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"Vast fires, many of them set by loggers, are ravaging the Amazon...The number of forest fires in Brazil has soared 84% this year."

Bolsonaro's legacy to the world is well on its way to being the biggest of any other "populist."

wsj.com/articles/fires…
"Bolsonaro, who has jokingly nicknamed himself 'Captain Chainsaw,' favors loosening environmental protections to spur economic activity and has clashed with European governments and environmentalists over their concerns about the destruction."
“'I would like to give a message to beloved Angela Merkel,' Bolsonaro said. 'Take your money and reforest Germany, OK?' Germany’s embassy in Brazil responded w/ a video featuring the European country’s lush forests, noting they now covered a third of Germany, more than in past."
And finally, your occasional reminder that Bolsonaro was elected with a huge assist from...YouTube! Take a bow, @google: nytimes.com/2019/08/11/wor… #dontbeevil
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Such an important piece here by @RosenthalHealth: it's not just pharma and insurance companies, our favorite bogeymen, driving up the cost of health care. It's hospitals. nytimes.com/2019/09/01/opi…
@RosenthalHealth "A report this year from researchers at Yale and other universities found that hospital prices increased a whopping 42 percent from 2007 to 2014 for inpatient care and 25 percent for outpatient care."
@RosenthalHealth This is key: "Every senator, virtually every congressman and every mayor of every large city has a powerful hospital system in his or her district. And those hospitals are as politically untouchable as soybean growers in Iowa or oil producers in Texas...."
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Alec MacGillis
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Time for my weekly political geography/demographics quiz, Labor Day Edition:

Which 5 states have the highest rates of workers represented by unions? Which 5 states have the lowest?

I will award prize to whoever gets the most of the 10 right.

Answer in an hour. Scout's honor!
OK, time's up.
Here they are, according to BLS:

Top 5: HI, NY, WA, AK, RI
Bottom 5: SC, NC, AR, TX, VA

The winner, w/ 9 (!) is @mjgalasso. Bravo! Silver to @bushnellmike, bronze to @jakemcintyre

So, not one of top 5 states is in Midwest. Well done, Guvs Walker, Snyder, etc!
@mjgalasso @bushnellmike @jakemcintyre Here's the table. As you can see, there's a lot of bunching among the low-union states. Plenty right behind TX & VA. bls.gov/news.release/u…
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Alec MacGillis
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The hot new thing: condos or mansions built around private test tracks for your Ferrari, Porsche or Lamborghini: wsj.com/articles/colle…
"The couple’s 2016 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 (bought new for about $105,000) and 2017 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350R (about $65,000) are considered two of the most high-performance cars ever built at their price-points, while their 2010 Ferrari 458 (about $235K in 2010) is no slouch."
"There are 268 lots at the Thermal Club. On any given Sunday, Aston Martins and Porsches can be seen just about everywhere the eye turns...a 20,000-square-foot home recently sold for $6.5 million."
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A wildfire near Robore, Bolivia.

Wildfires in Bolivia have devastated about 745,000 hectares of forests and farmland.

Neighboring Peru says it is "on alert" for wildfires in the Amazon spreading from Brazil and Bolivia.
VIDEO: Bolivia's rainforest is ravaged by wildfires. About 745,000 hectares have been destroyed.

@AFP footage from Bolivia's Santa Cruz region neighbouring Brazil
AFP map locating wildfires in the #Amazon as of August 22-23

@AFPgraphics
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Filomena Rocha
@Filomen03258997
The Amazon the largest lung in our world is on fire😭.
It's time for humanity to stop & think seriously about what it is doing🤨.
Is this our legacy for future generations😠?
Is money more important than conserving nature😡?
🗣️We need the forests to survive.
🗣️Protect nature!
"The fires burning in the #Amazon rain forest are so large and widespread that smoke has wafted thousands of miles away to the Atlantic coast, according to the World Meteorological Organization"
nyti.ms/31VHDRb
Via @Miami_Rebelde
There is no "ngo" burning the #AmazonRainforest these are Cattle Ranchers, most of whom voted for #Bolsonaro. They're destroying the #Enviroment to steal #Indigenous land for themselves #NativeTwitter!#IndigenousRights #NativeLivesMatter
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nonouzi
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#Brazil Forces allied to #Bolsonaro have caused a huge forest fire, displacing an Indigenous community and MST camp.
The #Amazon rainforest has been burning for weeks at a record rate - adding to an already alarming level of deforestation. #Bolsonaro
#PrayforAmazonas #Brazil
The Brazilian Amazon, considered the "lungs of the planet", have been burning for weeks. Conservationists have blamed #Bolsonaro, saying he has encouraged loggers and farmers to clear the land for cattle ranching #Brazil #PrayForAmazonia
#PrayforAmazonas
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Jeff Nascimento
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Grave: Desmatamento na Amazônia em junho cresce quase 60% em relação ao mesmo período em 2018 oglobo.globo.com/sociedade/desm…
"Em junho, a Amazônia perdeu 762,3 km² de floresta, o equivalente a duas vezes a área de Belo Horizonte. É o pior registro do mês desde 2016. No acumulado dos últimos 180 dias, o quadro também inspira preocupações."
"No mesmo período, em junho de 2018, o desmatamento havia sido de 488,4 km². Na prática, a floresta perdeu duas cidades do porte de Paris a mais em comparação ao ano passado."
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Dan Poraz
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I’m an avid history geek 🤓 and I got this idea from @GippersChutzpah!
My follower count is currently stuck in the mid ages. I’ll tweet some Jewish history milestones from along the years, according to my follower count. So come on, I’m 4 followers short of the first story...
On 13/12/1204, Moshe Ben Maimon AKA #Maimonides (Greek) and Ha’Rambam (Hebrew), died at 69 in Egypt.
A Philosopher, Physician, Astronomer and one of most important #Jewish Scholars of all times.
Buried in Tiberias @Israel, upon final request to be buried in the ancient homeland
WOW! 3 followers away from yet another milestone of #JewishHistory!
So far we learned about some pogroms 😠(1171 France, 1190 England) and Maïmōnídēs dying 😢(1204 Egypt).
JewishHistory is filled with sorrow and darkness but it gets better in the 2nd half of the 20th century 😉
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Patrickortreat Galey🕷🧟‍♂️
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Why does #Brazil's election of Jair #Bolsonaro matter so much?

Well, first up, people are going to die.

Brazil already has the highest rate of indigenous murders in the world, and Bolsonaro has repeatedly attacked them in hate speech sg.news.yahoo.com/fears-amazon-b…
. @Global_Witness said 57 land defenders were murdered in Brazil in 2017 and warned even before Bolsonaro that laws were getting less strict on protection tribune.com.pk/story/1765418/…
There are some pointing to Brazil's relatively robust institutions, suggesting Bolsonaro won't be able to legislate to push through some of his most damaging pledges. But he doesn't need to change the law to ruin the environment.
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