Douglas Tompkins often kayaked on General Carrera Lake, straddling Argentina and Chile in Patagonia. Although born in Ohio, USA, this place had become his home. He had arrived decades ago to explore it and stayed to protect it. Tompkins was a businessman with a passion for nature who, in 1968, along with his wife, Susie Tompkins, had founded The North Face, the brand specializing in mountaineering equipment. For many years, he had dedicated a significant portion of his fortune to purchasing ecologically valuable lands and restoring them to nature. The goal was to legally protect them from future degradation by human activity. He acquired, restored, protected, and ultimately ceded these areas to be transformed into national parks.

If you haven't read it, it's advisable to retrieve the ARA's Sunday dossier, which had a clear question as a generic title: "Where are you going, Israel?" At the moment it is (or rather: has led us) to an ethical debacle, the philosophers claimed. Victoria Camps and Santiago Alba Rico, who recalled the Holocaust and apartheid, and took to Adorno to try to understand the collapse represented by the extermination perpetrated by Israel in Gaza, with the tacit consent of the West. Tacit or explicit, in the case of the Trump administration. A report by Francisco Millan gives an uncomfortable account of the war as seen by Israeli citizens who justify it. Some are civilians, others are active military personnel. From a nightclub bouncer to a young Israeli sergeant fighting in the Strip, to a man who approaches the journalist while he's walking his dog, they all share a common view, which can be summed up as follows: "Hamas hates us and wants to make Israel disappear. We must make them disappear." It is a clear and concise exposition of hatred, how it takes hold and how it works. As an argument, they cite the 1,400 dead and hundreds of hostages taken by Hamas in the October 7, 2023, massacre. They forget to mention the more than 50,000 deaths in Palestine since then, in addition to the suffocation, famine, devastation, and crimes. Hatred (and its good friend, cynicism) is guaranteed to last for several more generations of conflict.

Donald Trump and his MAGA followers were waiting for this moment. California represents everything they hate most. It's a clearly Democratic state, with laws favorable to equality and diversity policies, and it also champions opposition to the president. Protests against the deportation of immigrants—which is being carried out everywhere without ensuring the rights of detainees or respect for human rights—have been the perfect excuse. Without any compelling reason, he ordered the deployment of National Guard troops in Los Angeles, something unprecedented that hadn't happened in decades. We should go back to 1992, when George W. Bush deployed troops in the city to restore order after the extremely serious disturbances, which left some sixty dead, following the acquittal of police officers who had beaten a young Black man to death. At that time, the situation was serious, and the governor himself had requested help.

A group of citizens has launched a satirical petition in response to Trump's announcement that he wants buy greenland, the oil-rich island that is an autonomous region of Denmark. Through a website loaded with irony, they have collected More than 200,000 signatures to buy California and turn it into Danish territory. "Have you ever looked at a map and thought, 'You know what Denmark needs? More sunshine, palm trees, and roller skates.' We have a unique opportunity to make that dream a reality," says the petition's website, which is billed as a crowdfunding effort to raise $1 billion. "We're buying California from Donald Trump!" Among the fake rewards are a personalized thank you note from the Danish royal family to "your own private beach in Malibu."