I still find it fascinating to see how an account becomes successful. These days I’ve seen incredible insights with one like and two reposts, and all sort of banalities with thousands of likes. (Just as in the other place, successful accounts don’t seem better, they’re just relentless, right?)

A study concluded that the uninhibited pumping of groundwater by farmers, cities and corporations around the world now accounts for 68% of the total loss of fresh water at the latitudes where most people live. (Published July 2025)

Very happy to be joining Loubna El Amine as the new political theory co-editors at Perspectives on Politics. Perspectives has been a vital forum for broad-minded political theory, and we're looking forward to continuing that tradition. Send us work that you're excited about!

Read this! Thea Riofrancos as informative and sharp as usual.

Siempre, siempre, siempre la historia de nuestra vida…

Sufro, sufro

Ay! Otros 45 minutos de sufrimiento

Pero qué barbaridad

🪧 Previo al partido México vs Inglaterra en el Estadio CDMX, familiares y colectivos de búsqueda se manifestaron en el Paseo de la Reforma. Los manifestantes adelantaron que no acudirán al estadio debido a recientes agresiones en contra de los buscadores.

A pesar de que a menudo me agarra el nacionalismo futbolero, que no se nos olvide que… “ there are quite enough real causes of trouble already, and we need not add to them by encouraging young men to kick each other on the shins amid the roars of infuriated spectators.”

With well wishes from Mexico City

In this map my Mexican hometown is in Cardiff! 🩷 (If you know you know)

I almost forgot my own rule of never re-posting anything from there…

La mejor canción para lidiar con esta tristeza caboverdina.

This is great. But remember that the legal defense should not be the primary one because the law always has loopholes and they will try another way. Public awareness, local action, and big electoral wins.

Si, exacto. La exuberancia nacionalista (hasta la futbolera, que es la única que a veces me parece simpática) tiene la tendencia a terminar mal…

A ver cómo le explican ¿y si si?

... and so Anglos put some avocado on a piece of bread, call it "avo toast" and sell it for $23 as "brunch special" in Manhattan

Estudio de nopal https://www.wikiart.org/en/jose-maria-velasco/estudio-de-nopal

…zapatea el jarabe tapatío…

Ay!!! Qué bonito están jugando

Pausa de hidratación… ay no m

I’m liking this game!

Seen online: “God is everywhere, but he has office hours in Asunción”

From @dylanbaddour.bsky.social at @insideclimatenews.org: A decade ago, Corpus Christi’s regional water plan projected shortages by 2050. The next plan, released 5 years later, shortened that timeline to 2030. The next plan, released this year, said shortages were imminent.

I am so relieved that my passport is valid for another 9 years

‘People shouldn’t expect there will be water in their taps every day’: why is St Lucia running out of water?

Hoy fue un buen día para los Ochoas…

By early 2025, Permian Basin oil wells used 22M barrels of water a day, a figure that one analytics firm expects to climb another 39% by 2035. That is far more water than cities nearby use, surfacing every day in one of the driest corners of the state.

Or as he might have put it: "Certain indicators lead us to believe that future breathing may or may not continue, as conditions dictate."

One more and they can tie with the Peruvians…

¡Ay! Ahora Colombia…

Free link to David Lay Williams’s op-ed

Les deseo que en la vida tengan momentos de suerte como la de este portero…

If they asked me, I’d say this is the question that divides my Bluesky: “Would you have backed a government that was as aggressive as the GOP in 2025–one that did just as much gutting of institutions as they did then—if you shared their vision for society?”

This one is an interesting profile, especially if you don’t know much about Mexican politics. I’m disappointed that they didn’t mention the judicial reform and the destruction of other independent democratic institutions.

“Ingrate” is a word hardly ever heard in English, except in the context of immigration…

Desde cuando hay “hydration breaks”?

Pégale estas calcas a los ajolotes de la cdmx o a los posts deformes del feis

Hey #PortfolioDay I'm Jorge, graphic designer and illustrator from Mexico. I wish to share this anti-GenAI labels with you. They're free! ko-fi.com/roninyorch

“Who shall be the judge?” Como diría Locke…

Thomas Mann said that "a writer is someone for whom writing is harder than it is for other people." This is a reason writers hate generative AI: people who thought writing was easy never cared what the words said, and the LLM is a typewriter for when you don't give a shit.

I've said this before. Attacking civilian #water systems is a war crime under 1977 Geneva Convention Protocols & prohibited by the Berlin Rules & other international law. I discuss this in my new book: When the Well is Dry: How Water Fuels Violence and Shapes Peace. thenewpress.org/books/when-t...

Is it my imagination, or there was a trend on twitter where people would report how they got injured? I was telling a friend that I thought people did it to get a bunch of sympathy tweets that would skew the algorithm and make accounts bigger. He thinks I’m crazy. Am I making this up?

Is it my imagination, or there was a trend on twitter where people would report how they got injured? I was telling a friend that I thought people did it to get a bunch of sympathy tweets that would skew the algorithm and make accounts bigger. He thinks I’m crazy. Am I making this up?

Conteo rápido al 100%, gana Sánchez (50.3%). El Jurado Nacional de Elecciones dice que los resultados oficiales finales saldrán en julio. larepublica.pe/politica/202...

I won't publicly update my paper again until later this summer, but here's an improved section on Wales. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 What do the Welsh tell us about the history of birthright citizenship? Interestingly, quite a bit! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 "Discovering the Historical Anglo-American Constitution:" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

How can we bolster the moral value and political function of democratic citizenship in times of polycrisis? Can we make it more robust and more inclusive, or are these irreconcilable goals? Our new Ethics & Global Politics special issue tries to find answers. www.tandfonline.com/toc/zegp20/1...