Ariel Mae Lambe
@arielmaelambe.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History at UConn, among other things. I post about mothering, mental illness, disability, antifascism, labor organizing, education, and occasionally Latin America and the Caribbean. she/her Author: https://tinyurl.com/NBCCI
It would be my pleasure. Get in touch anytime.
November 20, 2025 at 8:39 PM
It would be my pleasure. Get in touch anytime.
Josh! I love that you are behind this! It’s the carwash I go to! Lived two blocks from there for 14 years! Just an absolute fucking disgrace!
November 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Josh! I love that you are behind this! It’s the carwash I go to! Lived two blocks from there for 14 years! Just an absolute fucking disgrace!
Thanks for the fascinating thread, Andrés! As far as I’ve been able to tell, the Cuban government began publicly celebrating its anti-franquista volunteers from the 1930s (as examples of “glorious internationalism“) around 1976-77. I don’t think the timing was a coincidence.
November 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Thanks for the fascinating thread, Andrés! As far as I’ve been able to tell, the Cuban government began publicly celebrating its anti-franquista volunteers from the 1930s (as examples of “glorious internationalism“) around 1976-77. I don’t think the timing was a coincidence.
Nor do I, but if you’re looking for a horseshoe, my first question is how are you defining “far left?” Upper-middle-class women with graduate degrees are rarely* anarchists in my experience, and “hippie,” whatever it means, definitely does not equal far left—or left at all!
* though sometimes!
* though sometimes!
October 28, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Nor do I, but if you’re looking for a horseshoe, my first question is how are you defining “far left?” Upper-middle-class women with graduate degrees are rarely* anarchists in my experience, and “hippie,” whatever it means, definitely does not equal far left—or left at all!
* though sometimes!
* though sometimes!
My point was that a set of beliefs/behaviors which have been very hip amongst certain elite sets for a good long while now (EBF, anti-formula, Euro formula only, etc.) are about to be forced on everyone in the United States by the U.S. government. It’s like the reverse of elite capture. That‘s all.
October 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM
My point was that a set of beliefs/behaviors which have been very hip amongst certain elite sets for a good long while now (EBF, anti-formula, Euro formula only, etc.) are about to be forced on everyone in the United States by the U.S. government. It’s like the reverse of elite capture. That‘s all.
Oh wow yeah no. Wasn’t disputing your thread in any way. Obviously I was unclear.
October 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Oh wow yeah no. Wasn’t disputing your thread in any way. Obviously I was unclear.
Just because you mentioned Gen Alpha kids and avocados, I’m gonna tell this story. My older kid was 4 and we were trick-or-treating. Some too cool hipster was over it and offered his fruit bowl instead of candy. My kid gleefully grabbed his only avocado and made off with it. Perfectly ripe, too.
October 14, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Just because you mentioned Gen Alpha kids and avocados, I’m gonna tell this story. My older kid was 4 and we were trick-or-treating. Some too cool hipster was over it and offered his fruit bowl instead of candy. My kid gleefully grabbed his only avocado and made off with it. Perfectly ripe, too.
It‘s on that banner behind him. These aren’t just any white folks; these are organized labor white folks. Not always, of course, but often that can reeeally make a profound difference. Solidarity is a powerful lesson.
October 12, 2025 at 11:49 PM
It‘s on that banner behind him. These aren’t just any white folks; these are organized labor white folks. Not always, of course, but often that can reeeally make a profound difference. Solidarity is a powerful lesson.