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Dom Phillips

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British reporter based in Brazil. Bylines in The Guardian, Financial Times, Washington Post, New York Times, Intercept and others. Tweets are not endorsements.

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The ‘real face of Russia’: the women taking a dangerous stand on St Petersburg's streets - video theguardian.com/world/video/20…

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Folha talked to 12 agribusiness leaders and found support for Bolsonaro still strong. Reasons include freeing up gun laws and support for exploiting protected Amazon areas including Indigenous reserves. Read destroying native forests for monoculture. www1.folha.uol.com.br/mercado/2022/0…

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I can summarize the collective response to my story last week as 'WTF?' Brazil's Bolsonaro bolstered the environmental fines system, a move that could help protect the Amazon. It can be hard to understand what the govt is doing. Here's a 🧵w/ some context reuters.com/business/healt…

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Nobody *wants* their living room flooded, but it's def. consolation when it comes with a friendly river dolphin 🐬independent.co.uk/tv/climate/dol…

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Impressive that the G10 favelas group now has a 24-hour TV channel based in Paraisópolis.

espacodopovo.com.br/noticias/favel…

Watch it here
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93 people have died in the floods in the NE state of Pernambuco. This is a devastating account of survivors in Jardim Monte Verde, on edge of Recife, from Folha.

www1.folha.uol.com.br/cotidiano/2022…

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Murder, mercury poisoning and deforestation: the Yanomami people are bearing the brunt of illegal gold mining, which imperils the whole planet in order to enrich a tiny few
ft.com/content/49346c…

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'These catastrophes happen in a continent-sized country,' said Bolsonaro.

'Experts say climate change contributes to more intense rainfall, and the IPCC has classified Recife’s metropolitan region as one of the world’s most vulnerable cities.' AP

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The Fantástico report on the killing of Genivaldo de Jesus Santos is absolutely sickening. 'Those police are murderers,' says the victim's nephew. 'Why did they kill my son? Why?' asks his mother globoplay.globo.com/v/10619707/

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44 people killed in floods in and around Recife in the NE, at least 30 on Saturday alone. G1

g1.globo.com/pe/pernambuco/…

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Brazil once wiped away preventable diseases. Why are they coming back?

'Between 2018 and 2021, vaccine coverage among the general population for tuberculosis, polio, measles, mumps and rubella dropped between 20 and 30 percent across Brazil.'

Al Jazeera
aljazeera.com/news/longform/…

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Around 36% of Brazilians don't have enough money to eat 3 meals a day. Just one of the many sobering revelations in this thorough The Brazilian Report piece on hunger, which has a real national spread.

Oh, and they lifted the paywall.

brazilian.report/society/2022/0…

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Lovely lil story here for your Sunday: A doll brings pride, identity for Brazil Indigenous woman
📝⁦Diane Jeantet⁩ apnews.com/article/latin-…

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Brazil has about 500,000 people whose main occupation is 'social media influencer' per new Nielsen report. Via Folha de S.Paulo

www1.folha.uol.com.br/mercado/2022/0…

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O Globo on how much money Bolsonarista militants make spreading fake news and conspiracy theories about the Brazilian election system. This is how it works.

blogs.oglobo.globo.com/sonar-a-escuta…

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'There you have the ethos of Downing Street under the sordid stewardship of Mr Johnson. See what you can get away with. His life motto turned into the degenerate creed of Number 10.'

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