@aadeleon.bsky.social
writer & public historian | former PBS host | forthcoming (2026): "balikbayan," "notes from a wayward son"
Plugging my book if you wanna learn about the Indigenous and radical worlds that made the GOAT Isabelo de los Reyes 👀
uncpress.org/978146967648...
our first stable apartment was Birchmount and Finch (my brother was born at Scarb Grace and my dad used to work there)!!!! your end of Finch remains a personal sacred place for Samosa King 😂
11.02.2026 01:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0SCARBOROUGH!!!
(ALSO: you're back in Canada now right? can I send you a Canadian edition galley? 😃)
I'll reach out when the US version gets into production 👀
11.02.2026 01:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“The world ain’t safe for democracy; it’s unsafe because of the conceit of democracy.”
Joshua Myers, No-Spaces and Returns
Hi, yes I did, it's my first book that I wrote at the end of undergrad. Thanks for reading. It's been a while since I thought about this one, haha.
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Congratulations to Coll Thrush whose book WRECKED is a 2026 Pacific Northwest Book Awards winner! The awards committee praised the book as "groundbreaking, compassionate work and a valuable contribution to the historical canon of the Pacific Northwest."
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got a cute not-so-little ARC in the mail (forthcoming may 2026 in canada, oct 2026 in murica)
28.12.2025 21:50 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 0
Swipe Irvin Ibargüen's new book EXPEDITIOUSLY!!! Game changing history of the Mexican state and its relationship to transborder migration!
(Selfie snuck during department meeting)
@uncpress.bsky.social
uncpress.org/978146968958...
See Irvin Ibarguen's important book "Caught in the Current: Mexico's Struggle to Regulate Emigration, 1940-1980," just published @uncpress.bsky.social uncpress.org/978146968958...
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DR. ANN NGOC TRAN (UCLA) - MY FRIEND AND FIRST PHD STUDENT - WON THE ASA DISSERTATION PRIZE 😤
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Adrian De Leon (@aadeleon.bsky.social) & I wrote over 12,000 words about the epic WORLD SERIES from both sides of the 49th parallel.
Thank you to Avidly/Sarah Mesle for creating the space to accommodate such obsession, compulsion, maximalism and emotion. 💙💙
Read here: avidly.org/2025/11/15/b...
Karen THEE Tongson (Dodgers superfan) and I started this World Series postmortem as a series of text messages, and then Instagram stories, and then it blew up into this twelve thousand word monstrosity.
It's got delight, disgust, drama, and Drake. PLS AND TY YOU READ:
avidly.org/2025/11/15/b...
spurs got a food coma from the chef (candidate for game of the year that was amazing) #nba
15.11.2025 05:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Wemby's shot release point is like seven stories tall, the NBA is COOKED
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yall im HOLLERING at the most unhinged piece of media in modern (short-term) memory
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Cm...
this speech will be studied - the shift of speaker/addressee (from the leader "you" to the steward "we"), internal rhyming, diss track with structural analysis, then down to direct realism and method, specificity of identity and economic position, SYNECDOCHE
05.11.2025 04:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0MAMDEEZY USING SYNECDOCHES, LITERARY TECHNIQUE STOCKS ARE UP AGAIN
05.11.2025 04:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"I wish Andrew Cuomo well only in private life. Let tonight be the final time I utter his name!" GODDAMN
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NYT says the crowd has gone silent at cuomos party
😢
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"[baseball] is designed to break your heart"
02.11.2025 04:58 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0I will be very unavailable for the foreseeable future due to sport
02.11.2025 04:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0RINGS ERNEH
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THANK YOU FOR THIS POSTSEASON MY INCREDIBLE CHILD
02.11.2025 02:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0DEFENSE STURDY
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