Bruno
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Bruno
@brunopanta.bsky.social
Political Science, Economics of Crime

Hot takes and bad jokes.
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Every time you hear someone from the GOP say Democrats are siding with narco-terrorists, ask them two questions:

1. If you want to stop the cartels, why wouldn't you board the boats and question the people on the boats?

2. Why in the HELL would you start with Venezuela?
December 4, 2025 at 12:37 AM
quem não tem uma mochila com 90k em casa é duro
o cara da alerj tá com 90 mil na mochila aleatoriamente é demais
December 4, 2025 at 1:22 PM
most surveys I read are a bad use of scarce research funding
Political scientists love their survey experiments.
December 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Does not surprise me a single bit. Matches my anecdotal and biased selection of papers seen in seminars. My personal opinion is that we should do somewhat less of these and favor more studying actual behaviour. Harder. But I think worth it.
Political scientists love their survey experiments.
December 4, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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The “warrior cop” who demands special deference for risking his life because he got within ten yards of a fentanyl bag now seems like a precursor of the U.S. Navy “warrior” who claims that some guys that might’ve had cocaine on a speedboat were such a military threat that he had to use deadly force.
December 4, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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declining empire.
December 4, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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I'm a day late to Tom Lehrer Tuesday but here's Tom reminding you to be careful this cold and flu and...other things season.
December 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Today in “Marginal income & wealth taxes are too low & this poses an existential threat to the Republic”
December 4, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Suicide drones are slower and more affordable cruise missiles.

Thank you for attending my Ted-X talk.
December 4, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Big Tech are the new, privately-owned, Soviets. We're in a planned economy now. Planned by cloud capital for the 0,001% unherd.com/2025/12/big-...
Big Tech are the new Soviets
unherd.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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Personnel is policy is politics: the skills needed to become a senior Democrat, and the life experiences associated with being one, furnish neither the tools to respond to an authoritarian takeover nor a sufficiently visceral understanding of the stakes.

via @jmberger.com
The President of the United States is trying to throw Mark Kelly in prison and Mark Kelly's response is to confirm judges who have committed to putting him in prison
11 Senate Democrats just voted to advance the nomination of a Federal Society judge who used to defend banks and payday lenders:

Durbin
Gallego
Hassan
Hirono
Kaine
Kelly
King
Klobuchar
Reed
Rosen
Whitehouse
December 4, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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December 4, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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Si es que os quejais del CEO de un hospital por vicio

gizmodo.com/palantir-ceo...
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Alex Karp vows to use his
gizmodo.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Academia has this way of making you feel utterly unsuccessful even when by any reasonable standard you are doing just fine.
December 4, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Behold: a genuinely useful flowchart #AcademicChatter
December 4, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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NEW: Your "end-to-end encrypted" poop pictures taken by this $599 (+ subscription) smart toilet camera are actually not end-to-end encrypted.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/e...
‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted | TechCrunch
Kohler, the makers of a smart toilet camera, can access customers' data stored on its servers, and can use customers’ bowl pictures to train AI.
techcrunch.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Can’t help but feel that the UK has a very poor immune system for this sort of thing, in large part because people here see racism as something you are rather than something you do. To be racist you have to be, like, a ridiculous cartoon caricature or literally Hitler or something.
November 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
December 2, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Every prime minister in Tel Aviv since 1996 has been investigated on charges of corruption.
Beyond Netanyahu: Israel’s major political corruption scandals
Every prime minister in Tel Aviv since 1996 has been investigated on charges of corruption.
bit.ly
December 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Quando a gente fala sobre controle do acesso a armas, a bancada da bala fica histérica gritando "ai meu direito bla bla bla", mas é sobre isso que estamos falando. Como uma pessoa tem acesso a arma legal???
December 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Notícia da @oglobo.globo.com

"Após operação da PF, Dino manda Executivo e Congresso se manifestarem sobre 'desvirtuamento' de órgão contra secas"

Link sem paywall ⬇️
Após operação da PF, Dino manda Executivo e Congresso se manifestarem sobre 'desvirtuamento' de órgão contra secas
O ministro Flávio Dino, do Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF), determinou que o Executivo, a Câmara e o Senado se manifestem sobre um possível "desvirtuamento" da função do Departamento Nacional de Obras Contra as Secas (Dnocs).  A decisão ocorreu após uma operação da Polícia Federal (PF), autorizada por Dino, investigar suspeitas de desvio de emendas e superfaturamento em obras do Dnocs no Ceará. "Tal cenário parece indicar o desvirtuamento da atuação do Dnocs, com grave comprometimento da legalidade, da eficiência e da integridade do gasto público, especialmente no que toca aos recursos provenientes de emendas", afirmou o ministro do STF.  Dino também citou uma auditoria da Controladoria-Geral da União (CGU) que apontou que 60% das contratações do Dnocs entre 2021 e 2023 foram para ações "não alinhadas à missão institucional da autarquia", como pavimentação.  A decisão foi tomada por Dino no processo no qual o STF declarou a inconstitucionalidade das antigas emendas de relator, que eram conhecidas como orçamento secreto. O ministro herdou a relatoria desse caso após a aposentadoria de Rosa Weber e tem tomado uma série de decisões obrigando transparência no pagamento das verbas parlamentares.  Já a operação da semana passa foi autorizada por Dino em outra ação, não relacionada. O ministro atendeu pedido da PF e considerou que havia "indícios robustos" de irregularidades em obras do Dnocs bancadas com emendas.
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December 2, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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"Conheça o documentário dos Beatles que é quase impossível de assistir (legalmente)", caçando o torrent de The Four Lads from Liverpool & One Cup
December 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Vigilante far-right 'street patrols' with links to Neo-Nazis and the support of senior Reform UK figures, are falsely claiming police backing, while attempting to infiltrate school networks in order to "protect" local children.

bylinetimes.com/2025/12/02/t...
The Reform-Backed Far-Right Street Patrols Coming to British School Gates
EXCLUSIVE: Nationalist vigilante groups, with links to Neo-Nazis, and the support of senior Reform figures, have been falsely claiming police backing while attempting to infiltrate local school networ...
bylinetimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Um exemplo interessante de como a ultradireita usa IA para criar uma realidade paralela para seu público
December 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Follow me for more productivity tips #AcademicChatter
December 2, 2025 at 7:50 AM