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Marcelo Lima

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Conservation biologist/Landscape Ecologist “Academically Homeless, Intellectually Housed” https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcelo-gon%C3%A7alves-de-lima-35b3ba20?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app

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Marcelo Lima @marcelocegonha.bsky.social · 16h

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Petition: Use Proportional Representation at the next General Election

Change the voting system to Proportional Representation instead of First Past the Post. We think this would eradicate disillusionment and encourage voter participation as people could start to believe...

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Marcelo Lima @marcelocegonha.bsky.social · 17h

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Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

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Marcelo Lima @marcelocegonha.bsky.social · 17h

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Marcelo Lima @marcelocegonha.bsky.social · 17h

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Marcelo Lima @marcelocegonha.bsky.social · 17h

He’s worried about coke though.

Marcelo Lima @marcelocegonha.bsky.social · 17h

Oh my word!

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Marcelo Lima @marcelocegonha.bsky.social · 19h

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Bolsonaristas are probably stunned and trying to spin the fact that Rubio was appointed to lead tariff negotiations as a good sign.
Maybe the US will push for less commerce with China? Try to cause a discord in the BRICS?

Brazil’s president asks US to scrap tariffs in ‘friendly’ call with Trump

Presidents spoke on a video call as expert speculates that Haiti could be an area where the two leaders can cooperate

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Marcelo Lima @marcelocegonha.bsky.social · 2d

A lady was arrested for having a sign saying she was not in favour of prescribing Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation.
I was going to take one asking why PA had been prescribed as such.
Would I be arrested too?

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 3d

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Marcelo Lima @marcelocegonha.bsky.social · 3d

Deadly Israeli attacks continue across Gaza despite Trump warning to stop the bombing

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Gaza ceasefire talks live: negotiators due in Cairo as Israeli attacks continue

Continued reports of fatal attacks across Gaza come despite Trump’s call on Israel to ‘immediately stop the bombing’

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Marcelo Lima @marcelocegonha.bsky.social · 3d

Marcelo Lima @marcelocegonha.bsky.social · 4d

Has the bombing stopped? No?
Carry on protests!

Marcelo Lima @marcelocegonha.bsky.social · 5d

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will.i.am - It's A New Day (Official Music Video)

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Marcelo Lima @marcelocegonha.bsky.social · 5d

It's important that we have hope. President Lula’s slogan in 1989 was something like “unafraid of being happy”. Many of us embraced that idea. It's one thing that is not present in Keir Starmet’s Labour here in the UK. We now fear Farage. In the USA you need to recapture Obama’s message of hope now