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(Francisco) Javier Thayer Fábrega. AKA 'Buelo (by grandkids). AKA Mr. Worst-case-scenario (by wife) Colegio Javier 1964, UC Berkeley AB 1968, Harvard Ph.D. Math 1972. Snotty Francophile. Apostate (NOT Apostolic) Catholic. Democrat. Modal realist.

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Folha de S.Paulo @folha.com · 2h
Estudantes em Curitiba foram às ruas da capital paranaense na noite desta quinta-feira (8) para uma manifestação na região central da cidade em apoio à reeleição do presidente Lula (PT). 📲 Leia mais na #Folha: mla.bs/383cb01b73 🎦📝 Catarina Scortecci
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 13h
He doesn't know exactly.
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 13h
Listen up Usha. Grab the kids and get outta here before you and the kids are taken by ICE and sent to a detention camp.
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Didn’t he say “ it would be a small price to pay” or something very close to that? It doesn’t seem to me that the conclusion we should draw from that statement is that he would then rain hell on them.
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In this guy’s addled mind he might think nuking something in Iran might lead to the surrender of the regime or a popular uprising. It would more likely lead to mass casualties.
theatlantic.com
Trump Is Considering a Plan to Strike Iran Before the Midterms
Pentagon planners are weighing options, though no final decision has been made.
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Looks great for Halloween.
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bingley567 @bingley567.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ampliação do mandato? É MAGA mesmo. Mandato Ampliado Gente Adiante
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
That's the GOD is LOVE religion. The GOD is a WARRIOR is another religion.
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“It’s going to be a long night,” she tells him. “And I don’t particularly like the book I’ve started. You know what I mean?” Even I, a good little Catholic boy at the time, knew what she meant.
nytimes.com
Eva Marie Saint, Oscar Winner for ‘On the Waterfront,’ Is Dead at 102 (Gift Article)
A luminous beauty with dramatic depth, she brought a layered intensity to harrowing roles and seduced Cary Grant in the romantic thriller “North by Northwest.”
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Well I don’t think we need to argue about that.
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The guy you are complaining about has 189 followers. Your time might be better spent going to Downtown Crossing and arguing with whomever is the orator du jour
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Discordo. Essa analogia não é válida. Em todo caso, vejo que não vamos chegar a um acordo. Fim da discussão
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Bom, já é um pouco mais nuançado. Mas o esforço industrial foi crucial: os EUA superaram os inimigos na produção de aviões, tanques, navios, munições, Sem esse esforço não seria possivel a invasão de Normandia e da Äfrica em 1942. E mesmo os resistentes franceses contavam com o apoio dos yanquis.
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
É fácil dizer, mas a potência militar da Alemanha não iria cair sozinha, mesmo com o avanço das forças soviéticas no leste.
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Por isso postei ontem o seguinte, no só pelo mal-estar na França mas na Alemanha, na italia, no Brasil, no Chile, na Argentina, na COlombia. Temos que parar of fascismo aquí nos USA. Desta vez não é pela invasão na Normandia bsky.app/profile/javi...
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Depois do resultado do primeiro turno..a partir de agora, as eleições presidenciais em USA são tão importantes, senão mais importantes que as eleições presidenciais aqui é possível que até as eleições de meio mandato nos Estados Unidos sejam mais importantes que qualquer eleição no Brasil.
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Another great article from this guy.
theatlantic.com
Hegseth’s One Percent
A cult of military superiority over civilians is not only unwarranted, but actively dangerous.
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There is malaise, uncertainty & fear worldwide. Into this darkness, marches fascism with its fellow travelers, including Christian nationalism. It's on the march here as well, but if it is to be stopped anywhere it has be stopped here. Will America again be the crucial agent that defeats fascism?
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Le Monde: [C]e mouvement traduit une angoisse plurielle, à la fois en raison de conditions d’enseignement qui se sont objectivement dégradées et des perspectives d’avenir incertaines. **La réponse du gouvernement, essentiellement répressive, risque de renforcer la colère.**
lemonde.fr
Le mouvement lycéen, singulier et déjà historique, s’ancre sur le manque de moyens et les « ratés de la massification scolaire »
ANALYSE. Parti d’une mobilisation spontanée en banlieue parisienne, ce mouvement, inédit depuis des décennies par son ampleur, traduit une angoisse plurielle, à la fois en raison de conditions d’ensei...
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/eleico...
www1.folha.uol.com.br
Eleições: Apuração ao vivo e resultado para presidente | Folha | Folha
Confira aqui o resultado das eleições 2026 para Presidência da República. Veja apuração dos votos em tempo real por estado e quem disputa o segundo turno.
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You know as well as I do that he has superman abilities. He will demonstrate that by jumping off of Trump tower and show us he can fly! I know he can do it! My only question is..why wait till November?
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
J.D. Vance is a WINNER! JD has an overpowering presence that will sway any audience and turn the most diehard liberal into give-my0life-for-TRUMP Magat! I can hear it now!! WE WANT VANCE! WE WANT VANCE! WE WANT VANCE! WE WANT VANCE! WE WANT VANCE! WE WANT VANCE!
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
That is a great film!
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
C'est la guerre totale. Et Donald Trump veut nous mettre dans le mauvais côté.
lemonde.fr
EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : la Russie promet de continuer ses « frappes de représailles massives » sur Kiev et appelle « les diplomates à quitter la ville »
Des bombardements russes ont touché, samedi, l’important pont Pivnitchny, à Kiev, deux jours après l’attaque du pont Pivdenny, dans le Sud, a annoncé le maire de la capitale ukrainienne. On dénombre d...
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good for him! What about Boston?
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A good (and hilariously funny) account of the upcoming election in Brazil
youtu.be
Brazil Elections 2026: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Shame Roberts. Let him live in shame for the rest of his life.
nytimes.com
John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him. (Gift Article)
After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
[E]leições em meio ao receio do governo brasileiro de interferência de Trump no pleito, que desde que retornou à Casa Branca travou uma guerra tarifária com o Brasil e seu governo foi marcado por diversas sanções.
folha.com
Trump diz que acompanha as eleições do Brasil 'de perto' e que pleito é 'muito importante'
Presidente dos EUA elogiou o país e disse que 'as pessoas do Brasil são fantásticas'
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You have to read this piece by Mr Bowtie himself @eliotacohen.bsky.social. It's brutal.
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Generals Jim Mattis and David Petraeus, and Admirals James Stavridis and William McRaven—readers and thinkers whose imagination and understanding of the military profession extend far beyond the Hegsethian conception of push-ups, pull-ups, and annual testosterone tests.
theatlantic.com
Pete Hegseth’s Magic Marker
The secretary of defense strikes another blow against military preparedness.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW. Phillips O'Brien explains the problem isn't merely Trump and Hegseth. "The military didn’t prepare for this war. So the military bears [some] responsibility for failures...And I don’t know now whether they are capable of speaking truth to power." youtu.be/-pp7dTdIB1U?...
youtu.be
Phillips O'Brien on Ukraine, Iran, and What's Next
YouTube video by Conversations with Bill Kristol
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Of course I'm kidding. Hawks, Hawkeyes, Ethan Hawke, Stephen Hawking, What the hawk do I know?
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Or maybe he was watching Ethan Hawke Before Sunrise.
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I've been thinking about my views on life after death. Heaven seems nice, not likely, and peace and quiet would be good enough for me. But I sure hope there is a Hell with lots of fire and a clock with a countdown to infinity which always stays at +∞
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Falls apart? Not so fast. Trump hasn't addressed the matter yet. If he says Jack Smith was at the Hawks game, then Jack Smith **was** at the Hawks game. That's the way "truth" works now.
nytimes.com
Jack Smith Defends Trump Charges as Senator’s Perjury Claim Falls Apart (Gift Article)
A Republican eager to prove the former special counsel was dishonest appeared to instead demonstrate his own confusion over basic facts.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How is it possible that we’re still here twelve years later
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here's something to think about: Ken Paxton and his white supremacist ilk know that prisons in this country are camps of despair and therefore in their logic are suitable only for people of color and minorities. t follows in this perverted logic that no white Christian should have to rot in one.
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Measles making a comeback!
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Allons les gars, laissez les bons temps rouler !
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The GOP is putrid. Well, Rove helped it along this process of putrefaction. He now smells that his political power may be washed away once the garbage collectors are done. It may be too late Karl, but you can do the decent thing and tell everyone that whatever remains of GOP should be wiped away.
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lendo isso em português soa esquisito. Entre paréntesis, español es mi lengua materna, pero a veces se me mezcla con el portugués, porque viví muchos años en Brasil
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It should be noted that Brazilians have no beef with Argentina (pun intended) other than the dislike of Argentinians overtly racist behavior in soccer matches.
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The old ploy of unpopular governments in Argentina. Now Milei has Trump's ear as he looks to rearm to get another stab at the Malvinas. That should make the Brits happy. Not. Brazilians watch with delight as yet another Argentine gov't falls into this trap.
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trump still hasn't run out of options. He could order Hegseth to blow it up as a "space force" exercise. Or worse. He could rename it "The Trump Space Telescope".
open.substack.com
The Space Race You Never Heard About
Scientists raced to finish a new telescope before Trump could cancel the funding. And they won.
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This guy is unbelievably stupid.
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Not much I can comment here.I'm happy to see her leave that oppressive marriage. A bit off topic, it reminded me of the 10s of thousands of Filipino girls that work as live-in maids in Hong Kong. Their one moment of freedom is Sunday when they gather in parks throughout the city in festive spirit.
nytimes.com
Bernadine Bluntly’s Brand Was Tradwife. Then She Got Divorced. (Gift Article)
What happens when a trad influencer leaves her husband, questions her beliefs, stops selling anti-feminism T-shirts — and still needs to make a living online?
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javier 🇺🇦 @javiertf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In Brazil ... Laranjeiras in Rio de Janeiro, Today it is one of the city’s most charming, culturally rich corners, home to tree-lined streets, traditional bars and a lively Saturday market complete with live choro music. Eu morava là: Rua Pereira da Silva
timeout.com
Five Latin American neighbourhoods have been named among the world’s coolest by Time Out
Here’s where to eat, drink and hang out in Latin America, according to our local experts
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