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Paulina Ochoa Espejo
@pochoaespejo.bsky.social
Political Theorist. University of Virginia.

Mexicana de acá de este lado, como dice el corrido.

All opinions here are only mine
Annato (achiote) is the main spice in Yucatec cuisine (South east Mexican). The key ingredient in “pibil”

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December 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Mientras que el eslogan “not one more” parece haber viajado en dirección opuesta. Creo que el original es “ni una más”.
Trump Admin Got Rid of Report on Indigenous Deaths & Disappearances
The report was pulled in February under Trump’s anti-DEI orders—and despite senators’ demands, it still hasn’t been restored.
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December 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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In response, @pochoaespejo.bsky.social doubts that appeals to fundamental values can build solidarity and defeat resurgent xenophobia.

Instead, she argues, institutions in local communities “are our best hope for motivating workers to join with others, locally and abroad”:
Appealing to philosophical values won’t build solidarity, but local communities might. - Boston Review
Paulina Ochoa Espejo responds to Lea Ypi’s “The Real Border Crisis.”
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December 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
And if you read this or some of the other essays, why don’t you subscribe? It’s so much nicer to read it in print!

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December 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I blame the teaching of Adam Smith’s description of a pin factory in The Wealth of Nations. If students don’t read the book, but only get told about it, they think that he was writing about innovation, rather than about productivity…so pins and nails must have been new in the 18th C.
November 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Even areas getting wetter may experience water shortage as the intense, sudden rainfall that climate change drives leads to flash floods + runoff which don't replenish groundwater.

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Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
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November 29, 2025 at 7:18 AM
¿Con mucho callo y libro?
November 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM