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  • President #Bolsonaro made public a 200-plus investigation document that the #ElectoralSupremeCourt [#STE] sent to the #FederalPolice where it contains evidence of system breach during the 2018 elections, where a hacker had access to the system's password of one of the court's justice, had access to the source code of the election software, and was able to change name of candidade or delete it or change the vote count. Everything started when a hacker sent an email to computer website #TecMundo (literally 'TecWorld') reporting his experience getting access to the STE system and his curiosity to know how the system worked, ending up in him getting access to nearly everything related to the voting system. The Federal Police asked the TSE to provide them with further information, and the TSE disclosed that they had been invaded since April 2018 (the hacker email TecMundo in November). The first time, the hacker had access to the #ElectoralRegionalCourt (#TRE) of the State of #Pernambuco through an outsourced company that also worked for other states' TRE's. By doing this, he eventually got the password of the coordinator of the system of several states, and from there on, he got the passwork the coordinator used to have access to the national system. The hacker revealed that the main system where the source code of the voting machine was stored had no form of authentication whatsoever. When the Federal Police asked the TSE to grant them access to the files that the hacker had access to so that they could find out if any file had been changed and any candidate vote count had been affected, the TSE said that they no longer had the files because an outsourced management company had to do some maintenance and, due to lack of proper care, they deleted all the files, which amounted to 80 gigabytes of data, a quantity that's not big enough to justify the lack of a backup system. The TSE never disclosed this investigation and there is no record that they took any action to improve security for the the 2020 elections. Congressman #EduardoBolsonaro, one of the Bolsonaro's son, is requesting the launch of a probe into the electoral system and try to find out why the court never took any actions to improve security.

  • The hashtag BarrosoNaCadeia ([Justice Luis] BarrosoForJail] was trending on #Twitter, with 181 thousand retweets on August 4th.

  • The Minister of Defense, General #BragaNetto, was subpoened to go to the #Congress to explain his threats related to the electoral system.

  • The population went to the streets in several cities across the country last Sunday to ask for the addition of paper trail to the voting machines. The attendance was one of the biggest a nationwide rightwing rally has ever had. A journalist from leftist news outlet #FolhadeSaoPaulo, #PaulaSchmitt, retweeted a tweet from rightwing news outlet #BrasilSemMedo showing the rally in #SaoPaulo and wrote, “[WOW...] IS THIS PHOTO GENUINE?” There were no acts of violence, but a couple #AntiFa groups tried to provoke major fights by harassing some demonstrators, but they weren't successful.

  • “SOCIETY DOESN'T EXPECT FROM YOU [JUSTICES] A BEHAVIOR TYPICAL OF POLITICAL ACTORS. A GOOD JUSTICE HAS, AMONG OTHER QUALITIES, TO AVOID BEING PASSIONATE AND HAS TO HAVE A SILENT TONGUE. THEY KNOW THE TIME TO SPEAK AND THEIR PROPER VOCABULARY. ALSO, JUSTICE'S TIME IS NOT POLITICS' TIME.” #SupremeCourt (#STF) President #LuizFux.

  • The #ElectoralSupremeCourt [#STE] started an investigation on President #Bolsonaro for his accusations that the electoral system is highly prone to fraud. Justice #LuisBarroso, STE's president, requested that the #SupremeCourt (#STF), where he's also a justice, starts a parallel investigation for #fakenews on any “AUTHORITIES” [he means Bolsonaro] who attack the electoral system, and that they be subjected to search and seizing warranties and to restraining orders. If the STF does that, they'll be, once again, going against the #Constitution, since its Article 144 says that they can't start an investigation by themselves. The plan seems to render Bolsonaro incapable of running for president in 2022. But, it doesn't stop there. The STE expects that everybody who reposts any text, audios, or videos originally shared from (even if not made by) Bolsonaro's account to be subjected to search and seizing warranties and restraining orders as well.

  • “SUPREME COURTS AND CONSTITUTIONAL COURTS HAVE THREE MAJOR ROLES: [...] AND ILLUMINIST, WHEN THEY PROMOTE CIVIL ADVANCES REGARDLESS OF THE CIRCUMSTANTIAL POLITICAL MAJORITIES. THIS LAST ROLE, INTUITIVELY, MUST BE UNDERTAKE DURING EXCEPTIONAL MOMENTS AND WITH GREAT CAUTION, DUE TO THE RISK IT INVOLVES, MAS THE PROTECTION OF BLACKS, WOMEN, HOMOSSEXUALS AND MINORITIES IN GENERAL REALLY CAN'T BE DEPENDENT ON A MAJORITY VOTE OR OPINION POLL.” Justice #LuisBarroso.

  • Party presidents said that the rallies “had zero” effect on their decision and that they'd proceed to vote the voting machines paper trail bill down.

  • A video of a street vendor being approach by the military police and being put into the trunk of a police car Thursday night in #Bahia went viral. He was not supposed to be out at that time due to the #curfew. He said he lost the last bus and no more buses had come since then. At a certain moment, one of the officers forcibly approaches him and puts him in the trunk of the police vehicle while the vendor says, “DON'T HURT ME!” What's shocking about the video is that the officer's approach is nearly the same as if approaching a criminal, which very much makes you believe the guy is a criminal (if you didn't know the context). Another thing that worries is the fact that another officer, when he realizes there's someone recording it, approaches the person and says, “IF THIS GENTLEMAN IS BEING FILMED [BY YOU] YOU'RE GOING TO BE A WITNESS. COME ON [WITH US].” #covid #covid19 #coronavirus #abuseofpower
  • The #Senate approved a bill that authorizes private companies to buy vaccines. It's now headed to the #Congress. If it passes, President #Bolsonaro may veto it because the bill removes the responsibility for side effects of the #vaccine from the makers and put it in the government. #covid #covid19 #coronavirus
  • Some residents of the city of #Araraquara in the State of #SaoPaulo, which is under a full #lockdown period, have reported some food shortage and some price hike. #covid #covid19 #coronavirus #brazil
  • Keeping the annoying and uncalled-for habit of giving interviews nonstop, one of the judge-ministers of the #SupremeCourt (#STF), #EdsonFachin, listed the seven symptoms of a corrupt democracy during an interview for the leftist, liberal, progressive, #FolhadeSaoPaulo (#Folha). They are [with comments], “REMILITARIZATION OF A CIVIL GOVERNMENT” [the military regime was the most stable and orderly period #Brazil had ever experienced in a long time, failed by the 'positivist' mindset and old-anti-#communism combat tactics, while the “civil” government that started in 1988 never made the country any better, so this argument per se doesn't say much], “INTIMIDATION [BY CALLS TO SHUT DOWN THE OTHER POWERS—#CONGRESS, #SENATE, AND #STF” [there was never a direct call to shut them down, but to the possibility of them being shut down due to their unconstitutional behavior, and since #Bolsonaro was elected, no actual attempt has been made and no plan to do so has ever been exposed], “MINIMIZATION OF THE VALUE OF VOTING” [the judge-ministers have been reacting positively to making the voting process even more digital, like voting by phone, which makes it even more prone to fraud, while #Bolsonaro, his allies, and his supporters support the opposite, walking toward more auditability, even if it means partially using paper], “ATTACKS AGAINST THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS” [it was the STF who censored a news outlet back on 2019, who ordered the arrest of a journalist twice in 2019 and 2020, who ordered the conservative site #TercaLivre to be mass suspended on social media platforms in 2021, who ordered the arrest of a congressman for a thought crime and also demanded all his social media accounts to be suspended in 2021; no such restricting actions were ever taken by the President #Bolsonaro; the most he has done was to harshly criticize the big old media, call them corrupt, unfair, evil, disgraceful], “ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE SALES OF WEAPONS AND THUS OF VIOLENCE” [violence in Brazil increased after the gun ban in 2005, and since #Bolsonaro was elected and a few of his pro-guns decrees passed, along with other measures, violence has decreased; also, violence numbers in countries were fire weapons are allowed don't support the judge-minister's reasoning], “NORMALIZING ADMINISTRATIVE AGENTS' CORRUPTION” [one of his administration's hallmark is the nearly total elimination of corruption, at least at the highest level] and “REFUSAL TO ACCEPT ELECTION RESULTS” [the president never refused to accept the elections' results, but expressed that if the vote can't be audited, fraud is possible].
  • The tax over imported #fireweapons was going to be zero this year, but the judge-minister of the #SupremeCourt (#STF) #EdsonFachin issued an injunction order halting the decree. Another judge-minister commented that zeroing the tax and thus increasing the sales of fire weapons in #Brazil is a “RISK FOR THE STABILITY OF DEMOCRACY.” Once again, the STF ruling over things it shouldn't. #guns #gunsales #gunban #disarmament #selfdefense #fachin
  • As of February 26th, the states that were imposing the lockdown were #Bahia, #DistritoFederal, #Maranhao, #Paraiba, #Pernambuco, #Piaui, #RioGrandedoSul, #Rondonia, and #SaoPaulo. Aside from the lockdown, these states' governors have another thing in common: They strongly oppose #Bolsonaro. #covid #covid19 #coronavirus
  • During a speech and while he was talking about the stronger #lockdown measures imposed by some governors, President #Bolsonaro said, “THE RELIEF CHECK WILL BE COMING FOR A COUPLE MORE MONTHS. THE GOVERNOR THAT DESTROYS JOBS SHOULD PAY FOR THE RELIEF CHECK. [...] THOSE WHO CLOSE EVERYTHING AND DESTROY JOBS ARE GOING AGAINST THE WISH OF THEIR PEOPLE.” #covid #covid19 #coronavirus
  • Writer and philosopher #OlavodeCarvalho is in hospital in the US with #pneumonia.
  • Leaked messages exchanged by #LavaJato Operation prosecutors show that they had illegal access to the President #Bolsonaro family's personal information, including fiscal, right after he was elected. They laugh in several moments. The data was accessed by the COAF ('Council for Financial Activities Control') and the MP ('Public Ministry' or 'Prosecution Office'). #RobertoLeonel was in control of the COAF back then, he was assigned by #SergioMoro, and the latter got very upset when COAF was taken out of the control of his ministry by President Bolsonaro. #Leonel is behind the leaks from COAF, and he is referred in one of the messages by one prosecutor as “HE IS 1000.” 'To be 1000' is an expression that means a person helped someone else greatly; it's like saying, “He was so helpful that saying he was 100% helpful is not enough. Maybe 1000%?” #carwash #deltandallagnol #moro
  • The city of #Buzios, in the State of #RiodeJaneiro, reached zero hospitalizations for #COVID. They bet strongly on prevention, not withholding themselves from making use of several medications that can possibly help avoid cases from getting too serious, like #ivermectin #hydroxychloroquine, vitamin D, zinc, etc. This example contrasts with other cities, where the number of too serious cases surpassed the number of hospital rooms. #covid19 #coronavirus
  • Some #Brazil(ian) states and some cities in some states are going for a #curfew in order to stop or slow down the spread of the virus. According to the #Constitution, the curfew can only be allowed in two situations: State of Defense and State of Emergency. The State of Defense allows for the curfew in isolated areas, as long as there is a social unrest or a natural disaster that's big enough to result in lack of control by the local authorities. It can last 30 days and be extended for 30 more days. If the lack of control persists, then the State of Emergency is the next step. In this case, it allows for the curfew to be extended to areas where everything is apparently calm, and several constitutional rights are suspended, but in order for a curfew to start, the president (not a mayor or a governor) needs the #Congress' approval—this is to show you how extreme a curfew is. Beyond this point, the military intervention is the call. The virus and the rulings it has caused to be issued have resulted in all the rules regarding curfews being broken, in cities and states making decisions about putting it in place regardless of the government's direction. In other words, mayors and governors are breaking the Constitution, paving the way for a federal intervention; but, will there be? And, how long will unconstitutional actions continue to be taken for? #covid #covid19 #coronavirus
  • The #Congress is discussing a bill called [Speech] Immunity Bill. It has the purpose of clarifying where the limit of the #SupremeCourt (#STF) is when it comes to its power to warrant the arrest of a congressperson for a thought crime. In its original form, the bill made it clear only the Congress Ethical Counsel could apply a punishment, but some parties, like #PT, leftist, is critical of the bill for totally leaving the judiciary out of it. At least one congressman, the infamous and often ridiculed #KimKataguiri (another politician who did a great job pre-#Bolsonaro, campaigned for him and was elected in great part because of him, but ultimately flipped 180°), came to the point of asking the STF to interfere in the Congress' affairs by ordering that this bill be prohibited from even being discussed, and one judge-minister was already chosen to analyze this possibility. #freedomofspeech