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"The international press argued, with some justification, that playing at 7,200 feet under the midday sun would be an updated form of the human sacrifice practised by the Aztecs. The project seemed to be designed for heroes accustomed to surviving on little oxygen"
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And Juan VIlloro on the woes of El Tri
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Equator World Cup 2026 reading:
@mohamhawish.bsky.social on the endurance of Palestinian football
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Can't help but draw parallels between Reform, DUP & other bigots fanning the flames of right-wing UK nationalists. Attacking immigrants, in pogroms, rioting & burning by the right-wing fascists of the Indian BJP -- all the way back in 2013 -- doing the very same thing www.equator.org/articles/sce...
At @equatormag.bsky.social, Joe Sacco discusses the experience of having his new book on the Muzaffarnagar riots pulled by Penguin Random House India, as well as how the Muzaffarnagar story has broader relevance for political violence elsewhere.
“Just as the first Leo upheld the dignity of the worker in the age of the steam engine, so the new Leo means to uphold the dignity of the person in the age of the algorithm.”
Motherfucker is gonna make me un-lapse.
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More on vile systemic violence and the very cowardice that enables said violence:
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Strongly recommend the Equator podcast. This episode was excellent. Going through all of them at the moment while I draw.
I taught it last semester and it is a brilliant work.
SO GOOD 👏🏽
Why an Indian publisher dropped Joe Sacco’s new book on a riot in north India
Joe Sacco spent years reporting on a communal riot in Uttar Pradesh for his new work of graphic reportage. But his Indian publisher abruptly dropped the book before it could be sold there. We have published an excerpt
Pankaj Mishra and @naomiaklein.bsky.social discuss how modern fascisms differ from those of the mid-20th century -- and how US tech firms are complicit in the dystopias of today. Find us on any major podcast app of your choice. Visit us at www.equator.org/podcasts to know more.
“In recognition of the fact that football causes heart attacks, the Estadio Azteca was built near Mexico City’s Institute of Cardiology.”
Juan Villoro translated Francisco Cantu
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