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Microbetv @microbetv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Trump says some routine immunizations will be split into five separate shots. Vaccine experts say it won’t work Dr Daniel Griffin review the presidents new plan on TWiV 1360 Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I’ve seen a few people commenting today that the idea of separating the MMR vaccine into three separate shots might be a good strategy to get anti-vax parents to vaccinate. Absolutely not. Here’s why. First, countering anti-vax misinformation is like playing whack a mole. You bat down one lie…

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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Roberto Mendoza-Farías (@rmf.bsky.social) maps spectral spaces in two works of Fernanda Melchor in “Una mirada al abismo: Espacio espectral y la producción social de violencia de género en la obra de Fernanda Melchor.” Link below. 🎨 Detail from Hurricane Season published by New Directions

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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Roberto Mendoza-Farías (@rmf.bsky.social) and Alejandro Palma Castro introduce us to the Special Issue: Espacios espectrales en escritoras hispanoamericanas. See below for Open Access 📷 Mendieta, Ana. Sin título (Nicho de Culiacán), 1973.

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Elisa Servín @historiaparaque.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

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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Roberto Mendoza-Farías @rmf.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

"...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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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

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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Guillermo Reynoso López @gmoreynoso.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

destruidas las instituciones republicanas, por desgracia, está México. Hoy.”

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Catalina Perez Correa @cperezcorrea.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

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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Nuestro cotidiano régimen de excepción | El Universal

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

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."

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Ignacio Lanzagorta @jicito.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

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/

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/11/2024

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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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

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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How America Embraced Gender War

Both Trump’s and Harris’s campaigns framed the Presidential election as a contest between men and women. Did the results prove them right?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/11/2024

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

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

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.

A photo of a group of ufw canvassers holding signs saying La Presidenta with a sticker saying vote

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Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

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.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

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.

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Roberto Mendoza-Farías @rmf.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

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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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

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.

A farm worker attending the marigolds he is about to harvest for dia de los muertos

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Carlos Gardeazábal Bravo @cgrbravo.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

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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Umbrales de la víctima

El proyecto «Umbrales de la víctima: representaciones, construcciones, discursos» propone interrogar en profundidad uno de los asuntos más relevantes, pero también más complejos respecto de la violenc

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Mónica C. Camacho @mc2x.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

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

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

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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Exclusive | X Algorithm Feeds Users Political Content—Whether They Want It or Not

A WSJ experiment found that accounts supporting Trump and Harris dominate feeds of new X users who wanted cooking and crafts.

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Juls sin AquelarreMx @julsaquelarremx.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

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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Esmeralda, de 14 años, fue violada, sufrió un aborto espontáneo y la Fiscalía la acusa de homicidio

“Yo creo que no se debe criminalizar, menos a una niña de 14 años”, afirmó Sheinbaum al ser cuestionada tras la acusación de la Fiscalía de Querétaro.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

Toni Morrison - Racism and Fascism.

(1) Construct an internal enemy, as both focus and diversion. (2) Isolate and demonize that enemy by unleashing and protecting the utterance of overt and coded name-calling and verbal abuse. Employ ad hominem attacks as legitimate charges against that enemy. (3) Enlist and create sources and distributors of information who are willing to reinforce the demonizing process because it is profitable, because it grants power and because it works. (4) Palisade all art forms; monitor, discredit or expel those that challenge or destabilize processes of demonization and deification. (5) Subvert and malign all representatives of and sympathizers with this constructed enemy. (6) Solicit, from among the enemy, collaborators who agree with and can sanitize the dispossession process. (7) Pathologize the enemy in scholarly and popular mediums; recycle, for example, scientific racism and the myths of racial superiority in order to naturalize the pathology. (8) Criminalize the enemy. Then prepare, budget for and rationalize the building of holding arenas for the enemy-especially its males and absolutely its children. (9) Reward mindlessness and apathy with monumentalized entertainments and with little pleasures, tiny seductions, a few minutes on television, a few lines in the press, a little pseudo-success, the illusion of power and influence, a little fun, a little style, a little consequence. (10) Maintain, at all costs, silence.

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Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

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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Trump in the Garden - Dissent Magazine

Eight years into the fascism debate, few skeptics seem to be willing to admit that they were wrong.

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Roberto Mendoza-Farías @rmf.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

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.

October 2016 cover of magazine Letras Libres, with an image of Donald Trump with the title "Fascista Americano" under his nose.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/10/2024

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...

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Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

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

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Elisa Servín @historiaparaque.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

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

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

"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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Obeying in advance

Media billionaires ask for tyranny

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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

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

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Lichi Mochi @lichimochi.com · 25/10/2024

Francisco de Goya Brujas en el aire, 1797-98

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

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.

Truth Social post in which Trump lies about how tariffs work.

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Elisa Servín @historiaparaque.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

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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Roberto Mendoza-Farías @rmf.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

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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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

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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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 21/10/2024

#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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Mexico's Constitutional Reforms: a Setback for Checks and Balances - WOLA

In September 2024, Mexico’s legislature quickly approved a series of constitutional reforms at the behest of outgoing president Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The revisions, among other things, fundamen...

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