To recap, Trump signed a proclamation saying that after midnight tonight, no one with an H-1B visa may enter the US unless they have paid $100,000. However, anonymous White House officials are saying it doesn't apply to people with current H-1B visas — yet there is NO official guidance! None!

Hey remember last fall, when members of the press credulously reported that Trump would increase high-skilled immigration? This will end it pretty much entirely. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Great data-driven explainer about the three booms of literature in translation in the US, including the Latin American boom in the seventies and eighties: www.publicbooks.org/how-translat...

The mortgage fraud claim against Lisa Cook is false, per documents obtained by Reuters. Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence. These docs show she did not. www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...

With summer nearly done, now is the time for you to pick out a new book to read (and review 😜) this Fall. Check out my terrific list of new (ish) work just waiting for reviewers! #envhist #envhum #ecocrit #aghist #animalstudies #conservation #envtech #sustainability docs.google.com/document/d/1...

"Modern Foreign Languages degrees are the most starkly affected, with the number of courses nearly halved since 2011" 👇

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

Chilling

Tras año y medio de haber sido publicado, subí mi libro a Archive, para lectura libre. Hasta que el musgo (Universidad Veracruzana, 2024). archive.org/details/rca-...

This point from Sotomayor: what Kavanaugh is proposing to shift administrative burdens from the state to the individual, with the widely-agreed upon expectation that the burdens will fall heavier on some groups more than others.

Loved this novel! Highly recommend

Every single quote from the novel supposedly under analysis was hallucinated. Every single one.

Spotted my nemesis lounging on the porch. Destroyer of brassica. Devourer of broccoli, cauliflower, and kale 😡

"The first wave of grocery-price increases will likely hit this winter. Roberson predicted produce prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year as inventories clear and new contracts kick in." fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...

"The proposed rule set to publish Thursday would allow for foreign students... to stay up to the duration of the program they are participating in, not to exceed a 4-year period." This is insane and would kill PhD programs in Latin American studies, and beyond 😡

Check out @c4noff.bsky.social's review of David J. Vázquez's "Decolonial Environmentalisms: Climate Justice and Speculative Futures in Latinx Cultural Production," published in 2025 by @utexaspress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhum www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Three essays by one of Mexico's foremost Indigenous thinkers, Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil, now out in translation and open access!!

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

"Netanyahu ranks with the likes of Sudan’s previous dictator, Omar al-Bashir, and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad in terms of the way that he’s used starvation as a weapon." www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Want to get back at that prof who gave you an A- on an exam? Or maybe you don't think people of color or women should be professors? Make up a story about antisemitism, plop it into an anonymous student evaluation, and watch as your prof's life is upturned faster than you can spell "fascism."

Don't forget your fish purse!

Israel's announced "tactical pause" in Gaza is desperately insufficient while it commits genocide against Palestinians, who are facing the catastrophic conditions Israel deliberately engineered. There must be an immediate & sustained ceasefire, and an end to Israel’s genocide.

Totally obsessed with my baby acorn squash

Cover reveal! Teaching the Mexican Revolution, a collection of 16 essays on strategies for the language, literature and culture classroom is ready for pre-order and will release Spring 2026. It is published by the MLA’s Options for Teaching series. Members get a discount. www.mla.org/Publications...

syllabus time, teaming up for the herculean efforts of reinventing writing assignments. here, some prompts for required weekly low stakes 250-500 word reflections/ process pieces that have proven relatively conducive to real writing in lit class. please share any similar suggestions in thread.

Basically instead of performing layoffs they want to force people to quit 😑

This man fled fascism in Chile just to find it here. Horrific

Con la gentil invitación y generosa presentación de Javier Garciadiego, hoy presenta la Capilla Alfonsina una charla virtual mía sobre Alfonso Reyes y la gastronomía! Está acá abajo! Ojalá sea de interés. www.facebook.com/CapillaAlfon...

"Jonathan Caravello...was reportedly “piled on by multiple agents all at once” as “he tried to help a man in a wheelchair” who was having difficulty moving after...[ICE] agents threw canisters of tear gas" our colleague is still missing as of the last info I got dailynous.com/2025/07/12/p...

Powerful profile of scientists harmed by Trump cuts. But the article should be titled "The White Scientists Hit by Trump's DEI Cuts"

You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳

It's peak season in WA State cherries. Workers are paid piece rate and earn $4.50 per 22lb bucket. (The same as they earned in 2022). If they work super fast they can harvest 50 to 60 buckets in a 9 hour day during this very short peak season. #WeFeedYou

I loved how this novel uses speculative fiction to think about prison abolition and queer futurity 🛸

Not “limit.” Eliminate. And needlessly cower with embarrassing “apology” letters to graduated athletes. This headline is misleading, and the action is beyond embarrassing. Utterly shameless. And contra the research the institution materially supports.

Interesting story of a zombie mine in Brazil, transitioning from asbestos production to rare earths. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029: - $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion - $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million - $8 billion for hiring/retention - Billions more.

"intriguing" is not the adjective I would use to describe the administration's attempt to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a third country 😑 wtf 😑

Important news for the #envhist crowd: We are hiring an Associate Professor of Environmental History! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Application deadline is August 7. Some tips for those interested from abroad in thread 👇

Thrilled for Zohran, for New York City, and for some new voices and ideas in American politics! Some may know I wrote a book on Mira Nair's films (2018). In honor of Zohran's victory, I've posted an excerpt of my chapter on "Mississippi Masala" here: www.electrostani.com/2025/06/mira... 1/3

Went from skeptical to super invested in The Swimmer (1968), a fascinating film about suburban male delusion. Burt Lancaster's performance of naive, self-destructive toxic masculinity is a marvel. On criterion.

****majors are not the only metric of a department or program’s value****

Took out the compost and crossed paths with a family of skunks!!!

As Sotomayor says in her dissent, this decision exposes so many people to torture and even death

The groundhog has learned to scale our planter boxes and devoured all the broccoli, cauliflower, and kale 😭😭😭

Stupid and cruel

Rob Nixon's influential concept of "slow violence" has made a huge impact in our understanding of environmental violence and its representational challenges. But the focus on slow violence has overshadowed the role bare violence continues to play.

Brighten your day. Historian rediscovers a pre-Incan method of water storage, gets money to restore the existing structures, and the town he grew up in now has access to water 10 hours a day, up from 1/2 hour per day. The details are v. cool. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

A little rain didn't stop pride in Guanajuato 🌈