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Mac Margolis

@macmargolis.bsky.social
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Brazil by way of New England, Reporter, writer, opinionator, web flaneur, telling stories about Brazil and beyond for Bloomberg, NPR, Newsweek, Washington Post and others.

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Mac Margolis @macmargolis.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Like countless outsiders, I landed in Brazil to the beat of some of the world's most fabulous sounds. Bossa nova, MPB, samba - who could want more? Four decades on, and behold: sertanejo, Brazilian country music, is everywhere. And right behind it -- Gospel. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Forget Samba. Gospel Is the Soundtrack Behind a New Brazil
Latin America’s largest country is looking increasingly evangelical — a shift in faith that’s reshaping culture and power.
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Lúcia Guimarães @luciaguimaraes.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Âncora + visível (e + bem remunerada) do canal de cabo que abriga a centro-esquerda, autora de livros sobre história política, Rhodes Scholar, deu show de imaturidade editorial pegando a pergunta do site Metropolis para sugerir que a Casa Branca poderia se envolver numa fuga de Bolsonaro. Ridículo.
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Mac Margolis @macmargolis.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
So your quibble is with the headline? Not sure what your point is.
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Mac Margolis @macmargolis.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
I urge you to read the piece again, emphasis this graph: "This is the case in Mato Grosso, where mechanised farms typically take over spent pasture, displacing ranchers such as Nascimento into pristine areas of neighbouring Pará, in the eastern Amazon basin."
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Mac Margolis @macmargolis.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Thanks for your comments. But, this is not a story about which is the villain, soy or beef, but rather the link between the two. Mechanized farms take over spent pastures, pushing ranchers deeper into the rainforest, driving + felling, higher land prices, and demand for more roads.
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Mac Margolis @macmargolis.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
When you lose Joe Rogan...
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Mac Margolis @macmargolis.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Pope Francis leaves a formidable legacy which will be pondered & parsed for years. But worth remembering in these stupidly polarized times that he always listened, quarreled & learned with people of faith or without. To wit: his running convo w/ rabbi Abraham Skorka. www.newsweek.com/holy-book-62...
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A Holy Book
A pope and a rabbi begin a conversation ...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/03/2025
In response to President Trump’s executive orders and his all-out assault on government bureaucracy, federal judges across the U.S. have issued rulings at a blistering rate for the past two months. Read the key passages in several noteworthy rulings here.
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Judges Are Pushing Back on Trump’s Actions. Here’s a Look at Key Rulings.
Taken as a whole, the rulings represent an effort to thwart President Trump’s serial attempts to increase his power and the executive branch’s dominion over the government.
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Mac Margolis @macmargolis.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
O filho pródigo volta a sua praça de origem, com planos de fazer a Nova York pequena de novo. Ou como @luciaguimaraes.bsky.social escreve: "Vai ficando claro que, neste segundo mandato, a metrópole que tanto rejeita seu filho Donald Trump é também sua refém." www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/luci...
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Lúcia Guimarães @luciaguimaraes.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Na National Geographic, @macmargolis.bsky.social explica o Brasil que produziu a tragédia retratada em Ainda Estou Aqui. www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
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The harrowing history behind 'I'm Still Here'—the film that's captured the world's heart
The Oscar-nominated film tells the true story of a former Brazilian lawmaker who was abducted under Latin America’s longest lasting military dictatorship.
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Mac Margolis @macmargolis.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Hollywood, melindrado com o show de Trump, está acanhado, da escolha do Emcee à curadoria dos filmes no páreo. Quem sabe os penetras à festa (alô Fernanda Torres. W. Salles) não consigam levantar os ânimos no tapete? Com a palavra @luciaguimaraes.bsky.social www1.folha.uol.com.br/ilustrada/20...
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Mac Margolis @macmargolis.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Go, DOGE.
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Mac Margolis @macmargolis.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Closing out my series of articles on rainforest cities for the @pulitzercenter.bsky.social, here's the bookend piece from @theguardian.com on ancient garden cities of the Amazon Basin, and what they can teach us. pulitzercenter.org/stories/lost...
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Lost Cities of the Amazon: How Science Is Revealing Ancient Garden Towns Hidden in the Rainforest
Archaeologists using 3D mapping are uncovering the remains of thousands of green metropolises with composted gardens, fisheries, and forests groomed into orchards For decades, archaeologists have...
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Mac Margolis @macmargolis.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
The Amazon basin: home to large, bustling, populous, and sustainably managed cities -- thousands of years ago. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Lost cities of the Amazon: how science is revealing ancient garden towns hidden in the rainforest
Archaeologists using 3D mapping are uncovering the remains of thousands of green metropolises with composted gardens, fisheries, and forests groomed into orchards
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Pulitzer Center @pulitzercenter.org · 28/01/2025
Paragominas, in the northern Brazilian #Amazon, was once synonymous with #deforestation, controlled by predatory #loggers and ranchers. Now, it stands as a model for sustainable growth in the region. Grantee @macmargolis.bsky.social reports for @theguardian.com. pulitzercenter.org/stories/ashe...
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From the Ashes: How a Mayor Beat the Loggers To Turn the Amazon Green Again
Once known for landgrabs, shootouts and slash-and-burn farming, Paragominas has halted deforestation to become a model of sustainable growth in a region charred by wildfires It’s 9am and the sun is...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
We finally found something that will shock CNN hosts -- a cop telling a white-supremacist thug "go fuck yourself" Don't worry, they'll get Scott Jennings back on really soon to tell shameless lies to your face without any swearing.
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Mac Margolis @macmargolis.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Maybe there is a God, after all. ...The day after he was pardoned for his crimes during the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, Daniel Charles Ball of Florida was re-arrested on new gun charges... www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
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Trump Administration Live Updates: Immigration Policies, D.E.I. Office Closure and More
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Mac Margolis @macmargolis.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Com acenos a um Hollywood requentado, odes a virilidade plagiada e um mapa-mundi que só existe na cabeça dele, o novo presidente dos EUA converte posse em coroação. Nem Dwight Eisenhower, RIP, imaginava. @luciaguimaraes.bsky.social no 🎯. www1.folha.uol.com.br/mundo/2025/0...
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Mac Margolis @macmargolis.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Watching the inauguration speech, we know now that Ipecac comes in orange.
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Lúcia Guimarães @luciaguimaraes.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Great piece on how an Amazonian town mayor beat the loggers, by @macmargolis.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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From the ashes: how a mayor beat the loggers to turn the Amazon green again
Once known for landgrabs, shootouts and slash-and-burn farming, Paragominas has halted deforestation to become a model of sustainable growth in a region charred by wildfires
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
The three richest men in the world are all genuflecting before Trump. All to curry favor so they can maintain their control over our political and economic systems — and to avoid accountability for their abuses of power. This is what oligarchy looks like.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
“We’re seeing this impulse to surrender across American society right now. Where the forces of authoritarianism never give up and never apologize, big chunks of liberal society are bargaining and capitulating without even trying to try to stay independent first.” www.thebulwark.com/p/mark-zucke...
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Mark Zuckerberg Is a Surrender Monkey
Capitulation is contagious.
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Mac Margolis @macmargolis.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
As wildfires ravaged the Amazon basin last year, the specter of rainforest destruction again became a global headline. But one township, Paragominas, though also singed, escaped the worst. Here's the backstory of one of the Amazon's greenest towns. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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From the ashes: how a mayor beat the loggers to turn the Amazon green again
Once known for landgrabs, shootouts and slash-and-burn farming, Paragominas has halted deforestation to become a model of sustainable growth in a region charred by wildfires
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
In case you missed this last night, principled @anntelnaes.bsky.social quit the #BrokenPost because its Murdochian editors killed this cartoon. The Post and democracy are dying in front of us. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
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Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
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Mac Margolis @macmargolis.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Guerrilla prophylaxis: Federal health officials mobilize to boost childhood vaccines even as wannabe anti-vaxer-in-chief RFK lobbies for MAHA and other lullablies. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/u...
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Federal health authorities promote childhood vaccines in the shadow of Kennedy’s bid for health secretary.
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Mac Margolis @macmargolis.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Call it the caramel complex. Or how Brazilians learned to love the mongrel in everyone. Leave it to @davidbiller.bsky.social to tell the story of the mutt for all seasons. apnews.com/video/this-s...
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This street dog is Brazil's new national icon
For decades, they have scrounged for food on streets across the country — undesired, abandoned and overlooked.
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Mac Margolis @macmargolis.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Craven Maga pols look ready to cave to Elon after unelected X-pharaoh cheers on US govt shutdown, slinging fake budget numbers. Welcome to government by X. t.co/YegP8Yr3Y2
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 10/12/2024
⚡️ Russian troops sabotage their boats to avoid Dnipro River crossing, Ukrainian partisans claim. Russian soldiers increasingly sabotage their own boats and equipment to avoid having to storm the Dnipro River islands on the southern front, Ukrainian resistance group Atesh claimed on Dec. 10.
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Russian troops sabotage their boats to avoid Dnipro River crossing, Ukrainian partisans claim
Russian soldiers increasingly sabotage their own boats and equipment to avoid having to attack the Dnipro River islands on the southern front, Ukrainian resistance group Atesh claimed on Dec. 10.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 08/12/2024
In the latest episode of Ukraine This Week, host Anna Belokur explains the recent meeting between U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky and the escalating protests in Georgia.
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Trump-Zelensky meeting and Johnny Harris controversy | Ukraine This Week
YouTube video by Kyiv Independent
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Mac Margolis @macmargolis.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
From prison kingpins to dons of Fintech: Latin America's biggest crime cartel has grown up and spread its dragnet from cocaine to crypto. Great read, scary piece @andrewrosati.bsky.social Beatriz Amat and team @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Fintechs Launder Cocaine Cash for Brazil's Largest Criminal Gang
Police say the PCC, a global drug-trafficker, is running billion-dollar digital platform scams
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Lúcia Guimarães @luciaguimaraes.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Indicados por Trump para defesa, segurança nacional e combate ao terrorismo, além da incompetência evidente, devem mudar relação com países aliados, que vão pensar duas vezes antes de compartilhar inteligência com renegados de carreira. Coluna da @folha.com bit.ly/3VcP5W1
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Opinião - Lúcia Guimarães: Indicados por Trump na segurança preocupam aliados dos EUA
Eleitores americanos depositaram seu voto para tornar o resto do mundo mais perigoso em 2025 —ótima notícia para inimigos
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 29/11/2024
On the FSB officer behind pro-Russian billboards in Italy. From Anton Shekhovstov, one of the best-informed experts on covert Russian political campaigns euromaidanpress.com/2024/11/28/m...
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Revealed: FSB officer who runs Italy’s pro-Russian networks
From billboard campaigns to citizenship revocations, FSB officer Stovbun's network systematically influenced Italian politics through cultural front organizations.
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Mac Margolis @macmargolis.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
And here we go. Shoot from hip. M(ake)A(merica)Ex(pensive)A(gain) www.nytimes.com/live/2024/us...
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Trump's Tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China Could Upend Trade and Industries: Live Updates
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 23/11/2024
UPDATED: Trump's confirmed picks to lead US health agencies: HHS - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. NIH - Jay Bhattacharya CMS - Mehmet Oz CDC - Dave Weldon FDA - Marty Makary Surgeon General - Janette Nesheiwat All have spread disinformation on vaccines and public health measures.
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Mac Margolis @macmargolis.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Faith based medicine
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Mac Margolis @macmargolis.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Memo to prez elect: The idea of taking an axe to government has been around a while, and mostly failed. Honorable exception was the bipartisan effort under Truman & Hoover, says Stephen Mihm. x.com/i/status/185...
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Mac Margolis @macmargolis.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
Brazil is no stranger to drug-driven gang violence. What's new is the shift of busy criminal franchises to the Amazon Basin. Spoiler, there's little hope of rescuing the rainforest without bring peace, order & the rule of law to these fast-growing urban centers. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Gang Violence Is Moving to the Amazon’s Fast-Growing Cities
As the drug trade piggybacks on environmental plunder, a spike in homicides is borne by the rainforest region’s neglected urban areas.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/09/2024
I can’t hear the racism because I’m transfixed by meemaw’s new lavender dye job
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Mac Margolis @macmargolis.bsky.social · 21/09/2024
The governor of Ohio, a Republican and a Trump supporter, says stop maligning Springfield, vilifying Haitians, and falsely claiming that authorized immigrants are illegals. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/20/o...
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Opinion | I’m the Republican Governor of Ohio. Here Is the Truth About Springfield.
I have lived my entire life near this city. Our people and our history deserve better than to be falsely portrayed.
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Marcelo Soares @msoares.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
Pesquisas atualizadas!
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 17/09/2024
The IMF is about to send its first official mission to Russia since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. This decision is a big diplomatic win for the Kremlin, even if the IMF is acting as though it's business as usual.
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Opinion: IMF's trip to Moscow is effectively enabling Russia's war against Ukraine
You probably haven't heard that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is preparing to send a mission to Russia. That’s because top IMF officials have been trying to draw as little public attention to ...
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Mac Margolis @macmargolis.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
Um corvo e um eleitor indeciso entram no bar durante o debate TrumpxHarris. Qual o desfecho dessa estória num País com amnésia política avançada? Resposta: só no 06.11. Mas @luciaguimaraes.bsky.social decifra essa quebra-cabeças tão desafiadora quanto absurda. www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/luci...
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Mac Margolis @macmargolis.bsky.social · 10/09/2024
Bury-the-lede Media plumps for Trump x Harris debate: That "Trump says he will inevitably win and prosecute his opponents for fraud anyway” is probably more important than whether he is being briefed yet again on policies he doesn’t care about or understand." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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What the First Debate Question for Trump Must Be
The moderators ought to start with the fact that he rejects the foundations of the American system of government.
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Karla Gamba @karlagamba.bsky.social · 05/09/2024
Muita gente aqui compartilhando essa matéria👇🏾 Contar duas coisas importantes pra vcs: a autora é uma repórter maravilhosa (tanto no pessoal quanto no profissional); e agora ela tá nesta rede e vcs podem segui-la em @leticia-casado.bsky.social
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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
This is actually the most terrifying image in the Atlanta Journal and Constitution about today's mass shooting at a high school. It's the 24th mass shooting in Georgia this year.
Map of Georgia titled: Georgia mass shootings in 2024. Text, in part: More than a dozen mass shootings have occurred in Georgia during 2024.
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Mac Margolis @macmargolis.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
Da série perguntar não ofende: por que os jornais (@OGlobo, @Valor, @folha.com) ocupam suas páginas web com matérias para dizer que os institutos de pesquisa ainda irão divulgar novas rodadas? Ou seja, um não-notícia postada como se fosse novidade? oglobo.globo.com/blogs/lauro-...
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A nova pesquisa Datafolha e os 'trackings' de Boulos e Nunes
A nova pesquisa Datafolha e os 'trackings' de Boulos e Nunes
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Mac Margolis @macmargolis.bsky.social · 01/09/2024
"The most extreme judicial decision ...in 30 years," Carlos Affonso Souza, head of the Institute for Technology & Society at Rio de Janeiro State University, tells @bloomberg.com's Andy Rosati & colleagues about court-ordered shutdown of X in Brazil. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Musk’s X Goes Dark in Brazil Following Supreme Court’s Ruling
Elon Musk’s X started to go dark in Brazil at the order of the top court as Latin America’s largest nation became the latest front in a global fight over the regulation of free speech on the internet.
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David Biller @davidbiller.bsky.social · 31/08/2024
On the first day without X, many Brazilians say they feel disconnected from the world… … are you one of them!?? apnews.com/article/x-br...
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On the first day without X, many Brazilians say they feel disconnected from the world
The blocking of social media platform X in Brazil has divided users and politicians over the legitimacy of the ban, and many Brazilians had difficulty and doubts about navigating other social media in...
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