Julie deGraffenried

How Chicago's Division Street Rebellion Brought Latinos Together | Essay In 1966, Police Shot a Young Puerto Rican Man. What Followed Created a Blueprint for a New Kind of Solidarity

New blog post from my colleague, @fhinojosa956.bsky.social!

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CONGRATULATIONS to my brilliant @baylor.bsky.social colleague @drdegraff.bsky.social, named a Fellow of the prestigious Royal Historical Society. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

“Earning a fellowship is recognition of years of proven excellence in the field of history."

history.artsandsciences.baylor.edu/news/story/2...

How to say you're going to a conference in London without saying you're going to a conference in London
#iccees2025

The most daming claim in this statement IMO:

Within 15 minutes of DOGE accounts being created…
Attackers in Russia tried logging in using those new creds.
Correct usernames and passwords.

2 options here. The DOGE device was hacked. And I don't think I need to explain the 2nd.

Lessons to learn from US collapse: support local news, support investigative reporting, keep your public broadcasting going.

If the Marshals Go Rogue, Courts Have Other Ways to Enforce their Orders Opinion | Even a rogue marshal’s service is not an insurmountable obstacle to courts enforcing the rule of law.

I suggest everyone become very, very familiar with this piece by law Professor @david.noll.org. I suspect you will be referring to it often. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/if-t...

University of Houston confirms math assistant professor had visa revoked A University of Houston assistant professor is among the foreign scholars whose visas were revoked in recent weeks, officials at the institution confirmed.

"I will no longer be able to continue teaching."

Hyeongseon Jeon, an assistant professor at the University of Houston, said he had his foreign visa unexpectedly terminated and now must return to Korea immediately.

www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Another story that must be told:

An ICE agent grabbed Merwil Gutiérrez. One of his fellow agents said, “No, he’s not the one.”

Merwil Gutiérrez is a 19-year-old asylum applicant who lives in the Bronx. He was the “wrong one.” ICE wasn’t there looking for him.

“Take him anyway,” came the reply.

Gogol’s Dead Souls in reverse.

Yeah that's the long and short of it

“dedollarizing”

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"This is an act of war against the entire world"

Staggering analysis from Martin Wolf of @financialtimes.com
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👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Guess the honeymoon is over?

Just mathing, nothing to see here

Still Awaiting Funds, RFE/RL Furloughs Staff and Seeks Relief from Court Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) today began furloughing staff at its Prague headquarters because the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) has not sent RFE/RL its Congressionally appr...

Yesterday, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) began furloughing staff at its Prague headquarters because the United States Agency for Global Media has not sent RFE/RL its Congressionally appropriated funds for April. about.rferl.org/article/stil...

This is the way.

U.K. adds Russia to ‘enhanced tier’ of threats identified under new regulations The U.K. has placed Russia in the “enhanced tier” of its new Foreign Influence Registration Scheme (FIRS), which will require individuals and companies in Britain working on behalf of hostile foreign…

The U.K. has placed Russia in the “enhanced tier” of its new Foreign Influence Registration Scheme, putting Moscow in a category previously reserved for Iran alone.

RFK hates Michael J. Fox

😂

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Trump Halted an Agent Orange Cleanup. That Puts Hundreds of Thousands at Risk for Poisoning. Diplomats in Vietnam warned Washington that halting USAID’s efforts to clean up the massive deposit of postwar pesticides would be a catastrophe for public health and relations with a key strategic pa...

That left exposed enormous pits of soil contaminated with deadly chemicals.

Now, after losing several weeks of work, the contractors are scrambling — at their own expense — to secure the Bien Hoa air base before the rainy season starts.

With Arrival of Bongino, Trump Loyalists Take Command of the F.B.I. From his wildly popular podcast to the No. 2 post at the F.B.I., Dan Bongino joins Kash Patel, President Trump’s former election surrogate, to lead the agency at a turning point.

"It puts two staunch Trump loyalists in charge of an agency long known for its tradition of independence. Collectively, they have the least leadership experience of any pair overseeing the F.B.I. since its founding more than a century ago." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...

Hey Democrats: Maybe Now *Is* the Time to Fight? Trump is racing to dismantle the rule of law before Democrats can make him unpopular enough so that other institutions can push back against him. Do the Dems understand this?

"I think if there's one thing people need to know now it is that this"—Trump's dismantling of our democracy—"is happening very fast. It could be over in months or even weeks, if it isn't already over now. Whatever people are saving up for the 2026 elections they need to throw it all in now."

NEWS: Judge Boasberg, chief federal district judge in DC, has abruptly blocked an anticipated effort by President Trump to use an invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to remove Venezuelan nationals.

He set a hearing for this afternoon.

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars - Wikipedia

There it is...

< In November 2022, the Wilson Center was designated as an "undesirable organization" in Russia. >

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'Bloody Saturday' at Voice of America and other U.S.-funded networks Federal officials placed 1,000 employees at Voice of America on indefinite paid leave, while severing contracts with Radio Free Asia and other U.S.-funded networks.

JUST IN: Federal officials placed 1,000 employees at Voice of America on indefinite paid leave, while severing contracts with Radio Free Asia and other U.S.-funded networks.

this administration is speed running us into multiple disasters, some of which may be catastrophic