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Toni Salazar L., PhD 🧿🇲🇽

@mexhistorian.bsky.social

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Historian, Modern Mexico. 🇲🇽 MLIS 📚 Chicagoan Disgruntled Metroplexual Tavern-style only🍕 White Sox ⚾️ Sheltie lover🐶 Cat lady🐈‍⬛ ADHD 💊 BC survivor 🎀 FCK CNCR D&D 🎲 🐉 🗡️ MST3K 🛰️❤️ DayZ 🎮

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Toni Salazar L., PhD 🧿🇲🇽 @mexhistorian.bsky.social · Dec 15

Please consider a donation this holliday season to Team Brownsville providing humanitarian assistance for asylum seekers. They help asylum seekers who find themselves in Brownsville, Texas and those who are waiting in the Mexican cities of Matamoros and Reynosa. Thank you.

Donate | Team Brownsville

www.teambrownsville.org

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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 10h

This is a jaw-dropping, terrifying number. The CDC's workforce has decreased by 3,000 people since January.

A Quarter of the CDC Is Gone

Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January.

www.wired.com

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 9h

One of my only remaining joys is that every single time Amy Coney Barrett makes a stupid argument, Ketanji Brown Jackson gets a chance to follow up and illustrate her stupidity.
And this will happen again, and again, for the rest of Barrett's life.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 10h

The Louisiana argument is essentially that you CAN use race to be racist but you CAN'T use race to ameliorate racism.

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Toni Salazar L., PhD 🧿🇲🇽 @mexhistorian.bsky.social · 10h

The fragility of these "agents" is really something to see.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 14h

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Toni Salazar L., PhD 🧿🇲🇽 @mexhistorian.bsky.social · 10h

That they met at camp one summer.

Toni Salazar L., PhD 🧿🇲🇽 @mexhistorian.bsky.social · 10h

I'll take "Things That Never Happened" for $500, Alex.

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ᑕ ᕼ ᓰ ᗷ 〇 ᒪ 乇 @chibole.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: A Rutgers antifascism expert has been forced to leave the country, due to death threats from Turning Point fans, “to burn your house down & kill you as you come running out" 🤔 Anyone who says "violence is coming from the left" can GTFO.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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Toni Salazar L., PhD 🧿🇲🇽 @mexhistorian.bsky.social · 13h

Translation: “I’d use Tomahawks on Americans if I could find a way to get away with it.”

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15h

Wow. Trump's masked federal agents tear-gassed a crowd in Chicago and ended up gassing a bunch of local Chicago cops who were there to *deescalate tensions.* One local cop was captured on film washing out his eyes with a hose:

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

Again, this is not what needs to be done. "Why are you breaking the law & violating the Constitution & your oath of office?" is the question. When he doesn't answer it, the next journalist needs to ask it, & then the next one, & the one after that. Stop giving him & John Thune free passes every day.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

FOX: You said last week that you would swear in Grijalva whenever she wants. She has written a letter to your office. You have not sworn her in. Doesn't your resistance add fuel to the fire that this is about Epstein?

MIKE JOHNSON: No. This is another partisan manufactured thing

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Toni Salazar L., PhD 🧿🇲🇽 @mexhistorian.bsky.social · 22h

They’re busy with Project 2025 and he’s doing whatever grift catches his eye.

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Toni Salazar L., PhD 🧿🇲🇽 @mexhistorian.bsky.social · 1d

I love how they like to sleep at a tilted angle.

Toni Salazar L., PhD 🧿🇲🇽 @mexhistorian.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sure I can find one of Riley that'll work.

A floofy sable Sheltie on his back on a patterned comforter

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 1d

Unbelievable story of Afghan refugee, a highly vetted fluent English speaker who helped the US against the Taliban and now lives here with his US citizen kids, declared “illegal” and perhaps about to be shipped home by the Trump admin to his likely death

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S.

Then ICE arrested him.

If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

America saved him from the Taliban. Trump wants to send him back.

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S. Then ICE arrested him. If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

www.washingtonpost.com

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chigeek.bsky.social @chigeek.bsky.social · 1d

My mom still talks about her visit to Tony Fitzpatrick’s art studio in Bucktown 25 plus yrs ago. He was a gem. And to quote my friend Jesse remembering his pal Fitzpatrick, “The depths & layers of your stories, how you would hold court, you were the absolute fucking best.”

Au Revoir, Assholes!

My photo showing a close-up of Tony Fitzpatrick’s art piece “Au Revoir, Assholes.”

My photo showing a close-up of Tony Fitzpatrick’s art piece “On Western Avenue He Was The Atomic King of Nothing.”

My photo showing a close-up of Tony Fitzpatrick’s art piece.

My photo showing a close-up of Tony Fitzpatrick’s art piece “Heart of Chicago.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Toni Salazar L., PhD 🧿🇲🇽 @mexhistorian.bsky.social · 1d

He’s so addled. At this point, it’s Miller, Johnson, and Vance running things and Trump’s the goofball content generator they trot out for events and TV spots.

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Toni Salazar L., PhD 🧿🇲🇽 @mexhistorian.bsky.social · 1d

Is the garden in the room with us?

Toni Salazar L., PhD 🧿🇲🇽 @mexhistorian.bsky.social · 1d

Puras payasadas. 🤡

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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 2d

Tomorrow is my book's official pub date! I'm celebrating by tackling a whole new social media platform and hosting an #AskMeAnything on Reddit! Join me and ask me anything about my book, the Cuban Missile Crisis, my hobbies, publishing...whatever! @uncpress.bsky.social @sonyabonczek.bsky.social

Blurb for Renata Keller's book The Fate of the Americas

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Toni Salazar L., PhD 🧿🇲🇽 @mexhistorian.bsky.social · 1d

I’m back after a few days away to see family. This boy is not leaving my side.

A sable Sheltie lays on a couch happy his favorite human has returned home.

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 1d

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

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Jesse Mermell @jessemermell.bsky.social · 2d

He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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