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We're talking to @juliavargasjones.bsky.social, @julianadalpiva.bsky.social and @jacknicas.bsky.social about what the U.S. can learn from Brazil’s effort to hold its leaders accountable.

❓Are you part of the Brazilian diaspora? What do you think about what’s happening in Brazil?

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❓ Are you part of the Brazilian diaspora? What are your thoughts on what’s happening in Brazil?

"Clutching signs with photos of their relatives, they each approached the microphone and asked for their loved one’s rights and due process to be respected." @chelseabailey.bsky.social
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Mark Zuckerberg is at Mar-a-Lago presumably meeting with President-elect Trump.

Per Politico.

If you are wondering how a Trump presidency could help Brazil's Bolsonaro, this is how, according to @casaroes.bsky.social www.americasquarterly.org/article/bols...

But bc the Court and its justices have been the target of attacks (Jan 8, bombings, death threats), an interesting situation emerges where the presiding justice of these cases is also a victim himself 🤔

I won't get too in the weeds about it I promise but ... The Supreme Court in Brazil has gone above and beyond to, they say, protect democracy in recent years and it's led to a great expansion of their powers - @jacknicas.bsky.social explained it well here www.nytimes.com/2024/10/16/w...

Interesting timing on this bc just a couple weeks ago the entire Bolsonaro base was celebrating the results of the US election as if it were a harbinger of their own victory.
"As goes the United States, so goes Brazil" they said - except two very diff judiciaries.

www.cnn.com/2024/11/10/a...

🚨 Brazil's federal police indict former President Jair Bolsonaro and 36 others for allegedly plotting a coup d'état and to assassinate Lula and his VP after the 2022 elections. Police say Bolsonaro had "full knowledge" of the scheme www.cnn.com/2024/11/21/a...

JUST IN: Brazilian ex-President Jair Bolsonaro has been indicted over alleged knowledge of a coup plot to kill his successor and overturn the election results. cnn.it/48ZpAgA