"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

Book launch very soon! Join us🪴

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?

Cornell Chapter of the AAUP Statement on Cornell’s agreement with federal government aaup-cornell.org/2025/11/07/s...

Guadalupe Pinzón Ríos, professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and member of Geopam, just published her book "Introducción a la historia marítima de Nueva España". Congratulations!

Enormous news for US literature. A new, Mellon-led, $50 million fund for nonprofit literary orgs and publishers. Closest thing we've ever had to it was Mellon and Wallace in 1991, which, in today's dollars, was still less than half this. Open call begins Nov 10. literaryartsfund.org/about/

From the article referenced below: tldr esp. in authoritarian systems, mediocrities and worse tend to go into the secret police b/c those with better performance have better opportunities elsewhere, so secret police gets the dregs who are extra-dependable because the thing they can offer is loyalty

"When adjusted for inflation, the cost of faculty across the UN system declined by 10% in the past 10 years, while administrative and professional costs grew by 54%."

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

the US govt has mounted a repeal of the right to culture. There is simply no other way to understand dismantling Dept of Ed, PBS, NPR, NEH, NEA + IMLS, defunding universities, censorship of artists, attack on equal access to institutions,+ erosion of free speech. hyperallergic.com/1049388/how-...

Congratulations @isanchezprado.bsky.social on the wonderful new Object Lesson on the taco 🌮!! But buyer beware: this book makes your mouth water 😋

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

MIT's response to the Trump admin's proposed "compact" is excellent and should be a model for other universities. orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...