thelatinonewsletter.org/p/we-are-a-c... Just listened with delight to #AmericanColony podcast. Felicitaciones @juliorvarela.com and the whole team! I'm going to integrate this into my fall 200-level class on Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans.

www.costelloforsenate.com/about-4 I suspect Costello would be an excellent legislator, though he only got 9% in primary. Strong bio, diverse professional experiences.

The Merlin Bird ID app will soon allow users to contribute data to monitor bird populations and aid conservation efforts. The project at Cornell University that produced the Merlin Bird ID app was funded by NSF’s Directorate for STEM Education (EDU), which was gutted by the Trump regime. 🪶

A massive marine heat wave in the Pacific, spanning an area 8x the contiguous US, is expected to intensify storms, exacerbate heat waves on land, and raise sea levels, particularly along the California coast. Climate change will increase the frequency and intensity of marine heat waves.

It's tragically appropriate that we spent a whole generation telling students that the humanities were moribund, and they should all study STEM, only for the greatest innovations in STEM to prove why the humanities were so essential all along.

Let me tell you something, solar panels are a wonder. Got them this March and haven’t paid $50 for electricity in April and haven’t owed a dime since. And this is the northeast! There should be solar sails all over the Southeast and Southwest powering the whole country.

www.msn.com/en-us/politi... New podcast launching today out of Latino Rebels: American Colony, focused on Puerto Rico and the status question.

ZKM is historically literate. And he manages to be soaring/inspiring while remaining specific in linking past justice struggles to today's "polycrisis".

www.heritage.vi/anna-elizabe... July 3 1848: Enslaved people demanded and got emancipation from Danish West Indies governor influenced by Anna Heegaard, a free mixed-race woman who had formed a domestic partnership with the governor years earlier.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel... Unconscionable to send TPS holders to Haiti in these conditions. UN and especially France must hasten to get new forces in place to protect the Haitian people. Flows of US weapons to gangs must be addressed. Where is Marco Rubio?

www.msn.com/en-xl/news/o... This is a really lovely piece about South Korean youth learning about and honoring Puerto Rico's 65th which served valiantly in the Korean War

I feel like I should repost this every day until everyone reposts it every day and demands this simple change with big impact

Today, I shared Omar's story on the House floor because dignity, due process, and basic humanity must be nonnegotiable. Read more:

Having Medicare for All would help. You could take less PAC $ from the health insurance industry @morelle.house.gov

Thank you @morelle.house.gov

A result from New York today, one week after the primaries: Mo Brown has ousted Assemblymember Bill Magnarelli in the Democratic primary for a Syracuse-region legislative seat. www.localsyr.com/news/your-lo... Brown is a democratic socialist, adding to Left gains NY, and outside of NYC.

And would you like to guess which of Puerto Rico's 3 main Political parties stood up to the US Navy in 2000 and helped the locals in organizing protest to drive them off.

‘Everyone dies of cancer’: the Puerto Rican island poisoned by the US navy

Right-wingers are waging war on Reconstruction. Yesterday’s decision in Trump v. Barbara was a narrow 5-4 victory, but the reactionaries are not going to stop. Shame on some people for serving as foot soldiers for MAGA. My essay for @liberalcurrents.com: www.liberalcurrents.com/the-war-on-r...

in about a half hour, I'll be joining @elienyc.bsky.social, @leahlitman.bsky.social, and @mikesacks.bsky.social to talk about how the Supreme Court is lying to us, and what we can do about it hopefully you'll join too! tune in to @courtacctability.bsky.social live at 11am ET bit.ly/courtstream2026

#birthrightcitizenship #14thamendment #PuertoRico en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_... The 1940 Nationality Act ensured birthright citizenship--not just birthright naturalization--to Puerto Ricans from January 1941. But the US Constitution has never been amended to reflect this statute.

🚨 HEY #NEWYORK RESIDENTS: A quick reminder that ~450,000 of you are about to lose your healthcare coverage tomorrow. Yes, that's right, if you're enrolled in the "Essential Plan" healthcare program, your coverage may expire at midnight tonight. acasignups.net/25/09/12/new...

@morelle.house.gov I beg you to speak with @elienyc.bsky.social @sifill.bsky.social and @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app about this as part of your work to protect voting rights in November

Crucial issue but as usual American workers in the FIVE non-incorporated territories are left out of the linked news report.

The Trump admin limited OSHA’s ability to hold bosses accountable when they don’t protect workers from heat. 530 workers died from heat illness on the job in 2024. Now, much of the country is bracing for a dangerous heat wave this week. Workers deserve to be safe on the job.

Congratulations Neal Haddaway and team on the launch of Edible Empire, a new podcast on the hidden costs of our food system, from food imperialism to the fight for something fairer. I’m excited for the series, and to hear the episode I’m in! thesalmonandthetomato.org/edibleempire...

Call your senators now at 202-224-3121 and ask them to co-sponsor S. 4814 to prevent mass detention and deportation of Haitian families.

We've hit the 3,000 mark in letters to Congress on the mad power-grab by Russell Vought at OMB to take over all federal grant making with a team of political commissars reporting to him. Let's get to 4,000 letters this week. Share. Share. Share. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...

"original flag" = light blue of Puerto Rican independentistas

And nobody cares except us. I’m on like six unemployed black woman listservs, where everyone’s freaking out, and nobody’s like “I’m running on trying to get y’all jobs.” It’s like we’re being erased from American society.

I wrote four solid paragraphs today through low-grade fever. *With* polished footnotes, which are honestly pleasantly mindless after all that thinking.

Our independent federal regulatory agencies were created to protect the public from corporate harms. The only reason to end these protections is to give corporate America even higher profits by shifting the risks of harms to individual people. The shame of the John Roberts court.

Congress can pass all the laws it wants, but this court will gut them unless Congress strips jurisdiction. We have to add four seats, have 18 year term limits with senior status and staggered appointments, and create actual ethics rules with consequences. Project 2029.

Sotomayor: "The Court gives the President a power unknown even to the English Crown against which the Founders revolted, elevating him above his once-coequal branches by transforming a duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed into a license to act in defiance of those very laws."

Political football: @juliagaffield.bsky.social on FIFA and banning the Haiti players' shirt @theconversation.com theconversation.com/fifas-haiti-...

Bad Bunny review – dynamic Latin superstar hosts thrilling party

citylore.org/places/park-... "birthplace of New York Latin dance" 86 years ago today 1500 Puerto Ricans crowded in for a night of poetry from Julia Burgos, speeches from CIO-aligned island labor leaders and Rep Vito Marcantonio. Fundraiser but also howl of rage @ Congress for cutting min wages in PR

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Great piece from April. One caveat: Puerto Rico did not become "autonomous" in 1952. Becoming a Free Associated State was just rebranding non-incorporated territory status (colonial status).

From Forbes but here's the key bit. Parents: your kid can major in a humanities or social science and have career success in *many* fields

There’s nothing wrong with Haitians! I’m getting sick of this state enforced bigotry & violence against them just like I’ve long been sick of the US sabotaging them at every turn with its imperialism. This is the world’s first Black republic! A proud free people you’d be honored to know some of.

After reading this, I'm now convinced that Hunter Biden is 100% sober.

@morelle.house.gov please fight authoritarian Republicans not the Democratic Party's left flank

Our 2026 Supplement (#18) "Medicine, Race, and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600–1850" Edited by @hsmurphy.bsky.social (@kingshistory.bsky.social @cemskcl.bsky.social) Has now been published by @academic.oup.com academic.oup.com/past/issue/2...