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Algo que la doctora no hizo, no ha hecho ni hará. Está muy ocupada entregándole ofrendas a la bestia del norte.

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"...no relation of a dream can convey the dream sensation, that comingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams".

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Toda utopía, en algún momento, acaba encontrando nociva la realidad… www.eluniversal.com.mx/nacion/tren-...

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Despite his mild-mannered civility, Bhattacharya is a self-interested extremist who gives cover to anti-vaxxers & promotes policies that will kill people. He will set American health, innovation, & science back for a generation. He’s not here to reform NIH. He’s here to destroy it.

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En situaciones como esta ¿cómo aplica el “humanismo mexicano”? piedepagina.mx/van-a-querer...

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La mayoría de delitos incluidos en el art 19-que obligan a los jueces a decretar la prisión preventiva (prisión mientras dura el juicio)-ahora podrán ser juzgados (desde la vinculación) por jueces sin rostro o anónimos. Y la lista de delitos crece y crece. www.eluniversal.com.mx/opinion/cata...

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As my friend @davidfrum.bsky.social said about vaccines and the pandemic: "I believe we ought to try to save people from self-harm. But there are practical limits to paternalism."

submitted 104 days ago • 60 comments

Ando trabajando sobre las impresiones de Chimalpahin sobre embajada japonesa que pasó por la Ciudad de México en 1613-1614 rumbo a Madrid y Roma. Acá el retrato del diplomático y recién bautizado Felipe Francisco Faxecura (Hasekura Tsunenaga). Les rolo el textito cuando esté listo.

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Incidentally, if you are wondering what an RFKJr situation might be like, look no further than Mexico over the last 6 years, with a president who didn’t want to pay for Pfizer, didn’t want to buy critical drugs because of “corruption”, and defunded the national vaccination program.

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I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor. I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/

submitted 108 days ago • 986 comments

If California covered all its canals and aqueducts with solar, it could generate 13 GW of solar power and save 63 billion gallons of water, enough water for 2 million people & 50,000 irrigated acres. 🔌💡💧 www.tid.org/current-proj...

submitted 112 days ago • 13 comments

La retórica del fascismo al servicio de la imposición autoritaria https://rialta.org/fascismo-servicio-de-la-imposicion-autoritaria/

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either people specify what they mean when they say “elite” or the term is just meaningless pejorative. both parties are dominated by elites in any conventional sense of what that means! the question is: why are right-wing elites more palatable to voters than liberal ones?

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Jia Tolentino: "The difference—and this is always the difference—is about volition. Men who voted for Trump fear what women might actually want; women who voted for Harris fear what will be done to them against their will."

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as long as journalists and pundits act as if they are amateur political strategists & not people trying to understand and tell the truth about the world, they are going to take the implicit view that voters can never be wrong, which then demands endless explanation of their morally blameless choice

submitted 116 days ago • 151 comments

Los mexicanos de este lado perdimos dos democracias el mismo día.

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Reminder to folks who live in the Pacific time zone: You have less than an hour to vote. This election is critical. Every vote matters. You can still head to a polling site & get on line to vote. If you're in line when the polls close, you still have the right to #vote.

submitted 118 days ago • 4 comments

My grandmother voting for Kamala Harris. Born 1918. 2 years old when the 19th Amendment was ratified. 47 when the Voting Rights Act secured her vote. Will turn 107 on inauguration day. She’s lived through it all, and she’s damn sure not going back.

submitted 118 days ago • 361 comments

This weekend dozens of volunteers got on a bus and traveled from Los Angeles to Arizona to get out the #VOTE in this critical battleground state. Here's why.

submitted 119 days ago • 1 comment

Across the world people know that their fate depends on Tuesday’s elections. Vote for democratic institutions, but vote for the rest of us too!

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Like Musk, I'm a naturalized citizen, and proud of it. If I had engaged in the "concealment of material fact or willful misrepresentation" on the naturalization app., it would be grounds for revocation. This should at least trigger a review of his app. Not to mention his conversations with Mr. P.

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We want to wish all our friends who celebrate, a happy #DiwaliCelebration. Marigolds which many use in garlands & decorations are harvested by farm workers like Ignacio. Marigolds are said to bring good luck and fortune, and symbolize the beauty and fragility of life.

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Para los interesados en las conexiones entre literatura y memoria en México y Perú: “Umbrales de la víctima. Representaciones, construcciones y discursos” -por Lucero de Vivanco editorial.udg.mx/gpd-umbrales... #accesoabierto

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Being a dual citizen is fun bc you get to experience two countries backsliding towards authoritarianism

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The WSJ created new X/Twitter accounts expressing interest in nonpolitical subjects like cooking, sports and crafts. The new users were fed a steady diet of posts that leaned toward Donald Trump and sowed doubt about the integrity of the Nov. 5 election. www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

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Sobre el caso de #Esmeralda, híjole, pareciera que el MP y los juzgados son instituciones que se adjudican con esmero el papel de torturadores de mujeres. Todo mal y nefasto en este caso. www.proceso.com.mx/nacional/est...

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Toni Morrison - Racism and Fascism.

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It took me eight years to write something about the Fascism Debate, so let me say this: what is most exasperating is that no one (save Paxton) seems to be willing to change their mind. Well...

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"The first month of his [AMLO] successor President Claudia Sheinbaum’s administration has been roiled by violence." #Mexico

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The cover of Mexican magazine Letras Libres, Oct. 2016 serves as a reminder that many people, in and outside the US, understood his "grammar" from the very beginning. Yet, not a year ago, a few important academics were (still!) chastising the rest of us for using the F word. We warned you.

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The AI transcription tool Whisper hallucinates in a large fraction of its transcripts. It's been used for 7 million medical transcripts. People want to use similar text to transcribe bodycam audio for police reports. Both are among the WORST applications of the tech. apnews.com/article/ai-a...

submitted 127 days ago • 14 comments

Alternate timeline where every U.S. media outlet spends a decade fixated on explaining to the public why it is that the economic anxiety of Black and Latinx women, who are consistently at the bottom of these things, has never led them away from a politics of solidarity or toward fascism

submitted 127 days ago • 10 comments

Perhaps Trump's father was at this rally in NYC in 1939.

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"A problem with the very wealthy is that, alas, the least vulnerable have a tendency to think of themselves as the most vulnerable...The irony is that the rest of us will have to save the billionaires from their own cowardice." snyder.substack.com/p/obeying-in...

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This looks like the end of the rule of law in the U.S. In fact, it looks like the “perfect dictatorship” of my childhood. It looked like democracy, but everybody knew what it was. One false step, and you could end up in jail "guilty until proven innocent," with no recourse. All behaved accordingly.

submitted 128 days ago • 2 comments

A Sora, a shy bird of the marshes with a candy corn beak.

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Francisco de Goya Brujas en el aire, 1797-98

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I bet my political theory colleagues who are interested in psychoanalysis are having a field day.

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It is so, so bizarre that the core of Trump’s policy agenda is based on just lying about how tariffs work at the most basic, 101 level imaginable. It’s not controversial. It’s not even complicated. It’s just a lie. It’s like saying income taxes are paid by leprechauns.

submitted 130 days ago • 138 comments

Estas son las fuerzas armadas a las que se les acaba de dar rango constitucional para encargarse de la seguridad pública en México. Una tragedia histórica de alcance incalculable.

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This is spot on. It's amazing how many people can't or won't see what's right in front of them. It's truly baffling coming from the "don't use the F word" crowd. Plenty of folks saw right through him from the start.

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Both Mark Milley, a retired four-star general and Trump’s former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and John Kelly, a retired four-star general and Trump’s former White House chief of staff, have now come out and publicly said Donald Trump, the Republican candidate for president, is a fascist.

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#Mexico has changed its constitution to allow direct election of judges, placement of a militarized National Guard under direct Army control, and other changes. Stephanie Brewer of WOLA and Lisa Sánchez of MUCD explain what this means, in a new WOLA podcast episode: www.wola.org/analysis/mex...

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my takeaway from this profile is that stein is not engage in politics if what we mean by politics is the “art of the possible.” she is, instead, engaged in essentially a vanity exercise rooted in negative partisanship.

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Trump Releases Skull Measurements From Phrenology Exam theonion.com/trump-releas...

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