Omar Valerio-Jiménez

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

University administrators are cowards

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I am just so fucking proud of her.

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…

And there’s the issue of masks. This Court has listened carefully to the reasons given by Öztürk’s captors for maskingup and has heard the same reasons advanced by the defendant Todd Lyons, Acting Director of ICE. It rejects this testimony as disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable. ICE goes masked for a single reason -- to terrorize Americans into quiescence. Small wonder ICE often seems to need our respected military to guard them as they go about implementing our immigration laws. It should be noted that our troops do not ordinarily wear masks. Can you imagine a masked marine? It is a matter of honor -- and honor still matters. To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police. Carrying on in this fashion, ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it. “We can not escape history,” Lincoln righty said. “[It] will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.” Abraham Lincoln, Second Annual Message to Congress (Dec. 1, 1862).

(Battle Hymn of the Republic continues playing)

Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.

"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."
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Grid of smiling faces

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

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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."

Texas Rangers’ long role in upholding white supremacy

Join us this afternoon.

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.

"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."

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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 👇🏽

Republicans love to waste taxpayers’ money

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.

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...

More attention here please.

Great review

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Summer 2025 Online Books Series Visit the post for more.

***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.

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***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!

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www.axios.com/2025/06/15/a... Padilla says FBI and National Guard escorted him into Noem's press conference

TIE Talks with Omar Valerio-Jiménez - Choice 360 Omar Valerio-Jiménez discusses his latest book, Remembering Conquest: Mexican Americans, Memory, and Citizenship.

My interview with Choice about my book Remembering Conquest. @uncpress.bsky.social

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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

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.

It’s great to read a fabulous review of Remembering Conquest in Public Books.

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@schumer.senate.gov @fetterman.senate.gov what about this 👇👇👇

'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.

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.”

Matamoros honors Catarino Garza with a monument near Gateway International Bridge.

Sweeping safety-net cuts have GOP centrists questioning Johnson’s budget Conservatives are no longer the only concern for House GOP leaders.

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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