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edpazsoldan.bsky.social @edpazsoldan.bsky.social · May 28

Participo en el festival Benengeli con un cuento inédito, "Aire", parte de mi nuevo libro, El comienzo del paraíso, a ser publicado antes de fin de año. El cuento está en cuatro idiomas: español, inglés, francés y portugués. Aquí va la versión en español.

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Benengeli 2025. Aire

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · May 8

Early exit polls suggest the new pope did particularly well with male voters aged 45-79.

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The Onion @theonion.com · Apr 28

ICE Agents Wait At Edge Of Delivery Table To Deport Newborn

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Apr 26

Casual reminder that the country fucking hates this shit.

A series of presidential approval polls from the last two weeks, all but one in negative double digit approval, including one at -20.

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Alberto Chimal @albertochimal.com · Apr 22

A creep (entrepreneur, previously charged with fraud, the usual) created a "female" chatbot to be his employee. Next thing he does? He starts talking inappropriately to "her". These are the people who truly believe they deserve to rule the world. 🤦🏽‍♂️

Michael Leibel @michaelleibel.com · Apr 21

Is Henry Blodget ok

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Roberto Castillo @robertocastillo.bsky.social · Apr 22

Me lo tuve que robar de la otra red

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Molinos @molinos.bsky.social · Apr 21

La verdad es que este giro de guión al final del obituario de Álvaro Vargas Llosa hacia su padre no me lo esperaba.

Le han hecho el ghosting supremo.

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D*o.t_s>k°y @dottsky.bsky.social · Apr 21

SORRY. Sorry.
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement

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Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · Apr 21

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The Onion @theonion.com · Apr 17

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society

NEW HAVEN, CT—Calling such concern for linguistic precision a clear indicator of a thriving country, a panel of historians from Yale University issued a statement Thursday announcing that quibbling ov...

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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · Apr 14

BREAKING: On Friday, the federal government issued new demands of Harvard University. The university's lawyers just responded: back off.

April 14, 2025
VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL
Josh Gruenbaum
Commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service
General Services Administration
Sean R. Keveney
Acting General Counsel
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Thomas E. Wheeler
Acting General Counsel
U.S. Department of Education
Dear Messrs. Gruenbaum, Keveney, and Wheeler:
We represent Harvard University. We are writing in response to your letter dated April 11,
2025, addressed to Dr. Alan Garber, Harvard’s President, and Penny Pritzker, Senior Fellow of the
Harvard Corporation.
Harvard is committed to fighting antisemitism and other forms of bigotry in its community.
Antisemitism and discrimination of any kind not only are abhorrent and antithetical to Harvard’s
values but also threaten its academic mission.
To that end, Harvard has made, and will continue to make, lasting and robust structural,
policy, and programmatic changes to ensure that the university is a welcoming and supportive
learning environment for all students and continues to abide in all respects with federal law across
its academic programs and operations, while fostering open inquiry in a pluralistic community free
from intimidation and open to challenging orthodoxies, whatever their source.
Over the past 15 months, Harvard has undertaken substantial policy and programmatic
measures. It has made changes to its campus use policies; adopted new accountability procedures;
imposed meaningful discipline for those who violate university policies; enhanced programs
designed to address bias and promote ideological diversity and civil discourse; hired staff to
support these programs and support students; changed partnerships; dedicated resources to combat
hate and bias; and enhanced safety and security measures. As a result, Harvard is in a very different
place today from where it was a year ago. These efforts, and additional measures the university
will be taking against antisemitism, not only are the right thing to do but also are critical to
strength…

recognized by the Supreme Court. The government’s terms also circumvent Harvard’s statutory
rights by requiring unsupported and disruptive remedies for alleged harms that the government has
not proven through mandatory processes established by Congress and required by law. No less
objectionable is the condition, first made explicit in the letter of March 31, 2025, that Harvard
accede to these terms or risk the loss of billions of dollars in federal funding critical to vital research
and innovation that has saved and improved lives and allowed Harvard to play a central role in
making our country’s scientific, medical, and other research communities the standard-bearers for
the world. These demands extend not only to Harvard but to separately incorporated and
independently operated medical and research hospitals engaging in life-saving work on behalf of
their patients. The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional
rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the
federal government. Accordingly, Harvard will not accept the government’s terms as an agreement
in principle.
Harvard remains open to dialogue about what the university has done, and is planning to
do, to improve the experience of every member of its community. But Harvard is not prepared to
agree to demands that go beyond the lawful authority of this or any administration.
William A. Burck Robert K. Hur
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP 1300 I Street NW Suite 900 Suite 900
Washington, DC 20005 King & Spalding LLP
1700 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20006

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edpazsoldan.bsky.social @edpazsoldan.bsky.social · Apr 14

Era tan bueno que incluso escribió La guerra de las galaxias, "un libro complicado de leer".

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Periodista comete error y afirma que Mario Vargas Llosa escribió ‘La guerra de las galaxias’: “Un libro complicado de leer”

‘La guerra de las galaxias’ fue un libro bastante complicado para leer', señaló el periodista peruano y generó que el video se volviera viral en redes sociales

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Apr 14

The administration that called Canada “the 51st state” and said “we’re going to get” Greenland is suddenly cowed by sovereignty.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Apr 14

Bondi on Garcia: "That's up for El Salvador if they want to return him. That's not up to us."

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EL PAÍS @elpais.com · Apr 14

🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | El novelista peruano Mario Vargas Llosa, de 89 años, ha fallecido este domingo en Lima. El premio Nobel de literatura pasará a la historia como un extraordinario narrador y un influyente intelectual elpais.com/cultura/2025-04...

Muere Mario Vargas Llosa, gigante de las letras universales

El escritor hispano peruano, premio Nobel de Literatura en 2010, fue autor de obras maestras como ‘Conversación en la catedral’

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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · Apr 12

"De acuerdo con información de distintas fiscalías estatales, recopilada por El Sol de #México, en la última década al menos cinco mil 112 restos humanos y 62 osamentas han sido encontrados en afluentes...del país", escribe Roxana González para @elsoldemexico.oem.com.mx

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Facsimil de la portada de El Sol de Mexico, 12 de abril de 2025.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · Apr 12

A helpful guide to the current state of US trade policy:

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edpazsoldan.bsky.social @edpazsoldan.bsky.social · Apr 11

La necropolítica, versión 2025.

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Social Security classifies thousands of immigrants as dead, as part of Trump crackdown

The tactic is aimed at putting pressure on undocumented immigrants to leave the country.

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edpazsoldan.bsky.social @edpazsoldan.bsky.social · Apr 10

yo tengo la primera y es excelente

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edpazsoldan.bsky.social @edpazsoldan.bsky.social · Apr 8

Ya nos tocaba...

Trump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

Trump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern

The funding pause amid civil rights investigations into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.

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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · Apr 7

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

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CNN @cnn.com · Apr 8

A species of wolf that died out some 12,500 years ago lives again as the “world’s first successfully de-extincted animal,” according to Dallas-based biotech company Colossal Biosciences. cnn.it/3EcYuru

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · Apr 7

The money is going to what now

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edpazsoldan.bsky.social @edpazsoldan.bsky.social · Apr 7

Martín Caparrós, muy pronto de visita en Cornell.

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · Apr 6

I get that people are scared of losing their jobs and livelihoods but what an obscene betrayal of the people who rely on these sites to learn history and of the truth

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Amid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground Railroad

Since Trump took office, the park service, an agency charged with preserving American history, has changed how its website describes key moments from slavery to Jim Crow

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