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Paulina Ochoa Espejo

@pochoaespejo.bsky.social
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Political Theorist. University of Virginia. Mexicana de acá de este lado, como dice el corrido. All opinions here are only mine

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 12h
Here's what's replacing four 200-year-old cottonwood trees, the last of which went down today after a 71-day tree-sit protest ended with aggressive arrests. So bleak. Mason Kumet photo from azluminaria.org/2026/10/05/f...
Double border wall running off to the horizon
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This book will be out this Thursday. It will become required reading for all liberal democrats, unfortunately.
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Paulina Ochoa Espejo @pochoaespejo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Nada más deprimente que cuando se le pregunta al pueblo, y el pueblo contesta pendejadas…
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Operation Metro Surge Wasn't the End - Dissent Magazine
The Minnesota movement still holds important lessons for those working to defend democracy in the Trump era.
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"
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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge
Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.
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Paulina Ochoa Espejo @pochoaespejo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I just went to the supermarket. Yikes! Groceries are Texas-flipping expensive…
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Paulina Ochoa Espejo @pochoaespejo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I have not seen this reported in English. What’s wrong with our media?
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Similarly, people keep asking me if immigration will get much better if Democrats retake Congress and the answer is "probably not." ICE is largely insulated from Congressional pushback (the 2026 budget reconciliation bill funded them through 2029) and hearings and subpoenas can only do so much.
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AGU Hydrology H3S @agu-h3s.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Rivers facing #HydrologicalExtremes, Round 1, Matchup 2: Amu Darya River vs Ganges-Brahmaputra Basin See facts below! VOTE HERE: www.agu-h3s.org/rivercup #RiverCup2026
A photo of the Amu Darya deltaA photo of the Ganges-Brahmaputra Basin
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AGU Hydrology H3S @agu-h3s.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Rivers facing #HydrologicalExtremes, Round 1, Matchup 1: Lake Chad Basin vs Zambezi River. Check out facts below and VOTE HERE until 10/5: www.agu-h3s.org/rivercup #RiverCup2026
Photo of the drying Lake Chad, the outlet of the Lake Chad Basin.Photo of the Zambezi River
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fabricaperiodismo.bsky.social @fabricaperiodismo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🌳 |El Senado aprobó por unanimidad el dictamen de una nueva ley contra la deforestación. De 2001 a 2024, México perdió 4.8 millones de hectáreas de bosque. No es sólo un tema ambiental: la tala ilegal genera pérdidas de hasta 97 mil millones de pesos.
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Senado aprueba por unanimidad ley contra la deforestación
Senado aprueba dictamen de ley para combatir deforestación. México perdió 4.8 millones de hectáreas entre 2001 y 2004.
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Paulina Ochoa Espejo @pochoaespejo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ya ven que si nos íbamos a convertir en país escandinavo (miren la foto de Euronews…)
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Bart van Zwieten @bvzw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Global Witness report found that 124 environmental defenders were killed in 2025, 85% in Latin America, with organized crime implicated in >33% of the deaths. Causes: expanding criminal activity in Indigenous territories and declining international assistance www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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People protecting nature and land set up self-defence units amid threat of murder
Defenders of forests and rivers killed at rate of one every three days in 2025, with 85% of deaths in Latin America
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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 22/09/2026
We're launching a podcast series on how jurisdictions across Latin America are protecting people from violence *without* eroding democracy or human rights. Here's a great conversation with Ernesto López Portillo from Mexico's IBERO University, about experiences with police reform. More to come.
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Security Reimagined: “Police reform isn’t decreed; it’s managed” (Spanish audio, English subtitles)
YouTube video by WOLA: Washington Office on Latin America
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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 22/09/2026
My latest: Picture a river in your mind. Is it sinous, single channel, uninterrupted? Only 11% of rivers in the world fit that standard. The river of the real world is dammed, braided, tidal, frozen -- and often left out of models, a pathbreaking NASA satellites shows.
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Satellite reveals a world of ‘weird rivers’ shaped by humans
SWOT is exposing humans’ effects on rivers—and challenging flood prediction models
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Paulina Ochoa Espejo @pochoaespejo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Not bizarre. My generation was trained to see *any* reference to race as “not rigorous.”
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Jose Maria Velasco @jmvelasco.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
El cabrio de San Ángel www.wikiart.org/en/jose-maria-velas…
El cabrio de San Ángel
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Stay tuned for more on this from mainstream reporting hopefully later today, but Bob's got the gist of it; last week, it appears that ICE began disappearing people from the Online Detainee Locator System the moment they get a final order of removal. Yes, this is as deeply screwed up as it sounds.
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Elisa Servín @historiaparaque.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A propósito de la revista Amauta que cumple cien años. Espero que se pueda ver el tuit. @calleneptuno.bsky.social twitter.com/CeDInCI/status/21012956…
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CeDInCI (@CeDInCI) on X
A 100 años de la primera edición de la revista “Amauta” rememoramos su legado y su rol como revista de vanguardia latinoamericana. Consultala y descargala de forma libre y gratuita en nuestro portal de revistas latinoamericanas https://t.co/PGbpFbgIZK #CeDInCI #Amauta #AmericaLee
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kennan @kennan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Job! TT! Assistant professor in political theory! (And it’s at my PhD alma mater) www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawa...
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Assistant Professor (Political Theory) (0088732)
Title: Assistant Professor (Political Theory) Position Number: 0088732Hiring Unit: UHM College of Social Sciences – Department of Political ScienceLocation: Manoa Campus Date Posted: September 17, 202...
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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is today!
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Coming in February! An edited collection on rivers past and present and how they move. The code E27RIVER gets you 30% off a preorder from Duke. #envhist #rivers #envhum
Cover of the book Rivers on the Move, edited by Bathsheba Demuth, by Mark Healey, anyone Giacomo Pareinello & Laurence Smith. Cover shows white swirls of a river channel on a blue background
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Paulina Ochoa Espejo @pochoaespejo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A puzzle of American society. Seeing that the Texan guy got some pushback for his openly racist comments, I still wonder who is allowed to break the taboo in public and who is not. Obviously, the boss does it. But it’s not *just* the boss who does it— so, what’s the boundary?
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Paulina Ochoa Espejo @pochoaespejo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Me parece de lo más facho que me digan “o ESTO (cosa horrenda), o ESTO (cosa todavía más fea)”. Esa disyuntiva es nomás para asustarnos y obligarnos a aguantar guarradas. Recuerden, como dijo Cortázar, entre un “sí” y un “no” hay una infinita rosa de los vientos…
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Paulina Ochoa Espejo @pochoaespejo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I so want to see those numbers dip into the 20s soon
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Paulina Ochoa Espejo @pochoaespejo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
53 años
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Paulina Ochoa Espejo @pochoaespejo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Get that shingles vaccine! Soon!!! After taking care of my mother (who got it in the eye!) and my husband—who had a nasty case in his early 40s— I *ran* to get mine as soon as I was eligible!!!
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has ruled there is no constitutional right to clean #water. The UN has declared a human right to water, but that has no sway here. If there's no "constitutional" right, federal & state laws must provide that protection. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US federal court says no constitutional right to clean water in Mississippi case
Appeals court dismisses lawsuit from Jackson residents claiming that tainted drinking water violated their rights
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Paulina Ochoa Espejo @pochoaespejo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Take a look at this organization. I’ve been following them for years. They provide water and electricity to those who need it. They need all the help they can get today!
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Comet-ME - Community, Energy, Technology in the Middle East
Comet-ME is an Israeli-Palestinian organization providing basic energy and clean-water services to off-grid Palestinian communities in Area C.
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Paulina Ochoa Espejo @pochoaespejo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I was chairing the session!) One of the important things I learned from Abbie is that the ridiculous claims are also important because they prefigure the way we talk about the moon. The first claim must be refuted, but now those who refute *must* talk about the moon in terms of property…
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Paulina Ochoa Espejo @pochoaespejo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This app is really helpful! Thank you so much, Ignacio!
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Paulina Ochoa Espejo @pochoaespejo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Are you interested in reforming judicial systems (in general)? In Mexico (in particular)? Julio is the person to ask!
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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
*braces for impact*
a meme shows a massive orange cloud nearing a city, with the cloud labeled "pumpkin spice" and the city being Sep. 1
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Paulina Ochoa Espejo @pochoaespejo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
So Outlook is down everywhere?
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Paulina Ochoa Espejo @pochoaespejo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
¿No political theory? (¿Qué clase de departamento de ciencias políticas va a ser ese?)
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Paulina Ochoa Espejo @pochoaespejo.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
You know what made it easy to quit Twitter? Dealing with USCIS… I had to delete every trace of my social media existence.
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Paulina Ochoa Espejo @pochoaespejo.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I’m almost done with tenure and promotion letters. Two thoughts: 1. Why did I say yes to writing so many? 2. Why don’t guys do any service?
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José Joaquín Blanco @blancoj.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
El tarot, el I Ching, la baraja española, los caracoles, el fondo del café, las vísceras de las aves o de otros animales, las piedritas, las conchitas y los dados, las flores deshojadas, los volados son "iluminaciones" menos tramposas...
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Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Humans have a primal attraction to flowing fresh water like streams, rivers & waterfalls. Consider your own sensory reaction to the video below. (And then read about "The Blue Mind Effect": www.shortform.com/blog/blue-mi...)
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Paulina Ochoa Espejo @pochoaespejo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Funny. Most of my female friends and I did that AND ALSO teaching, research and service…
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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I am not very active on this site, but I am very happy that "(Non)belonging and (un)freedom" is out in the AJPS! I have spent a bit of time thinking about belonging as a concept, and its relationship to equality. But in this text, I focus on its relationship to freedom. doi.org/10.1111/ajps...
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American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library
This article centers on the concept of “belonging” to argue that belonging and freedom are fundamentally related, and that this relationship cannot be easily captured in formal terms alone. I contend...
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Paulina Ochoa Espejo @pochoaespejo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
¿Se han fijado en cómo la IA ha gringrificado el español? Ya era así, pero la velocidad del cambio ahora es vertiginosa. Ahora todo mundo suena como que estudió en Southern Nowhere University, escribió su texto en inglés y luego lo metió al Google translate de 2003.
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Paulina Ochoa Espejo @pochoaespejo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
How is it legal to advertise a house for sale using “virtual staging” with furniture that does not fit in the real space? (The U. S. is already the dump we fear we will become.)
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Paulina Ochoa Espejo @pochoaespejo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It’s fascinating to see how local law shapes politics. Religion freedom is so important in US law that battles over land often concentrate on“sacred sites.” (In Mexico, in contrast, the revolution left a legal trail around communal property— and land fights are often over that…)
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In Building His Border Wall, Trump May Bring Down a 110-Year-Old Church
A century ago, Mexican American families came together to build an adobe church near the border in West Texas. Can its bell toll again as the wall expansion nears?
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“Protect Big Bend” signs now popping up in my neighborhood in Austin. Given what’s at stake, they should be everywhere.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/08/2026
Decades ago, Arizona won funding for a massive Colorado River project by agreeing to be first in line for cuts at a time of deep drought. The Trump administration says that time has come.
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America’s Desert Metropolis Is on the Short List to Lose Water
Decades ago, Arizona won funding for a massive Colorado River project by agreeing to be first in line for cuts at a time of deep drought. The Trump administration says that time has come.
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Sheril Kirshenbaum @sheril.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Cyber threats to water infrastructure are escalating and the US is alarmingly vulnerable. This year attackers hit water systems at multiple sites in at least 12 states. This should be treated as a public health emergency and national security crisis. www.csis.org/analysis/map...
A map by CSIS of cyber attacks to water infrastructure across the US.
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