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Ann Boo-uise Deslandes 👻

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Journo, writer, consultant in southern 🇲🇽 Feminist interdisciplinary PhD 💜 Clases de inglés✌️Expert witness Mexico asylum cases ✊ Latest clips: https://linktr.ee/ann_dlandes Header pic by Alejandro Meléndez Ortíz

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Ann Boo-uise Deslandes 👻 @anndlandes.bsky.social · Aug 12

My first report for ‪@al-jazeera-english.bsky.social ‬in a while- on the death of Jesús Alaín Vásquez, a student of the Mactumatzá Normal here in Chiapas & the demands of his classmates for justice. www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor...

How a student’s death in Mexico raises questions about police violence

A 22-year-old’s death has highlighted the tensions between police and student teachers with a tradition of protest.

www.aljazeera.com

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Ann Boo-uise Deslandes 👻 @anndlandes.bsky.social · 53m

THE PERSIAN BIRD 🤗

Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 55m

More on the Persian Bird…

Its wild range spanned Pakistan in the west, through the subcontinent SE into the Indochinese Peninsula

In ancient India, China, Egypt, Persia, Judea & Greece it was originally a fighting bird & became a symbol of ferocity

Only in the Hellenistic era was it bred for food

Ann Boo-uise Deslandes 👻 @anndlandes.bsky.social · 5h

I wiped some random kids noses on the bus today tho 👍👍

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Jell

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

this is such an enormous story

Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Trump is moving to kill all funding for proposed Texas and Louisiana mega-hubs to capture CO₂ from the atmosphere

The bipartisan-backed hubs represented a rare clean tech industry where the US was on the cutting edge

by @emilypont.bsky.social for @heatmap.news

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Trump to Cancel Direct Air Capture Hubs in Texas, Louisiana

A new list of grant cancellations obtained by Heatmap includes Climeworks and Heirloom projects funded by 2021 infrastructure law.

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Ann Boo-uise Deslandes 👻 @anndlandes.bsky.social · 8h

www.globaldispatches.org/p/sudans-eme...

Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms Should Win the Nobel Peace Prize This Year

A grassroots network is saving lives in the world’s largest humanitarian crisis

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 13h

“As a Palestinian from Gaza, I can't go back. But white people — I can't go to their country without a lot of paperwork, but they can go back to my country.”

@mehdirhasan.bsky.social speaks with Plestia Alaqad on what it was like leaving Gaza in the middle of the genocide.

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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 13h

Built in the early 1960s through the Amazon rainforest, BR-364 was the first overland route to Brazil’s westernmost region. Since then, the landscape along the road has been reshaped by human settlement, with large swaths of forest cleared for commodity production. (via @mongabay.com)

Just One More Lane In Brazil's First Private Amazon Highway

An increasingly important route for transporting commodities from Brazil’s central-west region, BR-364 in Rondônia will be partially twinned and upgraded with passing lanes. Image courtesy of Marcio…

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 13h

Sunrise Movement's new focus: fighting authoritarianism [via @theguardian.com]

Sunrise Movement's new focus: fighting authoritarianism

The youth-led climate group will organize against Trump’s power grab.

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Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition @freedomflotilla.bsky.social · 22h

Israeli Military Attacks #FreedomFlotilla in International Waters
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Israeli Military Attacks Flotilla in International Waters - Freedom Flotilla

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Hay Sha Wiÿa, FFC Press Officer WhatsApp: +1 210-834-8155 [email protected] [email protected] Media available for use with credit on the drive Update n...

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 23h

Jewish Currents has learned that the Conscience flotilla, with
Emily Wilder aboard reporting for us, has been intercepted and boarded by the Israeli military. Communications with Emily and the rest of the boat have been cut. We are awaiting further updates.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 23h

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 23h

goodnight moon

Photo of the back 3/4 of a 12 foot skeleton’s skull looking out at the moon.

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 1d

A database of “public” cats that anyone can pet in New York City.

meowmap.nyc

Dare to fail gloriously

meowmap.nyc

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Ann Boo-uise Deslandes 👻 @anndlandes.bsky.social · 23h

Great start

Crikey @crikey.com.au · 23h

Exclusive | OpenAI's first Australian government contract was handed over with no public tender.

OpenAI signs first ever Australian government contract

www.crikey.com.au

Ann Boo-uise Deslandes 👻 @anndlandes.bsky.social · 1d

Carta a la presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo de mujeres y disidencias de México y el mundo frayba.org.mx/carta-la-pre...

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Ann Boo-uise Deslandes 👻 @anndlandes.bsky.social · 1d

🌝🌝🌝

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Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 1d

Please don’t say he is not trained. Border Patrol agents do this on the border all the time. Agents at my station used to throw rocks into car windows that sometimes made them crash. They think it us funny. It’s not training in the academy, but in the field.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 1d

I think more people should be aware of how much cool stuff Link does in real life. He’s not just a poster.

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 2d

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack