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URGENT: PF points out that the lobbyist Roberta Luchsinger ordered her driver to make payments to members of the top leadership of the Ministry of Social Development of the Lula government and that she kept cash in suitcases at her residence. Exchanged messages indicate cash payments for the accounts of Ranniêr Costa, deputy executive secretary of the ministry led by Wellington Dias, and for José Martinho Ferreira de Araújo, the current coordinator of the ceremony for the department. (translated)

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Four women who suffered sexual abuse as children by a clergy member at the Catholic school of Loctudy are asking the Pope for concrete reforms after sharing their testimonies, highlighting the urgent need for change in the Church. (translated)

"Stuprata a nove anni": le testimonianze delle vittime che chiedono al Papa di cambiare la Chiesa

URGENT - Jorge Messias and Andrei Rodrigues clashed directly and exchanged words in front of Lula after the AGU suspected espionage. (translated)

#URGENT | Marco Rubio on the blockades against María Corina Machado to return to Venezuela: “I was here all day yesterday, so I'm not sure what you're talking about; but... María Corina is very brave. We love her very much. I have known her for many years and have communicated with her a lot; but, and my intention is not to minimize her, there are 8 million Venezuelans who left the country. Our policy is that we want to see that community return to their country. We want to reach a point where they feel confident to return.” (translated)

They are writing to me: - Gregor Prosen, head of the Emergency Center @UKCMaribor, is said to have resigned yesterday. He has long been warning the management of UKC Maribor about the unsustainable staffing conditions and schedules, proposing specific plans on how to obtain additional help and relieve the team, but there has been no response from the management. The situation is quite serious and tense. Already in August, three specialists resigned, and there is practically no interest in 100% employment at the Maribor Clinical Center due to the current conditions. The remaining team of doctors is also said to be seriously considering a collective resignation, as they do not expect the situation to improve. Due to the lack of staff, the quality of patient care is already suffering. If this continues, problems with providing emergency clinics are also expected. (sources from UKC Maribor) (translated)

#URGENT | Marco Rubio said that yesterday's meeting with Delcy Rodríguez was "short but important" and reports on what was discussed: The restructuring of the debt, stabilization of the economy, and a political transition. "We need to rebuild the necessary institutions to have free and fair elections, which is critical." (translated)

The parallel government that Master exposed There is something much more sinister in the Master scandal than the negotiations themselves. O Globo revealed messages from Vorcaro's cell phone in which his then-lawyer, Walfrido Warde, reports the construction of a dialogue with Lula's government. In April 2024, he said that Marcola, Lula's chief of staff, was asking for the email with the "group's interests." In September: "I was with President Lula for a long time yesterday. You'll like it." In January 2025, he reported that the president had "once again thanked for the whisky." The Planalto denies the whisky and the messages. It only admits what it cannot deny: Lula received Vorcaro on December 4, 2024, outside the official agenda. Warde now says he was dealing with Marcola and other government members, not directly with Lula. In other words, the dialogue with the Planalto existed. And look who the messenger is. Warde's office had Roberta Rangel as a partner, who was then Toffoli's wife. Toffoli later took on the rapporteurship of the Master case and only let go of it when links between his family environment and characters and funds related to the case came to light. Moraes's wife's office had a contract worth R$ 131 million with Master, R$ 3.6 million per month, to act in inquiries from the Federal Police, the Central Bank, the Revenue Service, the CADE, and Congress. The Lewandowski family's office received R$ 250,000 monthly from the bank, a contract that continued while he was Minister of Justice. In December 2024, Vorcaro instructed his legal director to call the minister's son: "We have a contract. He needs to be called urgently. [...] And give some case or opinion for him to do." Here is the exposed juristocracy: powerful lawyers, former ministers, and relatives of ministers circulating between the Planalto, Esplanada, and Supreme Court, with the same key for all doors. This is not the lobby that has always existed, however nefarious it may be. The traditional lobby sought interests: a contract, a favorable rule. It pressured power but remained outside. The network exposed by Master evolved to exercise effective political control of the country: it defines who is investigated and who is spared, who is censored, who goes to prison, and who can run for election. It became a parallel government that swallowed the institutions and holds the power in fact, without ever having received a vote. And it took the authoritarian path in 2019 when the Supreme Court opened an inquiry into fake news by decree, without the Public Prosecutor's Office. One of its first acts was to censor a report linking Toffoli to Marcelo Odebrecht. To protect the network, it was necessary to silence those who exposed it. After that, repression only expanded. In the name of combating "antidemocratic acts," thousands went through the machine of inquiries and processes, profiles were censored, and hundreds ended up behind bars. The exceptional became permanent: questioning the system came to mean being treated as its enemy. The most serious: no control mechanism stopped the network in time. It only emerged when Master collapsed. And even when exposed, it does not correct itself. In December 2025, Gonet shelved the investigation request on Moraes's wife's contract. Now, claiming procedural vice, he seeks the annulment of the Federal Police report that dedicated almost 190 out of 218 pages to Moraes. Detail: Gonet's own name appears in the messages. The offensive for protection is open. Four ministers have already aligned: Gilmar, Zanin, and Moraes himself voted to unite, thus tying Moraes's case to the judgment of supposed irregularities of Mendonça, the minister who exposed the report; Dino, who also expressed support for the union, requested a pause and interrupted the judgment. And Zanin has just denied, for now, the injunction that would force the Senate to install the CPI on Moraes, Toffoli, and Vorcaro, which has been stalled since March with 41 signatures. And who holds the CPI? The president of the Senate, Davi Alcolumbre. According to Veja, in a rejected plea bargain proposed to the Federal Police, Vorcaro reported paying US$ 30 million to the senator, in an overseas account, in exchange for support for the bank's interests. Alcolumbre denies it. It is the same Alcolumbre who, according to a message from Fábio Faria to Vorcaro obtained by the Federal Police, was "crazy asking if the Swiss will come" to a banker’s party. It was precisely his alleged omission that Zanin deemed unproven. Seven years have passed selling us "defense of democracy." Few businesses in Brazil yield so much. (translated)

URGENT - Jorge Messias and Andrei Rodrigues had a direct confrontation and exchanged words in front of Lula after the AGU suspected espionage. (translated)

🚨URGENT BOMB/ EVERYONE MUST SPREAD: To take care of the "strategic planning" (no one knows exactly what it is) of Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ), the campaign of the "son of the Myth (@FlavioBolsonaro)" sent R$ 1,500,000 (ONE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND REAIS) to a car rental company for DEPUTIES (which is not related to strategic security operations) whose capital is 250 times lower (R$ 6 thousand). And it gets worse: the owners of this establishment DO NOT have a visible history in the Security area and receive R$ 1.5 million from the electoral fund! (translated)

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⚠️URGENT: Jorge Messias and Andrei Rodrigues would have exchanged insults after the Attorney General of the Union suspected espionage. (translated)

#URGENT | State Department spokesperson disavows the obstacles to María Corina's return to Venezuela: “Secretary Rubio has told us that there are lines of communication with María Corina Machado and he has no reason to limit her movements.” (translated)

#URGENT | Paraguayan President Santiago Peña before the UN Assembly firmly calls for democracy in Venezuela: "I did not go to Venezuela to validate a regime. On the contrary: we believe that Venezuela also deserves democracy." (translated)

🔴 #URGENT | I ask the spokesperson of the PSOE, Montse Mínguez, about the votes of the deceased for the PSOE and the clan of drug traffickers they hired to threaten the judge of Badajoz. (translated)

URGENT! Meta has simply TAKEN DOWN the page that made the series with Porchat, in which the actor exposes Flávio Bolsonaro, Nikolas Ferreira, Igreja Lagoinha, and everyone involved with Vorcaro and Banco Master. The video went viral! Keep sharing a lot! (translated)

It is urgent to react with all forces to the barbarity that has been done to Maricarmen today. (translated)

URGENT: The Lagoinha Church, by NIKOLAS FERREIRA (@nikolas_dm, PL-MG) AND ANDRÉ VALADÃO, created BANKS where the FAITHFUL made deposits for EVANGELICAL PASTORS to earn MONEY FOR PRIVATE INVESTMENTS AND CONSTRUCTION OF TEMPLES! (translated)

URGENT - Zanin has just denied the request to force Alcolumbre to install the CPI of Banco Master (translated)

🔴URGENT The left throws pepper spray in a bathroom of Congress to blame Ana Vázquez Blanco and justify her expulsion. You just have to see Patxi López's last tweet, they are very good at cheating! (translated)

🔴URGENT. The Ivorian artist Toutmounkonnen Nicola wins the prestigious Praemium Imperiale for his work "It was this or Brad Pitt would die" (AFP). (translated)

We urgently need more trans creators on YouTube It's insane how many videos you watch where the YouTuber clearly doesn't understand the basics about LGBT and educates incorrectly about pronouns, gender identity, sexuality, dysphoria, dead names, non-binary, gender roles... (translated)