Habemus Papam!

Bad Bunny: Tiny Desk Concert YouTube video by NPR Music

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Why Trump is sending Venezuelans to El Salvador Podcast Episode · Code Switch · 04/09/2025 · 38m

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The New McCarthyism Was Started by Liberals As with earlier Red Scares, Democrats laid the groundwork for the current crackdown on dissent.

"When mass protests broke out against his policy, Biden repeatedly condemned the activists as violent and antisemitic, responding to outlier actions that didn’t represent the movement. Biden’s slander helped splinter the Democratic coalition, giving Trump a potent wedge issue." shorturl.at/K4cPI

The University President Willing to Fight Trump Christopher L. Eisgruber of Princeton University talks about the administration’s move to freeze billions of dollars in funding to higher education institutions.

Several thoughts about this very helpful interview on NYT w Chris Eisgruber, president of Princeton, about existential attacks on higher ed, how and what solidarity among American universities looks like. And why it's worth the listen. (Also a dopey headline.) 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/p...

“Don’t Open the Door”: How Chicago Is Frustrating ICE’s Campaign of Fear Months of know-your-rights work has Trump’s border czar complaining.

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Help fund scholarships for DePaul Latino students! When 40 people make a gift to the CLR and Latin American and Latino Studies External Advisory Board Scholarship, Lucino Sotelo (BUS '93) will donate $20,000!

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Bad Bunny teams up with Jorell Meléndez-Badillo to unpack Puerto Rican history The UW-Madison professor accompanies the singer's new album with rich political context.

UW-Madison history professor @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social collaborated with Bad Bunny to help listeners explore the historical and political context of the singer's new album. He spoke with @aliceraeherman.bsky.social about the project

A very important conversation between Jonathan Beller & Ali Musleh in "The Question of Genocide" - @dukepress.bsky.social

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Pilsen Church Moves Services Online Over Deportation Fears Lincoln United Methodist Church moved its Spanish Sunday service online over fears it could be "a target" for mass deportations, pastor Emma Lozano said.

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The combined net worth of America's twelve wealthiest people passed $2 trillion last year.

12 people. $2 trillion.

Meanwhile, U.S. homelessness increased 18% in 2024.

Our problem isn’t an issue of resources.

Our problem is ever-expanding wealth inequality.

‘The idea of a singular “Latino vote” presupposes that people who identify with the multiple versions of the term—Latino, Latinx, Hispanic—constitute a single voting bloc and share concerns over a single issue, immigration, to the same degree.’

Musk’s wealth in 2012: $2 Billion
Musk’s wealth in 2024: $447 Billion

Bezos’s wealth in 2012: $18 Billion
Bezos’s wealth in 2024: $249 Billion

Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2012: $44 Billion
Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2024: $224 Billion

Minimum wage in 2012: $7.25
Minimum wage in 2024: $7.25

We’ll see if it becomes another garbage can.

Another New Twitter? Good Luck With That. Users are now flocking to Bluesky. But every social media platform becomes a wasteland in the end.

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Supreme Court Case on Trans Health Shows How Gender Essentialism Harms Us All Everyone who cares about bodily autonomy should fight for trans health care.

“Legalizing the denial of bodily self-determination increases patriarchal control over ALL people deemed socially transgressive.”

— @lewispants.bsky.social

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Section 1, of the 14th Amendment:

My therapist told me "write letters to the people you hate and burn them." Dude that, but now I don't know what to do with letters.

Good morning!☕️✌️

"It’s already a huge lift for a farmworker to file a complaint in better times. Someone working in the field is not going to speak up about pesticides or heat when they’re worried about being deported or getting home safely to their children. It’s terrifying."

Inspiring conversation
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Santa Maria: On Migrant Mother's Land A youthful obsession with Dorothea Lange’s <em>Migrant Mother</em> turns to frustration over how its subject, Florence Owens Thompson, an Indigenous woman, has been misperceived.

Myriam Gurba @lesbrains.bsky.social 's great piece: "A youthful obsession with Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother turns to frustration over how its subject, Florence Owens Thompson, an Indigenous woman, has been misperceived." Recommended reading for everyone.

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Something to look forward to. Save the date!

When they say “write the book you wish you would have read” - this is pretty much it-The introduction of “Nuyorican/Diasporican art” is now available for free downloads. A collective labor of love 👇 assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...