Aimee Loiselle
@aimloiselle.bsky.social
Writer, historian, educator, snacker, gardener
Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican & Southern White Women Fought for Place in American Working Class (UNCP 2023)
US labor history, women and global capitalism, pop culture representations of work and wealth
Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican & Southern White Women Fought for Place in American Working Class (UNCP 2023)
US labor history, women and global capitalism, pop culture representations of work and wealth
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Thank you Northeast Popular & American Culture Association for selecting my book "Beyond Norma Rae" for the Peter C. Rollins Prize for a work that makes a significant contribution to the field.
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SOUTH KOREA: Unionized rail workers to launch indefinite strike as wage talks break down www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/s...
Unionized rail workers to launch indefinite strike as wage talks break down - The Korea Times
Unionized workers of Korea Railroad Corp. said Wednesday they will go on an indefinite strike starting Thursday after negotiations over bonus pay a...
www.koreatimes.co.kr
December 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
SOUTH KOREA: Unionized rail workers to launch indefinite strike as wage talks break down www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/s...
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It's fitting that Mubashir was held at Ft Snelling, where Dred and Harriet Scott were enslaved, where 1658 Dakota were held in a concentration camp, and where scores of Nisei were interned to teach Japanese during WWII. Remember this when SCOTUS rules on birthright citizenship next year.
U.S. citizen offered to show I.D. but was arrested by immigration officers in Cedar-Riverside
A Somali U.S. citizen, Mubashir, was arrested by federal immigration officers in Cedar-Riverside Tuesday during a mass enforcement.
sahanjournal.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
It's fitting that Mubashir was held at Ft Snelling, where Dred and Harriet Scott were enslaved, where 1658 Dakota were held in a concentration camp, and where scores of Nisei were interned to teach Japanese during WWII. Remember this when SCOTUS rules on birthright citizenship next year.
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INDIA: Trade Unions Assemble To Strike Against Labour Codes, Will Unleash Fury In February www.freepressjournal.in/business/tra...
Trade Unions Assemble To Strike Against Labour Codes, Will Unleash Fury In February
www.freepressjournal.in
December 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
INDIA: Trade Unions Assemble To Strike Against Labour Codes, Will Unleash Fury In February www.freepressjournal.in/business/tra...
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ACLS is proud to share The Promise of the Humanities at Community Colleges, a new report that shares the perspectives of Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellows who balance teaching-intensive schedules & find time for bold research projects and transformative pedagogies: bit.ly/4oDnA3P
The Promise of the Humanities at Community Colleges | © The American Council of Learned Societies 2025
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#About the Project
Launched in 2018 with support from the Mellon Foundation, the Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowship program recognized the vital contributions of community college fa...
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December 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
ACLS is proud to share The Promise of the Humanities at Community Colleges, a new report that shares the perspectives of Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellows who balance teaching-intensive schedules & find time for bold research projects and transformative pedagogies: bit.ly/4oDnA3P
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UCLA's Mapping Deportations invites you to explore the use of U.S. immigration enforcement policies from a historical perspective, revealing the racial lens through which deportations have been implemented throughout the nation's history. Check it out below.
mappingdeportations.com
mappingdeportations.com
Mapping Deportations – U.S. Immigration Control since 1790
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December 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
UCLA's Mapping Deportations invites you to explore the use of U.S. immigration enforcement policies from a historical perspective, revealing the racial lens through which deportations have been implemented throughout the nation's history. Check it out below.
mappingdeportations.com
mappingdeportations.com
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Follow the $$$
Fight austerity and all its manifestations: efficiency, right sizing, etc.
Fight austerity and all its manifestations: efficiency, right sizing, etc.
AAUP is livestreaming the rally and press conference against extreme austerity measures and the proposed termination of 40% of full-time faculty at The New School!
Join the livestream tomorrow, December 10 at 4pm ET.
Link below 👇
Join the livestream tomorrow, December 10 at 4pm ET.
Link below 👇
AAUP TV LIVESTREAM: Rally Against Extreme Austerity Measures Outside Board of Trustees Meeting
YouTube video by TheAAUP
youtube.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Follow the $$$
Fight austerity and all its manifestations: efficiency, right sizing, etc.
Fight austerity and all its manifestations: efficiency, right sizing, etc.
Even Forbes is digging in. Trumps becoming billionaires in a year is not just for The New Yorker...
#taxtherich
#taxtherich
How Donald Trump Jr’s Fortune Jumped Six-Fold In A Year
www.forbes.com/sites/kylemu... (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
www.forbes.com/sites/kylemu... (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
December 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Even Forbes is digging in. Trumps becoming billionaires in a year is not just for The New Yorker...
#taxtherich
#taxtherich
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NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones!
My guide:
My guide:
Giving the gift of independent journalism: a guide
The Handbasket has subscription suggestions for almost everyone on your list.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones!
My guide:
My guide:
This argument aligns perfectly w my book 'Beyond Norma Rae' and its point that in capitalism, movie industry that relies on multi-mill $ investments will demand everything conform to formulas. IP moviemaking is the ultimate result.
#laborhistory @uncpress.bsky.social
uncpress.org/978146967613...
#laborhistory @uncpress.bsky.social
uncpress.org/978146967613...
December 9, 2025 at 1:27 PM
This argument aligns perfectly w my book 'Beyond Norma Rae' and its point that in capitalism, movie industry that relies on multi-mill $ investments will demand everything conform to formulas. IP moviemaking is the ultimate result.
#laborhistory @uncpress.bsky.social
uncpress.org/978146967613...
#laborhistory @uncpress.bsky.social
uncpress.org/978146967613...
The two crisis issues of the next century are also labor issues:
climate change and plastics/PFAS.
Time to completely restructure the global economy, train workers on new energy systems and safe labor to clean up all the plastics/PFAS.
#laborhistory #workingclass
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
climate change and plastics/PFAS.
Time to completely restructure the global economy, train workers on new energy systems and safe labor to clean up all the plastics/PFAS.
#laborhistory #workingclass
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
How 3M Discovered, Then Concealed, the Dangers of Forever Chemicals
The company found its own toxic compounds in human blood—and kept selling them.
www.newyorker.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The two crisis issues of the next century are also labor issues:
climate change and plastics/PFAS.
Time to completely restructure the global economy, train workers on new energy systems and safe labor to clean up all the plastics/PFAS.
#laborhistory #workingclass
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
climate change and plastics/PFAS.
Time to completely restructure the global economy, train workers on new energy systems and safe labor to clean up all the plastics/PFAS.
#laborhistory #workingclass
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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I am not one to over-hype the Gen X image of toughness. But the new LED lights (superbright, no heat) are so sparkly yet dull. My household had the colored lights and the old vintage bulbs like Santa and some balls with glass sprinkles. Don't touch.
December 9, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I am not one to over-hype the Gen X image of toughness. But the new LED lights (superbright, no heat) are so sparkly yet dull. My household had the colored lights and the old vintage bulbs like Santa and some balls with glass sprinkles. Don't touch.
An intriguing historical analysis of the Second Amendment - argument: it was about preventing/minimizing a standing professional army, not about individual private gun rights. Ends with interesting discussion of NRA as a gun rights org not a second amendment org.
Deploying Federal Troops to U.S. Cities Is a Second Amendment Issue
But not because the founders wanted to see more guns in the hands of Americans.
www.historynewsnetwork.org
December 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
An intriguing historical analysis of the Second Amendment - argument: it was about preventing/minimizing a standing professional army, not about individual private gun rights. Ends with interesting discussion of NRA as a gun rights org not a second amendment org.
The reason society, particularly a democratic republic, needs more pop scholars/public scholars. In a capitalist economy, even documentary filmmaking will have $$ reasons to prioritize myth and grand storytelling over history.
theamericanscholar.org/patriot-acts/
theamericanscholar.org/patriot-acts/
Patriot Acts - The American Scholar
What Ken Burns gets wrong about the war that made America
theamericanscholar.org
December 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The reason society, particularly a democratic republic, needs more pop scholars/public scholars. In a capitalist economy, even documentary filmmaking will have $$ reasons to prioritize myth and grand storytelling over history.
theamericanscholar.org/patriot-acts/
theamericanscholar.org/patriot-acts/
As prof for soc stud methods, I tell candidates to avoid AI in all ways. "You provide the alternative of talking, brainstorming, drafting, with their own thinking. The challenges are part of learning." They said first assignment in School of Ed was "write better prompts for AI for lessons"...
"I’ve concluded that instead of teaching students to read and write, I should be teaching them how to prompt AI better. If only I’d had a better education in AI prompt writing, I’d be able to get AI to create more AI-proof teaching materials for me."
I Need AI to Write Better Lesson Plans So My Students Stop Using AI to Write Their Papers
I care deeply about my students’ learning, but with all the new technologies available to help them cut corners, I worry that they’re not doing the...
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December 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
As prof for soc stud methods, I tell candidates to avoid AI in all ways. "You provide the alternative of talking, brainstorming, drafting, with their own thinking. The challenges are part of learning." They said first assignment in School of Ed was "write better prompts for AI for lessons"...
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Over the last 6 months, the Justice Department has demanded full, unredacted voter rolls from dozens of states.
The goal? To build the federal government’s first-ever national database of registered voters using their private info.
The goal? To build the federal government’s first-ever national database of registered voters using their private info.
Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data
The federal agency ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.
www.motherjones.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Over the last 6 months, the Justice Department has demanded full, unredacted voter rolls from dozens of states.
The goal? To build the federal government’s first-ever national database of registered voters using their private info.
The goal? To build the federal government’s first-ever national database of registered voters using their private info.
Accessible and illuminating Planet Money segment on current tariffs and how they are impacting working folks with both costs and loss of sales
www.npr.org/transcripts/...
www.npr.org/transcripts/...
Days of our Tariffs : Planet Money
Tariffs. They’ve been announced, unannounced, re-announced, raised and lowered. It’s an on-going saga with billions at stake!On today’s episode, we run full-on at the twisty, turny drama of life with ...
www.npr.org
December 6, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Accessible and illuminating Planet Money segment on current tariffs and how they are impacting working folks with both costs and loss of sales
www.npr.org/transcripts/...
www.npr.org/transcripts/...
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I spent months talking to many, many people for this long post-mortem of the Inflation Reduction Act: What forces were responsible for creating it, and how could it be gutted so unceremoniously? What might come next?
No easy answers ofc but hopefully a bit of clarity
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
No easy answers ofc but hopefully a bit of clarity
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
The Quick and Shameful Death of Biden’s Biggest Policy
It was far too easy for Republicans to kill the Inflation Reduction Act. Where did those who crafted it go wrong?
newrepublic.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I spent months talking to many, many people for this long post-mortem of the Inflation Reduction Act: What forces were responsible for creating it, and how could it be gutted so unceremoniously? What might come next?
No easy answers ofc but hopefully a bit of clarity
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
No easy answers ofc but hopefully a bit of clarity
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
Industrial societies have to do renewables better than they did with previous energy systems. These are labor, environmental, and public health issues <<<<<<
When the world’s largest battery power plant caught fire, toxic metals rained down – wetlands captured the fallout
When the world’s largest battery power plant caught fire, toxic metals rained down – wetlands captured the fallout
The Moss Landing battery fire became an unintended experiment – showing how burning lithium-ion cells scattered nickel, cobalt and manganese over a protected marsh.
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December 2, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Industrial societies have to do renewables better than they did with previous energy systems. These are labor, environmental, and public health issues <<<<<<
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Across the West, porcupines are vanishing. Wildlife scientists are racing to find where porcupines are still living, and why they’re disappearing.
From our friends at @highcountrynews.org:
From our friends at @highcountrynews.org:
The mystery of the missing porcupines
They are nowhere to be seen in the West, and scientists are racing to figure out why.
www.motherjones.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Across the West, porcupines are vanishing. Wildlife scientists are racing to find where porcupines are still living, and why they’re disappearing.
From our friends at @highcountrynews.org:
From our friends at @highcountrynews.org:
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Blue states have repeatedly tried to rein in crisis pregnancy centers.
But as faith-based organizations, pregnancy centers have a powerful shield: the First Amendment.
But as faith-based organizations, pregnancy centers have a powerful shield: the First Amendment.
This confusing Supreme Court case could reshape oversight of crisis pregnancy centers
New Jersey's broad subpoena against an anti-abortion chain has made for some strange bedfellows.
www.motherjones.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Blue states have repeatedly tried to rein in crisis pregnancy centers.
But as faith-based organizations, pregnancy centers have a powerful shield: the First Amendment.
But as faith-based organizations, pregnancy centers have a powerful shield: the First Amendment.
Connecticut Council for the Social Studies
Teacher Awards
Nominations due 3/13
>> celebrate history teachers <<
Teacher Awards
Nominations due 3/13
>> celebrate history teachers <<
December 2, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Connecticut Council for the Social Studies
Teacher Awards
Nominations due 3/13
>> celebrate history teachers <<
Teacher Awards
Nominations due 3/13
>> celebrate history teachers <<
New England Historical Association
Sat 4/11
Middlebury
Sat 4/11
Middlebury
December 2, 2025 at 1:37 AM
New England Historical Association
Sat 4/11
Middlebury
Sat 4/11
Middlebury
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Antarctica’s melt affects everybody but won’t hit every coastline the same.
New maps show where seas could rise the fastest, and why millions of coastal residents should pay attention now 🌊https://buff.ly/IqPoz1g
New maps show where seas could rise the fastest, and why millions of coastal residents should pay attention now 🌊https://buff.ly/IqPoz1g
Sea level doesn’t rise at the same rate everywhere – we mapped where Antarctica’s ice melt would have the biggest impact
Understanding what happens to Antarctica’s ice matters, because as it melts, sea levels rise, affecting lives and economies around the world.
buff.ly
November 29, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Antarctica’s melt affects everybody but won’t hit every coastline the same.
New maps show where seas could rise the fastest, and why millions of coastal residents should pay attention now 🌊https://buff.ly/IqPoz1g
New maps show where seas could rise the fastest, and why millions of coastal residents should pay attention now 🌊https://buff.ly/IqPoz1g
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Writing builds resilience by changing your brain, helping you face everyday challenges
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Writing builds resilience by changing your brain, helping you face everyday challenges
Resilience is often presented as feats of bravery and endurance. But everyday practices like journaling, drafting a text or even writing a to-do list are manifestations of a capacity to adapt.
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November 30, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Writing builds resilience by changing your brain, helping you face everyday challenges
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