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Yesenia Barragan, she/they

@yeseniabarragan.bsky.social
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historian of Latin America & African diaspora @Rutgers. Latinx surrealist. proud poor/working-class first-gen daughter of immigrants. ✍🏽 IN LATIN AMERICA YOU COULD BE FREE: AN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY (Basic Books, 2026); FREEDOM’S CAPTIVES (2021)

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EL PAÍS México @elpaismexico.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Manifestación contra los desahucios, en directo | Los manifestantes por la crisis de la vivienda acampan en Sol y animan a la gente a que se una dozz.es/q1okfa
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Manifestación contra los desahucios, en directo | Los manifestantes por la crisis de la vivienda acampan en Sol y animan a la gente a que se una
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Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
There has not been a proper reckoning against the forces of evil that made them flee, and we can't let this be forgotten or swept away as so many, especially Rutgers leadership, would like to do.
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Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I work with Mark at Rutgers history, and I saw the madness unfold as the right wing threatened him and his family. It was insane watching our professors and their family have to flee the country while Rutgers leadership dragged their feet. Of course, every History student I spoke to supported Mark.
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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thread 🤦‍♂️ about the chaos of last fall that I didn’t see…
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 16/09/2026
Tomorrow marks 15 years since Occupy Wall Street began. In this 2016 essay, @jessemyerson.bsky.social argued that Occupy’s legacy was larger than the “99%”: It built networks, spaces and organizing models that later movements could use.
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Occupy Didn’t Just “Change the Conversation.” It Laid a Foundation for a New Era of Radical Protest
Five years later, it’s worth looking more closely at what Occupy built.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge has barred DHS from threatening to prosecute a man who harshly criticized ICE’s acting director following the fatal shootings in Minnesota. It violates his free speech, Judge Contreras ruled. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is a big one: Brown University is searching for the next director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. Please help us identify excellent candidates to lead this signature program into the future. Please write me with ideas; please share in your networks; please apply.
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Brown University - Professor and Director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice | H-Net
1. Academic Accomplishment. We seek a scholar with a strong scholarly record, including excellence in both research and teaching, appropriate for appointment at the level of full professor in a social science, humanities, or arts department at Brown.
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Yesenia Barragan, she/they @yeseniabarragan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It’s me! ☺️☺️☺️ Can’t wait for this!
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LACS-SHA @lacs-sha.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
We are thrilled to announce our 2026 LACS-SHA Luncheon Speaker, Yesenia Barragan. An Associate Professor of History at Rutgers and specialist in the transnational history of the Americas and the African Diaspora, Dr. Barragan’s talk will be held at 12:30pm on Saturday, 7th November.
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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Wrote a short weird little book about far-right death threats against me + my fam, fleeing our home, Trumpism, + my experience as a Jew amidst the resurgence of fascism + genocide in Gaza Coming January 2027 from @melvillehouse.bsky.social mhpbooks.com/books/unpunc... #NoPasarán #FreePalestine
“Unpunctuated Death threats: Notes from a fascist present. Author of Antifa Mark Bray.” Text on a black and white image of the author from the chin down.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 30/08/2026
Former Post-Gazette strikers wanted to return to their newsroom. Instead, they built one they control. @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social speaks with the worker-owners of the @pittsburghprogress.bsky.social about determining their own future.
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Former Strikers Start Cooperative News Organization
Following firings from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, workers and community members came together to create the Pittsburgh Progress.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I never would have predicted that cutting 20% of the staff at the federal agency that makes sure our food is safe would result in a bunch of our food being declared unsafe.
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Ted Hesson @tedhesson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
White South Africans who come to the United States as refugees could get up to $4,500 per person in initial federal support beginning Oct. 1, nearly double the current amount, four people familiar with the change in policy said www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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White South Africans could get $4,500 in aid if they come to U.S. as refugees
The assistance, which helps pay for basic needs such as housing and food, would nearly double under a new policy.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Amazing to live in a country where the secret police are handling inter-chud beefs. It's like the Night of Long Knives playing out in the parking lot of a Dollar General.
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Hrag Vartanian @hrag.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This review I published when I was EIC by Dexter Thomas, was the article that made it clear that Kusama anti-Blackness permeated her work, and even more disturbing, the art market was trying to cover it up in all sorts of ways.
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What the Art World Doesn't Want You to Know About Yayoi Kusama
A new publication tries hard to reinvent Kusama as a champion of racial equity despite her troubling record of anti-Black statements.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 23/08/2026
Bea Lumpkin was a mother, a union organizer, a mathematician and an educator who began teaching at 47. She was also a lifelong communist and antifascist who kept organizing into her 100s. @stacydavisgates.bsky.social remembers her life.
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Bea Lumpkin and How an Antifascist Rests in Power
Bea Lumpkin, a daughter of Russian revolutionaries, passed away June 14 at 107 years old. A lifelong communist herself, she began making solidarity trips in support of striking workers when she was…
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 21/08/2026
Maybe we will finally wake up to the fact that “free speech“ and “viewpoint diversity” are actually bad in academia. What you want is peer-reviewed knowledge, not a debate-me-bro culture in which empirically discredited views get resources & funding & platforms just because.
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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I got tired of waiting for the journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social to cover this (it IS summer), but this is to say that ALL the staff members in Women & Gender Studies here were laid off last week, on the top of the cutting of 5 lecturer positions in the program last year.+
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/08/2026
Absolutely vile framing from the @nytimes.com. Why doesn’t this leave behind hard questions for the media that hounded him? Or the global right-wing that gleefully turned a local matter into an international incident?
“Professor’s Death Leaves Behind Hard Questions for Cambridge on Race and Hiring”
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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
there are so many grifters and violent men in positions of power in the academy who are committing serious crimes, sexually harassing students, producing false research for fascists, and aiding and funding genocide. they feel no shame, they face no consequence, and no one is hounding them to death.
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Hysterical whiteness has been in murderous full effect.
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Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Book cover just dropped for Anarchafeminist Horizons at the End of Gender and it's rad AF. Coming January 2027 with a chapter by yours truly: "'To Repulse the State from our Uteri': Anarcha-Feminism, Reproductive Freedom, and Dual Power."
Book cover for Anarchafeminist Horizons at the End of Gender: Praxis Across Movements, Solidarities Across Borders, edited by Nathan Poirier and Zane McNeill. The art is funky and colorful and hard to describe.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
School meals should be free for everybody. Charging children to eat somewhere they are legally required to be for the entire day is crazy!
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
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speculations
on the Arday Affair
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 08/08/2026
Since the beginning of the second Trump administration, 55 people have died in ICE detention, according to the agency’s own data. The mortality rate of ICE detainees is at the highest level in more than a decade and four times that of the Biden presidency.
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The deaths ICE doesn’t count
Prisciliano Trejo Ricano passed away in the hospital days after being released from detention.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Absolute travesty. Academic freedom simply does not exist at Texas Tech University.
After appealing my tenure denial the 
Tenure Hearing Panel unanimously found that “the promotion & tenure process was ‘significantly noncompliant with the university’s established standards and procedures’. The President however upheld his original decision to deny me tenure.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 04/08/2026
A man from El Salvador has died while in ICE custody at a New Jersey detention facility that has faced protests over living conditions and medical care, federal officials say. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Man from El Salvador dies in immigration jail in New Jersey, ICE says
Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, 41, had been held at Delaney Hall in Newark after being arrested June 18, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 30/07/2026
“Harvard paid McKinsey & Company at least $250,000 to consult on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ staff restructuring efforts, according to internal documents obtained by The Crimson.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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Harvard Paid McKinsey $250,000 For FAS Consultation, Internal Documents Show | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard paid McKinsey & Company at least $250,000 to consult on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ staff restructuring efforts, according to internal documents obtained by The Crimson.
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 30/07/2026
How Franco ruled Spain. bit.ly/4yQeWoU
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How Franco Ruled Spain
Two new books examine these dark decades in Spanish history.
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Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Oh no, not your mom’s pied-a-terre!!!!!!!
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 30/07/2026
++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Love a good prof slam: “It’s bewildering. It seemed weird and laughable,” Davis said of the indictment. “It felt like the length of the indictment was a cover for how thin it actually was. I’m a professor. I’ve seen people pad out papers when they’ve got nothing to say.”
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The professor facing prison in ‘antifa’ case: ‘They want to scare all who oppose ICE’
Erik Davis is accused by the government of a ‘conspiracy’ to obstruct ICE – experts say it’s part of a pattern to criminalize lawful organizing and ruin activists’ lives
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Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Happy to share I have a chapter on anarchafeminism and reproductive freedom in the forthcoming book "Anarchafeminist Horizons at the End of Gender: Praxis Across Movements, Solidarities Across Borders," edited by Nathan Poirier & Zane McNeill, coming from Bloomsbury in Feb 2027.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
so I just want to emphasize something here that non-media people might not pick up on: Marisa is an independent journalist and is taking on the risk of being sued by Moraff here without any institutional backing. That's admirable bravery - and also means being very, very certain of the facts.
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Café Fútbol @cafefutbol.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Zinedine Zidane ya es nuevo seleccionador de Francia.
Anuncio de la federación francesa de fútbol sobre la llegada de Zidane.
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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
✴️Tenure is neither a privilege or a right. It is a time-tested safeguard of academic excellence, awarded only to faculty who undergo a rigorous review of their research, teaching, and service. A fair and transparent practice that respects the opinion of experts is essential to UT Austin’s stature.
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
No escape from the world on fire. Except to stop the fire starters.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Ugh. Just awful. Unclear what happened here but the implication I get from the article is that they’d fallen into deep debt and maybe owed money to some very bad people. And once they’d been deported, paying that money back was probably very very hard.
Their 14-month-old daughter, Giovanni, was found crying beside her mother's body. in southern Guatemala. The child showed signs of dehydration and was taken to a medical center, where she is recovering, according to Guatemalan news outlet ABC Stereo.
Guatemala's National Civil Police told local news outlets that Pérez Paz, 43, and González de la Cruz, 25, had been gagged and had their hands and feet bound. Authorities said both showed signs of physical trauma. Prosecutors are investigating the killings, including a possible motive and who was responsible.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 26/07/2026
A letter from the mother of Alex Pretti, six months after he was murdered by ICE.
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Today marks the six-month anniversary of Alex's murder. No one has been held accountable, no apologies, not a single phone call from any governmental official, hospital personnel, or the mpls police dept. Six-months of pain, a roller-coaster of trauma over and over. Every time another a death, another mention, a picture, a tribute, a sorrow so deep. I wonder how to move forward. Will I ever get over this loss and this pain?
Will I ever be able to enjoy life again? How does one live knowing that I have no power to change what has happened?

And yet the outreach not only from Minnesota, but from around the world has been nothing less than spectacular. Every card, every gift, every heartfelt letter has been read, touched, held, and cherished by us all. The kindness you've all shown us is beyond words. Please never forget Alex and what he believed in ~ equality and peace for all. I will remember the things that made you, you. It will never take your memory. As long as I'm here, you will never be forgotten.

For all you asking what you can do. Continue this fight. Never give up your right to speak out, protect your neighbor, your community and don't forget to spend time with those you love...
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The report detailing skyrocketing foreclosures comes after Trump declared that affordability was “a fake word made up by the Democrats.”
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Foreclosures Rocket Across the U.S. Under Trump
More and more Americans are facing the fear of losing their homes.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/07/2026
i am very certain that ditching gas is why my oldest didn't develop asthma after being pretty clearly pre-asthmatic
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Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Police murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.
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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 22/07/2026
This Friday, we're releasing "Killing Spree," the first report covering all aspects of the lethal US boat strike campaign: why it's illegal, the sloppy targeting, the victims, other countries' roles, the failure to affect drug supplies, and how to hold people accountable. More soon.
67 boats struck
221 people killed
$4.7b spent
Full report Friday
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REMALONE @ipasa.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I have to admit that I didn’t know, and I even thought the Spanish player Cucurella’s look was quite original, when it comes to his hair, but I was unaware of this: If he let his hair grow , it’s so that his autistic son can easily recognize him when he watches him on TV. Truly, this Spanish team ❤️
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Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
There is a real contradiction between the argument that academia is controlled by the left and the reality that the professors getting fired, denied tenure, blacklisted, and fleeing the country from far-right death threats are almost all, in fact, on the left.
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Kneecap @kneecapceol.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Lamine Yamal flies the flag of Palestine.
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Andrew Hammond @ahamm.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Happy for this guy.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
i'm not crying you're crying
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Jan Adriaenssens @verbeeld.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Brutal photo caption from The Guardian: “Gianni Infantino carefully explains to Donald Trump that he is not part of the Spanish national team.”
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