Brett Olmsted, PhD 🗃️
@brettolmsted.bsky.social
PhD in 20th Cen. U.S. History (Latinx, Labor, Immigration, Politics) Book: Making Michigan Home: Mexican Americans Bridging the Rural-Urban Experience (Illinois Press Dec 2025) http://bit.ly/47BdTOH Views my own / Reposts are not endorsements
Yes, definitely thank the guy who’s killing thousands of Ukrainians and trying to invade their country. This is completely un-American or at least should be un-American.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayTrump: "I think you heard about the oil deal with Russia. That is a big deal. That is massive amounts of oil coming into our country, and I want to thank President Putin to be honest with you."
We were promised that robots/AI would do the menial tasks like cooking & cleaning so we could have the time to do the fun things like read to our kids, play catch, go to kids’ events, be creative, etc BUT NO, they give is AI so we get to do the menial & it gets to raise our kids and write novels
🎃👻🧙♀️ Vio the VVitch 🧙♀️👻🎃@viothevvitch.myatproto.social · 3d agothis is so fucking sad
We're maybe a week away from a Trump official shouting "White Power!" at one of these conferences.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoFCC Chair Andrew Ferguson touts the administration's work to "protect white American men from discrimination"
What a far cry from Reagan saying “government isn’t the answer to your problems, government is the problem”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d agoBREAM: DOJ plans to send 1k monitors to polls. Sen. Baldwin says 'our democracy depends on ppl being able to have their voices heard, but that's at risk as Trump weighs sending in armed agents.' How do you answer? BLANCHE: She should be saying 'thank God. Thank God we have a govt ready to show up'
That is literally the role of a responsible and responsive government…regulation to protect the citizenry
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoBlanche on AI: "The answer is not to just all of the sudden try to regulate this"
It's always nice when a box of books with your name on them arrives in the mail. From organizing a book store to mounting a general strike, this book tells you the how and why. $28 from Yale.
The owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory self-regulated.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w agoMike Johnson on OpenAI and Anthropic: "They can self-police. They can self-regulate."
¡Viva México! ¡Viva la Independencia! 1️⃣FOLKLÓRICO IN THE U. S. @normaelia-8.bsky.social www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0... 2️⃣MAKING MICHIGAN HOME @brettolmsted.bsky.social www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0... 3️⃣QUINCEAÑERAS www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0... #MexicanIndependenceDay
Really not sure they should have gotten the extra second but this Hail Mary may finally wipe out my childhood agony of watching Kordell Stewart’s (Colorado) Hail Mary to best Michigan on replay year after year #GoBlue #Michigan But they need to play much better. OU is next.
Timothy Burke@bubbaprog.xyz · last mo.As called by Doug Karsch on Michigan radio:
Oh FFS 🤦 This is the stupidest timeline Glad the president of the U.S. is so concerned with what really matters to improving the lives of its citizens
The beatings will continue until morale improves
Steven Beschloss@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 2mo agoYet another example why a sociopath should never be near the levers of power.
So according to this “doctor” God only put us here to work so we can “be productive” and make money for the already wealthy. WOW, his god sounds like an enslaver
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo agoDr Oz on Medicaid requirements: "You have to work. You were not put on this planet to sit at home and watch television. The average person who's on Medicaid, who's able-bodied, watches 6.1 hours of television, or just hangs out, every day. That's not why God put you here."
In the end we were just his latest casino and whatnot.
Commoditizing knowledge, reality, and even the perception of truth. Once that happens, those who control it can alter it to fit any agenda, remove those deemed unfit for their society, and create a permanent underclass George Orwell probably couldn’t even imagine a world this bad. But here we are
Denny Carter@dennycarter.bsky.social · 5mo agoThey stole the internet’s knowledge and all the work that went into it and they want to sell it back to us for a fee. What a business model.
So, we just want to strip Greenland‘s land of its natural resources for profit? Sounds about right. Perhaps this is why they have no interest in a deal. They actually care about their land and resources. Not everything has to be about money and not everything has to be commoditized
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo agoLandry: "Greenland needs a deal. Greenland could be exporting 2 million barrels of oil a day right now. Think about what kind of pressure that would relieve in the Strait of Hormuz, what kind of leverage that would give America. It's time for the Danes to come to the table and let's get a deal done"
Thanks to everyone who donates blood! Also, as someone who received a number of transfusions throughout my chemotherapy, please also consider donating platelets. Someone's platelets literally saved my life, and your donation could save someone else's life, too.
Dr. Guy Incognito DDS@guyincognitodds.bsky.social · 5mo agoApropos of today's collective agreement that adults need to stop killing kids over their needle anxiety: Blood banks are constantly short of blood. Go donate. Do double reds if you can. It's very easy and literally helps keep people alive. Tattoo disqualification is essentially a myth!
Male privilege: he had “difficult conversations” while the female reporters got fired
But you were not president. Instead you were a draft dodger who paid to get out of it while our troops died in a different ill-conceived war.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo agoTrump: "I would've won Vietnam very quickly if I were president. Look at Venezuela. I took it over in 45 minutes."
"Luddites" is a good term for those who oppose AI because the Luddites weren't against *all* technology, just forms of technology that they knew would pay workers less and turn out a shittier product
Corey Atad@coreyatad.com · 6mo agomade this point before, and it’s one the fanatical anti-AI luddites on Bluesky should reckon with
Wikipedia, a site once considered not credible as a source and possibly spreading misinformation, now has higher standards for its content than universities have for students
Emanuel Maiberg@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 7mo agoafter much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...
Great time to check out some great books, including Making Michigan Home which shows how placemaking and civil rights went far beyond just one man named Cesar Chavez @illinoispress.bsky.social #AcademicSky #Latinx #History #EduSky #Chicanx www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/ls...
I’m old enough to remember people lambasting Biden for suggesting the economy was actually strong because people weren’t feeling it in their daily lives (compared to other countries the economy was strong) & this idiot is proclaiming how GOOD it is that gas is expensive. Only good for oil companies
And if you are not going to actually do the research, all we will get is the same regurgitated bullshit we have always gotten. Claude is taken what HAS been written not producing new ideas. People who think need to do the work so they can produce new ideas and wayside thinking/looking at things
Derek Silva@derekcrim.bsky.social · 7mo agofuck this so much we are so not prepared for the mountain of dogshit “scholarship” about to flood journals everywhere
fuck this so much we are so not prepared for the mountain of dogshit “scholarship” about to flood journals everywhere
