Juan Llamas-Rodriguez
@llamasjr.bsky.social
global media professor
author of Border Tunnels https://tinyurl.com/tnnls and Y Tu Mamá También https://tinyurl.com/ytmt01
español incluído.
author of Border Tunnels https://tinyurl.com/tnnls and Y Tu Mamá También https://tinyurl.com/ytmt01
español incluído.
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I’m still reeling from an incredible night of cinema and culture!
Thank you to everyone who joined us last Wednesday at @phillyfilmsociety.bsky.social for the ✨sold out ✨community screening of Y Tu Mamá También and post-screening discussion about my book on the film.
www.mqup.ca/y-tu-mam---t...
Thank you to everyone who joined us last Wednesday at @phillyfilmsociety.bsky.social for the ✨sold out ✨community screening of Y Tu Mamá También and post-screening discussion about my book on the film.
www.mqup.ca/y-tu-mam---t...
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Y'all. Folks who study such things know this is competitive authoritarianism. They know this is fascism. They know we are dancing on the knife edge of civil war.
If it isn't yet impacting you? mazel tov. Maybe pay attention to your broader community.
Don't let the waves of "normal" deceive you.
If it isn't yet impacting you? mazel tov. Maybe pay attention to your broader community.
Don't let the waves of "normal" deceive you.
November 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Y'all. Folks who study such things know this is competitive authoritarianism. They know this is fascism. They know we are dancing on the knife edge of civil war.
If it isn't yet impacting you? mazel tov. Maybe pay attention to your broader community.
Don't let the waves of "normal" deceive you.
If it isn't yet impacting you? mazel tov. Maybe pay attention to your broader community.
Don't let the waves of "normal" deceive you.
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For more on Rev. Woolf, who appears to have been arrested today: he published an editorial with @rns.org literally this week titled “Why clergy should risk assault to protest ICE” —> religionnews.com/2025/11/13/w...
November 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
For more on Rev. Woolf, who appears to have been arrested today: he published an editorial with @rns.org literally this week titled “Why clergy should risk assault to protest ICE” —> religionnews.com/2025/11/13/w...
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It’s time we all called these movements what they are: Exercises in white supremacy.
The academic freedom harm is real, but it’s part of a larger plan to resegregate higher education in America. And it’s working.
The academic freedom harm is real, but it’s part of a larger plan to resegregate higher education in America. And it’s working.
November 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
It’s time we all called these movements what they are: Exercises in white supremacy.
The academic freedom harm is real, but it’s part of a larger plan to resegregate higher education in America. And it’s working.
The academic freedom harm is real, but it’s part of a larger plan to resegregate higher education in America. And it’s working.
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JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.
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Somewhere out there someone who’s the best at what they do is terrified that they have imposter syndrome while a bunch of barely literate pedophiles are very calmly running the world
November 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Somewhere out there someone who’s the best at what they do is terrified that they have imposter syndrome while a bunch of barely literate pedophiles are very calmly running the world
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According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
BU College Republicans president says he called ICE to ‘detain these criminals’ at Allston Car Wash
The president of Boston University College Republicans wrote on X he called the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requesting it detain employees at Allston Car Wash, the site of a Nov. 4 raid w...
dailyfreepress.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
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The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
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New from me in @newrepublic.com: “Primary Every Democrat.”
If the current crop cannot demonstrate they care more about democracy than enjoying three-day weekends, we should flood the zone and challenge them all.
If the current crop cannot demonstrate they care more about democracy than enjoying three-day weekends, we should flood the zone and challenge them all.
Primary Every Democrat
It’s exhausting to watch poll-tested, donor-beholden congressional Democrats continue to be too old, too cloistered, and too bumbling to do anything as the government burns.
newrepublic.com
February 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
New from me in @newrepublic.com: “Primary Every Democrat.”
If the current crop cannot demonstrate they care more about democracy than enjoying three-day weekends, we should flood the zone and challenge them all.
If the current crop cannot demonstrate they care more about democracy than enjoying three-day weekends, we should flood the zone and challenge them all.
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
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In "We Were The Lucky Ones" (true story of a Jewish family in Poland in WW2) the daughter learns her father has been detained. She puts on her most respectable dress to speak to camp guards, so they'll tell her the truth about if he's there.
Look at this man, in his suit. How is this happening.
Look at this man, in his suit. How is this happening.
November 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
In "We Were The Lucky Ones" (true story of a Jewish family in Poland in WW2) the daughter learns her father has been detained. She puts on her most respectable dress to speak to camp guards, so they'll tell her the truth about if he's there.
Look at this man, in his suit. How is this happening.
Look at this man, in his suit. How is this happening.
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Mamdani got a humanities degree.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
November 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Mamdani got a humanities degree.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
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I love that Zohran did not praise Cuomo in his speech. You absolutely do not have to say nice things about bad people. We should normalize that in “polite” politics: Praising bad people is not actually “civility.”
November 5, 2025 at 5:04 AM
I love that Zohran did not praise Cuomo in his speech. You absolutely do not have to say nice things about bad people. We should normalize that in “polite” politics: Praising bad people is not actually “civility.”
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the entire twitter and group chat poisoned elite of American society who decided Trump winning an election by 1.5% heralded a thousand year reich may have miscalculated a bit
November 5, 2025 at 3:50 AM
the entire twitter and group chat poisoned elite of American society who decided Trump winning an election by 1.5% heralded a thousand year reich may have miscalculated a bit
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Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.
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😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
November 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM
😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
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We've all waited so long to hear a politician say this. Far too long.
MAMDANI: "So hear this, Donald Trump: To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."
November 5, 2025 at 4:43 AM
We've all waited so long to hear a politician say this. Far too long.
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Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
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Mamdani reiterates his support for trans folks, his determination to fight "the scourge of antisemitism," and his pledge to fight Islamophobia--and throws a punch at the billionaire-funded campaign of lies against him. "In a time of political darkness, New York will be the light." This is a SPEECH.
November 5, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Mamdani reiterates his support for trans folks, his determination to fight "the scourge of antisemitism," and his pledge to fight Islamophobia--and throws a punch at the billionaire-funded campaign of lies against him. "In a time of political darkness, New York will be the light." This is a SPEECH.
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really obvious now why trump and the republican party have been working so hard to prevent fair elections lol they know
November 5, 2025 at 3:50 AM
really obvious now why trump and the republican party have been working so hard to prevent fair elections lol they know
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Incredible segment on CNN after Zohran's speech where a bunch of wealthy television commentators who normally get into heated arguments all speedran the first three stages of grief with each other
November 5, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Incredible segment on CNN after Zohran's speech where a bunch of wealthy television commentators who normally get into heated arguments all speedran the first three stages of grief with each other
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Better things are possible. Still.
BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.
Follow AP for live updates.
Follow AP for live updates.
Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power
One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.
bit.ly
November 5, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Better things are possible. Still.
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A glimpse from the Andrew Cuomo official watch party at Ziegfeld Ballroom, via NYPost's Matthew Fischetti
November 5, 2025 at 1:47 AM
A glimpse from the Andrew Cuomo official watch party at Ziegfeld Ballroom, via NYPost's Matthew Fischetti
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Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez
November 5, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez
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Africana Studies is going to have one hell of an update to their "what our majors have done with their degree after graduation" page.
November 5, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Africana Studies is going to have one hell of an update to their "what our majors have done with their degree after graduation" page.