🗃️ Some really great research by @chasewoodruff.bsky.social, especially in consulting with @romeoguzman.bsky.social to contextualize Evans’ narrative. 10/10 no notes, only to say most salient point is that legality is not fixed, rather, it reflects politics & social values of historical moment.

SABADO.

Trump can no longer tell the difference between Harvard and Harlem. If you want to cover severe cognitive decline in a president, you have an opportunity right now.

Volume 44, Issue 2 of the Journal of American Ethnic History - the official journal of the IEHS - is online now, featuring articles and reviews by: @blkatlanticcdn.bsky.social @ornelashigdon.bsky.social @romeoguzman.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/iss...

It's no accident that immigrants end up in Louisiana detention centers. Immigration judges there deny 3/4 of all cases, the 5th Circuit is extremely conservative, and local communities in the state are turning a profit locking-up immigrants in their jails www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/o...

Back on the road . . .

If they firing veterans and giving zero fucks.

every headline now is like: What If I Told You Your Tax Dollars Were Going To An Amazing Program That Saves Lives And Costs Pennies? Unfortunately Elon Musk Just Dismantled It For Good!!

"Just a big mess": Musk's team claims credit for saving $53.7 million for "canceling" a federal contract that in fact was just for $144,000 and was actually completed 20 years ago. @Fahrenthold.bsky.social @sangerkatz.bsky.social @jsvine.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...

ProPublica looked into science grants that Ted Cruz's team flagged as "radical" and "neo-Marxist" and, uh. This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

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5 million dollar gold cards for immigrants is Trump’s idea of immigration reform. Maybe he should sell get out of jail free cards too.

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I can independently confirm Wired's reporting here, as I was working with @marisakabas.bsky.social to track down this engineer. Marisa heard that Nikhil Rajpal was given full access to the NOAA system with a NOAA email from sources today. Rajpal has DC roots. His X account is private: x.com/nikrdc

‘People Are Speaking in Whispers’ - an in-depth overview of the last year in protest, counter-protest, and repression at Columbia from The Indypendent indypendent.org/2025/02/peop...

Trump has shut down an anti-communist arm of US foreign policy (USAID), blown up free trade deals (USMCA), and is calling for the US to seize Gaza to build a seaside resort. We live in interesting times. Neoliberalism is out, and a new form of 19th-century imperialism is back.

2000 people at ICE protest outside Los Angeles City Hall

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[NUEVA PUBLICACIÓN] El volumen 5 de la Biblioteca Recorridos es la traducción al español del libro de Nara Milanich. Un trabajo que estremece y ahonda en una visión de la infancia poco habitual. Podrán encontrarlo en el Fondo de Cultura Económica-Chile.

This op-ed explains how to start an ICE Watch neighborhood program in your community. ⤵️

My new journal article "'I Want to Return to My Country': Ethnic Mexicans Request the Right to Return during the Great Depression," examines efforts by U.S. citizens to return to the United States after they had been relocated to Mexico. #repatriation #MexicanAmericans @iehs.bsky.social

Here is a relevant article from @romeoguzman.bsky.social about returning to Mexico. Coercion is only part of the story. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/art...

The AHA crushing the voices of the membership as Senate dems hand Trump his genocide machine in the same moment that Biden pretends that women have rights … it’s too much

“I said to myself, ‘You’ll probably be all right.’ ... This is America.” A must-read story by Times staff writer/asst. editor Danielle Dorsey and staff photographer Jason Armond ✊🏽✊🏿✊🏾 www.latimes.com/food/story/2...

Kind of a tell that your example would be Vietnamese refugees, pointing to how US imperial violence has been a major displacer of people, a fact that any effort to understand global migration today would have to take seriously

Capitalism stays winning.

My fave: “this course would be better if we did not have to read books or write anything.”

As Los Angeles burned, Latino immigrants rushed in to put out fires www.npr.org/2025/01/10/n...

INBOX: today marks the start of 40+ disciplinary hearings for Columbia and Barnard students over last spring’s occupation of “Hind’s Hall.” per the release: “In 2024 alone, Columbia and Barnard opened 300+ disciplinary cases, suspended over 122 students, and evicted over 50 students.”

Southern California Fires Could Be Most Expensive in US History “These fires will likely be the costliest in history, not the deadliest, and that is the only silver lining right now,” @weatherwest.bsky.social @kqednews.bsky.social @kqedscience.bsky.social www.kqed.org/news/1202083...

I just interviewed a real estate agent who said one of her clients learned her house had burned down because she was watching the TV news and it showed her property engulfed in flames.

I'm on campus all week; the building where my office is located has a seminar room, with fast wifi. If anyone needs a place to work, DM me.

This piece is perhaps the most concise theoretical and empirical synthesis of the ways @derekcrim.bsky.social and I understand the problems with college football and, really, capitalist high-performance sport more broadly. If the paywall is a problem, lmk and I will try to get you a copy.

"Well thought-out, the selections in this anthology beautifully introduce readers to this special college and to poets deserving of high praise and appreciation."—the verdict from Library Journal's ⭐ review of the long awaited THE ANTHOLOGY OF BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE POETRY, on sale Feb. 2025!

By the end of February, all of the old green public news racks in San Francisco will be dismantled. They were started in 2002 to move past the blight of free-standing racks, & once numbered 1,000. Soon, that number will be zero. missionlocal.org/2025/01/from...

Required reading; jacobin.com/2024/12/stud...

"I was born and raised in San Pedro, and learning my town was home to a place called Sunken City might as well have been proof myths and fairy tales were real." Jennifer Carr on Sunken City. May we all have a place to go to. up now at @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social

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Nice to see Writing the Golden State included on this list. Check it out.

"I am not wearing my father’s belt buckle, but tonight I am my father’s son. The historian in me wants to tell you that this knowledge arrived as the song “El Troquero” opened Ray’s sixtieth birthday party." New essay: airlightmagazine.org/airlight/iss...

So well deserved! Congratulations Vanessa!

Applications now open for the Community of Writers Summer Workshop in Olympic Valley, way up in the Sierras of California. Runs July 7-July 14. Check out the staff roster and see if the workshop is right for you. communityofwriters.org/workshops/wr...

In Connecticut and since there aren’t many trees in El Paso, I hadn’t realized how sad of a vibe trees give off when they don’t have leaves.

I have a grad student who really, really wants to do a DH dissertation (at least half of it be the digital part). In the year of our lord, 2024, who besides @literaturegeek.bsky.social has submitted a digital dissertation in the humanities?

I don’t dream of labor