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PhD in 20th Cen. U.S. History (Latinx, Labor, Immigration, Politics). College professor. Forthcoming book: Making Michigan Home: Mexican Americans Bridging the Rural-Urban Experience (Illinois Press Fall 2025) Views my own / Reposts are not endorsements

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I guess it is now OFFICIAL!

It is a special feeling to see your name on a publisher's website

Coming December 2025: Making Michigan Home: Mexican Americans Bridging the Rural-Urban Experience

#History #Latinx #SkyStorians #EduSky #AcademicSky

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www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...

01.08.2025 13:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Definitely worth the read

27.07.2025 22:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

International newspaper is far better - and more accurate - at headlines than U.S. News Outlets

25.07.2025 03:14 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Honestly wouldn’t surprise me

24.07.2025 23:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Kinda seems like a quid pro quo. Something Trump excels at

(Not mentioned in the headline: canceling Stephen Colbert)

24.07.2025 23:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œWe wanted to rid ourselves of the fashions of historiography,” Burns summarized at one event, β€œand make a film that simply shows what happened.”

That’s not how history works though. You’re making an argument about what happened & what mattered even if you don’t realize you’re doing it. πŸ—ƒοΈ

19.07.2025 15:11 β€” πŸ‘ 935    πŸ” 212    πŸ’¬ 56    πŸ“Œ 45
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This!!!

07.07.2025 22:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I checked & this is true. The latest Census data has the US Latino population at 65.2 million

She is openly advocating for feeding family & neighbors to alligators. This is genocide. Loomer has the ear of the president

And this is the president that 89% of white evangelical β€œChristians” voted for

04.07.2025 11:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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He’s gone full Nazi. He wants to deport Citizens to make America great

What makes America great isn’t the mega wealthy

What makes America great is our diversity & working class

There’s no defending Trump/MAGA. Their views are un-American & immoral

01.07.2025 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry, I misunderstood what you were asking. I cannot remember how long it took. I do remember the hard copies took awhile

28.06.2025 22:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I submitted my dissertation in 2017 and it is due to be published in book form this Fall. So, 8 years (though there was 2 jobs, a global pandemic, and the birth of my son in there)

28.06.2025 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Funny perhaps, by it is far more insidious

The goal of these AI creator #Techbros is to play god by controlling/manipulating truth and then monetize it behind a paywall

21.06.2025 01:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It'd be pretty cool if mainstream media outlets asked hard hitting questions like this instead of Tucker fucking Carlson.

18.06.2025 02:06 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Also, the Mellon tax cuts came in the 1920s -- when Andrew Mellon was Secretary of the Treasury under three GOP presidents -- and hey, Tim, how did the economy turn out then?

12.06.2025 14:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1878    πŸ” 466    πŸ’¬ 72    πŸ“Œ 10
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@pelosi.house.gov: "On January 6th...we begged the president of the United States to send in the National Guard. He would not do it...And yet, in a contra-constitutional way, he has sent the National Guard into California. Something is very wrong with this picture."

11.06.2025 02:30 β€” πŸ‘ 34514    πŸ” 10488    πŸ’¬ 933    πŸ“Œ 403
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So Trump is saying he is suspending the 1st amendment Sunday. He really is a fascist douchebag

11.06.2025 01:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There was almost always violence but the violence came from the racist poor-excuse-for-human-being white residents who wanted to prevent integration and civil rights

10.06.2025 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

MLK was less popular in the last year of his life than Colin Kaepernick was at the height of his kneeling protest against police violence.

10.06.2025 21:06 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Quite the statement calling America’s 2nd largest city β€œtrash heap”.

What a despicable human being

10.06.2025 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Quite the statement calling America’s 2nd largest city β€œtrash heap”.

10.06.2025 21:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is what Trump wants, to declare martial law and implement a police state to remove everyone they don’t like - to make America straight, white, & Christian again just like the nazis wanted in 1930s Germany

Remember, Germany not only targeted Jews but also communists, homosexuals, and gypsies

10.06.2025 16:51 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

He’s disappearing innocent people off of our streets and ordering the military onto our streets. He does not give a damn about the rule of law. He is the very tyrant our founding generation rose up against 249 yrs ago. It’s time for the American people to rise up again.

09.06.2025 12:49 β€” πŸ‘ 17694    πŸ” 4960    πŸ’¬ 637    πŸ“Œ 225

Kirk says β€œwe’re full” but Trump is letting in white South Africans. So what Kirk is really saying is β€œno more non-whites.”

So just straight up racist third reich stuff from Charlie Kirk and Matt Walsh. Shouldn’t be surprised

10.06.2025 02:38 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Could lead? Really, could lead?

We are already there.

The Republican-dominated Congress has completely abdicated its role on law, tariffs, war, immigration, funding, and more.

SCOTUS has given Trump carte blanche.

Trump is denying habeas corpus and deploying the military against citizens

10.06.2025 02:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Could lead? Really, could lead?

We are already there.

The Republican-dominated Congress has completely abdicated its role on law, tariffs, war, immigration, funding, and more.

SCOTUS has given Trump carte blanche.

Trump is denying habeas corpus and deploying the military against citizens

10.06.2025 02:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

He definitely wants violence.

And I still believe he invites/incites violence so he can try and declare martial law

05.06.2025 02:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hearing the news of how aides are thinking of putting intelligence briefings in the form of a Fox News Broadcast reminds me again of how often The Simpsons has predicted our dismal future

The Simpsons Movie, President Wolfcastle: "I was elected to lead, not to read"

youtu.be/s99ZeamF7J0

04.06.2025 12:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is this the same Marco Rubio who c.2010 was heading a bipartisan immigration reform bill that would have granted a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers?

Do someone body-swap him? Is he a Skrull? MAGA is a one hell of a drug

29.05.2025 21:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Nye Committee concluded the profits of the arms industry during World War I drew us into war

Reminded of Eugene Debs:
"The master class has always declared the wars. The subject class has always fought the battles…you need to know that you are good for something more than…cannon fodder.”

29.05.2025 11:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No surprise. Walt Disney was one who testified in the McCarthy hearings saying Hollywood was infiltrated by communists (along with Reagan)

29.05.2025 11:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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