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This resident of one of Rio de Janeiro's largest favelas, @eurenesilva, started a print newsletter when he was 11 years old because nobody was reporting on his favela.

Now, 16 years later, @vozdacomunidade is a large and serious news outlet covering favelas. An amazing story: https://nitter.poast.org/eurenesilva/status/1419536392565182469

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Police are Good Again

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In Radical Affront To Civil Liberties, The Government Is Branding Non-Violent Jan. 6 Defendants "Terrorists" https://t.co/cdR2CVsllw

How did CDC Director Rochelle Walensky go from asserting so definitively *just 2 months ago* that there is no health reason for vaccinated people to wear masks, to issuing today's alarmist message about vaccine-resistant strains? There were variants then:

Tech giants' profits soar as pandemic boom continues https://bbc.in/3rBk3Hs #news #worldnews

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This whole essay is great, and the first paragraph -- where Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy commiserate on how the editorial and "fact-checking" process used by mainstream media outlets is often used to homogenize everyone and eliminate individuality and creativity -- is funny. https://nitter.poast.org/mtracey/status/1419699857355329538

Hong Kong: First person charged under national security law found guilty https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-57979938

Coronavirus: people in UK travel hundreds of miles for Chinatown shots https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3142709/coronavirus-people-uk-travel-hundreds-miles-chinatown-shots?utm_source=rss_feed

Arrest to verdict: A timeline of Hong Kong’s first security trial https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/27/arrest-to-verdict-a-timeline-of-hong-kongs-first-security-trial #News

North and South Korea restore severed cross-border hotline https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/27/north-and-south-korea-restore-severed-cross-border-hotline #News