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Brett Olmsted, PhD 🗃️ @brettolmsted.bsky.social · 10h

What a far cry from Reagan saying “government isn’t the answer to your problems, government is the problem”

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Brett Olmsted, PhD 🗃️ @brettolmsted.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That is literally the role of a responsible and responsive government…regulation to protect the citizenry

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Nelson Lichtenstein @nelsonlichtenstein.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's always nice when a box of books with your name on them arrives in the mail. From organizing a book store to mounting a general strike, this book tells you the how and why. $28 from Yale.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory self-regulated.

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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

¡Viva México! ¡Viva la Independencia! 1️⃣FOLKLÓRICO IN THE U. S. @normaelia-8.bsky.social www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0... 2️⃣MAKING MICHIGAN HOME @brettolmsted.bsky.social www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0... 3️⃣QUINCEAÑERAS www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0... #MexicanIndependenceDay

Folklórico in the United States
Unwritten Histories
Author: Edited by Norma E. Cantú and Olga Nájera-Ramírez

Making Michigan Home
Mexican Americans Bridging the Rural-Urban Experience
Author: Brett T. Olmsted

Quinceañeras
Latinidades and Girlhood in Popular Culture
Author: Edited by Jillian M. Báez, Diana Leon-Boys, and Angharad N. Valdivia

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Brett Olmsted, PhD 🗃️ @brettolmsted.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Really not sure they should have gotten the extra second but this Hail Mary may finally wipe out my childhood agony of watching Kordell Stewart’s (Colorado) Hail Mary to best Michigan on replay year after year #GoBlue #Michigan But they need to play much better. OU is next.

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Brett Olmsted, PhD 🗃️ @brettolmsted.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Oh FFS 🤦 This is the stupidest timeline Glad the president of the U.S. is so concerned with what really matters to improving the lives of its citizens

Breaking news
President Trump signs executive order renaming
Lake Ontario to "Lake America"

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Brett Olmsted, PhD 🗃️ @brettolmsted.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The beatings will continue until morale improves

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Brett Olmsted, PhD 🗃️ @brettolmsted.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The beatings will continue until morale improves

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Brett Olmsted, PhD 🗃️ @brettolmsted.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

So according to this “doctor” God only put us here to work so we can “be productive” and make money for the already wealthy. WOW, his god sounds like an enslaver

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

In the end we were just his latest casino and whatnot.

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Brett Olmsted, PhD 🗃️ @brettolmsted.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Commoditizing knowledge, reality, and even the perception of truth. Once that happens, those who control it can alter it to fit any agenda, remove those deemed unfit for their society, and create a permanent underclass George Orwell probably couldn’t even imagine a world this bad. But here we are

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Brett Olmsted, PhD 🗃️ @brettolmsted.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

So, we just want to strip Greenland‘s land of its natural resources for profit? Sounds about right. Perhaps this is why they have no interest in a deal. They actually care about their land and resources. Not everything has to be about money and not everything has to be commoditized

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John S. Huntington @johnshuntington.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Thanks to everyone who donates blood! Also, as someone who received a number of transfusions throughout my chemotherapy, please also consider donating platelets. Someone's platelets literally saved my life, and your donation could save someone else's life, too.

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Brett Olmsted, PhD 🗃️ @brettolmsted.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Male privilege: he had “difficult conversations” while the female reporters got fired

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Brett Olmsted, PhD 🗃️ @brettolmsted.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

But you were not president. Instead you were a draft dodger who paid to get out of it while our troops died in a different ill-conceived war.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

"Luddites" is a good term for those who oppose AI because the Luddites weren't against *all* technology, just forms of technology that they knew would pay workers less and turn out a shittier product

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Brett Olmsted, PhD 🗃️ @brettolmsted.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Wikipedia, a site once considered not credible as a source and possibly spreading misinformation, now has higher standards for its content than universities have for students

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Brett Olmsted, PhD 🗃️ @brettolmsted.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Great time to check out some great books, including Making Michigan Home which shows how placemaking and civil rights went far beyond just one man named Cesar Chavez @illinoispress.bsky.social #AcademicSky #Latinx #History #EduSky #Chicanx www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/ls...

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Brett Olmsted, PhD 🗃️ @brettolmsted.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I’m old enough to remember people lambasting Biden for suggesting the economy was actually strong because people weren’t feeling it in their daily lives (compared to other countries the economy was strong) & this idiot is proclaiming how GOOD it is that gas is expensive. Only good for oil companies

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Brett Olmsted, PhD 🗃️ @brettolmsted.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

And if you are not going to actually do the research, all we will get is the same regurgitated bullshit we have always gotten. Claude is taken what HAS been written not producing new ideas. People who think need to do the work so they can produce new ideas and wayside thinking/looking at things

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Derek Silva @derekcrim.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

fuck this so much we are so not prepared for the mountain of dogshit “scholarship” about to flood journals everywhere

A tweet that reads “The new academic wealth gap isn't your university.
It's not even your advisor's connections.
It's who knows Claude can turn 50+ research papers into a thesis chapter in 3 hours and who's still manually coding qualitative data.
I just watched a sociology PhD skip 8 weeks of analysis.
Here are the 9 prompts they used:”

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Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Countdown to launch. T-minus 10 days (but your book will arrive before that). #BookSky Unfortunately, this book is all too relevant in our current political moment. Help spread the word. nyupress.org/978147983829...

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Brett Olmsted, PhD 🗃️ @brettolmsted.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

If Iran has been an imminent threat for 47 years, and therefore must be attacked, wait until he hears about Russia, from Cold War to present (So glad these idiots weren’t in office during the Cold War and many of them were bad enough)

Tom Cotton: Iran has been an imminent threat to the United States for 47 years.
The president was right to act.

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Zack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

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Brett Olmsted, PhD 🗃️ @brettolmsted.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

You mean back to the 80s when ketchup was considered a vegetable?

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Brett Olmsted, PhD 🗃️ @brettolmsted.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Diversity is what makes us great. It’s our greatest strength. The people currently in power want to divide us with hate just so they can keep power and increase their wealth. That doesn’t make the US better, it just benefits them.

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Brett Olmsted, PhD 🗃️ @brettolmsted.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

This is vile and racist. There is a long history of comparing Black Americans to apes, insinuating they are less evolved, less intelligent, less human, and more animalistic. That a president would post this is despicable. Any other politician would be immediately done (and deservedly so)

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 26/01/2026

You know Alex Pretti & Renee Good—the 2 white people ICE killed. ICE has also killed Keith Porter, a Black man, Parady La, a Cambodian man, & 5 Latinos—Heber Sanchaz Domínguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, and Geraldo Lunas Campos. 9 TOTAL. ABOLISH ICE.

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Ben Siemon @benjaminjs.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Disney's highest grossing film is about falsely demonizing minorities so you can colonize and gentrify.

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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Happy #NationalMichiganDay to @brettolmsted.bsky.social's MAKING MICHIGAN HOME, an in-depth & innovative new book that spotlights the state’s overlooked Mexicanos & their distinctive experiences in the Midwest www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...

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Brett Olmsted, PhD 🗃️ @brettolmsted.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Watched Disney’s animated Wish tonight with my kids and couldn’t help but think Trump supporters would’ve cheered for Magnifico If only Asha and the people had just complied, as they should have 🙄, Magnifico could have controlled all the power & controlled their lives #NoKings #Disney #NoFascism

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a poster for disney 's wish shows a man holding a book in a library

ALT: a poster for disney 's wish shows a man holding a book in a library

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Brett Olmsted, PhD 🗃️ @brettolmsted.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Showed a trailer of Spielberg’s ET to my kids for the first time and couldn’t help but think that MAGA and Trump would cheer for the government to get ET and boo when he went home

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/01/2026

We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.

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The Joe Gross @joegross.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Today marks the 90th ann. of the #UAW Sit-Down Strike. From @brettolmsted.bsky.social's MAKING MICHIGAN HOME: "Mexicanos participated in the union’s first major victory during the Strike, their involvement only growing in subsequent years" www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...

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Brett Olmsted, PhD 🗃️ @brettolmsted.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

It’s times like this, when elected “leaders” think they are extra special, I think of Joe Pesci’s great speech from With Honors Pesci: “the president is not an elected king…he’s just a bum” youtu.be/R9hFB9Crxh4?... #WithHonors #NoKings

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Brett Olmsted, PhD 🗃️ @brettolmsted.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

First: who talks like this? Second: whose inauguration? Third: why would you have a president inaugurated inside where average people cannot attend when they are supposed to be “we the people’s” elected president, not some dictator… …oh wait, that’s his plan

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I will not use it at the beach I will not use it when I teach I do not want it in a church I do not want it for research I see no reason to concede I will not use it when I read Although its hype should have no end Upon it I will not depend

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I do not like your AI slop I do not like it, make it stop I do not want an AI house I do not want an AI mouse No AI box. No AI fox— That AI slop can go kick rocks I would not AI here or there I would not AI anywhere No AI car, no AI czar Your AI slop is killing trees I do not like it, let me be!

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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

"I want readers to unlearn that Mexicanos are just transient, exploitable migrants, but rather are neighbors that contribute and bring value to their cities, towns, and workplaces." The Q&A for MAKING MICHIGAN HOME is live! www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/?p... cc: @brettolmsted.bsky.social

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Brett Olmsted, PhD 🗃️ @brettolmsted.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Happy Pub Date for MAKING MICHIGAN HOME: Mexican Americans Bridging the Rural-Urban Experience www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0... #AmericanHistory #Midwest #UrbanStudies #LatinoStudies

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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Happy Pub Date to MAKING MICHIGAN HOME: Mexican Americans Bridging the Rural-Urban Experience by @brettolmsted.bsky.social! www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0... #AmericanHistory #Midwest #UrbanStudies #LatinoStudies

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Brett Olmsted, PhD 🗃️ @brettolmsted.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

1 WEEK TO GO!!!! — Making Michigan Home @illinoispress.bsky.social Use Holiday40 for 40% off “Making Michigan Home will have a tremendous impact. The author has found a glaring gap in the literature No one has taken an in-depth...” —Delia Fernández-Jones #history #SkyStorians 🗃 bit.ly/47BdTOH

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