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Hyper is a remarkable novel by @agri.bsky.social recommended by @c4noff.bsky.social, whose @coffeehousepress.bsky.social subscription introduces books she might not ever find on her own. For both of us, Hyper is a happy discovery. I've reviewed it at readthinkdraw.substack.com/p/2nd-genera...

2nd Generation Refugee$$

Ismail’s Novel, Hyper, Explores Paths Through Western Materialism

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¿Quién me invita a un panel para LASA2027? Normalmente no voy, pero en mi ciudad, en el campus de mi alma mater, sí quiero.

"public funding for book culture is exponentially higher in Spain than it is in the United States. The Spanish government sponsors book fairs, gives subventions to small presses, funds travel for Spanish authors, and pursues a range of other initiatives both domestically and internationally." 😭😭

Lamentation (flipped, detail), by Gerard David, 1515-23, 📸 by Roberto Schmidt

An Afghan national who fought alongside U.S. forces has died from an allergic reaction while in ICE custody, one day after he was detained for deportation proceedings, his death certificate shows. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Afghan national who fought with U.S. forces died of allergic reaction in ICE custody

Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal, 41, suffered “an adverse drug reaction” to an unidentified substance, which triggered anaphylaxis and exacerbated his asthma, the death report shows.

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This game has been fabulous!!!

Paraguay!!! Shoot outs always make my hands so sweaty 😅😅😅

3:30 on a Friday is a ridiculous time for this but: WE STARTED A NEW SERIES! Stela: Science and Technology in Latin America, with editors David Dalton and Diana Montaño This basically means that if you work on just about anything in Latin American studies you’re now *required* to send it to me.

My partner Jon released a new album! It's instrumental math rock. Two drums + two pianos = 🔥. Check out "Our Neighbors the Giants" on your platform of choice 😁 open.spotify.com/album/7wCpWW...

Our Neighbors the Giants

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less A quotas and more of this! THINKING remains the sine qua non

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 3mo ago

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

I've got to say that I'm becoming a bit sick of ecocritical readings that are basically celebratory: "Ooh look at the ecological ethic promoted by this novel!" What happened to looking for tensions, contradictions, the unsaid? Reading against the grain tends to be a lot more interesting.

I published the speech I read during the Latiné Student Celebration in my newsletter. If you wish to read it, link is in the photo

ok for real who wants to be the next MLA exec director, let's get a dynamo and get in formation

Explosive audio evidence indicates that the Trump administration is funding a misinformation campaign to discredit leftist leaders in Latin America. The ring leader is Juan Orlando Hernandez, the corrupt, cartel-aligned ex-pres of Honduras, who Trump pardoned 😡 english.elpais.com/internationa...

‘Hondurasgate,’ the alleged US and Israeli interference plot to destabilize Mexico and other progressive governments

A leaked audio recording points to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, Javier Milei, and Donald Trump as attempting to create a platform to spread fake news about the administrations of ...

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Ericka Beckman@erickabeckman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New book alert: My book, _Agrarian Questions: The Latin American Novel on the Road to Capitalism_, will be out with Verso in July. Available for preorder.

There is no excuse for Kotlikoff to back up into a group of students 😠

“Video footage obtained by The Sun shows Students for a Democratic Cornell members Aiden Vallecillo ’26 and Hudson Athas ’27 being struck by the car. In the video, no person can be seen touching the vehicle before it drove into Vallecillo and Athas.” www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

Kotlikoff Drives Into Student and Recent Grad Following ‘Harassment’

President Michael Kotlikoff backed his car into a student and drove over the foot of a recent graduate after what he called a "harassment and intimidation incident" in a Friday email blast to the...

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"The Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Budget proposes to eliminate the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) & provides $38 million to conduct an orderly shutdown of the Agency." Disinvestment in the humanities is one way we've reached the current moment. Double the budget instead. Triple it.

I had no idea about this aspect of Hughes' life and work.

Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Troubled Lands is a landmark book—the first complete publication of Langston Hughes’s translations of 33 stories by 18 Mexican & Cuban writers, edited by Ricardo Wilson II. Now available (19 May UK pub). Order yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #LangstonHughes #Literature

Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"

March 18, 2026

Today, civil rights leader Dolores Huerta issued the following statement:

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Inspiring win by Indigenous land defenders, who stopped plans to privatize the Amazonian Tapajós river and expand it into a megacanal to facilitate the export of soy products by Cargill www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘The river won’: how campaigners in Brazilian Amazon stopped privatisation of waterway

Local river defenders force U-turn by occupying grain terminal operated by one of US powerhouses of world trade

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1. The footage shows Homeland Security is lying when he got indoors and was wearing prison booties I doubt are good for the cold. 2. Nurul Amin Shah Alam apologized to police BEFORE he was tasered when he was originally arrested. wapo.st/3OCwNx8

Refugee released by Border Patrol found dead, sparking outrage

Surveillance video obtained by The Post shows Border Patrol agents releasing the partially blind refugee, who went missing for days before being found dead.

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Our book is published!!! mitpress.mit.edu/978191598348... There is supposed to be an open access version available, which does not seem to be actually available, and which I am doggedly pursing, but for now: hurrah! Print enjoyers, get your copies!

Low Carbon Research Methods

Current research norms are increasingly unsustainable for the planet and scholars alike. Dominant modes of research and research dissemination place a premiu...

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Awful, painful, terrifying day in Mexico yesterday. Here's a summary of the many many news I've been reading. I share it not as an expert, but to help myself make sense of things, so maybe it's useful for others who want to know what's going on but can't spent 5 hours reading the news. It hurts.

I found this piece generative. As someone who initially hit the job market during the brief period in which you could get a job in DH, is co-editing a Debates in DH volume, trying to build support for “DH” on my campus, & co-teaching a class with Matt called “Books as Data,” I have thoughts!

Dan Sinykin@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Matt Wilkens on the end of DH: "The steady state of DH, which I once believed was to be fully subsumed within the humanities, now looks much more likely to involve the diffusion of humanistic knowledge into disciplines...constitutively quantitative and computational" academic.oup.com/alh/article-...

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

6/ “When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.” 9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.