Aurora Santiago Ortiz
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Profe caribeña.
What is really surprising is that people thought this was a democracy in the first place. C’mon now.
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Timothy Burke
6 days ago
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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As if things weren’t bad enough.
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8 days ago
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*slams laptop shut* … for tonight 😭😭😭
10 days ago
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They don’t think that the midterms will happen which is why they can go to sleep at night knowing that they’re taking away healthcare subsidies.
11 days ago
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Happy to report that no student used AI in their writing assignments this semester. All it took was paper, a writing instrument, and class time.
14 days ago
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The Associated Press
21 days ago
Rafael Ithier, a beloved musician and a founder of the legendary salsa band El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, whose hits have inspired Bad Bunny and other icons, has died.
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Puerto Rico salsa giant Rafael Ithier, who led El Gran Combo for more than half a century, dies
Rafael Ithier, a beloved musician and a founder of the legendary salsa band El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, whose hits have inspired Bad Bunny and other icons, has died.
https://bit.ly/3MlMzLM
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Duke University Press
23 days ago
The Spring 2026 catalog is live! We're featuring
#NewBooks
by @rtrodrig.bsky.social,
@beansvelocci.bsky.social
,
@amynbooks.bsky.social
,
@lalehkhalili.bsky.social
,
@jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social
,
@santiaaurora.bsky.social
, and so many more. Check it out now:
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Alan Liu
24 days ago
U Minnesota Press's Spring 26 catalog, listing our new Critical Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities (in Debates in DH series), eds. Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger,
@jamessmithies.bsky.social
):
z.umn.edu/spring26
. Table of contents:
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608...
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Kate Starbird
about 1 month ago
The UW Center for an Informed Public is looking for postdocs (for 2026-2028) from across diverse disciplines whose research sheds light on the challenges of our modern information environment, promotes civic health, and/or helps people/communities navigate online spaces:
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Just got the news that our book is available for pre-order!! ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
www.dukeupress.edu/interrogatin...
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Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies
https://www.dukeupress.edu/interrogating-the-future-of-puerto-rican-studies?fbclid=IwZnRzaAORVplleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEe9fU6dzi7vZjDK-75HKuvPVrwtirL0FDoaJH3pGKGlZt4gSFeNrP9Er6S8as_aem_8KXHzdFmhYixjvIzp1JdfQ
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Things took a turn very quickly. Both are within days of each other.
about 2 months ago
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
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I dream of spending a weekend in a cabin, snow falling outside, reading a book for PLEASURE, without worrying about the state of things (and my book). Not happening in 2025.
2 months ago
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Jen Evans
2 months ago
Now's the time to save up on all those fabulous
@dukepress.bsky.social
books with their Fall Sale. Just key in the code Fall25 upon check out and bob's your uncle. My book might be on sale too. Just, erm, leaving that there...
www.dukeupress.edu/fall-2025-on...
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NBC News
3 months ago
BREAKING: Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny will headline the Super Bowl 60 halftime show, Apple Music announced during halftime of “Sunday Night Football.”
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Bad Bunny will headline Super Bowl 60 halftime show
His most recent album, “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” (I Should Have Taken More Photos), debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 when it released in January.
https://nbcnews.to/46pCll6
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When people run in circles…
3 months ago
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Where is the plan?
3 months ago
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Man, I did not want to live through this.
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3 months ago
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I see a lot of diagnosing, but no prognosis.
3 months ago
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Duke University Press
3 months ago
Save 30% on
#NewBook
"Homesick," by Nicholas Shapiro, which examines the US government's distribution of over 120,000 toxic trailers following Hurricane Katrina, their devastating health effects, and the need to create new forms of accountability and change.
#EnvStudies
#FEMA
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Half this country.
3 months ago
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Duke University Press
3 months ago
Hispanic Heritage Month is September 15-October 15. Check out our latest titles in Latinx studies including work by
@emmaamador.bsky.social
,
@maiagiladi.bsky.social
,
@annegarlandmahler.bsky.social
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@arlenedavila.bsky.social
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Gregg Gonsalves
4 months ago
@aaup.org
has prepared materials for faculty who face these threats and harassment. 6/
www.aaup.org/issues-highe...
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Targeted Harassment of Faculty
The AAUP has developed a toolkit to address the threat of targeted harassment of faculty.
https://www.aaup.org/issues-higher-education/political-attacks-higher-ed/targeted-harassment-faculty
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Out 4/21/26!!! Can’t wait for this to be out in the world.
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4 months ago
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Puerto Rico is being used for military exercises and of course both mainstream and independent media isn’t reporting. The colony remains invisible.
4 months ago
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For later (maybe).
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4 months ago
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Duke University Press
4 months ago
Save 30% on
#NewBook
"Insurgent Visions" by Chandra Talpade Mohanty, presenting insurgent feminism—a theory and praxis with which to replace violence grounded in gender relations and radically transform everyday life.
#FeministTheory
#Activism
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The words of bell hooks are as relevant now as they were in the 80s.
4 months ago
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Blerrmiser
4 months ago
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Reuters
4 months ago
Wrongly deported migrant Abrego released from criminal custody, Fox News-affiliate reports
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Wrongly deported migrant Abrego released from criminal custody, Fox News-affiliate reports
Kilmar Abrego, the migrant whose wrongful deportation in March to his native El Salvador made him a symbol of President Donald Trump's aggressive immigration policies, was released on Friday from criminal custody in Tennessee, a Fox News-affiliate said, citing a statement from his lawyer.
https://reut.rs/3HKHPx6
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Our first review is out! Check it out:
art.newcity.com/2025/08/18/a...
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Review: Pablo Delano at Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
The show of visceral rebellion uses force, humor, irony and deep, deep literacy to administer the artistic equivalent of a bullet between the eyeballs.
https://art.newcity.com/2025/08/18/archipelago-of-resistance-a-review-of-pablo-delano-at-chazen-museum-of-art-at-the-university-of-wisconsin-madison/
4 months ago
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Larry La Fountain
5 months ago
¡HOY, EL MUERTO PARAO con Luis Javier Cintrón Gutiérrez y Jossianna Arroyo! Allí estaré. 7:00pm Casa Norberto • Libros & Cafébar, Plaza Las Américas, San Juan, PR.
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Opening day!
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5 months ago
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Missing the ocean. Having water near is necessary.
5 months ago
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Lawyers using AI in court docs, what could possibly go wrong?
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5 months ago
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Madison area peeps: in less than a montn cuestiones caribeñas/caribbean matters opens at the
@chazenartuw.bsky.social
!
@jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social
and I are co-curating the exhibition by photographer and multi media artist Pablo Delano. Curated tours + programming in the fall. Stay tuned!
5 months ago
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Mejor concierto de mi vida.
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6 months ago
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Gonna miss this.
6 months ago
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Why isn’t anyone talking about the connection between cutting nutrition and healthcare for poor people with the expansion of the detainment and deportation $ in this bill!?
6 months ago
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Jorell Meléndez-Badillo
6 months ago
***Please share widely***
@santiaaurora.bsky.social
and I are guest curating Pablo Delano's new exhibit, "cuestiones caribeñas/caribbean matters: assemblage and sculpture by pablo delano" at the Chazen Museum at
@uwmadison.bsky.social
.
chazen.wisc.edu/pablo-delano...
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Pablo Delano Centers Complex Caribbean Histories in New Exhibition at Chazen Museum of Art - Chazen Museum of Art
‘cuestiones caribeñas/caribbean matters’ confronts colonialism and highlights shared experiences across the archipelago MADISON, Wis. — Grapple with the Caribbean’s complex contradictions and engage i...
https://chazen.wisc.edu/pablo-delano-centers-complex-caribbean-histories-in-new-exhibition-at-chazen-museum-of-art/
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Mamdani!
6 months ago
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No we don’t. Independence won first place in last year’s elections.
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7 months ago
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7 months ago
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Congrats to my boo
@jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social
for his soft cover pub day! We’ll be celebrating in NYC this weekend (and working, of course).
@princetonupress.bsky.social
7 months ago
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When the US press talks about hurricane season it’s like Puerto Rico, a US colony with US citizens, doesn’t exist. And we don’t to FEMA.
7 months ago
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Paul Frazee
7 months ago
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People need to look beyond the distractions. The feigned ignorance is a distraction, as is lofty infrastructure projects that won’t be completed in this term.
7 months ago
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Alt National Park Service
7 months ago
Elon Musk’s DOGE has canceled 26 leases for Department of Transportation (DOT) subagencies across 20 states and Puerto Rico.
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