Rick Jobs
@richardivanjobs.bsky.social
Historian | In the Land of the Lacandón | Backpack Ambassadors | Riding the New Wave | Transnational Histories of Youth | Portland | Pacific University
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The country’s largest landlord would stop using algorithmic software to artificially inflate rent prices under a $7 million settlement offer Oregon and eight other states proposed.
Oregon proposes settlement to stop major landlord from hiking rent prices
The country’s largest landlord would stop using algorithmic software to artificially inflate rent prices under a $7 million settlement offer Oregon and eight other states proposed.
www.opb.org
November 23, 2025 at 2:00 AM
The country’s largest landlord would stop using algorithmic software to artificially inflate rent prices under a $7 million settlement offer Oregon and eight other states proposed.
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Making Nonfiction Comics by Shay Mirk & Eleri Harris is the next great comic making textbook. @mirkdrop.bsky.social @elerimai.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Making Nonfiction Comics by Shay Mirk & Eleri Harris is the next great comic making textbook. @mirkdrop.bsky.social @elerimai.bsky.social
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Breathtaking shot from Breckenridge, Colorado 🇺🇸
A display of multiple stacked rainbows arcing over the forests of central Oregon — an extremely rare optical phenomenon that happens when sunlight scatters through layers of rain at just the right angles.
A display of multiple stacked rainbows arcing over the forests of central Oregon — an extremely rare optical phenomenon that happens when sunlight scatters through layers of rain at just the right angles.
November 22, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Breathtaking shot from Breckenridge, Colorado 🇺🇸
A display of multiple stacked rainbows arcing over the forests of central Oregon — an extremely rare optical phenomenon that happens when sunlight scatters through layers of rain at just the right angles.
A display of multiple stacked rainbows arcing over the forests of central Oregon — an extremely rare optical phenomenon that happens when sunlight scatters through layers of rain at just the right angles.
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WATCH: We reviewed months of Fox News’ coverage and over 700 videos posted on social media by protesters, counterprotesters and others.
Here's how Fox News and the Trump administration provided a misleading picture of what was happening in Portland: https://propub.li/4a4TaE4
Here's how Fox News and the Trump administration provided a misleading picture of what was happening in Portland: https://propub.li/4a4TaE4
November 22, 2025 at 9:01 PM
WATCH: We reviewed months of Fox News’ coverage and over 700 videos posted on social media by protesters, counterprotesters and others.
Here's how Fox News and the Trump administration provided a misleading picture of what was happening in Portland: https://propub.li/4a4TaE4
Here's how Fox News and the Trump administration provided a misleading picture of what was happening in Portland: https://propub.li/4a4TaE4
Watched 'Nouvelle Vague' last weekend and can't get it out of my head. Like a nostalgia palimpsest, 25-30 years ago I was living in Paris studying this era, watching these films, thinking about the idea of youth and young people while young myself; melancholy for a time and place I did not witness.
November 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Watched 'Nouvelle Vague' last weekend and can't get it out of my head. Like a nostalgia palimpsest, 25-30 years ago I was living in Paris studying this era, watching these films, thinking about the idea of youth and young people while young myself; melancholy for a time and place I did not witness.
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I’m a single issue voter and this is my single issue
I wish we, like, regulated shit nowadays. Between car bloat, blinding headlines, and neighbourhoods packed with rental suites but no on-property parking, driving is an absolute nightmare now.
Nearly all drivers say vehicles' lights are too bright in study
The study, commissioned by the Department for Transport, was completed by Berkshire's TRL.
www.bbc.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I’m a single issue voter and this is my single issue
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Hey historians 🗃️: Do you know of presses that publish short books (around 30K words / 90 pages plus notes)? I have been working on an article project that could easily turn into an great micro-history of that length, but I'm not sure it would make it to the usual full 60-90K words...
November 19, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Hey historians 🗃️: Do you know of presses that publish short books (around 30K words / 90 pages plus notes)? I have been working on an article project that could easily turn into an great micro-history of that length, but I'm not sure it would make it to the usual full 60-90K words...
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Happy to have written about plastic for @thepolycrisis.bsky.social. Thanks to @70sbachchan.bsky.social for sourcing the excellent graphics. And thanks to @rebecca-altman.bsky.social and @anjakrieger.bsky.social for being my go-to's on all-things plastic.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
Plastic Planet | Venus Bivar
Stalled negotiations and accelerating accumulation in the global petrochemicals industry
www.phenomenalworld.org
November 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Happy to have written about plastic for @thepolycrisis.bsky.social. Thanks to @70sbachchan.bsky.social for sourcing the excellent graphics. And thanks to @rebecca-altman.bsky.social and @anjakrieger.bsky.social for being my go-to's on all-things plastic.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
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BOOK CLUB IN THE OFFSEASON ABOUT TO GO CRAZY
November 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
BOOK CLUB IN THE OFFSEASON ABOUT TO GO CRAZY
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Ohio University Press is having their annual 40% off + free shipping within US. Code is "ASA25."
Militarizing Marriage is open access, but if you want a throw back physical copy NOW IS YOUR TIME. Check out my chapters in Pathos & Power and Making Martial Races.
So many great books @ Ohio UP!
Militarizing Marriage is open access, but if you want a throw back physical copy NOW IS YOUR TIME. Check out my chapters in Pathos & Power and Making Martial Races.
So many great books @ Ohio UP!
Militarizing Marriage
Following tirailleurs sénégalais’ deployments in West Africa, Congo, Madagascar, North Africa, Syria-Lebanon, Vietnam, and Algeria from the 1880s to 1962...
www.ohioswallow.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Ohio University Press is having their annual 40% off + free shipping within US. Code is "ASA25."
Militarizing Marriage is open access, but if you want a throw back physical copy NOW IS YOUR TIME. Check out my chapters in Pathos & Power and Making Martial Races.
So many great books @ Ohio UP!
Militarizing Marriage is open access, but if you want a throw back physical copy NOW IS YOUR TIME. Check out my chapters in Pathos & Power and Making Martial Races.
So many great books @ Ohio UP!
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My students loved it! Highly recommend!
'In the Land of the Lacandón' has been taught this Fall in history, anthropology, cultural studies, methods, and lit classes. We put it together to be a flexible tool for the classroom enabling instructors to emphasize a variety of suitable themes. Consider for Spring! www.mqup.ca/in-the-land-...
November 17, 2025 at 1:32 AM
My students loved it! Highly recommend!
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Thank you OPB for covering the out-of-control ICE activity in Portland and surrounding areas. Our crisis with ICE kidnappings is not getting enough attention.
#pdx #trump #oregon #doj #dhs #resist #protest
www.opb.org/article/2025...
#pdx #trump #oregon #doj #dhs #resist #protest
www.opb.org/article/2025...
‘Detain first and ask questions later’: Oregon ICE arrests shot up in October
The Portland Immigrants Rights Coalition reported 329 arrests in Oregon last month.
www.opb.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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'In the Land of the Lacandón' has been taught this Fall in history, anthropology, cultural studies, methods, and lit classes. We put it together to be a flexible tool for the classroom enabling instructors to emphasize a variety of suitable themes. Consider for Spring! www.mqup.ca/in-the-land-...
November 17, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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The 200 federalized California National Guard members sent to Portland, Oregon and the 200 federalized Texas National Guard members sent to Chicago are set to return to their home states due to ongoing legal challenges.
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Hundreds Of Federalized National Guard Members To Leave Portland, Chicago | 94.7 WDSD
Hundreds of federalized National Guard members are set to leave Portland and Chicago.
wdsd.iheart.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The 200 federalized California National Guard members sent to Portland, Oregon and the 200 federalized Texas National Guard members sent to Chicago are set to return to their home states due to ongoing legal challenges.
wdsd.iheart.com/content/2025...
wdsd.iheart.com/content/2025...
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Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
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Stolpersteine in real time.
"A citizens group in Ontario, California is spearheading an effort to make the community aware of incidents involving federal immigration agents.
They're placing signs at the locations that read, 'ICE stole someone here'..."
abc7.com/post/ontario...
They're placing signs at the locations that read, 'ICE stole someone here'..."
abc7.com/post/ontario...
Immigrant rights group placing 'ICE stole someone here' signs in Ontario
A citizens group in Ontario is spearheading an effort to make the community aware of incidents involving ICE agents detaining and arresting undocumented immigrants.
abc7.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Stolpersteine in real time.
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Hey Megyn Kelly,
14-year-old Eloise would like a word:
“If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good…
because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.”
Sound up! 🔥🔊
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14-year-old Eloise would like a word:
“If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good…
because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.”
Sound up! 🔥🔊
1/2
November 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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During this Transgender Awareness Week, I am sharing my work on the pioneering role of #transgender people in #HIV activism in Athens, Greece: www.storre.stir.ac.uk/handle/1893/...
STORRE: HIV campaigns and queer activism in Athens and their transnational context, ca. 1985–ca. 1997
www.storre.stir.ac.uk
November 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
During this Transgender Awareness Week, I am sharing my work on the pioneering role of #transgender people in #HIV activism in Athens, Greece: www.storre.stir.ac.uk/handle/1893/...
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Under the Trump administration, many NEH programs have been ended, 2/3 of the staff along with the scholarly council fired, and most of the money that has been given out as noncompetitive awards given to handpicked recipients...
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Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H.
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Under the Trump administration, many NEH programs have been ended, 2/3 of the staff along with the scholarly council fired, and most of the money that has been given out as noncompetitive awards given to handpicked recipients...
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You can bet I'm gonna teach this!!
'In the Land of the Lacandón' has been taught this Fall in history, anthropology, cultural studies, methods, and lit classes. We put it together to be a flexible tool for the classroom enabling instructors to emphasize a variety of suitable themes. Consider for Spring! www.mqup.ca/in-the-land-...
November 15, 2025 at 12:44 AM
You can bet I'm gonna teach this!!
'In the Land of the Lacandón' has been taught this Fall in history, anthropology, cultural studies, methods, and lit classes. We put it together to be a flexible tool for the classroom enabling instructors to emphasize a variety of suitable themes. Consider for Spring! www.mqup.ca/in-the-land-...
November 14, 2025 at 10:12 PM
'In the Land of the Lacandón' has been taught this Fall in history, anthropology, cultural studies, methods, and lit classes. We put it together to be a flexible tool for the classroom enabling instructors to emphasize a variety of suitable themes. Consider for Spring! www.mqup.ca/in-the-land-...
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Portland: MAGA is going to be holding a second "patriot block party" at the ICE facility tonight & tomorrow.
There is the outside possibility that it could include Proud Boys.
There is the outside possibility that it could include Proud Boys.
MAGA is planning another "Patriot Weekend" at PDX ICE this Fri + Saturday. Last time this happened it got very very aggressive (see thread).
They are hinting at a "surprise" this time.
They are hinting at a "surprise" this time.
November 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Portland: MAGA is going to be holding a second "patriot block party" at the ICE facility tonight & tomorrow.
There is the outside possibility that it could include Proud Boys.
There is the outside possibility that it could include Proud Boys.
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Haven’t been here in awhile but seemed like a thing to share.
Anyhoo, here's a paper about "the centrality of housing concerns in facilitating the Holocaust and the complicity of individuals in the exclusion of Jews for economic, ideological, and geographic reasons."
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
November 14, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Haven’t been here in awhile but seemed like a thing to share.