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Delivering, that’s what a mayor ought to focus on. Good for Mamdani.
The murder of a child is a pain no parent should have to endure, let alone from thousands of miles away.
Javits Frimpong’s mother deserves to say goodbye to her son in person. I just got off the phone with President Trump and he has agreed to grant her visa immediately.
All of New York City is mourning this tragedy.
I once stumbled upon a Tissot as a child in Europe and my Victorian Age fever hasn’t abated since then.
Not only was his “9 fingers” insult a major political blunder, as hundreds of thousands of working Brazilians have suffered workplace accidents of some kind, being disrespectful towards the elderly is a major turn-off in Ibero-American culture and Flavio’s so much younger.
The Vargas x Lula comparisons are unwarranted. Lula is a giant of contemporary politics but Varguismo (and its dark twin, the military dictatorship) founded modern Brazil. The New Republic as a project is, at the end of the day, an escape *from* Vargas.
Had Frota forced his way into succeeding Geisel in 1977, Brazil's regime could easily have lasted into the 1990s. Only two 20th-century dictatorships gave up power while still able to keep it: military Brazil and apartheid South Africa.
