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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5d

the usual story. rich guy wants to punish universities for not clamping down on pro-palestinian protests and for doing too much to recruit minorities. at base these guys want the top tier of american universities to become, once more, safe-spaces for their dunderheaded failsons

The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities

www.nytimes.com

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Brie Gettleson @briemarina.bsky.social · 9d

Next month Dr. Kimberly Kay Hoang will be giving the in person talk “Entangled Oligarchies: The Hidden Deals Reshaping US-China Power Relations in Offshore Financial Centers” at Penn Libraries! Oct 28th at 5:15. Open to the public! www.library.upenn.edu/events/entan...

Entangled Oligarchies: The Hidden Deals Reshaping US-China Power Relations in Offshore Financial Centers

Guest speaker Kimberly Kay Hoang, Professor of Sociology and the College at the University of Chicago, uncovers the complex dynamics of the intricate financial networks that quietly shape global power...

www.library.upenn.edu

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Brie Gettleson @briemarina.bsky.social · 7d

Just realized I’ve been a librarian for 10 years exactly today! 📚

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Brie Gettleson @briemarina.bsky.social · 9d

Next month Dr. Kimberly Kay Hoang will be giving the in person talk “Entangled Oligarchies: The Hidden Deals Reshaping US-China Power Relations in Offshore Financial Centers” at Penn Libraries! Oct 28th at 5:15. Open to the public! www.library.upenn.edu/events/entan...

Entangled Oligarchies: The Hidden Deals Reshaping US-China Power Relations in Offshore Financial Centers

Guest speaker Kimberly Kay Hoang, Professor of Sociology and the College at the University of Chicago, uncovers the complex dynamics of the intricate financial networks that quietly shape global power...

www.library.upenn.edu

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17d

Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra was one of more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants the Trump administration sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador.

After his release, he says he wants the world to know what happened to him.

By @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social

He Was Asked About His Tattoos and a TikTok Video in Court. Five Days Later, He Was in a Salvadoran Prison.

Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra was one of more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants the Trump administration sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. After his release, he says he wants the world to ...

www.propublica.org

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Sep 6

When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.

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Brie Gettleson @briemarina.bsky.social · Sep 6

Grateful to live in a city with a real paper.

Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · Sep 6

Kudos to the Philly Inquirer for actually centering the voices of trans youth and their families.

"It's not about protecting the kids. It's about taking away the rights of people who you don't want to exist."

share.inquirer.com/TE1hNg

Transgender kids’ lives are on the line as CHOP fights Trump over patient medical records, parents say

Trump’s justice department wants CHOP to hand over medical records for transgender children receiving gender-affirming care. Many parents support CHOP’s fight to protect their private information.

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Michael Evans @colombiadocs.bsky.social · Sep 3

I dug through the JFK assassination papers to see what I could learn about CIA operations in Colombia during the 1960s and 70s. Here's what I found. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

Spy vs. Spy: Scenes from the Cold War in Colombia, 1963-72

Washington, D.C., September 3, 2025 - Covert CIA surveillance of a Soviet agent under diplomatic cover in Mexico City in 1968 led to the acquisition of intelligence on the “entire clandestine leadersh...

nsarchive.gwu.edu

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Rocío Gomez @historyrocio.bsky.social · Sep 3

Hi! We're putting a panel together for LASA 2026 on minerals and metals in Latin American history. So, if you do mining history, environmental history, riparian/waterway history, or history of science, get in contact!

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Sep 2

I know it’s all bad faith bs BUT I keep thinking about how the whole “reason” we apparently can’t pass any effective gun control legislation to prevent mass shootings is the idea that we need an armed populace in case the federal government decides to invade our cities and towns.

Like??????????

muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · Sep 2

you'd think the governor of illinois basically going "we're being invaded by an authoritarian" would be something you'd see real easy on the front page of most everything an hour later

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lilipark07 ♡ @lnjyhstj.bsky.social · Aug 31

" Biblioteca é o lugar onde começamos a nos conhecer."

Luiz fernando verissimo

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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · Aug 29

On the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, I'm happy to have contributed to this piece in @teenvogue.com about the legacy of the hurricane in terms of the ways it motivated young survivors to get engaged and become activists.
www.teenvogue.com/story/hurric...

How the Horrors of Hurricane Katrina Radicalized Young People Into Climate Activists

“I always wonder what my life would have been like if Hurricane Katrina didn't happen," said one survivor and climate advocate.

www.teenvogue.com

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Brie Gettleson @briemarina.bsky.social · Aug 28

Really looking forward to not being able to get a booster this fall

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Brie Gettleson @briemarina.bsky.social · Aug 27

Day 3 of phase 1 SEPTA reduction and my bus had to stop letting people on only 15 blocks into its route. So many people left waiting for the next bus that will be just as overcrowded. And this is just the beginning. #SaveSEPTA

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Aug 25

find yours here

go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Aug 25

once again encouraging you all to support billionaire free, worker run, and/or reader supported media where and how you can

NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · Aug 25

The transformation of the Washington Post editorial page appears to be complete.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Aug 25

Judge Xinis: Your clients are *absolutely forbidden* from removing Mr. Abrego from the continental United States. You understand this?

DOJ: Yes.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Aug 24

University of Chicago being gutted because of insane debt loads and wasting money on crypto is incredibly ironic after what their school of economics put the global south through. Behind, the neoliberal boomerang.

Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · Aug 24

The University of Chicago has a debt of over $6 billion, against an endowment of $10 billion. They played with crypto. That's more than irresponsible.

Their board of trustees contains a surprising number of people regarded as financial geniuses.

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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · Aug 24

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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · Aug 22

I see the 11th Global Digital Humanities Symposium CFP is out for the April conference, & they're offering both virtual + in-person (Michigan State & Universidad de Monterrey in México) options. CFPs in English & Spanish. I submitted something—will blog it post-review.

Call for Proposals – English – Global Digital Humanities Symposium 2026

msuglobaldh.org

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · Aug 21

Research fellowships "A region on the move: Accelerated human mobilities and multiple circulations in Latin America and the Caribbean" CALAS Maria Sibylla Merian Center.

calas.lat/en/convocato...

If you are interested in migration and/or mobilities, check this fellowship.

Research fellowships "A region on the move: Accelerated human mobilities and multiple circulations in Latin America and the Caribbean"

In the framework of the Knowledge Laboratory “A region on the move: Accelerated human mobilities and multiple circulations in Latin America and the Caribbean”, the Center for Advanced Latin American S...

calas.lat

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Brie Gettleson @briemarina.bsky.social · Aug 21

“the most important action that AHPN supporters can do today is the simplest: schedule a visit.Conduct research within its vast holdings, request copies of documents, speak to the staff, broadcast your experience on social media,and demand that the government increase the police archive’s resources”

Kate Doyle @katidoyle.bsky.social · Aug 20

"Whatever happened to that huge archive full of documents about human rights atrocities that they discovered in Guatemala?"
Answers, from @nsarchive.bsky.social

nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/guatema...

Invisible, Silenced, and All but Abandoned: The Guatemalan Historical Archive of the National Police on Its 20th Anniversary

Washington, D.C., August 20, 2025 - Twenty years ago, a group of human rights investigators in Guatemala stumbled upon an enormous archive containing millions of historical records belonging to the co...

nsarchive.gwu.edu

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Brie Gettleson @briemarina.bsky.social · Aug 20

My lovely Center for
Latin American and Latinx Studies colleagues at Penn are now on Bluesky!

clals-upenn.bsky.social @clals-upenn.bsky.social · Aug 20

Join the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies on Friday, August 29th, when we welcome artist César Viveros for our annual Almuerzo de Bienvenida! @upenn.edu

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Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · Aug 19

Photographer Adriana Loureiro Fernández spent months following the story of the Venezuelan men deported to prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration.

She shares that experience today on @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/ceco...

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Brie Gettleson @briemarina.bsky.social · Aug 19

Representing Penn Libraries’ Center for Global Collections at tomorrow’s new student orientation in candy form, with treats from China, Japan, Indonesia, and Mexico.

Bowl filled to the brim with brightly colored individually wrapped candies

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