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Mauricio Castro

@castrohistorian.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of History at Centre College. Author of Only a Few Blocks to Cuba: Cold War Refugee Policy, the Cuban Diaspora, and the Transformation of Miami. Opinions my own, not my employer's.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h
“Every member of this ethnic group is a criminal who needs to be imprisoned by the state” is just pure uncut Nazi shit
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So I edited this story. And I wanna share on thought on language, & telling the truth We talked about: the "government is lying to you" It may sound saucy. It may sound like opinion But it's just true And if something is true then you should just say it, clearly That's just good journalism
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
please help… my son…
photo of a forklift w/ a pallet jack sitting on its forks like it was an adult carrying a child across its arms
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’ theonion.com/creatively-tapped-out-…
Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026
this is the fridge of a person who doesn’t prepare a single meal
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 24/09/2026
Steve Inskeep doing a long interview with Tucker Carlson entitled "Tucker Carlson has reconsidered Trump. And quite a bit else"Andy Daly looking at the camera over his glasses with the phone number 555-COME-ON-NOW underneath
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woke stifler @yelix.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
how come “Lynchian” never means “a nice old man rides around on a lawnmower and solves familial disputes”
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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We’re hiring in Latin American history! I’m not on the search committee, but I’m more than happy to answer any questions you might have about the job, the department, FSU, or Tallahassee. Please share widely. 🗃️ networks.h-net.org/jobs/70384/f...
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Florida State University - Assistant Professor, 9 Month Salaried - Latin American History | H-Net
Doctoral degree from an accredited institution or the highest degree appropriate in the field of specialization required.
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Will Weldon @oldmanweldon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Great example of how bad most entertainment journalists are because the second someone bothers to even start to probe the limits of this thing's abilities it starts buffering and then just goes "ha ha wow you're trying to trip me up"
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
angry salieri in amadeus with a speech bubble below him
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Mauricio Castro @castrohistorian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
My idea was that it's the Muppet Show, so the Muppets and a weekly guest, but also Michael Emerson is there every ep and it's not explained at all.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"We accepted the pitch everyone else turned down because it sucks shit" wow what a scoop
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Bragging about an "exclusive chat" with a blatant PR operation is so funny
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Mauricio Castro @castrohistorian.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
One of the things that really shocked me when I moved to London for a few months in 2024 was when I would check my weather app and the air quality was so much better than in my small city in rural Kentucky.
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Mauricio Castro @castrohistorian.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
What in the hell is a "bipartisan political consultant"? Sounds like one of those "undecided voters" on the Times speed dial who is an easily identifiable Republican political operative.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Many years ago, when I first started writing for The Dark Side (Britain's oldest horror mag) we had a bit of a friendly pub quiz rivalry with Empire magazine for a while. We kept losing though. Until one week we discovered a secret weapon. /1
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Mauricio Castro @castrohistorian.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I'm sitting in the Toyota dealership waiting room while they fix a recall issue on my car and I just heard an AOL "You've got mail!"
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Why are markets today so disconnected from the real world? Part of the answer is the financial press. “Trump could end war early”? Are you serious? We’re in the 6th month of a war that was supposed to take days. And he can’t end it early. He got the US in position where Iran decides when it ends.
Marketwatch.com headline 8/10/26: Dow set for steady start as S&P, Nasdaq eye gains on cooling rate fears, report Trump could end war early
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
40 years ago, it was so common for men to have a beautiful house with a beautiful wife that he would frequently confuse them for another’s. Sometimes they wouldn’t even know how they had arrived at said location in a large automobile. Now the days have gone by and men struggle to achieve either.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Every military leader since antiquity: wars are won by logistics hegseth: you win wars when military look like fitness influencers
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Is it good when the secretary of defense is so fixated on making sure everyone is white and has tv ready abs that he forgets about munitions bsky.app/profile/carl...
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Mauricio Castro @castrohistorian.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
1. Inside Man 2. The Manchurian Candidate: love the original and the Demme version is fascinating 3. Peach and prosciutto flat bread #HATM
A peach and prosciutto flat bread on a baking sheet sliced into quarters.
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Mauricio Castro @castrohistorian.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Stop putting these people on television! They're not going to give you or your viewers anything useful and they're just going to yell at you and spread disinformation! You're just letting them manufacture clips to drive engagement and fundraising! bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Am told at the blue ash Ohio ICE office today that a bunch of springfield Haitians were told to just “check in” at are now having ankle monitors put on them, which, uh….. they’re not supposed to be fucking doing that
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
One day several years ago, I got an anonymous handwritten, threatening letter delivered to my campus mailbox, and then someone (the same person? someone else?) DM'd me on twitter from a burner account, with a photo of my driveway with my car parked in it. This is real and it's dangerous
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Diego Nicolás Argüello @diegoarguello.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
the image of shinji from evangelion sitting on the chair but it's inside the criterion closet
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Mauricio Castro @castrohistorian.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli
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Denzel Washington in Inside Man: Walking Scene
ALT: Denzel Washington in Inside Man: Walking Scene
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Richard V. Hirst @richardvhirst.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Martin Prince with a speech bubble
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
drunk girl trying to tell her friends that she thinks they are “weekend at Bernie’s” with McConnell, but she has got completely the wrong movie and keeps calling it “doing a Fish Called Wanda” with him and I’m dying
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Wow, Lindsey Graham really had no one in his life who cared about him. Not even his own sister. Because a real woman would never let someone make a mockery of her brother's life like this.
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Mauricio Castro @castrohistorian.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
People should be normal in response to criticism of things they like. However, that essay reads like when Reviewer 2 decides you stepped on their toes and they misinterpret and find fault with every single thing in front of them.
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
extremely funny ("funny") that the president of the united states posted a thing like this that implies a new military operation is underway, but it very much is not. grandpa actually just made a picture on his phone and wanted everyone to see
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Mauricio Castro @castrohistorian.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Seems to me that Charles Entertainment Cheese controls an animatronic army, so he's in. The Green Giant and the Big Boy as muscle. And Chester Cheetah because he's a diabolical manipulator.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/07/2026
incredible
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
A man finds a box and says "a large, conspicuous box! Surely Solid Snake will be under it!" His friend says "you have to stop picking up street boxes, Henry. I keep telling you, Solid Snake isn't real." Henry walks off with his friend and says "yeah, you're right." Inside the box, Solid Snake thinks to himself "That was too close..."
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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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Mauricio Castro @castrohistorian.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Ok, so this person's experience was worse than mine, but his story was incredibly familiar. In March, I was flying from Orlando to Louisville on American. I had a layover in Philadelphia. My plane out of Louisville was mildly delayed, but I had a significant layover so I made my connection...
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/07/2023
watching OPPENHEIMER as Christopher Nolan intended, projected onto a wall in a DOOM WAD running on a hacked ATM:
photoshop of oppenheimer playing on the wall of a doom wad inside an atm screen
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Four years ago, Biden gave a speech warning about the dangers to democracy and the networks refused to air it because it was "political." I wonder if Trump making a partisan case for relitigating the 2020 election and calling for his political opponents to be jailed is going to be "political" too?
As Biden warned about democracy’s collapse, TV networks aired reruns
While broadcasters typically air a prime-time address by the president, they determined that this speech was more ‘political’ than newsworthy for live coverage
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onion person @junlper.beer · 14/07/2026
ai food in these posters always looks like nightmare sequences in shows where someone will be eating what they think is delicious food but then they look down and turns out its maggots and other bugs
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Mauricio Castro @castrohistorian.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Not his most iconic performance, but it hurts every time that Captain Borodin never made it to Montana. RIP
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Mauricio Castro @castrohistorian.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I remember being a teen in the back of a van during a vacation in Florida. My brother in law took a wrong turn and it took me 45 mins to convince them we were headed for the gulf coast instead of Orlando. The adults were annoyed that I (rightly) insisted I could read the map better than they could.
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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
It’s also, to state the obvious, just fully not contemplated in immigration law.
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Thomas HD @degolierthomas.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I saw Mitch McConnell with Goody Proctor last night
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Scam Ghouldin @gotitatguineys.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The best edit I’ve seen in weeks, you absolutely have to turn the sound on for this one.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Excuse me. Time to take some selfies wearing aviators and a ball cap in the front seat of my giant truck with the two square foot flatbed and caption it “Lions do not concern themselves with the opinions of sheep.”
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