I don't want to sound alarmist, but there is a serious attempt at a coup happening in the open right now in Brazil. The Federal Traffic Police along with state police and elements of the army are trying to suppress the vote across the country. I will continue to post updates Here is the supposed order from the Bolsonaro supporting Director General of the Federal Traffic Police to ignore the Electoral Court and carry-out operations against public transport. This is the time to sound the alarm bells

https://twitter.com/rafaelmmartins/status/1586757054374580225

Bolsonaro is likely to face mass homicide charges for his murderous handling of the pandemic, as the Congressional Inquiry into the Brazilian government's handling of the pandemic draws to a close.

https://twitter.com/NomikiKonst/status/1450542340121059332

"“Many of these deaths were preventable,” Renan Calheiros, the centrist Brazilian senator who was the lead author of the report, said in an interview in his office late Monday. “I am personally convinced that he is responsible for escalating the slaughter.”"

I can't get over how hilarious it is that Bolsonaro appointed the only President in the history of Brazil impeached for corruption as an economic advisor. For background, the story of Fernando Collor de Mello is about as beautifully absurd as any political event in history Just some random facts: Collor's downfall began when his brother revealed the President and his fixer's scheme supposedly because he tried to sleep with his wife while coked out at a family gathering. It also had something to do with media politics in their fiefdom of Alagoas

1. I'm for full drug legalisation including alcohol, I can't join the moralistic middle classes in trying to fix the masses for drinking. In a country as unequal, violent and hopeless for much of the population as South Africa, how can you tell people they should be sober? 2. If you want to deal with substance abuse problems drop the moralism and focus on fixing the fundamental problems with South Africa and stop pretending that the country has some exceptional relationship with substance abuse.

These pathetic busts amid escalating wars over organised crime profits across the country and corruption allegations at the highest levels of SAPS are nothing but gutter lockdown populism

https://twitter.com/Richard_Spoor/status/1351045979336822789

Lockdown populism is sending the military to patrol beaches, while SAPS use water hoses on pensioners who have been waiting outside SASSA for days because government has cancelled their pensions

1. Collins Khosa was killed for the temerity of enjoying a beer on his stoep. We should not let revisionist accounts which divorce his death from the authoritarian militarized prohibitionist lockdown which saw 230,000 arrests of mostly black working class South Africans 2. We should also not forget that government created only 207 new ICU beds over the course of the lockdown and failed to deliver the promised emergency grants along with sufficient food aid.

I honestly don't get why so many people will spend days in a rage because of say Ayanda Mabulu, but are silent about our political crisis Is it because people think there is somebody who will step in and save us or belief that we are generally powerless denial or acceptance?