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Hayy stated that a woman suffered insults and threats during a manifestation in support of the re-election of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), which took place on Sunday (11) on Avenida Paulista in São Paulo. According to the author, the Military Police escorted her out of the location while the hostilities continued; he ironically referred to the protesters as the "left of love." #Lula #Manifestações #DireitosHumanos (translated)

POPTime reported that the influencer and comedian João Ferdnan declared his vote for Lula in the second round. Ferdnan said he would vote for the candidate identified by the number 13 on the 23rd and 25th and stated that he didn't need to take a political stance to win someone over, as he had a girlfriend. https://t.co/MP7ExcZNb0 #Lula #Eleições2022 #PolíticaBrasileira (translated)

Rogério Marinho asked the public not to believe in what he classified as misinformation from the left. He stated that Flávio Bolsonaro would not end the Bolsa Família and that his commitment was to maintain the benefit and make it more efficient for those in need. Marinho also defended that Brazil should move forward and asked for votes for number 22 on October 25. #PL22 #Vote22 #Bolsafamília #FlávioBolsonaro #Bolsafamília #Vote22 #Desinformação (translated)

The BTS Project Brazil stated that leftist publications faced a possible wave of censorship on social media in recent weeks, especially on TikTok and also on X. According to the profile, videos with allegations and information of public interest received warnings for unverified content. The profile mentioned that some of the videos dealt with alleged crimes attributed to a presidential candidate and his supporters, as well as the fire at UFPE and behaviors it classified as violent by people linked to the right during peaceful protests organized by the left. It questioned why this type of content received warnings and encouraged followers to share, download, and repost the videos. The publication included the hashtags #FandomsNoMasp, #FandomsComLula, and #ArmysComLula. #FandomsNoMasp #FandomsComLula #ArmysComLula #Censura #LiberdadeDeExpressão #Democracia (translated)

Jones Manoel stated that 14 young people from Gravatá, in the interior of Pernambuco, were detained on Saturday (October 10) after a lambe activity in the streets, and that there was an attempt to frame the case as electoral crime. He said that the activists were denouncing actions by Flávio Bolsonaro and disputed the accusations of disseminating false news, stating that the material had journalistic foundation. Manoel described lambe-lambe as a historical form of popular communication used by social movements, artists, and political organizations to bring ideas and denunciations to the streets. He argued that any issues regarding heritage, property, or the use of public space should be addressed through legal means, without intimidation or selective criminalization. The author also stated that the actions of the activists were being treated as a police case, while other forms of advertising occupied the streets, and attributed to Bolsonaro's supporters a systematic strategy of intimidation to block the political change he advocated. #LiberdadeDeExpressão #Militância #LambeLambe (translated)

Dawisson Belém Lopes said he had seen the content of the channel "Exército do Lula," managed by Janones, and evaluated that it was mainly an introduction to digital literacy, which, according to him, was lacking on the left. He considered the content legitimate and predicted that censorship would have no effect, as the seed had already been planted. #Lula #LetramentoDigital #LiberdadeDeExpressão (translated)

Lanzin stated that it was estimated that 2 million people participated in an event with Lula on Avenida Paulista in defense of democracy and labor rights. He said that the left had awakened. #LULANAPAULISTA https://t.co/D2Cg4gePBI #Lula #Democracia #DireitosTrabalhistas (translated)

Daniella Marques stated that there were 14 days left until the elections and that she was focusing her efforts on Flávio Bolsonaro's presidential campaign. She said she was participating in daily campaign events to talk to Brazilians about proposals and to combat what she called the "criminal network of fake news from the left." She also rejected the idea that her connections were being used to speculate about arrangements that, according to her, did not exist, and she asked for votes for Flávio Bolsonaro, number 22. #Eleições2022 #VoteFlávioBolsonaro #FakeNews (translated)

Jones Manoel stated that the Bolsonaroist reaction in the first round of 2026 was surprising, although not entirely unexpected, and highlighted relevant victories and possibilities for the future of the Brazilian left. https://t.co/hOVExhWT15 #Brasil #Esquerda #Eleições2026 (translated)

Biazita Gomes stated that TikTok has also been censoring leftist videos intensively, despite the attention given to Meta's censorship. According to her, this has been happening since Oracle began managing TikTok in the United States. #Censura #TikTok #LiberdadeDeExpressão (translated)

Xico Graziano criticized Lilia Schwacz for a video in which, according to him, the professor said she would use Pix as much as possible because Flávio Bolsonaro could end the system by order of Donald Trump. Graziano classified the statement as false and questioned whether Schwacz knew this or truly believed that a victory for Bolsonaro would leave Brazil subservient to the United States. The author highlighted that Schwacz was a professor of Anthropology at USP, a Global Scholar from Princeton, an award-winning writer, and the owner of the publishing house Cia das Letras. He also stated that she was elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters in March 2024 for chair 9. Graziano compared the video to her inauguration speech two years earlier, in which, according to him, Schwacz had advocated for the strengthening of institutions and citizenship. Graziano questioned whether the professor had used her prestige to deceive the public and speculated about the reasons for the publication, mentioning the possibility that she had consumed alcohol or was out of touch with reality due to living in an academic bubble. He also associated the episode with what he described as an old ideology of the Brazilian intellectual left, formed in the 1950s and 1960s and still linked to the class struggle. #FakeNews #Cidadania #Antropologia (translated)

Julio Schneider used derogatory language to refer to a person on the left and criticized what he considered two different criteria: according to him, deaths from Covid were attributed to Bolsonaro, while deaths from dengue during Lula's government were attributed to the mosquito. https://t.co/FiMgbItgij #Política #Brasil #COVID19 (translated)

Raul Sena stated that the left's strategy would hardly regain votes. According to him, the left presented the dispute as a fight between good and evil, in which voting against Lula would mean being on the wrong side of history, but people knew voters of Flávio who they considered good, honest, and hardworking. Sena said that this comparison weakened the narrative and made people feel manipulated. He also claimed that the speeches were becoming increasingly aggressive and tried to convince through fear and hostility. In Sena's assessment, treating someone as a horrible person usually did not make them change their vote. #Política #Eleições2024 #DebatePolítico (translated)

The author noted that Pedro Passos Coelho would give an interview to Maria João Avillez on SIC Notícias, between 9 PM and 10 PM, and argued that his governance should be reassessed in light of the financial conditions he encountered. According to the author, Portugal had already requested external assistance when Passos Coelho arrived at the Government in 2011, and the adjustment program of 78 billion euros had been negotiated before he took office. He maintained that during the legislature, exports rose from about one-third of GDP to nearly 40% in 2015, including tourism, and that the tourism sector gained strategic momentum. Regarding privatizations, he acknowledged that some operations were questionable and warranted scrutiny but argued that they allowed the collection of billions of euros, the amortization of public debt, and reduce financing needs and interest burdens. He also considered that cuts in the public sector were painful but questioned what the alternatives would have been when the State could no longer finance itself normally. The author further highlighted that Portugal completed the financial assistance program in 2014 and returned to market financing without a precautionary program, recovering, in his view, decision-making leeway. He stated that Passos Coelho was the most relevant politician of the century in Portugal for having made unpopular decisions and contributed to an economic change whose effects surpassed his Government. #Portugal #Política #Economia (translated)

Lia Lightwood told Sebastianl0v3r and Maluparis that each evangelical church had an interpreter. She also stated that the left was mobilizing to show what it considered Flávio's absurdities, but many people could not understand the message being conveyed. #IgrejaEvangelica #Politica #Brasil (translated)

Hayy affirmed that a man who had created a group with 3 million people gathered only 6,000 viewers in a live broadcast and ridiculed the result. He also said that the left still hadn't realized that he would be taking advantage of Lula's defeat to try to gain votes in the next term, after losing the current one. https://t.co/37CbFhqweE #Política #Brasil #Eleições (translated)