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The Basket That Saw

I’ve seen alley-oops, buzzer-beaters, and MVP tears. But on the night of July 19, 2025, I saw something that hit harder than any dunk: shirts with a message. “Pay Us What You Owe Us.” Not a marketing slogan. A truth thrown straight at the backboard of injustice. 111

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✅🕒 Published on July 22, 2025 - 10:49

Voice

The Last Refuge

By Maria Raquel

Deir al-Balah was the last light still flickering in the wreckage of Gaza. Not because it was safe, but because it was all that was left. Until it wasn’t. On July 21st, Israeli tanks rolled into the city, tearing apart the illusion that somewhere, somehow, a corner of Gaza had been spared. The last shelter has now become another battlefield.

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✅🕒 Published on July 21, 2025 - 13:33

What's Up

"Buzziloboy" Wants To Howl... From The Moon

By Maria Raquel

While the world celebrates the 56th anniversary of the first Moon landing, Buzzville is dealing with something... a little more out of orbit. It all started when Mayor Buzzford — yes, the same one who once confused a Brazilian cordel poem with a barcode — showed up at city hall with a bandage on his leg and a wild look in his eyes. “I was bitten by a very suspicious dog in the park. It was big... hairy... with a weird stare. I think I’ve turned into a Buzziloboy,” he announced.

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✅🕒 Published on July 20, 2025 - 13:31

Boom

The City History Wants To Forget

By Maria Raquel

The Detective can't swim. But he can sniff out a mystery even underwater. So when rumors surfaced that the Japanese Atlantis was waiting to be taken seriously, he swallowed his pride (and a bit of seawater) and dove with Lupinha into the depths of the Pacific Ocean. There it was: a colossal staircase, with steps that looked like they were built by ancient Egyptian masons with a Japanese work permit. One hundred meters long, perfect 90-degree angles, flawless entrances. Too precise to be just rock. “A natural formation?” he thought, eyeing the lines like someone judging the cut of a suit. Lupinha, of course, had already climbed two levels and whispered through the communicator: “If this is erosion, then I’m a geological fault line with an architecture degree.” The site is called the Yonaguni Monument. And it’s been sparking bar fights between geologists and archaeologists since 1986.

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✅🕒 Published on July 20, 2025 - 13:26

Voice

“Sanctions 18.0” — Or How To Dance With A Bear Without Stepping On Its Paw

By Maria Raquel

I said it would get worse. They doubted. And then, in the stillness of July, the European Union unleashed its 18th round of sanctions against Russia. A sequence so choreographed it could rival any Moscow ballet — if it weren’t, ironically, aimed at the Kremlin itself.

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✅🕒 Published on July 19, 2025 - 15:54

Voice

Between Ankle Monitors And Tariffs: The Choreography Of Diplomatic Blackmail

By Maria Raquel

Confessions don’t need a confessional — sometimes, a microphone and a passport offer will do. Jair Bolsonaro, former president and current star of a Brazilian political thriller, tripped over his own words and confessed. Not to the crime itself — but to the strategy: conditioning the removal of U.S. sanctions on his amnesty. This is blackmail with a tie and a diplomatic varnish.

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✅🕒 Published on July 18, 2025 - 16:41

Ctrl+Z

27 Years In Prison, 5 In Power, An Eternity In Legacy

By Maria Raquel

Mandela is no longer with us since 2013. But apparently, people still haven’t understood what he meant.

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✅🕒 Published on July 18, 2025 - 10:41

Planet B

"The Plants Are Talking. And Someone’s Listening."

By Maria Raquel

Hello, Earthlings! Today I’m here to tell you something that’s going to blow the mind of anyone who thinks plants just sit there waving in the breeze. You know that tomato plant in the backyard? Well… it might be talking. And it’s not you who’s listening. It’s the moths. And maybe the mice. And the bats. Starting to get the picture?

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✅🕒 Published on July 18, 2025 - 10:36

Ping Pong

You Trained The Machine. It Took Your Badge

By Maria Raquel

You spend years learning, creating, failing, redoing. You design levels, write dialogue, adjust UX, train systems, feed databases, improve tools. Then one day, you get called into a room. And they say: “Thanks. Now we’re going to use the tool you helped build—to replace you.”

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✅🕒 Published on July 16, 2025 - 11:46

Dough

U.s. Inflation: The Cost Of Tariff Fever

By Maria Raquel

Inflation in the United States is up. Again. Slightly? Not really. June’s 0.3% rise might seem modest, but it's the highest since January. The 12-month total reached 2.7%. The core index—excluding food and energy—hit 2.9%. What’s driving it? Housing, gasoline, eating out… and a generous splash of tariff, seasoned with election-year drama.

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✅🕒 Published on July 15, 2025 - 17:00