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Omar Valerio-Jiménez

@omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social
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Professor of History, Latinas/os, borderlands, immigration, U.S. West, history and memory of US-Mexico War. Remembering Conquest: bit.ly/49iuqFv

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Omar Valerio-Jiménez @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I received my copies of Looking for Justice in Texas. It passed the smell test from my Labrador.
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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“As members of the Trinity AAUP, we believe this attestation letter represents an unprecedented intrusion into the life of the university…The moment has arrived where a Trinity faculty member must sign a declaration attesting that their curriculum will comply with state restrictions.” 🔥🔥
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The Texas Education Agency (TEA) has crossed a line on academic freedom - Trinitonian
On Sept. 1st, Educator Preparation Programs (EPPs) across Texas were asked to sign a form specifying what future teachers can be taught and what kinds of academic experiences can be included in their ...
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is what people voted for. Then they complain endlessly . . . and vote for it again. Geez people, look at what is actually happening, not what you're being told, and recalibrate.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 04/09/2026
"It implies that race, gender, sexual, multiculturalism & contemporary society is somehow less fundamental to education. Texas A&M should no more produce conservative students than liberal students. Our job is not to manufacture a political worldview." – Dr. Leonard Bright, Texas A&M AAUP President
houstonchronicle.com
Texas A&M System cuts over 250 core curriculum courses under new state law
Courses on women and gender, climate, and Black and Latino history were removed from the core, though many can still be taken as electives or major requirements.
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Omar Valerio-Jiménez @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Looking for Justice in Texas: A Century of Reckoning will be published by the University of Oklahoma Press this month. It contains eight fabulous essays about racial justice and policing. You may pre-order and use the code 18TEXAS26 for a 20% discount website: www.oupress.com/978080619723...
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Looking for Justice in Texas - University of Oklahoma Press
Communities of color have long been subject to extreme policing and surveillance in Texas.  Despite such formidable challenges, these communities have launc...
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Omar Valerio-Jiménez @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
“When academics in more comfortable political climates declare it unethical for the rest of us to remain and to fight, they undercut the solidarity necessary to help move toward the kind of world they want to see.” www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
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How Not to Talk About Colleagues in Texas, Florida (opinion)
We’re not fighting a lost cause.
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Omar Valerio-Jiménez @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Excited to share the anthology I’m editing on racial justice & policing in Texas. Anticipated publication date is September 2026. www.oupress.com/978080619723...
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Looking for Justice in Texas - University of Oklahoma Press
Communities of color have long been subject to extreme policing and surveillance in Texas.  Despite such formidable challenges, these communities have launc...
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Mark Ocegueda @markocegueda.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Looking forward to having @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social join us this week at Brown! Thursday, March 5, 10:30am-noon in the history department’s Pavillion Room @brownhist.bsky.social
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Omar Valerio-Jiménez @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
University administrators are cowards
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Omar Valerio-Jiménez @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freedom across America. alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...
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STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now.
Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freed...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I am just so fucking proud of her.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
The person who did all of these things was called a “tyrant…unfit to be the ruler of a free people” in 1776. Yup. Give it a read…
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Laura Sell @laurasell.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream
The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.
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The Organization of American Historians @oah.org · 12/09/2025
We are proud to welcome 17 U.S. historians to the OAH Lectureship Program! 🎉 From classrooms to community events, OAH Lecturers make history accessible, engaging, & inspiring. #OAHLecturer 👉 Explore the new speakers: ow.ly/RVoe50WVQRj
Grid of smiling faces
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dfh1.bsky.social @dfh1.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Absolutely brilliant satire. "These “Guess Stops” will be staffed by special agents known as Guess Stop Officers, or “Guess-Stop-O” for short. The Guess-Stop-O will make crime disappear by making undesirable people disappear."
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Omar Valerio-Jiménez @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Texas Rangers’ long role in upholding white supremacy
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Omar Valerio-Jiménez @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Join us this afternoon.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
"At Tuesday night’s city council meeting... Arroyo revealed that city police had recently investigated her citizenship status and required her to prove her citizenship." kansasreflector.com/2025/08/06/p...
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Police investigate a Kansas city council member's citizenship after a complaint left via voicemail • Kansas Reflector
Lenexa City Councilwoman Melanie Arroyo speaks out after city police investigate her citizenship status and require her to prove her citizenship.
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Maddalena Marinari, Ph. D. @irpinaingiro.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Really looking forward to this event next week! I can’t wait to learn from @emilymitchelleaton.bsky.social and @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social. This promises to be another great @iehs.bsky.social online book event! Registration details 👇🏽
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
All those Trump surrogates who touted this, and news orgs that reported it credulously, owe Americans a big fat apology www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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White House has no plan to mandate IVF care, despite campaign pledge
President Donald Trump has said he wants a “baby boom,” but critics say his administration has yet to make significant family policy changes — and that Medicaid cuts will hurt.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
More attention here please.
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Omar Valerio-Jiménez @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
networks.h-net.org/group/review...
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Bendick on Valerio-Jiménez, 'Remembering Conquest: Mexican Americans, Memory, and Citizenship' | H-Net
Valerio-Jiménez, Omar. Remembering Conquest: Mexican Americans, Memory, and Citizenship. The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2024...
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
***Summer Online Book Event*** Join us at 4:15 PM EST on Tuesday, August 12 for our next online book event with @emilymitchelleaton.bsky.social and @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social. Hongdeng Gao will moderate the discussion. Register here: iehs.org/event/online...
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Summer 2025 Online Books Series
Visit the post for more.
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
***Summer Online Book Event*** Join us at 4:15 PM EST on Tuesday, August 12 for our next online book event with Emily Mitchell-Eaton and @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social . Hongdeng Gao will moderate the discussion. Please register here! iehs.org/event/online...
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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
www.axios.com/2025/06/15/a... Padilla says FBI and National Guard escorted him into Noem's press conference
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Omar Valerio-Jiménez @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
My interview with Choice about my book Remembering Conquest. @uncpress.bsky.social www.choice360.org/tie-post/tie...
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TIE Talks with Omar Valerio-Jiménez - Choice 360
Omar Valerio-Jiménez discusses his latest book, Remembering Conquest: Mexican Americans, Memory, and Citizenship.
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Omar Valerio-Jiménez @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
I really enjoyed speaking with Kate Carpenter of @draftingthepast.bsky.social about my writing routine, engineering background, & latest book. I was honored to be interviewed since it is one my favorite podcast. @uncpress.bsky.social
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Omar Valerio-Jiménez @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
It’s great to read a fabulous review of Remembering Conquest in Public Books. www.publicbooks.org/borders-may-...
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Borders May Change, But People Remain - Public Books
The legacies of conflict—and their increasingly accessible images in a global age—frame the shared bonds of trauma in keeping the memories of these conflicts alive.
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Judith A. Miller @1789jam.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
@schumer.senate.gov @fetterman.senate.gov what about this 👇👇👇
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
NEW: I heard from a *bunch* of federal employees tonight with more backbone that Chuck Schumer. Spread the word! "Shutdowns suck, but what we’re experiencing is something much much worse and now is the moment to stand against it or you’re abdicating your duty as an elected official.”
splinter.com
'If You Don't Fight, You Can't Win': Federal Employees Want Chuck Schumer and the Democrats to Grow a Spine
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
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Omar Valerio-Jiménez @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Matamoros honors Catarino Garza with a monument near Gateway International Bridge.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 14/02/2025
The House is considering cutting up to $880 billion dollars from Medicaid. This would have a catastrophic impact on people with disabilities. Congress needs to keep their hands off Medicaid.
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Sweeping safety-net cuts have GOP centrists questioning Johnson’s budget
Conservatives are no longer the only concern for House GOP leaders.
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Omar Valerio-Jiménez @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024. You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right? Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year. You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.
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Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3 Billion in Income
This brings Tesla’s average tax rate over the past three years to 0.4 percent.
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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
NEW details on New Canaan teen — and reported DOGE employee — Edward Coristine, from the great Jordan Fenster and me. www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/...
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New Canaan teen on Musk's DOGE team was fired by cybersecurity firm, report says
Bloomberg News reported Edward Coristine, 19, who has been given access to top-level governmental information, was fired by a cybersecurity firm.
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Omar Valerio-Jiménez @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
For those wanting to make calls to Congress critters, this app is great. 5calls.org
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5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
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Omar Valerio-Jiménez @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
But her emails … www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...
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C.I.A. Sent an Unclassified Email With Names of Some Employees to Trump Administration
The list of partial names was provided in an effort to comply with an executive order to trim the federal work force.
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Omar Valerio-Jiménez @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I had a great conversation about my book, Remembering Conquest, with Dr. Elena Foulis.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 03/02/2025
NEW: Archived tweets for Gavin Kriger, Musk's 20-something DOGE employee wreaking havoc inside USAID, shows that Kriger has retweeted multiple neo-Nazis including Nick Fuentes, leader of the so-called Groyper movement, and another popular explicit Nazi account recently unmasked by @travisbrown.dev
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 31/01/2025
From @aaup.bsky.social, what to do if ICE is on your campus.
ICE On Your Campus
Questions to Ask Your Administration
1. What is campus policy with regard to working with federal immigration authorities?
2. Who should faculty contact in the event that they are approached by ICE agents?
3. What private/limited-access spaces can you make available where ICE agents cannot enter unless they have a valid warrant?
4. Are you planning to communicate with students, staff, and faculty about their privacy rights? These rights include the right to deny immigration officers entry to their homes (including dorms) unless officers have a judicial warrant, and the right to not respond to the questions or statements of an immigration officer who is seeking to enter their home without a judicial warrant.
5. Are you planning to communicate guidance that, if a federal immigration enforcement officer seeks to enter a limited-access area on campus, students and workers should ask the officer for their name, identification number, agency affiliation, and business card, and inform the officer that they are not obstructing their process but need to contact the campus legal counsel for assistance?
6. What campus authority should students contact if they are contacted by ICE?
What Chapter Leaders Can Do Now
1. Provide to faculty any campus plan or policy and any campus authority contact.
2. Create a list of immigration attorneys who can be contacted in case of emergencies day and night.
3. Distribute a family preparedness plan template to your members. Example: aaup.org/ILRC-plan
4. Conduct Know Your Rights sessions for your members; these do not have to be done by an attorney.
Recommendations for Organizing on Your Campus
Engage members via a petition, open letter, high-participation meeting, in-person demonstration, or other collective action to demand that your campus administrators:
1. Not comply with ICE to detain or deport students, faculty, or staff unless legally required to do so.
2. Ensure that noncitizens understand the difference between an …
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Omar Valerio-Jiménez @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
My op-ed on mass deportations www.expressnews.com/opinion/comm...
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History says mass deportations will fuel anti-Latino sentiments
This is not the first time the nation has experienced a mass deportation movement, and past experiences provide insight into the future.
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 30/01/2025
"The AHA's carefully researched American Lesson Plan thoroughly refutes the executive order’s cynical & unsubstantiated depiction of the landscape of American education." Read Exec director @jgrossman.bsky.social's commentary on the “Executive Order Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling” 🗃️
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On the K–12 Education Executive Order - AHA
The January 29 “Executive Order Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling” rests on—and even promotes—a misleading caricature of history education in the United States. This shaky premise underg...
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Apropros of nothing, I’m reupping my @theemancipator.org article arguing that the so-called “anti-DEI movement” is a segregationist movement, and journalists should state this clearly. There is no need to help evil by adopting their language. theemancipator.org/2025/01/28/t...
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Eliminating DEI isn't just racist — it's segregationist
New segregationists’ need to use euphemisms shows the weakness of their intellectual position and the Civil Rights Movement’s moral clarity.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
the first fatal commercial plane crash in 16 years happened just days after Trump froze hiring of air traffic controllers that were already stretched thin
TRUMP'S DANGEROUS
FREEZE OF AIR
TRAFFIC CONTROL
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Washington, D.C. — Today, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Rick Larsen (D-WA) and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Aviation Steve Cohen (D-TN) released the following statements after President Trump froze the hiring of Air Traffic Controllers, among other safety-critical positions.
"The bipartisan FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024 directs the Administration to hire the maximum number of air traffic controllers. That's what the law says, so the Administration must rescind this ridiculous executive order," Ranking Member Larsen said. "Hiring air traffic controllers is the number one safety issue according to the entire aviation industry. Instead of working to improve aviation safety and lower costs for hardworking American families, the Administration is choosing to spread bogus DEl claims to justify this decision. I'm not surprised by the President's dangerous and divisive actions, but the Administration must reverse course. Let's get back to aviation safety and allow the FAA to do its job protecting the flying public."
"Our top priority must be the safety of the flying public so an order freezing the hiring of air traffic controllers is a misguided decision and goes against the directives of our
FAA Reauthorization bill," Ranking Member Cohen said. "The aviation community will speak with one voice in condemning this short-sighted policy and reaffirm our
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Omar Valerio-Jiménez @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Courtesy of Lalo Alcaraz
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Omar Valerio-Jiménez @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
www.latintimes.com/ice-says-sor...
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ICE Says 'Sorry' After Detaining US Citizens for Speaking Spanish: Report
A Puerto Rican family, all US citizens, was wrongfully detained by ICE in Milwaukee after speaking Spanish.
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Omar Valerio-Jiménez @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Another pardoned January 6th insurrectionist has been charged with a crime. Who would have predicted that criminals released from jail would commit more crimes? www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/new...
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Houston man pardoned for Jan. 6 crimes now wanted for online solicitation of a minor – Houston Public Media
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