Mac Margolis

So your quibble is with the headline? Not sure what your point is.

I urge you to read the piece again, emphasis this graph: "This is the case in Mato Grosso, where mechanised farms typically take over spent pasture, displacing ranchers such as Nascimento into pristine areas of neighbouring Pará, in the eastern Amazon basin."

Thanks for your comments. But, this is not a story about which is the villain, soy or beef, but rather the link between the two. Mechanized farms take over spent pastures, pushing ranchers deeper into the rainforest, driving + felling, higher land prices, and demand for more roads.

When you lose Joe Rogan...

A Holy Book A pope and a rabbi begin a conversation ...

Pope Francis leaves a formidable legacy which will be pondered & parsed for years. But worth remembering in these stupidly polarized times that he always listened, quarreled & learned with people of faith or without. To wit: his running convo w/ rabbi Abraham Skorka. www.newsweek.com/holy-book-62...

Judges Are Pushing Back on Trump’s Actions. Here’s a Look at Key Rulings. Taken as a whole, the rulings represent an effort to thwart President Trump’s serial attempts to increase his power and the executive branch’s dominion over the government.

In response to President Trump’s executive orders and his all-out assault on government bureaucracy, federal judges across the U.S. have issued rulings at a blistering rate for the past two months. Read the key passages in several noteworthy rulings here.

O filho pródigo volta a sua praça de origem, com planos de fazer a Nova York pequena de novo. Ou como @luciaguimaraes.bsky.social escreve: "Vai ficando claro que, neste segundo mandato, a metrópole que tanto rejeita seu filho Donald Trump é também sua refém." www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/luci...

The harrowing history behind 'I'm Still Here'—the film that's captured the world's heart The Oscar-nominated film tells the true story of a former Brazilian lawmaker who was abducted under Latin America’s longest lasting military dictatorship.

Na National Geographic, @macmargolis.bsky.social explica o Brasil que produziu a tragédia retratada em Ainda Estou Aqui. www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

Hollywood, melindrado com o show de Trump, está acanhado, da escolha do Emcee à curadoria dos filmes no páreo. Quem sabe os penetras à festa (alô Fernanda Torres. W. Salles) não consigam levantar os ânimos no tapete? Com a palavra @luciaguimaraes.bsky.social www1.folha.uol.com.br/ilustrada/20...

Go, DOGE.

Lost Cities of the Amazon: How Science Is Revealing Ancient Garden Towns Hidden in the Rainforest Archaeologists using 3D mapping are uncovering the remains of thousands of green metropolises with composted gardens, fisheries, and forests groomed into orchards For decades, archaeologists have...

Closing out my series of articles on rainforest cities for the @pulitzercenter.bsky.social, here's the bookend piece from @theguardian.com on ancient garden cities of the Amazon Basin, and what they can teach us. pulitzercenter.org/stories/lost...

Lost cities of the Amazon: how science is revealing ancient garden towns hidden in the rainforest Archaeologists using 3D mapping are uncovering the remains of thousands of green metropolises with composted gardens, fisheries, and forests groomed into orchards

The Amazon basin: home to large, bustling, populous, and sustainably managed cities -- thousands of years ago.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

From the Ashes: How a Mayor Beat the Loggers To Turn the Amazon Green Again Once known for landgrabs, shootouts and slash-and-burn farming, Paragominas has halted deforestation to become a model of sustainable growth in a region charred by wildfires It’s 9am and the sun is...

Paragominas, in the northern Brazilian #Amazon, was once synonymous with #deforestation, controlled by predatory #loggers and ranchers.

Now, it stands as a model for sustainable growth in the region.

Grantee @macmargolis.bsky.social reports for @theguardian.com. pulitzercenter.org/stories/ashe...

We finally found something that will shock CNN hosts -- a cop telling a white-supremacist thug "go fuck yourself"

Don't worry, they'll get Scott Jennings back on really soon to tell shameless lies to your face without any swearing.

Trump Administration Live Updates: Immigration Policies, D.E.I. Office Closure and More

Maybe there is a God, after all.
...The day after he was pardoned for his crimes during the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, Daniel Charles Ball of Florida was re-arrested on new gun charges... www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

Com acenos a um Hollywood requentado, odes a virilidade plagiada e um mapa-mundi que só existe na cabeça dele, o novo presidente dos EUA converte posse em coroação. Nem Dwight Eisenhower, RIP, imaginava. @luciaguimaraes.bsky.social no 🎯. www1.folha.uol.com.br/mundo/2025/0...

Watching the inauguration speech, we know now that Ipecac comes in orange.

From the ashes: how a mayor beat the loggers to turn the Amazon green again Once known for landgrabs, shootouts and slash-and-burn farming, Paragominas has halted deforestation to become a model of sustainable growth in a region charred by wildfires

Great piece on how an Amazonian town mayor beat the loggers, by @macmargolis.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The three richest men in the world are all genuflecting before Trump.

All to curry favor so they can maintain their control over our political and economic systems — and to avoid accountability for their abuses of power.

This is what oligarchy looks like.

Mark Zuckerberg Is a Surrender Monkey Capitulation is contagious.

“We’re seeing this impulse to surrender across American society right now. Where the forces of authoritarianism never give up and never apologize, big chunks of liberal society are bargaining and capitulating without even trying to try to stay independent first.”

www.thebulwark.com/p/mark-zucke...

From the ashes: how a mayor beat the loggers to turn the Amazon green again Once known for landgrabs, shootouts and slash-and-burn farming, Paragominas has halted deforestation to become a model of sustainable growth in a region charred by wildfires

As wildfires ravaged the Amazon basin last year, the specter of rainforest destruction again became a global headline. But one township, Paragominas, though also singed, escaped the worst. Here's the backstory of one of the Amazon's greenest towns. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Why I'm quitting the Washington Post Democracy can't function without a free press

In case you missed this last night, principled @anntelnaes.bsky.social quit the #BrokenPost because its Murdochian editors killed this cartoon. The Post and democracy are dying in front of us.
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Federal health authorities promote childhood vaccines in the shadow of Kennedy’s bid for health secretary.

Guerrilla prophylaxis: Federal health officials mobilize to boost childhood vaccines even as wannabe anti-vaxer-in-chief RFK lobbies for MAHA and other lullablies.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/u...

This street dog is Brazil's new national icon For decades, they have scrounged for food on streets across the country — undesired, abandoned and overlooked.

Call it the caramel complex. Or how Brazilians learned to love the mongrel in everyone. Leave it to @davidbiller.bsky.social to tell the story of the mutt for all seasons. apnews.com/video/this-s...

Craven Maga pols look ready to cave to Elon after unelected X-pharaoh cheers on US govt shutdown, slinging fake budget numbers. Welcome to government by X.
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Russian troops sabotage their boats to avoid Dnipro River crossing, Ukrainian partisans claim Russian soldiers increasingly sabotage their own boats and equipment to avoid having to attack the Dnipro River islands on the southern front, Ukrainian resistance group Atesh claimed on Dec. 10.

⚡️ Russian troops sabotage their boats to avoid Dnipro River crossing, Ukrainian partisans claim.

Russian soldiers increasingly sabotage their own boats and equipment to avoid having to storm the Dnipro River islands on the southern front, Ukrainian resistance group Atesh claimed on Dec. 10.

YouTube video by Kyiv Independent Trump-Zelensky meeting and Johnny Harris controversy | Ukraine This Week

In the latest episode of Ukraine This Week, host Anna Belokur explains the recent meeting between U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky and the escalating protests in Georgia.

“I have a duty to share what I saw.” Jacob Soboroff on his role in Trump immigration documentary 'Separated' The NBC News correspondent calls the film about the Trump administration’s child-separation policy “more relevant than I ever could have possibly anticipated.”

The powerful @errolmorris.bsky.social documentary SEPARATED airs on MSNBC Saturday. For this week's @longlead.bsky.social Depth Perception newsletter, I spoke with @nbcnews.com correspondent @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social, on whose book the film is based. depthperceptionbyll.substack.com/p/msnbc-jaco...

Fintechs Launder Cocaine Cash for Brazil's Largest Criminal Gang Police say the PCC, a global drug-trafficker, is running billion-dollar digital platform scams

From prison kingpins to dons of Fintech: Latin America's biggest crime cartel has grown up and spread its dragnet from cocaine to crypto. Great read, scary piece @andrewrosati.bsky.social Beatriz Amat and team @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Opinião - Lúcia Guimarães: Indicados por Trump na segurança preocupam aliados dos EUA Eleitores americanos depositaram seu voto para tornar o resto do mundo mais perigoso em 2025 —ótima notícia para inimigos

Indicados por Trump para defesa, segurança nacional e combate ao terrorismo, além da incompetência evidente, devem mudar relação com países aliados, que vão pensar duas vezes antes de compartilhar inteligência com renegados de carreira. Coluna da @folha.com bit.ly/3VcP5W1