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• Motoristas e passageiros negros da Uber relatam expulsões, notas baixas, xingamentos e assédios August 10, 2022
  Pesquisa de doutorado mostra que mais da metade de motoristas e passageiros negros já sofreram racismo na Uber. The post Motoristas e passageiros negros da Uber relatam expulsões, notas baixas, xingamentos e assédios appeared first on The Intercept.
• How Fiscal Hawks Are Using Inflation as an Excuse to Tamp Down Worker Power August 10, 2022
  Fiscal hawks want to tamp down inflation by increasing unemployment instead of cutting into executives’ profits. The post How Fiscal Hawks Are Using Inflation as an Excuse to Tamp Down Worker Power appeared first on The Intercept.
• Americans Rarely See the True Face of Israel's Bombing of Gaza August 10, 2022
  By shying away from graphic images of death, news organizations sanitize the violence of Israeli aggression against Palestinians. The post Americans Rarely See the True Face of Israel’s Bombing of Gaza appeared first on The Intercept.
• Could Trump Go Down Like Al Capone? August 9, 2022
  Eliot Ness got Al Capone on tax evasion. Merrick Garland may get Donald Trump in a leak investigation. The post Could Trump Go Down Like Al Capone? appeared first on The Intercept.
• Rejeição da elite a Lula tem origem na racialização do Nordeste August 9, 2022
  Homem e branco, o candidato tanto faz parte dos grupos de maior poder quanto herda o preconceito histórico contra as pessoas desta região. The post Rejeição da elite a Lula tem origem na racialização do Nordeste appeared first on The Intercept.

Trending Topic

• Voyaging the Mississippi: How flatboats shaped American history
  No one thought journalist Rinker Buck would succeed in taking a flatboat from Pittsburgh to New Orleans. He proves them wrong in “Life on the Mississippi.”
• What can a library card get you? Try a popcorn maker or ukulele.
  Public libraries, among America’s oldest institutions, find new relevance in shelves stocked with everything from telescopes to cheese warmers.
• Where the Nile began: The perilous journey to seek the river’s source
  An expedition to discover the Nile River’s origin was the “Holy Grail” of 19th-century exploration, as Candice Millard’s “River of the Gods” shows.
• Mohsin Hamid’s novel ‘The Last White Man’ imagines a post-racial world
  British Pakistani novelist Mohsin Hamid explores a provocative question: Can white supremacy persist, if no one is white any longer?
• Survival tale ‘The Wall’ pits a woman against strange forces
  Austrian writer Marlen Haushofer’s survival novel tells the story of a woman trapped behind a strange, impenetrable wall in a Bavarian forest.

Inovation

• Pegasus strikes again: Thai activists fall victim to high tech hack
  Two cybersecurity research labs have reported cases of Thai activists being hacked with government backed spyware, called Pegasus, which can access a target’s phone without physically having the phone, or having the target click anything. CitizenLab says situations like these threaten “civil society,” and Amnesty International is calling for a crackdown on the spyware industry.
• As Musk-Twitter deal ends abruptly, company says Musk must pay
  Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently declared that he would cancel his $44 billion offer to buy Twitter, a 450-million-user social media platform. Mr. Musk claims that the company’s board was not transparent enough when it came to the number of fake accounts.
• Why Teslas may be driving themselves into a recall
  Elon Musk’s Tesla is once again under scrutiny. After dozens of crashes, a federal agency is investigating whether Teslas equipped with autopilot systems do enough to alert drivers at dangerous moments to avert accidents.
• Google diversifies its translation service, adds 24 languages
  This week Google added 24 languages to its translation service, including South American, African, and South Asian languages not commonly found on popular tech products. It could help keep languages alive, but certain cultural nuances may not translate.
• Is Elon Musk's vision for Twitter reform too lofty?
  On Monday, Elon Musk reached a deal to buy Twitter for about $44 billion. Some analysts, however, are skeptical that Mr. Musk’s vision for more free speech can withstand a potential flood of toxic content and keep the platform profitable.

Politics

• What the Mar-a-Lago search portends for the US, and a president
  The FBI took an unprecedented step of searching a former president’s residence. To Trump supporters, it smacked of political retribution. To opponents, the search shows that no one is above the law.
• In an unprecedented move, FBI raids Trump's Mar-a-Lago home
  The FBI searched former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home for possible records that should have been turned over to the National Archives the day he left office. The raid, the first of its kind on a U.S. president, has raised strong objections among Republicans.
• Compassion test: Can NYC’s shelters take migrants bussed from Texas?
  Texas authorities are bussing migrants to New York City to spread the burden of responsibility and test a city that has proclaimed its willingness to welcome and care for all. The new arrivals will likely strain NYC’s shelter capacity and Mayor Eric Adams is crying foul.
• In his second year, Biden becomes more president, less senator
  President Joe Biden has a long political history of working across the aisle and negotiating in the Senate. Over the past months, however, he has embraced more of a facilitating role – a move welcome by experts and politicians alike.
• Democrats' unity tested but $740 billion bill passes US Senate
  In a mid-term election year, Democrats are on track to pass a bill intended to slow global warming, moderate pharmaceutical costs, and tax big corporations. The House is expected to vote on the bill Friday.