In this episode of the Soberanía Podcast, hosts Jose Luis Granados Ceja and Kurt Hackbarth discuss: the reappearance of AMLO, the resignation of Mexico's Attorney General Gertz Manero, and the recent elections in Honduras. They delve into AMLO's return to public life, his new book, and the political implications of his actions. The resignation of Gertz Manero is analyzed in the context of his controversial tenure and the challenges facing Mexico's justice system. The hosts also explore the surprising election results in Honduras, highlighting the role of US intervention and the impact on regional politics. The episode concludes with the usual 'losers and haters' segment, where they critique an Obama-era figure.

A DSA member just won one of the most significant left-wing electoral victories in recent memory with Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York — despite red-baiting, anti-Palestinian smears, and a full-on campaign to demonize socialism.

But that victory has raised big questions: Why keep Jessica Tisch as NYPD commissioner? Why discourage a primary against Hakeem Jeffries — and then endorse him for Speaker? What does accountability look like when socialists actually win power?

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Ronny Chieng covers the latest on the Trump administration’s petty changes to free-entry days at national parks, the president’s promise to bail out farmers after f**king up the economy, Melania’s attempt to spread some yuletide cheer, and Sean Duffy’s Department of Transportation press conference that turned into a d**k-measuring contest against RFK Jr.

On another edition of Who Won It Best, Desi Lydic and Troy Iwata recap the FIFA World Cup Draw and Peace Prize Ceremony, the biggest award show you’ve never heard of, where the balls were mingled, the Village People performed the “YMCA,” and Trump received a trophy, medal, and certificate before jetting over to the Kennedy Center Honors to make KISS’s big night all about himself.

Journalist, internet activist, and author Cory Doctorow talks to Ronny about the concept behind his latest book, “Enshittification,” which breaks down how tech giants like Facebook, Amazon, and Google have made the internet worse for everybody by locking in users only to turn on them. He also stresses how the blame for the “enshittification” of the internet shouldn’t be placed on consumers, but on policy makers, and points to anti-trust enforcement, tech worker unions, and interoperability as the keys to remaking an internet that benefits users instead of billionaires.

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Trump contradicts his phony FIFA peace prize by cranking up the heat on military action in Venezuela, a country Newsmax host Greg Kelly couldn’t find on a map, and Jon Stewart gets an assist from The Daily Show archives and a time-traveling Rob Corddry to show how MAGA’s drumbeat for war with Venezuela is Iraq all over again.

Malala Yousafzai, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, education activist, and bestselling author, returns to The Daily Show to chat with Jon about her new memoir, “Finding My Way.” They talk about how much her life has changed since she first visited the show at 16, including graduating college and getting married, and how she came to realize she doesn’t have to be perfect. She also opens up about managing mental health and societal projections while pursuing activist work and the school for women she founded in Pakistan, which just graduated its first-ever class.

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Christian Tietze gave a very nice talk at the EmacsConf 2025 about Zettelkastens and their implementation in Emacs. The first part of his talk is about Zettelkastens and why you should be using one. He also discusses what type of information to put in an entry and the purpose of forward and backward links.

The second part of the talk discusses how Tietze uses Protesilaos Stavrou’s Denote package to implement his own Zettelkasten and give a demonstration of it in action. There are, of course, some dedicated Zettlelkasten packages like org-roam and org-node but Denote seems like a more flexible solution although it may lack some of the features of org-roam and its brethren.

My main complaint about the video is that it moves too quickly and is hard to follow in places. That’s especially true of the demonstration. On the other hand, Tietze probably had at least a soft time restraint for his talk and had a lot to cover.

Before the talk, Tietze published a post that outlined what his talk was about at a philosophical level and has a link to the conference page for his talk that contains an transcript of the talk and some of the material he shows in the talk. It’s worthwhile taking a look at this resource before watching the video to help you follow along.

The talk is 23 minutes, 18 seconds long so plan accordingly.

Nick and Ciarán discuss the recent White House National Security Document and Europe trying to pay for Ukraine's Defense

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Danny and Derek welcome back Brendan James and Noah Kulwin, of the Blowback podcast, for a tour through their latest season, which takes the show to Angola. They discuss how Angola became one of the largest and least-remembered battlefields of the Cold War, Reagan’s return to proxy wars, Cuba’s decision to send troops without Soviet approval, South Africa’s “total onslaught” ideology, the Reagan era’s fanaticism, its echoes in today’s politics, and what happens when the U.S. exports its wars (and mythology) across continents.

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Aaron and Bryce discuss the increasingly unraveling spectacle of the late US Empire. 

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The preponderance of Markdown formatted text in both websites and apps is a blessing and a point of friction for Org users. The content is there, but if you’re an Org user, you really prefer the text to be formatted for Org. If you have Pandoc installed, converting from Markdown to Org is trivial but laborious as it involves making the right command invocation with temporary files.

Thankfully, Emacs can automate this conversion as described in the workflow below:

• From the source app or website, copy the Markdown into the system clipboard. This step pushes this text into the Emacs kill-ring.
• In Emacs, invoke a command which converts the above Markdown text into Org, then pastes (yanks) converted text into a desired Org file.

Note that this workflow presumes that the Emacs kill-ring is integrated with the system clipboard and that pandoc is installed.

The following Elisp command cc/yank-markdown-as-org implements the above workflow:

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(defun cc/yank-markdown-as-org ()
  "Yank Markdown text as Org.

This command will convert Markdown text in the top of the `kill-ring'
and convert it to Org using the pandoc utility."
  (interactive)
  (save-excursion
    (with-temp-buffer
      (yank)
      (shell-command-on-region
       (point-min) (point-max)
       "pandoc -f markdown -t org --wrap=preserve" t t)
      (kill-region (point-min) (point-max)))
    (yank)))

This command can be invoked in numerous ways including by key binding, context menu, Transient menu, and directly via M-x. My preference is using the context menu as illustrated in the screenshot below to optimize for mouse copy/paste interactions between different apps.

Users interested in seeing how I’ve configured my context menu can read the source here. Users unfamiliar with Emacs context menus can learn more about it in my post Customizing the Emacs Context Menu.

Closing Thoughts

Implementing cc/yank-markdown-as-org turned out to be a lot more simpler than expected, as the command shell-command-on-region does the heavy lifting in abstracting away the pandoc command invocation and its handling of temporary files. This implementation can serve as a example for other conversions using the kill-ring.

A word of thanks to mekeor on IRC for reminding me that (point-min) and (point-max) exist.

Ankit Gadiya has a very nice post that explains and demonstrates how he uses Org for presentations. It’s a nice workflow that uses Org, Logos, Olivetti, and Pikchr to create and display his presentation.

Gadiya starts his presentations with an outline. That’s a natural thing to do in Org mode, of course, and he has things configured so that each header and subheader is the title of a slide. That makes it easy to move things around an restructure the presentation.

He uses Pikchr, a Pic-like language for line diagrams. I didn’t know about it and have never used it but I have used Pic a lot and really like it. I’ll definitely be checking out Pikchr since I don’t use the Troff suite much any longer.

A nice thing about Gadiya’s post is that he shows his complete configuration so it’s easy to replicate or adapt it. I like this approach much better than the fancier packages like Apple’s Keynote that I always find difficult to use because they offer so many features.

If you regularly—or even occasionally—find yourself giving presentations, take a look at Gadiya’s post. If you’re an Org user, you’ll find the workflow familiar and easy. He has a lot of good ideas and they’re all documented well in his post.

Last month, Senate Democrats warned that "Automation Could Destroy Nearly 100 Million U.S Jobs in a Decade." Ironically, they used ChatGPT to come to that conclusion. DAIR Research Associate Sophie Song joins us to unpack the issues when self-professed worker advocates use chatbots for "research."

Sophie Song is a researcher, organizer, and advocate working at the intersection of tech and social justice. They’re a research associate at DAIR, where they're working with Alex on building the Luddite Lab Resource Hub.

References:

• Senate report: AI and Automation Could Destroy Nearly 100 Million U.S Jobs in a Decade
• Senator Sanders' AI Report Ignores the Data on AI and Inequality

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• MAIHT3k Episode 25: An LLM Says LLMs Can Do Your Job
• Humlum paper: Large Language Models, Small Labor Market Effects
• Emily's blog post: Scholarship should be open, inclusive and slow

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• 'Godfather of AI' says tech giants can't profit from their astronomical investments unless human labor is replaced
• If you want to satiate AI’s hunger for power, Google suggests going to space
• AI pioneers claim human-level general intelligence is already here
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For the fifth stop of the series, Mark travels to Lerwick, the capital of Shetland, perched at the far edge of Britain, where everyone’s on first-name terms with the fog.

It’s a place where Viking heritage meets oil rigs and knitting patterns, where the winter fire festival Up Helly Aa lights up the darkness, and where the locals are masters of making their own fun.

This is the first of Mark’s two shows from Shetland, recorded in front of an audience in Lerwick. Later in the series he’ll also be visiting Unst, the UK’s most northerly inhabited island.

This is the 14th series of Mark's award winning show where he travels around the country visiting towns that have nothing in common but their uniqueness. After thoroughly researching each town, Mark writes and performs a bespoke evening of comedy for a local audience.

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Suzi talks with historian Eric Blanc about a timely chapter in American socialist history: the rise — and limits — of Milwaukee’s “sewer socialists.” His article, “Socialists in City Hall? A New Look at Sewer Socialism in Wisconsin,” reexamines this often-disparaged experiment in municipal socialism at a moment when New York prepares for Zohran Mamdani’s administration. Mamdani’s victory — built on years of organizing in immigrant and working-class neighborhoods — reopens the question of whether socialists can not only win, but govern in America’s most unequal cities.

A century ago, Milwaukee elected socialist mayors who delivered clean, efficient, working-class governance — public power, parks, housing, and real material improvements. They weren’t making a revolution; they were governing within capitalism, and ran up against its limits: employer backlash, national political shifts, and the hard reality that municipal power can only go so far without broader working-class strength.

Eric argues that this history offers essential lessons for the Left today: how to build durable political organization, use office to win tangible gains, and govern competently while expanding working-class power — without mistaking municipal office for municipal socialism, or making the sewers more important than the socialism.

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How do you do, fellow kids? In this special episode of Soberanía, hosts Kurt Hackbarth and José Luis Granados Ceja lay out the truth behind what was billed as a "youth" march and instead was a by-the-book, attempt at astroturfed destablization. This includes blow-by-blow coverage of the march itself, from their search for actual young people among the marchers to the scenes of violence in the Zócalo provoked for international consumption. All of this leading directly to President Trump saying, on cue, that he would be "okay" with airstriking Mexico, and the US embassy tweeting that there would only be an intervention "if Mexico wants it." Kurt and José Luis then analyze the interests behind the destabilization attempt, including Ricardo Salinas Pliego, whose Elektra Group lost seven tax cases before the Supreme Court last week, and international far-right interests such as The Atlas Network and the website "La Derecha Diario", which egged on the most extreme scenes witnessed on Saturday.

In this episode, we explore protests by Mexican farmers who are challenging the low prices they receive for corn, highlighting the role of intermediaries in the agricultural supply chain and how corn dumping by the US is putting pressure on campesinos. We then return to Gen Z march in Mexico, focusing on the ties to the opposition and the colossal failure of their second attempt to hold a demonstration. Finally, we delve into the strategic maneuvers of the United States in Latin America, particularly focusing on Honduras as a testing ground for US policies and its implications for regional stability. And as always, don't miss our "Losers and Haters" segment, where we critique a New York Times article on "Russian disinformation" in Mexico.

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This conversation examines China’s early post-Korean War period and the political and social campaigns that defined the new PRC. The group discusses land reform, the Three-anti and Five-anti campaigns, Soviet-style economic planning centered on heavy industry, and the technocratic overhaul of higher education. They also explore China’s deteriorating relationship with the United States, shifting ties with the Soviet Union after Stalin’s death, early signs of the Sino-Soviet split, and Mao’s tightening control.

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From host Andrew Hunter Murray and The Skewer's Jon Holmes comes Radio 4’s newest Friday night comedy The Naked Week, with a blend of the silly and serious. From satirical stunts to studio set pieces via guest correspondents and investigative journalism, it's a bold, audacious take not only on the week’s news, but also the way it’s packaged and presented.

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We've discussed Germany's relationship with Israel and Palestine from several different angles on the show. How can we sum it all up? To offer his perspective, Prof. Dirk Moses outlines the five elements of what he calls the "German Catechism." He and Ted examine its five elements, how it developed, and the ways in which it has evolved after two years Hamas' October 7th attacks and Israel's subsequent assault on Gaza.

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-Read the "Education after Gaza" piece here: https://blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/2025-09/a-dirk-moses-education-after-gaza-after-education-after-auschwitz

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It's been six months since our last all-Hell episode! In honor of Halloween season, we take a long journey into the very scary Fresh AI Hell mines. Topics include terrifying uses of AI in education, scientific research, and politics — plus, some delicious palate cleansers along the way.

AI bubble: bigger than dot-com bust?

No one wants to pay for ChatGPT

Meta lays off 600 from AI unit

AI data centers: an even bigger disaster than we thought

Public universities anticipate data center-driven power outages

Chaser: Deloitte has to pay back Albanese government after using AI in report

"AI" schools are "dead classrooms"

Fake sources in "ethical AI" education report

Parents letting kids play with AI

Startup sells 'synthetic influencers'

AI-powered textbooks fail to make the grade

Chaser: "High-reliability" AI slop

Nature offers "AI-powered research assistant"

AI bots wrote all papers at this conference

"AI" reviewing at AAAI

AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and POC

Therapists are secretly using ChatGPT

Chaser: Microsoft blocks Israel's use of its technology

German initiative uses "AI" for voter education

Police gunshot detection mics will listen for human voices

SF's AI chatbot for RV dwellers

Cuomo campaign posts racist AI slop

DHS Ordered OpenAI To Share User Data

Chaser: LA County moves to limit license plate tracking

A new form of eugenics

"AI Superintelligence" prohibition letter

Emad Mostaque's LLM blurbs

Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery

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Like Make, the CSV file format will outlive us all. That said, editing a CSV file is a precarious task, as it can be easy to violate its separator and escape rules. Thankfully, the Emacs ecosystem has got you covered, with the 3rd party ELPA package csv-mode. This mode provides all kinds of conveniences including:

• spreadsheet-like visualizing and editing of fields (field alignment)
• separator auto-detection (comma, tab, space, etc.)
• support for quoted fields
• sorting by fields
• killing and yanking fields

To aid in the discovery and usage of these features, I’m happy to announce Casual CSV, a Transient menu for csv-mode, now available in the Casual v2.11.1 update on MELPA.

One notable feature Casual CSV adds is the ability to select a region of rows to copy to the kill-ring as an Org table. This is also usable in Markdown flavors that support tables.

Closing Thoughts and Caveats

YMMV on how well csv-mode works for you as its performance is tied to the size of CSV file you are working with. If you are trying to edit a CSV file that is hundreds of megabytes in size or greater, you might want to think twice before doing this in Emacs with csv-mode.

As a general rule, I try to avoid editing CSV files in the first place, as I prefer to think of them as files for data exchange. My ideal use-case for csv-mode is really for viewing. That said, if you really need to edit a CSV file, it is best to copy it first. Casual CSV reflects this sensibility by offering a command to duplicate a file.

To get the best results out of csv-mode, I highly recommend turning on field alignment and separator auto-detection. In addition, turning off line-wrapping will aid in both visualization and navigation. The following Elisp configuration shows how to do this.

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;; disable line wrap
(add-hook 'csv-mode-hook
          (lambda ()
            (visual-line-mode -1)
            (toggle-truncate-lines 1)))

;; auto detect separator
(add-hook 'csv-mode-hook #'csv-guess-set-separator)
;; turn on field alignment
(add-hook 'csv-mode-hook #'csv-align-mode)

Krystal and Saagar discuss MTG resigning, Saagar reacts to the Zohran Trump meeting, Zohran endorses Hakeem Jeffries for Speaker, and the Ukraine peace deal.

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