Jacqueline Hidalgo

#FreeSpeechInAmerica
Statistics boss fired for not providing the numbers the regime wanted
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I also always teach this painting alongside David Sánchez’s work From Patmos to the Barrio because he illuminates so well the counter narrative #Guadalupe tells on the walls of east LA.

DHS's 'Homeland Heritage' Campaign Highlights Danger of Innocence Myths of a White Christian America As a habit I don’t follow the social media of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). It’s a scroll of nationalistic propaganda and exaggerated warnings about criminal aliens, a set of lies that at...

Were you also disturbed but unsurprised to see this old #JohnGast painting shared on US Homeland Security’s social media? Sara Moslener offers a great response and insights from her work on US white evangelical purity culture.
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Agree with others that the Brown settlement is far uglier than when first presented

The policing of professors' course evaluations will open up Brown faculty to meritless harassment, retaliation, and abuse

And no doubt about it, policing professors' course evaluations will chill classroom speech

The Bull Market for Economists Is Over. It’s an Ominous Sign for the Economy.

Struck by this being an "ominous sign for the economy" because "Earning a Ph.D. in economics has long been a reliable path to affluence and prestige. Not anymore."

Why was it a reliable path? Why weren't history jobs disappearing an ominous sign?

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Gift: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/b...

Opinion | The Elite Panic at the Heart of Liberal Attacks on Mamdani

@tressiemcphd.bsky.social well describes how conservative supposedly liberal elites are: “Every single time liberals use “woke” as a slur, they empower the right’s attack on multiracial democracy.”
The Elite Panic at the Heart of Liberal Attacks on Mamdani www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...

Why Are Tech Billionaires so Obsessed with the Roman Empire? - Electric Literature From Mark Zuckerberg to Elon Musk, too many wannabe Caesars are thriving on domination

Since the study of early Christianity has too often fed fascism, I was glad to read Elsa María Román’s resistant mix of personal and intellectual reflections about how and why Rome symbolizes ultimate domination for tech billionaires: electricliterature.com/why-are-tech...

Williams #LatineStudies program is looking for a new colleague who specializes in #LatineReligions. I loved working in Williams LATS program. Please help my old colleagues find a wonderful new colleague: apply.interfolio.com/169944

We are having another in-person Institute for Signifying Scriptures meeting, this one led by Richard Newton in Tuscaloosa. Please join me there in February: www.signifyingscriptures.org/iss-annual-m...

It's hard to overstate how catastrophically bad the timing is of the US's shift into an autocracy that's ideologically anti-renewable power for the climate future. Instead of climbing renewables' exponential growth curve, they're using their new, unaccountable power to sabotage the energy transition

I just think in reporting what he says they should also say he can’t do it! Like because this description (“considering”) implies he can in fact do it!

I think y'all know what to do

Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.

Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs.

A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which is about to get cut.

If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.

It's as if Elon is personally writing the even-more-antisemitic Grok content in real time, like the Wizard of Oz behind the curtain. Which he basically is, if the bot was retrained using his feed. I usually try not to preach about this, but there really is no excuse for staying on Twitter anymore.

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Federal agents need to leave and they need leave right now!

Some quick back of the envelope math here, but assuming $5T spending, we would have ~$800B *surplus* if we returned to pre-Reagan tax regime with top marginal rates at 39.6%.

Of course, this would mean billionaires would have to pay their share.

This is hilarious and wholesome

Also the dude saying "I voted for someone who won!" is so real for that lmao

Alligator Alcatraz is planning to "lend out" people from the concentration camp to “farmers and others who will be responsible for them” to work.

So… we're just openly legalizing slavery again? Internment camps and forced labor — in 2025? Unbelievable..💯🎯♂️

The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesn’t get enough attention. It ain’t normal and we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than you think.

The President’s budget proposes devastating cuts to NOAA, which helps everyone understand and prepare for extreme weather. NOAA was also in the middle of developing new flood maps for neighborhoods. bsky.app/profile/cost...

Ask yourself why Rolling Stone is the only outlet performing this obvious public service.

UVa Became an Unexpected Trump Target. Now What? In Charlottesville and across higher ed, people are wondering what’s in store if strong-arming presidential resignations is in the cards.

"Columbia University, Baker said, had bent over backwards and still not gotten its grants back. Instead, it’s been reported to its accreditor."

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1) it was always fascism and fascism was the right word to use
2) they are building concentration camps and concentration camps are the right words to use
3) they are banning books and book bans is a fine way to describe the myriad ways they are banning them

Unfortunately, I think It's Happening Here

Ok, so Republicans just introduced a 900 page bill none of them have read. But my team is going through it line by line and on this 🧵you can see the hidden provisions we found. Will update all day.

1/ NEW Medicaid cuts, so now 17 million - instead of 16M - lose health care.

USAID cuts could lead to 14 million deaths over the next five years, researchers say An analysis published Monday in the medical journal The Lancet projects that cuts to the agency will lead to more deaths from diseases like AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.

I really don’t understand how anyone in this administration, or anyone who supports them, sleep at night.

It shouldn't get lost that just today, Senate Republicans have voted to close nursing homes, close rural hospitals, and cut food stamp benefits for children and veterans.