The good news is that there *are* people meeting the moment. youtu.be/EJxRtjma7lc

Join us on April 1st!

There is so much to stand against right now. So today I’m feeling a strong urge to stand FOR justice, compassion, inclusion, and community. And for you, dear friends. Thinking of you fondly. [saw this sign in Stumptown near Washington Square Park in NYC—great coffee, great values]

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them

A big loss to the community. Thanks for all you did Rep. Grijalva! Rest in power!

HANG IT IN THE LOUVRE. (President of Mexico on International Women’s Day)

Today is #InternationalWomensDay. Let's hear it for farm workers like Karina, a Kern County farm worker mother, who are harvesting the oranges many of us will enjoy with our weekend breakfast. #WeFeedYou

New book from @stanfordpress.bsky.social: Energy's History: Toward a Global Canon edited by Daniela Russ and Thomas Turnbull www.sup.org/books/politi...

A reminder for these times.

Need a distraction from the current state of the world? Join me in celebrating the 10th anniversary of the great Sun City Llama Chase! #Llama #Llamas #LlamaChase #YaketySax 🦙🦙

Illinois public schools are not changing curriculum as it relates to LGBTQ+ issues, despite a warning from the federal Department of Education. (wgntv.com/news/illinoi...)

He nails it.

New review of Electrifying Mexico! Thanks 🙏 @electricpunkah.com for your thoughtful reading! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #ElectrifyingMexico @utexaspress.bsky.social

Mexico threatens to escalate US gunmakers lawsuit with terror charges: President Claudia Scheinbaum has warned US gunmakers they could face fresh legal action as accomplices of organized crime if Washington designates the country’s cartels as terrorist groups. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

“It’s difficult to imagine that just over 20 years ago, this was a vast elevated highway carrying 168,000 cars daily through the heart of South Korea’s capital.” Now it’s a world famous people-place. They’ve since removed 16 more elevated highways in the city. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

BREAKING On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.

⚡️ The historic moment of Estonia leaving the Russian-fed power grid. On February 8, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia left Russia and Belarus energy system. By the end of the day today, they will have joined the European grid.

In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse. The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million

Greenhouse #envhum book talks welcomes @mapicone.bsky.social to discuss her book Landscaping Patagonia: Spatial History and Nation-Making in Chile and Argentina on Monday, 10 February 2025, at 16:00 CET in Norway / 10:00 Eastern in Boston. Join us! newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

We could’ve had Tim 😭

🎵🎶 abuela la la la laaa 🎵🎶

Beyond Big Tech: A manifesto for a new digital economy peoplevsbig.tech/beyond-big-t...

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” -Angela Davis Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis. "If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory." --Angela Davis

Boycott is our best ally. Boycott!!!!!

First they came for the immigrants, and I spoke out, because I’ve read the damn poem before and I know how it ends.

My conversation with Dan Snow's History Hit podcast in the UK aired yesterday. It provides a brief but sweeping history of the canal, if you need to brush up! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Costco shareholders have overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal as other U.S. companies retreat from their diversity policies

Bueno, familia, I am excited to announce that a revised paperback edition of Puerto Rico: A National History will be out on June 3rd with @princetonupress.bsky.social and it has a new cover!!! press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

#OTD on January 23, 2016, @bullockmuseum.bsky.social opened the bilingual exhibit “Life and Death on the Border.” It offered an unflinching look at the role of the #TexasRangers in the 1910s border violence. /1 www.thestoryoftexas.com/visit/exhibi...

What a joke. Tiktok is state media now. Don't think they won't do whatever Trump says in terms of content moderation and the algorithm.

Food for thought.

#SharedFacts #GreatInnovation www.theguardian.com/environment/... #MicroTurbines can be placed extensively along watersheds

Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

A surprising immigration raid in Kern County foreshadows what awaits farmworkers and businesses calmatters.org/economy/2025...

Well, I tried!

As long as we’re renaming places, I’m renaming ‘Texas’ as ‘Old Mexico.’

"When Mexico sends its people, they're sending their best. They're sending firefighters to help solve American problems. They're bringing fire fighting uniforms. They're bringing fire fighting equipment. They're bringing kittens down from trees. And all, I assume, are good people."

“No longer is it a matter of preventing wildfires but instead preventing points of ignition within communities by employing “home-hardening” strategies — proper landscaping, fire-resistant siding — and enjoining neighbors in collective efforts such as brush clearing.”

‘They just got my uncle’: Immigration arrests spark fear among farmworkers in Central Valley - Los Angeles Times www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

““ In the face of displacement, in the face of all these conversations about Puerto Ricans leaving the archipelago, about crisis, about power outages, [Bad Bunny] is celebrating that Puerto Rican-ness and I think it’s a very political record as well,” said Meléndez-Badillo.””

Are you planning to apply for one of the Linda Hall Library's 2025-26 research fellowships? This weekend would be a great time to finalize your project proposal because the deadline is next Friday, January 17! www.lindahall.org/research/lin... #histSTM #histsci #histtech #rarebooks #speccolls 🗃️

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