@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.
Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr
06.10.2025 23:00 — 👍 1427 🔁 519 💬 10 📌 35
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
05.10.2025 18:02 — 👍 5627 🔁 1246 💬 95 📌 30
Newsom chides USC to 'do the right thing' for academic freedom and resist Trump compact
Gov. Newsom on Friday again waded into the controversy surrounding President Trump's higher education compact, which has roiled USC since being extended to the university.
Gov. Newsom today praised UC leaders for their dealings with Trump & implied he doesn't trust the University of Southern California -- among the most Trump-compliant major campuses -- will "do the right thing" in response to Trump unless he pressures it www.latimes.com/california/s...
04.10.2025 03:04 — 👍 128 🔁 31 💬 3 📌 6
‘I’m From Here!’: U.S. Citizens Are Ending Up in Trump’s Dragnet
As immigration agents have escalated their tactics, US citizens, many of them Latino men, have been stopped and in some cases taken into custody by law enforcement officers. Allison, Jenny and I took a closer look at the encounters. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...
29.09.2025 13:58 — 👍 751 🔁 304 💬 33 📌 50
Mario Guevara
If you were concerned about Kimmel, here's another for you…
Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest.
The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.
24.09.2025 18:38 — 👍 6381 🔁 3758 💬 40 📌 70
they’re putting Kimmel back on the air. I would now like to see the same amount of outrage for the firing of professors for their statements
22.09.2025 20:07 — 👍 2385 🔁 564 💬 42 📌 28
The Weakness and Incompetence of American Authoritarianism
And why it needs to be continually highlighted.
As @dandrezner.bsky.social notes, we must highlight where Trump's authoritarianism is failing, too.
"Civil resistance works. Combined with the inevitable economic downturn, it is what will bring his regime crashing down to Earth."
(cites my piece on this)
danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-weakne...
22.09.2025 16:08 — 👍 893 🔁 289 💬 17 📌 10
Video on Skylight Social from LA TACO covering the ICE Raids in Los Angeles, hosted by Memo Torres
Used @skylight.social recently and was really happy to see Latinsky Clips make an appearance!
Great way to catch up on the latest news for the Latine community, including @lataco.bsky.social’s daily coverage of the ICE raids in Los Angeles.
Thanks, @buildwithtori.com!
20.09.2025 05:02 — 👍 19 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream
The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.
"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
19.09.2025 10:24 — 👍 4079 🔁 1917 💬 72 📌 104
DAILY MEMO: Federal Agents Have Now Killed 18 People ~ @eltragon.bsky.social
If you appreciate reporting like this, please consider becoming a monthly or yearly member of L.A. TACO or donating to our fundraiser so we can continue to bring you this vital information.
19.09.2025 02:26 — 👍 634 🔁 308 💬 15 📌 11
DAILY MEMO: Rapid Responders Foil ICE Raid Again at The Same Car Wash Targeted a Third Time This Week
@eltragon.bsky.social
18.09.2025 04:04 — 👍 1062 🔁 365 💬 32 📌 28
AAUP-UC-Trump Lawsuit -- Uploaded by Jaweed Kaleem of the Los Angeles Times
I'd like to commend the lawyers who wrote this complaint on behalf of the professors and employees of the University of California against the Trump administration.
It's a sober legal document with strong claims, but also, this is a fight for public opinion, and this reads like the writers know it.
17.09.2025 02:27 — 👍 428 🔁 137 💬 6 📌 16
DAILY MEMO: Car Wash Workers With Legal Status Have Their Papers Thrown Out by Agents Who Arrest First, Verify Later
Reminder that you can find more links and stories not included in this video in the article version of this video on LATACO.com
@eltragon.bsky.social
16.09.2025 04:46 — 👍 908 🔁 407 💬 27 📌 22
Wall-to-Wall UC labor union rally tomorrow in front of the UC Regents meeting. Our message to Trump: Hands off our UC!!
16.09.2025 00:56 — 👍 34 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0
Reporters on the ground in Chicago are screaming to be heard over the false narrative that Pritzker defeated Trump there. PLEASE listen to them.
15.09.2025 01:12 — 👍 4830 🔁 1911 💬 29 📌 21
Legacy media and cable news reduced Trump's aggression against Chicago to a question of whether troops would be sent immediately. When he said he was taking his fascist military spectacle elsewhere, those media players declared the situation over—while waves of federal agents attack our neighbors.
15.09.2025 00:28 — 👍 2653 🔁 968 💬 15 📌 35
DAILY MEMO: Agents Draw Guns on a Pregnant Woman at Mariscos Restaurant and More
lataco.com/daily-memo-s...
@eltragon.bsky.social
10.09.2025 05:04 — 👍 1245 🔁 600 💬 35 📌 44
History majors have lower unemployment than computer science majors.
Folks with humanities graduate degrees are more sought after by corporate recruiters than those with MBAs.
Study history! Get a job!
09.09.2025 12:46 — 👍 505 🔁 110 💬 27 📌 10
Hi all,
I rarely do this, but I'm posting that I'm back on the academic job market.
As a Californian, my partner and I are trying to stay on the West Coast. Any leads for jobs in History, American Studies, Cultural Studies, etc. in the Western U.S. are greatly appreciated!
Sincerely,
Nathan
09.09.2025 00:48 — 👍 86 🔁 30 💬 5 📌 0
YouTube video by NAHJVideos
Laura Lucio Reporting on Rubén Salazar
Journalist Rubén Salazar, killed 55 years ago today:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAxL...
29.08.2025 06:27 — 👍 546 🔁 150 💬 9 📌 5
There was an interesting question I saw from someone recently that was asking why there are no historians writing "for the other side." Essentially, why are there no "pro-Trump Heather Cox Richardsons?" The answer lies in our training.
24.08.2025 12:01 — 👍 946 🔁 214 💬 56 📌 37
How To Fight A Military Occupation
Friction. Obstruction. Demoralization.
America is no longer descending into fascism. We are seconds away from impact
Military occupation has come to DC. If and when military occupation comes to where you are, there are things that you can do. This article outlines some of them
14.08.2025 16:55 — 👍 2377 🔁 1114 💬 59 📌 105
In MacArthur Park in Los Angeles for a free ska show, and I gotta tell you, it’s really healing to see this pavilion full of dancing, smiling people instead of the fascist goons who trampled through here in July
17.08.2025 03:13 — 👍 1416 🔁 263 💬 19 📌 23
DAILY MEMO: Agents Abduct a Pregnant U.S. Citizen, Use a Penske Truck as a “Ruse” to Get Past “anti-ICE” People and Raid a Home Depot, and More
@eltragon.bsky.social
07.08.2025 04:36 — 👍 501 🔁 244 💬 26 📌 9
De-ICEing your town
A local organizer explains how to get involved and protect immigrants near you.
So many of you wrote asking for a primer on how to push back against ICE's presence where you live! So this week's Tuesday post skips the usual history lesson. Instead, I talked to Oliver Merino of the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, who offered a lot of specifics on how to take action near you.
05.08.2025 20:34 — 👍 574 🔁 273 💬 9 📌 12
Academic librarian - archives, special collections, book history, all that kind of stuff. Just say “No” to AI, everywhere.
Faculty at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Caribbean literature. Surreyite.
Puerto Rican Doctoral Candidate the Graduate Center, CUNY. Researches agricultural politics in Northern Ireland after Brexit.
Director of Publicity and Communications at UNC Press 📚📣
Currently reading: Thy Will Be Done by John Garrison Marks (forthcoming April ‘26) and Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
📕 Stories history stories
🔗 Substack link ⬇️
https://mustyarchives.substack.com/welcome
Historian, writer, dog person.
Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Historian of capitalism, environment, & technology in the longue durée. Assistant director of the @hagleycenter.bsky.social. Adjunct prof. Dad. PhD. Delawarean. First Gen. Hoopy frood. Born at 344 ppm. No human is illegal.
Research Scholar at Yale Law School studying the history of science in China and US-China relations. Particle physicist by training. Writer at various places. Editor at Made in China Journal. Co-host of Dissident at the Doorstep.
PhD Candidate in US History • Writing on C19 Newspapers • Appellate Lawyer
A journal centered on social movements and relations, linking educators, artists, & activists in the struggle for social justice.
Read: https://tupjournals.temple.edu/index.php/kalfou/
Podcast: "Kalfou: Community Centered" on Spotify, Apple, & iHeart.
💙🦋Author of RED SAPPHIRE: THE WOMAN WHO BEAT THE BLACKLIST. Writer of history and true crime. Usually the same thing.
She/her, librarian, East Bay, basketball, climate emergency 🌍
The Freedom Writers Collaborative is a multi-state Indivisible Group and a grass roots operation providing messaging and social media content inspired by our progressive allies.
https://freedomwriterscollaborative.org
California boy living in the Midwest. Historian and teacher. Currently writing a book on race, radicalism, and law-and-order policing in Los Angeles. He/Him.
Historian | Mobility Infrastructures | 19th-Century Worlds | Revolutions and Post-independences | Brazil
Assistant Professor at UCLA in the department of Integrative Biology & Physiology. Studies all things memory, emotion, aging, and depression. 🧠
Author, Speaker, Peace Researcher: josef.muehlbauer@uni-graz.at
The American Association of University Professors champions academic freedom, advances shared governance, and organizes faculty to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good.
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