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Omar García-Ponce

@garciaponce.bsky.social

• PoliSci & Int’l Affairs Prof at GWU • Researching politics, crime, & violence • NYU & Colmex alumnus • Mexicano 🇲🇽 • Website: https://www.omargarciaponce.com/

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Omar García-Ponce@garciaponce.bsky.social · 2w ago

This may have been one of the most statistically one-sided World Cup finals in history, particularly in terms of shot production: Spain outshot Argentina 22–3, while Argentina failed to register a single shot on target over 120 minutes.

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Thomas Zeitzoff@zeitzoff.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The underlying paper here on the (potential) drawbacks of remote work is interesting. But the claimed effect size is massive: “Remote work explains a third of the deterioration in mental health over the last 15 years.” And it warrants skepticism.

Jay Van Bavel, PhD@jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Remote work has serious social downsides -84% of remote workers spend their entire workday alone -Over half feel less connected to their colleagues People working from home receive less feedback from co-workers and contact fewer people outside their teams. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/o...

Michael Clemens@mclem.org · 2mo ago

US tariffs are taxes on Americans. They are not "external revenue", they are not taxes "on other countries". They are taxes on every American who buys anything with any ingredient made overseas—that is, all of us. Every dollar of wine tariffs is paid by US consumers—> www.nber.org/202603/diges...

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Thomas Zimmer@thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I wrote about how young and fragile multiracial democracy actually is, about why Reconstruction is such a crucial historical reference point especially now - and what lessons and implications its rise and fall offer as we are now facing the second “Redemption.”

Multiracial Democracy is Young and Fragile

A history of the struggle to reconstitute a nation built on racial hierarchy around the principle of equality – Part I: Lessons from the rise and fall of Reconstruction

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Thomas Zeitzoff@zeitzoff.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Ahead of Earth Day 2026, I take stock of the radical environmental movement in my latest Substack. Given the gutting of climate policy and threat of repression, where do activists go from here? Hint, it likely involves the burgeoning anti-tech movement. zeitzoff.substack.com/p/earth-day-...

Earth Day 2026: Broken Climate Policies, Repression, and Broken Machines

Where does the U.S. radical environmental movement go from here? Hint: it runs through Silicon Valley.

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Omar García-Ponce@garciaponce.bsky.social · 4mo ago

On April 8, we will host a discussion of “Spring of the Vanishing,” a new documentary about the disappearances perpetrated during militarized Navy operations in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, and the families who have never stopped searching for the truth.

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Omar García-Ponce@garciaponce.bsky.social · 5mo ago

There has been progress during Sheinbaum’s administration, but we need to examine more closely the magnitude of the decline in homicides and consider how to incorporate other indicators of violence that may be masking the true extent of lethal violence (e.g., disappearances & misclassified deaths).

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Omar García-Ponce@garciaponce.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A new study by Daniele, Soliman, & Vargas shows how Colombia’s cocaine boom after 2015 traveled through the same trade networks that move legal goods around the world—leading to higher homicide rates in Colombia & Ecuador, & increased cocaine consumption in Europe. open.substack.com/pub/garciapo...

Cocaine, Bananas, and Global Spillovers

How a boom in cocaine supply traveled through global trade networks and left violence in its wake.

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Omar García-Ponce@garciaponce.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Eliminar a un capo sin desmantelar las condiciones de mercado y las debilidades institucionales que sostienen al crimen organizado no reduce la violencia. La reacomoda. open.substack.com/pub/garciapo...

La muerte de El Mencho y la paradoja de las estrategias de descabezamiento

Eliminar a un capo sin desmantelar las condiciones de mercado y las debilidades institucionales que sostienen al crimen organizado no reduce la violencia. La reacomoda.

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Omar García-Ponce@garciaponce.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Read in companion with Thomas’ book on the radical environmental movement! www.zeitzoff.com/no-option-bu...

No Option But Sabotage

Available for purchase: Oxford University Press Bookshop Amazon Summary After 9/11, the radical environmental movement was considered the number one domestic terror threat by the U.S. government. But....

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Thomas Zeitzoff@zeitzoff.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New in Terrorism & Political Violence: Why did radical environmental groups stop using arson & sabotage? And, given the threat from climate change why haven't those tactics returned? My article "Where's the Sabotage" seeks to answer these questions. Free link: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QYFAW...

Where’s the Sabotage? Repression, Recruitment, and Tactical Evolution in the U.S. Radical Environmental Movement. Thomas Zeitzoff Why did the U.S. radical environmental movement shift away from tactics like arson and sabotage in the mid-2000s? And given the rising threat of climate change, why haven’t these more contentious tactics made a comeback? This puzzle is particularly significant to scholars of terrorism because radical environmental groups like the Earth Liberation Front appear in major terrorism databases, and faced heavy repression from the government, despite causing no fatalities. I argue that repression and recruitment networks play a central role in shaping tactical repertoires. To test this theory, I combine original data on eco direct actions (1995–2022), surveys, and interviews of activist experts. I find that repression sharply reduced the pace of direct actions—particularly sabotage and arson—and disrupted the punk and anarchist recruitment networks that had supported them. In their place, the climate justice movement emerged, favoring civil disobedience and mass protest over clandestine tactics. Repression thus altered the movement both directly (by targeting high-risk actors and their tactics) and indirectly (by reshaping recruitment pipelines). I conclude with a discussion of how climate politics, activist subcultures, repression, and the contested boundary of what constitutes terrorism may influence the future trajectory of radical environmentalism.
Thomas Zeitzoff@zeitzoff.bsky.social · 5mo ago

While researching my book, I was struck by the role racist and xenophobic ideas played in U.S. environmental history. Prominent figures: -Pushed "Great Replacement" style demographic fears -Helped build the modern anti-immigration movement -Argued against famine aid on ecological grounds

Picture of conservationist and eugenicist Madison Grant. The Passing of the Great Race: Or, The Racial Basis of European History is a 1916 racist and pseudoscientific[1][2] book by American lawyer, anthropologist, and proponent of eugenics Madison Grant (1865–1937). Grant expounds a theory of Nordic superiority, claiming that the "Nordic race" is inherently superior to other human "races". The theory and the book were praised by Adolf Hitler and other Nazis, Hitler referring to it as "his Bible". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passing_of_the_Great_RaceThe Ghosts of John Tanton by Abrahm Lustgarten October 19, 2024, 5:00 am Change Appearance ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Reporting Highlights Tanton’s Network: Today’s contentious immigration debate is the construct of one man’s effort to halt overpopulation, brace for climate change and preserve “European” culture. Green Hate: Now climate change is amplifying environmental concerns that have always run through the white supremacy and the anti-immigration movements. Eco-Fascism: Experts warn that extremists who seize on global warming to justify violence are part of a far right trend to reclaim environmentalism as their own. https://www.propublica.org/article/john-tanton-far-right-extremism-environmentalism-climate-changeNYTimes: David Foreman, Hard-Line Environmentalist, Dies at 75 As a co-founder of the group Earth First!, he advocated slashing tires and downing power lines in an effort to return vast swaths of the country to their natural state. Still, even some in the movement found him beyond the pale. Murray Bookchin, a philosopher and environmental theorist, called him an eco-fascist for statements that appeared to prioritize animals over people, like when he seemed to endorse famine in Ethiopia and immigration restrictions in the United States as means to reduce the human population. (In both cases he had misspoken, he said.) https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/28/us/david-foreman-dead.html