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lisa lowe @driftinghouse.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

yale american studies is searching for a colleague (open rank) in 19th or 20th c. u.s. cultural history & cultural studies #job #americanstudies #culturalstudies apply.interfolio.com/188467

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Roberto Macias @robertomacias.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Had a dream I was arguing with Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek. A group of us were in someone’s house, and he was lying on a bed (fully clothed), and I was trying to pin down his real position vis-a-vis Marxism. I don’t often dream about philosophers, but when I do it’s weird.

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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 11/04/2026

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

If you're as excited as I am about Audiofuturism, let me make some suggestions: •Invite me to your campus to deliver a talk •Suggest me as a keynote speaker for your conference •Host me for a workshop on research profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/pro...

A stack of books, copies of Audiofuturism: Science Fiction Radio Drama and the Black Fantastic Imagination

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

BREAKING: Extraordinary scenes as Iranian citizens start forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites. This is Kazerun Power Plant in Fars province, southern Iran (🎥 i24 News)

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 12/03/2026

every quantitative measure is actually a stack of qualitative assumptions in a trenchcoat

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José A. de la Garza Valenzuela @jdelagv.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

The Chicanx Forum is hosting two guaranteed panels at the 2027 MLA convention in LA! Please submit your proposals by March 13th. -John Rechy: A Queer Chicanx Retrospective -Retheorizing the Queer, Coalitional, and Literary Subject(s) of This Bridge Called My Back Please submit and share!

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Roberto Macias @robertomacias.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I randomly brought up the war in Iraq last week in my “The Unreliable Narrator in Latinx literature” class as we were discussing political rhetoric. Today in class I was suddenly reminded and told them so that I was their age, sitting in my undergrad courses, as we started that illegitimate war.

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Roberto Macias @robertomacias.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Caught the screening of Latinx sci-fi classic Sleep Dealer and q & a with the director Alex Rivera at the Cheech Museum. So grateful to have such amazing institutions and events in Riverside.

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Roberto Macias @robertomacias.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

It amuses me to no end that many of the shadiest characters in Tomás Rivera’s . . . And the Earth Did Not Devour Him, a narrative that traces migrant farm workers’ journeys from South Texas all the way to Minnesota, are from San Antonio (my hometown).

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San Antonio Express-News @expressnews.com · 09/02/2026

If you see 'ICE OUT' towels at the Super Bowl, they came from a coalition of artists, musicians and community organizers who handed out more than 25,000 towels protesting the actions of ICE.

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Fans given 'ICE OUT' towels as they walked to stadium for Super Bowl 60

If you see 'ICE OUT' towels at the Super Bowl, they came from a coalition of artists, musicians and community organizers who handed out more than 25,000 towels protesting the actions of ICE.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

ICE has grabbed so many people from their vehicles that there are abandoned cars across Minnesota. This tow truck driver returns the cars for free as a public service, and he’s been getting death threats. They hate the helpers. Which is why must keep helping.

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Twin Cities tow truck driver returns abandoned vehicles to families after ICE arrests

Juan Leon sends a "chase" car to check out where abandoned vehicles are located and arranges discreet drop-offs. Since late December, he estimated they have dropped off 250 cars.

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Galveston @brucelcarter.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Many of the schools in Houston Texas walked out this afternoon to protest against ICE. When one student was asked if he was afraid of being marked absent or suspended his response was ‘if that’s what it takes to protect people and use my first amendment rights, I’m ok with that’. Be like these kids!

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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

". . . . that there are more than a dozen secret and obscure watchlists that homeland security and the FBI are using to track protesters (both anti-ICE and pro-Palestinian), “Antifa,” and others who are promiscuously labeled “domestic terrorists.”" www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ices-secre...

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Exclusive: ICE's Secret Watchlists of Americans

Sparta, Reaper and Grapevine track protesters, their friends (+ others)

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Coyle "Barricade Material" Boron @fack.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:

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Hundreds of immigrant mothers and children detained at a South Texas facility on Saturday protested the killing of a 37-year-old man in Minneapolis, chanting "Let me out" and "Libertad," or "Liberty," according to an immigration lawyer who witnessed the demonstration.

Eric Lee, the lawyer, said he had been waiting for his client in the visitation area of the family detention center in Dilley, Tex., when detention officials abruptly asked him to leave. Once outside, he peered through a chain-link fence and saw hundreds of women and children walking out of the facility and chanting in protest.

Lee said his client later told him on the phone that he and other detainees were outraged over the latest killing in Minneapolis and the detention of Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old boy from Ecuador detained with his father in Minneapolis and sent to Texas.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

This is Liam Ramos. The five year old that ICE took from a Minneapolis school and sent BY HIMSELF WITHOUT HIS FAMILY to a detention facility in Texas. There are monsters among us and they are wearing masks, carrying guns, and work for the US government.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/01/2026

Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

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Roberto Macias @robertomacias.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

I somehow—foolishly, I admit—haven’t thought much about the importance of representation in my class on erōs in the Western philosophical tradition, but seeing their faces light up when I brought up Juan Gabriel reminded me of the magic of seeing someone like yourself at the head of the classroom.

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José Manuel Santillana Blanco @santillanajm.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

We are excited to have this out! Please consider submitting and sharing the call! 💕

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Erica @allthatliesingray.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Such a great point. I’m in San Antonio TX & community members have made this directory of mutual aids & resources for the city & surrounding areas. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... There’s is also this one that was created for TX (just not sure how up to date it is) docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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SATX Resource Directory

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Roberto Macias @robertomacias.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Realized as the words were coming out of my mouth, how Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream, which I’ve taught a few times before, conveys the ways in which domestic violence is sustained through fantasy, perverting the uses of narrative and thus of world building. This is what I love about teaching.

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Jorge N. Leal, Ph.D. @jorgenleal.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Thanks for sharing more names to this starter pack. There are now 123 or so scholars who work on Latina/o/x studies included in this list. Please share and also send also send more recommendations of folks to include! ¡Entre más mejor! go.bsky.app/Rmi3sGW

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Latina/o/x Studies & Scholars

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 26/04/2024

The student newspaper at Ohio State (my alma mater and the paper were I began my career) confirms the men atop the student union in the viral photo were indeed ARMED SNIPERS from the State Highway Patrol, with loaded weapons trained on STUDENTS below.

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Lantern confirms officers on Ohio Union’s roof had firearms once arrests began

A version of this story was published Thursday at 8:55 p.m., and has since been removed following updated information. Around 8:15 p.m. Thursday, university spokesperson Ben Johnson said there were…

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🎃 beagle 🐈‍⬛ @beagle.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

statement by UT Austin faculty, announcing a strike tomorrow in protest of the police presence on campus

Too long for alt text here's a summary: faculty members at UT Austin are condemning the university administration's decision to invite heavily armed city police and state troopers to the campus in response to a planned peaceful educational event by the Palestine Solidarity Committee. The event was meant to include teach-ins, study sessions, pizza, and an art workshop, with no threat of violence or disruption. The faculty members witnessed police using excessive force against students, including punching a female student, knocking over a legal observer, and violently arresting students for standing at the front of the crowd. They are calling for no business as usual on campus and are urging the community to gather at the main mall in front of UT Tower the following day.

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Roberto Macias @robertomacias.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

Still reeling from seeing Hania Rani live in LA this weekend: her music has helped me get through the pandemic and through so, so much writing.

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