I know things look bleak everywhere, but have you seen my dog Teddy's HUMONGOUS nose?

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'Civilization gets rebuilt ever 6.000 or 12.000 years.'

I'm going to tell you a secret about people: people who loudly proclaim to be 'honest and direct' are almost always backstabbing liars and people who loudly proclaim to be 'free speech advocates' are almost by default the worst enablers of free speech repression.

I mean it definitely is if this is the bookstore you're going to.

Just after Donald Trump said he "does not care" about the USMCA trade agreement - new negotiations set to start later this year -, Mexican president @claudiasheinbaum.bsky.social says she wants to set up a meeting with Trump after January 20. www.eluniversal.com.mx/nacion/shein...

In Mexico, the Navy and the federal anti-corruption ministry are at odds over the 2025 Great Mango Heist. It's a really weird and convoluted story that I recommend anyone read. 🧵 www.eluniversal.com.mx/nacion/exige...

Maybe Joe Rogan should read up on the enablers that helped Adolf Hitler's rise to power. Might be educational for him.

Horrified by reports of thousands of people killed during the protests in Iran. These are people murdered by a tyrannical regime willing to sacrifice every last person in the country to stay in power. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/w...

Greenland PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen: "If we have to choose between the US & Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO. We choose the Kingdom of Denmark. We choose the EU." "Greenland does not want to be owned by the US. Greenland does not want to be governed by the US" he later added.

The Assad regime in Syria was collapsing. What did its ally Russia do? Nothing. Nicolás Maduro was abducted from Venezuela. What did his ally Russia do? Nothing. The regime in Iran is on the verge of collapsing. What does its ally Russia do? Nothing. Nations of the world, consider this.

The usual sanewashing brigade is already framing Trump's actions regarding the Venezuelan oil industry as 'dealmaking', as if it's not actually extortion under threat of deadly violence.

Not The Onion.

Please, UT Austin, tell me more about how me being a rep for CPJ 'drives AI innovation'. I'm all ears.

Local media in Veracruz report the killing of journalist Carlos Castro, yesterday evening in Poza Rica. Castro, a young crime reporter, was shot and killed in a restaurant at approximately 7.00 pm local time. versiones.com.mx/2026/01/08/a...

Here's Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum's reaction to comments by Trump about 'strikes on drug cartels' in Mexico and/or Colombia (from around 1 hour and 9 minutes). Sheinbaum says it's Trump's 'way of communicating' and that her gvt will reach out to Marco Rubio. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4yD...

Mexicaanse ‘ijskoningin’ Sheinbaum laat zich niet door Trump provoceren - mijn verhaal voor @trouw.nl www.trouw.nl/buitenland/m...

I believe Pennsylvania has massive strategic benefits for Mexico. I do not support taking it by force. Mexico is not a bully. Ideally, we purchase it—similar to our purchase of the rosca de reyes at Costco. Acquiring Pennsylvania is a many decades old conversation.

Special forces in Mexico regularly kill innocent civilians at checkpoints. This atrocity looks eerily familiar to every single time I covered families murdered because they were a few seconds too late to step slow down. Absolutely horrifying. minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/07/i...

Si quieres tener información de calidad de lo que pasa en #Venezuela, no te pierdas los continuos y estelares reportajes de #DaniellaZambrano, desde Venezuela, para @es.france24.com.

Seems that the number is much higher than 7😢 #Venezuela "(SNTP) exigió este lunes la liberación inmediata de los 23 periodistas y trabajadores de la prensa detenidos arbitrariamente en Venezuela, el desbloqueo de más de 60 medios de comunicación censurados en internet"

Seeing as how some of the world's leadership appear to be somewhat nostalgic for the 19th century, it might be worth pointing out that the 19th century wasn't a particularly pleasant time for most people in the world - also it ended in World War I, which then led to World War II.

I have an unhealthy fascination with very remote places and today I learned of the most remote, isolated place in Mexico: Isla Clarión. It's a small island in the Pacific Ocean, some 700km from continental Mexico. Its only human inhabitants are nine servicemen in a tiny naval station. I want to go!

For all would-be Venezuela experts: - The Americas = continents of North and South America, the latter begins at the border between Panama and Colombia - Central America = region in North America - Latin America = all nations in the Americas where Spanish/Portuguese are spoken by majority

This conversation triggers me SO MUCH: Person: US interventions in South America, remember Panama? Me: Panama is in North America. Person: No, it's in Central America. Me: Central America is in North America. Person: No, that's a different continent. Me: CENTRAL AMERICA IS NOT CONTINENT!!!!!

The first thing the U.S. did after abducting Maduro was making sure his regime remains in power. Today, seven Venezuelan reporters were arrested by the regime in Caracas. This is not, never was and never will be about democracy and freedom for Venezuela.

What happened in Venezuela last weekend is not a black-and-white matter of supporting either Trump or Maduro. That's how the Trump administration and its supporters are framing it and that's not how it works. 🧵

Two statements, both correct. 1: Nicolás Maduro is one of Latin America's most vicious dictators, responsible for years of brutal repression. 2: Removing Maduro the way the U.S. did last weekend sets a dangerous precedent and does nothing for democracy and human rights in Latin America.

Two words: imperial overstretch.

- What a year, huh? - Teddy, it's January 5th.

Happy New Year to all my friends, colleagues and followers on the other side of the Atlantic (we still have a few hours to go). I know it's been a trying year for many of you. I wish you a 2026 of growth, peace, strength, health and love. Let's all work to make the world a little better in 2026.

'Blood Meridian' by Cormac McCarthy. Finally read it this year and it's one of the best novels I ever read and by far the one that stuck by me the most in 2025. It's very hard to read, but even harder to put away.

No joke: I was way too old before I realized that Boxing Day wasn't actually about families organizing amateur boxing matches all over the Anglo-Saxon world.

Battleships have not been an effective use of military spending since the end of World War II. They are relics of the early 20th century and serve no purpose in this day and age beyond window dressing of regimes desperate to look imposing. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

'Driving home for Christmas' is probably my favorite Christmas song. It's an unassuming, pleasant song written by an unassuming, pleasant artist who described himself as 'just a guy from Middelsbrough with a guitar'. Thank you for the music, Chris Rea, we'll miss you. www.trouw.nl/cultuur-medi...

Had you told me in 2003, when I was organizing protests against the U.S. invasion in Iraq, that I would ever quote George W. Bush, I would have called you crazy. But after watching Trump's speech tonight I can only use those now infamous words uttered once by Bush jr.: "That was some weird s**t."

Absolutely! Inequality is both the engine and the lubricant of authoritarianism in the U.S. It’s not just a social problem; it’s a structural one. I wish everyone could take just that. Structure/systemic. Get out of individual perspectives.

All I can say is that I hope people will realize and unanimously agree that this is not the way forward for us. edition.cnn.com/2025/12/15/p...

Everything wrong with AI in a single paragraph. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/core...

The cool thing about building my own personal database is that no one can stop me from making it look like a terminal in a Fallout vault. #Obsidian

I'm probably late to the party, but I think Obsidian may be the absolute best personal data, note-taking and markdown software there is. And it's almost entirely free and on-device. I'm using it to create a personal database for attacks against the press in Mexico. It's brilliant.

Calibri was designed by one of my countrymen. S**t just got real.

Mi perrito me quiere gobernar Y yo le sigo, le sigo la corriente Porque no quiero que diga la gente Que mi perrito me quiere gobernar

Het gevaar loert overal door het drugsgeweld in Sinaloa: ‘Al minstens zestig kinderen omgekomen’ - mijn reportage in @trouw.nl www.trouw.nl/buitenland/h...

Dear app developers: please never forget to program a landscape mode for your app and for the love of Huitzilopochtli make sure it's compatible with both smartphone and tablet. It's infuriating to not be able to use an app on your tablet because it defaults to vertical smartphone mode.

How the turf war between factions of the Sinaloa Cartel caused extensive wildfires in Sinaloa, Durango and Chihuahua - a fantastic report by investigative journalist Miriam Ramírez (in Spanish) for @eluniversalmx.bsky.social www.eluniversal.com.mx/grafico/peri...

An exhaustive review of recent US court cases and blockchain data reveals an industrial-scale crypto laundering pipeline moving dirty cash through digital networks to Chinese chemical suppliers sustaining Mexico’s synthetic drug trade. - vía @insightcrime.org insightcrime.org/news/us-cour...

Tired: the Dutch complaining about the Winter weather. Wired: Sending pictures of Mexico City's five-month Winter of pure sun, cloudless blue skies and 23 °C (73 °F) to all my friends and family in the Netherlands every day and watch their hatred towards me grow exponentially as time passes.

Read the room, senator. aristeguinoticias.com/2611/mexico/...