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.”

For those interested in why Black & Caribbean people are going off about the sugar cane from last night's halftime show: sugar is a plantation commodity that fueled slavery & colonialism bookshop.org/p/books/swee...

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.

J6 to Minneapolis to the Midterms to 2028. Connect the dots on who 🧊 is.

So what this means is that recording will get you ki**ed.

Just heard from a friend in Minneapolis who just passed a scene where 🧊 sh*t someone else. Fatally.

This is not good. How can we cut through the noise to explain the big picture of it all beyond the echo chamber??

The most ridiculous timeline.

In which @alexanderchee.bsky.social writes beautifully (as always) about the way Heated Rivalry has become a fragment shored against the ruin of almost everyone's mental health, and the artistic and narrative joys of both its universality and its specificity. open.substack.com/pub/querent/...

This is what needs to be filmed, photographed, and front and center in the discourse. @aoc.bsky.social @crockett.house.gov @sanders.senate.gov

The discourse needs sharper tongues.

Corruption is pardoned. Smfh.

C’mon y’all. www.bbc.com/news/world-e...

The lesiglative branch and SCOTUS really are willing to let it all burn down, huh? All of them. Do they all fit in the bunker, is that what’s happening?

It’s giving Mob Wives sit down.

Ni perdón ni olvido.

Sigh.

Evidence? Jurisdiction? Huh?

Yes indeed, Hamilton canceled its 2026 run at the Kennedy Center. NINE MONTHS AGO.

What is really surprising is that people thought this was a democracy in the first place. C’mon now.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

As if things weren’t bad enough.

*slams laptop shut* … for tonight 😭😭😭

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.

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.

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.

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: buff.ly/eJyyixc

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... @uminnpress.bsky.social

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: apply.interfolio.com/177901

Just got the news that our book is available for pre-order!! ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ www.dukeupress.edu/interrogatin...

Things took a turn very quickly. Both are within days of each other.

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.