Stephanie Porras
@periodeye.bsky.social
Art historian @ Tulane. Working on visual, material and built cultures of early modern Northern Europe, the Spanish empire and the Dutch Atlantic. Never too busy for a happy hour. My employer really wants me to note: all these views are mine not theirs.
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When the racist meme becomes national policy
January 17, 2026 at 4:53 AM
When the racist meme becomes national policy
I’m feeling kinda phlegmy and gross today and my mom made me chile cheese sourdough and I feel like this toast is medically necessary for my survival
January 16, 2026 at 11:13 PM
I’m feeling kinda phlegmy and gross today and my mom made me chile cheese sourdough and I feel like this toast is medically necessary for my survival
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every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
January 16, 2026 at 9:24 PM
every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
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If you enjoyed the video of this person slamming greg bovino at a gas station, watch this
this is some bidness - a wee spot of frank talk about risk, fear, whiteness and doing more
a brief introduction to a vast set of truths that many of us need to spend much much more time sitting with
this is some bidness - a wee spot of frank talk about risk, fear, whiteness and doing more
a brief introduction to a vast set of truths that many of us need to spend much much more time sitting with
pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:
January 16, 2026 at 3:12 PM
If you enjoyed the video of this person slamming greg bovino at a gas station, watch this
this is some bidness - a wee spot of frank talk about risk, fear, whiteness and doing more
a brief introduction to a vast set of truths that many of us need to spend much much more time sitting with
this is some bidness - a wee spot of frank talk about risk, fear, whiteness and doing more
a brief introduction to a vast set of truths that many of us need to spend much much more time sitting with
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I spent the summer of 2024 in Leuven on a LECTIO fellowship, and I highly recommend it. Fabulous libraries, delightful town, great colleagues. Plus they put you up in the Beguinage! #earlymodern 🗃️
Interested to work on our collections? The Call for applications of the LECTIO – KU Leuven Visiting Fellowships 2026–2027 is now open. As in previous years, Special Collections offers a joint fellowship. We will be happy to welcome you!
Call for applications: LECTIO Visiting Fellowships 2026–2027
www.kuleuven.be
January 16, 2026 at 1:39 PM
I spent the summer of 2024 in Leuven on a LECTIO fellowship, and I highly recommend it. Fabulous libraries, delightful town, great colleagues. Plus they put you up in the Beguinage! #earlymodern 🗃️
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Ahoy #NOLASky (and the rest of the world), I want to talk up one of our people who has a new venture. @jprsavette.bsky.social, along with her partner Kristen Smith, have started www.smithandmaier.com a NOLA based tax preparation, bookkeeping, and financial operations firm!! 🎉
Smith & Maier
www.smithandmaier.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Ahoy #NOLASky (and the rest of the world), I want to talk up one of our people who has a new venture. @jprsavette.bsky.social, along with her partner Kristen Smith, have started www.smithandmaier.com a NOLA based tax preparation, bookkeeping, and financial operations firm!! 🎉
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It’s been reported locally, but I’m not sure how much national notice this has gotten. As part of this invasion by shithead goons, they are putting ICE agents in jetbridges and other parts of the airport at Minneapolis-Saint Paul. If you are flying Delta via MSP, you are putting yourself at risk.
ICE agents to begin checking documents at MSP airport, patrol jet bridges - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents will begin checking documents of travelers and workers at MSP airport, with patrols inside jet bridges.
www.bizjournals.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:11 AM
It’s been reported locally, but I’m not sure how much national notice this has gotten. As part of this invasion by shithead goons, they are putting ICE agents in jetbridges and other parts of the airport at Minneapolis-Saint Paul. If you are flying Delta via MSP, you are putting yourself at risk.
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hearing from sources that Amelia Bedelia has been arrested in connection with the water-pouring assault. "but it was ICE headquarters," she said
January 16, 2026 at 12:58 AM
hearing from sources that Amelia Bedelia has been arrested in connection with the water-pouring assault. "but it was ICE headquarters," she said
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DHS is only funded until January 31. Tell your elected representatives that under no circumstances can they cut a blank check for Kristi Noem and Greg Bovino and their crew of brownshirts to murder us in the streets.
act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...
act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...
Tell Congress to rein in ICE NOW
On Wednesday, January 7, Renee Good, an American citizen, was killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This was a direct result of unchecked violence, impunity, a...
act.indivisible.org
January 13, 2026 at 11:39 PM
DHS is only funded until January 31. Tell your elected representatives that under no circumstances can they cut a blank check for Kristi Noem and Greg Bovino and their crew of brownshirts to murder us in the streets.
act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...
act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...
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Aware that he only had a few months left to live the great Mike Davis gave one of his final interviews to the Guardian in 202.
"You’ve been organizing for social change your whole life. How do you deal with a future that feels so bleak?" Lois Beckett asked.
"You’ve been organizing for social change your whole life. How do you deal with a future that feels so bleak?" Lois Beckett asked.
January 15, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Aware that he only had a few months left to live the great Mike Davis gave one of his final interviews to the Guardian in 202.
"You’ve been organizing for social change your whole life. How do you deal with a future that feels so bleak?" Lois Beckett asked.
"You’ve been organizing for social change your whole life. How do you deal with a future that feels so bleak?" Lois Beckett asked.
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Holy hell, what an obituary
Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Holy hell, what an obituary
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MLK Day march/protest #nolasky #nolatwitter
January 15, 2026 at 2:37 PM
MLK Day march/protest #nolasky #nolatwitter
For those of you have never experienced Mardi Gras this thread gets at why it’s so special - it’s a marathon of joy and glitter and cake and treats
Every year it turns out I really need Mardi Gras. I wish the rest of the country understood. The catharsis, the indulgence. I can hear my reflexive inner voice saying "no" bc pursuing joy is verboten. I've tried to make outsiders understand; it's like days, weeks of Christmas+Halloween, but selfish:
January 15, 2026 at 11:44 AM
For those of you have never experienced Mardi Gras this thread gets at why it’s so special - it’s a marathon of joy and glitter and cake and treats
Time between receiving email notification from colleague that her daughter was selling Girl Scout cookies and me ordering 5 boxes from her —- 4 minutes
January 14, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Time between receiving email notification from colleague that her daughter was selling Girl Scout cookies and me ordering 5 boxes from her —- 4 minutes
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With this list of Minnesota labor and community orgs this is REAL. Not internet randos repeating a meme.
Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager
“We Are Facing a Tsunami of Hate”: Amid ICE Crackdown, Unions and Community Groups Call for Minnesota Shutdown in 10 Days
Following the ICE murder of Renee Good and an assault on the state by federal immigration forces, a labor-community coalition is calling for residents to refuse to work, shop or go to school on Januar...
inthesetimes.com
January 14, 2026 at 1:35 AM
With this list of Minnesota labor and community orgs this is REAL. Not internet randos repeating a meme.
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This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
January 13, 2026 at 10:20 PM
This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
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Wearing an old Radiohead tour shirt to bed and my teenager helpfully pointed out it’s from a year before she was born. 🫠 love being vintage 😭
January 13, 2026 at 3:12 AM
Wearing an old Radiohead tour shirt to bed and my teenager helpfully pointed out it’s from a year before she was born. 🫠 love being vintage 😭
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i pray this video ends up on a 1,000 “[insert town name] moms” facebook pages.
this is a goddamn child.
this is a goddamn child.
ICE kidnap 17-year-old U.S. citizen working at Target then dump him bleeding and crying miles away in a Walmart parking lot… 🤬
January 12, 2026 at 11:59 PM
i pray this video ends up on a 1,000 “[insert town name] moms” facebook pages.
this is a goddamn child.
this is a goddamn child.
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One thing I’d like to see is my senators and governor every day on tv at 5pm holding a press conference with video of every documented abuse that ICE is doing. Curate all of the witnessing we’re doing and show it to the press.
Local parents groups asking if adults can ride school buses to help protect children from ICE after a special ed bus got stopped this morning. Like a Dirty Harry movie except the villain in the federal government.
January 12, 2026 at 5:04 PM
One thing I’d like to see is my senators and governor every day on tv at 5pm holding a press conference with video of every documented abuse that ICE is doing. Curate all of the witnessing we’re doing and show it to the press.
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As the new semester begins I want to shout out #blackademics, the home for Black scholars & grad students & independent researchers. Join the feed & contribute to the conversation!
Updated the Blackademics starter pack again (!) to include Vincent Brown, Imani Perry, the Harare Review of Books and others. Stay tuned for more developments coming soon....
January 12, 2026 at 2:11 PM
As the new semester begins I want to shout out #blackademics, the home for Black scholars & grad students & independent researchers. Join the feed & contribute to the conversation!
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Je retente...
#HelpESR
Quelqu'un ayant accès à la bibliothèque de #Harvard pourrait-il vérifier un exemplaire du XVIe siècle pour moi? Merci!
Could someone with the access to Houghton Library (Harvard University) check a 16th-century book for me? Thanks!
Quelqu'un ayant accès à la bibliothèque de #Harvard pourrait-il vérifier un exemplaire du XVIe siècle pour moi? Merci!
Could someone with the access to Houghton Library (Harvard University) check a 16th-century book for me? Thanks!
a penguin holds up a sign that says need help
ALT: a penguin holds up a sign that says need help
media.tenor.com
January 12, 2026 at 10:35 AM
Je retente...
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@rmidura.bsky.social joins me on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to talk about her @cornellupress.bsky.social release #Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and #Communications Revolution in #EarlyModern Europe #skystorians #BookSky 📚💙
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January 11, 2026 at 10:04 PM
@rmidura.bsky.social joins me on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to talk about her @cornellupress.bsky.social release #Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and #Communications Revolution in #EarlyModern Europe #skystorians #BookSky 📚💙
newbooksnetwork.com/postal-intel...
newbooksnetwork.com/postal-intel...
I am painting tweens room from dark blue to white and it is freaking exhausting work. Only halfway thru but did pause earlier to make this Mac n cheese which is sustaining me
January 11, 2026 at 11:53 PM
I am painting tweens room from dark blue to white and it is freaking exhausting work. Only halfway thru but did pause earlier to make this Mac n cheese which is sustaining me
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I chair the acquisitions meeting of @reaktionbooks.bsky.social, an independent publisher. We're open to unsolicited book proposals: history, art, music, film, food, animal studies and any great indefinable non-fiction book ideas you might have. Check out the list and get in touch.
January 11, 2026 at 11:41 AM
I chair the acquisitions meeting of @reaktionbooks.bsky.social, an independent publisher. We're open to unsolicited book proposals: history, art, music, film, food, animal studies and any great indefinable non-fiction book ideas you might have. Check out the list and get in touch.