Juneisy Hawkins
@junehawk.bsky.social
US History college professor (VAP). Historian of Early America & the Atlantic. Food historian & writer. Cookbook lover. Pastry student. Travel addict. Always hungry.
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All opinions are my own.
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📍NYC
All opinions are my own.
Historical Foodways newsletter: tinyurl.com/4tpxyvn4
Another week; another episode of "how much AI slop am I going to be grading this round?"
February 9, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Another week; another episode of "how much AI slop am I going to be grading this round?"
I won't mention names but a certain conference has posted their program and I keep remembering how 6 years ago they promised me a small grant for travel (grad student) and then never paid. Kept giving me excuses, then just ghosted me. I gave up trying to get the couple hundred dollars. Shameful.
February 9, 2026 at 3:31 PM
I won't mention names but a certain conference has posted their program and I keep remembering how 6 years ago they promised me a small grant for travel (grad student) and then never paid. Kept giving me excuses, then just ghosted me. I gave up trying to get the couple hundred dollars. Shameful.
I haven’t seen anyone else mention this. Can we talk about how Bad Bunny had his mother’s last name and not his dad’s on his jersey?
Fuck the patriarchy.
Fuck the patriarchy.
February 9, 2026 at 2:52 PM
I haven’t seen anyone else mention this. Can we talk about how Bad Bunny had his mother’s last name and not his dad’s on his jersey?
Fuck the patriarchy.
Fuck the patriarchy.
Cuba y Puerto Rico son
de un pájaro las dos alas,
reciben flores o balas
sobre el mismo corazón.
Lola Rodríguez de Tió
de un pájaro las dos alas,
reciben flores o balas
sobre el mismo corazón.
Lola Rodríguez de Tió
February 9, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Cuba y Puerto Rico son
de un pájaro las dos alas,
reciben flores o balas
sobre el mismo corazón.
Lola Rodríguez de Tió
de un pájaro las dos alas,
reciben flores o balas
sobre el mismo corazón.
Lola Rodríguez de Tió
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Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/
February 9, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/
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Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
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OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit
February 9, 2026 at 1:33 AM
OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit
I gave students a document to read argue whether it reflects radicalism or conservatism vis a vis the American Revolution and they were overwhelmingly noncommittal. Just an observation.
a little girl is asking why not both while standing in a kitchen .
ALT: a little girl is asking why not both while standing in a kitchen .
media.tenor.com
February 4, 2026 at 7:53 PM
I gave students a document to read argue whether it reflects radicalism or conservatism vis a vis the American Revolution and they were overwhelmingly noncommittal. Just an observation.
The absolute pair on the woman getting her photo taken all smiley in front of Trump Tower in Midtown right in the middle of an anti-ICE, anti-Trump group of protesters!
Zero fucks given.
Zero fucks given.
January 31, 2026 at 9:09 PM
The absolute pair on the woman getting her photo taken all smiley in front of Trump Tower in Midtown right in the middle of an anti-ICE, anti-Trump group of protesters!
Zero fucks given.
Zero fucks given.
In today's first world problems, I finally had to upgrade my phone for the first time in 5/6 years. I started the setup process, which is now wireless, without realizing it would take 8 hours to transfer everything over to the new phone. Now my phone is bricked for 8 hours.
Can't stop and restart 😫
Can't stop and restart 😫
January 27, 2026 at 8:42 PM
In today's first world problems, I finally had to upgrade my phone for the first time in 5/6 years. I started the setup process, which is now wireless, without realizing it would take 8 hours to transfer everything over to the new phone. Now my phone is bricked for 8 hours.
Can't stop and restart 😫
Can't stop and restart 😫
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getting feds to say shit like this on camera with their face exposed is NUTS -- you can not reform this agency, everyone involved must go, there is no practical way to root out all of these guys
"You raise your voice, I erase your voice."
ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights.
Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights.
Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
January 27, 2026 at 6:10 PM
getting feds to say shit like this on camera with their face exposed is NUTS -- you can not reform this agency, everyone involved must go, there is no practical way to root out all of these guys
So let me get this straight, one ICE agent was justified for killing a woman because she was in a car that was going to run the officer over (bullshit, but stay with me), but it's OK for ICE agents to attempt to run people over with a goddamned tank?
Got it.
Got it.
This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
January 26, 2026 at 5:37 PM
So let me get this straight, one ICE agent was justified for killing a woman because she was in a car that was going to run the officer over (bullshit, but stay with me), but it's OK for ICE agents to attempt to run people over with a goddamned tank?
Got it.
Got it.
An important thread.
There’s a lot being said about ICE paralleling fugitive slave patrols. As a historian of slavery, I think it’s far more complicated than most are articulating. A lot of historical context and power dynamics are being mashed up in the process.
January 23, 2026 at 8:50 PM
An important thread.
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We take a break from our regularly scheduled vitriol to ask if any #18thcentury types out there know anything about “Joan Plotwell” and The Ragged Uproar (1754). Esp. the scenes featuring the “a la mode system of Fortune-Telling."
January 22, 2026 at 6:06 PM
We take a break from our regularly scheduled vitriol to ask if any #18thcentury types out there know anything about “Joan Plotwell” and The Ragged Uproar (1754). Esp. the scenes featuring the “a la mode system of Fortune-Telling."
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It’s not so much that Trump & co don’t think slavery was important, they want to remove this history precisely *because* of how important it was. They don’t want people to learn about slavery because then people would understand how it continues to shape the landscape of inequality in America today.
Signs about the history of slavery in the U.S. and the 9 people George Washington enslaved are being removed right now at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, months after the Trump administration threatend to do so.
How far we have not come in 250 years.
How far we have not come in 250 years.
January 22, 2026 at 10:19 PM
It’s not so much that Trump & co don’t think slavery was important, they want to remove this history precisely *because* of how important it was. They don’t want people to learn about slavery because then people would understand how it continues to shape the landscape of inequality in America today.
In annoying things that affect no one but m but make you go WTF?, today I placed an Instacart order and in the order was a bunch of bananas.
I received one single banana.
I received one single banana.
January 20, 2026 at 8:10 PM
In annoying things that affect no one but m but make you go WTF?, today I placed an Instacart order and in the order was a bunch of bananas.
I received one single banana.
I received one single banana.
Oh yeah, Massachusetts is prepping. Apparently this bakery had anti-ice cookies and received death threats. They won't be open their usual hours tomorrow. Not out of fear, out of baked goods. They completely sold out and need to spend tomorrow restocking. fallriverreporter.com/massachusett...
Massachusetts bakery receiving praise, death threats, over ICE cookies
A Massachusetts bakery is receiving praise and trouble after a recent social media post received quite the response. On Sunday, The Sweet Boutique in East Longmeadow took to social media and you can s...
fallriverreporter.com
January 16, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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Oh yeah, Massachusetts is prepping. Apparently this bakery had anti-ice cookies and received death threats. They won't be open their usual hours tomorrow. Not out of fear, out of baked goods. They completely sold out and need to spend tomorrow restocking. fallriverreporter.com/massachusett...
Massachusetts bakery receiving praise, death threats, over ICE cookies
A Massachusetts bakery is receiving praise and trouble after a recent social media post received quite the response. On Sunday, The Sweet Boutique in East Longmeadow took to social media and you can s...
fallriverreporter.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:11 AM
Oh yeah, Massachusetts is prepping. Apparently this bakery had anti-ice cookies and received death threats. They won't be open their usual hours tomorrow. Not out of fear, out of baked goods. They completely sold out and need to spend tomorrow restocking. fallriverreporter.com/massachusett...
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and I feel like we were steadily heading in that direction for a half century (as i type on a shard of glass) and then this dude showed up, and a few other dudes like him, and now we’re in the mirror universe where people are trying to bring back slaves.
"We want to make Star Trek real," said Elon Musk.
"We want to make Starfleet Academy real so that it's not always science fiction, but one day the science fiction turns to science fact."
"We want to make Starfleet Academy real so that it's not always science fiction, but one day the science fiction turns to science fact."
January 13, 2026 at 11:46 PM
and I feel like we were steadily heading in that direction for a half century (as i type on a shard of glass) and then this dude showed up, and a few other dudes like him, and now we’re in the mirror universe where people are trying to bring back slaves.
This is bonkers.
A few months ago, ICE hired me
I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable
And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!"
My latest for Slate
I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable
And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!"
My latest for Slate
You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof.
What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We're all finding out.
slate.com
January 13, 2026 at 3:23 PM
This is bonkers.
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#skystorian friends, I'm looking for some computer game recommendations. I haven't gamed in a long time but I need a new way to spend my time. Many moons ago, I used to love CivCity Rome and would love to find something like that. I've tried Sid Meier's Civilization V but couldn't get into it.
January 13, 2026 at 2:51 AM
#skystorian friends, I'm looking for some computer game recommendations. I haven't gamed in a long time but I need a new way to spend my time. Many moons ago, I used to love CivCity Rome and would love to find something like that. I've tried Sid Meier's Civilization V but couldn't get into it.
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And for the people fleeing wannabe space wanker and his racist hordes there is also this starter pack for women in history …
January 11, 2026 at 8:06 PM
And for the people fleeing wannabe space wanker and his racist hordes there is also this starter pack for women in history …