A key reminder for the food movement. “Cruelty and dehumanization are the points of Trump’s immigration schemes. We must not lose sight of this while protesting raids in food spaces.” @loriflores.bsky.social

I want you guys to understand something. There aren't 65 million immigrants in this country, but there are 65 million Latinos. They're using the same language and tactics they once used against Black people and Indigenous people. This is ethnic cleansing.

Thank you to the NYC Food Policy Center for including AWAITING THEIR FEAST on their summer reading list!

Book Reviewers for the JAEH Needed If you are interested in reviewing books for the Journal of American Ethnic History, please complete the volunteer reviewer form (iehs.org/review-books...) or send your contact information and areas of expertise to Omar Valerio-Jiménez at [email protected].

BREAKING: Sean Hecker, Jenna Dabbs, & David Patton of Hecker Fink and Rascoe Dean of Sherrard Roe Voigt & Harbison file a motion to take over as counsel for Kilmar Abrego Garcia in his criminal case in Tennessee. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Escribí esta nota en Reforma sobre la situación en Estados Unidos: EU: Ofensiva en varios frentes reforma.com/kYjlcr

Here’s the thing. If you don’t like the fun and the challenge of 1. Reading widely 2. Going to archives 3. Searching for new sources 4. Playing around with book structure 5. Writing and revising Why are you even writing a nonfiction history book? Fame? 😆 Money? 🤣 I just don’t get it.

Another remarkable view down 5th Avenue. Tens of thousands united in saying no to Trump, no to ICE, no to fascism and #NoKings. (🎥 Unheard Voices)

“No Kings” demonstration, Ocean Beach, San Francisco

Pine St. Seattle #nokings

Here’s a New York Times photo of the Chicago “No Kings” rally. NYT said the march that followed spanned at least 10 blocks.

TRUMP NOW SAYING DEPORTING GOOD FARM AND HOTEL WORKERS IS A BAD IDEA 🤔 Suddenly he now realizes this… and ties himself into a pretzel to justify it. (Why just farms and hotels? Spoiler: donors called)

Thank you to the International Labor History Association and the journal LABOR for naming my book Awaiting Their Feast “Book of the Year” and the “Big Book of 2025,” respectively. Both huge honors.✨

So happy to be included in the “Food as Voice” issue of Voices of Mexico! I discuss Mexican food’s history in New York. Disponible a la librería del CISAN UNAM

Columbia bylaws state that the president can only send police on campus to arrest protestors after consulting with the university senate. Once again, the president has neglected to follow these rules, which have been in place since 1968.

“Today, we now know why they never showed Mahmoud that warrant — they didn’t have one." www.huffpost.com/entry/ap-us-...

Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women Unreal www.science.org/content/arti...

Two headlines in the New York Times today.

The real #Coachella isn't a music festival. It's hard working farm workers who are out laboring to harvest crops. Farm workers like Cruz who shared this photo of the green pepper harvest and Salvador who shared this photo from the dates. #WeFeedYou

Not sure who needs to hear this, but any govt official who violates someone's constitutional rights -- and is acting outside the scope of their lawful authority -- can be PERSONALLY liable in a civil suit. ICE officers. Cabinet members. White House staffers. Even the president.

My 10 year old sister and I got Social Security payments after my father died from exposure to Agent Orange. It helped my widowed mom when the family lost his income. He paid into it his whole life. They even took it from his check while he was serving in Vietnam. Jeanine can go fuck herself.

So many student visas have been revoked that Inside Higher Ed started mapping them

Just lectured about this the other day.

A federal judge ordered the White House on Tuesday to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events, affirming on First Amendment grounds that the government cannot punish the news organization for the content of its speech. @apnews.com

In 2023, households led by undocumented immigrants paid $89.8 BILLION in taxes ($33.9B in state/local and $55.8B federal). They load the coffers that current Social Security recipients draw upon. Stupid (and above all cruel) decision for the #IRS to collaborate with the deportation complex.

"The implication...is that not only noncitizens but also U.S. citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before removal. History is no stranger to such lawless regimes..."

I'm no lawyer but the text of the Enemy Alien Act says it applies only in "a declared war between the US & any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion ... against the territory of the United States, by any foreign nation or government." None of these conditions exist.

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff

At the #OAH with @latinxhistories.bsky.social @dgershenowitz.bsky.social @loriflores.bsky.social @profceciliam.bsky.social

*Making the Latino South* looking cute 😍 at the #OAH. My book has the best book series siblings around thanks to @monijimenez.bsky.social & @loriflores.bsky.social. Thanks so much to @latinxhistories.bsky.social @uncpress.bsky.social for the love ✨💖

“Stanford learned on Friday, April 4, that 4 students & 2 recent grads have had their student visas revoked. The Univ learned of revocations during routine check of SEVIS database. Stanford notified students of revocations & made external legal assistance available to them.” immigration.stanford.edu

Everybody at #OAH25, stop by our @latinxhistories.bsky.social reception on Friday! 🍷 Free drinks for the first 50ish people!

You still have time to register for Awaiting Their Feast: A Conversation about Latinx Food Workers and Activism with @loriflores.bsky.social Join us for this important conversation about the US's relationship with immigrant food workers and immigrant cuisine. z.umn.edu/AwaitingTheirFeast

Writing Latinos, Season 3, Episode 1: Lori Flores on her new book Awaiting Their Feast. @uncpress.bsky.social @dgershenowitz.bsky.social @loriflores.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/lori-a-flore...

@latinxhistories.bsky.social is now on Bluesky! Led by series editors @innisjimenez.bsky.social & @loriflores.bsky.social, supported by a dream editorial advisory team, & blessed with an incredible roster of authors, please follow. We're also at uncpress.org/series/latin.... @uncpress.bsky.social

Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy. "Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."

Thank you, @geraldo-cadava.bsky.social & Public Books for this episode featuring @loriflores.bsky.social! It's discounted right now on the @uncpress.bsky.social site and will be at the @oah.org meeting in a few weeks! So will Lori! So will I! So will many members of the Latinx Histories board!

This isn't going to get the attention of Columbia, but it's at least as bad: the University of Maine is having its funding cut off because the governor of Maine dared to challenge Trump.

LGBTQ federal workers say they're terrified they're about to be fired for their gender identity, sexual orientation, or past efforts to support other queer and trans employees—in other words, a second Lavender Scare. Honored to have their trust with this story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

Mind boggling when you see the entire confirmed list of agencies with mass firing of probationary employees, :

Created a takeaway flower bar for friends tonight. 💐 Fight ugliness with beauty.

Stay strong my friends. Rest. Recharge. Dig deep. We need each other and the country needs us. I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing. Albert Camus, The Plague

Representation without taxation for a handful of billionaires, taxation without representation for the rest of us.

The word "historically" is one of the code words right now for these MFs to try to cancel grants.

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.