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

Read about the statewide “Latin League” baseball teams in Michigan and about celebrating La Novena in the Midwest

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WOW. It only took 2 days for a Republican to be sworn in, but took 50 days for a Democrat to sworn in.

Yeah yeah, shutdown, yada yada.

It's about priorities

The actual war on Christmas

The replay clearly showed his foot was out of bounds. I honestly do not get how that call was not overturned

#GoBlue

The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.

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Did you know Question Mark and the Mysterians were children of migrant farm workers?

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Elphaba: No! Don't you think I wish I could? I would give anything to go back to a time when l... When I actually believed that you were wonderful. A wonderful Wizard of Oz. No one believed in you more than I did. But there's no going back. And we can't move forward until everyone knows what I know. And once they know the truth... Wizard: [interrupts] They're not going to believe it. Elphaba: How can you say that? Wizard: I'm just being straight with you. I could tell them that I've been lying to them till l'm - forgive me, blue in the face - but it wouldn't make any difference. They're never going to stop believing in me. You know why? Because they don't want to.

When art is real life

"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?"
- Donald Trump, January 23, 2016

Historian here: Did you know there were Mexican Americans in the @uaw.org 1937 Sit-Down Strike?

Read about it in Making Michigan Home

Rediscover History
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Examines how Mexican Americans made the Midwest their home

Rediscover how Latinx history is US history

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I would argue they do not care. They have the wealth to afford medical care and many have government health care plans. They frame it as "social darwinism" survival of the fittest, but the "fittest" just means the wealthiest.

Everyone’s new doctor - wholly unqualified but willing to do anything for cheap

So Mullin wants to punish poorer people who are stuck living near a dump or factory that emits toxic pollution because they constantly get sick and can’t afford to move

It punishes kids who have no choice where they live

People also can’t change their genetics

His ideas, like him, is idiotic

Federal court blocks Texas from using new congressional gerrymander in 2026 midterms — The Texas Tribune The decision is a major blow for Republicans, in Texas and nationally, who pushed through the mid-decade redistricting at the behest of President Donald Trump. Attorney General Ken Paxton said he woul...

Some good news for a change, at least for now

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Examines how Mexican Americans made their home in the Midwest

Timely given the mass deportations that ignores their long history in the region

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I did the same thing for my book cover recently. It matched perfectly with the themes of the book, but was current mural art

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.

You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

Nothing says there’s no such thing as structural racism quite like banning discussion of structural racism

WHAT PROFESSORS CAN SAY Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms amid statewide debates over academic freedom.

Let me fix that for you:

Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.

Santa: Dear President Trump, due to your tariffs the cost to make toys this year is too costly

Trump: WHAT?!? How dare you question the affordability of goods. Haven’t you heard, prices are down everywhere. No one has done a better job than me

Now, for Christmas I want everything gilded in gold

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Examines how Mexican Americans made their home in the Midwest

Timely given how current admin wants mass deportations ignoring their history in the region

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They Led at Saddleback Church. ICE Said They Were Safe. - Christianity Today A Colombian couple prayed with neighbors and raised their children in one of America’s most influential churches. What did we gain from their deportation?

Christianity Today is an influential magazine in Evangelical circles, and it's a noteworthy signpost that they're doing stories like this because it's the kind of story that pops bubbles.

Faculty at my institution said this numerous times as well when we had mandated PD for 1 day the week before classes started… Admin took that and gave us 3 full day “enrichment” trainings on Fridays each semester with no interaction. They said “you asked to be with colleagues more”

These words have been used so much they lose all meaning and most do not understand why they were developed to begin with

Usually to uplift those on the bottom - the poor, the impoverished, the underclass

There are so many words historically that are just catch-all “boogeyman” terms

Socialist
Communist
Marxist
CRT
Woke
Liberal

In Reconstruction some Republicans were called “Radical” because they had the audacity to push for racial equality

R’s today just want to starve people

Must read thread about the cruel and inhumane treatment of people by the Trump admins gestapo

#AbolishICE

The right field stands were iconic. Loved going to games in the old stadium. Yes Comerica is a great stadium but old Tiger stadium was iconic

I give you the president of the United States

What kind of human being, let alone president, should have to be court-ordered to use money set aside to FREAKIN USE THAT MONEY TO HELP PEOPLE EAT

And the same day stand by unmoved as someone needs medical attention not 10 feet away

Sociopath

He feels the need to display strength so much he doesn’t want to be seen with sick, disabled, or “weak” people.

What he is, is weak, uncaring (sociopath) even when there is someone with a medical emergency just 10 feet from him in the people’s office. Trump won’t even look at him/her

When people voted last night it was/is still about price of food. Trump went on 60 minutes and lied that prices were going down.

Here is the sale price of steak per pound from 2023 to 2025. Price is up more than 45%

#TrumpFlation