Juan Llamas-Rodriguez
@llamasjr.bsky.social
global media professor author of Border Tunnels https://tinyurl.com/tnnls and Y Tu Mamá También https://tinyurl.com/ytmt01 español incluído.
Poster from SCMSSP that includes details for two upcoming townhalls. These would be great opportunities to ask questions or air qualms about the boycott.
This is just rank Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism, based on the bigoted idea that there is something inherently scary about a president with the last name "El-Sayed." It is incumbent on all of us to call it out.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 14h agoJD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "
One of the biggest problems with centrists is that they consider close elections that they lose evidence of their electability
Politico@politico.com · 21h agoProgressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted
Lockdown people are so funny. They pull out their hair at the fact that schools were closed for five minutes, and then you ask them if they actually want to educate poor and minority children and they’re like of course not
One thing I document in my book is that companies that engage in slave labor are also going to have all kinds of other health, safety, and labor violations.
Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 4d agoThe diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
futurism.com
In case anyone needs it for their syllabi, my statement in gen-Ai from the minicomic I made as a syllabus for class last semester. All online and printable here spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities
theguardian.com
Something I like about @elazic.bsky.social's careful read here is that it points out a fatal flaw with a lot of pieces of writing that pass for "reviews" (even from critics!) because they talk about a movie: saying "this is bad!" as if it's self-evident, rather than arguing for *why* it is bad.
Elena Lazic@elazic.bsky.social · last wk.Emily Wilson's piece on Christopher Nolan's THE ODYSSEY for the LRB went viral and was received very positively by many — but not by virtually every film critic I know. For @animusmagazine.bsky.social I wrote about why: animus-magazine.ghost.io/a-tale-as-ol...
Emily Wilson's piece on Christopher Nolan's THE ODYSSEY for the LRB went viral and was received very positively by many — but not by virtually every film critic I know. For @animusmagazine.bsky.social I wrote about why: animus-magazine.ghost.io/a-tale-as-ol...
A Tale as Old as Time
Emily Wilson’s piece on Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey evinces an archaic perspective on cinema’s value as art
animus-magazine.ghost.io
Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities
theguardian.com
What happens when an organization funnels the public’s desire for deep conversations on #climatechange into bite-sized content? Find out the (depressing) answer in my new article published in the fabulous new issue of @limnpress.bsky.social, “This is not a Platform”! limn.press/article/clim...
Climate Change Chatter Inside the Box - Limn
In summer 2022, I published an article about Shared_Studios, an organization that created “portals”—retrofitted shipping containers equipped with Zoom—to host curated conversations and music jams that...
limn.press
what if the lrb responded to the wilson essay crashing their site by committing to regularly publishing serious film criticism perhaps even occasionally from film scholars
What happens when an organization funnels the public’s desire for deep conversations on #climatechange into bite-sized content? Find out the (depressing) answer in my new article published in the fabulous new issue of @limnpress.bsky.social, “This is not a Platform”! limn.press/article/clim...
Climate Change Chatter Inside the Box - Limn
In summer 2022, I published an article about Shared_Studios, an organization that created “portals”—retrofitted shipping containers equipped with Zoom—to host curated conversations and music jams that...
limn.press
My hot take on THE ODYSSEY is that it's cool people are talking about art and adaptations and you can walk through a bar and hear people discussing aspect ratios and what theater to go to and I haven't even seen it yet but yep, this is what movies and art are for.
My hot take on Nolan is that I have become a lot more appreciative of his writing since becoming a screenwriter. At the level of spectacle he's aiming for and with the fractured structures he prefers, more poetic dialogue would slide right off your brain. His words are blunt instruments for a reason
this is the guy our economic system rewarded with $1 trillion. if that’s not good enough reason to tear it down, i don’t know what is.
Jonathan Harris@jonathan-a-thon.bsky.social · 2w agoHe's quite possibly one of the worst people to have ever lived.
UT Austin’s denial of Iván Char Lopez’ tenure is enraging and disheartening, not least because it demonstrates how the recent dismantling of faculty governance across UT has left little recourse for independent oversight to appeal this type of one-sided decisions:
Texas Conference of the AAUP@texasaaup.bsky.social · 2w ago🚨Lauren Gutterman, former chair of the American Studies department and AAUP UT Austin Chapter VP: “Iván’s case is a warning for all faculty across the university, because it suggests that achieving excellence in your field is no longer enough to secure tenure and promotion.” ⬇️
DHS is the most dishonest agency in the entire government. Does even the CCP lie this frequently to its people? Whether it is killing people or covering up killing people, it cannot be trusted.
Oh! They gave millions to Trump lol. people.com/taylor-farms...
Taylor Farms Met with Trump White House Days Before FDA Backtrack on Cyclosporiasis Findings, Sparking Controversy
Executives at lettuce supplier Taylor Farms met with Trump White House officials days before the FDA walked back a ‘false positive’ detection of the cyclosporiasis parasite that is causing ‘explosive’...
people.com
UT Austin’s denial of Iván Char Lopez’ tenure is enraging and disheartening, not least because it demonstrates how the recent dismantling of faculty governance across UT has left little recourse for independent oversight to appeal this type of one-sided decisions:
Texas Conference of the AAUP@texasaaup.bsky.social · 2w ago🚨Lauren Gutterman, former chair of the American Studies department and AAUP UT Austin Chapter VP: “Iván’s case is a warning for all faculty across the university, because it suggests that achieving excellence in your field is no longer enough to secure tenure and promotion.” ⬇️
An enraging story about what look like UT's efforts to kowtow to powerful conservatives. “I ask questions that maybe someone in a position of power might disagree with. … We ask these questions because we’re trying to get at what is the truth,” Chaar López said. www.statesman.com/news/educati...
UT border surveillance scholar was a shoo-in for tenure. UT denied him.
American Studies scholar Iván Chaar López fears UT’s unexplained tenure denial violated his academic freedom amid scrutiny of controversial fields.
statesman.com
I am not a sports scientist or whatever but I am pretty sure Mexico won the world cup
Brutal photo caption from The Guardian: “Gianni Infantino carefully explains to Donald Trump that he is not part of the Spanish national team.”
Now that the World Cup is over, FIFA can quit wasting time on soccer and return to its primary role as the home of the FIFA Peace Prize.
