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Shakti Castro

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PhD candidate in history. Wise Latina. Mama. I write and think about Puerto Ricans, drugs, harm reduction, public health, and public history.

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Rice students expose ICE raids with new interactive map It's a nationwide digital spotlight on ICE arrests and detention centers.

It's a nationwide digital spotlight on ICE arrests and detention centers.

29.01.2026 00:20 πŸ‘ 420 πŸ” 243 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 11

Remembering keenly a NYT article in which this question was posed: "if men are not breadwinners, and they're not caregivers, what are they for!?!?!?"

23.12.2025 16:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Rick Steves is an American treasure. Just all-around, one of the absolute best of us.

21.12.2025 03:28 πŸ‘ 1843 πŸ” 315 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 6

This makes me physically ill. I suppose a particular type of American will hold their wedding at a plantation before honeymooning in Gaza.

21.12.2025 20:41 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

the vice president is a klansman

21.12.2025 20:22 πŸ‘ 14616 πŸ” 3273 πŸ’¬ 453 πŸ“Œ 145

People on 60 Minutes have pretty consistently been brave and willing to give a damn to the point of losing their job rather than sell out their soul and this email is sadly probably going to be a part of that

22.12.2025 03:50 πŸ‘ 826 πŸ” 182 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 6
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Betty Reid Soskin, Oldest U.S. Park Ranger and Trailblazing Historian, Dies at 104 | KQED Betty Reid Soskin, the nation’s oldest National Park Service ranger and a pioneering historian at Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park, devoted her life to preserving Black histo...

Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service’s oldest ranger, has died. She was 104.

22.12.2025 04:03 πŸ‘ 6250 πŸ” 1618 πŸ’¬ 126 πŸ“Œ 155
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Donate to Support Angelitos sin Miedo: Holiday Hope, organized by Rosa Vazquez Across the country, millions of children are entering this Christmas season wit… Rosa Vazquez needs your support for Support Angelitos sin Miedo: Holiday Hope

Do any Los Angeles folks follow me? If yes, you might be interested in this mutual aid group that is raising funds for toy drives for immigrant families in Southern California and beyond. www.gofundme.com/f/angelitos2...

01.12.2025 23:32 πŸ‘ 108 πŸ” 93 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

My brother in Christ, who cares? Any amount of "fraud," has got to be so miniscule as to be completely outweighed by the benefit of FEEDING THE MANY PEOPLE IN NEED

02.12.2025 00:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.

15.11.2025 23:09 πŸ‘ 3802 πŸ” 1141 πŸ’¬ 34 πŸ“Œ 41

Will someone in history or another social science share their teaching statement with me? I'm struggling a bit to wrap my mind around it as I write one for job apps.

24.10.2025 18:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Real Duterte-level BS here.

24.10.2025 00:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Federal Action Reporting Form Federal Action Reporting Form Please use this form to share information regarding federal government action in New York state. Filing a complaint does not start

BREAKING: Letitia James has announced a Government portal for Videos and images of ICE Agents who may have committed crimes.

Please Use it and SHARE!

ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...

23.10.2025 15:02 πŸ‘ 20774 πŸ” 11164 πŸ’¬ 513 πŸ“Œ 684

Honestly, the way these criminal wackadoos are behaving, they must know doomsday is coming. They're definitely treating this planet like they got another one to go to.

23.10.2025 23:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Exciting to hear as 1. Someone who is fascinated by all the moving parts of nyc governance shaping our lives and 2. As a parent of a public school student myself ##uha2025LA

12.10.2025 21:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ansley's paper explored control of NYC schools and where city and school policy intersected when the city's mayor was in charge of the system

12.10.2025 21:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Brian's been working on a massive book project on the over 400 year history of Black folks in NYC, inclusive of Caribbean and African migrants, and how they've shaped the city, the U.S., and each other's cultures.

12.10.2025 20:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Brian Purnell and Ansley Erickson gave great presentations on their panel New Histories of New York #uha2025LA

12.10.2025 20:22 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

#uha2025LA was a wonderful conference. Was so glad to see Latinx history centered in a non-ethnic studies conference setting. Many kudos to @aksandovalstrausz.bsky.social Daniela Sheinin and the programming and local arrangements committees for their amazing work!

12.10.2025 20:18 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The toxic behavior I'm always here for

22.07.2025 22:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Bumping this

19.07.2025 17:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.

18.07.2025 16:51 πŸ‘ 16295 πŸ” 4771 πŸ’¬ 96 πŸ“Œ 99

With the solemn acknowledgment that the world is indeed on fire, would anyone have a good spreadsheet template for tracking job and post-doc applications?

17.07.2025 04:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

We're not free until we're all free. These people are a joke.

29.05.2025 21:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm so embarrassed to still be a registered Democrat.

29.05.2025 21:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I joked a few weeks ago that Columbia’s initial concessions meant that Trump had acquired a university. I do not want to have been right. But…

13.04.2025 22:56 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy.

"Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."

20.03.2025 12:14 πŸ‘ 3240 πŸ” 1138 πŸ’¬ 64 πŸ“Œ 84

Although this letter is not an official statement by the Columbia History Department, it was signed by 41 members of the department.

20.03.2025 12:17 πŸ‘ 159 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

Dems stood by and did nothing while a Black man was forcibly ejected from the chamber. What a fucking shock. Pathetic cowards.

05.03.2025 03:03 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Adobe ruins on Chispa road, near massacre site.  Taken by Derrick Perrin, June 23, 2009

Adobe ruins on Chispa road, near massacre site. Taken by Derrick Perrin, June 23, 2009

#OTD on January 28, 1918, Texas Rangers massacred fifteen men and boys at the village of Porvenir, Texas, in what is perhaps the single most notorious and consequential event in the history of the Ranger Force. /1

28.01.2025 16:18 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 8