Mariana Kalil, PhD
@marianakalil.bsky.social
Prof. @ Brazilian War College
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Reupping this because at this point everyone should be ready for the next turn of elections with a conservative twist, this time in the Vatican.
Watched Conclave last night and I am now persuaded by the idea that, on top of all the democratic backsliding happening everywhere, we are not far from a world in which the Papacy is up for renewal and we might need to get ready for a contra-Francis backlash.
April 21, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Reupping this because at this point everyone should be ready for the next turn of elections with a conservative twist, this time in the Vatican.
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The first pope from the Americas, whose drive to modernize the Catholic Church divided opinion, has died in Rome aged 88.
Pope Francis obituary: humble reformer who clashed with conservatives
www.newsweek.com
April 21, 2025 at 8:34 AM
The first pope from the Americas, whose drive to modernize the Catholic Church divided opinion, has died in Rome aged 88.
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Since COVID origins are again in the news, I will remind folks that determining the origins of pandemics w/ any precision has not been possible before the age of evolutionary genomics. Want some history? There's a whole syllabus here: www.academia.edu/83785948 #histmed #EpiSky 🧪🗃️
April 18, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Since COVID origins are again in the news, I will remind folks that determining the origins of pandemics w/ any precision has not been possible before the age of evolutionary genomics. Want some history? There's a whole syllabus here: www.academia.edu/83785948 #histmed #EpiSky 🧪🗃️
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Global Health and Its Limitations: An Historical Perspective www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... by Jesse Bump.
Global Health and Its Limitations: An Historical Perspective
Humanitarian themes, such as rights and entitlements to universal well-being, feature prominently in narratives of global health, even as many recent authors have pointed to systematic imbalances o...
www.tandfonline.com
April 11, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Global Health and Its Limitations: An Historical Perspective www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... by Jesse Bump.
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Apple might import more iPhones from India to side-step China tariffs
Apple might import more iPhones from India to side-step China tariffs
Apple is considering importing more iPhones from India to side-step the 54% additional tariffs on goods imported from China that U.S. President Donald Trump announced last week, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing anonymous sources. The company sees this as a short-term measure while it seeks to negotiate with the Trump administration to get an […]
tcrn.ch
April 8, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Apple might import more iPhones from India to side-step China tariffs
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US President Trump and Russian leader Putin are united in their distrust of Ukraine's President Zelenskyy, who won the 2019 presidential vote as a fresh-faced comic with no political experience.
Read more: aje.io/rl9pvf
Read more: aje.io/rl9pvf
April 8, 2025 at 9:18 AM
US President Trump and Russian leader Putin are united in their distrust of Ukraine's President Zelenskyy, who won the 2019 presidential vote as a fresh-faced comic with no political experience.
Read more: aje.io/rl9pvf
Read more: aje.io/rl9pvf
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Are we witnessing the end of US global economic leadership as we know it or is this just a tactical setback in a much longer game? #auspol #USpolitics
US LNG crippled as Australia seizes US$1.5b trade overnight
What happens when the world’s second-largest economy suddenly pulls the plug on billions of dollars in US energy exports without warning, without negotiation and without a single public signal? You get a global energy market in shock and Washington scrambling for answers._
johnmenadue.com
April 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Are we witnessing the end of US global economic leadership as we know it or is this just a tactical setback in a much longer game? #auspol #USpolitics
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Rightwing group backed by Koch and Leo sues to stop Trump tariffs
Rightwing group backed by Koch and Leo sues to stop Trump tariffs
New Civil Liberties Alliance says president’s invocation of emergency powers to impose tariffs is unlawful
www.theguardian.com
April 8, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Rightwing group backed by Koch and Leo sues to stop Trump tariffs
It’s almost 3:50am in Rio right now, and I’m insomniac baking a gluten free, dairy free cinnamon banana bread. Anybody out there?
April 7, 2025 at 6:47 AM
It’s almost 3:50am in Rio right now, and I’m insomniac baking a gluten free, dairy free cinnamon banana bread. Anybody out there?
Avoiding IG cause as a mom of a 11 months old I haven’t had the chance to watch the last two episodes of White Lotus. Please, no spoilers over here!
April 7, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Avoiding IG cause as a mom of a 11 months old I haven’t had the chance to watch the last two episodes of White Lotus. Please, no spoilers over here!
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Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain recently discussed President Trump, President Vladimir Putin of Russia and Europe’s challenge in a series of conversations with The New York Times. “We have to treat this as a galvanizing moment and seize the initiative.” nyti.ms/4hAAPij
March 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain recently discussed President Trump, President Vladimir Putin of Russia and Europe’s challenge in a series of conversations with The New York Times. “We have to treat this as a galvanizing moment and seize the initiative.” nyti.ms/4hAAPij
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That’s no way to win a race.
March 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
That’s no way to win a race.
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Trump’s defiance of court orders is ‘testing the fences’ of the rule of law
Trump’s defiance of court orders is ‘testing the fences’ of the rule of law
Administration’s ‘unprecedented degree of resistance’ to judiciary undercuts its authority and weakens democracy
Donald Trump’s second administration has shown an “unprecedented degree of resistance” to adverse court rulings, experts say, part of a forceful attack on the American judiciary that threatens to undermine the rule of law, undercut a co-equal branch of government and weaken American democracy.
The attacks, experts say, threaten one of the fundamental pillars of American government: that the judicial branch has the power to interpret the law and the other branches will abide by its rulings. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
March 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Trump’s defiance of court orders is ‘testing the fences’ of the rule of law
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The Global Times, a mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party, wrote that “the so-called beacon of freedom, VOA, has now been discarded by its own government like a dirty rag.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/u...
How Elon Musk’s DOGE Cuts Leave a Vacuum That China Can Fill
The Department of Government Efficiency is shuttering organizations that Beijing worried about most, or actively sought to subvert.
www.nytimes.com
March 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The Global Times, a mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party, wrote that “the so-called beacon of freedom, VOA, has now been discarded by its own government like a dirty rag.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/u...
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Construção civil chorando a dificuldade de conseguir mão de obra. Salário médio para pedreiros é de 2300 reais. Por esse valor um bom pedreiro nem levanta da cama.
March 23, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Construção civil chorando a dificuldade de conseguir mão de obra. Salário médio para pedreiros é de 2300 reais. Por esse valor um bom pedreiro nem levanta da cama.
Na Revista Exame este domingo, íntegra de entrevista que concedi sobre geopolítica contemporânea. Falo de Ucrânia, Europa e Estados Unidos. exame.com/mundo/guerra...
Guerra pode acabar, mas Ucrânia dificilmente será pacificada, diz especialista em defesa | Exame
Para Mariana Kalil, professora da Escola Superior de Guerra, presença de milícias no território dificulta estabilidade do país no futuro
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March 23, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Na Revista Exame este domingo, íntegra de entrevista que concedi sobre geopolítica contemporânea. Falo de Ucrânia, Europa e Estados Unidos. exame.com/mundo/guerra...
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More of this.
Our first post is a big one...Statement from Keker, Van Nest & Peters on Trump’s Latest Executive Order “Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court.”
March 22, 2025 at 10:06 PM
More of this.
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“The DOGE Team is essentially engaged in a fishing expedition at SSA, in search of a fraud epidemic, based on little more than suspicion."
Judge Kicks DOGE Out of Social Security in Huge Blow to Elon Musk
Musk has been working to gut the Social Security Administration.
newrepublic.com
March 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
“The DOGE Team is essentially engaged in a fishing expedition at SSA, in search of a fraud epidemic, based on little more than suspicion."
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If you are a foreigner, you probably should not visit the U.S., but if you absolutely have to, you should “enter” at a pre-clearance site (like Ireland or Canada) so that you’re denied entry in a place where the U.S. government won’t detain you or confiscate your property.
Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
March 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
If you are a foreigner, you probably should not visit the U.S., but if you absolutely have to, you should “enter” at a pre-clearance site (like Ireland or Canada) so that you’re denied entry in a place where the U.S. government won’t detain you or confiscate your property.
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Here's the historical chart some people have been asking for (@jonathanbernstein.bsky.social)
March 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Here's the historical chart some people have been asking for (@jonathanbernstein.bsky.social)
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oh is it bad when you put people out of work for political reasons
Fox News criticizes people celebrating Tesla's stock value decline because "there are 80,000 people employed by Tesla."
March 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM
oh is it bad when you put people out of work for political reasons
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Gov Hochul is attempting again to ban masks in NY.
Please call Governor Hochul and your NY State Senator and Assemblymember and urge them not to ban masks!
More info: covidadvocacyny.org/stopmaskbanny
#NoNYMaskBan #StopMaskBans
gothamist.com/news/gov-hoc...
Please call Governor Hochul and your NY State Senator and Assemblymember and urge them not to ban masks!
More info: covidadvocacyny.org/stopmaskbanny
#NoNYMaskBan #StopMaskBans
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Gov. Hochul is pushing a last-minute subway mask ban in state budget talks
The governor has expressed support for restrictions in protest settings, while many protesters say they need to conceal their identities to avoid retribution.
gothamist.com
March 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Gov Hochul is attempting again to ban masks in NY.
Please call Governor Hochul and your NY State Senator and Assemblymember and urge them not to ban masks!
More info: covidadvocacyny.org/stopmaskbanny
#NoNYMaskBan #StopMaskBans
gothamist.com/news/gov-hoc...
Please call Governor Hochul and your NY State Senator and Assemblymember and urge them not to ban masks!
More info: covidadvocacyny.org/stopmaskbanny
#NoNYMaskBan #StopMaskBans
gothamist.com/news/gov-hoc...
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They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
freedom.press
March 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.