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Lori Flores

@loriflores.bsky.social
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Professor of Latinx/labor/food/migration history @ Columbia and Tejana living in NYC. Author of GROUNDS FOR DREAMING (2016) and AWAITING THEIR FEAST (2025).

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.
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Lori Flores @loriflores.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
New York turned out, as always. So sick and heartened at the same time.
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LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
And the pièce de résistance, we have our 2025 Bookmark, arising from the LABOR's 2024 Big Book Forum featuring @loriflores.bsky.social's Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from WWII to COVID-19 (@uncpress.bsky.social).
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FarmSTAND @farmstand.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
A key reminder for the food movement. “Cruelty and dehumanization are the points of Trump’s immigration schemes. We must not lose sight of this while protesting raids in food spaces.” @loriflores.bsky.social
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How US immigration raids hurt summer pleasures, from berries to barbecues
In the US, hardly a food is untouched by immigrant labor – and Ice raids will profoundly affect the food labor system
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Arturo Dominguez @extremearturo.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
I want you guys to understand something. There aren't 65 million immigrants in this country, but there are 65 million Latinos. They're using the same language and tactics they once used against Black people and Indigenous people. This is ethnic cleansing.
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Lori Flores @loriflores.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Thank you to the NYC Food Policy Center for including AWAITING THEIR FEAST on their summer reading list!
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8 Books on Farming and Food Production to Add to Your Summer Reading List - NYC Food Policy Center (Hunter College)
Food production is an essential but often undocumented part of our food system. This…
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Book Reviewers for the JAEH Needed If you are interested in reviewing books for the Journal of American Ethnic History, please complete the volunteer reviewer form (iehs.org/review-books...) or send your contact information and areas of expertise to Omar Valerio-Jiménez at jaehreviews@gmail.com.
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Review Books for the JAEH
Visit the post for more.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
BREAKING: Sean Hecker, Jenna Dabbs, & David Patton of Hecker Fink and Rascoe Dean of Sherrard Roe Voigt & Harbison file a motion to take over as counsel for Kilmar Abrego Garcia in his criminal case in Tennessee. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE
NASHVILLE DIVISION
United States of America,
v.
Case No. 3:25-cr-00115
Judge Crenshaw
Judge Holmes
Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Defendant.
Motion to Substitute Counsel
Defendant Kilmar Abrego Garcia, by and through his undersigned counsel, hereby moves this Court for the entry of an Order substituting Rascoe Dean, Sean Hecker, Jenna Dabbs, and David Patton as counsel of record for Mr. Abrego Garcia and relieving Federal Public Defender Dumaka Shabazz and Assistant Federal Public Defenders Will Allensworth, Richard Tennant,
and Richard Thomason of other or further responsibility in this cause.
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Pablo Piccato @ppiccato.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Escribí esta nota en Reforma sobre la situación en Estados Unidos: EU: Ofensiva en varios frentes reforma.com/kYjlcr
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Megan Kate Nelson 📚 @mkn.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Here’s the thing. If you don’t like the fun and the challenge of 1. Reading widely 2. Going to archives 3. Searching for new sources 4. Playing around with book structure 5. Writing and revising Why are you even writing a nonfiction history book? Fame? 😆 Money? 🤣 I just don’t get it.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Another remarkable view down 5th Avenue. Tens of thousands united in saying no to Trump, no to ICE, no to fascism and #NoKings. (🎥 Unheard Voices)
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Bruce Hinze @brucehinze.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
“No Kings” demonstration, Ocean Beach, San Francisco
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Pachi @pachiyante.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Pine St. Seattle #nokings
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Here’s a New York Times photo of the Chicago “No Kings” rally. NYT said the march that followed spanned at least 10 blocks.
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Lori Flores @loriflores.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
TRUMP NOW SAYING DEPORTING GOOD FARM AND HOTEL WORKERS IS A BAD IDEA 🤔 Suddenly he now realizes this… and ties himself into a pretzel to justify it. (Why just farms and hotels? Spoiler: donors called)
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Lori Flores @loriflores.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Thank you to the International Labor History Association and the journal LABOR for naming my book Awaiting Their Feast “Book of the Year” and the “Big Book of 2025,” respectively. Both huge honors.✨
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Lori Flores @loriflores.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
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Open Letter from Concerned Faculty from Columbia University, Barnard College, and Teachers College
BY CONCERNED FACULTY AT COLUMBIA, BARNARD, AND TEACHERS COLLEGE We are publishing this letter at the request of several AAUP members from Columbia, Barnard, and Teachers College. The letter was dra…
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Lori Flores @loriflores.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
So happy to be included in the “Food as Voice” issue of Voices of Mexico! I discuss Mexican food’s history in New York. Disponible a la librería del CISAN UNAM
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Columbia bylaws state that the president can only send police on campus to arrest protestors after consulting with the university senate. Once again, the president has neglected to follow these rules, which have been in place since 1968.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
“Today, we now know why they never showed Mahmoud that warrant — they didn’t have one." www.huffpost.com/entry/ap-us-...
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Agents Didn't Have Warrant To Arrest Activist Mahmoud Khalil, Documents Show
The federal government defended its warrantless arrest by saying agents feared the legal permanent resident would flee.
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Gabriel Bosslet @gbosslet.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women Unreal www.science.org/content/arti...
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NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Two headlines in the New York Times today.
Two NYT headlines stating the WH wants to promote more childbearing and the EPA is ending testing for chemicals that hurt children.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
The real #Coachella isn't a music festival. It's hard working farm workers who are out laboring to harvest crops. Farm workers like Cruz who shared this photo of the green pepper harvest and Salvador who shared this photo from the dates. #WeFeedYou
A farm worker harvesting green bell peppers in Coachella CAA farm worker working in the dates in Coachella CA
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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Not sure who needs to hear this, but any govt official who violates someone's constitutional rights -- and is acting outside the scope of their lawful authority -- can be PERSONALLY liable in a civil suit. ICE officers. Cabinet members. White House staffers. Even the president.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/04/2025
My 10 year old sister and I got Social Security payments after my father died from exposure to Agent Orange. It helped my widowed mom when the family lost his income. He paid into it his whole life. They even took it from his check while he was serving in Vietnam. Jeanine can go fuck herself.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
So many student visas have been revoked that Inside Higher Ed started mapping them
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Lori Flores @loriflores.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Just lectured about this the other day.
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Víctor Manuel Ramos @vmramos.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
A federal judge ordered the White House on Tuesday to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events, affirming on First Amendment grounds that the government cannot punish the news organization for the content of its speech. @apnews.com
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AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists
A federal judge has ordered the White House to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events.
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Lori Flores @loriflores.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
In 2023, households led by undocumented immigrants paid $89.8 BILLION in taxes ($33.9B in state/local and $55.8B federal). They load the coffers that current Social Security recipients draw upon. Stupid (and above all cruel) decision for the #IRS to collaborate with the deportation complex.
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I'm no lawyer but the text of the Enemy Alien Act says it applies only in "a declared war between the US & any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion ... against the territory of the United States, by any foreign nation or government." None of these conditions exist.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/04/2025
Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC
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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff
Full of people down 5th avenue, view from 39th Street.
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Latinx Histories Book Series (UNCP) @latinxhistories.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
At the #OAH with @latinxhistories.bsky.social @dgershenowitz.bsky.social @loriflores.bsky.social @profceciliam.bsky.social
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Cecilia Márquez @profceciliam.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
*Making the Latino South* looking cute 😍 at the #OAH. My book has the best book series siblings around thanks to @monijimenez.bsky.social & @loriflores.bsky.social. Thanks so much to @latinxhistories.bsky.social @uncpress.bsky.social for the love ✨💖
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
“Stanford learned on Friday, April 4, that 4 students & 2 recent grads have had their student visas revoked. The Univ learned of revocations during routine check of SEVIS database. Stanford notified students of revocations & made external legal assistance available to them.” immigration.stanford.edu
News and updates

Stanford learned on Friday, April 4, that four students and two recent graduates have had their student visas revoked.  The University learned of the revocations during a routine check of the SEVIS database. Stanford notified the students of the revocations and made external legal assistance available to them. To protect student privacy, Stanford is unable to identify the individuals or provide other details. We are not currently aware of the details of the revocations or the reasons for them. We also are not aware of any presence of immigration authorities on campus today.

Stanford deeply values its international community of scholars and remains committed to supporting the well-being of all members of our community. We understand that these developments may be deeply unsettling for members of our community. Resources for those seeking assistance are available through the Bechtel International Center and on this website.
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Lori Flores @loriflores.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Everybody at #OAH25, stop by our @latinxhistories.bsky.social reception on Friday! 🍷 Free drinks for the first 50ish people!
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Immigration History Research Center @ihrc-umn.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
You still have time to register for Awaiting Their Feast: A Conversation about Latinx Food Workers and Activism with @loriflores.bsky.social Join us for this important conversation about the US's relationship with immigrant food workers and immigrant cuisine. z.umn.edu/AwaitingTheirFeast
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Awaiting Their Feast: A Conversation about Latinx Food Workers and Activism with Lori A Flores
The Immigration History Research Center invites you to join us for a conversation with Lori Flores about her new book, Awaiting their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to COVID...
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Geraldo Cadava @geraldo-cadava.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Writing Latinos, Season 3, Episode 1: Lori Flores on her new book Awaiting Their Feast. @uncpress.bsky.social @dgershenowitz.bsky.social @loriflores.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/lori-a-flore...
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Lori A. Flores on “Awaiting their Feast” - Public Books
You probably remember the picture of himself, both thumbs up, that Donald Trump posted on social media with the caption, “Best Taco Bowl.” It was his ode
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Debbie Gershenowitz @dgershenowitz.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
@latinxhistories.bsky.social is now on Bluesky! Led by series editors @innisjimenez.bsky.social & @loriflores.bsky.social, supported by a dream editorial advisory team, & blessed with an incredible roster of authors, please follow. We're also at uncpress.org/series/latin.... @uncpress.bsky.social
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Latinx Histories
UNC Press is delighted to announce the launch of Latinx Histories, a book series premised on the view that understanding Latinx history is essential to a more complete and complex understanding of the...
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy. "Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."
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Debbie Gershenowitz @dgershenowitz.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Thank you, @geraldo-cadava.bsky.social & Public Books for this episode featuring @loriflores.bsky.social! It's discounted right now on the @uncpress.bsky.social site and will be at the @oah.org meeting in a few weeks! So will Lori! So will I! So will many members of the Latinx Histories board!
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This isn't going to get the attention of Columbia, but it's at least as bad: the University of Maine is having its funding cut off because the governor of Maine dared to challenge Trump.
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Madison Pauly @msjpauly.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
LGBTQ federal workers say they're terrified they're about to be fired for their gender identity, sexual orientation, or past efforts to support other queer and trans employees—in other words, a second Lavender Scare. Honored to have their trust with this story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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LGBTQ federal workers brace for a McCarthyist purge
"They’re not asking people ‘Are you gay? Are you lesbian?’ They’re asking, ‘Who is participating in DEI?'"
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
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🐶 @AL- I’m here! @phoenix-al.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Mind boggling when you see the entire confirmed list of agencies with mass firing of probationary employees, :
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Lori Flores @loriflores.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Created a takeaway flower bar for friends tonight. 💐 Fight ugliness with beauty.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 08/02/2025
Stay strong my friends. Rest. Recharge. Dig deep. We need each other and the country needs us. I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing. Albert Camus, The Plague
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