2022, but is gaining bigly in urban and suburban areas compared to his prior election.
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If Lula does this it's the most remarkable turnaround from the greatest politician in contemporary Brazilian history. Astounding.
And maybe the biggest protagonist was not Lula, but digital berzerker André Janones, who got SEVEN PERCENT of the electorate in one whatsapp group
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