Vince Rafael, my teacher and dear friend, and eminent historian of the Philippines, passed away today. If you work in cultural anthropology, translation studies, Asian studies, Asian Am, you'll know the monumental impact he had. He also endlessly supported young scholars. He'll be deeply missed.

Good news in ghastly times

Happy book birthday to BALIKBAYAN: A REVENANT HISTORY OF THE FILIPINO HOMELAND, published with the University of Washington Press (@uwapress.uw.edu). If you've ordered already, the supply chain fulfillment is taking some time, but it'll get to yall ASAP. :) uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

“The world ain’t safe for democracy; it’s unsafe because of the conceit of democracy.” Joshua Myers, No-Spaces and Returns

Congratulations to Coll Thrush whose book WRECKED is a 2026 Pacific Northwest Book Awards winner! The awards committee praised the book as "groundbreaking, compassionate work and a valuable contribution to the historical canon of the Pacific Northwest."

got a cute not-so-little ARC in the mail (forthcoming may 2026 in canada, oct 2026 in murica)

Swipe Irvin Ibargüen's new book EXPEDITIOUSLY!!! Game changing history of the Mexican state and its relationship to transborder migration! (Selfie snuck during department meeting) @uncpress.bsky.social uncpress.org/978146968958...

See Irvin Ibarguen's important book "Caught in the Current: Mexico's Struggle to Regulate Emigration, 1940-1980," just published @uncpress.bsky.social uncpress.org/978146968958...

DR. ANN NGOC TRAN (UCLA) - MY FRIEND AND FIRST PHD STUDENT - WON THE ASA DISSERTATION PRIZE 😤

Adrian De Leon (@aadeleon.bsky.social) & I wrote over 12,000 words about the epic WORLD SERIES from both sides of the 49th parallel. Thank you to Avidly/Sarah Mesle for creating the space to accommodate such obsession, compulsion, maximalism and emotion. 💙💙 Read here: avidly.org/2025/11/15/b...

Karen THEE Tongson (Dodgers superfan) and I started this World Series postmortem as a series of text messages, and then Instagram stories, and then it blew up into this twelve thousand word monstrosity. It's got delight, disgust, drama, and Drake. PLS AND TY YOU READ: avidly.org/2025/11/15/b...

spurs got a food coma from the chef (candidate for game of the year that was amazing) #nba

Wemby's shot release point is like seven stories tall, the NBA is COOKED

yall im HOLLERING at the most unhinged piece of media in modern (short-term) memory www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Cm...

this speech will be studied - the shift of speaker/addressee (from the leader "you" to the steward "we"), internal rhyming, diss track with structural analysis, then down to direct realism and method, specificity of identity and economic position, SYNECDOCHE

MAMDEEZY USING SYNECDOCHES, LITERARY TECHNIQUE STOCKS ARE UP AGAIN

"I wish Andrew Cuomo well only in private life. Let tonight be the final time I utter his name!" GODDAMN

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"[baseball] is designed to break your heart"

I will be very unavailable for the foreseeable future due to sport

RINGS ERNEH

THANK YOU FOR THIS POSTSEASON MY INCREDIBLE CHILD

DEFENSE STURDY

BRING IT HOME MY WONDERFUL SON

MT BEAUTIFUL SON IS IN

GIMENEZ REVENGE

YESSIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

THAT INNING NEARLY GAVE ME AN ANEURYSM

TREY IN THE BULLPEN

THATS OUR ELDER MILLENNIAL

MY GUY GOT CALLUSED AF SIDES FROM THESE DIVES

BO BICHETTE HOLY SHIT. THIS IS SOME INSANE STORY TALE

BO BICHETTE’S GRANDFATHER IS CHINESE OUR ANCESTORS ARE IN THE DOME TONIGHT

BO I FELT THAT IN MY SPIRIT

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

FUCK

live look at Springer at bat

great start for Kev!!!!!!

Talking about some new work at Penn History's Annenberg Seminar on Nov 6 - pls come thru if you're around Philly: live-sas-www-history.pantheon.sas.upenn.edu/node/16007

ERNNNNNNNNIEEEEEEE

he just broke the record

I'M SO PROUD OF YOU TREY 😭

blessings for my son

my wonderful son

my wonderful son

DUDE I JUST SAT DOWN TO WATCH LMFAOOOOO #BLUEJAYS

give it up one time to our patron saint before game 5 begins