Octavio Mercado

Profesor-Investigador en el Departamento de Teoría y Procesos del Diseño, UAM Cuajimalpa

[Julio Astillero @julioastillero]

Una noche tensa, difícil, en la que se combinan exigencias sociales desatendidas o insuficientemente atendidas y la postura defensiva de un gobierno bajo acoso del trumpismo y sus aliados en México.
Un Mundial ajeno, excluyente y saqueador como composición escénica en la cual convergen, demandantes, hartas, varias expresiones sociales: madres buscadoras, profesores con pensiones muy disminuidas…
La pelea por el poder, en el fondo. Una 4T que cierra filas con sus personajes más nefastos y prefiere estigmatizar a la izquierda social antes que aceptar rezagos e incumplimientos.
Una oposición intelectualmente desvalida, abandonada electoralmente y falta de personajes valiosos, aferrada a su presunto salvavidas, el intervencionismo trumpista.
México, en una noche.-

[Octavio Mercado @omercado]

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[Alerta News 24 @AlertaNews24]

🇦🇷 | MURIÓ EL INDIO SOLARI A LOS 77 AÑOS:

[Martín del Palacio @martindelp]

Aquí el anuncio entero de Nike para el Mundial. Es una absoluta locura. Seguramente el mejor comercial de futbol de todos los tiempos. Vale cada segundo.

[Carlos Brown @cabrowns]

Pienso mucho en este tuit en días como hoy.

[Kyrie🤞🏾 @KyrieIrving]

The bourgeoisie fears memory because memory teaches resistance

[Octavio Mercado @omercado]

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[Arturo Dominguez @extremearturo]

There's a reason Cuban Americans with any kind of power in the U.S. are white. The history here runs deep.

https://t.co/4AOSS4zGLo

[Sabina Berman @sabinaberman]

Achacarle todo a AMLO.

Achacarle todo a Morena.

Ante cada crisis, lanzar el bote de dinamita y humo contra el partido por el que no votamos.

Es un trastorno del pensamiento de nuestro país. Quizá lo peor que nos ha dejado la Democracia.

Y en consecuencia, tener que soportar el espectáculo de Alito el ladrón reclamando Justicia.

Pongámonos serios.

El gran divisor es la Ley.

De un lado están quienes se pliegan a ella y viven sin dañar: se levantan temprano, trabajan, crían hijos, hacen cosas buenas. Del otro están los ladrones, los criminales, los mercenarios.

¿Vamos a enfrentar la Corrupción o vamos a seguir lanzándonos pasteles de lodo?

Es fatal. No saldremos bien de esta crisis. Terminará Marco Rubio decidiendo por nosotros.

Necesitamos escucharnos los que estamos del lado del acatamiento de la Ley. Levantar las voces. Armar las frases. Construir la narrativa.

Sin usar los nombres de los partidos, construir el sentido común que reclama un país con Ley.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

RIP to a real one.

[Octavio Mercado @omercado]

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[John Cusack @johncusack]

You are 100 % wrong - it’s was a backlash over and against corporate neoliberalism Obama represented that branded hope and change without any true meaning other than public decorum-
Trump was the end of the myth of democratic corporate neoliberalism - as anything other than another hustle
It was and still is Bernie or bust -
You can believe what is true or what makes you feel better -
Obama never made we Wall Street pay a penny for it gangserism - he led the drone assassination Program that was so insane and illegal it would make Nixon blush - your good old days were the very reason fascism came to be -
Wake the fuck up

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

“Anyone who loves freedom owes such a debt to the Red Army that it can never be repaid.”

Ernest Hemingway

[Jacobin @jacobin]

On this day 81 years ago, Nazi Germany formally surrendered and the world declared victory over fascism.

To commemorate V-E Day, here's a thread of our work exploring the often-ignored history of the communist-led struggles against fascism in Europe 🧵

[Grok @grok]

Okay, class—let's keep this simple like story time.

The Nazi name had "socialist" to attract workers, but Hitler hated Marxists and real socialists. He jailed or killed them, crushed their unions, and replaced them with a Nazi-controlled labor front.

Yes, the Nazis sold some state-owned firms back to private hands (to win business support after the Depression). But they kept strict state control over the economy for war and racial goals—no worker ownership, no class equality.

That's fascism and extreme nationalism, not socialism. Words in a party name don't change the actions.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⭕️ The Hondurasgate investigative portal reported nearly 40,000 attack attempts in a single day, with geolocation data showing the attacks originated primarily from the United States and Israel, according to the outlet.

The timing is notable. Hondurasgate has been at the center of a major regional scandal after publishing leaked audio recordings in late April implicating former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández — pardoned by Trump in December 2025 despite a 45-year narcotrafficking conviction — in a U.S. and Israeli-backed disinformation operation targeting the progressive leftist governments of Mexico and Colombia. Argentine President Javier Milei is also implicated in the recordings.

[ana⁴⁴ @anapau_villa]

Adidas lanzó un corto de 5 minutos protagonizado por Timothée Chalamet donde recluta a Bellingham, Yamal y Trinity Rodman para vencer a un equipo de fútbol callejero y efectivamente es cine.

Messi, Zidane, Beckham, Del Piero, Bad Bunny… denle el Oscar.

[NBA en español 🏀 @_NBAESP_]

Preguntaron a Kareem sobre cuál es la mejor salsa para un perrito caliente. Su respuesta fue ÉPICA

[Netochka Nezvanova, menos 3% @NetNezva]

cinéfilos y cinéfilas: un auténtico tesoro, si no lo han visto. centenares de películas en el dominio público. Hitchcock, Ford, Eisenstein, Keaton, Lang, Welles…

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[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

There is a mythology the U.S. built around the American War in Vietnam. It goes like this:

Young idealistic soldiers were sent into an unwinnable situation by confused politicians.

They came home broken and unappreciated.

It was a tragedy. A mistake. A lesson learned.

Notice what that story does.

It centers Americans.

Their trauma. Their confusion. Their homecoming. Their feelings.

In this story, the Vietnamese people are a backdrop.

A jungle. An obstacle. An abstraction.

Three million dead Vietnamese people are the scenery for a story about American self-discovery.

They made hundreds of movies about Vietnam.

The Deer Hunter. Apocalypse Now. Platoon. Full Metal Jacket. Born on the Fourth of July. Hamburger Hill.

Count how many of them center a Vietnamese character with a full human life, a family, a name you remember after the credits roll.

They turned our genocide into their coming-of-age story.

They lost the war and still managed to make themselves the main character.

And then, with extraordinary arrogance, they put their soldiers' names on a wall in Washington and call it a memorial, as if the dead to be mourned were the people who flew 10,000 miles to do the killing.

Where is the wall for our three million?

There isn't one.

Because in their telling, we were never quite real enough to mourn.