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Desagua douro de pensa mentos.
Un carro pasa muy despacito por la avenida No tiene marcas, pero to' saben que es policia, hum Pedro Navaja, las manos siempre dentro 'el gabán Mira y sonríe, y el diente de oro vuelve a brillar
EU opens up funding to guarantee abortion rights across bloc
Women
in EU member states with near-total abortion bans, such as Poland, will
be given help to access legal and safe abortions elsewhere, it was announced on Thursday. This is being hailed as a “victory for women” and was the result of the My Voice, My Choice citizens’ initiative. Nice to see democracy working properly for a change!
Tennessee Republicans try to introduce the death penalty for abortions
A number of Republican state lawmakers, including representative Monty Fritts, who is also running for governor,
recently introduced an amendment to the criminal code which would
classify abortion as “homicide of an unborn child”, punishable by life
imprisonment or death by lethal injection. It looks like this bill will stall indefinitely, but the fact that it was even introduced shows just how far right the Overton window has shifted.
Palestinian journalists raped in Israeli prisons, report alleges
Almost
60 Palestinian journalists detained in Israeli prisons have been
beaten, starved and subjected to sexual violence, including rape, a report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) alleges. Another CPJ report, released on Wednesday,
found Israel is responsible for two-thirds of a record 129 press
killings in 2025 and to blame for 81% of “intentionally targeted”
journalist killings.
Israel continues to kill Palestinians daily during the Gaza ‘ceasefire’
“At least 425 Palestinians have been killed and over 1,200 wounded over the past three months of the ‘ceasefire’ – a rate of nearly five Palestinians killed every day,”Drop Site News reports. The fact the media persists in causing the horror show in Gaza a “ceasefire” shows how little Palestinian lives matter. Do you think it would be called a ceasefire if nearly five Israelis were being killed daily?
Mike Pompeo wants “to make sure history books don’t write about the victims of Gaza”
The former US Secretary of Statereceived rapturous applauseat a pro-Israel conference on Tuesday after saying that “we need to make sure that the story [of October 7] is told properly so that when the history books write this, they don’t write about the victims of Gaza, right?” The good news for Pompeo is that journalism is supposed to be the first draft of history, and there is precious little journalism coming out of Gaza – by design. The international pressstillisn’tfreely allowed to report from Gaza, where babies are continuing tofreeze to death.
Why in the world is Melania Trump leading a UN security council meeting?
"while DEI may be dead, WTF hiring is very much alive. Being Wealthy, Trumpy, and/or Fox News-famous seem to be the only qualifications you need for success in Trump’s USA. See, for example, the entire Trump administration: a horrifying hodgepodge of unqualified sycophants. See also, hot off the press, Melania Trump’s new gig at the United Nations. It’s been announced that the first lady will lead a session of the United Nations security council on Monday titled Children, Technology, and Education in Conflict.
It can’t be stressed enough that this is highly unusual. As the White House noted in a statement: “Mrs Trump’s leadership will mark the first time a sitting US first lady presides over the security council.” Back in precedented times, you see, you generally needed a qualification or two to lead the security council. Now, however, we’re squarely in the WTF economy: Melania is a Trump, ergo automatically qualified to do anything her little heart desires."
Big Change Seems Certain in Iran. What Kind Is the Question.
Experts say that Iran’s clerical rulers may be too deeply entrenched for
Iranians to topple them, and that the U.S. and Israeli strikes risk
setting off deeper radicalization or violence.
Iran’s Regime May Survive, but the Middle East Will Be Changed
A badly weakened Iran will no longer intimidate or threaten its
neighbors in the same way. The regional impact could be comparable to
the collapse of the Soviet Union.
"It
is unclear if even a more moderate government would make new
concessions over its nuclear program under the pressure of war. It is
also unclear if any Iranian leader would feel able to trust President
Trump, who tore up President Obama’s nuclear deal in 2018, and now has
bombed Iran twice in the middle of ongoing negotiations. Would Tehran
deem it necessary to give in on the nuclear issue to survive? Or if a
hard-line, more security-dominated government emerges, will it try to
race toward a nuclear weapon, more convinced than ever of its need?"
Trump wants to distract Americans from scandals at home with a diversionary war
"Trump’s foreign policy is not guided by a coherent theory of order, deterrence or alliance management. It is driven instead by the demonstration of dominance, the creation of spectacle and the command of the news cycle. Military force, in this framework, is not a tool subordinated to strategy. It is the strategy."
"Now, as in the past, the predictable result of today’s renewed, expanded
and apparently open-ended US-Israeli aggression against Iran will be
instant, spreading chaos. Civilians will be killed, children orphaned,
families torn apart. Regional turmoil and international oil-price panic
will follow the Iranian retaliation that has already begun, and which
may be backed by Tehran’s Hezbollah and Houthi allies. New hatreds will
be seeded, terrorist vendettas sown. The west’s foes will rejoice. And
almost nothing of enduring value will be achieved. That was the bitter
outcome of the failed US-led interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Today, it’s Tehran’s turn to reap the whirlwind."
"When you’ve witnessed the horror of war, you believe it should be a last
resort — not an abyss we tumble into without legal basis or clear
objectives, pushing us all unnecessarily into a riskier world in which
the only certainty is bloodshed."
"And now we have to ask the question no one wants to ask: how much of our own government is compromised? How many men sitting in power aren’t there to serve the public, but to protect secrets? How many of the decisions being made right now are not about what helps the American people, but about what keeps those secrets buried? Because once you look at this moment through that lens, things start making a very different kind of sense. A terrifying kind of sense"
DOJ removed, withheld Epstein files related to accusations about Trump
"“The woman who directly named Trump in her abuse allegation claimed that around 1983, when she was around 13 years old, Epstein introduced her to Trump ‘who subsequently forced her head down to his exposed penis which she subsequently bit. In response, Trump punched her in the head and kicked her out.’”"
Jerry Douglas - The Boxer (feat. Mumford & Sons and Paul Simon)
In the clearing stands a boxer
And a fighter by his trade And he carries the reminders Of every glove that laid him down Or cut him till he cried out In his anger and his shame "I am leaving, I am leaving" But the fighter still remains
What if the Great American Novelist Doesn’t Write Novels?
Frederick Wiseman’s documentary films offer an unparalleled, panoramic
vision of society. His 45th feature, “City Hall,” is on PBS this month —
and he’s eager to get back to work.
"The fact that Wiseman’s half-century-long
project is a series of cinéma-vérité documentaries about American
institutions, their titles often reading like generic brand labels —
“High School,” “Hospital,” “The Store,” “Public Housing,” “State
Legislature” — makes its achievement all the more remarkable but also
easier to overlook. Beginning with “Titicut Follies” (1967), a portrait
of a Massachusetts asylum for the criminally insane that remains
shocking to this day, Wiseman has directed nearly a picture a year,
spending weeks, sometimes months, embedded in a strictly demarcated
space — a welfare office in Lower Manhattan, a sleepy fishing village in
Maine, the Yerkes Primate Research Center at Emory University, the
flagship Neiman Marcus department store in Dallas, the New York Public
Library, a shelter for victims of domestic violence in Tampa, Fla., a
Miami zoo — then editing the upward of a hundred hours of footage he
brings home into an idiosyncratic record of what he witnessed. Taken as a
whole, the films present an unrivaled survey of how systems operate in
our country, with care paid to every line of the organizational chart.
They
also represent the work of an artist of extraordinary vision. The films
are long, strange and uncompromising. They can be darkly comic,
uncomfortably voyeuristic, as surreal as any David Lynch dream sequence.
There are no voice-overs, explanatory intertitles or interviews with
talking heads, and depending on the sequence and our own sensibility, we
may picture the ever-silent Wiseman as a deeply empathetic listener or
an icy Martian anthropologist."
Empresários se preparam para frear fim da jornada 6x1
"Associações, empresários e frentes parlamentares definiram um plano para tentar frear o fim da jornada de trabalho 6x1 —seis dias de trabalho e um de descanso— com três tipos de abordagem. Eles planejam atuar para que a votação fique para depois da eleição, preparar estudos e campanhas para mostrar os pontos negativos da mudança e apresentar propostas alternativas, como a desoneração da folha de salários ou autorizar o pagamento por hora trabalhada."
leia reportagem de Raphael Di Cunto Fernanda Brigatti
"The Trump administration and its Department
of Homeland Security have made frame perversion a signature feature of
their social media presence. On Valentine’s Day 2025, the White House
posted images of Trump and his border czar, Tom Homan, set against a
pink backdrop and paired with a sing-song rhyme: “Roses are red /
Violets are blue / Come here illegally / And we’ll deport you.” As
Christmas approached later that year, the official ICEgov Instagram
account shared an AI-generated image of an “ICE AIR” flight full of
deportees pulled through the sky by Santa’s reindeer, captioned: “Avoid
ICE AIR and go Ho Ho Home…” In each case, cheerful, familiar holiday
imagery provides the setup; state violence supplies the punchline.
The frame perversion pattern reached its
most chilling form in another White House post labeled “ASMR: Illegal
Alien Deportation Flight.” ASMR—short for “Autonomous Sensory Meridian
Response”—usually refers to videos designed to produce calm or pleasure
through soft, repetitive sounds. Here, that “soothing” frame was
supplied by the hum of jet engines, the metallic rattle of chains pulled
from a crate, the click of handcuffs, the quiet clink of leg shackles
with each step up the gangway. These sounds are meant to relax the
viewer, even as they mark the forcible end of someone’s life as they
know it. Frame perversion, in this case, does not merely normalize
cruelty. It invites the audience to relax pleasurably within it."
The Nazi Origins of the South American Drug Trade: Klaus Barbie, Cocaine and the CIA
"By the time Klaus Barbie went on the payroll of an American intelligence organization in 1947, he had lived several lifetimes of human vileness. Barbie sought out opponents of the Nazis in Holland, chasing them down with dogs. He had worked for the Nazi mobile death squads on the Eastern Front, massacring Slavs and Jews. He’d put in two years heading the Gestapo in Lyons, France, torturing to death Jews and French Resistance fighters (among them the head of the Resistance, Jean Moulin). After the liberation of France, Barbie participated in the final Nazi killing frenzy before the Allies moved into Germany.
Yet the career of this heinous war criminal scarcely skipped a beat before he found himself securing entry on the US payroll in postwar Germany. The Barbie was shipped out of Europe by his new paymasters along the “ratline’ to Bolivia. There, he began a new life remarkably similar to his old one: working for the secret police, doing the bidding of drug lords and engaging in arms trafficking across South America. Soon, his old skills as a torturer became in high demand."
Meu pai me disse algo quando eu era muito pequeno para me prover de confiança. "Ninguém no mundo vale mais do que você, mas também ninguém vale menos". É uma visão egualitária que tenho carregado pela vida. É por isso que sou a favor do ensino gratuito., de universidades gratuitas, de saúde gratuito e de creches gratuitas. Porque a nossa sociedade pode bancar isso. Nos Estados Unidos, as pessoas acham que democracia social é algum tipo de comunismo. Pensam que capitalismo é liberdade. Não é. É apenas a liberdade de explorar as pessoas. "
De esas que no quiero ver De edificios cancerosos y un corazón de oropel Donde en vez de un Sol amanece un dólar
Donde nadie ríe, donde nadie llora Con gente de rostros de poliéster Que escuchan sin oír y miran sin ver Gente que vendió por comodidad Su razón de ser y su libertad
Dilbert Creator’s AI Resurrection Not So Comic for His Family
"Dubbed “AI Scott Adams,”
the synthetic creation, which first popped up on X and YouTube, looks
and sounds nearly identical to the actual Adams. Its appearance has
sparked a clash between the Silicon Valley wing of MAGA, which finds it
all pretty remarkable, and many of Adams’s fans and family, who are
horrified."
AGU defende Marinha e afirma que Revolta da Chibata foi 'insubordinação grave' e 'ameaça à ordem pública'
Bernardo Mello Franco
União
afirma que Força Naval não é obrigada a homenagear João Cândido, o
Almirante Negro, que lidrou rebelião contra castigos físicos em 1910
Em ofício à Justiça Federal, a AGU classificou a rebelião histórica como um "episódio marcado por mortes, insubordinação grave e ameaça à ordem pública e ao Estado de Direito".
O documento afirma que a Força Naval buscou "preservar os princípios da hierarquia e disciplina" e "não está juridicamente obrigada a endossar honrarias simbólicas as quais (sic) não concorda".
A AGU se manifestou no último dia 3, em resposta a ação do Ministério Público Federal para que a União seja condenada a pagar R$ 5 milhões por dano moral coletivo.
O ofício da AGU é assinado por Cláudio de Castro Panoeiro, advogado da União que comandou a Secretaria Nacional de Justiça no governo de Jair Bolsonaro.
Em 2024, o comandante da Marinha, almirante Marcos Olsen, disse à Comissão de Cultura da Câmara que a Revolta da Chibata foi um "fato opróbio" (vergonhoso) em que "abjetos marinheiros" desrespeitaram a hierarquia e a disciplina.
Foi a segunda vez em que a Força tentou convencer os deputados a barrar o projeto de lei que inclui João Cândido, conhecido como Almirante Negro, no Livro dos Heróis e Heroínas da Pátria.
No ofício da semana passada, a AGU também contestou o pedido para que a Marinha seja impedida de fazer novas manifestações ofensivas à memória de João Cândido.
Segundo Panoeiro, a ordem representaria "censura institiucional" e violação ao princípio da separação de Poderes.
A Revolta da Chibata foi um movimento de marinheiros, em sua maioria negros, pela abolição das punições físicas nos navios.
A revolta começou quando o marujo Marcelino Rodrigues Menezes foi castigado diante da tripulação do encouraçado Minas Gerais. Ele foi amarrado ao mastro e levou 250 chibatadas.
Mulher assassinada por ser mulher é um dos tantos assuntos esquecidos no debate podre
VINICIUS TORRES FREIRE
No começo de fevereiro, reinício oficial do
ano oficialesco, líderes dos três Poderes assinaram o
"Pacto Nacional Brasil contra o Feminicídio". Basicamente,
criaram uma comissão, que pode dar em nada ou em alguma coisinha, a depender da
política. É o "Comitê Interinstitucional de Gestão", de
acompanhamento de dados e ações, com representantes dos Poderes, do Ministério
Público e das Defensorias Públicas.
O que tem isso a ver com as conversas do
momento, de bandalheira, besteira e acordão nos Poderes ou de governo e
oposição envolvidos nessa história de escola de samba do Lula? Nada. É o
problema: mais do que de costume, estamos bestificados a assistir um palco
tomado por podres e bobagem. Convém lembrar do que não estamos cuidando por
causa disso. Por exemplo, feminicídio.
No reinício do ano político-jurídico, ainda
estava na memória mais comum a história de horror de Tainara Souza Santos,
torturada ao ser arrastada pelo carro de um homem. Morreu aos 31
anos, na véspera do Natal do ano passado. Desde então, teriam
morrido outras 228 mulheres, dado o número médio de quatro feminicídios por dia.
Deve ter sido bem pior.
A taxa média de solução de homicídios no
Brasil tem ficado entre 30% e 40% nos últimos nove anos, segundo dados
compilados pelo Instituto Sou da Paz. Até o fim de 2024, apenas 36% dos
homicídios dolosos que ocorreram em 2023 tinham sido esclarecidos —o instituto
avisa que não há informações para todos os estados, mas em geral para algo em
torno de 17 deles, por precariedade até do mero registro dos homicídios.
Quantos mais feminicídios há enterrados
nessa violência obscura
toda? Quanta subnotificação de feminicídio há mesmo entre as mortes registradas
e investigadas?
Por falar em homicídio: em 2024, dado mais
recente, houve no
Brasil 44.127 "Mortes Violentas Intencionais", segundo o
Anuário Brasileiro de Segurança Pública. Cerca de 37 mil pessoas morreram no
trânsito. Não importa a conversa fiada do calor e do amor no país do Carnaval (que
nem é mais muito disso): um lugar que convive sem revolta maior com esse morticínio
é monstruoso e morto. "Ah, vão votar (talvez) uma PEC da Segurança".
Planos reais, com coordenação nacional, apoio político, projetos e supervisão
de gente especializada, com verificação de resultados, não existem. Não sabemos
nem mesmo quem foi morto, por qual motivo.
O que isso tem a ver com o tumulto vexaminoso
na cúpula dos Poderes e agregados? Com a República afundando ainda mais, como
na lama do Master? Há até esforços meritórios e que devem aparecer no palco do
ano, como a tentativa de
Flávio Dino de conter a roubança com emendas parlamentares ou a
lambança com penduricalhos. Mas que esses casos estejam no STF e sejam
sabotados pela politicalha também é mau sinal. Assim como tantos outros
assuntos fundamentais, o feminicídio não tem nada a ver com isso. Perde o
lugar.
Qualquer cidadão prestante pode fazer sua
lista de assuntos cruciais e ignorados no centro do debate constante: pobreza e
ineficiência crônicas, baderna da energia, ciência precarizada, ou notas
sempiternamente ruins nas escolas. Ignoramos até assuntos da moda, como o nosso
atraso terminal em IA. Nosso assunto é desordem institucional, a politicalha
mais baixa degradando a função dos Poderes, sem movimento político ou social
forte ou de partido relevante de oposição a esse estado de coisas.
