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...

Also, a total lie that American students have been crowded out by international students. International students effectively subsidize the tuition of American students!

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW). The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

OH WOW! Congratulations to our contributor, László Krasznahorkai, for winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature!!! 😍🥳 wordswithoutborders.org/.../view/lsz...

Cornell alums! Cornell continues to be pressured by the current administration in DC to reach a deal to restore federal research funding. Please consider signing this petition! Please also share widely with any Cornell graduates you know!

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. trib.al/9Sxu9IN

Devastated by the sudden passing of my colleague and mentor, Debra Castillo. She was a force of nature, endlessly supportive and generous with her time. Not only was her work decisive for the field of Mexican studies, she endlessly pushed the field to build outward and prioritize community.

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A small bright spot. Does this mean that university administrators will stop doing this administration’s illegal work for them??

Today is publication day! EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...

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.