Lisa Voigt
@lisaluso.bsky.social
Professor of Spanish & Portuguese @Yale; previously @Ohio State (2008-2023)
Special Issues Editor, Colonial Latin American Review
Special Issues Editor, Colonial Latin American Review
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“Trump's Venezuela Attack: It’s All About the Oil, Stupid!”
Here are five times Donald Trump himself admitted that illegally attacking Venezuela and toppling Nicolás Maduro was aimed at seizing the country’s massive oil reserves.
My latest for Zeteo:
Here are five times Donald Trump himself admitted that illegally attacking Venezuela and toppling Nicolás Maduro was aimed at seizing the country’s massive oil reserves.
My latest for Zeteo:
Trump's Venezuela Attack: It’s All About the Oil, Stupid!
Here are five times Donald Trump himself admitted that illegally attacking Venezuela and toppling Nicolás Maduro was aimed at seizing the country’s massive oil reserves.
zeteo.com
January 3, 2026 at 1:49 PM
“Trump's Venezuela Attack: It’s All About the Oil, Stupid!”
Here are five times Donald Trump himself admitted that illegally attacking Venezuela and toppling Nicolás Maduro was aimed at seizing the country’s massive oil reserves.
My latest for Zeteo:
Here are five times Donald Trump himself admitted that illegally attacking Venezuela and toppling Nicolás Maduro was aimed at seizing the country’s massive oil reserves.
My latest for Zeteo:
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Stop paying for or using Spotify until the ICE recruitment ads stop: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
December 31, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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After tragedies like those this weekend, particularly when the horror of gun violence hits so close to home:
First, we grieve. Then, turn to facts. Then, with understanding rather than anger or fear, we must act - with community and heart at the center. 💜
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
First, we grieve. Then, turn to facts. Then, with understanding rather than anger or fear, we must act - with community and heart at the center. 💜
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
First We Grieve
Then we must act.
www.theatlantic.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:16 PM
After tragedies like those this weekend, particularly when the horror of gun violence hits so close to home:
First, we grieve. Then, turn to facts. Then, with understanding rather than anger or fear, we must act - with community and heart at the center. 💜
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
First, we grieve. Then, turn to facts. Then, with understanding rather than anger or fear, we must act - with community and heart at the center. 💜
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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"Trauma is a shape-shifter." Two necessary pieces on feeling, managing, writing about the impossible and impossibly regular gun violence. Fr Brown anthropologist of gun violence @ievajusionyte.bsky.social about culture, not just policy. But policy too. 1/ www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/17/o...
I’m a scholar of gun violence. Not even I can process what happened at Brown. - The Boston Globe
My typical response to school shootings is to call for policy changes. But I’m afraid the task ahead is bigger than that.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
"Trauma is a shape-shifter." Two necessary pieces on feeling, managing, writing about the impossible and impossibly regular gun violence. Fr Brown anthropologist of gun violence @ievajusionyte.bsky.social about culture, not just policy. But policy too. 1/ www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/17/o...
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Only in America are young people forced to endure multiple school shootings. This level of violence should be unfathomable, but for students like Mia, it’s a nightmarish reality.
December 15, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Only in America are young people forced to endure multiple school shootings. This level of violence should be unfathomable, but for students like Mia, it’s a nightmarish reality.
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Guns are the leading killer of college-aged people in the US. We cannot continue to allow this preventable crisis to steal their futures. Text READY to 644-33 to join the millions of Americans in the fight to end gun violence.
December 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Guns are the leading killer of college-aged people in the US. We cannot continue to allow this preventable crisis to steal their futures. Text READY to 644-33 to join the millions of Americans in the fight to end gun violence.
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“Most of us live off Hope”
Ever true 💔
Ever true 💔
December 14, 2025 at 3:02 AM
“Most of us live off Hope”
Ever true 💔
Ever true 💔
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Thirteen years separate Sandy Hook and Brown University. In 13 years countless people have died in schools and malls and concerts. In churches and on street corners. From homicide and firearm suicide and domestic violence and hate and racism and unintentional shootings and police shootings.
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December 14, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Thirteen years separate Sandy Hook and Brown University. In 13 years countless people have died in schools and malls and concerts. In churches and on street corners. From homicide and firearm suicide and domestic violence and hate and racism and unintentional shootings and police shootings.
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I got mad and wrote a thing. @commoncauseohio.bsky.social @indivcentraloh.bsky.social
Public school budget cuts a symptom of systemic corruption | Opinion
Why do we so often find ourselves in this absurd position of watching a school board figuring out the least painful methods of cutting its budget?
www.dispatch.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I got mad and wrote a thing. @commoncauseohio.bsky.social @indivcentraloh.bsky.social
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In the UK and US, platforms reward speed, emotion and identity signalling. Even well-educated people get pulled into distorted information spaces, so the core problem isn’t ignorance, it’s the incentive environment that shapes how information spreads and sticks.
December 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
In the UK and US, platforms reward speed, emotion and identity signalling. Even well-educated people get pulled into distorted information spaces, so the core problem isn’t ignorance, it’s the incentive environment that shapes how information spreads and sticks.
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The US is close to an institutional collapse across multiple public health agencies. Trump/RFK have purged anyone with expertise, many have fled and they’ve been replaced w functionaries who are either incompetent or malicious. I don’t think many understand how close to the edge we are right now.
a night time view of a city with a few buildings lit up
ALT: a night time view of a city with a few buildings lit up
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December 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The US is close to an institutional collapse across multiple public health agencies. Trump/RFK have purged anyone with expertise, many have fled and they’ve been replaced w functionaries who are either incompetent or malicious. I don’t think many understand how close to the edge we are right now.
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We cannot talk about immigration without talking about the role U.S. guns play in every part of the equation. From how they drive the violence that causes people to flee home to the way they are used to terrorize immigrants here.
My latest:
open.substack.com/pub/ruthzaka...
My latest:
open.substack.com/pub/ruthzaka...
We cannot talk about immigration to the U.S.
Without talking about U.S. guns
open.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:04 PM
We cannot talk about immigration without talking about the role U.S. guns play in every part of the equation. From how they drive the violence that causes people to flee home to the way they are used to terrorize immigrants here.
My latest:
open.substack.com/pub/ruthzaka...
My latest:
open.substack.com/pub/ruthzaka...
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To note just one of the many problems with this idea, there are multiple that countries do not permit you to relinquish citizenship — and some of those countries also have jus sanguinis laws that make someone a citizen even if they were born in the U.S. and never left.
Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, just introduced a bill to ban Americans from holding dual citizenship. The bill says that to “preserve the integrity of national citizenship, allegiance to the United States must be undivided.” It’s called the Exclusive Citizenship Act.
December 1, 2025 at 10:16 PM
To note just one of the many problems with this idea, there are multiple that countries do not permit you to relinquish citizenship — and some of those countries also have jus sanguinis laws that make someone a citizen even if they were born in the U.S. and never left.
Deeply ashamed of the administration at my alma mater Northwestern, but appreciative of the ideas in this post about ways to continue to support the academic mission and freedom there.
"We need shadow universities to preserve academic values and academic freedom at a time when they are under attack by government officials and campus administrators."
— John K. Wilson for Inside Higher Ed
@insidehighered.com
— John K. Wilson for Inside Higher Ed
@insidehighered.com
Northwestern’s Complicity With the Trump Regime
We need shadow universities to preserve academic values and academic freedom at a time when they are under attack by government officials and campus administrators.
www.insidehighered.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Deeply ashamed of the administration at my alma mater Northwestern, but appreciative of the ideas in this post about ways to continue to support the academic mission and freedom there.
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Friends don’t let friends buy from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
November 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Friends don’t let friends buy from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
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Holiday Gifts that Help Refugees & Immigrants
Thanks to a ton of creativity and initiative from Pierre Wolfe, Meredith Benson and SJ Sevell, we have a fun fundraiser for CRIS!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Thanks to a ton of creativity and initiative from Pierre Wolfe, Meredith Benson and SJ Sevell, we have a fun fundraiser for CRIS!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
ICO's CRIS Fundraiser Order Form
Grandview Ignite and Indivisible Central Ohio are teaming up to raise funds for Community Refugee and Immigration Services. Order our hard-hitting political satire t-shirts, mugs and buttons. All proc...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Holiday Gifts that Help Refugees & Immigrants
Thanks to a ton of creativity and initiative from Pierre Wolfe, Meredith Benson and SJ Sevell, we have a fun fundraiser for CRIS!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Thanks to a ton of creativity and initiative from Pierre Wolfe, Meredith Benson and SJ Sevell, we have a fun fundraiser for CRIS!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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ready, set, go:
real schools seeing real market advantage in real classes with real brains
“Artificial Intelligence may be able to write you a song, develop a presentation or help you write a script...But MSU is real experts with real answers. No AI needed.”
bridgemi.com/quality-life...
real schools seeing real market advantage in real classes with real brains
“Artificial Intelligence may be able to write you a song, develop a presentation or help you write a script...But MSU is real experts with real answers. No AI needed.”
bridgemi.com/quality-life...
In world of AI, Michigan State University Extension bets on human expertise - Bridge Michigan
For 118 years, Michigan State University Extension has existed to serve the public with programs ranging from canning classes to soil testing and financial literacy workshops. Now, it aims to bill its...
bridgemi.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
ready, set, go:
real schools seeing real market advantage in real classes with real brains
“Artificial Intelligence may be able to write you a song, develop a presentation or help you write a script...But MSU is real experts with real answers. No AI needed.”
bridgemi.com/quality-life...
real schools seeing real market advantage in real classes with real brains
“Artificial Intelligence may be able to write you a song, develop a presentation or help you write a script...But MSU is real experts with real answers. No AI needed.”
bridgemi.com/quality-life...
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“We’ve tried to not have to do it, but we've got direct orders,” the masked ICE agents told them www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/i...
November 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
“We’ve tried to not have to do it, but we've got direct orders,” the masked ICE agents told them www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/i...
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Spotify is helping ICE recruit more agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities. Stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops running ads for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
November 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Spotify is helping ICE recruit more agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities. Stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops running ads for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
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Ryan Skinner, Director of OSU’s Humanities Institute, celebrates the work of faculty and units in the arts and humanities in this open letter. Ryan serves as Vice-President of AAUP-OSU.
humanitiesinstitute.osu.edu/news/praise-...
humanitiesinstitute.osu.edu/news/praise-...
In Praise of the Arts and Humanities
Of griots and professorsAs a scholar, I have spent nearly three decades studying the art and social life of West African griots. Griots are storytellers, guardians of cultural memory (they are known c...
humanitiesinstitute.osu.edu
November 21, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Ryan Skinner, Director of OSU’s Humanities Institute, celebrates the work of faculty and units in the arts and humanities in this open letter. Ryan serves as Vice-President of AAUP-OSU.
humanitiesinstitute.osu.edu/news/praise-...
humanitiesinstitute.osu.edu/news/praise-...
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"As a historian of drugs, I can tell you that this argument is wrong in almost every way. There is no wholesome, traditional drug-free America that we can return to." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/o...
Opinion | I Am a Drug Historian. Trump Is Wrong About Fentanyl in Almost Every Way.
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:04 PM
"As a historian of drugs, I can tell you that this argument is wrong in almost every way. There is no wholesome, traditional drug-free America that we can return to." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/o...
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"Any proposed agreement should have been presented to the University Faculty & other governing bodies...The Cornell administration’s acceptance of this agreement without any faculty governance involvement is a betrayal of shared governance structures. "
- AAUP Cornell
@cornellaaup.bsky.social
- AAUP Cornell
@cornellaaup.bsky.social
GUEST ROOM | AAUP Statement on the Trump-Cornell Deal
The Cornell Chapter of the American Association of University Professors writes to address harmful provisions in the University's deal with the Trump administration.
www.cornellsun.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:07 PM
"Any proposed agreement should have been presented to the University Faculty & other governing bodies...The Cornell administration’s acceptance of this agreement without any faculty governance involvement is a betrayal of shared governance structures. "
- AAUP Cornell
@cornellaaup.bsky.social
- AAUP Cornell
@cornellaaup.bsky.social
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Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
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House Republicans could force a vote on this deadly, gun lobby-backed bill as soon as the government reopens—we can’t let that happen.
Text GUT to 644-33 to tell your lawmakers in Congress: Don’t gut our gun safety laws. Oppose a federal concealed carry mandate.
Text GUT to 644-33 to tell your lawmakers in Congress: Don’t gut our gun safety laws. Oppose a federal concealed carry mandate.
Why a federal concealed carry gun bill must be stopped - The Boston Globe
The law would force all states to recognize concealed carry permissions from anywhere else in the country, and would be highly dangerous for civilians and law enforcement.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
House Republicans could force a vote on this deadly, gun lobby-backed bill as soon as the government reopens—we can’t let that happen.
Text GUT to 644-33 to tell your lawmakers in Congress: Don’t gut our gun safety laws. Oppose a federal concealed carry mandate.
Text GUT to 644-33 to tell your lawmakers in Congress: Don’t gut our gun safety laws. Oppose a federal concealed carry mandate.