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Jorge N. Leal, Ph.D.

@jorgenleal.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of History UC Riverside Mexican American History | Latinx Cultural Expressions | US & SoCal Historian | LÁ 90s Youth Cultures y lo que salga esta semana... www.jorgenicolasleal.com

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The gofundme for Nurse Chloe Freeman's legal defense. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Nurse charged with helping man in hospital escape from ICE custody
FBI accuses Chloe Freeman of federal misdemeanor in case of undocumented Mexican migrant arrested in Michigan
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I've gotten a lot of requests from faculty about how to talk to their students about the Cornell 7. I'll post a few resources I've built over the years that I've heard are the most helpful:
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Jennifer Doyle @fromaleftwing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This book is about the administration of harassment complaints on campuses, our ideas about campus safety/security, sexual vulnerability and the institution. It's out of print so, with the publisher's permission, I am sharing a PDF. drive.google.com/file/d/1S5vE...
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Doyle Campus Sex Campus Security.pdf
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Roxanne Shirazi @roxanneshirazi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I recently read this book by Jennifer Doyle and I’m sorry to see it relevant again. It is very short and very good
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Campus Sex, Campus Security
The management of sexuality has been sewn into the campus. Sex has its own administrative unit. It is a bureaucratic progression.—from Campus Sex, Campus S...
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Jorge N. Leal, Ph.D. @jorgenleal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Bloomberg Law's @benjaminpenn.bsky.social reports that the Justice Department is seeking to hire military attorneys as temporary prosecutors in preparation of a "surge" in immigration-related arrests and prosecutions next month in Los Angeles, Sacramento, and NYC.
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My wife and I spend a surprising amount of time worrying about how to protect our children from rich kids
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Justin Gage @justingage.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The History Department at the University of Arkansas (my department) is hiring an Assistant Professor in U.S. Latino/a/e History! The U of A is setting enrollment & graduation rate records each year. Please help spread the word 🗃️: uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UAF_Ex...
An aerial view of the University of Arkansas campus during the fall.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Biked over and got my covid and flu shots this morning. Think of it as a salute to this guy. But really a salute to science, herd immunity, public health, and survival.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 15/09/2026
"The escalation of ICE and CBP attacks in Minnesota, as well as Los Angeles, Memphis, New Orleans, and Chicago, was less about capturing undocumented workers than about generating terror within those cities. They targeted cities with either Black mayors or progressive Democratic mayors."
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Robin D. G. Kelley: What We’re Experiencing Right Now Is Fascism
Technologies from Israel have turbocharged surveillance by ICE, Border Patrol, and the Department of Homeland Security.
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Jessica R Valdez @jrvaldez.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We're hiring in the long eighteenth century at LSU. Please spread the word and let me know if you have any questions. It's a wonderful department to work in! lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0210...
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Assistant Professor - 18th-Century British Literature
All Job Postings will close at 12:01a.m. CST (1:01a.m. EST) on the specified Closing Date (if designated). If you close the browser or exit your application prior to submitting, the application progre...
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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 04/09/2026
Opinion | Trump’s Latest Move Threatens Any College That Seeks to Promote Equality The administration’s plan to revoke tax-exempt status from schools that offer Black or other minority students targeted support willfully distorts the law. By Austin Sarat: bit.ly/4iKJB1k #EDUSky
A photo depicting a golden scale, representing the scales of justice, along with nine multi-colored miniature people figurines, ranging in color from cream to tan to black, along with one that is rainbow-colored, suggesting the concept of diversity.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
That's how you do a headline: www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
Trump’s new proposal for colleges fits his larger segregationist project
This new proposed policy is an extension of Trump’s unprecedented campaign against the independence of America’s system of higher education.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
For MSNOW, I wrote about the Trump administration threatening to strip colleges of their tax-exempt status as part of its larger segregationist agenda.
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Opinion | Trump’s next high education target: schools that help Black students
Victor Ray: American universities must stand up to Trump's plan to re-segregate higher ed
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Sobering, insightful essay on how chatbots mangle historical primary sources. 🗃 www.hnn.us/article/ai-i...
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AI Is an Anti-Primary Source Machine
Real voices from the past are threatened by chatbots designed to amplify — and ultimately become — the loudest voices in the room.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I've been seeing a lot of "well I guess this is the way things are now" "ah another line of evidence that we are a fallen empire", attitude that I am begging people to shake off. There are people working their butts off to make things better. Please don't give up. Join us.
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St. John Barned-Smith @stjbs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
ICE hasn’t paid for detainee medical care since October. Advocates call it the ‘death policy’ — my latest, w/ @kolyncheang.bsky.social. Spend some time with it www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
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ICE hasn’t paid for detainee medical care since October. Advocates call it the ‘death policy’
ICE owes millions in unpaid bills to hospitals and, in some cases, detainees themselves have been directly billed for care, records show.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
My latest in the Guardian - where the wealthiest country in the world allocates money has always been a question of political will over political way. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump admin spends billions to deport Black and brown people while doubling dollars for white ‘refugees’ | Heba Gowayed
‘Where the wealthiest country in the world allocates money has always been a question of political will over political way’
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
My daughter, a freshman in college, has texted me twice now to let me know she stopped by office hours to just chat with the professor
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Jason Momoa Makes a Heart Shape with Hands
ALT: Jason Momoa Makes a Heart Shape with Hands
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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This is quite literally an extinction level event for graduate education in several fields in the United States.
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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This ethical conflict is coming to light as AHA members are preparing to ask AHA to oppose the IHRA definition. Will member advocacy prevail in an environment when AHA is so closely affiliated with defense industry lobbying firms? Who does AHA represent anyway?? We'll see.
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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The American Historical Association hired a lobbying firm to help silence member advocacy on Palestine. In this essay, Adam Rzepka covers @historians.org's relationship w/ Thorn Run Partners, its deep ethical conflicts, & the advocacy crisis AHA has thrust upon us. www.chronicle.com/article/a-sc...
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Opinion | A Scholarly Association’s Secret Washington Playbook
Did the American Historical Association ask a corporate lobbying firm for advice on how to silence its members?
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Jes Steele ✌️ @piratito.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris performing “Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow” on The Dolly Parton Show (1976)
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
READ: If you read (& perhaps clutched your pearls over) that Tyler Austin Harper piece in The Atlantic about DEI and Bates College, then I hope you’ll have the integrity to read this rejoinder by Andrew Baker, a Black male professor who preceded Harper at Bates. open.substack.com/pub/thedrift...
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Racism and labor at Bates: the other side of the story
Andrew Baker responds to Tyler Austin Harper
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 17/08/2026
This is IT! “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy” drops tomorrow (8/18) 1st week sales are crucial to success. So: Give the tech fascists hell, make “The Nerd Reich” sell! Big things coming! Be a part of this moment—please buy it wherever you get your books.
Cover of the nerd Reich book coming August 18
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Sam Ulmschneider @samulmschneider.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Normally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.
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The pundits have completely lost the plot
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 10/08/2026
On my blog, I wrote about how America's museums are falling apart. The US has 20k+ museums, and most have historic buildings with leaky roofs, failing HVAC units, and flooding basements. What they don't have is money for repairs. Please read/share! 🧵 johngmarks.beehiiv.com/p/america-s-...
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America's Museums are Falling Apart
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Bad news. There's a war that Trump's winning...on higher ed in America Now they want to end student loans if they don't think you'll earn enough money. Americans are anxious our kids aren't learning, so why don't Dems make an issue out of college? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
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Should Democrats campaign for more English lit majors? | Will Bunch
A new Trump attack on student loans is part of a push to crush the liberal arts. How can the humanities fight back?
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Elizabeth Hernandez @lizzy-hernandez.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
New: Universities (CU, CSU, others nationwide) are partnering with AI giants like ChatGPT to roll out university-sanctioned AI Hear from the students resisting & why some liken their opposition to wartime conscientious objectors www.denverpost.com/2026/08/07/c... via @denverpost.com #EdColo #AI
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As Colorado universities align with ChatGPT, student AI resisters take a stand against the ‘plagiarism machine’
“The majority of my participants flat out don’t think AI has a place in education,” said Mirakle Wright, a CU graduate student who is studying resistance to artificial intelligence.
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Franchesca Ramsey @chescaleigh.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
"I would never thought the United States would act this way" - Nunca Pensé featuring Mariachi Arcoiris is available on all streaming platforms
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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I find it fascinating that in the 1990s, the US managed to re-create early twentieth-century Vienna café culture only to have it gradually decay over the first quarter of the twenty-first century such that now most coffee shops are closed by six PM.
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Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
New work by Dr. Nicole M Guidotti-Hernandez: "How the Chicano Movement Silenced Women: The César Chávez Revelations Are Part of a Long History of Marginalization, Abuse, and Profiting From Patriarchy" www.zocalopublicsquare.org/how-the-chic...
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How the Chicano Movement Silenced Women | Essay
The César Chávez Revelations Are Part of a Long History of Marginalization, Abuse, and Profiting From Patriarchy
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Eladio Bobadilla @eladiobobadilla.com · 06/08/2026
My piece, now in the Guardian (no paywall!): www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Why do Latinos work for ICE?
Half of border agents are Latino, and they are part of a long history of Hispanic support for – and enforcement of – harsh immigration policies
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Rest in Power to Johanna Fernández, leading historian of NYC amsterdamnews.com/news/2026/08...
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Johanna Fernández, Young Lords historian and prison abolitionist, makes her transition
Dr. Johanna Fernández, the Dominican American historian, prison abolitionist, and movement scholar, died on July 30.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
"Why should I major in History?"
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
A short thread on Trump's attack on the Smithsonian Institution. First, his executive order accuses the Smithsonian of being "inaccurate" without ever specifying these supposed inaccuracies. (No doubt because none exist.) 1/ www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Trump orders Smithsonian to post warnings about 'inaccurate' US history
The Trump administration has often accused the world's largest research museum of harbouring an anti-American bias.
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🪬Lina-Maria Murillo @drlmmurillo.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
My brilliant colleague Iván Chaar López 's tenure denial is not only a threat to UT faculty, but to all scholars who research topics considered "controversial." His case is a model for how to deny tenure with zero justifications to him or his colleagues. www.statesman.com/news/educati...
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UT border surveillance scholar was a shoo-in for tenure. UT denied him.
American Studies scholar Iván Chaar López fears UT’s unexplained tenure denial violated his academic freedom amid scrutiny of controversial fields.
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
This is footage of ICE handcuffing a 26 year old father after murdering him in broad daylight. We cannot look away. Abolish ICE. Abolish qualified immunity. Hold these murderous thugs accountable.
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Amalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.
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EL PAÍS México @elpaismexico.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
El FBI investigó al escritor Carlos Monsiváis al relacionarlo con los Black Panthers y el movimiento chicano dozz.es/hg_7gn
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El FBI investigó al escritor Carlos Monsiváis al relacionarlo con los Black Panthers y el movimiento chicano
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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Fight like a professor! Or better yet, like professors fighting together for academic freedom, shared governance, free higher education, and against contingency. @aaup.org
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Camilo Pérez-Bustillo @cperezbustillo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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Justice for Lorenzo: Day of Action & Accountability Movement Call · Disappeared in America
On Tuesday, July 7, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Houston, Texas. Lorenzo was not under investigation. He was not a suspect. He was a dad driving a work van with his cr...
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Dr David S Anderson @dsaarchaeology.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Original Tweet from @Mantia: What’s something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand?

Quote tweet from @hwitteman: That $35 that scientific journals charge you to read a paper goes 100% to the publisher, 0% to the authors. If you just email us to ask for our papers, we are allowed to send them to you for free, and we will be genuinely delighted to do so.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Grim New Details of Fatal ICE Shooting Make It Even Worse talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
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Grim New Details of Fatal ICE Shooting Make It Even Worse
A Case of Mistaken Identity The ICE shooting of an unarmed immigrant...
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Please RT this piece and share on other social channels talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...
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Exclusive: DOJ Taps Gang, Terrorism Prosecutors to Crack Down on Political Groups
The Department of Justice has tapped two prosecutors with expertise in organized...
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Shayne Mathis @metalshayne.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The touring situation for foreign bands is totally fucked. I was on a call this morning with a record label who said an EU band you’ve probably heard of is canceling their plans to tour the U.S. when their album comes out later this year because it’s too much hassle. www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
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Rush postpones Fort Worth show due to ‘travel and border-related delays’
Rush has run into their first glitch on their Fifty Something tour.The rockers were supposed to be headlining the Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas, on Wednesday. But according to a post on Instagram...
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