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Fred Rocha
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Quench my thirst with knowledge. Building for the web, playing the drums and planting a garden. Web master @ investigative, community-supported podcast @fumacapt.bsky.social.

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"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."

– Oscar Wilde

Epigraph that opens the book "The Value of Nothing " by Raj Patel.

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Opening Quotes — Unearthing mankind's best quotes, one epigraph at a time.
Unearthing mankind's best quotes, one epigraph at a time.
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Like-minded, wholesome and frankly fun folks gathered at Casa da Achada, in the maze-like streets of Lisbon’s old town, to collectively share strategies for leaving Big Tech behind when the time comes to build community and organise online.

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Collectively adopting alternative tools to Big Tech - fredrocha.net
The whole point of these technologies is to bring people together, liberating them, ie without giving our data to the ultra-rich, becoming captive to the Algorithms.
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November 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Sai hoje para o público o primeiro episódio da série "Indústria da Ajuda na Palestina", do @fumacapt.bsky.social . E com ele vem uma entrevista à grandíssima Francesca Albanese. Ambos valem a pena.

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#palestina #gaza #genocidio
Francesca Albanese sobre a ONU e a limpeza étnica da Palestina - Fumaça
Francesca Albanese, relatora especial das Nações Unidas, denuncia a impunidade que permitiu a Israel enjaular os palestinianos numa “prisão a céu aberto”
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November 27, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Colombia is co-hosting the first international conference for the phase-out of fossil fuels. Because they know this industry is a dead end — for resource workers and their communities, for all of us.

Where the hell is Canada under Carney? Trying to hide from the future by running back to the past.
🚨 BIG NEWS from #COP30:🇨🇴Colombia and 🇳🇱the Netherlands will co-host the 1st International Conference on the Just Transition Away from Fossil Fuels in Santa Marta, Colombia – April 28–29, 2026.
November 21, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Pedro Coquenão não podia fingir que nada tinha acontecido. Por isso, colocou sobre a testa, um sinal onde se lia "Frágil", como quem diz: "Esta pessoa está frágil da cabeça." Não, não, não, não vou conseguir" é um episódio da série "Desassossego", que ouvimos este sábado, às 18h.
November 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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“I do think that Maga is a fascist movement, I do think that the intent of the administration is to destroy opposition and protest and is to create an authoritarian system”
Death threats and accusations: the professor targeted by the US far right
Mark Bray has become one of the highest-profile people caught up in Donald Trump’s efforts to target Antifa
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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If you are a journalist — or know one — who has been attacked, seriously threatened, denied access by a public official or targeted with a legal order in the course of reporting, let us know. You can now submit tips in English or Spanish.

Email: [email protected]
November 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Se estiverem por LX este sábado, há mais uma sessão de Cookies na Casa da Achada!
November 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Looking for a convivial convo w me & Michael Moynihan covering everything from Snowden to Babbage to why Michael actually cares about privacy to our impoverished def of "AI" and the need to expand it?

👉 7pm EDT tonight, Nov 13th, streaming + archived thereafter: www.youtube.com/live/ZYNJ0zp...
Signal President Meredith Whittaker joins The Moynihan Report
YouTube video by The Moynihan Report
www.youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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After months of delays, House Republicans have released tens of thousands of pages of documents from Jeffrey Epstein's estate.

More evidence — namely, photographs and videos — may soon be publicized.
Trump “Knew About The Girls”: Calls Grow For Full Epstein Files After Release of Emails
After months of delays, House Republicans have released tens of thousands of pages of documents from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, after Democrats earlier publicized emails suggesting that President Trump...
www.democracynow.org
November 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Com um governo de direita que tantas vezes se alia à extrema-direita, é ainda mais importante ter uma Presidente da República de esquerda de que saiba construir pontes, defenda a democracia e garanta que os problemas de quem constrói Portugal estejam no centro da política.
November 13, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Para onde foram os mais de 50 mil milhões de dólares que chegaram à Palestina em forma de ajuda humanitária nos últimos 30 anos?

A nova série Indústria da Ajuda na Palestina já está disponível para a Comunidade Fumaça. Contribui e ouve os episódios: fumaca.pt/contribuir/?...
November 13, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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November 13, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Esta quinta-feira lançamos uma nova série.

📩Subscreve a newsletter para saberes mais: fumaca.pt/subscrever/?...
November 12, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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O Natal vem mais cedo.
A nova série Fumaça Indústria da Ajuda na Palestina estreia no próximo mês.

Nela vais ouvir o resultado de mais de 40 entrevistas, mais de 45 horas de gravação e reportagens de cinco viagens ao Líbano e à Palestina.

Continua a acompanhar os bastidores:
November 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Foi em 2017 que alguém do Fumaça foi, pela primeira vez, à Palestina. E nem sequer era uma viagem de trabalho. A Maria Almeida e o Ricardo Esteves Ribeiro queriam apenas conhecer melhor aquele lugar.
November 11, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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O dinheiro da Europa tem de ser bem utilizado.

O Governo PSD/CDS decidiu tirar mais de 300 milhões de euros do PRR, dinheiro que estava destinado a coisas que fazem falta à vida das pessoas.
November 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Mamdani's historical win in NYC, as seen by Democracy Now!

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Democracy Now! 2025-11-05 Wednesday
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November 5, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Somos a favor da extinção dos impostos e dos serviços públicos. Lançamos os nossos livros em bibliotecas públicas, pagas com dinheiro público.
November 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Zohran Mamdani wins with >50% of the vote.

Clean sweeps in statewide races in New Jersey and Virginia.

Pennsylvania retains all democratic Supreme Court justices.

California passes prop 50.

This is the best possible outcome that could've happened tonight.
November 5, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.

Gen Z women aren't playing around.
November 5, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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We need a new generation of leaders who are the voices of democracy, freedom, social justice, & the rule of law.

A new generation that renews the “we” in “we the people.”

Instead of fretting over Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party should embrace him as part of its future.
November 5, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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I’ve decided this guy’s the president now
November 5, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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May tonight mark the beginning of the end of every political dynasty that made life harder, nights darker, and the world more violent.
November 5, 2025 at 4:28 AM