It must be emphasized that we need powerful, robust ACADEMIC history IN universities to sustain history OUTSIDE universities. If we can’t employ people in higher ed to train future generations of public historians, we will not have future generations of public historians. 🗃️

If I could give one piece of advice right now, take your sensitive conversations to Signal or in-person. Do not trust virtual meeting providers with your privacy. I know it's hard to avoid because they're used for business, school, community. You can turn on encryption with Zoom at least. 🙃

Daily Memo: A Push for ‘Quieter’ Immigration Raids and An Increasing Use of Force at Detention Centers We are also exactly a month away from June 6th, when the Border Patrol arrived in Los Angeles and began the raids that terrorized so many around the country. lataco.com/quieter-ice-...

Daily Memo: 18th Death in ICE Detention Is Presumed a Suicide After An Alleged Altercation Left a Guard Unconscious The full report: lataco.com/daily-memo-1...

Recently, Hailee Menchaca, a Ph.D. candidate in History at UC Riverside, received the highly competitive UC President’s Pre-Professoriate Fellowship! Hailee will receive a full year of support from this fellowship. Hailee is being advised by my colleague Dr. Molly McGarry and myself.

Daily Memo: ICE Returns to Downtown LA ISAP Office, Increases Raids in the Inland Empire The full report on lataco.com

Working the morning shift as a scholar in 1540, a browser tab and a word document opened on two screens, other needed texts opened and handy, an overfull mail account nearby, and a hot beverage in reach to make for the best working condition. Bonus: wearing a thinking hat. #academicchatter

Daily Memo: The 15th Death In ICE Detention and ICE is Slowly Escalating ICE’s slow increase in operations is now averaging about 30 kidnappings per week in Southern California.

We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in US history. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator. snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-c...

In a city where bureaucracy moves at a glacial pace, a new wave of activists has decided that if the government won't act, its citizens will. The full story: lataco.com/anti-ice-par... By Lauren Bethke

Full house for @jamellebouie.net's lecture at @ucriverside.bsky.social.

Why do fascists hate sociology? Because it makes transparent everything fascists don't want you to know. A sociological imagination makes us harder to control. Long live the sociological imagination.

Community seeks answers after LAPD detains art students hours before graduation

Daily Memo: Hospitalizations, Car Crashes, and Kavanaugh Stops Continue with ICE

Hot take: No Kings is good and if you have the time and capacity, you should go to a protest on Saturday.

Daily Memo: ICE Is Ramping Up Operations With New Vehicles and Coachella Valley Is Being Targeted This Week

"In 1969, [Dr. Rodolfo F. Acuña] became the first professor in CSUN’s Mexican American studies department, now called the #Chicano and #Chicana Studies Department, which became an incubator for Latino activism in L.A. and beyond." www.latimes.com/obituaries/s... RIP Dr. Rodolfo F. Acuña!

Daily Memo: ICE Targets a Street Vendor in Santee Alley and More

I've interviewed more than a dozen hydrologists and climatologists across the West the past 10 days. A sense of panic is starting to set in. Wildfires and water shortages will start mounting this summer. Adverse impacts are expected from not only this heat wave, but the historically warm winter.

Civil Rights icon, @doloreshuerta, made a brave move today, revealing a secret she had been holding for 60 years for the sake of the Farm Workers movement. You can read her letter here: medium.com/@dolores_hue...

Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"

As a historian, we have read the 2010s books by Matt García and Miriam Pawel. they detailed a rage-prone, paranoid, & morally lacking Chávez. So we knew he was a "complicated man." The allegations in this article are way worse than I expected. We need to reckon with his abuse. support the victims.

Daily Memo: ICE Kidnapped Several Fathers In Front of Their Children @eltragon.bsky.social

Asst. Professor Carolina Valdivia talks about her book "Sanctuary Making: Immigrant Families Reshaping Geographies of Deportability" (University of California Press, Feb. '26) as part of UC Irvine's Program for Research on International Migration Speaker Series. More info: https://ow.ly/ekXT50Yvul1

Oscar-winner Ryan Coogler recalling how a college writing professor pushed him to become a screenwriter & the possibility of #Sinners being taught in film curriculums someday: “I have so much respect for professors…for dedicating their life to future generations & making sure their minds are solid.”

Daily Memo: They Met in ICE Detention. Despite a Language Barrier, These Women's Bond Helped Them Survive @eltragon.bsky.social

Daily Memo: ICE Detains U.S. Citizen With Infant As Kavanaugh Stops Continue @eltragon.bsky.social

El oscuro laberinto de Jeffrey Epstein por América Latina dozz.es/ltsum22

The key to getting mainstream media on board with an illegal war is making them feel like an important part of it.

Daily Memo: Kavanaugh Stops Continue and Terrified Mother Is Deported With Two Young Daughters Within Hours of Being Detained at Home

"So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? A possible answer began to emerge over the weeks she was incarcerated. As Karen got to know the guards...she kept hearing the same thing from them...'Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that'”

DAILY MEMO: ICE Used 14 Vehicles to Take 6 People from Rancho Cucamonga Courthouse

So scared of knowledge. So scared of learning. So sad. Never forget. Knowledge is power. This….this.

Now this is a movie plot!!! Someone understands grad school.

This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence. The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:

In case you ever wondered how edtech companies, academic publishers, and big AI corporations, as well as HE institutions, make money out of your academic work, here's our new paper starting to unpack the assetization of academic content

DAILY MEMO: The Mask Ban Against Agents In California Is Paused by The Court, ICE Continues Separating Fathers at Gun Point, and More @eltragon.bsky.social

Wrote about Bad Bunny and how after more than a century under U.S. rule, after attempts to erase our national identity, after the man-made crises and natural disasters that have befallen our people, in the face of every challenge, seguimos aquí. We’re still here. www.thecut.com/article/bad-...

Keep seeing the misinformation that this was Liam on here--has been reported that it was not

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/

My latest: Applauding community defense is not enough. We are organizing resistance to a concentration camp regime. The front lines are everywhere. (Plus resources and my must-reads list!)

There should be no American history book that makes it pass the censors either.

DAILY MEMO: A New CA State Bill is Introduced To Hold Private Detention Centers Accountable, Border Patrol Spends The Week in Meetings, and ICE Continued Targeted Arrests @eltragon.bsky.social

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

ICE Agent Scores Easy Win By Deporting Own Family https://theonion.com/ice-agent-scores-easy-win-by-deporting-own-family/

Incredible accounting of all the ways that Trump is trying to rewrite, abolish, bulldoze, destroy America's history and gaslight the public by @dfriedman.bsky.social and @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...