Big big earthquake out NTT this morning with warning of tsunami. 7.7 in Flores! Gorgeous part of the country with a lot of islands, I hope no news to come
Ann Louise Deslandes
@anndlandes.bsky.social
Journo, writer, consultant in southern 🇲🇽 Feminist interdisciplinary PhD 💜 Clases de inglés✌️Expert witness Mexico asylum cases ✊ Latest clips: https://linktr.ee/ann_dlandes
"governments are struggling to catch up".... iirc drones started being used by organized crime in Latam in like the 2010s? is 'struggling to catch up' really the framing we want to use here foreignpolicy.com/2026/08/13/l...
Drone Warfare Comes to Latin America
Battle-tested tech from Ukraine has reached the region’s armed groups—and governments are struggling to catch up.
foreignpolicy.com
Post-concussion is being a bit more concussion and less post rn 😤
Trying to gauge when, exactly, between the lies about Haitian migrants, the extrajudicial boat killings, the Epstein Files strategy sessions, the Tate brothers importation, and the illegal overseas war, it was that God made his presence known to JD Vance through a glass on the wall
PEIPolitical 🇨🇦@peipolitical.bsky.social · last wk.Vance: I’ve had moments where I felt the presence of God. A friend and I were talking about Christianity and there was this moment where a glass fell off the wall. I think an atheist would dismiss that, but it felt like God was trying to send me a message. #cdnpoli
congratulations America www.latimes.com/world-nation...
Mexico sends troops to improve security as U.S. halts avocado imports over 'threat'
The United States said it halted avocado inspection work in Mexico's Michoacán state because of a “threat to U.S. interests."
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Ann Louise Deslandes@anndlandes.bsky.social · 5mo ago* taps sign *
TIL the 80 peso OTC party is over - Mexico has scheduled Tramadol www.gob.mx/cofepris/art...
COFEPRIS informa sobre las nuevas disposiciones para la dispensación del tramadol
Comunicado de prensa 15/2026
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The Militia Is Not a Parallel Power: It Is the State at Work rioonwatch.org?p=83750
Rio de Janeiro’s ‘Milícias’—Vigilante, Off-Duty Police Gangs—Are Not a Parallel Power: They Are the State at Work [BOOK REVIEW] – RioOnWatch
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More I think about it the more I don’t like devil wears Prada 2. It was fine. Too much wish fulfillment. The first was so good because of the tension and conflict
Now, plans to send Cubans to Uruguay www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/u...
As Trump Squeezes Cuba, He Plans to Send Cuban Deportees to Uruguay
The State Department under Secretary of State Marco Rubio has deported Cubans to Africa. Now it’s negotiating with a South American country.
nytimes.com
Ann Louise Deslandes@anndlandes.bsky.social · last mo.My story for @aljazeera.com on the Cubans deported to Mexico after living decades in the US. Many people deported from the US under Trump have been sent to the southern states of Chiapas and Tabasco, with these men dumped in Palenque (Chiapas)🧵👇 www.aljazeera.com/features/lon...
Thread of updates on an unusually busy day in ICE flights. This Omni ICE flight just landed in Laos. Passengers have been shackled for 25+ hours. There is likely at least one more stop. 1/
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 3w agoOvernight this Omni ICE removal trip refueled in Anchorage and is now likely headed to its second refueling stop in Guam. It’ll be another 10 hours at least before it makes its first removal stop. The people onboard have been shackled for at least 14 hours so far.
important for the cop to dress like he's about to patrol in Baghdad circa 2005 for this photo.
ABC News Bot (unofficial)@abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 3w agoPolice and young people work side-by-side on a large mural to build hope and connection in a town striving to reduce crime through a $13 million community alliance.
Thiel's South America era is so stressful
Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social · 3w ago“Chile: … Peter Thiel met w/ economist José Piñera, the architect of the country's private pension system. In Santiago, they discussed "the Chilean miracle & world trends," Piñera tweeted.” via @benjalvarez1.bsky.social, 4/27/26 … (Chile recently joined the Thiel-ally-led “Pax Silica” scheme.) 1/
My latest for International Bar Association's Global Insight on the legal cases being brought against the US for attacks on alleged drug smuggling boats. www.ibanet.org/US-presidenc...
US presidency: legal cases brought as attacks on alleged drug smuggling boats continue
The US continues to launch strikes against alleged drug smuggling boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific, carrying out a number of attacks in May and another in June. Human rights organisation...
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“No dejemos que seamos los siguientes” julioastillero.com/video-no-dej...
[#VIDEO] "No dejemos que seamos los siguientes": hijo del periodista Alejandro Leyva exige justicia durante homenaje de la APO (nota de El Piñero)
Durante el homenaje convocó al gremio periodístico y a la ciudadanía a no guardar silencio y a exigir el esclarecimiento del crimen. La ceremonia se realizó en las instalaciones de la Asociación de Pe...
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Delighted about this song not least because I have needed new English class material since Neil the Seal went back out to sea www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vJZ...
🦜 Eastern Rosellas 🎵 Song by Miles Phillips (and Dad)
YouTube video by Joel Phillips
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I for one will be celebrating Anti-Fascist Pasta Day on July 25 www.codacreative.com/Pastasciutta...
codacreative.com
Parnia Abbasi was a 23-year-old Iranian poet who, along with her whole family, was killed this past June by Israel. I just translated an excerpt of her poem The Dying Star for my book. I have no idea if I'll get to use it in the book, but translating it made me cry, so I'd like to share it with you:
![“In your world,
the freedom of light.
In my world,
the game of shadows
[...]
Somewhere,
you begin.
You call out
the whisper of life.
In a thousand places,
I end.
I burn.
I become a dying star
Silent in your sky
like smoke.”
The Dying Star
by Parnia Abbasi
Translated by Sophia Babai](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:acxaxpjo6md5st5ufvraqcob/bafkreifxhznrosnqw3qgc2mtsz7vs4b3yc4im546u55kdd4zxt25br6eje)
RIP Jennifer Finch. L7 were one of the first heavy bands I got into as a teenager- I bought HUNGRY FOR STINK out of the discount bin on cover alone. Here's their network television debut, from the Letterman longbox period:
L7 - Pretend We're Dead (Letterman 1992)
YouTube video by 90`s Live Archive
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Please read this & share w people not on Bluesky. Aussies must understand the scale of the Islamophobia crisis in 🇬🇧. We must work out how to tackle the Gina machine’s intention to hook us into the Islamophobia Network [I have no idea if GR or PH know] #Auspol lucyham29.substack.com/p/emergency-...
Emergency: Pauline Hanson's interview with "Tommy Robinson" is deadly dangerous
Australians must watch the news coming out of the UK where terror threats and violent attacks on Muslims are becoming a daily news feature. We must not let the Gina Machine take us there.
lucyham29.substack.com
There's so much destruction right now. Of course you can't fix everything yourself. But you can focus on one thing, find some like-minded people, and make a real difference.
Nancy Levine Stearns@nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 4w agoOn Tuesday, a New Jersey town pulled $91M out of Citizens Bank over its business with ICE prison contractors GEO Group and CoreCivic. Yesterday, Citizens announced it was ending its relationships with GEO and CoreCivic. Money managers should DIVEST from $GEO $CXW www.nj.com/essex/2026/0...
Girlboss fascism is still fascism you guys
Stephen Semler@stephensemler.bsky.social · last mo.Haley Stevens "seemed generally impressed with [ICE] during the visit and their treatment of detainees. 'Of note, there is female leadership here, and there are women who walked with us today and explained...how important it is to treat people with humanity,' Stevens said."