Caio
@fbcaio.bsky.social
Historian (the Cold War, Latin America, and Brazil)
Former Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) and University of Nevada, Reno (UNR).
Former Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) and University of Nevada, Reno (UNR).
November 26, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Artista jamaicano foi um dos principais responsáveis pela difusão do reggae no mundo
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Morre Jimmy Cliff, pioneiro do reggae; artista teve relação de afeto com o Brasil
Jimmy Cliff, ícone do reggae e vencedor de dois Grammys, morreu aos 81 anos nesta segunda-feira (24).
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November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Artista jamaicano foi um dos principais responsáveis pela difusão do reggae no mundo
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Wendy Edelberg, former chief economist for the Congressional
budget Office, explains why keeping immigrants out of the US will not create a booming labor market for those already here. On the contrary, she writes, “making America less hospitable to immigrants will eventually make America poorer.”
budget Office, explains why keeping immigrants out of the US will not create a booming labor market for those already here. On the contrary, she writes, “making America less hospitable to immigrants will eventually make America poorer.”
Opinion | We’re Seeing What a No-Immigration Economy Looks Like
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Wendy Edelberg, former chief economist for the Congressional
budget Office, explains why keeping immigrants out of the US will not create a booming labor market for those already here. On the contrary, she writes, “making America less hospitable to immigrants will eventually make America poorer.”
budget Office, explains why keeping immigrants out of the US will not create a booming labor market for those already here. On the contrary, she writes, “making America less hospitable to immigrants will eventually make America poorer.”
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Great stuff by @versobooks.bsky.social: Harvey at 90, a series if posts honouring David Harvey's oeuvre in celebration of his 90th birthday.
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/h...
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Harvey at 90: A Verso Series
Last year, we celebrated Fredric Jameson's ninetieth birthday with a month long series commemorating his impact on literary criticism, critical theory and philosophy. This month, in honour of David H...
www.versobooks.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Great stuff by @versobooks.bsky.social: Harvey at 90, a series if posts honouring David Harvey's oeuvre in celebration of his 90th birthday.
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/h...
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/h...
Mamdani - Trump meeting: Trump managed to expose how weak the Democratic leadership is. Trump helped highlight the divergence within the mainstream Democrats (and reformers). Trump reaffirmed his supposed "outsider to the system" position to his supporters. He personalized the political interaction
November 22, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Mamdani - Trump meeting: Trump managed to expose how weak the Democratic leadership is. Trump helped highlight the divergence within the mainstream Democrats (and reformers). Trump reaffirmed his supposed "outsider to the system" position to his supporters. He personalized the political interaction
Vai para cadeia vagabundo!
November 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Vai para cadeia vagabundo!
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A great reminder of the dangers of teaching a sanitized history www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Spain has too rosy a view of Franco’s regime. Let’s remind ourselves of its horrors | Giles Tremlett
Little is taught about the murderous, incompetent dictatorship – and now almost one in five young people say Franco was good for the country, says historian Giles Tremlett
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:03 AM
A great reminder of the dangers of teaching a sanitized history www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A “joint situational information report” from the FBI and the New York police department (NYPD), dated 28 August 2025, quoted from a chat on Signal, the encrypted messaging app, and also characterized the court watchers as “anarchist violent extremist actors.”
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
A “joint situational information report” from the FBI and the New York police department (NYPD), dated 28 August 2025, quoted from a chat on Signal, the encrypted messaging app, and also characterized the court watchers as “anarchist violent extremist actors.”
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I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.
Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’
After being expelled from his homeland in 1972, the academic has grappled with questions of political belonging – a major theme of his son’s mayoral campaign
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.
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O longo período autoritário do capitalismo liberal
O longo período autoritário do capitalismo liberal
Não existe uma oposição simples a ser traçada entre a ordem de mercado liberal do início do século XIX e o supostamente mais violento Estado neoliberal do final do século XX e início do século XXI. Pr...
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November 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
O longo período autoritário do capitalismo liberal
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Around two-thirds of voters in Ecuador opposed a measure to allow the return foreign military bases, a result that was widely seen as a surprise. Voters also rejected a separate effort to rewrite the country’s progressive 2008 constitution, which enshrined strong labor and environmental rights.
Ecuador’s Trump-Allied President Loses Bid to Allow Return of US Military Bases
About two-thirds of voters in Ecuador on Sunday opposed the measure pushed by right-wing President Daniel Noboa.
truthout.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Around two-thirds of voters in Ecuador opposed a measure to allow the return foreign military bases, a result that was widely seen as a surprise. Voters also rejected a separate effort to rewrite the country’s progressive 2008 constitution, which enshrined strong labor and environmental rights.
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Maybe you've heard about the Downtown Area Plan Carrboro is considering tomorrow night. I wrote some longish thoughts on why I think it's so important and some communityconversation behind it: dannynowell.substack.com/p/why-im-sto...
Why I'm Stoked on Carrboro's Downtown Area Plan
plus a few longish notes on the process and philosophy behind it
dannynowell.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Maybe you've heard about the Downtown Area Plan Carrboro is considering tomorrow night. I wrote some longish thoughts on why I think it's so important and some communityconversation behind it: dannynowell.substack.com/p/why-im-sto...
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What’s behind Silicon Valley’s psychotic break with reality?
Welcome to Apocalypse Capitalism.
As one prominent tech VC put it: “Maybe if you aren’t trying to destroy the world, you’re not trying hard enough.”
www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...
Welcome to Apocalypse Capitalism.
As one prominent tech VC put it: “Maybe if you aren’t trying to destroy the world, you’re not trying hard enough.”
www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...
Silicon Valley Apocalypse Capitalism
“Maybe if you aren’t trying to destroy the world, you’re not trying hard enough.”
www.thenerdreich.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
What’s behind Silicon Valley’s psychotic break with reality?
Welcome to Apocalypse Capitalism.
As one prominent tech VC put it: “Maybe if you aren’t trying to destroy the world, you’re not trying hard enough.”
www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...
Welcome to Apocalypse Capitalism.
As one prominent tech VC put it: “Maybe if you aren’t trying to destroy the world, you’re not trying hard enough.”
www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
President Trump wants us to believe that stopping fentanyl “will let the wholesome, traditional American culture that he idealizes to flourish again,” David Herzberg writes. “As a historian of drugs, I can tell you that this argument is wrong in almost every way.”
President Trump wants us to believe that stopping fentanyl “will let the wholesome, traditional American culture that he idealizes to flourish again,” David Herzberg writes. “As a historian of drugs, I can tell you that this argument is wrong in almost every way.”
Opinion | Trump Is Wrong About Fentanyl in Almost Every Way
Everything the Trump administration is doing to stop the flow of drugs is just making the problem worse.
nyti.ms
November 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
President Trump wants us to believe that stopping fentanyl “will let the wholesome, traditional American culture that he idealizes to flourish again,” David Herzberg writes. “As a historian of drugs, I can tell you that this argument is wrong in almost every way.”
President Trump wants us to believe that stopping fentanyl “will let the wholesome, traditional American culture that he idealizes to flourish again,” David Herzberg writes. “As a historian of drugs, I can tell you that this argument is wrong in almost every way.”
Great step.
BREAKING: MLS owners have voted and passed a schedule change. The league will run from the late summer months through May.
This is due to start in summer of 2027. MLS will take winter break in Jan/Feb
More from @paultenorio.bsky.social on the ground at BOG meeting: www.nytimes.com/athletic/680...
This is due to start in summer of 2027. MLS will take winter break in Jan/Feb
More from @paultenorio.bsky.social on the ground at BOG meeting: www.nytimes.com/athletic/680...
MLS owners vote to flip schedule to European calendar, change format starting in 2027
MLS will soon align with leagues that play from the fall to the spring after a transformational decision made by its owners
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Great step.
This country hates children.
ByHeart previously recalled two batches of formula after the disease was found in babies who consumed the product.
Organic Baby Formula Producer ByHeart Recalls All Products In U.S. As Infant Botulism Outbreak Spreads
ByHeart previously recalled two batches of formula after the disease was found in babies who consumed the product.
www.forbes.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:33 AM
This country hates children.
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Há 50 anos, Angola proclamava sua independência de Portugal, após ser submetida a mais de quatro séculos de domínio colonial. A Guerra de Independência angolana durou 13 anos e teve um alto custo humano. Contamos essa história no @operamundi.bsky.social
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Pensar a História: 50 anos da Independência de Angola
País conquistou independência após mais de quatro séculos de colonialismo e uma luta armada de 13 anos contra Portugal
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November 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Há 50 anos, Angola proclamava sua independência de Portugal, após ser submetida a mais de quatro séculos de domínio colonial. A Guerra de Independência angolana durou 13 anos e teve um alto custo humano. Contamos essa história no @operamundi.bsky.social
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Call for chapters! Amy Tooth Murphy and I are editing the Routledge Handbook of Oral History Theory, and we are seeking contributions from a range of scholars and practitioners. See our full call here. oralhistory.org/2025/11/11/c...
Call for Chapters: Routledge Handbook of Oral History Theory - Oral History Association
Co-editors George Severs and Amy Tooth Murphy are inviting expressions of interest to contributechapters to the forthcoming Routledge Oral History Theory
oralhistory.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Call for chapters! Amy Tooth Murphy and I are editing the Routledge Handbook of Oral History Theory, and we are seeking contributions from a range of scholars and practitioners. See our full call here. oralhistory.org/2025/11/11/c...
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The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Well...
NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
edition.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Well...
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📘BOOK REVIEW📘
6⃣ Oscar de la Torre (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) reviews Colonial Reckoning: Race and Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Cuba by Louis A. Perez (@dukepress.bsky.social, 2023).
READ HERE: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
6⃣ Oscar de la Torre (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) reviews Colonial Reckoning: Race and Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Cuba by Louis A. Perez (@dukepress.bsky.social, 2023).
READ HERE: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
📘BOOK REVIEW📘
6⃣ Oscar de la Torre (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) reviews Colonial Reckoning: Race and Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Cuba by Louis A. Perez (@dukepress.bsky.social, 2023).
READ HERE: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
6⃣ Oscar de la Torre (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) reviews Colonial Reckoning: Race and Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Cuba by Louis A. Perez (@dukepress.bsky.social, 2023).
READ HERE: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Braskem's salt mines destabilized the ground in areas of Maceió, the capital of Alagoas, in 2018, damaging buildings and forcing tens of thousands of residents out of their homes. The settlement amount is ridiculous low.
Braskem agrees to pay $222 million in compensation to Brazil's Alagoas state reut.rs/498Bs24
Braskem agrees to pay $222 million in compensation to Brazil's Alagoas state
Brazilian petrochemical firm Braskem said on Monday it has agreed to pay 1.2 billion reais ($222 million) to the northeastern state of Alagoas, the latest compensation deal related to the damages caused by its salt mines operations.
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November 11, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Braskem's salt mines destabilized the ground in areas of Maceió, the capital of Alagoas, in 2018, damaging buildings and forcing tens of thousands of residents out of their homes. The settlement amount is ridiculous low.
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🇧🇷 👉 #Bayer in Brazil: how an agrochemical giant and related agribusinesses greenwash their pollution and climate change contribution at #COP30
⚡ New research article by CEO and #CBG ‘Bayer in Brazil - big polluter, big lobby spender'
💥 Read here: tinyurl.com/2h3etjfv
⚡ New research article by CEO and #CBG ‘Bayer in Brazil - big polluter, big lobby spender'
💥 Read here: tinyurl.com/2h3etjfv
Bayer in Brazil - big polluter, big lobby spender | Corporate Europe Observatory
For agrochemical giant Bayer the COP30 climate conference in Brazil is a golden opportunity to greenwash its image. And it is willing to spend a lot of money to capitalise on this moment. Bayer is one...
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November 11, 2025 at 11:18 AM
🇧🇷 👉 #Bayer in Brazil: how an agrochemical giant and related agribusinesses greenwash their pollution and climate change contribution at #COP30
⚡ New research article by CEO and #CBG ‘Bayer in Brazil - big polluter, big lobby spender'
💥 Read here: tinyurl.com/2h3etjfv
⚡ New research article by CEO and #CBG ‘Bayer in Brazil - big polluter, big lobby spender'
💥 Read here: tinyurl.com/2h3etjfv