I love discussing Love Island with other academics.

Here we are.

Called it.

So many people on this platform and none are talking about interest convergence. Surprised by how surprised some of y’all are.

Instructure, the company behind the online learning system Canvas, has reached a deal with hackers to delete data stolen in a cyberattack.

I’ve BEEN saying. Freedom Summer.

US Exceptionalism forgets the summer of 2019 in Puerto Rico.

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Our book is in Leeds! @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social

Save 30% on #NewBook "Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies" edited by @santiaaurora.bsky.social and @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social, which examines the disciplinary and epistemic transformations that have given way to new understandings of the field of Puerto Rican studies. buff.ly/PKmCSUt

Not going to lie I shed a tear after watching this.

I clocked communion but the elegy…

All we can do is imagine more just and liberatory futures.

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In other news, I am really excited to share some new initiatives we're launching at The Rumpus including increased pay, writing and editorial fellowships, and microgrants. therumpus.net/2026/03/31/e...

So really it all boils down to it’s only a matter of time.

Call the bluff.

What a mess.

I need someone in Europe to get me these and send them to me.

Mountainhead, amirite?

A review of Puerto Rico business records shows that SK2 LLC — the firm ICE hired in November to broker the purchase of warehouses around the U.S. — filed to dissolve the company in February. The company had just been added to the WEXMAC TITUS contract vehicle in January.

Bernie... thank you

This madness could be stopped. Why the dragging feet?!

A ray of light in this dystopia.

Trash.

Punch is my Moo Deng.

Muere Ivonne Acosta Lespier, autora de libro fundamental sobre persecución a independentistas en Puerto Rico. Por Benjamín Torres Gotay. @torresgotay.bsky.social www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/loc...

People need to prepare for the SAVE act now. Mutual aid fund for id changes.

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We have a Very EXPLETIVE Cool event tonight in-store with Marla A. Ramirez + Cindy I-Fen Cheng who will be discussing their work around migration, asylum, the US-Mexico borderlands, and the mirage of legal citizenship. I lit cannot think of a more timely event. 6pm at room. Book signing to follow.

Very exciting! Great cover! Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies, a forthcoming anthology edited by Aurora Santiago Ortiz @santiaaurora.bsky.social & Jorell Meléndez-Badillo @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social. @dukepress.bsky.social DISCOUNT CODE: E26PRSTD www.dukeupress.edu/interrogatin...

In a moment when our ability to imagine a future is under attack, I had the privilege of co-editing w @santiaaurora.bsky.social this volume gathering so many incredible scholars and activists thinking about the future of Puerto Rican Studies. The book comes out on April 21 w @dukepress.bsky.social

Cover reveal day! @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social and I’s co-edited volume. We are thrilled to be in the company of such wonderful cutting edge scholars. Preorder at www.dukeupress.edu/interrogatin....

The electric power poles are a reference to the outages as a result of the archipelago’s frail infrastructure.

Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one. Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, a UW–Madison assistant professor of Latin American and Caribbean history, assisted in writing historical narratives to accompany videos for “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

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Did anyone else note the DEI undertones in all of the commercials? The AI commercials were ridiculous.

All of this.

Young Puerto Ricans say that Bad Bunny, 31, has opened the world’s eyes to their generation’s challenges, and to the island’s fraught territorial relationship with the U.S. government. “He has been able to put us on the map,” said one university student in San Juan. trib.al/Ev0iF1u

Misogyny makes the(ir) world go round.

Check out my opinion piece at De Los from the Los Angeles Times on Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show as a history lesson.

This is ridiculous especially because the interference was widely thought to have been done by the right wing party (statehood) in the 2020 election and 2024. What a crock.

Congratulations to Bad Bunny, whose album DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS won Album of the Year at the 2026 #GRAMMYS! 🎉 🏆️ Did you know that the album’s accompanying YouTube visualizers were written by @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social, author of Puerto Rico: A National History? (1/3)

This is not enough.

Sufran haters.

BENITO.

Freedom Summer.

Do not give up the voter rolls.

Masks enable impunity.