brazil Brazil has a new coronavirus variant, and it is present in about 50% of all new COVID cases in Manaus city Xeni Jardin
bossa nova Take a deep dive into how culturally and musically strange "The Girl From Ipanema" is Andrea James
brazil Brazil now digging up the dead from cemeteries to make room for new COVID-19 deaths Xeni Jardin
Magical thinking President Bolsonaro boasts that Brazilians can bathe in excrement and not get sick Mark Frauenfelder
car wash Brazil's authoritarians charge Glenn Greenwald with cybercrime for publishing leaks that revealed corruption at the highest levels Cory Doctorow
global trimpism Brazilian authoritarian Bolsonaro fires his culture minister for giving a speech plagiarized from Joseph Goebbels Cory Doctorow
recursive fascism Brazil's fascist Bolsonaro Facebooks himself watching Trump's Iran speech Xeni Jardin
sic semper stupid The corrupt Brazilian prosecutors who locked up Lula now want to release him, to make him less sympathetic Cory Doctorow
shitty excuses Pressed about Amazon deforestation, Bolsonaro proposes only shitting on alternate days to remediate climate change Cory Doctorow
brazil Brazil prisoner who almost escaped in 'teen girl' disguise is found hanged to death Xeni Jardin
no one is above the law Crisis for Bolsonaro's justice minister Sergio Moro after leaks reveal that he targeted Lula for political prosecution Cory Doctorow
car wash A trove of leaks show that Brazil's "anti-corruption" task force was secretly trying to oust Lula and install a far-right strongman Cory Doctorow
zuckerbergian authoritarianism Fans of Brazil's new fascist president chant "Facebook! Facebook! Whatsapp! Whatsapp!" at inauguration Cory Doctorow
