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Mexico-based fintech Plata, approved for a banking license in December 2024, raised $250M at a $3.1B valuation, as it seeks to transition to a full-fledged bank (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-16/mexico…

🌡️ Mexico’s rising mercury trade fuels toxic gold mining in Latin America: Report
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/mexicos-rising-mercury-trade-fuels-toxic-gold-mining-in-latin-america-report/

Mexico’s rising mercury trade fuels toxic gold mining in Latin America: Report
MEXICO CITY — In 2017, as part of an international treaty, Mexico started phasing down mercury production and eliminating its use in gold mining, citing major environmental and public health hazards. The effort appeared to work: Between 2017 and 2018, the government reported that national mercury production had dropped from 442 metric tons to just […]

Increasingly targeted in immigration raids
-- Mixteco and Triqui communities hold festivals of resistance.
https://truthout.org/articles/indigenous-communities-from-southern-mexico-refuse-to-bow-to-ice-in-california/…

Indigenous Communities From Southern Mexico Refuse to Bow to ICE in California
Increasingly targeted in immigration raids, Mixteco and Triqui communities hold festivals of resistance.

"Women in Mexico step up to protect the island farms traditionally inherited by men"
#Mexico #Women

Women in Mexico step up to protect the island farms traditionally inherited by men
This story is a collaboration between The Associated Press and Mongabay. MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Jasmín Ordóñez looks out at the water as the wooden boat she is in crosses a narrow channel that connects a labyrinth of chinampas, island farms that were built by the Aztecs thousands of years ago. “Let’s close our eyes […]

At least 41 dead in Mexico floods https://phys.org/news/2025-10-dead-mexico.html In minutes, Mexico's rains swept away homes and people

At least 41 dead in Mexico floods
Floods caused by torrential rains have killed at least 41 people in Mexico in recent days and left behind a trail of destruction, the government said Saturday.

New Mexico is first state to offer universal free child care | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/universal-free-child-care-new-mexico-ec514c3b828e1100d4e5cd7ab17412db

Team Trump Is Actually Drawing Up Attack Plans for Mexico (Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/team-trump-mexico-cartels-military-attack-plans-1235407875/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250815/p31#a250815p31

Mexico City is like a much better version of LA. You wonder what the US’s problem is?

Oh, did you think the israel model would be confined to the Middle East? Why should it? Didn’t all our Western governments just declare it kosher?
First, they came for the Palestinians… https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/115034832497483253

Rock on, New Mexico! If we can't unfuck our healthcare system for everyone, at least unfuck it for children.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/09/new-mexico-free-universal-childcare

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #90TEEN
Interpol:
🎵 NYC
#Interpol
https://interpol.bandcamp.com/track/nyc-live-at-palacio-de-los-deportes-mexico-city-2005
https://open.spotify.com/track/0Zp4Lb0HFAGW1q1Qhqrkw0

Research reveals how microplastics threaten Gulf of Mexico marine life #GulfOfMexico

Research reveals how microplastics threaten Gulf of Mexico marine life
Critical wildlife habitats are exposed to pollution risk in the seas off the southern United States, with implications for human health and food security. "Most of the pollution comes from rivers and not from wastewater treatment plants," says CMCC scientist Annalisa Bracco, co-author of the study that used advanced computer models to track tiny plastic particles across three years.

Soon, there will be no export market left for mass-market models of internal combustion engine vehicles. Some 'premium' car makers may continue to produce niche models for a while, but the mass market will be electrified (EU 2035 or not).
https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outl

∩️ Leftist lawmakers gather to answer a question: How to beat the global right?
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-07-31/leftist-lawmakers-from-across-the-hemisphere-gather-to-ask-a-questi…

A conference of leftists wants to know: How to beat the global right?
Political leaders from a dozen countries have gathered in Mexico City to discuss a key question: How can the left win?

In Mexico, Chipotle Chili is our umami source.

USDA will construct a sterile fly production facility in Edinburg, TX,
at Moore Air Force Base,
an ideal location due to the existing infrastructure and proximity to the United States-Mexico border.
Built with the Army Corps of Engineers, the facility will produce up to 300 million sterile flies per week to combat New World Screwworm.
This will be the only United States-based sterile fly facility
and will work in tandem with facilities in Panama and Mexico to …

#Mexico sends another planeload of dangerous drug suspects northbound to #US authorities for #prosecution in a so-called "sovereign decision", while President Sheinbaum rids her country of

Trends in New Mexico School Districts Serving Low-Income Communities
Uloma E. Nelson, Onyedikachi J. Okeke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09993 https://arxiv.o…

Trends in New Mexico School Districts Serving Low-Income Communities
This study examines recent enrollment trends and their socioeconomic drivers within New Mexico's public school districts, with a specific focus on those serving low-income communities. Utilizing a mixed-methods geospatial framework, the research integrates longitudinal enrollment data, district poverty metrics from the Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE), and neighborhood context from the American Community Survey (ACS) from 2019 to 2023. The analysis reveals that while statewide K-…

New Mexico governor declares state of emergency in rural county afflicted by crime, drug use (Morgan Lee/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/new-mexico-rural-crime-drugs-emergency-a73991647b941d8496ca45a480ef4361
http://www.memeorandum.com/250813/p105#a250813p105

So will the BBC give a prime News at 10 slot to this?
No because unlike a munitions factory blowing up in the USA, this is brown people and not in the Imperial centre.
Mexico floods leave at least 27 dead and more missing - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/arti…

Mexico floods leave at least 27 dead and more missing
Heavy rainfall has caused river banks to burst and triggered landslides, carrying away homes and cars.

‘A death sentence’: a young mother grappling with addiction dies in a drug-plagued US prison | New Mexico | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/06/cibola-county-prison-new-mexico-deaths

UCLA football kicked off this season 0-3 with losses to Utah, UNLV & New Mexico.
And just like that...
✅ ESPN: UCLA fires head coach DeShaun Foster
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/4625774…

UCLA fires DeShaun Foster - Top candidates, players to retain - ESPN
Who are the best fits in Westwood and who are the players the next coach needs to retain.

Mexico extradites 26 top cartel leaders to US amid Trump tariff pressure
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/13/mexico-cartel-us-extradition-trump-administration

New Mexico is making child care free.
Beginning in November, it will be the first state in the nation to provide child care to all residents regardless of income, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced this week.
The state has been working to lower child care care costs since 2019, when it created the Early Childhood Education and Care Department

New Mexico will be the first state to make child care free
The program, which is expected to save families $12,000 per child annually, is available to all residents regardless of income.

"‘We’re winning a battle’: Mexico’s jaguar numbers up 30% in conservation drive"
#Mexico #Jaguar #Animals

Accelerating electric freight in Mexico City with VEMO, C40, and The Climate Pledge! #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

VEMO, C40, and The Climate Pledge partner to accelerate the electric freight transition in Mexico - C40 Cities
Mexico City, Mexico – C40 Cities, The Climate Pledge (TCP), and VEMO, a Mexican cleantech company, announced today a strategic...

Memo: Crunchyroll is undergoing layoffs as part of a restructuring to shift resources toward high-growth markets outside the US, like India, Brazil, and Mexico (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/crunchyroll-layoffs-restructur…

Crunchyroll Layoffs: Anime Service Restructures for International Growth
Sony's Crunchyroll is laying off a number of employees as part of a restructuring to shift resources toward higher-growth markets outside the U.S.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
Interpol:
🎵 Roland
#Interpol
https://interpol.bandcamp.com/track/roland-live-at-palacio-de-los-deportes-mexico-city-2005
https://open.spotify.com/track/5Ss3iXsszte6qNBaBVsy5a

Mexico to extradite 26 top cartel leaders to US in Trump administration deal (Brie Stimson/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mexico-extradite-26-top-cartel-leaders-us-trump-administration-deal
http://www.memeorandum.com/250812/p144#a250812p144

Die USA sind voller Widersprüche und manchmal fortschrittlich: In New Mexico sind ab 1. November die Kinderkrippen gratis. https://apnews.com/article/universal-free-child-care-new-mexico-ec514c3b828e1100d4e5cd7ab17412db

State of New Mexico Dept. of Health issues order maximizing availability of the COVID vaccine, in defiance of the the idiot running the HHS.
Fellow Californians: Scream at your state reps to do the same!
https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/nmdoh-issue

NMDOH issues health order to maximize COVID-19 vaccine access
The order comes after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved updated COVID-19 vaccine formulas, but with new limits on who could qualify for them.

@… 💪
https://social.lol/@thetonearm/115317084173292408

The Tonearm (@thetonearm@social.lol)
Attached: 1 image "This is the land of the 'sonideros,' DJs who collect cumbia and tropical music records and appeared on the scene in the 1960s. To this day, they bring their equipment to clubs and street parties." Mexico — The cumbia DJs of the streets: https://www.npr.org/sections/the-picture-show/2025/10/03/nx-s1-5548571/cumbia-in-mexico

Republican Ex-Candidate Sentenced to 80 Years in Prison for Shooting Plot (Pooja Salhotra/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/us/solomon-pena-new-mexico-political-shootings-sentencing.html?unlocked_article_code=1.eE8.0FoU.69usptcgiEA5&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250814/p40#a250814p40

"Illegal goldmines (garimpos) cluster along the banks of the Crepori River."
Parš state, Brazil. Multispectral image by Richard Mosse at Art Vault, Santa Fe, New Mexico, part of a larger exhibition focusing on deforestation in the Amazon. 1/3

In Mexico City. Americans have no idea what a city outside a dying Empire is like.

#NewMexico will be the first state to make #childcare free
The program, which will start in November and is expected to save families $12,000 per child annually, is available to all residents regardless of income.

Active Shooter reported at Cannon Air Force Base in New Mexico

When you lose the faith of Zach, a total homer... that's bad. UCLA's done in 2025.
❌ Utah vs UCLA (L 43-10)
❌ UCLA vs UNLV (L 30-23)
❌ New Mexico vs UCLA (L 35-10)
▶️ REACTION: Nico Iamaleava & DeShaun Foster RUINED UCLA Football! Tennesse...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=w-04…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Oppenheimer Analysis:
🎵 New Mexico
#OppenheimerAnalysis
https://oppenheimeranalysis.bandcamp.com/album/new-mexico

How AI is upending the music industry in Latin America, as artists push back against a flood of AI-generated music on Spotify, Deezer, and YouTube Music (Laura Rodríguez Salamanca/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-music-spotify-deezer-latin-america/

Latin American musicians say AI is stealing their streams
Musicians from Chile to Mexico say bots are stealing streams, siphoning income, and shortening the lifespan of songs. Even Bad Bunny isn’t safe.

US and Mexico team up to tackle sewage flowing across border in Tijuana River #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

US, Mexico Sign Accord To Combat Tijuana River Sewage Flowing Across Border
"The United States and Mexico have signed an agreement outlining specific steps and a new timetable to clean up the longstanding problem of the Tijuana River pouring sewage across the border and polluting California beaches, officials from both countries announced Thursday."

going through my months-old screenshots and this motherfucker is a recurring pattern

over here deadnaming the Gulf of Mexico

Photometric Stability of an EMCCD Camera at 1-s Exposures
I. V. Afanasieva (Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences), V. G. Orlov (Instituto de Astronomia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico), V. I. Ardilanov (Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences), V. A. Murzin (Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences), D. V. Oparin (Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences), A. N.…

Photometric Stability of an EMCCD Camera at 1-s Exposures
We present the results of testing an iXonUltra 888 EMCCDcamera to determine the operating parameters for short-exposure photometry of stars. As a result of the testing, those camera modes were selected in which the temporal instability of the electron multiplication charge does not significantly affect the light curves. In addition, the photometry of the eclipsing variable star ZTFJ 0038+2030, obtained with the Zeiss-1000 telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy…

Tom Lehrer / In Old Mexico
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WweD9S9hMBk
Gall Bladder Day

Tom Lehrer: In Old Mexico (concert live) (1959)
*ALTERNATE LYRICS (6:04):For though try, as I may, I can never repay all that I oweTo the land of mañana and cheap marijuana.(It's so easy to grow.)In Old Me...

As I read the daily news I am reminded of history.
In particular the history of Charles I, Louis XVI, Nicholas II, Maximilian I (of Mexico).
I remember history, 'cause, as is said, if I forget it I would be doomed to repeat it.

With the impending arrival of Typhoon #OpongPH (#Bualoi) and the recent protests against corruption in government-funded flood control projects, the recent release of the 2025 World Risk Report, with its topical focus on flooding, is very timely.
And to the surprise of no one, the

2025 EERI LFE Travel Study -- Mexico: Lessons in soft soils, subsidence, and site effects
Morgan D. Sanger, Kenny Buyco, Mohammed S. Ibrahim, P. Salvador Ramos, Andres A. Acosta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00390

2025 EERI LFE Travel Study - Mexico: Lessons in soft soils, subsidence, and site effects
The 1985 M8.1 Mexico City earthquake marked a turning point in Mexican earthquake engineering, underscoring the influence of soft soils, subsidence, and site effects on seismic performance in the Valley of Mexico. In the four decades since, both research and engineering practice have evolved significantly, shaped by subsequent events such as the 2017 M7.1 Puebla-Morelos earthquake. Integrating observations made during the Learning from Earthquakes Travel Study program and desk study findings, t…

Claudia Sheinbaum made history when she became Mexico’s first woman president — and the first of Jewish heritage. But on the night of September 15, she made history again. Standing on the Palacio Nacional balcony, clad in white, royal purple and gold, flanked by an all-female military honor guard and wearing a sash created for her by female military officers, she gripped the bell rope and, as required of the ritual, shouted. Normally soft-spoken and measured, the tone was a shift for the climate scientist, who visibly trembled under the weight of the task, but not as big a shift as what she shouted:
“¡Mexicanas! ¡Mexicanos!”
The inclusion of the feminine “Mexicanas,” and naming them FIRST matters.
#GoodThingsInTheWorld #Mexico #progressive
https://alisav.substack.com/p/she-cried-mexicanas-first

"Research reveals how microplastics threaten Gulf of Mexico marine life"
#Mexico #Plastic #Plastics #Microplastics

Research reveals how microplastics threaten Gulf of Mexico marine life
Critical wildlife habitats are exposed to pollution risk in the seas off the southern United States, with implications for human health and food security. "Most of the pollution comes from rivers and not from wastewater treatment plants," says CMCC scientist Annalisa Bracco, co-author of the study that used advanced computer models to track tiny plastic particles across three years.

Canada and Mexico are creating a new trade route,
the "Northern Corridor",
that bypasses the United States entirely.
This move is projected to cost the U.S. economy $125 billion
while adding billions to the economies of Canada and Mexico.
https://www.

Skipping the US: Mexico and Canada enter into trade bypass agreement
It seeks to safeguard the continuity of trade flows between the two nations without US border interference.

How AI is upending the music industry in Latin America, as artists push back against a flood of AI-generated music on Spotify, Deezer, and YouTube Music (Laura Rodríguez Salamanca/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-music-spotify-deezer-latin-america/

Latin American musicians say AI is stealing their streams
Musicians from Chile to Mexico say bots are stealing streams, siphoning income, and shortening the lifespan of songs. Even Bad Bunny isn’t safe.

The United States in the last 8 months has threatened to invade, or invaded:
Canada
Mexico
Panama
Greenland
Denmark
Venezuela
Los Angeles
Washington DC
Chicago
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Boston
And many others. potus and kegseth plan to rename the Department of Defense the Department of War.
This sounds like Nobel Peace Prize behavior, am I right? 🤦‍♂️

Properties of cluster red-sequence spiral galaxies
Wayne A. Barkhouse (University of North Dakota), Lane M. Kashur (Colorado State University), Moreom Akter (University of North Dakota), Sandanuwan P. Kalawila (University of North Dakota), Gihan L. Gamage (New Mexico State University-Alamogordo), Omar L\'opez-Cruz (Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica)

Properties of cluster red-sequence spiral galaxies
We identify a sample of 324 red and 273 blue face-on spiral galaxies selected from 115 low-redshift (0.014 < z < 0.18) galaxy clusters imaged with CFHT+MegaCam in u- and r-band, KPNO 0.9-meter 2TkA and MOSAIC 8K camera in B and Rc, and images and catalogs extracted from the WINGS survey. Multi-wavelength photometry and spectroscopy were obtained by cross-matching sources with SDSS, GALEX, and WISE datasets. Our main results suggest that up to 45% of optically red spirals are dusty compared to b…

I live in a county in southern Arizona that borders on Mexico.
Yesterday the county elected Adelita Grijalva, a Democrat Latina, as representative to the US House.
With 70% (!) of the vote.

probably 45 years ago I was going down into Mexico to camp for a week with three friends, one of them was the brother of a friend of mine who was in charge of music. He forgot all the music except for one Grateful Dead eight track tape that he just left on repeat and that was the first and last time I ever listened to the grateful dead.

13 Billion Years of MgII Absorber Evolution
Christopher W. Churchill (New Mexico State University), Asif Abbas (New Mexico State University), Glenn G. Kapcrzak (Swinburne University of Technology), Nikole M. Nielsen (Swinburne University of Technology, University of Oklahoma)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01430

13 Billion Years of MgII Absorber Evolution
Applying "apportioned integrals," we use dN/dX measurements to determine the MgII absorber equivalent width distribution function for Wr > 0.03 [angstroms] and 0 < z < 7. Adopting a Schechter distribution, f(z,W)dW = Phi* (W/W*)^alpha e^{-W/W*} dW/W*, we present the normalization, Phi*(z), the characteristic equivalent width, W*(z), and the weak-end slope, alpha(z), as smooth functions of redshift. Measurements of dN/dX are robust for z < 4 but less so at z > 4 for weaker absorbers (Wr < 0.3 [a…

Mexico's President Denies U.S. Will Use Military in Her Country (Maria Abi-Habib/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/world/americas/mexico-trump-military-cartels.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250808/p62#a250808p62

Relative Income and Gender Norms: Evidence from Latin America
Ercio Mu\~noz, Dario Sansone, Jo\~ao Tampellini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08166 https://arxi…

Relative Income and Gender Norms: Evidence from Latin America
Using data from over 500,000 dual-earner households in Mexico, we provide evidence of discontinuities in the distribution of relative income within households in Latin America. Similar to high-income countries, we observe a sharp drop at the 50% threshold, where the wife earns more than the husband, but the discontinuity is up to five times larger and has increased over time. These patterns are robust to excluding equal earners, self-employed individuals, or couples in the same occupation/indus…

In Mexico, people call Oracle the company "Obstacle".
And I think this is beautiful.

People in India/Brazil/Mexico: assuming equiv of USD 10 is too high, what is a reasonable price for the EPUB version of PLAI (plai.org) in INR/BRL/MXN? Making available via Kindle store. [NB: Free EPUB will always be available at book site, no worries!]

Canada courts Mexico as Trump escalates tariff fight (Mike Blanchfield/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/08/canada-mexico-trade-trump-00499436
http://www.memeorandum.com/250808/p54#a250808p54

Big Ugly Bill — DAMAGE CONTROL
New Mexico is showing the rest of the nation how it’s done:
Special session starts Oct 1 to protect Medicaid, lower premiums, and keep hospitals open.
While D.C. Republicans are playing games, New Mexico is fighting to save health care for every family.
https://

Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com)
Big Ugly Bill — DAMAGE CONTROL New Mexico is showing the rest of the nation how it’s done: Special session starts Oct 1 to protect Medicaid, lower premiums, and keep hospitals open. While D.C. Republicans are playing games, New Mexico is fighting to save health care for every family. 1/3

Ahshiselsaurus wimani - New duck-billed dinosaur species identified in northwest #NewMexico #Paleontology

Meanwhile, all food prices are going up.
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/07/24/cuts-to-food-stamps-are-about-to-hit-in-america

Piritakua: the atmosphere as a high-energy physics laboratory
Hermes Le\'on Vargas, Antonio Galv\'an, Andr\'es Sandoval, Ernesto Belmont, Cindy Castell\'on Salguero, Adiv Gonz\'alez Mu\~noz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21373

Piritakua: the atmosphere as a high-energy physics laboratory
The atmosphere provides a large set of experimental conditions on which cosmic-ray induced high-energy hadron interactions can take place. These conditions include: sudden changes in the atmospheric pressure, temperature, and in the local electric and magnetic fields. In this talk we introduce the Piritakua (flash of lightning, in the language of the pre-Columbian Purépecha Empire in Mexico) project, a cosmic-ray detector located at the Instituto de Física of UNAM, in Mexico City at 2280 m. a…

2.1 miles on my SUP in the Gulf of Mexico today. It had been a while since I paddled. After abdominal surgery in June I was worried about core strength but all good. Stood the whole way. No falls. Perfect beach landing which is definitely not the norm for me.

Reducing Cartel Violence: The Mexican Dilemma Between Social and Security Spending
Rafael Prieto-Curiel, Dieter Grass, Stefan Wrzaczek, Gian Maria Campedelli, Gernot Tragler, Gustav Feichtinger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06509

Reducing Cartel Violence: The Mexican Dilemma Between Social and Security Spending
Organised crime in Mexico threatens societal stability and public safety, driving pervasive violence and economic disruption. Despite security investments and social programs designed in part to reduce involvement in crime, cartel power and violence continue to persist. This study evaluates existing policies and introduces a novel framework using optimal control theory to analyse cartel dynamics. Specifically, by modelling resource allocation between security measures and social programs, we id…

Assessing the Influence of Locational Suitability on the Spatial Distribution of Household Wealth in Bernalillo County, NM
Onyedikachi J. Okeke, Uloma E. Nelson, Chukwudi Nwaogu, Olumide O. Oladoyin, Emmanuel Kubuafor, Dennis Baidoo, Titilope Akinyemi, Adedoyin S. Ajeyomi, Rekiya A. Idris, Isaac A. Fabunmi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11048

Assessing the Influence of Locational Suitability on the Spatial Distribution of Household Wealth in Bernalillo County, NM
This study applies Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression (MGWR) to examine the spatial determinants of household wealth in Bernalillo County, New Mexico. The model incorporates sociodemographic, environmental, and proximity-based variables to evaluate how locational suitability influences economic outcomes. Key factors considered include income, home value, elevation, PM2.5 concentration, and distances to essential services such as schools, markets, and hospitals. The MGWR model demonst…

Do it.
And relocate the rest to Mexico.
https://ohai.social/@MeanwhileinCanada/114887199534440658

This is the most blatant, naked gangster corruption I've ever seen in a country.
And I grew up in Mexico in the 80s. https://flipboard.social/@NewsDesk/114908211854266893

🦸🏽‍♂️ The gentrification of Mexican wrestling
#mexico

The gentrification of Mexican wrestling
Lucha libre emerged in the poorer neighborhoods of Mexico City and has attracted both tourists and the wealthy

House Dems Trash America At Radical Summit In Mexico (Melissa O'Rourke/The Daily Caller)
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/04/house-dems-trash-america-radical-left-wing-summit-mexico-city/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250805/p14#a250805p14

Source: Mexico City-based Kapital, which offers financial visibility tools to SMBs, raised an $86M Series C led by Tribe Capital at a ~$1.3B valuation (Matthew Monks/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-02/latam…

Trump said Mexico would pay for his wall.
He promised to put coal miners back to work.
He said he wouldn't cut Medicaid.
▶️ He's Lied to MAGA before. Why Is Epstein Different?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_dgU9bK-Tx0&si=jCh1NidGFf3umLVI

Touring northern #NewMexico with a 1982 Highway Geologic Map I found in the archives, and Halka Chronic's Roadside #Geology. Happy to see Precambrian outcrop! #Taos

New Mexico governor signs bills to counter federal cuts, support health care and food assistance (Morgan Lee/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/new-mexico-health-care-food-assistance-2e217cc910fa3759e8c37deff3735186
http://www.memeorandum.com/251004/p3#a251004p3

Faced With Trump’s English Mandate, Mexico’s Truckers Report to Class - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/world/americas/mexico-english-truckers-trump.html

The cosmic web's Lyman-$\alpha$ glow at $z \approx 2.5$; varying hydrodynamic models, dust, and wide-field, narrow-band imaging detection
Oleksii Sokoliuk, John K. Webb, Kenneth M. Lanzetta, Michael M. Shara, Stefan Gromoll, James S. Bolton, Robert F. Carswell, Gaspar Galaz, C\'edric Ledoux, Gaspare Lo Curto, Alain Smette, David Valls-Gabaud, Anja von der Linden, Frederick M. Walter, Joris Witstok

The cosmic web's Lyman-$α$ glow at $z \approx 2.5$; varying hydrodynamic models, dust, and wide-field, narrow-band imaging detection
The diffuse glow of the cosmic web in Lyman-$α$ emission has long been predicted, yet remained elusive to direct wide field detection. We present theoretical calculations that, when compared with recent observations made using the Condor Array Telescope in New Mexico reported in Lanzetta et al. 2024, point to its discovery at $z \approx 2.5$. Synthetic Lyman-$α$ surface brightness maps are constructed from five state-of-the-art hydrodynamic simulations (Illustris-TNG, SIMBA, EAGLE, CROCODILE,…

Trump extends Mexico's 25% tariffs for 90 days as talks continue (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/31/trump-tariffs-mexico-extension.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250731/p61#a250731p61

A book excerpt details how a small team of content curators hired by ByteDance in Mexico City in 2018 shaped TikTok's For You algorithm in Latin America (Emily Baker-White/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-wh

The Humble Origins Of TikTok’s Almighty Algorithm
An exclusive excerpt from Every Screen On The Planet reveals how the social media app’s powerful recommendation engine was shaped by a bunch of ordinary, twentysomething curators—including a guy named Jorge.

Brazil joins South Africa’s ‘genocide’ case against Israel at ICJ | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/20/brazil-joins-south-africas-genocide-case-against-israel-at-icj?tr…

Brazil joins South Africa’s ‘genocide’ case against Israel at ICJ
Brazil now joins Spain, Ireland, Mexico, Turkiye and others who have signed on to the case.

Mexico 2021: Psychological Intimate Partner Violence Against Women and the Role of Childhood Violence Exposure -- A Machine Learning Approach
Clara Strasser Ceballos, Anna-Carolina Haensch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22592

Mexico 2021: Psychological Intimate Partner Violence Against Women and the Role of Childhood Violence Exposure -- A Machine Learning Approach
In 2021, psychological violence was the most prevalent form of intimate partner violence (IPV) suffered by women in Mexico. The consequences of psychological IPV can include low self-esteem, depression, and even potential suicide. It is, therefore, crucial to identify the most relevant risk and protective factors of psychological IPV against women in Mexico. To this end, we adopt an ecological approach and analyze the role of a wide range of factors across four interrelated levels: Individual, …

#USpol #epstein #EpsteinFiles #potus

X-ray Halos of Early-Type Galaxies with AGN Feedback and Accretion from a Circumgalactic Medium: models and observations
Silvia Pellegrini (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Bologna University, Italy), Luca Ciotti (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Bologna University, Italy), Zhaoming Gan (New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos, NM, USA), Dong-Woo Kim (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA), Jeremiah P. Ostriker (Dept. of Astronomy, Columbia University, NY, USA)

X-ray Halos of Early-Type Galaxies with AGN Feedback and Accretion from a Circumgalactic Medium: models and observations
The knowledge of the X-ray properties of the hot gas halos of early-type galaxies has significantly advanced in the past years, for large and homogeneously investigated samples. We compare these results with the X-ray properties of an exploratory set of gas evolution models in realistic early-type galaxies, produced with our high-resolution 2D hydrodynamical code MACER that includes AGN feedback and accretion from a circumgalactic medium. The model X-ray emission and absorption are integrated a…

Trump Admin Limits Mexican Flights, Threatens Delta Alliance | Associated Press
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/trump-administration-mexico-delta/2025/07/19/id/1219324/

In One of the Country's Poorest States, Crippling Budget Cuts Loom (David W. Chen/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/us/new-mexico-federal-budget-cuts.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250806/p71#a250806p71

🪨 The Shadow Economy of Critical Mineral Exports
#trade

The Shadow Economy of Critical Mineral Exports
Chinese traders are circumventing China's export ban on critical minerals like antimony, gallium, and germanium by rerouting shipments through third countries like Thailand and Mexico to reach the US market.

Over the past decade, a mysterious wasting disease has ravaged some 20 species of starfish, also called sea stars, from Alaska to Baja California in Mexico.

Since the start of the outbreak in 2013, scientists have struggled to pinpoint the cause.
But a group of researchers said Monday that they had finally identified a culprit:
a bacterial cousin of the pathogen behind cholera

Scientists say they’ve solved the mystery of starfish that turn to goo
Sea star wasting disease has killed billions of starfish and destroyed kelp ecosystems. In a study published Monday, researchers say they found the culprit.

Inside the CIA's secret fight against Mexico's drug cartels (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/inside-cias-secret-fight-against-mexicos-drug-cartels-2025-09-10/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250910/p107#a250910p107

Sensor Tower: in H1 2025, Temu's MAUs in Latin America soared 143% YoY to 105M; Mexico, Chile, and Uruguay are starting to tax low-cost imports (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-08-25/ch…

I haven't been able to get a positive ID on the "sloppy daisies" that grow in Shindagin Hollow State forest but species that look similar are found in Mexico, Hawaii and other places -- these often have missing or irregularly shaped petals
#photo #photography

US signs MOU with Mexico on Tijuana River sewage crisis (Sharon Udasin/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/5419186-us-mexico-tijauna-river-sewage/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250725/p2#a250725p2

The U.S.-Mexico border is no longer just a line on a map;
it is a roaming force, drifting through our cities and ravaging schools, courthouses and workplaces.
It has become unmoored from geography, dragging its violence and impunity into the heart of American life.
Once confined to the borderlands, the Border Patrol — with its culture of Wild West impunity — is now operating across the country,
joining Immigration and Customs Enforcement in raids far from ports of ent…

Opinion | How Border Politics Have Overrun America
The brutality of our immigration policy is no longer quarantined to the border. Both parties are at fault.

2025 #NewMexico Mineral Symposium for both professionals and amateurs interested in #mineralogy. Socorro, NM Nov 7 -9
Featured Speaker:
"History and Highlights, including New Mexico specimens, of the Natural History Museum, London, England"
-Mike Rumsey, Principal Curator of…

NM Mineral Symposium

"Ocean-based carbon storage ramps up, bringing investment and concern"
#Oceans #Climate #ClimateChange

Ocean-based carbon storage ramps up, bringing investment and concern
Capturing carbon to ship or funnel it offshore for storage in depleted marine oil and gas wells is gaining momentum as a proposed climate solution, even as it faces criticism. Across the globe, plans are afoot to launch multiple projects — such as in the North Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, and Southeast Asia — […]

Some companies are turning to fossil fuels to power their data centers as countries around the world scramble to meet rising energy demands amid the AI boom (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-energy-supply-data-centers/

Countries are struggling to meet the rising energy demands of data centers
Mexico's lagging energy grid is forcing companies, including Microsoft, to use generators.

Since Trump took office, Zapata had heard about federal agents showing up even at routine immigration hearings and taking migrants away in handcuffs.
He was afraid of being arrested and sent to a detention facility like the so-called Alligator Alcatraz in Florida,
or to a far-away country
— perhaps El Salvador or South Sudan, where authorities have shipped U.S. deportees in recent months.
“Imagine arriving in Africa with no documents and no money," Zapata said. …

Technologies that promise to track, manage, and supervise workers,
increasingly using artificial intelligence,
are entrenched in the developing world, according to a new report by Coworker.org,
a labor rights nonprofit based in New York. 
Audits of more than 150 startups and regional companies based in Kenya, Nigeria, Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, and India showed
workplace surveillance is expanding in scale and sophistication, the researchers said.
While lar…

VC money is fueling a global boom in worker surveillance tech
A funding surge has given rise to technologies to track, analyze and manage workers — often in countries with little regulation.