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New paper out in @globalpolicy.bsky.social Development Lending and Debt Discipline: The Political Economy of External Finance in Brazil onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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59% dos brasileiros preferem trabalhar por conta própria www1.folha.uol.com.br/mercado/2025...

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A esquerda apparatchik dizia que a Selic alta era conspiração de Campos Neto. Agora, com novo presidente do BC nomeado por Lula, a Selic vai a 14,75% — maior em 20 anos. E o que fazem? Atacam Campos Neto por ir ao setor privado. Hipocrisia pura. A decisão é técnica, sempre foi.

ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.

➡️ Diretor do Butantan fala em erradicar chikungunya no Brasil com vacina Nova vacina foi aprovada nessa segunda (14/4) pela Anvisa e deverá ser distribuída pelo SUS em regiões com maior incidência da chikungunya Leia: curt.link/PtpMH

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

Latam has been spared. Tariffs on many countries—especially Asia—are significantly higher. Those targeting Latam remain relatively low, hovering around 10%. Whether this reflects strategic priorities or political influence, it’s clear the region has been treated with relative leniency.

Lula says he's chosen his new institutional relations minister because she's a "pretty woman". Trying to defend Lula, Hoffmann argues that Bolsonaro was much worse, a real misogynist. Sure, but - can't we do better than either of them? www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/2025/0...

Artigo novo n’O Globo: por um “sul global” mais democrático e menos irresponsável oglobo.globo.com/opiniao/arti...

"Além de bagres e caranguejos, no colo do presidente há milhões de crianças pobres nascidas e por nascer, que sofrerão as piores consequências de sua ambiguidade." @marcelonleite.bsky.social certeiro, como sempre Estarrecedor esse projeto, em pleno ano de COP www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/marc...

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Tarcísio, reagindo à denúncia contra Bolsonaro: nega envolvimento do ex-presidente em plano golpista e afirma: "estamos juntos". E tem quem ainda considere Tarcísio um democrata, um centrista razoável, um bom gestor, uma boa alternativa. Boa sorte.

Wow

I don’t know… I think everyone is kinda underreacting to what’s happening in America.

PT insiste no erro. Vai entregar o Brasil a Tarcisio - um autoritário violento e perigoso, com muito mais capacidade do que Bolsonaro.

A new online petition is proposing that the country of Denmark buy California for a trillion dollars.

Lula quer explorar foz do Amazonas e fala em "lenga lenga do IBAMA" O real compromisso do Presidente Lula com o meio ambiente é, no mínimo, questionável. www1.folha.uol.com.br/ambiente/202...

It’s not The Onion

Colombian President Gustavo Petro said during a government meeting that cocaine is “not worse than whiskey” and that it's only illegal because it comes from Latin America.

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK overtook Britain’s Labour government in a national opinion poll for the first time yesterday evening, putting them in first place ahead of the main opposition Conservatives.

Thanks to George Conway for posting Caroline Kennedy's letter so everyone is informed about RFK Jr. Please repost far and wide.

Este sujeito é o maior perigo à democracia no Brasil, e ninguém está se dando conta.

José Dirceu para presidência do PT. O longo porém certo declínio do PT segue a todo vapor. www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/moni...

This is a very good essay www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/b...

Em ofício à Meta, AGU fala em ‘consequências nefastas’ do fim da checagem de fatos nas redes sociais

Mexican firefighters headed to LA

34 felonies. Unconditional discharge. No jail, no fine. If this were Latin America, people would sneer about impunity. What do you call it now?

This looks great! www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/b...

O chapéu estilo panamá do Lula é bonito, mas não combina com o terno - está bizarro. O chapéu é de palha e de cor clara. É informal. Deveria ser usado com camisa, sem paletó, de preferência de cor clara. Ou com terno claro. Com esse terno, Lula deveria usar chapéu estilo fedora, de cor escura.

He literally says “we’ve seen this approach work on X”. about.fb.com/news/2025/01...

Listening to this jazz masterpiece today. Desenhos, which Assis Brasil recorded aged 21. Why is this not more firmly established in the jazz canon? www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-xo...

What's up Blue Sky?