Trump made a playlist to dismantle DEI to, in case anyone was wondering what fresh nonsense this week would bring. Good thing it’s lo-fi, a genre that is famously anti-DEI and has nothing to do with Black artists 🤣
Pamela Zabala Ortiz
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She/her/ella • Afro-Latina Scholar and Sociologist • Assistant Professor • Studying race making, identity, and belonging • Boston • 📚☕️🇩🇴 www.pamelazabalaortiz.com www.substack.com/@pamelazabalaortiz
Watching the Stanford Prison Experiment on Netflix and I’ve come to the conclusion that I hate everyone on this show.
The best part about getting invited to speak at another campus is cosplaying like I go there for a few hours. Catch me in the student center with this laptop and coffee.
Little break from reading about data centers in the US, let's go to Spain!
See how Big Tech is transforming Spain's landscape
A drought-stricken region of northeast Spain has become a focus for American companies searching for locations to place their data centers.
npr.org
A haunted house where every room has an assistant dean for teaching excellence and vice chancellor for finance
Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · 3w agoA haunted house where every room has several colleagues to whom you owe work, or email responses
ICE bleeding staff at record rate as firings and resignations soar: report Impunity time's almost over, kidnappers. Resigning won't hide your crimes. www.rawstory.com/ice-employees/
ICE bleeding staff at record rate as firings and resignations soar: report
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is losing employees faster than at any point in its history, with thousands of recent hires quitting or getting fired shortly after joining, according to federal wo...
rawstory.com
“GOTTA LEARN AI OR BE LEFT BEHIND.” Good. Fuck off! Leave me behind! Enjoy your artbarf rapture, your janky Temu future. I’ll be back here looking at real birds and writing weird, also real, books.
On the one hand, the diaspora wars popping off every three business hours is annoying. On the other hand, it tells me the book I’m writing is relevant and makes me excited to finish it and put it in the world. #staytuned
The assault on US universities didn't start in 2025. Our new paper traces the decades of corporate capture that made it possible, and why climate research is a primary target. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Look what popped up on campus this week 👀
“I just finished reading White Fragility”
This time of year, I have what I like to call Schrödinger’s syllabi.
More than six years after protesters in Richmond toppled an iconic statue of Jefferson Davis amid national civil rights demonstrations, work crews quietly removed three remaining Confederate monuments from their pedestals across town.
Three remaining Confederate statues removed from Virginia’s Capitol
A former state senator who spearheaded the effort said it was not erasing history but making room for a conversation about whom to honor next.
washingtonpost.com
Found a coffee shop with empanadas and a fire playlist. I may move in.
One of my favorite things about Dolly Parton is that she recognized structural problems require structural solutions. Kids aren't reading? Let's put books in their hands during their crucial developmental years. Social change requires joy AND actionable solutions, and she embodied that.
Target removed the Jim Crow Jr costume from their shelves.
The race science/eugenics bros never have cohesive points. Or chins.
It was wonderful to hear Darializa Avila Chevalier speak at CUNY today for the Resisting Authoritarianism conference.
Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
thenation.com
Black Woman Found Hanging in Tree in Mississippi Has Been Identified as Tasia Fortune Mississippi authorities have investigated other high-profile cases involving tree-hanging deaths in the past year. capitalbnews.org/black-woman-...
Black Woman Found Hanging in Tree in Mississippi Has Been Identified as Tasia Fortune
Mississippi authorities have investigated other high-profile cases involving tree-hanging deaths in the past year.
capitalbnews.org