Aaron E Sanchez
@1stworldchicano.bsky.social
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Historian. Writer. Pocho. Book: Homeland: Ethnic Mexican Belonging Since 1900. Words: Texas Monthly, Sojourners, Latino USA, LA Times, Washington Post and more.
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1stworldchicano.bsky.social
I was able to chat about Homeland and a few of my other up and coming projects on Fronteras! Give it a listen!
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jenmercieca.bsky.social
If you want to understand propaganda you have to realize that what we call "reality" is really just mutually agreed upon hallucinations. Our sense of reality is easily manipulated by the creation of intersubjective hallucinations. They create "truth" that serves the interests of the propagandists.
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kashana.blacksky.app
Man is really on the good shit. He woke up and was like “these tunnels are unconstitutional under the 14th amendment because they’re black”
ndhapple.bsky.social
OMB Director Russell Voight says that US DOT will announce that the federal government is "pausing" funding for both Gateway and the Second Avenue Subway because of "unconstitutional DEI principles" -- x.com/russvought/s...
Voight's tweet
1stworldchicano.bsky.social
From a guy who *checks notes* is not a historian 🤦🏽‍♂️
atrupar.com
Hegseth: "As history teaches us, the only people who actually deserve peace and those who are willing to wage war to defend it. That's why pacifism is so naive and dangerous."
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jamellebouie.net
yeah, this is hegseth straightforwardly announcing that it is free play time for bigots in the ranks. and together with his comments on standards, he clearly wants to purge as many women, black and brown people as he can from the armed services. a white man's military.
atrupar.com
Hegseth: "We are overhauling an inspector general process that has been weaponized, putting complainers and poor performers in the driver seat. We are doing the same with the equal opportunity policies. No more frivolous complaints, no more anonymous complains ... no more walking on eggshells."
1stworldchicano.bsky.social
I know it’s petty but most of these Tough Guys couldn’t do a single hot yoga class.

That’s who this address is for: the Tough Guys who watch Fox News, not the military leaders in the room who actually know how to fight wars.
atrupar.com
Hegseth: "Today, at my direction, the era of unprofessional appearance is over. No more beardos ... if you don't meet the male-level physical standards for combat positions, cannot pass a PT test or don't want to shave and look professional, it's time for a new position."
1stworldchicano.bsky.social
The U.S was at the forefront in an international rules based order that attempted to restrain the brutality of war when it couldn’t be avoided. These ideas gave “American exceptionalism” validity.

And yet here we are, so a bunch of guys can cosplay “warriors”
atrupar.com
Hegseth: "A few months ago I was at the White House when President Trump announced his liberation day for America's trade policy. It was a landmark day. Well, today is another liberation day. The liberation of America's warriors ... you kill people and break things for a living."
1stworldchicano.bsky.social
Content as policy. This could be some random rant on a Tough Guy (TM) podcast who’s about to sell you supplements. He’ll tell a bunch of overweight suburban dads wearing Under Armor that in a wold of sheep they should be wolves.
atrupar.com
Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."
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tylerhuckabee.bsky.social
I get that this was physically all said in front of the nation’s top military brass at a Marine Corps base, but spiritually it was delivered on Instagram Live from an F-150 at a Tuscaloosa red light by a high school wrestling coach in wraparound sunglasses.
atrupar.com
Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."
1stworldchicano.bsky.social
THIS!
kattenbarge.bsky.social
The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video
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tylerhuckabee.bsky.social
reads Wild at Heart once
danlamothe.bsky.social
WAPO SCOOP: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered hundreds of generals to travel on short notice from around the world to hear him make a speech on military standards and the “warrior ethos,” multiple people familiar with the event told The Washington Post.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
New details emerge on Hegseth’s unusual mass gathering of top brass
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has summoned hundreds of generals for what is expected to be a short lecture on the “warrior ethos.” But top brass is bracing for possible firings or demotions.
www.washingtonpost.com
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karl-jacoby.bsky.social
Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
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brendenwrensink.bsky.social
You don't have to be even remotely familiar with new scholarship on Wounded Knee to know that this move is not only absurdly misinformed but offensive to the very concepts of human dignity and justice that our nation's founding idealized & that we've been (haltingly) striving for ever since. Shame.
karl-jacoby.bsky.social
Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
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tylerhuckabee.bsky.social
best way to think about jesus in these movements is as a mascot. important for branding and merch but not part of the action.
ryangeddie.bsky.social
Very weird phenomenon I sometimes notice of Christians interpreting the things Jesus said and did personally hyper specifically and narrowly (“The eye of the needle was a literal gate!”)
But waaaay over interpreting other passages from other books like revelation (7 mountains mandate type stuff)
1stworldchicano.bsky.social
Doing a crime and accepting bribes in a mid suburban chain is on point for this guy.
1stworldchicano.bsky.social
For this year, for this broken month, dedicated to those who came before us, not to corporate platitudes, I say in a whisper louder than screams the line from an Espada poem: “Vivas to those who have failed: for they become the river.”
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mkn.bsky.social
Happiest of Happy Birthdays to the National Park Service!

Thank you to park rangers and staff across the country, who work hard to keep people safe, awe-inspired, and educated.

#istandwithNPS #istandwithparkrangers
The logo of the National Park Service: a mountain, tree, and buffalo in brown and green, in the shape of an arrowhead
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robertdownen.bsky.social
Phelan is retiring. Lead impeacher Andrew Murr is long gone. Paxton is leading a US Senate race. And Tim Dunn loyalists now control the Republican Party of Texas.

I think we can say the Texas GOP Civil War is over.
robertdownen.bsky.social
BIG NEWS: Dade Phelan, the Texas House member who was ousted this year as House speaker for, among other things, overseeing the impeachment of Ken Paxton, announces retirement. Phelan was a major foe of the TxGOP's Tim Dunn/far right faction, and recently broke with the party on school vouchers.
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Very well-put!
jacobtlevy.bsky.social
If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.
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sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
Do not accept the premise that education is to blame for abysmal jobs outcomes.

“The fantasy economy's framing of economic inequality… focuses exclusively on education…deflects attention away from decades of public policies and changing business practices that have…contributed to stagnating wages”
Cover image of Neil Kraus’s The Fantasy Economy: Neoliberalism inequality and the education reform movement