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Leonardo Monasterio

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Brazilian Economist at @ipeaonline; professor at @SejaIDP; @CNPq_Oficial Opinions are solely mine (or stolen from others) https://sites.google.com/view/lmonasterio #econsky

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A busca por espetos corridos acessíveis e bons é uma meta pessoal e não profissional
Levarei, contudo, a sua sugestão à presidência
(Qual é o melhor custo benefício de POA para você, a propósito?)

11.08.2025 06:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

Head of NASA Sean Duffy intends to destroy a satellite that collects key data on carbon dioxide and plant health, by causing it to burn up in the atmosphere. The U.S. Dept of Agriculture and private agriculture firms use the data to forecast crop yield, drought conditions and more.

08.08.2025 07:13 — 👍 1725    🔁 1049    💬 130    📌 291
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Is Italy Scamming the World With Ciabatta Bread? Fodor's provides expert travel content worth exploring so you can dream up your next trip. The world is a weird and wonderful place—we want to show you around.

Ciabatta was invented in 1982. Apparently it's one of the most well documented food inventions in modern history.

09.08.2025 22:34 — 👍 240    🔁 14    💬 2    📌 6

What’s your favorite food fact that is true but sounds totally made up?

I’ll start: about half of the mushrooms produced across the United States of America each year (more than 300 million pounds of mushrooms in recent years) are produced in *one county* in Pennsylvania.

09.08.2025 18:22 — 👍 1490    🔁 198    💬 197    📌 285

The war on immigration is just all bad in every possible direction.
--It is very expensive
--It radicalizes government agencies
--It distorts US foreign policy
--It is very harmful to the economy
--It is also quite cruel.

There is no second/third order consequence that is positive.

09.08.2025 13:26 — 👍 1127    🔁 375    💬 37    📌 16
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US licenses Nvidia to export chips to China after CEO meets Trump, FT reports The U.S. commerce department has started issuing licenses to Nvidia to export its H20 chips to China after CEO Jensen Huang met President Donald Trump at the White House, the Financial Times reported on Friday.

US licenses Nvidia to export chips to China after CEO meets Trump, FT reports reut.rs/4ftYJwl

08.08.2025 22:40 — 👍 14    🔁 12    💬 5    📌 3
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Donald Trump’s tariffs on Brazil are more bark than bite The Latin American giant may have avoided the worst—for now

Donald Trump has slapped a tariff rate of 50% on Brazil, one of the steepest in the world. Yet the country imports more from America than it exports, and exemptions will soften an already light blow

08.08.2025 23:40 — 👍 33    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 3
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Look at the distribution of wealth among politicians around the world relative to the people they represent!

The median politician in South Africa's has 200x the wealth of the typical household in that country.

09.08.2025 01:06 — 👍 32    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 0

I often wondered what the world would look like if the most ignorant, dangerous & daft opinions of radio phone-in hosts/callers were permitted to prevail. I never expected to find out…

08.08.2025 06:51 — 👍 1022    🔁 344    💬 83    📌 11

Trump wants to exclude undocumented immigrants from census count determining apportionment of congressional seats. This is obviously unconstitutional. For reasons why, see amicus brief Sandy Levinson and I filed last time Trump tried this: www.brennancenter.org/sites/defaul...

08.08.2025 04:20 — 👍 63    🔁 24    💬 2    📌 0

A great new paper & full database on inter-generational mobility around the world by Encio Munoz and Roy van der Weide.
openknowledge.worldbank.org/server/api/c...
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07.08.2025 22:08 — 👍 20    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 1
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Protecionismo faz mal lá e cá

07.08.2025 12:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

o nome do condomínio deveria passar a ser "vivendas atrás das barras" kkkkkk

04.08.2025 22:42 — 👍 728    🔁 196    💬 11    📌 7

Fool me once, shame on you
Fool me twice, shame on me
Fool me every time, make me POTUS

07.08.2025 07:41 — 👍 950    🔁 165    💬 17    📌 6

@infinitescream.bsky.social

07.08.2025 06:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The Network (1976)

07.08.2025 06:38 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Olha, acho que o único jeito do Lula conseguir algo do Trump seria dando algo semelhante.

Sei lá , ele poderia dizer que encontramos a Jules Rimet e que o Pelé teria dito que ela deveria ser do Trump

07.08.2025 05:52 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Eu sinceramente nunca imaginei que seria testemunha de uma tolice destas proporções

07.08.2025 05:43 — 👍 15    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump’s Tariff Disaster Doug Irwin, an economics professor at Dartmouth College, on Trump’s trade war, the myth of protectionism, and what history teaches us about tariffs

The economics professor Doug Irwin speaks with @davidfrum.bsky.social about Trump’s trade war, the myth of protectionism, and what history teaches us about tariffs.

Watch to the full episode of "The David Frum Show" here:

07.08.2025 05:15 — 👍 101    🔁 32    💬 2    📌 4
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Banks Gear Up for Beijing’s Subsidized Lending Campaign Initiative aims to boost household spending, though lenders still await guidance on how policy works

Caixin: "China’s largest banks are preparing to offer consumer loans with interest subsidies in a government-led effort to boost household spending and support the flagging services sector, though lenders still await critical guidance from regulators.
www.caixinglobal.com/2025-08-06/b...

07.08.2025 03:03 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Column | The National Gallery bought a student’s work. It’s a masterpiece. Pierre Louis Alexandre, a dockworker who modeled at the art academy on the side, appeared in painting after painting. Karin Bergöö Larsson’s portrait of him broke with all the rest.

No paywall.
wapo.st/45ob3cS

07.08.2025 04:52 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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This really feels like a defining post of our time

06.08.2025 20:49 — 👍 5027    🔁 879    💬 128    📌 191

The student newspaper.
This fell. To the student. Newspaper.

07.08.2025 02:10 — 👍 9610    🔁 2542    💬 4    📌 100
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Maglev train researchers may have solved ‘tunnel boom’ shock waves Soundproofing buffers at tunnel mouths to be rolled out on China’s latest magnetic levitation train prototype

Maglev train researchers may have solved ‘tunnel boom’ shock waves

07.08.2025 04:38 — 👍 58    🔁 12    💬 4    📌 1
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TCU lista benefícios fiscais mais problemáticos com aplicação financeira e montadoras no topo Deduções do Imposto de Renda, Zona Franca de Manaus e incentivo para informática completam o top 5

TCU lista benefícios fiscais mais problemáticos;veja quais

06.08.2025 04:03 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Tesla’s UK sales plummet 60% as BYD surges US carmaker’s registrations sink in July as Chinese rival profits

@FT: "Tesla’s UK sales plummet 60% as BYD surges"
And Tesla's board throws $30bn on Tesla destroyer Musk.
Are they out of their mind?
www.ft.com/content/e05d...

06.08.2025 00:27 — 👍 114    🔁 21    💬 7    📌 3
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Bossangoa Restaurant; FCRX+5WF, RN 1, Bossangoa, Central African Republic https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=6.490441400000001%2C17.44978799999999&query_place_id=ChIJaXJa-_63wxARNE5fyzoXi1w

30.07.2025 12:05 — 👍 582    🔁 192    💬 7    📌 38
a graph showing a timeline of Trump's 2nd-Term tariffs, which rise to 16.9% in August

a graph showing a timeline of Trump's 2nd-Term tariffs, which rise to 16.9% in August

Good morning. It is now 12:01 AM, which means tariffs on nearly half of all US imports from Brazil have been raised to 50%—including billions in coffee, construction equipment, beef, sugar, wood, and more. Overall tariff rates have increased 0.3%, reaching the highest since May

06.08.2025 04:02 — 👍 300    🔁 63    💬 7    📌 6
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, By gift

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, By gift

Study for A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (1886) by Georges Seurat, 1884 #artbots #guggenheim
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137686

06.08.2025 05:43 — 👍 41    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 2
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RFK Jr cancels $500m in mRNA vaccine development in the US Since taking office, the vaccine sceptic has made a number of changes to how vaccines are regulated.

Unfortunately there is no vaccine against the Dunning-Kruger effect RFK Jr cancels $500m in mRNA vaccine development in the US www.bbc.com/news/article...

06.08.2025 05:56 — 👍 57    🔁 14    💬 5    📌 3

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