Shoulda let Malachi Toney throw more.

"In conversations with close aides, Lula has begun referring to the son of Jair Bolsonaro, Eduardo, as 'my #10,'" an ironic nod to his lobbying for Trump tariffs and sanctions that have given the Brazilian leader a boost in popularity. oglobo.globo.com/blogs/malu-g...

For Bessent’s $20 billion bet on Argentina to pay off, a lot of things have to go right. The problem is that in Argentina -- a nation with a track record of squandering other people’s money and defaulting on its own debts -- those things have tended to go wrong. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump and Brazil’s Lula spoke by phone Monday. The man who inspired their months-long battle — Jair Bolsonaro — didn’t merit a mention. It’s too early for Lula to declare victory. But the leader known for an ability to charm sure seems to have momentum behind him. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Amanda Shires spent an afternoon introducing me to Lubbock and a small portion of those very fun hours is now chronicled in Texas Monthly ahead of her new album :) gift link: www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta...

Jair Bolsonaro found guilty of attempting a coup in Brazil after his 2022 defeat. A historic ruling for a country that has had more than a dozen coup attempts in its past but never before prosecuted such a high-ranking official for one. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“There is good reason to think” SCOTUS “will use this case to conclude its war on the Voting Rights Act.” “In doing so, the court would extinguish a law that more than any other made the promise of American democracy a reality,” @jamellebouie.net writes. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...

Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro was placed under house arrest Monday, ahead of his trial on charges he attempted a coup. Now the question is if Trump, who’s threatened tariffs and sanctioned a top court judge, will further escalate his pressure campaign against Brazil. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that

I will say this again and again until the cap fetishists get it. There is a 1:1 correlation between "leagues that have broken their unions" and "leagues with a payroll cap." Let that be a clue as to who wins in a cap system.

what a year

Chloe Kelly rules.

History forgot the horrors endured by laborers on Volkswagen's massive cattle ranch in the Brazilian Amazon. But a priest had recorded it all. Absolutely outstanding reporting and storytelling here. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

Trump Effect arrives in Brazil? New Bloomberg/AtlasIntel survey shows approval of Brazil’s Lula nearing 50% amid Trump tariff fight, best levels of the year. 50% say tariffs are attack on Brazil. 63% of Brazilians now say they hold negative view of Trump. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers seek permission to file an amended complaint in his civil case in Maryland. Among other things, the amended complaint “includes Abrego Garcia's first-hand account of torture and mistreatment at CECOT…”

“In Cell 15, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia and 20 other Salvadorans were forced to kneel from approximately 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM, with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion. During this time, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied bathroom access and soiled himself…”

The US citizenship process is already ridiculously arduous and dehumanizing and the government wants to turn it up to 100. www.thedailybeast.com/kristi-noem-...

Chicago Pope's here

Given his reputation for caring for the poor and downtrodden, he is likely a White Sox fan.

Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water. A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Brazil's football federation denied plans to wear red jerseys at the 2026 World Cup after a rash of political backlash. The country's iconic yellow shirt is (and has been) a marker of right-wing politics. Red is of course the color of the left and Lula's party. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trampled to death by a horse called Pivot to Video

BRICS officials are meeting in Rio this week for the first time since Trump upended the global economy. It’s a chance to seize influence with the G20 and UN faltering — if they can overcome divisions over how to approach the US as Trump’s trade war rages. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The very difficult problem here is American voters don't want people to cheat on the pathway to legal immigration and naturalization that they are fully convinced exists. But they also don't like when law abiding but illegal people are treated too harshly.

I don't think people realize that in important respects tariffs are now higher & more inflationary than what was announced on last Wednesday. Since then we've gone from 54% to 125% on China, our 3rd largest trading partner. That outweighs delaying the increases on 70+ others.

Trump’s decision to boost tariffs on almost every country will deal a blow to China’s economy. But it’s also handing Xi Jinping a rare opening to deepen relationships across the board, including with key US allies in Asia and beyond. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Former Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro will stand trial on allegations that he attempted a coup following his 2022 election defeat, after a Supreme Court panel unanimously voted to accept criminal charges against him. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

happy 10th anniversary (!!) to the greatest blog that ever blogged

Five members of Venezuela's opposition have spent the past year trapped in an Argentine embassy, living on rainwater and sardines, as forces of the Maduro regime stand watch

“Investors believed Mr. Trump would follow through on the parts of his agenda that they liked and scale back the more disruptive policies like tariffs if financial markets started to get spooked. “It is increasingly clear they were wrong.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/b...

It’s the dollar’s version of the Christ the Redeemer covers.

(WSJ) - The world economy could face a crash similar to the Great Depression of the 1930s unless the U.S. rows back on its plans to impose steep tariffs on imports, a senior official at the International Chamber of Commerce warned. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

If Brazil wins a World Baseball Classic qualifier on Carnaval Tuesday I’m declaring it the new national sport.

*S&P 500 ERASES ELECTION GAIN, WIPING OUT $3.4 TRILLION IN VALUE

Ex-Brazil President Bolsonaro charged with plotting coup after 2022 election loss to Lula. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"You don’t really need to draw any elaborate comparisons or jump through any hoops to say that the online presence of Trumpists in his second term is “like” Gamergate. It just straightforwardly is Gamergate..." maxread.substack.com/p/soy-right-...

Seventy-one-year-old woman dies after being sent home from USAID funded hospital. Others die after hospitals close in refugee camps www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

The AP says a reporter was blocked from an event in the Oval Office because it doesn't use "Gulf of America." www.ap.org/the-definiti...

SCOOP from @nbcnews.com — A senior FEMA official instructed subordinates to freeze funding for a wide array of grant programs Monday, just hours after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration — for the second time — to stop such pauses. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

I am extremely freaking thrilled to announce that Bad Company is *officially* available for preorder wherever you buy books. (I am linking to Bookshop but buy it wherever!) I worked so, so hard on this book, and it would mean a ton to me if you ordered it. bookshop.org/a/109816/978...

Brazil's drug gangs are now bringing in more cash from cigarettes, fuel and products like gold than they do from cocaine. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

You’d never see me in public again.

The shut down of USAID is threatening the response to a new Ebola outbreak in Uganda. www.cbsnews.com/news/some-u-...

Sheinbaum got Trump to blink on tariffs for a miniscule price that was mostly for show. Mexico’s not out of the woods yet, but it’s an early win for the new president who’s faced questions about how she’d deal with her volatile northern neighbor. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The main office of the US Agency for International Development in Washington was unexpectedly closed Monday and workers were emailed shortly after midnight that they should not come in, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.

Elon’s lieutenants demanded access to the government’s payment system and all the data therein. A longtime civil servant refused. He was put on administrative leave, and is now out. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/u...

Lula says Brazil will retaliate if Trump places new tariffs on its goods. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...