A Brazilian judge just ordered former President Lula da Silva released from Sergio Moro's prison. An extraordinary day in Brazil - for the world, given Lula's stature.

Bolivian Police cutting the indigenous flag - which had been Bolivia's 2nd official flag - off their uniforms. This coup is literally the opposite of restoring democracy, which is how it's being depicted in the western press. It's violent, racist, imperial Christian fanaticism:

There’s no getting around the fact - no matter how much one wants to - that Rachel@maddow ’s performance on Russiagate was one of the most paranoid, unhinged and fact-free debacles of sustained media propaganda, fear-mongering, conspiracy-mongering and deceit in many years:

The Mueller investigation is complete and this is a simple fact that will never go away: not one single American was charged, indicted or convicted for conspiring with Russia to influence the 2016 election - not even a low-level volunteer. The number is zero.

This is awesome. Portland's city officials - police, judges, mayor - insisted they have the right to search people's trash with no warrants. So local alt-weekly () went through their trash and published the contents (via )

Almost 100,000 people re-tweeted moronically & recklessly accusing Trump of *treason* for his Helsinki press conference, only for him now to casually admit it wasn't & deny he said it. Brennan is a pathological liar, a torture advocate, a killer & a icon: #Resistance 

A short two-minute video for those of you in the media pitifully insisting that no media reckoning is needed and journalists performed beautifully, soberly and responsibly throughout this whole saga:

Spike Lee with the question that will never stop being asked until it's finally answered: