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matheus

@mathrtf.bsky.social

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two years away from being two years away. architecture student + worker. left politics. occasionally soccer. as vezes em mineirês. 🇧🇷 boston📍

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matheus @mathrtf.bsky.social · Sep 11

Jan. 2010 - SCOTUS rules 5-4 in Citizens United vs. FEC, declaring Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 unconstitutional

May 2010 - Brazil passed the “Lei da Ficha Limpa”, barring anyone who’s been impeached or convicted of a crime by a superior court for running for office for 8 years

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 1d

For one of my final stories with @wired.com, I teamed up with @peggylowe.bsky.social at KCUR to dig through a Kansas City, KS police hack

Inside were some of the most disturbing misconduct files I’ve ever read—and a secret list of cops the department said couldnt be trusted

Here are a few of them:

Hack Exposes Kansas City’s Secret Police Misconduct List

A major breach of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department reveals, for the first time, a list of alleged officer misconduct including dishonesty, sexual harassment, excessive force, and false arres...

www.wired.com

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matheus @mathrtf.bsky.social · 1d

Pezzolano and Still gone before November. smdh

matheus @mathrtf.bsky.social · 2d

I’M AT A HALLOWEEN PARTY I MISSED THE HOMER BRASIIIIIILLLLLLLLL 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

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Blog do Noblat @blogdonoblat.bsky.social · 3d

“Bandido tem direito a ser julgado e receber a pena proporcional a seu crime. Quem julgou esses bandidos cumpriu ali mesmo a pena de morte vedada na Constituição. Assim são rasgadas todas as garantias que lhes assegura o Estado de Direito.” (José Sarney, ex-presidente do Brasil)

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matheus @mathrtf.bsky.social · 5d

in case nobody’s noticed we’ve also killed local media

Lee Drutman @leedrutman.bsky.social · 5d

This is the sound of candidates losing the struggle against the crushing weight of partisan gravity.

This is nationalization and polarization and presidentialization swallowing everything else.

This is the dangerous collapse of dimensionality, in one chart
leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-modera...

matheus @mathrtf.bsky.social · 5d

…COVID. which is to say, very drunk

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 5d

Drunk and high

Blue Jays rookie sensation Trey Yesavage's line so far tonight in Game 5 of the World Series:
6 innings
2 hits
1 run
0 walks
11 strikeouts.
So what were you doing when you were 22 years old?

matheus @mathrtf.bsky.social · 5d

Bo Bichette joins other illustrious names such as Paulo Orlando (Brazilian, World Series RBI)

matheus @mathrtf.bsky.social · 5d

Toma vergonha seu desgraçado. Nem se fossem todos vagabundos, cada pessoa merece ter seu dia na corte. Agora pense por um segundo quantas pessoa morrem de bala perdida cada ano. Como é só pobre na periferia que corre risco de assassinato extrajudicial. Nenhum Faria Limer tem que preocupar com isso.

matheus @mathrtf.bsky.social · 5d

the Global Right is a murder cult. period point blank end of story. and that should frame every tangentially political conversation we have with our loved ones, neighbors, coworkers

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matheus @mathrtf.bsky.social · 5d

glo.bo/4hA8fPQ

Governo do RJ confirma 121 mortos em megaoperação

No dia seguinte à operação, moradores afirmam ter encontrado mais de 70 corpos, que foram levados para uma praça na Penha. Secretário da Polícia Civil fala em 63 corpos.

glo.bo

matheus @mathrtf.bsky.social · 5d

NPR really copying police reports verbatim from other countries???

>130 civilians are dead. After Rio state officials - who conducted this operation with zero notice to or support from the federal gov’t - announced their death toll, residents piled up 70 more bodies in a neighborhood square.

NPR @npr.org · 5d

Brazilian police and soldiers launched a raid on a drug-trafficking gang in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday, sparking shootouts that left at least 60 suspects and four police officers dead, officials said. n.pr/3JybaMg

Huge Brazilian raid on Rio gang leaves at least 64 people dead and 81 under arrest

Brazilian police and soldiers launched a raid on a drug-trafficking gang in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday, sparking shootouts that left at least 60 suspects and four police officers dead, officials said.

n.pr

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matheus @mathrtf.bsky.social · 6d

the Shirtless Plantain School of Ball Knowledge is internationally renowned for its research in shithousing and witchcraft

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matheus @mathrtf.bsky.social · 6d

mood

matheus @mathrtf.bsky.social · 6d

seek truth from facts baby

Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 6d

Podcasts are now illegal in China

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Andrew Downie @adowniebrazil.bsky.social · 6d

The number of dead has now risen to 128 in the deadliest every police operation/assault in Rio's history. Even for a city under the kosh of drug traffickers and accustomed to indiscriminate police violence, the numbers are stunning.
g1.globo.com/rj/rio-de-ja...

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matheus @mathrtf.bsky.social · 6d

yeah aight lmao

CNN push notifications: “NVIDIA is the world’s first $5 trillion company, just three months after crossing $4 trillion”

matheus @mathrtf.bsky.social · 6d

guess the secret’s out now, but Like A Tattoo was extremely popular on TikTok a couple years ago (and had been extremely influential in vaporwave circles before then)

anyway it spawned this amongst the kids

KáLyn Coghill, PhD. @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team · 6d

My morning joy!

matheus @mathrtf.bsky.social · 6d

remember Jake Delhomme

𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕒𝕧𝕚 𓅰 🐱 @lucavi.bsky.social · 26d

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 6d

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

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matheus @mathrtf.bsky.social · 6d

Having said all of that, he’s got a year to atone for it and not fuck it up. It’s not impossible.

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matheus @mathrtf.bsky.social · 6d

It seems like there’s some amount of people (Ryan Grim, anyway) who are actively dismissive of it. And even if I believe the guy’s not Fetterman… is a vocally pro-Palestine guy with (or known to have had…) a Nazi tattoo *really* a good idea at this moment?

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matheus @mathrtf.bsky.social · 7d

woof, my bad, yeah I meant her. do not need more 80 year olds in the Senate. but against the “accidental Nazi tat” guy

matheus @mathrtf.bsky.social · 7d

for one, it’s Susan Collins, I wouldn’t call it an enviable choice. also, it’s still fairly short notice for the news to have broken containment offline and have been polled.

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matheus @mathrtf.bsky.social · 7d

and, of course, himself

matheus @mathrtf.bsky.social · 7d

gut check is he’s purely making shit up or has seen <5 edgy posters

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