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Political Theorist. University of Virginia. Mexicana de acá de este lado, como dice el corrido.
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📚New book ABS members @andybissonnette.bsky.social & @elisabethvallet.bsky.social present Walled : Barriers, Migration, and Resistance in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands - an insightful collection featuring contributions from several ABS members. uapress.arizona.edu/book/walled

i think the economic boycott has had further reach because the poster is so cute. okay bunny i will listen to you.

Excellent news out of England as it relates to the rights for #rivers. Historic decision sees River Ouse set to become first in England with legal rights - Environmental Law Foundation elflaw.org/news/histori...

Tratando de aplacar al monstruo con narcogalletas...

I see some news circulating here about Slim. (I think they are fake --I can't see any serious news sources in Mexico confirming the rumors.)

Mexico is extraditing 29 famous narcos, including Rafael Caro Quintero ( famous for the murder of the DEA agent Kiki Camarena) and two of the head Zetas. apnews.com/article/mexi...

River water, a close-up 🌊 #art

What's their secret? Well... destroying the civil service and the judiciary branch, as well as all independent institutions, including the electoral system, and all watchdogs. (How would you feel if the current US government were doing the same thing it is doing now, but using left-wing slogans?)

El de abajo es mi rio cuando estaba vivo. Y el de arriba es la versión zombie del mismo cauce.

Woohooo release date announced for my book "Along The Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography"! Forthcoming on 02/04/2025 www.epflpress.org/produit/1555...

Why is the OAS taking these orders?

"I don't know what happened to the water." An Army Corps official was grilled during a congressional hearing about the sudden release of water from 2 dams. The lieutenant general struggled to answer questions about the decision and its consequences. sjvwater.org/army-corps-g... @sjvwater.bsky.social

A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.

Luis Alberto Castillo Rivera, a Venezuelan asylum seeker, didn't commit any crimes. But the United States (that's all of us) shipped him to Guantánamo and he didn't even know where he was for 2 weeks. Read this. It's one of the testimones at www.courtlistener.com/docket/69633...

You may be interested in this essay by Ayeley Shachar (open access): I wrote one of the replies debating why selling citizenship is wrong.

Did you know that the Gold Card for citizenship gets you in the Executive Plus lounge in your wait at the DMV (where you can wait crammed with the other goldens while you eat free processed cheese and crackers)?

An interesting debate over the tradition of Mexican Humanism. 16th and 17th century sources and their relevance today. #teoriapoliticaenespañol

Cover reveal: TERRESTRE. Available in bookstores in Mexico, Spain, and Colombia by mid-April (release dates for other countries soon). Cover by Inés Isaurralde. Blurb by @lilianacolanzi.bsky.social. Design by Scarlet Perea. Eloísa Nava, editor. Thank you! #SpeculativeNonFiction #Friendship #Travel

Your regular reminder that the US air & water pollution laws passed in the 60s & 70s -- and the elaborate federal bureaucracy created to administer them -- constitute one of the most successful gov't interventions in history. WILDLY successful. The envy of the world.

Every time they say something stupid and I feel tempted to correct, I’m reminded that they know what they are doing: They want me to react, so that they can have a counter talking-point to politicize the issue, and pave the way for new abuse. (First time I saw this was before the second Gulf War)

I just saw there is a new edition of this very useful little book.

I started working on the political theory of borders in the early 2000's. Back then, whenever you said "Borders" in the US, people thought "Immigration." In Mexico, the same word brought to mind drug trafficking and gang violence. I think things have changed-- people now see from both sides.

I wish reporters would stop saying “this sets a dangerous precedent.” No. This is it. This thing *now* is violent, rotten, and wrong.

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Recuerdo la tristeza que me provocó el asesinato de Samir, a quien apenas una semana antes López Obrador le endilgó la etiqueta de "radical de izquierda" y "conservador". Un asesinato todavía sin resolverse ante el entramado de complicidades que articula a Morena con el crimen organizado en Morelos.

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I had a great aunt whom I loved very much. In the 90’s I saw her once— truly worried—looking out of the window: the winter was about to start again and she couldn’t stop thinking about all the people stuck in Sarajevo. I laughed at her old-lady worrywarting back then, but today I’m wholly her.

There are all kinds of neat ice out there in the streams and creeks on this chilly day 🌿

I don’t know what is scarier: that they treat the government as a private corporation; or that they treat public corporations as governments.

There's a River in Our Creek: How Colorado Springs' Growth is Eroding the Fountain Creek Watershed - Colorado Springs Independent csindy.com/theres-a-riv... || #Colorado #rivers #naturewriting #fountainbook #COwater #ColoradoSprings #Pueblo #COwx

"The bicycle is a simple solution to some of the world's most complicated problems"

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