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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.

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Ann Boo-uise Deslandes 👻 @anndlandes.bsky.social · 3h

Tuesday morning brings us Dan Savage and for that I am grateful

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Why Kenya’s swap of dollar loans for Chinese yuan offers more than debt relief

Move expected to cut Kenya’s annual debt-servicing costs by US$215 million also fits into China’s broader goal of yuan internationalisation.

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Ann Boo-uise Deslandes 👻 @anndlandes.bsky.social · 18h

"our messages circulate through infrastructures designed for profit, not for emancipation."

Ann Boo-uise Deslandes 👻 @anndlandes.bsky.social · 18h

We speak of a “cultural battle” played out on a field already bought, regulated, and surveilled by the very interests that sustain the economic order." judith-mll.medium.com/against-the-...

Against the obsession with narratives: A materialist critique

In recent years, political and cultural debate has increasingly turned into a battle of stories. Everything seems to revolve around…

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Ann Boo-uise Deslandes 👻 @anndlandes.bsky.social · 18h

"The politics of narrative is a politics without means of production. It never asks who owns the media platforms, who controls the flows of information, who funds the algorithms, who dictates the rhythms and frames of visibility.

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Ann Boo-uise Deslandes 👻 @anndlandes.bsky.social · 22h

Maybe not quite so directly & on a hot mic, no

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23h

America is imperfect, but foreign leaders did not use to assume that the President's family was a key means of leveraging their shared interest in corruption.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."

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Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby

Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Ah fuck we’re going back for another round aren’t we

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1d

TRUMP: IRAQ HAS SO MUCH OIL THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH IT

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 2d

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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EFE Noticias @efe.com · 2d

El Gobierno de México contabiliza más de 40 personas fallecidas y 27 desaparecidas, tras las fuertes lluvias de las últimas horas.

México registra más de 40 muertos y una veintena de desaparecidos por las fuertes lluvias - EFE

El Gobierno de México contabilizó más de 40 personas fallecidas y 27 desaparecidas, tras las fuertes lluvias de las últimas horas

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Ann Boo-uise Deslandes 👻 @anndlandes.bsky.social · 2d

(no sé pero esa canción me hace llorar un poco 😆🫠)

Ann Boo-uise Deslandes 👻 @anndlandes.bsky.social · 2d

pues Julión Álvarez promete mucho

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Ann Boo-uise Deslandes 👻 @anndlandes.bsky.social · 3d

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El Senado mexicano autoriza el ingreso a territorio de Fuerzas Especiales del Ejército de EEUU

El Senado mexicano aprobó un dictamen para autorizar el ingreso al territorio nacional de una delegación del Destacamento Operacional Alpha (ODA) 715 del Séptimo Grupo de Fuerzas Especiales ...

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Ann Boo-uise Deslandes 👻 @anndlandes.bsky.social · 3d

Swifties, I have bad news, you didn't invent exegesis also what do you think of Dilexi Te

Ann Boo-uise Deslandes 👻 @anndlandes.bsky.social · 3d

Left Catholics analysing the exhortation like Swifties claiming they've found the meaning

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Ann Boo-uise Deslandes 👻 @anndlandes.bsky.social · 3d

oh www.instagram.com/p/DPpHvODDhjy/

lajornadaonline on Instagram: "La opositora venezolana María Corina Machado fue premiada con el Premio Nobel de la Paz 2025, reconocimiento que, según dijo, repre…"

La opositora venezolana María Corina Machado fue premiada con el Premio Nobel de la Paz 2025, reconocimiento que, según dijo, representa un “impulso” para continuar la lucha por la libertad en su país. A su vez, dedicó este al presidente de EU, Donald Trump.En un mensaje en su cuenta de X, Machado declaró "¡Dedico este premio al sufrido pueblo de Venezuela y al presidente Trump por su decidido apoyo a nuestra causa!".Más información en: jornada.com.mx

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Ann Boo-uise Deslandes 👻 @anndlandes.bsky.social · 3d

geez who was lobbying for this? absurd decision apnews.com/article/nobe...

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel committee praised her as a key unifying figure in the opposition, advocating for free elections and...

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 4d

Trump's fascist thugs keep assaulting Chicago's journalists, hoping to cover up the regime's violence and cruelty.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

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