Mac Margolis
Freelance Journalist at The Washington Post
Journalist at Freelance
Adoptive Carioca via N. England. Author, editor, opinionator on Brazil & beyond. @WashingtonPost @LATimes. Ex @bopinion @estadao @Newsweek @TheEconomist
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2 months ago |
flipboard.com | Mac Margolis
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2 months ago |
angeladenker.substack.com | Metadata Shows |Mac Margolis |Angela Denker |Jared Sexton
Hi Readers,Well, I almost broke my computer preparing this post. I currently have likely more than a hundred tabs open, which is like a terrifying look inside my brain right now. I’ve gotten the spinning circle of death a few times on my computer screen, during which I occupied myself by maniacally writing down quotes from George Orwell, if for no other reason than posterity.
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2 months ago |
nationalgeographic.com | Mac Margolis
On a hot January morning in 1971, plainclothes security agents knocked on the door of the beachfront home of former Brazilian lawmaker Rubens Paiva. Hustled into his car, Paiva was sped away under armed escort and never seen again, leaving his wife and five children to pick up the pieces. This is the broad plotline of I’m Still Here, the Oscar-nominated film set during Brazilian military rule.
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Feb 6, 2025 |
theguardian.com | Mac Margolis
For decades, archaeologists have believed that human occupation of the Amazon basin was far older, vaster and more urbanised than the textbooks suggested. But hard evidence was scant, artefacts were scattered, and there were too few people on the ground to fully assess the magnitude of what lay cached in the dense forest. Then they found a shortcut – lidar.
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Jan 7, 2025 |
rsn.org | Mac Margolis
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 wildfiresIt’s 9am and the sun is already high above a parched Amazon. Not even stray dogs are out on the asphalt in Paragominas today, but Adnan Demachki knows just the retreat.
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Brazil's leading people exporter bids prodigal migrants to "begin a new story" (just not in the USA). @andrewrosati tells the tale https://t.co/tCRMEWLqYO
RT @donwinslow: HOLY SHIT! Did you see the end of @60Minutes tonight? https://t.co/9ylHAVlfaE
Trump, the musical
Resurrecting this Easter classic. Feel free to sing along. 🧡 #TBT #CheetoChristStupidCzar https://t.co/0wMAFgfyAs
