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Delivering her decisive vote, Rocha denounced what she called an attempt to “sow the malignant seed of anti-democracy” in Brazil – but celebrated how the country’s institutions had survived and were fighting back.
“Brazilian democracy was not shaken,” Rocha told a court in the capital, Brasília, warning of the spread of “the virus of authoritarianism”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/11/brazil-supreme-court-bolsonaro-guilty-coup
This is how you deal with populists who try to overthrow democracy…lock them up. For 27 years.
Watch and learn US:
‘Announcing #Bolsonaro’s sentence for crimes including coup d’etat and violently attempting to abolish #Brazil’s democracy on Thursday night, the supreme court justice Alexandre de Moraes said: “[He tried to] annihilate the essential pillars of the democratic rule-of-law state ... the greatest consequence [of which] ... would have been the return of dictatorship to Brazil.”
The dystopian country the UK now is…
And no, it’s not a case of ‘if you’ve done nothing wrong, you’ve got nothing to fear’ as this piece makes clear.
You can have the time and tenacity to question and resolve mistaken identity over dropping a cigarette butt and yet still be found guilty and fined for hundreds of pounds.
To what extent did facial recognition and AI play a part???
“When we are told that living standards are up because the averages look rosy, we should remember what Danny Dorling pointed out: an average can hide a multitude of sins.
If Jeff Bezos walked into a Norwich pub, the average wealth in the room would shoot through the roof, but not a single person’s pint would get cheaper – and I doubt he would get to the bar ahead of anyone else, either.”
Clive Lewis