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Marijonas (Marius) Baranauskas
from Overture by Synchrodogs (two Ukrainian creatives, Roman Noven and Tania Shcheglova, who have been working together since 2008).
April 14, 2025. New Bedford, MA
According to Marilú, the couple had just left their home when they noticed unfamiliar vehicles parked along their street. Despite this, they continued on their way until three cars blocked them in. Armed men wearing green bulletproof vests ordered them to get out of the vehicle, she said.
In video shot by Marilú and shared with The Light, one of the agents demanded that they open the door. Méndez replied that he would comply once his lawyer arrived, who was already on her way to assist him.
“Roll down the window so we can talk,” another agent insisted, while Méndez’s wife asked if they had an arrest warrant for her or her husband.
The tense standoff took about 30 minutes. The couple were taken from their car after an agent smashed in the rear right window.
Sniffin said her clients were told the agents were looking for someone named “Antonio.”
“I said, ‘Well, that’s great, because your name is not Antonio, so you should be fine. Show them the paperwork that you have and you should be fine.’ And the agents didn’t pay attention to that,” she said.
Rudolf Němec (1936-2015) — An Autopsy [oil on canvas, 1967]
Pedro Friedeberg — The Sphinx (La Esfinge Deborah Devora El Arco Iris Arkoyriz) [ink, gouache and acrylic, on board, 1968]
So, in Brazilian, USAmerican, and LGBT+ politics news, transgender Brazilian congresswoman Erika Hilton has received from the USA a visa marking her gender as male.
Hilton canceled a trip she was going to make to the US this month, where she was going to participate on Saturday (12) in a panel at the Brazil Conference, and says she will take action against US President Donald Trump at the UN (United Nations) because she considers the case to be transphobic and disrespectful of her Brazilian civil records.
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Excerpt from this New York Times story:
A jury in Louisiana has ruled that Chevron must pay a parish government about $745 million to help restore wetlands that the jury said the energy company had harmed for decades.
The verdict, which was reached on Friday, is likely to influence similar lawsuits filed by other parishes, or counties, in the state against other energy giants and their possible settlement negotiations.
The lawsuit, filed by Plaquemines Parish, is one of at least 40 that coastal parishes have filed against fossil fuel companies since 2013.
The lawsuit contended that Texaco — which Chevron bought in 2000 — violated state law for decades by failing to apply for coastal permits, and by not removing oil and gas equipment when it stopped using an oil field in Breton Sound, which is southeast of New Orleans.
A state regulation in 1980 required companies operating in wetlands to restore “as near as practicable to their original condition” any canals that they dredged, wells that they drilled or wastewater that they dumped into marshes.