It still shocks me to when people want to display my art in their homes. This all began as a way to deal with stress and put my love of pop art in conversation with my Colombian heritage, and has transformed into something unexpected and beautiful 🫶🏽

My jaded millennial self is going to be drinking an extra strong old fashioned tonight. This is bleak Deja vu.

NEW: The US government has collected DNA from over 100,000 migrant children—including a 4-year-old—and uploaded their genetic profiles into a national biometric database meant for sex offenders and violent criminals. www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...

The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database

Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.

wired.com

this timeline is fucking wild

This is the book I wish existed when this Colombian American kid was growing up & never finding books that represented me 🤘🏽 thank you @carolinaflorezc.bsky.social for bringing such a powerful Colombian Muisca woman to life 🇨🇴 and crafting amazing Colombian horror!

I’ve been enthralled by rural horror these days. So much existential dread and gothic aesthetics!

The California Digital Newspaper Collection has now raised $75,000 out of $300,000. Please consider donating to sustain this vital tool.

Nathan Ellstrand@nellstra.bsky.social · last yr.

***Attention fellow historians, scholars, and concerned individuals*** The California Digital Newspaper Collection is under financial threat, facing a $300,000 deficit. If you would like to keep this essential resource afloat, please consider donating: www.givecampus.com/campaigns/61...

Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss

About this Collection | Chronicling America | Digital Collections | Library of Congress

Search America's Historic Newspaper Pages through 1963 Please Note: The Library of Congress has transitioned the longstanding Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers website to this new digi...

loc.gov

Colombian themed faux neon signs?! Where have these been all my life!

The recent wave of docuseries on kid & family influencers is one of the most disturbing thing I think I’ve ever witnessed. Children are not content. Why is this so difficult for parents to realize?

Lmao 🤣 savages

Republican politicians really need to stop using Venmo. Cringier than a Lara Trump music video.

Dean Chemerinsky and other #lawschool deans "speak as legal educators, responsible for training the next generation of lawyers, in condemning any government efforts to punish lawyers or their firms based on the identity of their clients or for their zealous lawful and ethical advocacy."

Just imagine the intel breaches happening right now by state actors and malevolent orgs that we are not seeing because a these mediocre clowns didn't always cc a fucking reporter

Rewatching Nosferatu (2024) & there are great contract law lessons! Never sign a contract written in blood and/or language you can’t read Don’t enter into a contract with an immortal being who wants you soul Don’t let your spouse give your hair to a random vampire during contract negotiations

Crocheting and watching Twin Peaks is how I relax these days

Ok…. I’m officially jamming to the new White Lotus theme song…it’s sneaky but it’s a bop.

The TL is bleak but Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, donated her Tesla to @npr

Cancelling @joyannreid.bsky.social means the door she held open for the next generation of Black voices will slam shut. Without her, the next her, won't get platformed by white media. That, of course, is why white media pushed her out. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The Value of Joy

By canceling Joy Reid’s cable news show, MSNBC has not only silenced a brilliant host: It’s silenced the next Black voice you haven’t yet heard.

thenation.com

NEW: State lawmakers across the nation are introducing bills to hamper abortion ballot campaigns and attack new pro-choice amendments, further proving that the GOP doesn’t actually want voters to have a direct say on abortion, argues @susanrinkunas.com.

Republicans Prove There Was a Big Catch About 'Leaving Abortion to the States'

Opinon | To say the 2024 election was a mixed bag for abortion rights would be a gigantic understatement.

democracydocket.com

Watching White Lotus and I’m having a distant memory of my dad getting mad at me for “disgracing” the family by even jokingly suggesting we were middle class. He loved this show because he “always knew rich people were weird”

The Trump DOJ is big mad about their finest legal minds being humiliated in court

Ari Drennen@aridrennen.bsky.social · 2y ago

Trump's lawyers are absolutely flailing in the courts right now

Just developed a new roll of film. I’m calling this group “Bodega Bay Gothic” 📸CanonAE1

A photo love letter to the Presidio as the Trump administration aims to eviscerate the Presidio Trust @sfchronicle.com bit.ly/3CYhqtw

I have a PhD, it shouldn’t be this difficult to find an instant pot recipe for cauliflower that I vibe with.

Major news! A court in Montana has just declared SB458, a bill that "defines sex" in a way that ends the legal recognition of transgender people in Montana, as facially unconstitutional. This is the first time a bill defining sex has been ruled on! Huge win for trans people in MT!

What truly fills me with despair is how Americans are fine with this — even happy about it, enthused at any degradation of immigrants. Is a Republic made up of such people worth preserving?

Hamed Aleaziz@haleaziz.bsky.social · 2y ago

UPDATE: Nearly 100 migrants, recently deported by the United States to Panama where they had been locked in a hotel, were loaded onto buses Tuesday night and moved to a detention camp on the outskirts of the jungle, several of the migrants said. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...

So excited to announce I will be continuing my next journey as a historian at @appalachianstate.bsky.social teaching Latinx history as an assistant professor! Couldn’t be happier and so thrilled to explore the region and work with students! Any NC recs, suggestions, foodie stops? Let me know!

BREAKING Federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson just issued an order preventing the Trump administration from: 1. Deleting CFPB data 2. Firing CFPB employees 3. Transferring money from CFPB's reserve fund Right after the order was issued, nearly all CFPB employees were placed on administrative leave