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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 10h

If you are teaching a class, unit, or workshop about immigration, I have a tremendous amount of multimedia resources, explanatory posts, digestible data, graphics, photographs and more over at austinkocher.substack.com. You might find something useful!

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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 2d

“Any university leader who signs on to this compact would betray everything good and solid about the university and would do deep and permanent harm to the United States and the world,” writes @sivav.bsky.social in this brilliantly belittling essay. newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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Paulina Ochoa Espejo @pochoaespejo.bsky.social · 3d

So many things feel like they are straight out of the 70s. I have a strange reaction to “new” takes, because they are so similar to passé stuff from my teenage years…the kind of things that older guys (sad creatures in their 40s with gray streaked pony tails) couldn’t let go of…

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Paulina Ochoa Espejo @pochoaespejo.bsky.social · 3d

I couldn’t agree more. I read the Muqaddimah recently. I think I hadn’t learned as much since I first read Weber (when I was 20).

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Vince D. Monroy @vincedmonroy.bsky.social · 4d

Bad Bunny during his SNL monologue: “Our footprint, our contribution in this country — no one will ever be able to remove it, or erase it.”

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 5d

TIL about the Explore Fall foliage tracker. It has maps with foliage color reports and peak timing forecasts. Cool stuff. 🍁 🍂 🍃

Fall Foliage Map 2025: Daily Updates and Forecasts!

Get real-time fall foliage updates and find the best fall color with our interactive map. Plan your fall trip today!

www.explorefall.com

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Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social · 5d

The flow of the Colorado River has shrunk about 20%, and its depleted reservoirs continue to decline. But talks aimed at addressing the shortage are at an impasse, and environmental groups say the lack of information about the closed-door negotiations is a problem. www.latimes.com/environment/...

Millions rely on dwindling Colorado River — but are kept ‘in the dark’ about fixes, critics say

Negotiations aimed at solving the Colorado River's water shortage are at an impasse. Environmentalists are criticizing a lack of public information about the closed-door talks.

www.latimes.com

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Paulina Ochoa Espejo @pochoaespejo.bsky.social · 9d

Total St. Crispins day stuff, right?

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Paulina Ochoa Espejo @pochoaespejo.bsky.social · 9d

Yes! You can access JSTOR and get all the papers you need!

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10d

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 10d

regrettably if you try to point this out online you'll get yelled out by 79208 journalists going OH SO YOU WANT JOURNALISTS TO STARVE??? even if you're, say, a journalist yourself, and point out that while there are clearly no easy answers, the status quo isn't exactly working for society

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Paulina Ochoa Espejo @pochoaespejo.bsky.social · 10d

Si. También somos un misterio para nosotros mismos.

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 11d

Mexican Repatriation was deployed during the Great Depression.

Local thugs helped the federal government deport Mexican Americans—40-60% of whom were US citizens.

We have a long history of making Mexicans the scapegoat at times of economic uncertainty. 🫤

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican...

✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 11d

Los Angeles, 1937

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Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · 12d

"We’ve looked at the Ganges and the Caspian Sea, but this could have been about Lake Victoria, or about drying rivers in Europe, or the disappearance of Bolivia’s second largest lake.

It’s not just water that disappears: it’s entire ecosystems and ways of life." theconversation.com/vanishing-wa...

Vanishing waters in a warming world

Bad news for the rivers and the lakes that we’re used to.

theconversation.com

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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 14d

Bloomberg did some great video journalism about the oil wastewater crisis in Texas.

If nothing else, you need to learn about Hawk Dunlap. If you were scripting a movie about the oil industry, you couldn't come up with a better character.

The Looming Disaster Under America’s Biggest Oil Field

YouTube video by Bloomberg Originals

www.youtube.com

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Paulina Ochoa Espejo @pochoaespejo.bsky.social · 14d

A mi lo que me interesa es la nota chiquita, arriba, a la izquierda.
¿Qué orden va a poner la ley de aguas? ¿A quién va a beneficiar? ¿Cómo?

El Economista @eleconomista.com.mx · 14d

📰 En Portada | Fernando Chico Pardo compra 25% de Banamex; pagará 42,000 millones de pesos bit.ly/4mAwUES

📰 Si deseas recibir la edición completa de El Economista, en formato físico o digital, haz clic aquí: bit.ly/3PvDQW0 👈🏻

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Paulina Ochoa Espejo @pochoaespejo.bsky.social · 16d

¿Por qué nadie ha hecho una película buenísima de “Concierto Barroco”?
Me muero de ganas de verla

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Paulina Ochoa Espejo @pochoaespejo.bsky.social · 16d

Lynchburg, VA

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Paulina Ochoa Espejo @pochoaespejo.bsky.social · 16d

I remember that I used to laugh when I heard him spew nonsense. It was funny because I thought that all those around me noticed the stupidity and were laughing with me…
(It’s not funny anymore.)

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Paulina Ochoa Espejo @pochoaespejo.bsky.social · 17d

I have not heard the podcast yet, but I will. I’m interested in the topic. The International Relations studies on the topic of water that I have read tend to predict conflict but find cooperation on the ground…

Ashok Swain @ashoswai.bsky.social · 17d

Borders, bombs and cricket aren’t the only flashpoints between India & Pakistan—water is. With the Indus Water Treaty suspended for the first time in 65 yrs, rivers are becoming weapons. I discuss the risks with The International Risk Podcast. open.spotify.com/episode/4ckr...

Episode 268: Implications of the Suspension of the Indus Water Treaty

open.spotify.com

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Paulina Ochoa Espejo @pochoaespejo.bsky.social · 20d

Disney just sent a bunch of marketing emails. Maybe they’re worried that I’ll finish Andor today…

Paulina Ochoa Espejo @pochoaespejo.bsky.social · 21d

OK. But I have to finish watching Andor before I cancel my suscription…

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 21d

Last year’s record heat led to prolonged droughts and extreme floods across the globe.

Climate change wreaking havoc on world’s water cycle: UN

Last year’s record heat led to prolonged droughts and extreme floods across the globe.

bit.ly

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Benjamin Boudou @bboudou.bsky.social · 28d

Happy publication day @aureliabardon.bsky.social!
➡️ www.larcier-intersentia.com/fr/theorie-p...

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Paulina Ochoa Espejo @pochoaespejo.bsky.social · 28d

Mejor aún— todavía no me entero de si está cancelade o qué cosa inaceptable ha hecho

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Paulina Ochoa Espejo @pochoaespejo.bsky.social · 28d

No todo está horrible. Acabo de descubrir que existe Rita Indiana y los Misterios.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 29d

A top 50 US university yesterday fired an instructor, a department chair, and a dean because a course made some reference to transgender people without the brief official course description in the catalog saying “trigger warning: gender.”

In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.

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