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Exploring the economic promise and environmental costs of mining in Brazil #Brazil…

Exploring the economic promise and environmental costs of mining in Brazil
Mining in Brazil does not deliver the sustained economic benefits often claimed, while informal mining is a major driver of deforestation, especially in the Amazon. A new study offers one of the most comprehensive assessments to date, combining satellite imagery and economic data to analyze the environmental and economic impacts of mining at the municipal scale across Brazil.

Chiefs vs. Chargers in Brazil prediction, odds, time: 2025 NFL Sao Paulo Game picks by proven model

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/chiefs-

This approach (crippling the species with a Wallbachia infection) is an excellent one. I wish we adopted it for our problem species. https://flipboard.com/@npr/all-things-considered-ji18657oz/-/a-hfTp74UFR4yvd9JvEdSd6Q:a:3195441-/0

Brazil aims to reduce dengue with modified mosquitoes
For years, researchers have been trying to shut down a mosquito's ability to transmit certain diseases. Brazil is making a massive investment in the effort, aimed at throttling dengue levels.

Fishermen in Maceió, Brazil, found to have higher-than-average mercury levels #Brazil …

Fishermen in Maceió, Brazil, found to have higher-than-average mercury levels
Researchers from the Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL) and the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in Brazil have found high levels of mercury in the blood and urine of people living on the shores of the Mundaú Lagoon in Maceió, the capital of the Brazilian state of Alagoas. These levels are higher than those found in other populations within the same municipality that have a similar socioeconomic level but live far from the lagoon.

"Trump accused of ‘attack on Brazilian democracy’ after sanctioning Bolsonaro trial judge"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/30/trump-sanctions-brazil-judge-bolsonaro-trial
Not even trying to hide the corruption any more...

"Wreckers, money woes and mutirão: 10 things we learned about Cop30 from Bonn climate talks
Fiona Harvey - in Bonn"
#Brazil #COP30 #Climate

Trump signs order implementing additional 40% tariff on Brazil, White House says (Kanishka Singh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-signs-order-implementing-additional-40-tariff-brazil-white-house-says-2025-07-30/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250730/p100#a250730p100

The 'Brazil-nut effect' in bidisperse particle laden flow on an incline
Jack Luong, Sarah Cassie Burnett, Andrea L. Bertozzi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24114

The 'Brazil-nut effect' in bidisperse particle laden flow on an incline
We study bidisperse suspensions -- suspensions where there are two particle species of the same density but different sizes -- of a viscous fluid on an incline. We use a lubrication theory/thin film model to form a hyperbolic system of three conservation laws for the height and particle volume fractions. The model predicts, over a range of parameters, that the larger particles rise to the top of the layer, consistent with the well-known `Brazil-nut effect' for granular media. The model predicts…

escorts: Brazilian prostitution network (2010)
A bipartite network of escort and individuals who buy sex from them in Brazil, extracted from a Brazilian online community for such ratings. Edges represent a purchase of sexual intercourse with an escort, and the edge weight gives the buyer's rating of the escort: -1 (bad), 0 (neutral), or 1 (good). Other edge attributes are available. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 16730 nodes and 50632 edges.
Tags: Social, Publ…

Brazil offers America a lesson in democratic maturity. It is a test case for how countries recover from a populist fever.
https://economist.com/leaders/2025/08/28/brazil-offers-america-a-lesson-in-democratic-maturity
from The Ec…

Brazil offers America a lesson in democratic maturity
It is a test case for how countries recover from a populist fever

Brazil records 62% jump in area burned by forest fires: monitor #Brazil

Brazil records 62% jump in area burned by forest fires: monitor
Historic forest fires in Brazil last year scorched through an area larger than the size of Italy, recording a burned area some 60% higher than average of the last four decades, said a report released Tuesday.

😰 Hackers Behind $140M Brazil Banking Heist Turn to Crypto to Launder Their Loot
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/07/04/hackers-behind-usd140m-brazil-banking-heist-turn-to-crypto-to-launder-their-loot

Hackers in $140M Brazil C&M Software Banking Heist Launder Funds With Crypto
ZachXBT estimates that between $30 million and $40 million has been swapped to crypto through OTC desks and exchanges.

Brazil: Protect the mangroves and tropical forests of Tauš-Mirim! https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/1305/brazil-protect-the-mangroves-and-tropical-forests-of-taua-mirim

#petition Brazil: Protect the mangroves and tropical forests of Tauá-Mirim!
The people of the Tauá-Mirim region in the Amazon are urgently calling on the Brazilian government to protect their land. The rivers, mangroves and tropical forests south of São Luís in the state of Maranhão are threatened by infrastructure, industrial, and agricultural projects. Please support our petition.

Brazil's supreme court rules that platforms like Facebook and X can be held liable for user posts, requiring them to remove content even without a court order (Michael Pooler/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/4a5235c5-acd0-4e81-9d44-2362a25c8eb3

Brazil supreme court rules digital platforms are liable for users’ posts
Ruling risks stoking tensions with US amid accusations of censorship of social media groups

"Ahead of hosting COP30, Brazil is set to weaken environmental licensing"
#Brazil #COP30 #Environment #Climate

Ahead of hosting COP30, Brazil is set to weaken environmental licensing
The new rules, considered unconstitutional by experts, would benefit around 80% of the ventures with a self-licensing process that exempts environmental impact studies and mitigation measures.

New Brazil development law risks Amazon deforestation, UN expert warns #Brazil

New Brazil development law risks Amazon deforestation - UN expert
A new environmental licensing law has been criticised by environmentalists as Brazil prepares for COP30.

Brazil's supreme court rules that platforms like Facebook and X can be held liable for user posts, requiring them to remove content even without a court order (Michael Pooler/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/4a5235c5-acd0-4e81-9d44-2362a25c8eb3

Brazil supreme court rules digital platforms are liable for users’ posts
Ruling risks stoking tensions with US amid accusations of censorship of social media groups

Volkswagen faces historic $30 million compensation for Amazon labor abuses in Brazil
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/volkswagen-faces-historic-30-million-223709051.html

Under the Hood of BlotchyQuasar: DLL-Based RAT Campaigns Against Latin America
Alessio Di Santo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22323 https://

Under the Hood of BlotchyQuasar: DLL-Based RAT Campaigns Against Latin America
A sophisticated malspam campaign was recently uncovered targeting Latin American countries, with a particular focus on Brazil. This operation utilizes a highly deceptive phishing email to trick users into executing a malicious MSI file, initiating a multi-stage infection. The core of the attack leverages DLL side-loading, where a legitimate executable from Valve Corporation is used to load a trojanized DLL, thereby bypassing standard security defenses. Once active, the malware, a variant of Q…

Trump uses tariff threat to undermine the rule of law in Brazil. For those who still treat Trump tariffs as some kind of economic policy: the US has a trade surplus with Brazil.
https://www.euronews.com/2025/07/10/trump-

Trump threatens Brazil with 50% tariff, demands Bolsonaro trial ends
Brazil’s prosecutor-general has filed charges against former President Jair Bolsonaro for attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat.

Clinical characteristics, complications and outcomes of critically ill patients with Dengue in Brazil, 2012-2024: a nationwide, multicentre cohort study
Igor Tona Peres, Otavio T. Ranzani, Leonardo S. L. Bastos, Silvio Hamacher, Tom Edinburgh, Esteban Garcia-Gallo, Fernando Augusto Bozza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18207

Clinical characteristics, complications and outcomes of critically ill patients with Dengue in Brazil, 2012-2024: a nationwide, multicentre cohort study
Background. Dengue outbreaks are a major public health issue, with Brazil reporting 71% of global cases in 2024. Purpose. This study aims to describe the profile of severe dengue patients admitted to Brazilian Intensive Care units (ICUs) (2012-2024), assess trends over time, describe new onset complications while in ICU and determine the risk factors at admission to develop complications during ICU stay. Methods. We performed a prospective study of dengue patients from 253 ICUs across 56 hospit…

It's #GrindayFriday! Brazil's LYMPHATIC PHLEGM are pathological goregrind legends, and their 2007 record 'Show-Off Cadavers - The Anatomy of Self-Display' is my favorite of theirs. Dynamics, melodies, killer riffs- you can hear how they've influenced Lipoma, Sulfuric Cautery, Tunkio, etc.
(2018 reprint):

Donald Trump's unprecedented attack on Brazil's judiciary (The Economist)
https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2025/07/31/donald-trumps-unprecedented-attack-on-brazils-judiciary?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=688b37c6fd96b40001e2ba74
http://www.memeorandum.com/250731/p17#a250731p17

"Brazil authorities suspend key Amazon rainforest protection measure"
#Brazil #AmazonRainforest #Environment

🫘 Soy crops squeeze Amazon park with 11,000-year-old rock paintings in Brazil
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/soy-crops-squeeze-amazon-park-with-11000-year-old-rock-paintings-in-brazil/

Soy crops squeeze Amazon park with 11,000-year-old rock paintings in Brazil
Remarkable discoveries in an Amazon cave rewrote human history, but it remains largely unknown as farmers advance closely.

Interesting, PhantomCard, NFC-based fraude/malware.
https://www.threatfabric.com/blogs/phantomcard-new-nfc-driven-android-malware-emerging-in-brazil

PhantomCard: New NFC-driven Android malware emerging in Brazil 🇧🇷
PhantomCard is a sophisticated Android malware leveraging NFC relaying techniques.

escorts: Brazilian prostitution network (2010)
A bipartite network of escort and individuals who buy sex from them in Brazil, extracted from a Brazilian online community for such ratings. Edges represent a purchase of sexual intercourse with an escort, and the edge weight gives the buyer's rating of the escort: -1 (bad), 0 (neutral), or 1 (good). Other edge attributes are available. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 16730 nodes and 50632 edges.
Tags: Social, Publ…

“[Rubio’s] priorities speak volumes: financing Israel genocide on Palestine, torturing Cuba, going after health care services for those who need them most,”
Diplomat Johana Tablada.
USA can't tolerate Cuba's good example of free health care nor its international solidarity.
US sanctions Brazil health officials over Cuba’s overseas medical missions | Donald Trump News | Al Jazeera

US sanctions Brazil health officials over Cuba’s overseas medical missions
Washington claims the health officials were involved in Cuba’s ‘coercive labour export’ of medical workers.

I cannot stress enough how stupid and dangerous an idea this is. https://mastotut.cat/@LoDeivit/114685756943284819

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RadcliffeAndMaconie
Guillemots:
🎵 Trains To Brazil
#Guillemots
https://open.spotify.com/track/278TZTqtqRUpsJPUQAzYy0

People in India/Brazil/Mexico: assuming equiv of USD 10 is too high, what is a reasonable price for the EPUB version of PLAI (plai.org) in INR/BRL/MXN? Making available via Kindle store. [NB: Free EPUB will always be available at book site, no worries!]

Sources: Google, Meta, and other tech firms have met with Brazilian officials as new regulations on tech are being shaped, with Trump's tariffs as a backdrop (Ana Ionova/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/world/americas/brazil-big-tech…

Brazil Clamped Down on Big Tech. Trump’s Tariffs Could Change That.
With President Trump on their side, U.S. technology companies now have more leverage in Brazil, where they seek to influence new rules policing their platforms.

Trump demands Brazil drop charges against Bolsonaro, former president who tried to stay in office after election loss
Donald Trump’s enraged letterto his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inšcio Lula da Silva, announcing that
the US would impose a 50% tariff on imports from Brazil,
said that the move was motivated in part by the treatment of former president Jair Bolsonaro,
who was barred from running for office until 2030 and is on trial for allegedly plotting to remain in…

Brazil suspends Amazon Soy Moratorium, raising fears of deforestation spike
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/08/brazil-suspends-amazon-soy-moratorium-raising-fears-of-deforestation-spike/

blumenau_drug: Blumenau drug interactions (2019)
A network of drug-drug interactions, extracted from 18 months of electronic health records (EHRs) from the city of Blumenau in Southern Brazil. Nodes are annotated with drug information (separate file), and edges are weighted by the severity of the interaction, along with other information.
This network has 75 nodes and 181 edges.
Tags: Biological, Drug interactions, Weighted, Metadata

"Brazil passes ‘devastation bill’ that drastically weakens environmental law"
#Brazil #Environment #Deforestation

Uncovering Latent Connections in Indigenous Heritage: Semantic Pipelines for Cultural Preservation in Brazil
Luis Vitor Zerkowski, Nina S. T. Hirata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10911

Uncovering Latent Connections in Indigenous Heritage: Semantic Pipelines for Cultural Preservation in Brazil
Indigenous communities face ongoing challenges in preserving their cultural heritage, particularly in the face of systemic marginalization and urban development. In Brazil, the Museu Nacional dos Povos Indigenas through the Tainacan platform hosts the country's largest online collection of Indigenous objects and iconographies, providing a critical resource for cultural engagement. Using publicly available data from this repository, we present a data-driven initiative that applies artificial int…

😎 Brazil's publicly funded payment system is pretty cool
#economics

Has Brazil Invented the Future of Money?
And will it ever come to America?

Noooooo @… don’t ship to Brazil ;-;

Here's the start of an idea:
Those of us who end up directly getting a tariff payment demand on a purchase from overseas (especially if the purchase is from Brazil) might want to consider filing a personal Federal civil action against FFOTUS, as a private person, for recovery.
The basis would be an ultra vires government action, not authorized by law (this is why the Brazil path is particularly interesting, because there is no real way that this is in any way authorized by Co…

"Scientists’ Letter Urges Brazil’s President Lula to Reject New Amazon and Offshore Drilling"
#Brazil #AmazonRainforest #Environment

Scientists’ Letter Urges Brazil’s President Lula to Reject New Amazon and Offshore Drilling - Inside Climate News
The urgent message was delivered to Brazilian officials during annual U.N. climate talks in Bonn, Germany, and includes new warnings about an Amazon rainforest tipping point.

Brazil manatee hunters become advocates as village turns to ecotourism https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/06/brazil-manatee-hunters-become-advocates-as-village-turns-to-ecotourism/

Brazil manatee hunters become advocates as village turns to ecotourism
The fishing community of Barra do Mamanguape on Brazil’s northeastern coast used to be a hunting site for manatees. But today, the villagers have turned to ecotourism and are now protecting the manatees, Mongabay’s video team reported in May. The village estuary, where river meets the sea, has warm, calm waters, perfect habitat for manatees. […]

Nominal Equational Rewriting and Narrowing
Mauricio Ayala-Rinc\'on (University of Bras\'ilia, Brazil), Maribel Fern\'andez (King's College London, UK), Daniele Nantes-Sobrinho (University of Bras\'ilia, Brazil,Imperial College London, UK), Daniella Santaguida (University of Bras\'ilia, Brazil)
https://arx…

Nominal Equational Rewriting and Narrowing
Narrowing is a well-known technique that adds to term rewriting mechanisms the required power to search for solutions to equational problems. Rewriting and narrowing are well-studied in first-order term languages, but several problems remain to be investigated when dealing with languages with binders using nominal techniques. Applications in programming languages and theorem proving require reasoning modulo alpha-equivalence considering structural congruences generated by equational axioms, suc…

Brazilian police arrest IT worker over $100 million cyber theft https://therecord.media/brazil-police-arrest-worker-theft

OJ maker sues Trump over tariffs saying his plan could drive up consumer costs by 25% | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-tariffs-brazil-johanna-foods-lawsuit-b2795375.html

Technologies that promise to track, manage, and supervise workers,
increasingly using artificial intelligence,
are entrenched in the developing world, according to a new report by Coworker.org,
a labor rights nonprofit based in New York. 
Audits of more than 150 startups and regional companies based in Kenya, Nigeria, Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, and India showed
workplace surveillance is expanding in scale and sophistication, the researchers said.
While lar…

VC money is fueling a global boom in worker surveillance tech
A funding surge has given rise to technologies to track, analyze and manage workers — often in countries with little regulation.

Modeling Income Distribution with the Gause-Witt Population Ecology System
Marcelo B. Ribeiro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20881 https://

Modeling Income Distribution with the Gause-Witt Population Ecology System
This paper presents an empirical application of the Gause-Witt model of population ecology and ecosystems to the income distribution competitive dynamics of social classes in economic systems. The Gause-Witt mathematical system of coupled nonlinear first-order ordinary differential equations employed to model population of species sharing the same ecological niche and competing for the same resources was applied to the income data of Brazil. Previous studies using Brazilian income data from 198…

Evaluating sugarcane bagasse-based biochar as an economically viable catalyst for agricultural and environmental advancement in Brazil through scenario-based economic modeling
Sebastian G. Nosenzo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12454

Evaluating sugarcane bagasse-based biochar as an economically viable catalyst for agricultural and environmental advancement in Brazil through scenario-based economic modeling
The increasing global demand for sustainable agricultural practices and effective waste management has highlighted the potential of biochar as a multifaceted solution. This study evaluates the economic viability of sugarcane bagasse-based biochar in Brazil, focusing on its potential to enhance agricultural productivity and contribute to environmental sustainability. While existing literature predominantly explores the production, crop yield benefits, and carbon sequestration capabilities of bio…

Brazil has an interesting history of homegrown technology (see Lua!) and I guess the new big step is developing their own digital payment system: Pix.
This article is largely about US efforts against it, but also discusses the rise of Pix.
https://restofworld.org/2025/pix-brazi

U.S. targets Brazil’s payments platform Pix in trade spat
Big Tech has struggled to compete against Brazil’s beloved digital payments system, with the U.S. government now investigating the country’s “unfair trade practices.”

How an AI assistant developed by Brazilian nonprofit NoHarm is helping pharmacists in remote Amazon clinics process prescriptions more quickly and catch errors (Pedro Nakamura/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/brazil-amazon-ai-healthcare-prescript…

AI is making health care safer in the remote Amazon
At overburdened clinics, pharmacists use AI to catch dangerous errors. It’s frontier tech meets frontier medicine — with global implications.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Tears for Fears:
🎵 Head Over Heels / Broken (live)
#TearsforFears
https://dirtyneedlz.bandcamp.com/track/head-over-heels-broken-dirty-needlz-brazil-rework
https://open.spotify.com/track/4EYDUxcERxthPxpbs6mTRd

escorts: Brazilian prostitution network (2010)
A bipartite network of escort and individuals who buy sex from them in Brazil, extracted from a Brazilian online community for such ratings. Edges represent a purchase of sexual intercourse with an escort, and the edge weight gives the buyer's rating of the escort: -1 (bad), 0 (neutral), or 1 (good). Other edge attributes are available. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 16730 nodes and 50632 edges.
Tags: Social, Publ…

#sunkCapital inhibits progress - and the more money into #FossilFuels extraction, the more difficult it is to accelerate #ClimateAction. It diverts resources that should go to

In Brazil, Volkswagen is once again being sued for its use of slave labor during the military dictatorship between 1974 - 1986. Looks like VW just exported the methods they had already pioneered during WW2 closer to home…
(article in German)
https://amerika21.de/2025/06/275586/vw-angezeigt-brasilien

Is the Home Office so inhumane, or is it just some rogue, cynical (un)civil servant who made this judgement?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/18/uk-home-office-brazilian-family-children-return-alone?CMP…

Trump's Brazil Tariff Threats Rekindle Support for President Lula (Ana Ionova/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/world/americas/trump-brazil-tariffs-lula-support.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XE8.VHjG.XWVhts1_aCSk&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250717/p15#a250717p15

Amazon deforestation spikes as Brazil blames criminal fires #Brazil

Amazon deforestation spikes as Brazil blames criminal fires
A new and alarming pattern of destruction is emerging in the rainforest, challenging Brazilian authorities ahead of COP30.

escorts: Brazilian prostitution network (2010)
A bipartite network of escort and individuals who buy sex from them in Brazil, extracted from a Brazilian online community for such ratings. Edges represent a purchase of sexual intercourse with an escort, and the edge weight gives the buyer's rating of the escort: -1 (bad), 0 (neutral), or 1 (good). Other edge attributes are available. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 16730 nodes and 50632 edges.
Tags: Social, Publ…

Brazil Bans Animal-Tested Cosmetics in Major Win for Compassion https://www.speciesunite.com/petition-updates/brazil-bans-animal-tested-cosmetics-in-major-win-for-compassion?utm_source=Mastodon

Brazil Bans Animal-Tested Cosmetics in Major Win for Compassion — Species Unite
On July 30, 2025, Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, approved a ban on animal testing for cosmetics, personal hygiene products, and perfumes in the major South American nation. The bill was signed into law during a ceremony attended by Marina Silva, Brazil’s Minister of the Environment a

Coffee prices soaring after Trump's tariffs on Brazil. What to know
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/local/2025/08/14/coffee-prices-soaring-after-trumps-tariffs-on-brazil-what-to-know/85655792007/

Trump Administration Initiates Trade Investigation of Brazil (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/us/politics/trump-brazil-trade-investigation.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250716/p22#a250716p22

"Brazil generates 88% of power from renewables in 2024"
#Brazil #Energy #Renewables

Brazil generates 88% of power from renewables in 2024
Brazil’s electricity mix was 88% renewable in 2024, with wind and solar supplying about 24% of total demand, according to new data from state-owned energy agency Empresa de Pesquisa Energetica (EPE).

Brazil & China megarailway raises deforestation warnings in the Amazon https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/brazil-china-megarailway-raises-deforestation-warnings-in-the-amazon/

Brazil & China megarailway raises deforestation warnings in the Amazon
From Lucas do Rio Verde, a major agricultural hub in the state of Mato Grosso, the railway would be built from scratch, advancing into the Amazon’s Arc of Deforestation.

Conformidade com os Requisitos Legais de Privacidade de Dados: Um Estudo sobre T\'ecnicas de Anonimiza\c{c}\~ao
Andr\'e Menolli, Luiz Fernando Nunes, Thiago A. Coleti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18360

Conformidade com os Requisitos Legais de Privacidade de Dados: Um Estudo sobre Técnicas de Anonimização
The protection of personal data has become a central topic in software development, especially with the implementation of the General Data Protection Law (LGPD) in Brazil and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union. With the enforcement of these laws, certain software quality criteria have become mandatory, such as data anonymization, which is one of the main aspects addressed by these regulations. The aim of this article is to analyze data anonymization techniques a…

Sources: the Trump admin is pressuring South Korea, Brazil, the EU, and others to drop plans for new taxes on US tech firms as a part of broader trade talks (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-trade-talks-tech-industry-e1061e53

"Amazon deforestation spikes as Brazil blames criminal fires"
#AmazonRainforest #Trees #Environment

Amazon deforestation spikes as Brazil blames criminal fires
A new and alarming pattern of destruction is emerging in the rainforest, challenging Brazilian authorities ahead of COP30.

U.S.-Based Orange Juice Importer Sues Over Trump's 50% Tariff on Brazilian Goods (Alicia Chen/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/us/politics/orange-juice-trump-brazil-tariffs.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250721/p138#a250721p138

Trump’s latest letter imposing a 50 percent tariff on Brazil, marks a new departure,
and I think it’s both evil and megalomaniacal.
Trump barely even pretends that there’s an economic justification for this action.
This is all about punishing Brazil for putting Jair Bolsonaro on trial.
Bolsonaro, is Brazil’s previous president, who lost the last election — but tried to stay in power through a coup overturning that election.
Of course that sounds familiar.

Trump's Dictator Protection Program
Using tariffs to fight democracy

As UN climate talks loom, Brazil's Amazon forest loses in May an area larger than NYC #Brazil

As UN climate talks loom, Brazil's Amazon forest loses in May an area larger than NYC
Brazil's environmental goals suffered a major setback in May as deforestation in the Amazon surged 92% compared to the same month last year, according to official monitoring data released Friday.

Head of Trump's economic council circles around questions on 50 percent tariff on Brazil (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/13/kevin-hassett-brazil-tariffs-00450411
http://www.memeorandum.com/250713/p41#a250713p41

Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies Approves Bill Banning Cosmetic Testing on Live Vertebrates https://vegconomist.com/politics-law/brazil-approves-bill-banning-cosmetic-testing-live-vertebrates/

Brazil's Chamber of Deputies Approves Bill Banning Cosmetic Testing on Live Vertebrates - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
Brazil's Chamber of Deputies has approved the Senate's substitute text for a bill that would ban the testing of cosmetics, personal hygiene products, and

Trump State Dept. Threatens Further Intervention in Brazil After Bolsonaro Put Under House Arrest | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-threatens-brazil-bolsonaro-house-arrest

blumenau_drug: Blumenau drug interactions (2019)
A network of drug-drug interactions, extracted from 18 months of electronic health records (EHRs) from the city of Blumenau in Southern Brazil. Nodes are annotated with drug information (separate file), and edges are weighted by the severity of the interaction, along with other information.
This network has 75 nodes and 181 edges.
Tags: Biological, Drug interactions, Weighted, Metadata

Brazilian president: Trump is not 'the emperor of the world' (Miriam Waldvogel/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5410100-lula-trump-brazil-trade-tariffs-deal/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250719/p50#a250719p50

Brazil serves potentially contaminated shark meat to children in public schools https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/08/brazil-serves-potentially-contaminated-shark-meat-to-children-in-public-schools/…

Brazil serves potentially contaminated shark meat to children in public schools
Brazil has ordered at least 5,600 metric tons of potentially contaminated shark meat to serve in schools and other public institutions since 2004, a Mongabay investigation has revealed. Shark meat tends to have higher concentrations of toxic heavy metals, as top predators accumulate contaminants like mercury from lower down in the food chain. The contaminants […]

Trump's Brazil Tariff Is Blatantly Illegal (Paul Krugman)
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trumps-brazil-tariff-is-blatantly
http://www.memeorandum.com/250711/p46#a250711p46

Iconic Brazil nut crop plunges after extreme drought, skyrocketing prices https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/iconic-brazil-nut-crop-plunges-after-extreme-drought-skyrocketing-prices/

Iconic Brazil nut crop plunges after extreme drought, skyrocketing prices
A vital Amazonian superfood suddenly vanishes, leaving thousands of Indigenous and extractivist families reeling.

escorts: Brazilian prostitution network (2010)
A bipartite network of escort and individuals who buy sex from them in Brazil, extracted from a Brazilian online community for such ratings. Edges represent a purchase of sexual intercourse with an escort, and the edge weight gives the buyer's rating of the escort: -1 (bad), 0 (neutral), or 1 (good). Other edge attributes are available. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 16730 nodes and 50632 edges.
Tags: Social, Publ…

Behind Trump's Decision to Tax Brazil to Save Bolsonaro (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/world/americas/brazil-trump-tariffs.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250711/p41#a250711p41

A majority of six of the 11 judges on Brazil's Supreme Court have voted to hold social media companies liable for some types of users' content seen as illegal (Ricardo Brito/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/…

Watch the 'We Are Guardians' film #Brazil #Amazon

We Are Guardians | Film
We Are Guardians follows the indigenous forest guardians of the Amazon as they fend off loggers. A global story erupts entwining science, politics & the fate of the Amazon.

escorts: Brazilian prostitution network (2010)
A bipartite network of escort and individuals who buy sex from them in Brazil, extracted from a Brazilian online community for such ratings. Edges represent a purchase of sexual intercourse with an escort, and the edge weight gives the buyer's rating of the escort: -1 (bad), 0 (neutral), or 1 (good). Other edge attributes are available. Edges are timestamped.
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Trump hits Brazil with 50% tariff, in part due to trial of ally Jair Bolsonaro (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/trump-hits-brazil-50-percent-tariff-citing-ex-president-jair-bolsonaro-rcna217859
http://www.memeorandum.com/250709/p151#a250709p151

escorts: Brazilian prostitution network (2010)
A bipartite network of escort and individuals who buy sex from them in Brazil, extracted from a Brazilian online community for such ratings. Edges represent a purchase of sexual intercourse with an escort, and the edge weight gives the buyer's rating of the escort: -1 (bad), 0 (neutral), or 1 (good). Other edge attributes are available. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 16730 nodes and 50632 edges.
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"Brazil issues last-ditch plea for countries to submit climate plans ahead of Cop30"
#Brazil #COP30 #Climate #ClimateChange

Trump announces 50 percent tariff on Brazil, citing Bolsonaro trial (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/09/trump-tariffs-brazil-jair-bolsonaro/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250710/p15#a250710p15

Trump Pledges 50% Tariffs Against Brazil, Citing 'Witch Hunt' Against Bolsonaro (Jack Nicas/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/world/americas/brazil-trump-bolsonaro-lula-coup-tariff.html?unlocked_article_code=1.VU8.aZCB.va7oFgWHJ3TC&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250710/p4#a250710p4

Spurred by Bolsonaro's son, Trump mulls sanctions on Brazilian judge (Terrence McCoy/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/17/brazil-trump-lula-moraes-tariffs/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250717/p141#a250717p141

Brazil set to blast 35 km river rock formation for new Amazon shipping route https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/brazil-set-to-blast-35-km-river-rock-formation-for-new-amazon-shipping-route/

Brazil set to blast 35 km river rock formation for new Amazon shipping route
The Brazilian environmental agency, IBAMA, approved a license to blast a natural rock barrier on the Tocantins River in Pará state to enable boats to pass during the dry season, as part of wider efforts to build a massive waterway for commodities.

Bolsonaro Ordered to Wear Ankle Monitor After Police Search (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-18/bolsonaro-is-ordered-to-wear-ankle-monitor-brazil-press-says
http://www.memeorandum.com/250718/p30#a250718p30

escorts: Brazilian prostitution network (2010)
A bipartite network of escort and individuals who buy sex from them in Brazil, extracted from a Brazilian online community for such ratings. Edges represent a purchase of sexual intercourse with an escort, and the edge weight gives the buyer's rating of the escort: -1 (bad), 0 (neutral), or 1 (good). Other edge attributes are available. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 16730 nodes and 50632 edges.
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"Brazil to auction oil exploration rights months before hosting Cop30"
#Brazil #Climate #ClimateChange #COP30

escorts: Brazilian prostitution network (2010)
A bipartite network of escort and individuals who buy sex from them in Brazil, extracted from a Brazilian online community for such ratings. Edges represent a purchase of sexual intercourse with an escort, and the edge weight gives the buyer's rating of the escort: -1 (bad), 0 (neutral), or 1 (good). Other edge attributes are available. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 16730 nodes and 50632 edges.
Tags: Social, Publ…

Brazil Supreme Court orders house arrest of ex-president Bolsonaro (Rebecca Falconer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/04/brazil-bolsonaro-house-arrest-supreme-court
http://www.memeorandum.com/250804/p112#a250804p112

escorts: Brazilian prostitution network (2010)
A bipartite network of escort and individuals who buy sex from them in Brazil, extracted from a Brazilian online community for such ratings. Edges represent a purchase of sexual intercourse with an escort, and the edge weight gives the buyer's rating of the escort: -1 (bad), 0 (neutral), or 1 (good). Other edge attributes are available. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 16730 nodes and 50632 edges.
Tags: Social, Publ…

"‘The ocean is not a backdrop’: MEPs and experts say oceans must be prioritised at COP30"
#Oceans #Environment #COP30

What message has the Nice ocean summit sent to COP30 this year?
Campaigners, MEPs and experts made pleas from UNOC3 for oceans to be protected at the climate summit in Brazil.

China welcomes 183 Brazil coffee sellers in wake of US tariffs (Ana Mano/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-welcomes-183-brazil-coffee-sellers-wake-us-tariffs-2025-08-03/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250803/p65#a250803p65

Trump announces 50% tariff on Brazil in retaliation for Bolsonaro trial, trade deficit (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/09/trump-brazil-tariffs-bolsonaro.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250709/p110#a250709p110

escorts: Brazilian prostitution network (2010)
A bipartite network of escort and individuals who buy sex from them in Brazil, extracted from a Brazilian online community for such ratings. Edges represent a purchase of sexual intercourse with an escort, and the edge weight gives the buyer's rating of the escort: -1 (bad), 0 (neutral), or 1 (good). Other edge attributes are available. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 16730 nodes and 50632 edges.
Tags: Social, Publ…

Wildfires push tropical forest loss in Latin America to record highs https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/wildfires-push-tropical-forest-loss-in-latin-america-to-record-highs/

Wildfires push tropical forest loss in Latin America to record highs
MEXICO CITY — In 2024, six Latin American countries were in the top 10 nations with the highest loss of tropical primary forest, according to recent data from the University of Maryland, U.S. Topping the list were Brazil and Bolivia, in a year that saw the record-breaking loss of 6.7 million hectares (16.6 million acres) […]