3:30 on a Friday is a ridiculous time for this but: WE STARTED A NEW SERIES! Stela: Science and Technology in Latin America, with editors David Dalton and Diana Montaño This basically means that if you work on just about anything in Latin American studies you’re now *required* to send it to me.

My partner Jon released a new album! It's instrumental math rock. Two drums + two pianos = 🔥. Check out "Our Neighbors the Giants" on your platform of choice 😁 open.spotify.com/album/7wCpWW...

less A quotas and more of this! THINKING remains the sine qua non

I've got to say that I'm becoming a bit sick of ecocritical readings that are basically celebratory: "Ooh look at the ecological ethic promoted by this novel!" What happened to looking for tensions, contradictions, the unsaid? Reading against the grain tends to be a lot more interesting.

I published the speech I read during the Latiné Student Celebration in my newsletter. If you wish to read it, link is in the photo

ok for real who wants to be the next MLA exec director, let's get a dynamo and get in formation

Explosive audio evidence indicates that the Trump administration is funding a misinformation campaign to discredit leftist leaders in Latin America. The ring leader is Juan Orlando Hernandez, the corrupt, cartel-aligned ex-pres of Honduras, who Trump pardoned 😡 english.elpais.com/internationa...

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There is no excuse for Kotlikoff to back up into a group of students 😠

“Video footage obtained by The Sun shows Students for a Democratic Cornell members Aiden Vallecillo ’26 and Hudson Athas ’27 being struck by the car. In the video, no person can be seen touching the vehicle before it drove into Vallecillo and Athas.” www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

"The Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Budget proposes to eliminate the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) & provides $38 million to conduct an orderly shutdown of the Agency." Disinvestment in the humanities is one way we've reached the current moment. Double the budget instead. Triple it.

I had no idea about this aspect of Hughes' life and work.

Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"

Inspiring win by Indigenous land defenders, who stopped plans to privatize the Amazonian Tapajós river and expand it into a megacanal to facilitate the export of soy products by Cargill www.theguardian.com/environment/...

1. The footage shows Homeland Security is lying when he got indoors and was wearing prison booties I doubt are good for the cold. 2. Nurul Amin Shah Alam apologized to police BEFORE he was tasered when he was originally arrested. wapo.st/3OCwNx8

Our book is published!!! mitpress.mit.edu/978191598348... There is supposed to be an open access version available, which does not seem to be actually available, and which I am doggedly pursing, but for now: hurrah! Print enjoyers, get your copies!

Awful, painful, terrifying day in Mexico yesterday. Here's a summary of the many many news I've been reading. I share it not as an expert, but to help myself make sense of things, so maybe it's useful for others who want to know what's going on but can't spent 5 hours reading the news. It hurts.

I found this piece generative. As someone who initially hit the job market during the brief period in which you could get a job in DH, is co-editing a Debates in DH volume, trying to build support for “DH” on my campus, & co-teaching a class with Matt called “Books as Data,” I have thoughts!

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

6/ “When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.” 9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.

"Baila sin miedo Ama sin miedo" made me tear up. Go Benito 🔥💖

Breaking, from me: An executive order from Oklahoma's governor directs most of the state's public colleges to "phase out tenure." #AcademicSky #HigherEd @chronicle.com www.chronicle.com/article/tenu...

BREAKING: A U.S. District Court judge blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to end protected status for about 330,000 Haitians living in the United States with Temporary Protected Status.

Congrats, Cornell, and every other university that bowed down to the bully.

Probably a day to promote this research from David Cortez. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

introducing AntiAnte, a platform for critical thought into politics and culture in and across Latin American, Caribbean, and Hemispheric contexts antiante.org

Trilce is a blazingly vivid revelation of what poetry can be, at once a love poem, a poem of erotic urgency and frustration, a poem of family life, of political fury, a lament for the dead, a work of intense privacy and an address to the world. www.nyrb.com/products/tri...

Friends in Spanish, Portuguese, and other language departments, do you offer a pro seminar for your grads? if so, do you have materials you'd be willing to share? Thank you!

“.. He cared about people deeply ..,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong ..” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national/202...

I much prefer the way the Minneapolis Star Tribune calls them "residents." That's what they are: residents standing up for their community

The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar. “There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center. Read the full story here: www.propublica.org/article/vide...

this certainly contradicts the statement put out by the feds, as in it is completely and utterly different

ICE officers approached vehicle in manner counter to training, DHS official tells NBC News www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Sick to my stomach. Solidarity, Minneapolis 💔

NYT: The death toll for the US attack on Venezuela has risen to 80, including civilians and members of security forces, and could rise further.

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

A deluge of work on regime change after the 2003 invasion of Iraq yielded strong (and rare) agreement in IR: it doesn't work & has terrible consequences. @profdownes.bsky.social's book Catastrophic Success lays it out, but it's right there in the title. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

It's like when he demolished the East Wing. No plan for the aftermath. Just an illegal show of power and a massive wake of rubble and destruction.

So fmr Honduran President Hernandez voluntarily surrendered, and was duly extradited, tried and convicted for drug trafficking, and Trump pardoned him 6w ago. And this morning, Trump illegally attacks Venezuela and abducts its president and his wife purportedly to try them for drug trafficking.

Ughhh. This take is reductive and harmful. I have limited mobility & wear leg braces (AFOs). I've used this service occasionally for connections that involve walking more than half a mile. Wheelchairs are tools, just like disabled parking placards, that help folks manage their daily bank of steps.

“The swell of patriotism that such idealized depictions produce has made them easy fodder for nationalist movements wishing to stake their claims.”

My birthday isn't until the end of the month but celebrating tonight with this massive beast. Can confirm that watching Bake Off is far easier than producing an aesthetic cake 🎂

Just got this in the mail yesterday. So happy to have contributed to this project! Thanks and kudos to @oaperez.bsky.social and @cristinaele.bsky.social for the guidance and vision. Out in January from @floridapress.bsky.social

🤡🤡🤡 pardoning JOH is straight up clown behavior www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

So the order for the US military to launch these deadly Caribbean boat strikes was straightforwardly illegal under US and international law, immoral under long established standards, and on top of that, terrible strategy. Not maybe. Not got to check with a lawyer. Unambiguous. Blatant. Deliberate.

Jumping on the promote your books train! Here's my book about Mexican environmental aesthetics and the importance of thinking in the 'as if' in the face of crisis www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650617...

Flight to Austin yesterday was delayed then cancelled. Flight today was delayed, then we boarded and sat for an hour plus, then deplaned bc of a mechanical issue... Third time's the charm?