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9 Nov, 6 tweets, 3 min read
A really powerful & illuminating new 1-hour documentary “The Rise of Bolsonaro” — features Marielle’s assassination & battle of her widow, the coup against Dilma, @davidmirandario’s campaign for Congress, and much more. Can’t recommend it highly enough:

theriseofbolsonaro.com
What’s so great about this film is its relevance not just for people interested in Brazil but democracy globally. Directed by Danish filmmakers Christian & Jacquline Prener, it avoids pat, cheap answers to explain Bolsonaro, focusing on underlying pathologies. With @Snowden tool!
The widow of Marielle — the favela-raised, black LGBT Rio Councilwoman brutally assassinated in March, 2018, by militias connected to the Bolsonaros — is @monica_benicio, one of the world’s bravest women, now running for that seat. Election this week.

independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
I’m not suggesting the Bolsonaros played a role in her assassination, but what is beyond clear is that the major corruption scandal engulfing them — that just resulted in the indictment of the President’s son — is based on links to that paramilitary gang.

theintercept.com/2019/03/18/jai…
♫ ♫ ♫ Memories... ♫ ♫
Amanha, 20h — com @PatriciaFelixRJ: como Monica, uma candidata incrível e muito impressionante - *necessário*— pra Câmara Municipal do Rio. Por favor, assista e ouça ela. Image

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9 Nov
Key detail in this @NYMag story on the pro-censorship movement inside NYT by its own employees: NYT tech reporters were angry that the anti-censorship posture of NYT editors would impede their campaign to pressure Silicon Valley to censor more robustly:

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The role that mainstream **journalists** have played, of all people, in taking the lead to demand that Silicon Valley oligarchs more aggressively control and censor the internet -- the greatest threat to a free and open internet after mass surveillance -- cannot be overstated.
Just ponder the warped mentality of someone who chooses journalism as a career, then devotes themselves to trying to silence the ability of others to be heard by converting themselves into petulant tattletales who demand that Facebook, Twitter & Google censor dissenting voices.
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8 Nov
Very interesting @AOC interview in NYT today, where she says: "the history of the [Democratic] party tends to be that we get really excited about the grass roots to get elected. And then those communities are promptly abandoned right after an election."

nytimes.com/2020/11/07/us/…
She also says, amazingly, that she is often not sure she wants to stay in politics -- primarily because of cowardly, anonymous attacks (my characterization) from within her own Party, which often treats her as its enemy, someone to be banished:
I understand the left has some valid critiques of AOC. I have some of my own. But she's in an impossible position - the huge platform & expectations means she's bound to disappoint some people sometimes - but, with Biden/Harris, the left needs critics from inside more than ever.
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4 Nov
The U.S. Inability To Count Votes is a National Disgrace. And Dangerous.

greenwald.substack.com/p/the-us-inabi…
"Nations far poorer and less technologically advanced -- including Brazil -- have no problem holding quick, efficient elections. A system suffused with this much chaos, error, protracted outcomes and seemingly inexplicable reversals will sow doubt even among rational citizens."
Is the polling industry and the media's data gurus who feed off of it going to gaslight everyone again and unite to insist that there's absolutely nothing wrong with their craft and that anyone who suggests this is just ignorant, uneducated and irrational?
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3 Nov
Heavy is the head that wears the journalist hat:
In all seriousness, I'm glad that a group of people which inspires so much trust and confidence across the political spectrum and across the country - the national media - has anointed itself responsible for declaring the winner of the election.

That should calm everyone down.
Not sure why everyone is mad at the NYT for arrogating unto itself the right and solemn duty to declare the winner of the election. It says right in the Constitution that this is who does it.
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1 Nov
Agradeço muito essa ótima entrevista com @AttuchLeonardo e @TerezaCruvinel. Discutimos todas as questões sobre minha renúncia do The Intercept, as eleições de 2020, a política no Brasil e nos Estados Unidos e, acima de tudo, o papel do jornalismo.

Quero postar 3 partes onde respondo: por que você publicaria informações incriminatórias sobre Biden? Isso significa que você quer que Trump vença? Parte I:
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29 Oct
My Resignation From The Intercept

The same trends of repression, censorship and ideological homogeneity plaguing the national press generally have engulfed the media outlet I co-founded, culminating in censorship of my own articles.

greenwald.substack.com/p/my-resignati…
"The final, precipitating cause is that The Intercept’s editors censored an article I wrote this week, refusing to publish it unless I remove all sections critical of Joe Biden, the candidate vehemently supported by all Intercept editors involved in this effort at suppression."
"But the pathologies, illiberalism, and repressive mentality that led to the bizarre spectacle of my being censored by my own media outlet are ones that are not unique to The Intercept."

I'll be doing my journalism at Substack for now. Subscribe here:

greenwald.substack.com/p/my-resignati…
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