Been teaching full time since 2000….today was the first time I have ever had the pleasure of teaching Chicano/a history…my mentor Vicki Ruiz must be saying…finally! #academia

As history prof w nearly 30 years experience, can I stop warning my kids about the first day at college? Nope #academia

Academics posting their course prep stuff…I’m all in with the all in-class writing. AI has ruined everything #academicthreads

Just an fyi, the Natalie Harp rabbit hole is amazingly awful & tragic…the woman desperately needs therapy. I’ve spend decades working with and studying the evangelical subculture…Harp is textbook crazy

Youngest just got her first paycheck from her first job, an internship, (clinical psych), & she graduated High school one month ago. Shes gonna set the world on fire 🔥

tricycle.org/article/robe... A major figure who popularized Tibetan Buddhism in the West & was a tireless advocate for Tibetan culture #amrel #buddhism #tibet

Tibet House Cofounder and Academic Robert Thurman Has Died

A major figure in Western Buddhism, Thurman was the Je Tsongkhapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, before retiring in 2019. He passed away at 84.

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Sad news. An academic who supported other colleagues even outside his field. Learned a great deal from his public service to the profession.

Sociedad Mexicana de Sociología@smsociologia.bsky.social · 3mo ago

La Sociedad Mexicana de Sociología lamenta profundamente el fallecimiento del Dr. Raúl Pacheco-Vega, profesor del CIDE y FLACSO. Nuestras más sinceras condolencias a sus familiares, amigos y colegas cercanos. Descanse en paz

Yep AI is a menace & students use it freely, knowing there are endless ways to beat detectors… So? Back to blue books? In-Class journals? Do students know how to do such things? Or are they so used to AI that going completely analog may be too great a shock #history #teaching #academia

Today was the Cold War in class…for real, ended with this clip

a black and white photo of a group of children sitting at desks in a classroom

ALT: a black and white photo of a group of children sitting at desks in a classroom

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Hello from Claremont, CA! #nokings

Terrible news, esp folks who study Buddhism in the US. The zendo and library were burned down. It was founded in 1967 by S Suzuki. #academia #amrel www.lionsroar.com/tassajara-ze...

Tassajara Zen Mountain Center’s zendo destroyed by fire

No one was injured but the zendo was completely lost to the fire, as well as some of the library.

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This is such a sad day to be a historian, esp. a Chicana historian who has spent nearly 30 years trying to highlight ppl like Dolores…so sad for her…him? Don’t care about securing any legacy of his. #historymatters #academia

Awful

Andrew Couts@couts.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Here's the devastating statement from civil rights leader Dolores Huerta, who says she had multiple children fathered by her abuser, Chavez—a secret she's kept for many decades. Those children learned the truth "just a few weeks ago." medium.com/@dolores_hue...

Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for Years www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...

Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for Years

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This and the NYT article, deeply troubling. #latinohistory #historymatters

L.A. TACO@lataco.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Civil Rights icon, @doloreshuerta, made a brave move today, revealing a secret she had been holding for 60 years for the sake of the Farm Workers movement. You can read her letter here: medium.com/@dolores_hue...

Someone out there is working on this…what is going on? #amrel Peter Thiel Fears the Antichrist Is Coming. In Rome, Some Call His View Heresy. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/w...

Peter Thiel Fears the Antichrist Is Coming. In Rome, Some Call His View Heresy.

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Some of us have been saying the same thing for years as researchers yet, journos have not moved from the same narrative. Wanna bet nothing changes religionnews.com/2026/03/11/l...

Over 100 Latino Christian leaders say Trump adviser Samuel Rodriguez’s reach is misrepresented

The letter’s signers say they were prompted to speak out because of the damage the Trump administration’s immigration policies have done to Latino communities.

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Yesterday was TJefferson day in my US survey class…first time many of these wonderful mostly Latine, mostly first gen students have ever heard of Notes…Virginia or Sally Hemming…I love my job #historymatters

ICE kidnapped 5 people from my community this morning. I don’t live in Minneapolis. I live in LA County. They’re still here and their still brutalizing.

I see the Colossus of the North is at it again…just kidding, we’ve never stopped…ever #Venezuela

Semester’s over/went for a 6 mile hike/watching the Lakers eating guilt free peanut butter cookies.

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Matt Thiessen@mattthiessen.bsky.social · 9mo ago

As a life-long non-watcher of soccer I'm gonna not watch soccer even harder now.

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen: 1. KISS (first concert) 2. U2 (dozens) 3. Paul McCartney 4. Taylor Swift 5. Midnight Oil

Buried in the story: neoconfederate Orthodox! That should be the headline Orthodox Church Pews Are Overflowing With Converts www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...

Orthodox Church Pews Are Overflowing With Converts

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Eladio Bobadilla@eladiobobadilla.com · 11mo ago

Coming soon to a bookstore near you :-)

Late to this, but what is the #rapture is today thing? That’s silly, the Rapture happened when women started wearing pants

Bud Crawford!!!!! An exceptional fighter #CanelovCrawford

#CaneloCrawford been waiting for this fight for years!!! I’ll take Bud

Ppl who are constantly shocked at how awful SCOTUS is now…check out the 19th century…been awful for centuries…with minimal exceptions