Isabela Villas Boas

Doctor in Education, Executive Academic Director at Cultura Inglesa SP, RJ, DF, GO, BA, ES, SC, RS, passionate educator, writer, and conference presenter.

[Erling Haaland @Erling]

Everything you see any player doing, Pelé did it first. RIP ⚽️🤴🏿

[Trevor Noah @Trevornoah]

Every World Cup has an impossible story. A team that defies all belief to achieve the seemingly impossible. For this World Cup that team is Cape Verde!!!!

[Isabela Villas Boas @isabelavb]

@stats_feed Homeland

[Thomas Doherty @TomDohertyfilm]

One of the reasons I so admire HAMNET is that the last act soars, while neither OBAA or SINNERS lands the ending. But the best opening? Filho’s THE SECRET AGENT: you know immediately you're in the hands of a master.

[Faria Lima Elevator @FariaLimaElevat]

Coisas que o brasileiro não entende:

• Fone de ouvido em local público
• ​"Responder a todos" no e-mail
• ​Parcelado "sem juros" (alguém está pagando)
• ​Ficar sentado até o avião parar completamente
• ​Caixa rápido, máximo 15 volumes
• Não existe retorno acima do CDI sem risco adicional

[Isabela Villas Boas @isabelavb]

@CristianoRomero @ThoNg676733 The logical song 🤓😘

[Cristiano Romero @CristianoRomero]

#Lula buscará a #reeleição em 2026 acuado pela própria obra: o fracasso de sua política fiscal travou a economia. Com a dívida pública em alta, os juros não cedem e o PIB perde fôlego. Tentar retomar o crescimento artificialmente com mais gastos eleitoreiros seria apagar fogo com gasolina.

#Economia #Política #PIB #RiscoFiscal #AnoEleitoral #DívidaPública #JurosReais #CenárioEconômico #Eleições2026 #ContasPúblicas #ArmadilhaDoMeio #CustoDeCapital #Produtividade #DéficitNominal #SustentabilidadeFiscal #Desaceleração #MercadoFinanceiro #CristianoRomero #VeroNotícias #JornalismoEconômico

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[Cristiano Romero @CristianoRomero]

Esqueçam a diplomacia altiva ou o pragmatismo ecumênico. O mundo de 2026 impõe ao Brasil a realidade da "Doutrina Donroe": a reedição da velha Doutrina Monroe armada com o protecionismo agressivo de Donald Trump.

O recado é claro: a soberania na América Latina agora é relativa, e a nossa tentativa histórica de manter a neutralidade tornou-se um jogo de soma zero.

O Brasil está preso em uma armadilha. Enquanto a China enfrenta uma crise deflacionária e reduz seu apetite pelo nosso "velho" agronegócio e mineração, os EUA nos pressionam a entregar minerais críticos e abandonar parcerias tecnológicas com o Oriente.

Estamos diante de uma Escolha de Sofia: perder o maior cliente comercial ou sofrer sanções da maior potência militar.

Ficar em cima do muro não é mais uma opção de equilíbrio, mas a garantia de ser o alvo preferencial de ambos os lados. Convido a todos para lerem minha análise sobre como o fim da nossa inocência diplomática impacta diretamente a economia e o futuro do país.

Minha coluna hoje no @OfcVeronoticias

#Politica #Geopolitica #Economia #Brasil #EUA #China #Diplomacia #RelaçõesInternacionais #ComercioExterior #Agronegocio #Itamaraty #DoutrinaMonroe #DonaldTrump #GovernoLula #VeroNoticias #CristianoRomero #AnalisePolitica #Jornalismo
#EconomiaGlobal #Mercados #Commodities #Petroleo #Mineração #Exportação #GuerraComercial #DeflaçãoChinesa #TransiçãoEnergetica #PoliticaEconomica #RiscoPolitico #EurasiaGroup #Investimentos #VeroNoticias

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@ianbremmer
@christophergarm
@LulaOficial

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[Critics Choice Awards @CriticsChoice]

Congratulations to "The Secret Agent," winner of the Critics Choice Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

#criticschoice #criticschoiceawards #TheSecretAgent

[Ahmed Al-Khalidi @khalidi79397]

I find myself deeply puzzled by a certain Western phenomenon: the climate activists, human rights advocates, and self-proclaimed progressives who somehow end up echoing Hamas talking points.

What drives that contradiction? How do people who fight to “save the planet” from harm find moral comfort supporting a movement that glorifies violence, suppresses women, persecutes minorities, and burns its own children’s future?

Let’s look beyond politics and explore the mental model behind it.

1. The Need for a Simple “Good vs. Evil” Story

These activists often think in binary moral categories: victim vs. oppressor, colonized vs. colonizer.
It simplifies a chaotic world into a clear moral map, a comforting illusion of “knowing who the bad guys are.”
In that story, Palestinians automatically play the victim role, and therefore Hamas becomes “the resistance,” not a tyrannical regime.
They don’t need facts, they need moral clarity, even if it’s false.

2. Projection of Guilt and Desire for Redemption

Western societies carry deep historical guilt: colonialism, racism, environmental destruction.
Supporting a cause that appears “anti-imperialist” becomes a psychological cleansing ritual.
They see themselves as allies of the oppressed, but in truth they’re not helping us - they’re washing their own conscience.

3. The Attraction to Emotional Intensity

Movements like Hamas weaponize emotion: pain, rage, sacrifice, “resistance.”
For young activists raised in digital comfort, this intensity feels authentic.
They crave moral struggle the way others crave adventure.
They mistake destruction for depth.

4. Moral Narcissism

It’s not about the truth, it’s about feeling virtuous.
Many Western activists are driven less by compassion and more by the need to be seen as compassionate.
The Palestinian cause becomes a theater stage for their self-image - they cry for Gaza online, but never once ask how Hamas treats Palestinians inside Gaza.

5. Cognitive Dissonance and Selective Empathy

To maintain their worldview, they must filter reality, ignore Hamas executing dissenters, silencing women, stealing aid, or building tunnels under schools.
They can’t hold both truths at once: that Palestinians suffer and that Hamas is their main tormentor.
So they delete one truth to keep the comfort of moral simplicity.

6. The Cult of “Resistance”

Climate activism teaches “act now or we all die.” Hamas propaganda echoes that emotional urgency: “resist or be erased.”
It taps into the same psychological fuel: panic, purpose, identity.
Except one fights to preserve life; the other glorifies death.

When I see these activists marching with slogans that defend Hamas, I don’t see solidarity, I see psychological confusion dressed as morality.
They don’t understand our reality.
They project their fantasies of rebellion onto our tragedy, and in doing so, they become useful tools for the very forces that keep us oppressed.

If they truly cared about Palestinians, they would stand with those of us who reject Hamas, reject the cult of death, and dream of a future built - not burned.

[The Hollywood Reporter @THR]

Fernanda Torres‘ mom must be so proud.

The #ImStillHere star, repeated her mother Fernanda Montenegro’s historic achievement from 1999 (for #CentralStation) becoming only the second Brazilian to be nominated for an #Oscar in the best actress category https://t.co/jcMe76PzmD

[The Hollywood Reporter @THR]

The Palm Springs International Film Festival on Sunday revealed its 2025 juried award winners, which includes Walter Salles’ I’m Still Here, Zoe Saldaña and the documentary No Other Land. https://t.co/2qgB4gSCQI

[Mel @PeachesMel]

This woman had to certify her loss to a convicted felon, give a eulogy for a former President who wanted to keep living so he could vote for her, have her neighborhood evacuated due to the fires, and did it all with grace and class and a smile. There is no one like Kamala Harris!

[TIME @TIME]

The true story behind 'I’m Still Here,' the Oscar contender pushing Brazil to confront its dark past https://t.co/EfbmGbFId8

[Variety @Variety]

Fernanda Torres is the first Brazilian actress to win the #GoldenGlobe for best actress in a motion picture, drama.

Her mother, Fernanda Montenegro, was previously nominated in the same category in 1999 for “Central Station.” https://t.co/ql5ncJDPEK

[POPTime @poptime]

🚨🇧🇷 HISTÓRICO! Momento em que Viola Davis anuncia Fernanda Torres como VENCEDORA do #GoldenGlobes de Melhor Atriz.

[The Hollywood Reporter @THR]

Sony Classics’ table goes nuts and Tilda Swinton and others cheer as Fernanda Torres pulls off a big upset to win the best actress in a drama #GoldenGlobe

[Golden Globes @goldenglobes]

Hey Fernanda, you're looking like a #GoldenGlobes award winner! 🤩

[Isabela Villas Boas @isabelavb]

@CristianoRomero @greicy_kelly21 Sério que perde esse tempo todo…

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

For all the yammering about "Fake News" and "enemies of the people," how much would we know about Pete Hegseth's mistreatment of women and his apparent problem with alcohol if not for probing by intrepid journalists, who have done the vetting Trump did not?
This is why a free media is essential to a working democracy--to shine a bright light in dark corners.