A photo shows a huge bowl containing almost 7,000 kilos of guacamole made by 800 volunteers in Michoacán in an attempt to break a world record.
Having solved its most pressing issues, Mexico prepares 6,800-kilo guacamole. wp.me/p30bS-5Wf
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Felicidades! I look forward to reading it!
My book, Dangerous Migration: Mexican Labor and the Fight for Immigrant Rights, will be out in less than a month! You can pre-order now and save 30% with promo code S26UIP here: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
How and why police actually support the federal invasions—I have been working on this article for ~6 months, trying to make sense of Trump’s nationwide surge of DHS officers, how it has evolved, what brought us here, and what will remain after it ends.
On @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, you're in for an enjoyable listen #skystorians!
Tune into my chat with @sholleykline.bsky.social on his new book 📕
In the Shadow of El Tajín: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico @univnebpress.bsky.social
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journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact
Considering they decided not to give me the MacArthur Genius Prize, I no longer feel an obligation to be a pure genius
Desde el Seminario Nacional de Historia del Tiempo Presente nos sumamos a las exigencias por la aparición con vida de Leonardo Escobar, profesor colombiano de la IBERO-Puebla.
El profesor Leonardo Escobar, colombiano, desaparecido presuntamente por autoridades mexicanas en Nuevo León:
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Historian Joseph Fronczak has described the political culture of fascism as “participatory anti-democracy.”
*French Historical Studies* open access special collection on the French Right from Dreyfus to the present read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...
Are you interested in the history of the sanctuary movement and/or of Chicago?
Check out my article in Middle West Review about the rise of the movement in and out of the city.
You can access and read it for free, below.
www.academia.edu/95259933/Pol...
La canallesca campaña de acoso laboral y violencia de género encabezada por el director general del Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica (CIDE) de la CDMX, José Antonio Romero Tellaeche, contra las profesoras Celine González Schont y Catherine Andrews.
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Stitch her name: the women honoring Mexico femicide victims in embroidery www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
I didn’t know until now that in the original Rosie the Riveter painting, she is crushing a copy of Mein Kampf under her foot. Happy feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, remembering all the women who crush the serpents of Satan under their heel.
Job Opportunity!
Occidental College - Ray Allen Billington Visiting Professorship in U.S. History/the Americas
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Casi que se lo perdono porque fue el que promovió el homenaje a Ozzy en la Cámara de Diputados.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Este fragmento con el que se inicia una de los más importantes estudios históricos sobre el fascismo debería recordarse sin cesar.
"El fascismo, antes de convertirse en fuerza política, fue un fenómeno cultural...".
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🚨TENURE TRACK POLI SCI JOBS🚨
Yes, "jobs" plural. TCU is hiring two assistant professors, to begin in Fall of 2026.
1) American Politics, with a preference for Gender and Politics.
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2) Public Law and/or Judicial Politics.
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Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."
It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes
Attention scholars of Latin American and Caribbean history
Check out the handout from the AHA’s Congressional Briefing on the history of deportation. Panelists @hidehirota.bsky.social, Ana Raquel Minian Andjel, and @yaelschacher.bsky.social shared policies concerning immigration and deportation throughout US history. 🗃️
The Universidad Iberoamericana examines militarization in Mexico in the last two decades. The poor results of a militarized approach underscore a rethink of the concept of public security and take lessons from successful alternatives of civilian leadership. seguridadviacivil.ibero.mx/wp-content/u...
Mexico's Chamber of Deputies honored the passing of Ozzy Osbourne with a one minute applause. 🤘
www.eluniversal.com.mx/nacion/congr...
Very happy to announce that my latest article on «Transnational women’s networks and solidarity between Tricontinental, OSPAAAL, and Socialist Bloc (1966–90)» has just been published! Available in The Global Sixties Journal (Routledge)(
@GlobalSixties
). tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
La importante conexión histórica entre fascismo y violencia según Paxton.
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The Riverview RV Park in Riudoso, New Mexico was ground zero of the destruction caused by Tuesday’s flash flood. All three victims were staying here. The site’s owner recounted to me the horror of the flooding, which almost carried his own children away.
My story for the El Paso Times.