Brett Olmsted, PhD 🗃️
@brettolmsted.bsky.social
PhD in 20th Cen. U.S. History (Latinx, Labor, Immigration, Politics)
Book: Making Michigan Home: Mexican Americans Bridging the Rural-Urban Experience (Illinois Press Dec 2025) http://bit.ly/47BdTOH
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Book: Making Michigan Home: Mexican Americans Bridging the Rural-Urban Experience (Illinois Press Dec 2025) http://bit.ly/47BdTOH
Views my own / Reposts are not endorsements
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Hello to all. I study US Latinx history and have a book coming out Dec 23, 2025 from Illinois Press:
Making Michigan Home: Mexican Americans Bridging the Rural-Urban Experience
It examines placemaking via leisure and labor (available @illinoispress.bsky.social and Amazon)
bit.ly/47BdTOH
Making Michigan Home: Mexican Americans Bridging the Rural-Urban Experience
It examines placemaking via leisure and labor (available @illinoispress.bsky.social and Amazon)
bit.ly/47BdTOH
Making Michigan Home - 50% off for Black Friday from @illinoispress.bsky.social
Releases December 23
Did you know Question Mark and the Mysterians were children of migrant farm workers?
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...
#Latinx #History #USHistory #EduSky #SkyStorians #AcademicSky 🗃️
Releases December 23
Did you know Question Mark and the Mysterians were children of migrant farm workers?
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...
#Latinx #History #USHistory #EduSky #SkyStorians #AcademicSky 🗃️
November 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Making Michigan Home - 50% off for Black Friday from @illinoispress.bsky.social
Releases December 23
Did you know Question Mark and the Mysterians were children of migrant farm workers?
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...
#Latinx #History #USHistory #EduSky #SkyStorians #AcademicSky 🗃️
Releases December 23
Did you know Question Mark and the Mysterians were children of migrant farm workers?
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...
#Latinx #History #USHistory #EduSky #SkyStorians #AcademicSky 🗃️
When art is real life
"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?"
- Donald Trump, January 23, 2016
"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?"
- Donald Trump, January 23, 2016
![Elphaba: No! Don't you think I wish I could? I would give anything to go back to a time when l... When I actually believed that you were wonderful. A wonderful Wizard of Oz.
No one believed in you more than I did. But there's no going back. And we can't move forward until everyone knows what I know.
And once they know the truth...
Wizard: [interrupts] They're not going to believe it.
Elphaba: How can you say that?
Wizard: I'm just being straight with you. I could tell them that I've been lying to them till l'm - forgive me, blue in the face - but it wouldn't make any difference. They're never going to stop believing in me. You know why? Because they don't want to.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:755ec2mskirtxe47pskaz6me/bafkreifwrht332j4iu2icb24l7f22omfcwkh63unni5q2tdvbbv6wggese@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
When art is real life
"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?"
- Donald Trump, January 23, 2016
"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?"
- Donald Trump, January 23, 2016
Historian here: Did you know there were Mexican Americans in the @uaw.org 1937 Sit-Down Strike?
Read about it in Making Michigan Home
Rediscover History
#History #EduSky #AcademicSky #SkyStorians #Latinx
Preorder now from @illinoispress.bsky.social
@uawarchivist.bsky.social
bit.ly/47BdTOH
Read about it in Making Michigan Home
Rediscover History
#History #EduSky #AcademicSky #SkyStorians #Latinx
Preorder now from @illinoispress.bsky.social
@uawarchivist.bsky.social
bit.ly/47BdTOH
November 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Historian here: Did you know there were Mexican Americans in the @uaw.org 1937 Sit-Down Strike?
Read about it in Making Michigan Home
Rediscover History
#History #EduSky #AcademicSky #SkyStorians #Latinx
Preorder now from @illinoispress.bsky.social
@uawarchivist.bsky.social
bit.ly/47BdTOH
Read about it in Making Michigan Home
Rediscover History
#History #EduSky #AcademicSky #SkyStorians #Latinx
Preorder now from @illinoispress.bsky.social
@uawarchivist.bsky.social
bit.ly/47BdTOH
1 MONTH TO GO. Pre-order Making Michigan Home - 30% off
@illinoispress.bsky.social
Examines how Mexican Americans made the Midwest their home
Rediscover how Latinx history is US history
#Latinx #History #USHistory #EduSky #SkyStorians #AcademicSky 🗃️
@illinoispress.bsky.social
Examines how Mexican Americans made the Midwest their home
Rediscover how Latinx history is US history
#Latinx #History #USHistory #EduSky #SkyStorians #AcademicSky 🗃️
November 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
1 MONTH TO GO. Pre-order Making Michigan Home - 30% off
@illinoispress.bsky.social
Examines how Mexican Americans made the Midwest their home
Rediscover how Latinx history is US history
#Latinx #History #USHistory #EduSky #SkyStorians #AcademicSky 🗃️
@illinoispress.bsky.social
Examines how Mexican Americans made the Midwest their home
Rediscover how Latinx history is US history
#Latinx #History #USHistory #EduSky #SkyStorians #AcademicSky 🗃️
Everyone’s new doctor - wholly unqualified but willing to do anything for cheap
November 20, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Everyone’s new doctor - wholly unqualified but willing to do anything for cheap
So Mullin wants to punish poorer people who are stuck living near a dump or factory that emits toxic pollution because they constantly get sick and can’t afford to move
It punishes kids who have no choice where they live
People also can’t change their genetics
His ideas, like him, is idiotic
It punishes kids who have no choice where they live
People also can’t change their genetics
His ideas, like him, is idiotic
Markwayne Mullin: "Reward people for being healthy. Think about this. Healthcare is the only industry that you're not rewarded for taking care of your responsibility. If you think about homeowners insurance, if you're within 500 feet of a fire hydrant, your insurance goes down."
November 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
So Mullin wants to punish poorer people who are stuck living near a dump or factory that emits toxic pollution because they constantly get sick and can’t afford to move
It punishes kids who have no choice where they live
People also can’t change their genetics
His ideas, like him, is idiotic
It punishes kids who have no choice where they live
People also can’t change their genetics
His ideas, like him, is idiotic
Just 5 weeks to go. Pre-order Making Michigan Home - 30% off
@illinoispress.bsky.social
Examines how Mexican Americans made their home in the Midwest
Timely given the mass deportations that ignores their long history in the region
#Latinx #History #USHistory #EduSky #SkyStorians #AcademicSky 🗃️
@illinoispress.bsky.social
Examines how Mexican Americans made their home in the Midwest
Timely given the mass deportations that ignores their long history in the region
#Latinx #History #USHistory #EduSky #SkyStorians #AcademicSky 🗃️
November 14, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Just 5 weeks to go. Pre-order Making Michigan Home - 30% off
@illinoispress.bsky.social
Examines how Mexican Americans made their home in the Midwest
Timely given the mass deportations that ignores their long history in the region
#Latinx #History #USHistory #EduSky #SkyStorians #AcademicSky 🗃️
@illinoispress.bsky.social
Examines how Mexican Americans made their home in the Midwest
Timely given the mass deportations that ignores their long history in the region
#Latinx #History #USHistory #EduSky #SkyStorians #AcademicSky 🗃️
Reposted by Brett Olmsted, PhD 🗃️
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
Nothing says there’s no such thing as structural racism quite like banning discussion of structural racism
Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
“The policy defines race ideology as, among other things, ‘a concept that attempts to shame a particular race or ethnicity.’”
These GOP-led efforts will ruin their states’ public universities. Sad!
“The policy defines race ideology as, among other things, ‘a concept that attempts to shame a particular race or ethnicity.’”
These GOP-led efforts will ruin their states’ public universities. Sad!
Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Nothing says there’s no such thing as structural racism quite like banning discussion of structural racism
Reposted by Brett Olmsted, PhD 🗃️
Let me fix that for you:
Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.
Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.
November 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Let me fix that for you:
Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.
Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.
Santa: Dear President Trump, due to your tariffs the cost to make toys this year is too costly
Trump: WHAT?!? How dare you question the affordability of goods. Haven’t you heard, prices are down everywhere. No one has done a better job than me
Now, for Christmas I want everything gilded in gold
Trump: WHAT?!? How dare you question the affordability of goods. Haven’t you heard, prices are down everywhere. No one has done a better job than me
Now, for Christmas I want everything gilded in gold
November 13, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Santa: Dear President Trump, due to your tariffs the cost to make toys this year is too costly
Trump: WHAT?!? How dare you question the affordability of goods. Haven’t you heard, prices are down everywhere. No one has done a better job than me
Now, for Christmas I want everything gilded in gold
Trump: WHAT?!? How dare you question the affordability of goods. Haven’t you heard, prices are down everywhere. No one has done a better job than me
Now, for Christmas I want everything gilded in gold
Just 5 weeks to go. Pre-order Making Michigan Home - 30% off
Examines how Mexican Americans made their home in the Midwest
Timely given how current admin wants mass deportations ignoring their history in the region
#Latinx #History #USHistory #EduSky #SkyStorians #MAS #MexicanAmerican #Chicanx
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Examines how Mexican Americans made their home in the Midwest
Timely given how current admin wants mass deportations ignoring their history in the region
#Latinx #History #USHistory #EduSky #SkyStorians #MAS #MexicanAmerican #Chicanx
🗃
November 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Just 5 weeks to go. Pre-order Making Michigan Home - 30% off
Examines how Mexican Americans made their home in the Midwest
Timely given how current admin wants mass deportations ignoring their history in the region
#Latinx #History #USHistory #EduSky #SkyStorians #MAS #MexicanAmerican #Chicanx
🗃
Examines how Mexican Americans made their home in the Midwest
Timely given how current admin wants mass deportations ignoring their history in the region
#Latinx #History #USHistory #EduSky #SkyStorians #MAS #MexicanAmerican #Chicanx
🗃
Reposted by Brett Olmsted, PhD 🗃️
Christianity Today is an influential magazine in Evangelical circles, and it's a noteworthy signpost that they're doing stories like this because it's the kind of story that pops bubbles.
They Led at Saddleback Church. ICE Said They Were Safe. - Christianity Today
A Colombian couple prayed with neighbors and raised their children in one of America’s most influential churches. What did we gain from their deportation?
www.christianitytoday.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Christianity Today is an influential magazine in Evangelical circles, and it's a noteworthy signpost that they're doing stories like this because it's the kind of story that pops bubbles.
There are so many words historically that are just catch-all “boogeyman” terms
Socialist
Communist
Marxist
CRT
Woke
Liberal
In Reconstruction some Republicans were called “Radical” because they had the audacity to push for racial equality
R’s today just want to starve people
Socialist
Communist
Marxist
CRT
Woke
Liberal
In Reconstruction some Republicans were called “Radical” because they had the audacity to push for racial equality
R’s today just want to starve people
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
November 8, 2025 at 2:52 AM
There are so many words historically that are just catch-all “boogeyman” terms
Socialist
Communist
Marxist
CRT
Woke
Liberal
In Reconstruction some Republicans were called “Radical” because they had the audacity to push for racial equality
R’s today just want to starve people
Socialist
Communist
Marxist
CRT
Woke
Liberal
In Reconstruction some Republicans were called “Radical” because they had the audacity to push for racial equality
R’s today just want to starve people
Must read thread about the cruel and inhumane treatment of people by the Trump admins gestapo
#AbolishICE
#AbolishICE
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Must read thread about the cruel and inhumane treatment of people by the Trump admins gestapo
#AbolishICE
#AbolishICE
I give you the president of the United States
What kind of human being, let alone president, should have to be court-ordered to use money set aside to FREAKIN USE THAT MONEY TO HELP PEOPLE EAT
And the same day stand by unmoved as someone needs medical attention not 10 feet away
Sociopath
What kind of human being, let alone president, should have to be court-ordered to use money set aside to FREAKIN USE THAT MONEY TO HELP PEOPLE EAT
And the same day stand by unmoved as someone needs medical attention not 10 feet away
Sociopath
November 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I give you the president of the United States
What kind of human being, let alone president, should have to be court-ordered to use money set aside to FREAKIN USE THAT MONEY TO HELP PEOPLE EAT
And the same day stand by unmoved as someone needs medical attention not 10 feet away
Sociopath
What kind of human being, let alone president, should have to be court-ordered to use money set aside to FREAKIN USE THAT MONEY TO HELP PEOPLE EAT
And the same day stand by unmoved as someone needs medical attention not 10 feet away
Sociopath
He feels the need to display strength so much he doesn’t want to be seen with sick, disabled, or “weak” people.
What he is, is weak, uncaring (sociopath) even when there is someone with a medical emergency just 10 feet from him in the people’s office. Trump won’t even look at him/her
What he is, is weak, uncaring (sociopath) even when there is someone with a medical emergency just 10 feet from him in the people’s office. Trump won’t even look at him/her
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
He feels the need to display strength so much he doesn’t want to be seen with sick, disabled, or “weak” people.
What he is, is weak, uncaring (sociopath) even when there is someone with a medical emergency just 10 feet from him in the people’s office. Trump won’t even look at him/her
What he is, is weak, uncaring (sociopath) even when there is someone with a medical emergency just 10 feet from him in the people’s office. Trump won’t even look at him/her
When people voted last night it was/is still about price of food. Trump went on 60 minutes and lied that prices were going down.
Here is the sale price of steak per pound from 2023 to 2025. Price is up more than 45%
#TrumpFlation
Here is the sale price of steak per pound from 2023 to 2025. Price is up more than 45%
#TrumpFlation
November 6, 2025 at 12:45 AM
When people voted last night it was/is still about price of food. Trump went on 60 minutes and lied that prices were going down.
Here is the sale price of steak per pound from 2023 to 2025. Price is up more than 45%
#TrumpFlation
Here is the sale price of steak per pound from 2023 to 2025. Price is up more than 45%
#TrumpFlation
Reposted by Brett Olmsted, PhD 🗃️
Mamdani got a humanities degree.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
November 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Mamdani got a humanities degree.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
Reposted by Brett Olmsted, PhD 🗃️
🥂 The Great Gatsby was supposed to be a warning, not a lifestyle guide for the rich. But here we are. 🎭 #ModernGatsby #WealthGap
November 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
🥂 The Great Gatsby was supposed to be a warning, not a lifestyle guide for the rich. But here we are. 🎭 #ModernGatsby #WealthGap
[taps mic]: and what about the victims?
Trump on Prince Andrew and the Epstein scandal: "I feel very badly. I mean, it's a terrible thing that's happened to the family. That's been a tragic situation. And it's too bad. I feel badly for the family."
November 3, 2025 at 12:55 AM
[taps mic]: and what about the victims?
How about we stop focusing on the very few “undeserving poor” who abuse aid and focus instead on the wealthy corporations who abuse the benefits like SNAP to exploit their workers and keep wages depressed
Walmart did this while making record profits and giving huge CEO salaries
#TaxTheRich
Walmart did this while making record profits and giving huge CEO salaries
#TaxTheRich
October 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
How about we stop focusing on the very few “undeserving poor” who abuse aid and focus instead on the wealthy corporations who abuse the benefits like SNAP to exploit their workers and keep wages depressed
Walmart did this while making record profits and giving huge CEO salaries
#TaxTheRich
Walmart did this while making record profits and giving huge CEO salaries
#TaxTheRich
People like Stephen Miller et al who disappear people, even if it’s technically legal, are ALWAYS on the wrong side of history
Capturing Black Americans under the fugitive slave act was “legal” but those who did it are still seen as racist a-holes
And let’s not forget Solomon Northrop
Capturing Black Americans under the fugitive slave act was “legal” but those who did it are still seen as racist a-holes
And let’s not forget Solomon Northrop
Stephen Miller on Fox threatens to arrest JB Pritzker for "seditious conspiracy" and says, "to all ICE officers: you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties. And anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop or obstruct you is committing a felony."
October 25, 2025 at 10:16 PM
People like Stephen Miller et al who disappear people, even if it’s technically legal, are ALWAYS on the wrong side of history
Capturing Black Americans under the fugitive slave act was “legal” but those who did it are still seen as racist a-holes
And let’s not forget Solomon Northrop
Capturing Black Americans under the fugitive slave act was “legal” but those who did it are still seen as racist a-holes
And let’s not forget Solomon Northrop
Historian here: Reagan quote on tariffs in 1987:
“And today many economic analysts and historians argue that high tariff legislation passed back in that period called the Smoot-Hawley tariff greatly deepened the depression and prevented economic recover”
www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/spe...
“And today many economic analysts and historians argue that high tariff legislation passed back in that period called the Smoot-Hawley tariff greatly deepened the depression and prevented economic recover”
www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/spe...
October 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Historian here: Reagan quote on tariffs in 1987:
“And today many economic analysts and historians argue that high tariff legislation passed back in that period called the Smoot-Hawley tariff greatly deepened the depression and prevented economic recover”
www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/spe...
“And today many economic analysts and historians argue that high tariff legislation passed back in that period called the Smoot-Hawley tariff greatly deepened the depression and prevented economic recover”
www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/spe...