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
Mexicana de acá de este lado, como dice el corrido.
All opinions here are only mine
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asfalto intenseando
![Foto de un grafiti sobre una barra blanca de paso peatonal sobre el asfalto, dice “lo que me falta por llorar”, y abajo se alcanza a leer “grupo pro [ilegible]”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:z3qcarbmcmnly3fdfkhaqxpz/bafkreicckf72ev2fkbuszp3qhgw2zwzc4jxg6hqdkunmncve2gf6lthduu@jpeg)
November 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
asfalto intenseando
I just opened the app, read for 3 minutes, and this came to my mind.
Old people may get the reference…
Old people may get the reference…
November 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I just opened the app, read for 3 minutes, and this came to my mind.
Old people may get the reference…
Old people may get the reference…
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My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages.
November 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages.
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Tonight, over 240,000 Venezuelans will lose Temporary Protected Status.
The Trump administration is dismantling our core humanitarian protections, leaving hundreds of thousands at risk of detention, deportation, and harm.
Congress must protect TPS holders and pass a pathway to citizenship now.
The Trump administration is dismantling our core humanitarian protections, leaving hundreds of thousands at risk of detention, deportation, and harm.
Congress must protect TPS holders and pass a pathway to citizenship now.
November 7, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Tonight, over 240,000 Venezuelans will lose Temporary Protected Status.
The Trump administration is dismantling our core humanitarian protections, leaving hundreds of thousands at risk of detention, deportation, and harm.
Congress must protect TPS holders and pass a pathway to citizenship now.
The Trump administration is dismantling our core humanitarian protections, leaving hundreds of thousands at risk of detention, deportation, and harm.
Congress must protect TPS holders and pass a pathway to citizenship now.
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The only actual law in political science is that when a candidate running on economic justice wins an election, the rich go to Miami…
Mamdani Won. South Florida Expects a Real Estate Bump.
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The only actual law in political science is that when a candidate running on economic justice wins an election, the rich go to Miami…
The only actual law in political science is that when a candidate running on economic justice wins an election, the rich go to Miami…
Mamdani Won. South Florida Expects a Real Estate Bump.
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The only actual law in political science is that when a candidate running on economic justice wins an election, the rich go to Miami…
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Exactly a year ago, Ellen Wohl, @parriblue.bsky.social and I spent two days in Providence thinking about #rivers and how we conceptualize them & live with them. Here’s the result of history and fluvial geomorphology teaming up. #envhist
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Rivers are messy: Beyond the water bias in research and management
This article reviews current trends in interdisciplinary river research to argue that a “water bias” or tendency consider rivers as synonymous with water can hinder our understanding of rivers and con...
doi.org
November 6, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Exactly a year ago, Ellen Wohl, @parriblue.bsky.social and I spent two days in Providence thinking about #rivers and how we conceptualize them & live with them. Here’s the result of history and fluvial geomorphology teaming up. #envhist
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
One of the things that I’ve learned about life in the United States is that if you say pretty much anything (no matter how dumb) with flair, confidence and at a sufficient volume, people will think you are right.
November 6, 2025 at 12:58 AM
One of the things that I’ve learned about life in the United States is that if you say pretty much anything (no matter how dumb) with flair, confidence and at a sufficient volume, people will think you are right.
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"¿Tiene usted flores y libros? Esos consuelos para el dolor".
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
November 5, 2025 at 11:27 AM
"¿Tiene usted flores y libros? Esos consuelos para el dolor".
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
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The riverscape: Physical zones in streams and smaller rivers. From my forthcoming book from Yale University Press: STREAMS: An Illustrated Guide, 2026.
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #geology #illustration #scientificillustration #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #streams #rivers #Freshwater
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #geology #illustration #scientificillustration #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #streams #rivers #Freshwater
November 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The riverscape: Physical zones in streams and smaller rivers. From my forthcoming book from Yale University Press: STREAMS: An Illustrated Guide, 2026.
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #geology #illustration #scientificillustration #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #streams #rivers #Freshwater
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #geology #illustration #scientificillustration #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #streams #rivers #Freshwater
Hey territorial rights theorists! Did you know how exciting territories are? (Thank you for the post and the images @geomprphdan!)
It's a buckle down, turn on some Chappell Roan, and measure some rivers kind of morning. This looks like a normal meander cutoff, right? Wrong! The channel that lost flow (left side of image) is expanding again, just a few years after what I thought was a full avulsion. What's the culprit? Wood?
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Hey territorial rights theorists! Did you know how exciting territories are? (Thank you for the post and the images @geomprphdan!)
Less meat, fewer nuts.
But most importantly: only buy the food you will eat. Don’t throw away food!
But most importantly: only buy the food you will eat. Don’t throw away food!
Producing a pound of beef requires roughly 1,800 gallons of water compared with 500 gallons for chicken. Even modest shifts in your diet could significantly reduce the water needed to grow your food.
2 ways you can conserve the water used to make your food
Consumer choices about what to eat and how much of it can affect how much water farmers need to use.
buff.ly
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Less meat, fewer nuts.
But most importantly: only buy the food you will eat. Don’t throw away food!
But most importantly: only buy the food you will eat. Don’t throw away food!
Cuando sea grande, yo quiero ser como Alexandra
PHILLIP: Republicans are saying that Chuck Schumer is afraid of you. Is he?
AOC: I don't think so. Sen. Schumer and I have worked together. I think Republicans are afraid of me and they project their fear onto him. So they're just telling on themselves when they say that.
AOC: I don't think so. Sen. Schumer and I have worked together. I think Republicans are afraid of me and they project their fear onto him. So they're just telling on themselves when they say that.
November 5, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Cuando sea grande, yo quiero ser como Alexandra
After 25 years living in the US of A
November 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
After 25 years living in the US of A
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We are looking for reviews of the following:
John Schwarzmantel & Helen Beetham: Deformations of Democracy: David Beetham in Contemporary Politics
Leigh Jenco, Paulina Ochoa Espejo, Murad Idris: Political Theory: A Global and Comparative Introduction
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
John Schwarzmantel & Helen Beetham: Deformations of Democracy: David Beetham in Contemporary Politics
Leigh Jenco, Paulina Ochoa Espejo, Murad Idris: Political Theory: A Global and Comparative Introduction
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 8:57 AM
We are looking for reviews of the following:
John Schwarzmantel & Helen Beetham: Deformations of Democracy: David Beetham in Contemporary Politics
Leigh Jenco, Paulina Ochoa Espejo, Murad Idris: Political Theory: A Global and Comparative Introduction
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
John Schwarzmantel & Helen Beetham: Deformations of Democracy: David Beetham in Contemporary Politics
Leigh Jenco, Paulina Ochoa Espejo, Murad Idris: Political Theory: A Global and Comparative Introduction
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
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Being stripped of parental rights while in prison, even for minor crimes, is “the family separation crisis that no one knows about,” an advocate says.
How Incarcerated Parents Are Losing Their Children Forever
Being stripped of parental rights while in prison, even for minor crimes, is “the family separation crisis that no one knows about,” one advocate said.
www.themarshallproject.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Being stripped of parental rights while in prison, even for minor crimes, is “the family separation crisis that no one knows about,” an advocate says.
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Happy Halloween from the people who harvest your #Halloween pumpkins. 🎃
¡Feliz Halloween de parte de quienes cosechan tus calabazas de Halloween! 🎃
#WeFeedYou
¡Feliz Halloween de parte de quienes cosechan tus calabazas de Halloween! 🎃
#WeFeedYou
October 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Happy Halloween from the people who harvest your #Halloween pumpkins. 🎃
¡Feliz Halloween de parte de quienes cosechan tus calabazas de Halloween! 🎃
#WeFeedYou
¡Feliz Halloween de parte de quienes cosechan tus calabazas de Halloween! 🎃
#WeFeedYou
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I am hugely disappointed, but unsurprised, by the deep fault line of "anthropocentric" values entrenched in AI Pollyannas AND Cassandras...
The extreme power of human exceptionalism is a catastrophic failure of the species, risking an uninhabitable Earth.
The extreme power of human exceptionalism is a catastrophic failure of the species, risking an uninhabitable Earth.
October 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I am hugely disappointed, but unsurprised, by the deep fault line of "anthropocentric" values entrenched in AI Pollyannas AND Cassandras...
The extreme power of human exceptionalism is a catastrophic failure of the species, risking an uninhabitable Earth.
The extreme power of human exceptionalism is a catastrophic failure of the species, risking an uninhabitable Earth.
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Last Thurs, the Trump admin announced it is opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, which sits on Inupiaq and Gwich’in land. The Gwich’in consider the land sacred and rely on the caribou migration.
Trump administration finalizes plan to open pristine Alaska wildlife refuge to oil and gas drilling
The Trump administration has finalized a plan to open the coastal plain of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, renewing long-simmering debate over whether to drill in…
www.npr.org
October 29, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Last Thurs, the Trump admin announced it is opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, which sits on Inupiaq and Gwich’in land. The Gwich’in consider the land sacred and rely on the caribou migration.
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October 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Our new issue drops soon!
@leaypi.bsky.social leads a forum on the real crisis fueling the war on immigrants, w/ @pochoaespejo.bsky.social @danieldenvir.bsky.social @daralind.bsky.social
Plus @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social on civility under fascism, @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social on MAGA’s complaints +
@leaypi.bsky.social leads a forum on the real crisis fueling the war on immigrants, w/ @pochoaespejo.bsky.social @danieldenvir.bsky.social @daralind.bsky.social
Plus @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social on civility under fascism, @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social on MAGA’s complaints +
October 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Our new issue drops soon!
@leaypi.bsky.social leads a forum on the real crisis fueling the war on immigrants, w/ @pochoaespejo.bsky.social @danieldenvir.bsky.social @daralind.bsky.social
Plus @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social on civility under fascism, @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social on MAGA’s complaints +
@leaypi.bsky.social leads a forum on the real crisis fueling the war on immigrants, w/ @pochoaespejo.bsky.social @danieldenvir.bsky.social @daralind.bsky.social
Plus @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social on civility under fascism, @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social on MAGA’s complaints +
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Today might be a bad day but things will get better
October 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Today might be a bad day but things will get better
En honor del día sin reyes, un bello helecho…
October 19, 2025 at 2:26 AM
En honor del día sin reyes, un bello helecho…
I don’t say nasty things to Siri or Alexa— not even when joking. I’m always polite to machines (I say “please” and “thank you”.) I don’t do it because I think machines have feelings, I do it because being cruel and insulting would say bad things about me.
October 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I don’t say nasty things to Siri or Alexa— not even when joking. I’m always polite to machines (I say “please” and “thank you”.) I don’t do it because I think machines have feelings, I do it because being cruel and insulting would say bad things about me.
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October 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM