Here's a sad thought: Mexican local media were the ones providing the public with crucial information on Mencho's death and the resulting violence, while artificial intelligence generated uncertainty and panic via false images and information. But the money is going to AI, not local journalism.

Information minimale, mais fiable, sur la situation au Mexique. Les habitants de ces zones de guerre sont littéralement livrés à eux-mêmes, comme ils en ont malheureusement l'habitude. Peu d'informations officielles et dès demain, les autorités minimiseront et diront que 'tout est sous contrôle".

Real-time map of blockades and disturbances across Mexico following the killing of CJNG capo know as El Mencho ui.aliado.alephri.com

🔴 La historia del Mencho sigue los patrones del narcotráfico mexicano. Hijo de una familia pobre de campesinos en Michoacán, comienza su ascenso desde abajo, como un simple sicario a sueldo de una de las facciones del Cartel de Sinaloa dozz.es/wr1si49

Más o menos. Los matraqueros afines al gobierno están alabando a Harfuch y Sheinbaum, sin decir nada del desmadre. Los opositores de derecha solo hablan del desmadre. Las oposiciones de izquierda sí están hablando de la influencia de Estados Unidos. Pero son las voces menos escuchadas.

Breaking news: Mexico’s most powerful drug kingpin, the head of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, was killed by the Mexican military on Sunday, Mexican officials said.

No estoy en tuíter, pero me imagino que el debate gira alrededor de la influencia de Estados Unidos en el asunto. De lo que ya nunca hablamos es de que a pesar de la militarización, en México no gobierna el gobierno.

📍El Ejército confirma que El Mencho murió luego de un enfrentamiento con fuerzas federales. Informa que en el operativo se utilizaron varias aeronaves y que se contó con colabopración e inteligencia de Estados Unidos.

Among the counter-organized crime policy options the US promotes in Latin America, "taking out top bad guys" gets big resources. Breaking corrupt links to government, governing with accountability, and pursuing alternatives to prohibition (which inflates drug profits) do not. So expect violence.

The head of the hydra effect. There will be a lot of violence— particularly in the West.

Mexican drug lord "El Mencho" killed in military operation-government source reut.rs/4tMpVgI

Es que si usted no ha bailado Idilio muy pegadito y en perfecta sincronía, usted no ha amado. youtu.be/Vx7l9RLMNG4?...

Can you see those three, wailing on the frozen Cocytus, for eternity?

This is, of course, not only true of Brazil…

Rivers aren’t just warming: they’re being reshaped by extreme events Our new paper in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com shows how floods, droughts & heatwaves are pushing ecosystems past their limits, with recovery no longer guaranteed We can build resilience, but it requires a shift in how we manage rivers

This is the eighth death in ICE custody in the last seven weeks.

I am a happy user of the quiet posters feed!

And this: psyche.co/ideas/why-we...

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

I already have a strong trickle of American students arriving in my classroom. Unheard of previously, except at McGill.

A teenager I know is saying she’d love to go to school in China… How long before the US is begging students and migrants to please, pretty please, come?

¿Hay por ahí nuevos starter packs de Bluesky mexicano? No voy a regresar a Twitter, pero extraño saber cómo van las cosas en mi pueblo y aquí no me entero de nada…

Vincent Lloyd reads abolition as committed to destruction, not reform. He explores how abolition demands an absolute end to domination, to beget new ways of life. From theological roots to decolonization, discover the radical power of the long 2010s. https://bit.ly/3NY3GE7

Interested in a #PhD around the issues of #borders, #migration, #state, and #sovereignty? I am recruiting a fully funded PhD student to be based in @lborogeog.bsky.social at the Midlands campus of @lborouniversity.bsky.social for my @leverhulme.ac.uk funded project #GeoEx. Details below

I guess it tells you everything about me that there are no mentions to the sport in my timeline (only a sprinkling of Benito)

Sandhills rivers: North Loup, Cedar, Dismal, Middle Loup (all from Google Earth).

🚨Our new paper led by Dr. @zialyle.bsky.social looked at how climate change poses risks to US drinking water utilities & if their bonds disclose these risks to investors. Utilities serving 67 million people have high risks, but 36% of their bonds don't mention climate: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

If my subscription could be re-cancelled, I’d cancel it for the third time.

Good morning! Happy “all people with last name Ochoa must behave exactly as I think they should behave and it is a huge surprise if they don’t” day!

Me pasé como dos minutos tratando de explicarme cómo llegó la esfinge a Jalisco…

Donald Trump's immigration policy is already affecting population growth in the United States. This is indicated by a recent census report, which notes a significant deceleration in population growth rates over the last year. youtu.be/uTPDLq3VwSo?...

When people say “that’s not who we are” is because they are hoping that we are like this more often…

Abolish ICE is not a fantasy. Open borders is not a fantasy. The real fantasy is a world with total control, no mobility and homogeneous populations. I wrote about this 5 years ago:

"People tend to be in solidarity not with an abstract idea of humanity but with the people who are close to them." Interesting thought piece. I often wonder if the universalist principles of humanitarianism are a constraint to garnering public support. For decades it was the opposite.

Local organization. As Bluesky readers know, the contrast to right wing populism in immigration is not cosmopolitanism, but an open-armed localism that takes all neighbors in (no matter their national or ethnic identity).

UN researchers warn of “water bankruptcy” as overuse and damaged systems leave rivers and aquifers unable to recover. While the report is global, the pattern is already familiar to many in the U.S. Kaveh Madani for @theconversation.com: theconversation.com/the-world-is...

I argue in this paper that the border (and immigration) is only a problem for liberal democrats. Unlike populists, liberals don’t know how to reconcile borders with their official commitment to universal inclusion— it is them who have to figure out how to navigate that (I offer some suggestions…)

This has been out for a day and it has only a handful of reposts, almost no comments, nor likes. I guess it is not news? I bet more people would be likely to react if the WaPo reminded them there are people responsible for this situation, and, yes!, you can act. We. CAN do something about it!

Climate change, pollution and decades of overuse have pushed the world into a state of “water bankruptcy,” leaving essential sources of fresh water irreparably damaged and billions of people without enough water to meet their basic needs, U.N. experts said.

Like financial markets, social norms and international politics depend on coordinated expectations. Some of these people understand that the US cannot be an economic powerhouse without the Fed, but, don’t they get that the US cannot be a Hegemon without the expectations of international law?

Like financial markets, social norms and international politics depend on coordinated expectations. Some of these people understand that the US cannot be an economic powerhouse without the Fed, but, don’t they get that the US cannot be a Hegemon without the expectations of international law?

“Para mis amigos, todo. Para mis enemigos, la ley” (“For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law.”) —Attributed to Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz, but also to many other dictators with similar preferences and proclivities…

I have an article forthcoming in the Annual Review of Political Science called, "Participatory Democracy & Its Limits." It focuses on limited citizen attention & how participation can backfire, w/ land use as an example. Abstract below; here's a preprint: kevinjelliott.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

We should use this as a poster for a territorial rights panel at APSA.

When I grow up, I want to be like AOC

I read a million words about relational egalitarianism so you don't have to! My review article, forthcoming in Annual Review of Political Science, is now available in "Review in Advance" form. (I.e., pre-proof corrections.) doi.org/10.1146/annu...

Radiografía muy certera del momento que estamos viviendo