Yesterday I started working with indices de catastro. These are alphabetic lists of property owners, their property, transactions, and property values. #Guadalajara #Mexico #sources #history #skystorians #archives #Urban The archivist had to clean off the books because she says nobody consults them.

Conflict and Correspondence is now available from the @univnebpress.bsky.social in hard, soft, and digital. #academicsky #Mexico #Urban #Guadalajara #belonging #conflict #cities Learn how tapatios found belonging through conflict in mid-century Mexico. www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

Guillermo O'Donnell wrote this 26 years ago in an edited collection about the rule of law in Latin America. The Rule of Law is a complicated idea (see Whigs and Hunters), but generally it helps prevent civil decay and unrest. #RuleOfLaw

Health Canada has for the first time approved an antibody drug that can slow the progression of Alzheimer’s, @kellygrant1.bsky.social reports www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

"You are the magic weapon."

Public busses in #Guadalara #Mexico. 75 people in a full bear hug racing then suddenly braking together in absolute silence except a Luismi soundtrack.

Bife, it's what's for MAGA.

"The girlfriend of one of the founders of ANTIFA."

In 2008 I was walking at 6am in Columbus, NM after camping at the state park with students. Border Patrol was driving on another street, saw me, flipped around, came racing up on me, pulled up, looked at me, then raced off. My white face was my "papers."

My daughter yesterday met a woman here in GDL from #Africa who was dumped in #Mexico by #ICE with 3 US citizen kids (twin 6yos and a 3yo). She's living in her car with the kids. Local org working to get her connected to resources.

Saying it again into the void: #Farm and #Ranch voters are not the same as #Rural voters. Killing fams is not a losing position for the #MAGA #GOP because they retain rural voters via other positions. Farm votes are miniscule: even #skateboarders are a larger voting bloc.

CRY HAVOC AND LET SLIP THE DOGS OF SEATTLE PROCESS!

#history #fascism #disney Today as I was reading an archival collection I saw this. Posting for no reason in particular ;). "Il Duce Benito Mussolini Goes After Mickey Mouse."

This is amazing.

#Mexico #Guadalajara #History #memes

1892: Zelia Nuttall to Frederic Putnam on his slow publishing of her conference paper. My last article took 2 years. #academicsky #academia #history

#history #mexico #Guadalajara #academicsky Pleased to announce I have finished press edits. _Conflict and Correspondence_ is available for pre-order. Enjoy this exploration of the sensate, moral, recreational, holy, and gendered conflicts used to find belonging in a transforming mid-century city.

AI, the next great bubble to burst.

What do #tariffs and protectionism look like in midwest #aluminum production? Turns out a national sales #tax, erm, I mean #tariff stifles industry.

Your reminder that there is no ethical use for #AI... not even to generate pictures of how horribl AI is.

Tuve el honor de participar en un coloquio de INAH sobre Zapatismo y mormonismo. Aún que dejé de estudiar el tema hace 10 años fue un placer de escuchar a Dra. Esquivel y Dr. Olarte. www.youtube.com/live/j1PipxH...

Summer class watched @isanchezprado.bsky.social with Miguel Jiménez w/ the Lit & Luz Festival book club and the LA Review of Books. The discussion is great, but also includes resources like a list of suggested readings that a couple of the students are already using. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvuF...

In light of the NY Times article on #AI in #classrooms, let's have a side bar. Just step over here for a moment... There is no ethical use for AI and its planet-killing level of energy use. As a reminder of whose side you are on when you choose AI, #academia: techcrunch.com/2024/12/13/e...

"Fuera Gringos!" Hundreds march in La Condesa, the heart of the expat community in Mexico City, against gentrification and rising housing prices.

"Resistance" at Harvard:

Harvard will hand out a few "folding chairs" while doubling down on white legacy admissions? This will make AY25-26 Harvard different from AY 19-20 how? I mean, beyond the couple months of performative "resistance" to diversify their brand in the eyes of a few folks who were suckered by it.

In 2015 I attended PAX Dev in Seattle and spent time talking to video / board / table top game companies and every one of them said they want Historians in their organizations. Some for the history, but others for writers and researchers and others because they just liked the general attitude.

Headed to #KC to grade #AP #History exams. Also, living through a week that will be on AP exams in 20 years.

At 13 I had a job. That I drove to. #Montana #Rural. Before that I just did farm work and roamed around coulees and creeks in the prairie. My kids roam in our small town - though yesterday I did have to go scrape my skateboarding daughter off the street after a terrible wreck. #FreedomIsn'tFree?

😡Bean counter changing a writing intensive class capped @ 20 students to 30 saying "Y'all need to generate at least 528 student credit hours/yr" (quarter system). Me, a full professor: Last year I taught that class generating 40 SCH along with an additional 1,009 SCH. El cucuy te espera, contador.

From #class today: #Student, looking at the name Jean Jacques Rousseau on the screen: "Can I just call him Jean Jacket Russell?" I do not dislike that.

You need a slo mo rooster in your life to start the week off in these troubled times.

As a Montana kid, I still see in Jon #Tester what I saw in Brian Schweitzer: A fire that could help win back agricultural voters (though probably not non-ag rural voters) for D's. An interesting conversation with @governorwalz.mn.gov

Upcoming at 92nd st Y www.92ny.org/event/disast...

An interesting conversation about #HigherEd #Academia and #Academics between Brooks and @profgalloway.com. Touches on elite ed with passing reference to community colleges. The bulk of uni ed happens at non-elite public 4yr institutions that few are concerned with or talking about.

Current situation: person in one office beside me talking about my research specialty and getting it all wrong. On the other side the prof from Psych going on about the radical left and their woke ideology ruining unis while giving tips to his student on how to write research papers with ChatGPT.

Some Amish police? A silly but telling moment in the limitations of the machines and their exclusion / erasure of native societies and languages (be it the butchering of place names or the absence of other history and knowledge). Sammamish police.

Historians always said "states' rights" was a screen. When they started this in #Texas by blocking Dem city laws we warned you. I was told I didn't understand national politics. Now we're warning you that women's #health care is next.

Lo más reciente del Archivo de Seguridad Nacional sobre la colaboración larga y secreta entre México y los EEUU. @nsarchive.bsky.social @cldorfman.bsky.social www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2025...

Investigative journalist @oscarbalmen.bsky.social, who reports on organized crime in Mexico, points out that José Muñoz, the assistant killed with Mexico City mayor Clara Brugada's personal secretary this morning, was an important liaison between police and the Mexico City state government.

TOP AI IN EDUCATION FAILS ... so far:

On luddism, sabotage, "AI" and the contemporary conditions of automation/fauxtomation... A good read! thenib.com/im-a-luddite/

📢 Today, as El Faro celebrates 27 years of journalism, we launch our digital magazine, Central America Monthly. On the 15th of every month, El Faro English will provide deeper answers to pressing questions in our region. beta.elfaro.net/en/monthly/i...

This schtick of Latin American #history as "hidden" is a great way for journalists to cover for their lack of historical breadth. And Grandin? Grandin is ... on band.

From bustling and ever-changing New York City to the effervescent celebration of everyday life in Buenos Aires, discover five stand-out photobooks by women artists.

Recomiendo esta nota de @jacobinlat.bsky.social

Meanwhile, in #Canada...

people need to bring this up more about reagan

My bluest state uni just killed required anti-racism courses and dumped its mission, values, and vision statements to get MAGA compliant and not potentially lose student aid funds. Not a peep from @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social

In completely unrelated news: 🙄 Faculty senate at my WA uni just voted to be Trump compliant and kill our required anti-discrimination courses. 30 to 12 vote. Not even close. Radical academia, indeed.