It still shocks me to when people want to display my art in their homes. This all began as a way to deal with stress and put my love of pop art in conversation with my Colombian heritage, and has transformed into something unexpected and beautiful 🫶🏽

My jaded millennial self is going to be drinking an extra strong old fashioned tonight. This is bleak Deja vu.

NEW: The US government has collected DNA from over 100,000 migrant children—including a 4-year-old—and uploaded their genetic profiles into a national biometric database meant for sex offenders and violent criminals. www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...

this timeline is fucking wild

This is the book I wish existed when this Colombian American kid was growing up & never finding books that represented me 🤘🏽 thank you @carolinaflorezc.bsky.social for bringing such a powerful Colombian Muisca woman to life 🇨🇴 and crafting amazing Colombian horror!

I’ve been enthralled by rural horror these days. So much existential dread and gothic aesthetics!

The California Digital Newspaper Collection has now raised $75,000 out of $300,000. Please consider donating to sustain this vital tool.

Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss

Colombian themed faux neon signs?! Where have these been all my life!

The recent wave of docuseries on kid & family influencers is one of the most disturbing thing I think I’ve ever witnessed. Children are not content. Why is this so difficult for parents to realize?

Lmao 🤣 savages

Republican politicians really need to stop using Venmo. Cringier than a Lara Trump music video.

Dean Chemerinsky and other #lawschool deans "speak as legal educators, responsible for training the next generation of lawyers, in condemning any government efforts to punish lawyers or their firms based on the identity of their clients or for their zealous lawful and ethical advocacy."

Just imagine the intel breaches happening right now by state actors and malevolent orgs that we are not seeing because a these mediocre clowns didn't always cc a fucking reporter

Rewatching Nosferatu (2024) & there are great contract law lessons! Never sign a contract written in blood and/or language you can’t read Don’t enter into a contract with an immortal being who wants you soul Don’t let your spouse give your hair to a random vampire during contract negotiations

Crocheting and watching Twin Peaks is how I relax these days

Ok…. I’m officially jamming to the new White Lotus theme song…it’s sneaky but it’s a bop.

The TL is bleak but Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, donated her Tesla to @npr

Cancelling @joyannreid.bsky.social means the door she held open for the next generation of Black voices will slam shut. Without her, the next her, won't get platformed by white media. That, of course, is why white media pushed her out. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

NEW: State lawmakers across the nation are introducing bills to hamper abortion ballot campaigns and attack new pro-choice amendments, further proving that the GOP doesn’t actually want voters to have a direct say on abortion, argues @susanrinkunas.com.

Watching White Lotus and I’m having a distant memory of my dad getting mad at me for “disgracing” the family by even jokingly suggesting we were middle class. He loved this show because he “always knew rich people were weird”

The Trump DOJ is big mad about their finest legal minds being humiliated in court

Just developed a new roll of film. I’m calling this group “Bodega Bay Gothic” 📸CanonAE1

A photo love letter to the Presidio as the Trump administration aims to eviscerate the Presidio Trust @sfchronicle.com bit.ly/3CYhqtw

I have a PhD, it shouldn’t be this difficult to find an instant pot recipe for cauliflower that I vibe with.

Major news! A court in Montana has just declared SB458, a bill that "defines sex" in a way that ends the legal recognition of transgender people in Montana, as facially unconstitutional. This is the first time a bill defining sex has been ruled on! Huge win for trans people in MT!

What truly fills me with despair is how Americans are fine with this — even happy about it, enthused at any degradation of immigrants. Is a Republic made up of such people worth preserving?

So excited to announce I will be continuing my next journey as a historian at @appalachianstate.bsky.social teaching Latinx history as an assistant professor! Couldn’t be happier and so thrilled to explore the region and work with students! Any NC recs, suggestions, foodie stops? Let me know!

BREAKING Federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson just issued an order preventing the Trump administration from: 1. Deleting CFPB data 2. Firing CFPB employees 3. Transferring money from CFPB's reserve fund Right after the order was issued, nearly all CFPB employees were placed on administrative leave

For those who sneer at this: It doesn't fucking /matter/ if lawsuits like this are meritless. It doesn't matter if it'll get dismissed. What matters is that companies now know that they will have to spend money defending expensive lawsuits like this from state AGs. Because they hire women & POC.

A 22-year-old Temple University student was arrested for allegedly posing as an ICE agent (with two friends) at both a local business (Insomnia Cookies) and Temple residence halls. The three were traveling in a Jaguar SUV, per the Inky: www.inquirer.com/news/ice-imp...

As a Colombian American, I find this incredibly rude. Don’t come for our pop star!

Thought I'd write something about how Elon Musk has access to every expert he could possibly need to understand stuff, and yet appears to simply believe any random chud on ExTwitter spewing utter nonsense. And why journalists should ask him about that. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/13/s...

Musk staff have access to student aid data now.

I’ve gone through more migraine medication in the past two weeks than I have in the previous 6 months.

One impact of the NSF freeze: They fund the small nonprofit, EarthScope, that manages seismic and GPS stations used worldwide to detect and warn of earthquakes and navigate autonomous vehicles. EarthScope can maybe make payroll this week. A prolonged freeze could see stations fail.

Re-sharing with a link to a free article. The gist is: Arizona white supremacist students tried to host an event about reporting students to the Gestapo. They got drowned out by over 700 protesters. www.kjzz.org/politics/202...

If you care about children, you support their access to life-saving health care; you affirm and celebrate them as their whole selves; you strive to build a society of freedom, autonomy, care, and liberation in which they can live and grow. Protect trans kids, today and every day.

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

Publication alert 🚨 Memory as Power: Historical Criminology and the role of the Past in Critical Scholarship Excited to see this come to life over the last two years and contribute my work on juvenile justice reform in 1960s California, check it out! ✌🏽

Did RFK Jr just claim that people with food allergies aren’t “healthy” because he never knew anyone with allergies as a kid? Yeah that sounds *exactly* like the kind of person you want running HHS. Jfc.

As this "pause" hits you and your project, institution, workplace, etc: TELL SOMEONE ABOUT IT. Contact your MoC, esp if they're a Dem. Contact a relevant advocacy group. Contact the press, local, regional, movement, trade - and not just for an LtE, for a story. Tell real life stories of harm.

Closing a visa office means keeping families apart. Plain and simple. I would never wish on anyone the pain of waiting to see if your grandmother will get her visa rejected for the third time in a row, or waiting for your cousin to finally get their visa appointment after waiting for five years.

If SSU can be saved, it's up to the legislature. They need to say: (1) No CSUs are going to close, (2) Give SSU what it needs to survive, and (3) Including not only money but also new leadership with a plan to make the most of the campus's assets. #SSU #SonomaState findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov

The Colombian American in me is never not enraged by this typo, but given the gravity of the situation I actually overlooked it this time. It’s been a week people, a week!!

Since Colombia is on the news, friendly reminder Colombia≠Columbia :)

I really want to watch Marco Rubio say the US refuses to be taken advantage of by Colombia with a straight face. The luxury of ignorance and stupidity, otherwise known as a Trump appointment. In other news, my family’s visa appointments are now in danger of being postponed indefinitely…