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  1. Overwhelmed by non-stop carnage in Gaza? Four short videos and a podcast to put Israel 2025 in perspective. woborders.blog/2025/12/27/israel-2025-video/
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  2. Last time Charlie Kirk beat the drum on George Floyd and fentanyl? His podcast on Tuesday. x.com/brownblaze/status/1966646476743868867
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  3. Violencia política y muertes en conflictos in Bolivia, 1964-2025
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  4. Troops in Los Angeles marked a dramatic new turn in the Trump authoritarian rollout. Yet American protesters are making the turn towards a national mobilization in defense of freedom and democracy. woborders.blog/2025/06/13/resistance-to-trump-reaches-its-first-turning-point/
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  5. How does a movement demonstrate political strength? Some thoughts and measures as the anti-Trump resistance kicks into gear. wp.me/pcFxY-1jo
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  6. Pivotal moments in US history shaped by confrontational street protest include: – Unionization of the auto industry 1936 – Passing the Fair Housing Act 1968 – Ending the US invasion of Cambodia 1970
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  7. Trump's authoritarian turn: It's real and dire. Everyone's paying attention; most are outraged; many are starting to mobilize. Big picture thoughts: woborders.blog/2025/05/17/trump-authoritarian-everyone/
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  8. Trump proposes elimination of National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities; Inter-American Foundation; Institute for Museum and Library Sciences in 2026 budget. #NEH #NEA
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  9. Of all the DOGE cuts so far, this broad-spectrum assault on global public health will kill the most of our fellow humans. Take the time to read the list of programs involved.
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  10. Jeffrey Sachs on Democracy Now: "the best news possible for Ukraine, first and foremost" Washington Post Reports podcast: "Some Ukrainians described it to me as akin to some of the 19th century European Imperial division of Africa"
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  11. American left media should feature at least one representative member of invaded societies within a week of major news about them. It's been fifty days (and four feature segments) since @democracynow had a Ukrainian guest. democracynow.org/.../31/ukraine_russia_biden_aid x.com/democracynow/status/1892261661576147123
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  12. Trump admin proposal would turn Ukraine into an impoverished resource colony while still yielding land to Russia. x.com/I_Katchanovski/status/1891589191303057678
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  13. Hoping that the tight connections between Plandemic and Trump World finally make COVID conspiracy theories less attractive to Bolivians. x.com/AlKapDC/status/1861180646929956871
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  14. Memo from Congressional Research Service, an agency of the US Congress: Q: "Can the President Abolish, Move, or Consolidate USAID?" A, in essence: No. crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN12500
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  15. How many people are Indigenous? The oft-cited "more than 370 million" was a minimum estimate 19 years ago, and could be less than half a fair total. Here's a global look… youtu.be/cLD6JGc_EJk
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  16. Federal Judge Angel Kelley has issued a Temporary Restraining Order blocking NIH from cutting indirect costs, threatening university funding. As issued, order only applies in the 22 "Plaintiff States," so for now NIH can cut dollars off to red-state research universities.
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  17. First Trump administration lost heavily in the courts when challenged on policy: 172 failures / 54 successes and even 42 failures / 30 successes before Republican-appointed judges. source: policyintegrity.org/trump-court-roundup (h/t Corey Robin)
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  18. Fairly amazing reference in declassified diplomatic cables from 1992 to a brash young Evo Morales.
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  19. So, the sitting President proposes a new illegal occupation of part of Palestine, and the expulsion of nearly 2 million people, and some Democrats react #onhere by attacking pro-Palestine voters???
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  20. National Science Foundation to researchers: The Temporary Restraining Order insisting that Federal funds must continue flowing applies to our research grants, just as it does to state funds. TRO: "not pause, freeze, impede, block, cancel, or terminate... awards and obligations."
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  21. This is starting to look very prescient. Worth reading. vcinfodocs.com/day-one-of-venture-capital-takeover x.com/shanley/status/1860070466536505811
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  22. "All NSF grantees must comply with these executive orders… by ceasing all… grant activity that uses or promotes… diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) principles and frameworks" new.nsf.gov/executive-orders
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  23. OpenAI's newest tool, Operator, seems custom-designed to burn as much computing power is possible on simple tasks. Operator is basically a self-driving web browser user. Demo task is adding recipe items to an instacart shopping list.
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  24. This has all the efficiency and practicality of using a robot as a personal alarm clock. x.com/karinanguyen_/status/1879270529066262733
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  25. Bolivia's 2024 census results in redistribution of ONE seat in the Chamber of Deputies, from Chuquisaca to Santa Cruz. Years back, Santa Cruz's civic movement shut down the department to protest a delay in this re-allotment.
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  26. Bolivian miners suffered 119 deaths in 2024, the vast majority of them through mining accidents and unsafe work conditions. Three miners died in social conflicts over mining. erbol.com.bo/seguridad/registran-al-menos-119-muertes-relacionadas-la-miner%C3%ADa-este-a%C3%B1o
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  27. As a former math competition participant, I keep reviewing the ChatGPT o3 performance on the American Invitational Math Exam (AIME) and similar benchmarks. Here's why I'm skeptical…
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  28. Mike Johnson right now.
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  29. The fruit of a 2022 workshop in Quito two years ago is my first Spanish-language-first publication on Bolivia, published as book chapter by CALAS and CLACSO.
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  30. The year-in-review podcast from @Haaretz has not a single Palestinian voice, nor mention of Palestinian or Lebanese civilian suffering, nor of the ICJ and ICC.
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  31. Diplomatic cables between Ambassador Paul Harold Boeker and the Carter State Department show a total rejection of the November 1, 1979 coup by Carter's government. This gave space for popular resistance to reverse the coup over the next 16 days. x.com/CarwilBJ/status/1873518672876277874
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  32. November 2, 1979 announcement that the Carter administration was suspending all aid to the government of Bolivia, one day after the military coup by Alberto Natusch Busch.
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  33. Blog post from former OpenAI scientist Suchir Balaji arguing that the firm's scraping is not protected by the "fair use" provisions of copyright law. suchir.net/fair_use.html
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  34. Bolivian prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant for Evo Morales over sex with an underage girl. The underlying allegations, made public in 2020, are credible. AND Morales is in a pre-election bid to reclaim leadership of his party from current president Luis Arce.
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  35. The Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology holds a great biannual conference, this time in Panama City, March 12–15, 2025. Paper proposals due by December 14 CFP: slaca.americananthro.org/events/cfp-2025-slaca-conference-panama-city/ #anthropology
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  36. What Russia was to Bashar Al-Assad in Syria, the United States was and is to Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in Egypt.
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  37. The time lag between xeroxed zines by teenage girls and public health researchers is over three decades, with the girls in the lead. publichealth.berkeley.edu/news-media/research-highlights/first-study-to-measure-toxic-metals-in-tampons-shows-arsenic-and-lead
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  38. Genetic and archaeological evidence shows West African and Scandinavian immigrants culturally merged in to early Anglo-Saxon Britain. A young girl with about 1/3 West African ancestry was buried near her entirely European origin aunts with local grave goods.
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  39. Less than nine months before the 2025 election, and amid an economic crisis, all major Bolivian politicians are underwater in favorability. x.com/sinchiruna/status/1863273545419128857
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  40. 200 squatters, some of them armed, took back land at Santa Rita, expelling some 300 police. opinion.com.bo/articulo/pais/avasallamiento-santa-rita-desalojan-policia-ingresan-invasores-armados-buscan-lideres/20241201000027961635.html This further land dispute in Guarayos Province of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, follows others that have led to 4 deaths since 2020.
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