really great piece! Always nice to chat with journalists.

🗃️ Some really great research by @chasewoodruff.bsky.social, especially in consulting with @romeoguzman.bsky.social to contextualize Evans’ narrative.

10/10 no notes, only to say most salient point is that legality is not fixed, rather, it reflects politics & social values of historical moment.

SABADO.

Trump can no longer tell the difference between Harvard and Harlem. If you want to cover severe cognitive decline in a president, you have an opportunity right now.

Let me know what you think :)

Volume 44, Issue 2 of the Journal of American Ethnic History - the official journal of the IEHS - is online now, featuring articles and reviews by: @blkatlanticcdn.bsky.social @ornelashigdon.bsky.social @romeoguzman.bsky.social

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Opinion | This Is Why So Many Immigrants Are Ending Up Detained in Louisiana Louisiana is a legal black hole for immigrants.

It's no accident that immigrants end up in Louisiana detention centers. Immigration judges there deny 3/4 of all cases, the 5th Circuit is extremely conservative, and local communities in the state are turning a profit locking-up immigrants in their jails

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/o...

Back on the road . . .

If they firing veterans and giving zero fucks.

every headline now is like: What If I Told You Your Tax Dollars Were Going To An Amazing Program That Saves Lives And Costs Pennies? Unfortunately Elon Musk Just Dismantled It For Good!!

DOGE Claims Credit for Killing Contracts That Were Already Dead Elon Musk’s group claimed credit for canceling procurement agreements that had been completed years earlier, the latest in a string of public errors on its site.

"Just a big mess": Musk's team claims credit for saving $53.7 million for "canceling" a federal contract that in fact was just for $144,000 and was actually completed 20 years ago. @Fahrenthold.bsky.social @sangerkatz.bsky.social @jsvine.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...

"Developing a device that could treat severe bleeding. It seems to have caught the committee’s attention for using the words “victims” — as in gunshot victims — and “trauma.” Creating biosensors to detect infectious diseases. The grant appears to have been tagged for the repeated use of “POC,” an acronym often used for “people of color” but in this context meaning “point of care” — that is, the place where people receive medical treatment — and “barrier,” referring to a part of the biosensor itself. Designing eye-tracking technology for diagnosing and treating concussions. It appears to have gotten flagged for referencing “traumatic” brain injuries and the “status,” meaning the condition, of patients."

ProPublica looked into science grants that Ted Cruz's team flagged as "radical" and "neo-Marxist" and, uh.

This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

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Excited to be co-editing a special issue of The Public Historian with Delia Fernández-Jones and Chantel Rodriguez on Public History in the Latinx Midwest. Proposals due May 31, articles due early next year. Send us your pitch!

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5 million dollar gold cards for immigrants is Trump’s idea of immigration reform.

Maybe he should sell get out of jail free cards too.

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I can independently confirm Wired's reporting here, as I was working with @marisakabas.bsky.social to track down this engineer. Marisa heard that Nikhil Rajpal was given full access to the NOAA system with a NOAA email from sources today.

Rajpal has DC roots. His X account is private: x.com/nikrdc

‘People Are Speaking in Whispers’ Student suspensions, faculty purges and all-encompassing surveillance state have become the norm as Columbia falls silent after last spring’s anti-genocide protests.

‘People Are Speaking in Whispers’ - an in-depth overview of the last year in protest, counter-protest, and repression at Columbia from The Indypendent indypendent.org/2025/02/peop...

Trump has shut down an anti-communist arm of US foreign policy (USAID), blown up free trade deals (USMCA), and is calling for the US to seize Gaza to build a seaside resort.

We live in interesting times. Neoliberalism is out, and a new form of 19th-century imperialism is back.

2000 people at ICE protest outside Los Angeles City Hall

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[NUEVA PUBLICACIÓN]
El volumen 5 de la Biblioteca Recorridos es la traducción al español del libro de
Nara Milanich. Un trabajo que estremece y ahonda en una visión de la infancia poco habitual.
Podrán encontrarlo en el Fondo de Cultura Económica-Chile.

How to Keep Tabs on ICE Agents Who May Be Surveilling Your Neighborhood Here’s a step-by-step guide.

This op-ed explains how to start an ICE Watch neighborhood program in your community. ⤵️

it is currently not written retroactively, though, right? Or did I miss something?

DM your email address if you'd like a PDF

My new journal article "'I Want to Return to My Country': Ethnic Mexicans Request the Right to Return during the Great Depression," examines efforts by U.S. citizens to return to the United States after they had been relocated to Mexico. #repatriation #MexicanAmericans @iehs.bsky.social

Thanks Pablo!

“I Want to Return to My Country”: Ethnic Mexicans Request the Right to Return during the Great Depression Abstract. This article offers a new history of Mexican repatriation during the Great Depression by focusing on US citizens who returned to Mexico. Using US consular and Department of State files, I ar...

Here is a relevant article from @romeoguzman.bsky.social about returning to Mexico. Coercion is only part of the story. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/art...