Gabe
@plutarco.bsky.social
Dean, recreational author, Mexico maven. The School of Social Sciences and Government at the Tecnológico de Monterrey. Nuevo León, Mexico. #PoliSci
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Ugh this is so good and I love reading all the lists but:
5. Harborcoat
4. Strange Currencies
3. Wolves, Lower
2. Find the River
1. Country Feedback
5. Harborcoat
4. Strange Currencies
3. Wolves, Lower
2. Find the River
1. Country Feedback
I also wrote about more of my R.E.M. favorites for @lukeoneil47.bsky.social’s Welcome to Hell World in 2023 www.welcometohellworld.com/the-greatest...
The greatest American rock band
The top 5 R.E.M. songs ever
www.welcometohellworld.com
September 2, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Ugh this is so good and I love reading all the lists but:
5. Harborcoat
4. Strange Currencies
3. Wolves, Lower
2. Find the River
1. Country Feedback
5. Harborcoat
4. Strange Currencies
3. Wolves, Lower
2. Find the River
1. Country Feedback
Sí.
We live in space on a science fiction planet teeming with alien life forms we’re just mostly inoculated to its majesty and terrors.
Can’t see em, but listen! Apparently these are called Banjo Frogs, and they really do make a string-plucking noise! Very eerie in person, so resonant and from various directions!
August 16, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Sí.
Wow. If true, I must hate myself…
I'm a broken record about how cooking is an act of love and cooking something special just for you is a high form of self care. I am more than aware that there are endless stretches with zero motivation to cook. This happens to me, too; I'm not immune to slumps.
August 16, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Wow. If true, I must hate myself…
Beautiful. Day of the Deadish in spirit.
I attended the Asakusa Tōrō Nagashi this evening – lanterns were set afloat on the Sumida to guide the spirits of the ancestors, who were visiting, back to the other side, marking the end to Obon
August 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Beautiful. Day of the Deadish in spirit.
Pushing back on concentration camps.
"Judge Rejects Trump’s Attempt to End Standards of Care for Detained Migrant Children
Court-mandated oversight will remain in place for migrant children in custody. Lawyers have reported poor medical care and lack of sunlight and showers."
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...
Court-mandated oversight will remain in place for migrant children in custody. Lawyers have reported poor medical care and lack of sunlight and showers."
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...
Judge Rejects Trump’s Attempt to End Standards of Care for Detained Migrant Children
www.nytimes.com
August 16, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Pushing back on concentration camps.
This is the point, to feed the White Supremacist trolls.
The White House’s official X account has a long thread in which they’ve posted pictures of people arrested during the feds’ occupation of the city. Every single person in the thread is a person of color.
August 15, 2025 at 3:19 AM
This is the point, to feed the White Supremacist trolls.
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This is a lot. This didn't happen during Reconstruction, when there was an actual reason to supplant local authorities....
BREAKING: Attorney General Pam Bondi names DEA head as DC's "emergency police commissioner," granting him powers of police chief.
Attorney General Bondi names DEA head as DC's 'emergency police commissioner'
Attorney General Pam Bondi has named the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration as Washington’s “emergency police commissioner,” saying she is granting him the powers of the police chief amid the federal takeover.
bit.ly
August 15, 2025 at 3:10 AM
This is a lot. This didn't happen during Reconstruction, when there was an actual reason to supplant local authorities....
What kind of monster uses architecture as a verb? @minakimes.bsky.social
July 30, 2025 at 2:37 PM
What kind of monster uses architecture as a verb? @minakimes.bsky.social
Tec, Campus MTY in July.
July 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Tec, Campus MTY in July.
Life’s Rich Pageant is REM’s best album. I am ready to fight everyone who disagrees, especially @rudalev.bsky.social and @mcopelov.bsky.social
Well, I could keep it above
But then it wouldn't be sky anymore
So if I send it to you, you've got to promise to keep it whole
But then it wouldn't be sky anymore
So if I send it to you, you've got to promise to keep it whole
Lifes Rich Pageant was released on this day in 1986. The title was inspired by a line in the 1964 Pink Panther film A Shot in the Dark when Inspector Clouseau, says “It’s all part of life’s rich pageant” after he falls into a fountain. What’s your favorite track from “Pageant”?
July 28, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Life’s Rich Pageant is REM’s best album. I am ready to fight everyone who disagrees, especially @rudalev.bsky.social and @mcopelov.bsky.social
Wow. Better than the NYTs
July 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Wow. Better than the NYTs
Seems like appropriate reading this day.
One of my favorite annual @democracynow.org traditions is that we always play this video of James Earl Jones reading Frederick Douglass's speech "What to the Slave is the 4th of July?"
If you've never read or heard the speech, it's well worth your time.
If you've never read or heard the speech, it's well worth your time.
James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass Speech "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
youtu.be
July 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Seems like appropriate reading this day.
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"the American realignment with Russia and against Ukraine and Europe is gathering pace—not merely in rhetoric but in reality"
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The U.S. Is Switching Sides
Donald Trump is giving Vladimir Putin every incentive to keep killing Ukrainians.
www.theatlantic.com
July 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
"the American realignment with Russia and against Ukraine and Europe is gathering pace—not merely in rhetoric but in reality"
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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We’ve shifted money from saving people’s lives to killing them
We’ve shifted money from helping people to hurting people.
The ICE budget is now set to be approximately what the NIH budget was. We’re shifting money from solving real problems to solving fictitious problems.
July 4, 2025 at 8:31 PM
We’ve shifted money from saving people’s lives to killing them
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Several items on Declaration of Independence list of grievances against George III also apply to Trump today, most notably on immigration, trade, and deportation without due process. Like King George, he is "unfit to be the ruler of a free people": reason.com/volokh/2025/...
Trump vs. the Declaration of Independence
Several of the Declaration's list of grievances against King George III also apply to Donald Trump today.
reason.com
July 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Several items on Declaration of Independence list of grievances against George III also apply to Trump today, most notably on immigration, trade, and deportation without due process. Like King George, he is "unfit to be the ruler of a free people": reason.com/volokh/2025/...
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On potentially caucusing with the Democrats, Lisa Murkowski tells @burgessev.bsky.social "Do I feel that within my Republican conference, I always feel like I’m right here in my political home? No." But her values "more closely align with" Republicans.
www.semafor.com/article/06/2...
www.semafor.com/article/06/2...
Murkowski opens up about pressure to caucus with Democrats and her call with Trump
The Alaska Republican talked to Semafor ahead of the Tuesday release of her new book, “Far From Home.”
www.semafor.com
June 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Supplied with worthy men! plant love among's! Throng our large temples with the shows of peace, And not our streets with war!
- Coriolanus (III, 3)
- Coriolanus (III, 3)
They cannot budge till your release.
June 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Supplied with worthy men! plant love among's! Throng our large temples with the shows of peace, And not our streets with war!
- Coriolanus (III, 3)
- Coriolanus (III, 3)
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Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history, & then, well, here it is, all in one post:
illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president
June 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history, & then, well, here it is, all in one post:
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He has produced the real emergency that he can now use to stifle free speech, round people up, and demand total fidelity.
At the cost of many human lives and devastation.
Declaring it is time for peace right after bombing is quite the thing to say. An abuser’s tactic.
At the cost of many human lives and devastation.
Declaring it is time for peace right after bombing is quite the thing to say. An abuser’s tactic.
June 22, 2025 at 1:50 AM
He has produced the real emergency that he can now use to stifle free speech, round people up, and demand total fidelity.
At the cost of many human lives and devastation.
Declaring it is time for peace right after bombing is quite the thing to say. An abuser’s tactic.
At the cost of many human lives and devastation.
Declaring it is time for peace right after bombing is quite the thing to say. An abuser’s tactic.
Welcome, sir.
They have Mookie Betts & Shohei Ohtani & are standing up for the rule of law. Dammit. I think I'm a Dodgers fan now @plutarco.bsky.social
The Los Angeles Dodgers said they denied federal immigration officials access to the area around the team’s stadium on Thursday morning.
The news comes hours after The Athletic reported the team’s plans to announce assistance to immigrants impacted by recent militarized raids.
The news comes hours after The Athletic reported the team’s plans to announce assistance to immigrants impacted by recent militarized raids.
June 22, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Welcome, sir.
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Democratic senators need to stop pretending that GOP senators are their “good friends across the aisle” and realize many of them are just lying sociopaths who are actively fanning the flames of violence against them.
It’s not just Mike Lee — Bernie Moreno is pretending that a registered Republican evangelical anti-abortion Trump voter who assassinated a Democrat and had more on his hit list is a representative of “the extreme left”
June 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Democratic senators need to stop pretending that GOP senators are their “good friends across the aisle” and realize many of them are just lying sociopaths who are actively fanning the flames of violence against them.
Yes, this is where we are at.
America now has the foreign policy of a personalist dictator. New piece from me in @foreignaffairs.com
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Imperial President at Home, Emperor Abroad
American foreign policy in an age of unrestrained executive power.
www.foreignaffairs.com
June 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Yes, this is where we are at.
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And again, they were about 15-20 times as large as the April 2009 Tea Party protests, so I'll sit back and wait for 15-20 times as many stories from political pundits explaining that this was a decisive rebuke to the sitting president that Changes Everything.
Just to say it again, the Big Beautiful Protests (the No Kings marches) involved 5 million people and were likely the largest day of protest in America EVER. News outlets that downplay this fact, are lying.
June 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
And again, they were about 15-20 times as large as the April 2009 Tea Party protests, so I'll sit back and wait for 15-20 times as many stories from political pundits explaining that this was a decisive rebuke to the sitting president that Changes Everything.
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Go in and cheer the King, he rages, none
Dare come about him.
Dare come about him.
June 15, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Go in and cheer the King, he rages, none
Dare come about him.
Dare come about him.