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Lori Flores
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Professor. Tejana living in Brooklyn. Author of GROUNDS FOR DREAMING (Yale, 2016) and AWAITING THEIR FEAST (UNC, 2025).
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A key reminder for the food movement. “Cruelty and dehumanization are the points of Trump’s immigration schemes. We must not lose sight of this while protesting raids in food spaces.” @loriflores.bsky.social
How US immigration raids hurt summer pleasures, from berries to barbecues
In the US, hardly a food is untouched by immigrant labor – and Ice raids will profoundly affect the food labor system
www.theguardian.com
July 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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I want you guys to understand something. There aren't 65 million immigrants in this country, but there are 65 million Latinos.

They're using the same language and tactics they once used against Black people and Indigenous people.

This is ethnic cleansing.
July 2, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Thank you to the NYC Food Policy Center for including AWAITING THEIR FEAST on their summer reading list!
8 Books on Farming and Food Production to Add to Your Summer Reading List - NYC Food Policy Center (Hunter College)
Food production is an essential but often undocumented part of our food system. This…
www.nycfoodpolicy.org
June 20, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Book Reviewers for the JAEH Needed

If you are interested in reviewing books for the Journal of American Ethnic History, please complete the volunteer reviewer form (iehs.org/review-books...) or send your contact information and areas of expertise to Omar Valerio-Jiménez at jaehreviews@gmail.com.
Review Books for the JAEH
Visit the post for more.
iehs.org
June 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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BREAKING: Sean Hecker, Jenna Dabbs, & David Patton of Hecker Fink and Rascoe Dean of Sherrard Roe Voigt & Harbison file a motion to take over as counsel for Kilmar Abrego Garcia in his criminal case in Tennessee. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
June 18, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Escribí esta nota en Reforma sobre la situación en Estados Unidos: EU: Ofensiva en varios frentes
reforma.com/kYjlcr
June 15, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Here’s the thing.

If you don’t like the fun and the challenge of

1. Reading widely
2. Going to archives
3. Searching for new sources
4. Playing around with book structure
5. Writing and revising

Why are you even writing a nonfiction history book?

Fame? 😆
Money? 🤣

I just don’t get it.
Lots of commentary on this piece already, all of which I agree with.

For historians, research is a fundamental part of writing.

To farm it out to AI changes the nature of this intellectual process in fundamental ways.

And as Stacy Schiff points out, it also takes all the fun out of it.
A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally.
www.nytimes.com
June 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Another remarkable view down 5th Avenue.

Tens of thousands united in saying no to Trump, no to ICE, no to fascism and #NoKings.

(🎥 Unheard Voices)
June 14, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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“No Kings” demonstration, Ocean Beach, San Francisco
June 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Pine St. Seattle #nokings
June 14, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Here’s a New York Times photo of the Chicago “No Kings” rally. NYT said the march that followed spanned at least 10 blocks.
June 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
June 14, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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TRUMP NOW SAYING DEPORTING GOOD FARM AND HOTEL WORKERS IS A BAD IDEA 🤔

Suddenly he now realizes this… and ties himself into a pretzel to justify it. (Why just farms and hotels? Spoiler: donors called)
June 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Thank you to the International Labor History Association and the journal LABOR for naming my book Awaiting Their Feast “Book of the Year” and the “Big Book of 2025,” respectively. Both huge honors.✨
May 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
So happy to be included in the “Food as Voice” issue of Voices of Mexico! I discuss Mexican food’s history in New York. Disponible a la librería del CISAN UNAM
May 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Columbia bylaws state that the president can only send police on campus to arrest protestors after consulting with the university senate. Once again, the president has neglected to follow these rules, which have been in place since 1968.
May 8, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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“Today, we now know why they never showed Mahmoud that warrant — they didn’t have one."

www.huffpost.com/entry/ap-us-...
Agents Didn't Have Warrant To Arrest Activist Mahmoud Khalil, Documents Show
The federal government defended its warrantless arrest by saying agents feared the legal permanent resident would flee.
www.huffpost.com
April 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history

It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women

Unreal

www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
www.science.org
April 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Two headlines in the New York Times today.
April 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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The real #Coachella isn't a music festival. It's hard working farm workers who are out laboring to harvest crops. Farm workers like Cruz who shared this photo of the green pepper harvest and Salvador who shared this photo from the dates. #WeFeedYou
April 19, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Not sure who needs to hear this, but any govt official who violates someone's constitutional rights -- and is acting outside the scope of their lawful authority -- can be PERSONALLY liable in a civil suit.

ICE officers. Cabinet members. White House staffers. Even the president.
April 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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My 10 year old sister and I got Social Security payments after my father died from exposure to Agent Orange. It helped my widowed mom when the family lost his income. He paid into it his whole life. They even took it from his check while he was serving in Vietnam. Jeanine can go fuck herself.
Jeanine: We found out there are people who are between the ages of one and four who are getting social security

Jessica: That's the benefit for kids whose parents are dead.
April 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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So many student visas have been revoked that Inside Higher Ed started mapping them
April 9, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Just lectured about this the other day.
Illegal attempts to access IRS data was an article of impeachment against Nixon.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Acting IRS commissioner to resign over deal to share immigrants’ tax data with ICE to help deport them, AP sources say.
April 9, 2025 at 4:13 AM