“One of the more insidious erosions of American power is the implication, by this move, that the United States can no longer withstand the criticism of people like Khalil, and would be stronger without them.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Resistance is strong!
#Resist
“We can mock, but the lesson here for countries faced with Trump is an encouraging one: give him something that he can call victory.”
The deceptively negotiable Donald Trump FT
One Response to Trump’s Tariffs: Trade That Excludes the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/b...
Trump "is expected to eventually sign an executive order putting the tariffs into effect and could do so retroactively. But the lack of clarity...created even more uncertainty ." Live Updates: Canada, Mexico and China Brace for Tariffs; Consumer Bureau Leader Is Fired www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
If you do not know how to engage with your community for whatever reason:
It’s never too late to see what events your local library is having. They could use the traffic, you could get a movie or book and maybe, depending on your library, have fun learning something new.
Buy the books.
Buy the movies.
Buy the games.
Physical media is more important now than ever.
In a remarkable sequence of events at the State Capitol in Florida, Republican legislative leaders rejected Gov. Ron DeSantis’s call for a special session on illegal immigration and overrode one of his budget vetoes.
President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico responded point by point to President Trump’s executive orders on migration, trade and other issues, saying that Mexico would support its nationals in the U.S.
In the 1970s, Martha Goddard invented the rape kit, a powerful instrument for women’s justice. So why did she die in relative obscurity while a man took credit? Sheila McClear on Pagan Kennedy's new book, "The Secret History of the Rape Kit":
Susan Sontag (who would have been 92 today and would have had a whole lot to say about our predicament) on the conscience of words and the writer's task in the age opinion
A black-and-white portrait of David Lynch. He is looking straight into the camera. A headline reads: "1946-2025: David Lynch, Visionary Filmmaker, Dies at 78." Photo by Sara Hirakawa for The New York Times.
Breaking News: David Lynch, the visionary filmmaker, has died at 78. He was known for his surreal style in films like “Eraserhead” and “Mulholland Drive,” as well as the TV series “Twin Peaks.” nyti.ms/3WphQj8
New important research by Guillermo Trejo & @natanski.bsky.social on violence against local journalists in Mexico's drug war.
"Silencing the Press in Criminal Wars: Why the War on Drugs Turned Mexico into the World’s Most Dangerous Country for Journalists"
Link here: bit.ly/4h1R74j
¿Cómo funciona la industria de las publicaciones académicas? ¿Quién era Aaron Schwartz? ¿Qué es LibGen, el repositorio que Meta ha usado para entrenar a su IA sin pagar copyright?
Estos y otros temas, en este artículo que escribí para @elordenmundial.bsky.social
elordenmundial.com/sci-hub-revi...
First post on Bsky! Hello world!
👇Since December 2024 the LIS & LWS databases contain more than 1000 datasets. This enables research on more than 30 Mio. households and 90 Mio individuals.
Explore our databases here: www.lisdatacenter.org/our-data/ #LISdata #inequality #poverty #research
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Coupling and Fertility are Falling.
In Finland, Mexico, Peru, South Korea, Thailand, Turkey and the US, both are going down.
Superb column by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
A must-read for anyone interested in why fertility is falling, and how to respond.
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It’s official: 2024 was the hottest year on record, breaking the previous record set in 2023 and pushing the world over a critical climate threshold, according to new data from Europe’s climate monitoring agency Copernicus.
Tras reunión con Sheinbaum, Taddei anuncia ampliación presupuestal para elección judicial
México, 9 de enero.- Guadalupe Taddei, consejera presidenta del INE, anunció que habrá una ampliación presupuestal para realizar la elección del Poder Judicial. Lo anterior, después de una reunión en Palacio…
LA restaurants offering free meals to fire evacuees:
Yeastie Boys (Multiple locations)
Bar Etoile (East Hollywood)
Fiorelli Pizza (Venice)
Bé Ù (Silver Lake)
Danny Boy's (Downtown + Westwood)
Oy Bar (Studio City)
Sunday Gravy (Inglewood)
Dudley Market (Venice)
LaSorted's (Silver Lake)
Chosen solitude may be the most significant social fact of our age, @dkthomp.bsky.social writes. The emergence of the anti-social century is changing childhood social development, our physical infrastructure, and even our relationship to reality.
Canadian 🇨🇦 water bombers helping with the LA fires. Because that’s what friends and allies do, they help and support each other. Not bully, berate and antagonize!
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Map from BBC showing the scale of the Palisades fire, labeled "how does the Palisades fire compare in size with New York and London?"
This visual from the BBC compares the size of the Palisades fire to NYC showing how it would essentially be like everything in Manhattan below 42nd street being on fire at the same time. And that's only one of the fires raging in LA. Terrifying. Please stay safe everyone: www.bbc.com/news/article...
Canada is doing more for Los Angeles than either Trump or Musk.
Billy Crystal lost the Pacific Palisades house where he had lived since 1979. Jamie Lee Curtis, James Woods and Mark Hamill were among other celebrities forced to evacuate as fires in LA swept across some of the most lavish real estate in the world reut.rs/4282OSr
some good news as daylight creeps around the corner:
sunset fire shrunk from +60 to 42.8 acres, evac orders partially lifted
lidia fire held & evac orders/warnings lifted!
eaton fire static at 10.6k acres
woodley fire is OUT
growth for hurst & palisades fires have slowed
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