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Elisabeth Macias

@ejmunfun.bsky.social

History PhD candidate at Georgetown. 20th century Latinx urban history and schools. Former HS teacher.

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CalMatters@calmatters.org · 8mo ago

Opinion | In 2012, after I published From the Jaws of Victory, a history of the UFW that also revealed much of Chávez’s complicated truth, I faced backlash within this same community. bit.ly/3NNHrkw 📝 Matt Garcia 📸 Les Lee

César Chávez during a press conference in the United Kingdom on Sept. 17, 1974. Photo by Les Lee, Hulton Archive, via Getty Images
AFL-CIO@aflcio.org · 9mo ago

This is a historic milestone for working people in the South. Congratulations to the Volkswagen workers and our @uaw.org family on ratifying their first union contract. Better pay, healthcare cost reductions, job security and more — it’s #BetterInAUnion!

In a historic vote, Tennessee Volkswagen workers get their first union contract

Two years ago, the successful union drive at this plant was expected to spark victories throughout the South. But now, as members vote to make their contract official, momentum has fizzled.

npr.org

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg@theradr.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.

Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her)@themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 9mo ago

CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old. “8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This is the thing the cultural commodity spectacle of Super Bowl Sunday requires we bracket: the sport is predicated on human sacrifice. The players you watch today are being killed in front you, slowly, whether it looks like it or not. And the NFL can only get away with it because *we* watch.

Derek Silva@derekcrim.bsky.social · 9mo ago

no matter how hard you twist and turn to justify it, tackle football will never be an ethical form of commodity spectacle

Elisabeth Macias@ejmunfun.bsky.social · 9mo ago

1. The History of the Notion of Sin (the only class in which I received an A+ lol) 2. History of American Families 3. History of Roman Palestine 4. Teaching and Learning: The Having of Wonderful Ideas 5. Great Books in US History?

I support Somali-Americans@adamrothman.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: 1. American Jewish Immigration History 2. Ancient Greek (that was rough) 3. Int'l Relations Theory 4. Modern Poetry 5. Slavery in World History (the class that sparked an interest that became my career)

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11mo ago

from a thread about whether or not capitalism will "trump" racism. my 2 cents: mistakes here stem from a two very different orientations one can have: 1) capital is a key constraint on/enabler of political developments vs. 2) changes in capital *are* the (real) political developments

Sunny Moraine@dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 11mo ago

There are a lot of reasons for the failure of this narrative when it runs up against reality, but I think a lot of it is that we’ve been indoctrinated into this notion that capitalism is somehow inherently rational, which it is not

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11mo ago

obviously plenty of other things should have already been disqualifying but people willing to defy Trump publicly and appeal to decency as their reason for doing so both seem pretty good

Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 11mo ago

h/t @adamwren.bsky.social Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."

Olivia Messer@oliviamesser.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Emmanuel, a 15-year-old with intellectual disabilities, wandered away from his mom’s fruit stand in October. She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE. “They’re failing all of us,” his mom said. thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...

A Disabled Child’s Mom Reported Him Missing. He Was Locked Away by Federal Immigration Authorities for 48 Days.

Emmanuel, a 15-year-old who has an intellectual disability, walked away from his mom’s fruit stand in October. Houston Police called ICE.

thebarbedwire.com

Alan Elrod@aselrod.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide. And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft. What does OpenAI offer the world?

Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · last yr.

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...