Ann Louise Deslandes
@anndlandes.bsky.social
Journo, writer, consultant in southern 🇲🇽 Feminist interdisciplinary PhD 💜 Clases de inglés✌️Expert witness Mexico asylum cases ✊
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How a student’s death in Mexico raises questions about police violence
A 22-year-old’s death has highlighted the tensions between police and student teachers with a tradition of protest.
www.aljazeera.com
My first report for @al-jazeera-english.bsky.social in a while- on the death of Jesús Alaín Vásquez, a student of the Mactumatzá Normal here in Chiapas & the demands of his classmates for justice. www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor...
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Joining the war on Christmas on the side of drugs
November 23, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Joining the war on Christmas on the side of drugs
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This is just life under climate warlords
Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
November 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
This is just life under climate warlords
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xAI's data centres are one of the few sites in the world where we actually know why they exist and the outputs they produce.
So everyone local life shortened by the choking air pollution from the fossil fuelled power plant built to run this site: we know it's for shit like this
So everyone local life shortened by the choking air pollution from the fossil fuelled power plant built to run this site: we know it's for shit like this
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
xAI's data centres are one of the few sites in the world where we actually know why they exist and the outputs they produce.
So everyone local life shortened by the choking air pollution from the fossil fuelled power plant built to run this site: we know it's for shit like this
So everyone local life shortened by the choking air pollution from the fossil fuelled power plant built to run this site: we know it's for shit like this
Some words from me last week on violence against women & gender diverse people in Mexico following a public sexual assault on President Sheinbaum 1/2 foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/20/c...
What the World Missed in the Claudia Sheinbaum Groping Story
The president’s announcement of a crackdown on gender-based violence ignores its drivers.
foreignpolicy.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Some words from me last week on violence against women & gender diverse people in Mexico following a public sexual assault on President Sheinbaum 1/2 foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/20/c...
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UK-made military gear has surfaced with Sudan’s RSF militia, a group accused of genocide, raising urgent questions about export controls, re-exports, and accountability in the global arms trade. #ArmsControl #Sudan #RSF #HumanRights #Accountability
November 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
UK-made military gear has surfaced with Sudan’s RSF militia, a group accused of genocide, raising urgent questions about export controls, re-exports, and accountability in the global arms trade. #ArmsControl #Sudan #RSF #HumanRights #Accountability
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Great interview in this edition with Prof Tanalís Padilla on Mexico's 'rural normal' schools - worth reading up on with Mexico's (ostensible) Gen Z in the news this week! www.thetroubledregion.com/mexicos-radi...
Great interview in this edition with Prof Tanalís Padilla on Mexico's 'rural normal' schools - worth reading up on with Mexico's (ostensible) Gen Z in the news this week! www.thetroubledregion.com/mexicos-radi...
Mexico's radical rural normales, ft. interview with Tanalís Padilla
Dear friends,
Over June and July this year, I reported this story for Al-Jazeera English about the death of Jesús Alaín Vásquez, a 22 year old student of the Mactumactzá 'rural normal' teacher traini...
www.thetroubledregion.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
My newsletter, The Troubled Region, is out - in your inbox or subscribe at the link 👇
Great interview in this edition with Prof Tanalís Padilla on Mexico's 'rural normal' schools - worth reading up on with Mexico's (ostensible) Gen Z in the news this week! www.thetroubledregion.com/mexicos-radi...
Great interview in this edition with Prof Tanalís Padilla on Mexico's 'rural normal' schools - worth reading up on with Mexico's (ostensible) Gen Z in the news this week! www.thetroubledregion.com/mexicos-radi...
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BREAKING: House Votes to Release the Jeffrey Epstein Files, Humiliating Trump
It’s an embarrassment for Trump, who had promised to release the Epstein files before then calling the scandal a “hoax.” A Trump official admits, “We lost this one badly.” Read:
zeteo.com/p/trump-epst...
It’s an embarrassment for Trump, who had promised to release the Epstein files before then calling the scandal a “hoax.” A Trump official admits, “We lost this one badly.” Read:
zeteo.com/p/trump-epst...
BREAKING: House Votes to Release the Jeffrey Epstein Files, Humiliating Trump
It’s an embarrassment for Trump, who had promised to release the Epstein files before then calling the scandal a “hoax.” A Trump official admits, “We lost this one badly.”
zeteo.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
BREAKING: House Votes to Release the Jeffrey Epstein Files, Humiliating Trump
It’s an embarrassment for Trump, who had promised to release the Epstein files before then calling the scandal a “hoax.” A Trump official admits, “We lost this one badly.” Read:
zeteo.com/p/trump-epst...
It’s an embarrassment for Trump, who had promised to release the Epstein files before then calling the scandal a “hoax.” A Trump official admits, “We lost this one badly.” Read:
zeteo.com/p/trump-epst...
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It's always eugenics.
Researchers are now saying that AI can find correlations between facial characteristics and success on the job.
The Economist says that corporations would have a “strong incentive” to deploy this technology when looking at applicants.
The Economist says that corporations would have a “strong incentive” to deploy this technology when looking at applicants.
November 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
It's always eugenics.
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I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
November 18, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
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When Anthony van Dyck visited painter Sofonisba Anguissola in 1625, she was (she told him) 96 years old. He says she was still sharp as a tack! He drew her & then made this painting. Today was her day.
November 17, 2025 at 1:42 AM
When Anthony van Dyck visited painter Sofonisba Anguissola in 1625, she was (she told him) 96 years old. He says she was still sharp as a tack! He drew her & then made this painting. Today was her day.
Middle age is quite distressing and confronting and then it's wonderful
November 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Middle age is quite distressing and confronting and then it's wonderful
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We scoured Jeffrey Epstein’s emails and documents. Read what Epstein said about Donald Trump, and his emails with Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon, Ehud Barak, and Larry Summers.
@premthakker.bsky.social and @micahflee.com bring you all you need to know.
Read:
zeteo.com/p/epstein-26...
@premthakker.bsky.social and @micahflee.com bring you all you need to know.
Read:
zeteo.com/p/epstein-26...
November 14, 2025 at 10:41 PM
We scoured Jeffrey Epstein’s emails and documents. Read what Epstein said about Donald Trump, and his emails with Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon, Ehud Barak, and Larry Summers.
@premthakker.bsky.social and @micahflee.com bring you all you need to know.
Read:
zeteo.com/p/epstein-26...
@premthakker.bsky.social and @micahflee.com bring you all you need to know.
Read:
zeteo.com/p/epstein-26...
Fuckn knackered m8
November 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Fuckn knackered m8
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In the 1980s, in Tucson, activists and religious leaders joined forces to protect refugees at the U.S.-Mexico border. Their collaboration helped galvanize the Sanctuary Movement, a humanitarian immigrant defense project that pioneered new models of citizen resistance.
From @cetracey.bsky.social:
From @cetracey.bsky.social:
A Theology of Smuggling
In the early 1980s, in Tucson, activists and religious leaders joined forces to protect refugees at the U.S.-Mexico border. Their collaboration galvanized the Sanctuary Movement.
placesjournal.org
November 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
In the 1980s, in Tucson, activists and religious leaders joined forces to protect refugees at the U.S.-Mexico border. Their collaboration helped galvanize the Sanctuary Movement, a humanitarian immigrant defense project that pioneered new models of citizen resistance.
From @cetracey.bsky.social:
From @cetracey.bsky.social:
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What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
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For the Sudanese diaspora, the war brings grief and fury in equal measure. Yassmin Abdel-Magied (@yassmin.bsky.social) reflects on a pain that distance cannot ease.
Full piece 🔗 www.newarab.com/opinion/i-ca...
Full piece 🔗 www.newarab.com/opinion/i-ca...
November 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
For the Sudanese diaspora, the war brings grief and fury in equal measure. Yassmin Abdel-Magied (@yassmin.bsky.social) reflects on a pain that distance cannot ease.
Full piece 🔗 www.newarab.com/opinion/i-ca...
Full piece 🔗 www.newarab.com/opinion/i-ca...
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Michoacán vuelve al centro de la disputa entre Claudia Sheinbaum, y el expresidente Calderón, que se lanzan sus fracasos para acabar con el mayor lastre de México, la violencia. "¿Quién declara una guerra en su propio país?", responde la presidenta social.elpais.com/kma0l5
Sheinbaum se enzarza con Calderón por la violencia en Michoacán: “¿Quién declara la guerra en su propio país?”
La presidenta vuelve a exhibir los resultados de la estrategia de seguridad tras el fuerte impacto del asesinato de Manzo en el discurso triunfalista del Ejecutivo
social.elpais.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:29 AM
🤯
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Chicagoans are making, sharing, and printing designs for whistles that can warn people when ICE is in the area. The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible.”
The Latest Defense Against ICE: 3D-Printed Whistles
Chicagoans are making, sharing, and printing designs for whistles that can warn people when ICE is in the area. The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible.”
www.404media.co
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Chicagoans are making, sharing, and printing designs for whistles that can warn people when ICE is in the area. The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible.”
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Yo, @support.bsky.team, bring back @sarahkendzior.bsky.social.
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Yo, @support.bsky.team, bring back @sarahkendzior.bsky.social.
Exponential enshittification
On the topic of speech-to-text: Norway's national broadcaster NRK is cutting pay for subtitlers bc they're replacing manual translation w/ machine outputs
Absolutely inevitable trajectory: results that get worse and worse and worse as companies have to exponentially enshittify with worsening slop
Absolutely inevitable trajectory: results that get worse and worse and worse as companies have to exponentially enshittify with worsening slop
NRK kutter i honoraret til tekstere – skal bruke mer KI
NRK skal effektivisere tekstingen ved hjelp av kunstig intelligens (KI). For teksterne betyr det et heftig kutt i honorarene.
www.kampanje.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Exponential enshittification
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Filling out a banking form that asks for my occupation, and in what I am choosing to consider as a sign of the times, "journalist" is not a selectable option, but "cryptocurrency" is
November 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Filling out a banking form that asks for my occupation, and in what I am choosing to consider as a sign of the times, "journalist" is not a selectable option, but "cryptocurrency" is
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November 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM