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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 15h

“If Cuba is Hell, Miami is purgatory.”

Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 15h

“These days, those who come to the U.S. can find that it feels distressingly like what they left behind.”
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Have Cubans Fled One Authoritarian State for Another?

In the past few years, as many as two million people have escaped the island’s repressive regime and collapsing economy. Those who’ve made it to the U.S. face a new reckoning.

www.newyorker.com

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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 16h

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Ron - and I resist @rnschltz.com · 17h

Irony is not dead…

Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 1d

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Replica of Columbus’ Santa Maria sinks off Mexico coast

A replica of Christopher Columbus’ Santa Maria sank off the coast of Puerto Vallarta, the company that owns the vessel said Friday.

apnews.com

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 1d

A fitting tribute to Columbus on Indigenous People’s Day.

Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 1d

Metaphor alert 🚨 apnews.com/video/replic...

Replica of Columbus’ Santa Maria sinks off Mexico coast

A replica of Christopher Columbus’ Santa Maria sank off the coast of Puerto Vallarta, the company that owns the vessel said Friday.

apnews.com

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Cookie 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇹🇹 @cookierambles.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day!
Protect your neighbors. Don't let them get kidnapped by colonizers.

Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 1d

Metaphor alert 🚨 apnews.com/video/replic...

Replica of Columbus’ Santa Maria sinks off Mexico coast

A replica of Christopher Columbus’ Santa Maria sank off the coast of Puerto Vallarta, the company that owns the vessel said Friday.

apnews.com

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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 1d

Hear me out: Not Columbus, but Columbo’s Day

a man in a suit and tie holds a piece of fruit in his hand

ALT: a man in a suit and tie holds a piece of fruit in his hand

media.tenor.com

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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 1d

Metaphor alert 🚨 apnews.com/video/replic...

Replica of Columbus’ Santa Maria sinks off Mexico coast

A replica of Christopher Columbus’ Santa Maria sank off the coast of Puerto Vallarta, the company that owns the vessel said Friday.

apnews.com

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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 1d

any time!

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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 1d

I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to be an incoherent chucklehead with ignorant opinions

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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 4d

Things that may mean you’re either very rich or very poor:

- To own a horse
- To have a family member in prison
- To have many children
- To own an old car
- That not just anyone can enter your neighborhood
- Ripped/Torn clothes
- Intermittent fasting

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 2d

Eating insects.

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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 2d

👌🏽

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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 2d

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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 2d

My ride is here…

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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 2d

RIP this legend 🥹

a woman wearing glasses is sitting on a bed using a laptop .

ALT: a woman wearing glasses is sitting on a bed using a laptop .

media.tenor.com

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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 3d

😂

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Fargas Collection @fargascollection.bsky.social · 4d

I just really love this.

Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 4d

Things that may mean you’re either very rich or very poor:

- To own a horse
- To have a family member in prison
- To have many children
- To own an old car
- That not just anyone can enter your neighborhood
- Ripped/Torn clothes
- Intermittent fasting

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🌙 🍉 Anushka 🏳️‍🌈 ✨ @anushkabenari.bsky.social · 4d

Speaking more than one language

Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · Sep 5

Having an accent

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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 4d

Things that may mean you’re either very rich or very poor:

- To own a horse
- To have a family member in prison
- To have many children
- To own an old car
- That not just anyone can enter your neighborhood
- Ripped/Torn clothes
- Intermittent fasting

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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 5d

🤣

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 5d

Even László Krasznahorkai knows this

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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 5d

this is ... amazing

Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 5d

"I have read all the books by László Krasznahorkai."

- Nobody

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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 5d

yay!

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