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Utopian pessimist. Outmoded socialist. I make a living—and have fun—as a critical legal academic. I'm (mostly) a #goodhombre. Posting in English & Español. Academic profile: scholars.uow.edu.au/luis-gomez-rome…

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Law Text Culture @lawtextculture.bsky.social · 23h
Three days remaining! Interested in guest editing a future volume of Law Text Culture? We welcome proposals that bring law into conversation with literature, media, culture, philosophy, history, politics, art and related fields. 📅 Deadline: 15 October 2026 www.uowoajournals.org/ltc/site/pro...
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Call for Proposals
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
41 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming.
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@luisenantipoda 🥑 @luisenantipoda.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
2/2 This follows an earlier essay on the longer genealogy of US “policing” in Latin America. History rarely repeats itself faithfully. It prefers paraphrase. If you’d like the footnotes behind the headlines (and the ghosts behind the slogans), here it is: theconversation.com/trump-is-rep...
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Trump is repeating the long, painful history of US ‘policing’ of Latin America
US interventions in the region have led to coups, revolutions and what some analysts are now calling illegal extrajudicial killings.
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@luisenantipoda 🥑 @luisenantipoda.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
If you’ve ever suspected that law is also a genre (and sometimes a rather baroque one), this is your cue. Law Text Culture seeks proposals for its 2026 issue across law, aesthetics, ethics. Due 31 January 2026. Thread has the particulars 👇🏽 @lawtextculture.bsky.social
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@luisenantipoda 🥑 @luisenantipoda.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
1/2 🧵 New piece for The Conversation ✒️: "Venezuela’s leader may be gone, but his regime remains – with a new chief in Washington." If you remove the autocrat but keep the apparatus, you haven’t ended tyranny. You’ve merely changed the staffing arrangements. theconversation.com/venezuelas-l...
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Venezuela’s leader may be gone, but his regime remains – with a new chief in Washington
The interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, is consolidating her power and has signalled a willingness to work with the Trump administration.
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@luisenantipoda 🥑 @luisenantipoda.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
#FirstDogontheMoon rules! Beware of the drop croc 🐊 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Drop crocs! Everyone loves drop crocs! Or do they? | First Dog on the Moon
It certainly sounds like fun until you walk under a tree and…
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@luisenantipoda 🥑 @luisenantipoda.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Esto ya lo hemos visto antes. Si lo que se busca es reducir el tráfico de drogas, les digo de una vez que no funcionó. EE UU anuncia una operación militar a gran escala “contra el narcoterrorismo” en América Latina elpais.com/internaciona...
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EE UU anuncia una operación militar a gran escala “contra el narcoterrorismo” en América Latina
La declaración del jefe del Pentágono, Pete Hegseth, llega pocas horas después del vigésimo ataque contra una narcolancha, que ha dejado cuatro muertos
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@luisenantipoda 🥑 @luisenantipoda.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Resultados de las elecciones en #Bolivia elpais.com/america/2025...
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Resultados de las elecciones en Bolivia, en vivo | Rodrigo Paz es elegido nuevo presidente con el 54,5% de los votos
Según el conteo rápido del Tribunal Supremo Electoral, el Partido Demócrata Cristiano (PDC) de Paz sumó el 54,5% de los votos, frente al 45,5% del expresidente conservador Jorge Tuto Quiroga |Por prim...
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@luisenantipoda 🥑 @luisenantipoda.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Why has support for One Nation surged since the 2025 federal election? theconversation.com/why-has-supp...
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Why has support for One Nation surged since the 2025 federal election?
With Labor re-elected with a thumping majority, voters at the conservative end of the Coalition are drifting away, spurred by anxieties about immigration.
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@luisenantipoda 🥑 @luisenantipoda.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Los #derechoshumanos necesitan cambiar sus estrategias. letraslibres.com/revista/bena...
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¿Tienen futuro los derechos humanos? | Letras Libres
Por algunas décadas, señalar y avergonzar gobiernos fue una buena estrategia para la defensa de los derechos humanos. En un mundo donde los líderes autoritarios se han vuelto inmunes a la crítica y lo...
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@luisenantipoda 🥑 @luisenantipoda.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Do billionaires even understand the sci-fi they’re inspired by? Nope. youtu.be/gKOzDU64iPA?...
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Do billionaires even understand the sci-fi they’re inspired by? | The Listening Post
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EL PAÍS México @elpaismexico.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Opinión | "Si la ley de amparo pasa como la quiere Sheinbaum, esta regalará a su sucesor, quien sea que resulte, un descomunal poder. Y ni ella misma estará a salvo". Por Salvador Camarena dozz.es/s2t445
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El Supremo Gobierno | Columna
Cuando Morena pierda el poder, sus adversarios tendrán el excesivo margen de maniobra que estos años los obradoristas se han ido otorgando a sí mismos
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@luisenantipoda 🥑 @luisenantipoda.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Another illegal, extrajudicial execution 👇🏽 U.S. Strikes a 2nd Venezuela Boat, Killing 3, Trump Says www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...
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U.S. Strikes a 2nd Venezuela Boat, Killing 3, Trump Says
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Jacobo Dayán @jacobodayan.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Israel comete genocidio en Gaza, afirma comisión investigadora de la ONU www.bbc.com/mundo/articl...
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Israel comete genocidio en Gaza, afirma comisión investigadora de la ONU - BBC News Mundo
La comisión encontró que cuatro de los cinco actos genocidas definidos por el derecho internacional se han llevado a cabo en contra de los palestinos en Gaza. El gobierno de Israel calificó el informe...
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@luisenantipoda 🥑 @luisenantipoda.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
My U.N. Commission’s Finding: Israel Is Committing Genocide, by Navi Pillai www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...
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Opinion | My U.N. Commission’s Finding: Israel Is Committing Genocide
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@luisenantipoda 🥑 @luisenantipoda.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Cuando veas las barbas de tu vecino cortar... devuelve el ejército a los cuarteles. Claro que, como dice otro refrán, nadie experimenta en cabeza ajena.
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EL PAÍS México @elpaismexico.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
🇲🇽🇺🇸🍸 El bar Kentucky, en Ciudad Juárez, el origen del famoso coctel, es el último mítico bar en pie a lo largo del límite entre Estados Unidos y México dozz.es/p5zas19
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La leyenda de la margarita, un recuerdo de una historia común en la frontera
El bar Kentucky, en Ciudad Juárez, el origen del famoso coctel, es el último mítico bar en pie a lo largo del límite entre Estados Unidos y México
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@luisenantipoda 🥑 @luisenantipoda.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
"[...] metrics can incentivize some rather odd outcomes. For instance, citing your own past papers in each new one that you write can inflate your h-index." 🙄 theconversation.com/publish-or-p...
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‘Publish or perish’ evolutionary pressures shape scientific publishing, for better and worse
Scientists write papers to share their results – and gain prestige and advance their careers. In this competitive field, selection can favor AI-written papers, citation cartels, paper mills and more.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
"Respond" to what? Brazil applying its own laws to a Brazilian in a fair and transparent process?
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@luisenantipoda 🥑 @luisenantipoda.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Tech companies are stealing our books, music and films for AI. It’s brazen theft and must be stopped www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Tech companies are stealing our books, music and films for AI. It’s brazen theft and must be stopped | Anna Funder and Julia Powles
If we don’t refuse and resist, not just our culture but our democracy will be irrevocably diminished
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/09/2025
Blood moon and lunar eclipse cast an ethereal light – in pictures
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Blood moon and lunar eclipse cast an ethereal light – in pictures
Visible from Australia, across Asia, to western Europe, a blood moon has been captivating stargazers. This marvel is caused when the Earth shades the moon from direct solar light, causing the moon to appear red
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/09/2025
A total lunar eclipse, commonly called a blood moon, crossed the sky in parts of Asia, Australia, Europe and Africa. Read more: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/s...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Well said.
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The Conversation ES @es.theconversation.com · 08/09/2025
Este verano se han registrado hasta la fecha tres marchas contra la #gentrificación en Ciudad de México. Y seguimos contando: theconversation.com/las-protestas-c… @udg_oficial
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Las protestas contra la gentrificación en México se radicalizan al calor del nacionalismo y la memoria histórica
La gentrificación agita México, con marchas de protesta por el derecho a la vivienda y el fin de los megaproyectos. Pero el rechazo al extranjero tiene que ver también con traumas históricos y prejuicios nacionalistas.
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@luisenantipoda 🥑 @luisenantipoda.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Sobre cronopios y famas youtu.be/yPx0NfsPvLI?...
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¿Qué es un cronopio y un fama? Julio Cortázar
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@luisenantipoda 🥑 @luisenantipoda.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Pues sí. Quedó México advertido. letraslibres.com/politica/esp...
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Primer informe de Sheinbaum: estamos advertidos | Letras Libres
Siguiendo al pie de la letra la liturgia populista del obradorismo, Claudia Sheinbaum dejó claro en su primer informe que su presidencia no es un nuevo capítulo.
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@luisenantipoda 🥑 @luisenantipoda.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
The delusion of conflating criminality with terrorism, of mistaking an illicit market for an existential threat. The delusion of Donald Trump and of Empire unbound. Trump Claims the Power to Summarily Kill Suspected Drug Smugglers www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/09/2025
Stephen Colbert’s long road to goodbye has officially begun. The comedian will kick off his final season of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” on Tuesday, signaling the beginning of the end of his tenure as a CBS late-night host, which began in 2015.
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Stephen Colbert Returns for First ‘Late Show’ of Its Last Season
CBS’s announcement in July that the show would end next year — after Colbert had criticized CBS’s settlement with the Trump administration — raised questions among lawmakers and fans.
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@luisenantipoda 🥑 @luisenantipoda.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
The anti-immigration rallies are more mainstream that we would like to admit. This week, for example, the government signed a $400m deal with Nauru to deport approximately 350 asylum seekers, de facto reopening offshore detention. theconversation.com/politicians-...
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Politicians have scapegoated immigration for decades. It’s time to flip the script
Anti-immigration rallies across Australia are the culmination of years of political scaremongering. But better immigration messaging could change the trajectory.
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@luisenantipoda 🥑 @luisenantipoda.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Leamos a @cperezcorrea.bsky.social. A veces la mera posibilidad del cambio exige el coraje de despojarnos de todo optimismo.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 26/08/2025
A new Washington state law requiring clergy to report child abuse revealed during confession was recently put on hold by a federal judge, citing First Amendment concerns. A Catholic scholar explores the sacrament of reconciliation and its unique role in the Catholic Church:
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From public confession to private penance: How Catholic confession has evolved over centuries
The Catholic Church treats information shared during confession as absolutely confidential – but that requirement can create legal dilemmas.
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@luisenantipoda 🥑 @luisenantipoda.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Liberals: Alas, the Time Has Come to Throw John Rawls Under the Bus 🚌 newrepublic.com/article/1992... via @newrepublic.com
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Liberals: Alas, the Time Has Come to Throw John Rawls Under the Bus
The greatest liberal philosopher of the twentieth century guided his creed toward neutrality. In the age of Trump, we can no longer afford that.
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Gregg D Caruso @greggdcaruso.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Studying philosophy does make people better thinkers, according to new research on more than 600,000 college grads theconversation.com/studying-phi...
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Studying philosophy does make people better thinkers, according to new research on more than 600,000 college grads
Philosophers are fond of saying that their field boosts critical thinking. Two of them decided to put that claim to the test.
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@luisenantipoda 🥑 @luisenantipoda.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Indeed. Measuring intellectual life with league tables is like judging poetry with a stopwatch 🤷🏽‍♂️🎓⏱️
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@luisenantipoda 🥑 @luisenantipoda.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Spiders indeed are awesome 🕷️
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@luisenantipoda 🥑 @luisenantipoda.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
"Patriarchy – spoiler – is bad for men, too." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Middle-aged men are among society’s loneliest people – what does that say about the patriarchy? | Van Badham
The internet, toxic male influencers and ruthless marketeers – not biology – have helped create a cohort of men with few friends
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@luisenantipoda 🥑 @luisenantipoda.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Colchones, tambores, refrigeradores, estufas... 🤩😍🤩
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Ethics in Bricks @ethicsinbricks.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
"Our desire not to be inferior to others in terms of performance, combined with the idea that we can freely choose to go the extra mile, can lead to self-exploitation. We force ourselves to go beyond what is good for us — until we burn out." - Berend van der Kolk
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@luisenantipoda 🥑 @luisenantipoda.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
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@luisenantipoda 🥑 @luisenantipoda.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Eighty Years of Nuclear Weapons Is Enough www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...
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Opinion | I Survived an Atomic Bomb. It’s Time to End the Nuclear Threat.
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@luisenantipoda 🥑 @luisenantipoda.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
#Hiroshima anniversary: mayor says Ukraine and Middle East crises show world ignoring nuclear ‘tragedies’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Hiroshima anniversary: mayor says Ukraine and Middle East crises show world ignoring nuclear ‘tragedies’
On 80th anniversary of atomic bombing, Kazumi Matsui urges younger people to recognise ‘inhumane’ consequences of nuclear weapons as a deterrent
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Catalina Perez Correa @cperezcorrea.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
En México y EUA se va extendiendo el silencio, no solo a quienes se sanciona sino al resto de la sociedad:
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@luisenantipoda 🥑 @luisenantipoda.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Roberto Saviano obtiene justicia, 17 años después, y llora amargamente en el tribunal: “Me han robado la vida y yo me la he dejado robar” elpais.com/cultura/2025...
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Roberto Saviano obtiene justicia, 17 años después, y llora amargamente en el tribunal: “Me han robado la vida y yo me la he dejado robar”
Los jueces italianos confirman por fin la condena al capo mafioso y su abogado que en 2008 lanzaron la amenaza de muerte contra el escritor, obligado desde entonces a vivir con escolta
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@luisenantipoda 🥑 @luisenantipoda.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Uuuufff... qué maravilloso texto sobre "la esquiva amenaza de las noches, el mosco que se anuncia con su insoportable ruido." Quien nunca haya odiado a los moscos 🦟 en alguna noche insomne, que arroje la primera pantufla🩰. www.reforma.com/las-llaves-y...
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Las llaves y el mosco
Hace unos veinticinco años escribí un texto sobre la esquiva amenaza de las noches, el mosco que se anuncia con su insoportable ruido. Recordé entonces a Paul Müller, inventor del DDT, quien en 1948 r...
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Zach Montague @zjmontague.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
William G. Young, the judge behind the impassioned takedown of Trump’s anti-DEI philosophy on Monday, has several other big cases against the administration on his docket this summer. We took a deeper look at his background and evolution as a jurist:
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The Reagan-Appointed Judge Fast-Tracking Trump to Trial
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@luisenantipoda 🥑 @luisenantipoda.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
How Amy Coney Barrett Is Confounding the Right and the Left www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/u...
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How Amy Coney Barrett Is Confounding the Right and the Left
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Catalina Perez Correa @cperezcorrea.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
No podemos en seriedad celebrar una elección en la que participo una minoría y el resultado fue una corte conformada completamente por perfiles afines al gobierno.
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@luisenantipoda 🥑 @luisenantipoda.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
"[...] los #zapatistas en 1994 ante el ex gobernador de Chiapas Absalón Castellanos. Después de detenerlo, le concedieron lo que él jamás concedió a sus adversarios: el perdón. Ese gesto ético contrasta con la retórica vengativa de nuestros políticos hegemónicos." www.reforma.com/concordia-en...
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Concordia en la tormenta
Cuando entrevisté a Sebastião Salgado a propósito de su exposición Amazônia en el Museo Nacional de Antropología, lo primero que dijo fue: 'Este es el mejor museo del mundo'. El fotógrafo brasileño te...
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@luisenantipoda 🥑 @luisenantipoda.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
"Orale" is the most useful word ever invented by humankind. A semantic Aleph that encompasses the entire world 🌏
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