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Pablo Piccato

@ppiccato.bsky.social

Historian of Mexico, from poetry to crime. Recent books: Historia mínima de la violencia en México; A History of Infamy: Crime Truth and Justice in Mexico.

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Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · last mo.

Corporations spend more than $1.5 billion a year on union-busting. That’s $1.5 billion they could have spent on higher wages, better benefits, and improving workplace safety. Remember: if they weren’t so scared of worker power, they wouldn’t fight so hard against unions.

U.S. employers spend more than $1.5 billion annually on union avoidance

Key takeaways Many U.S. employers hire union avoidance consultants to keep their workers from organizing and bargaining

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Pablo Piccato@ppiccato.bsky.social · last mo.

“University life, he lamented, was becoming ever narrowly concerned with bean counting and revenue generation, often at the expense of its purported central mission: to teach well and to produce knowledge.” A wonderful piece about our dear colleague David Rosner www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

Remembering David Rosner, Public Health Historian With A Purpose | Health Affairs Forefront

Many historians and public health research scholars talk about their desire to influence policy, but no one did it better than David.

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Animal Político@pajaropolitico.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🇵🇸 #HoyEnAnimal | Entre el confeti y los cánticos de la rúa durante la celebración del campeonato del FC Barcelona, una imagen le ha dado la vuelta al mundo: Lamine Yamal, ondeando una bandera de Palestina desde lo alto del autobús descapotable. grupoanimal.mx/deportes/lam...

Lamine Yamal: Ondea bandera de Palestina durante la fiesta del campeonato

El FC Barcelona es campeón de España por segundo año consecutivo y la ciudad es una fiesta. Tras vencer 2-0 al Real Madrid en un Clásico de infarto (con goles de Marcus Rashford y Ferran Torres), el e

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Pablo Piccato@ppiccato.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Mañana a las 11am voy a hablar sobre José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, la literatura y el lenguaje de la política en la era de la Independencia, en el Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas UNAM. Es presencial y también lo van a pasar en youtube.

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Pablo Piccato@ppiccato.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I saw Habermas in the Union Sq Barnes and Noble after he gave a talk in NYU. He was so focused on the recent arrivals table that I could not bring myself to bother him.

Mary Joy@maryjoy.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Here is my best Habermas story. I am grad student waiting in LONG line for Habermas talk. There is a tall man waiting in front of me. Line moves so we are eventually visible to organizers, a woman looks over & makes horrified face. Runs out: "Prof Habermas! You don't have to wait in line!"