Mauricio Castro
@castrohistorian.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History at Centre College. Author of Only a Few Blocks to Cuba: Cold War Refugee Policy, the Cuban Diaspora, and the Transformation of Miami. Opinions my own, not my employer's.
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Only a Few Blocks to Cuba – Penn Press
In Only a Few Blocks to Cuba, Mauricio Castro shows how the U.S. government came to view Cuban migration to Miami as a strategic asset during the Cold War, i...
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Wow. A lot of new followers. I guess I should introduce myself.
I'm a historian of the United States, particularly focused on immigration/refugee, political, foreign policy, and urban history.
My book Only a Few Blocks to Cuba came out in March
www.pennpress.org/978151282572...
I'm a historian of the United States, particularly focused on immigration/refugee, political, foreign policy, and urban history.
My book Only a Few Blocks to Cuba came out in March
www.pennpress.org/978151282572...
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For my undergrad Arendt seminar the final assignment was to create a syllabus for a course she may have taught today.
One student somehow found the university's curriculum committee's new course proposal forms and snarkily filled them all out, and this is 100% my kind of humor. Bravo
One student somehow found the university's curriculum committee's new course proposal forms and snarkily filled them all out, and this is 100% my kind of humor. Bravo
December 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
For my undergrad Arendt seminar the final assignment was to create a syllabus for a course she may have taught today.
One student somehow found the university's curriculum committee's new course proposal forms and snarkily filled them all out, and this is 100% my kind of humor. Bravo
One student somehow found the university's curriculum committee's new course proposal forms and snarkily filled them all out, and this is 100% my kind of humor. Bravo
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
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Someone please pitch @contingent-mag.bsky.social on this. We need a mailbag that people can share with friends and family who believe the university spokesperson line that this is about costs or low student demand. It’s not true in this case and it hasn’t been true with the humanities either.
“The Daily Nebraskan found in the leaked spreadsheet that every program eliminated appeared to be profitable…every program that the chancellor proposed eliminating generated more money from tuition dollars than the department costs to run”
December 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Someone please pitch @contingent-mag.bsky.social on this. We need a mailbag that people can share with friends and family who believe the university spokesperson line that this is about costs or low student demand. It’s not true in this case and it hasn’t been true with the humanities either.
Oh, hey, buy my book!
December 1, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Oh, hey, buy my book!
First thing I thought about was the Monty Python "Funniest Joke in the World" sketch
November 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
First thing I thought about was the Monty Python "Funniest Joke in the World" sketch
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"Strong Floor, No Ceiling!"
November 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
"Strong Floor, No Ceiling!"
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“I was just following otters.”
November 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
“I was just following otters.”
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this is just gutter racism
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
this is just gutter racism
I never knew that you'd get married
I would be living down here on my own
On that damp and lonely Thursday years ago
I would be living down here on my own
On that damp and lonely Thursday years ago
Brandy you're a fine girl
What a good wife you would be
But my life my love and my lady
Is the See
What a good wife you would be
But my life my love and my lady
Is the See
November 23, 2025 at 4:26 AM
I never knew that you'd get married
I would be living down here on my own
On that damp and lonely Thursday years ago
I would be living down here on my own
On that damp and lonely Thursday years ago
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Various transgenders and queers and apostates.
Sodomites, morphadikes, decked out with bling.
Critical theorists tied up with string...
Sodomites, morphadikes, decked out with bling.
Critical theorists tied up with string...
November 22, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Various transgenders and queers and apostates.
Sodomites, morphadikes, decked out with bling.
Critical theorists tied up with string...
Sodomites, morphadikes, decked out with bling.
Critical theorists tied up with string...
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This is easily an order of magnitude larger than the number of firings in the entire years-long 'cancel culture' panic.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 19, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This is easily an order of magnitude larger than the number of firings in the entire years-long 'cancel culture' panic.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
"You're angry your party gave up negotiating power right before Trump would have been made to eat ruined holidays? You fool. You absolute dullard! You were never getting your healthcare back!"
You don't have to hand it to people who are bad at politics because they stumbled into a good news cycle.
You don't have to hand it to people who are bad at politics because they stumbled into a good news cycle.
November 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
"You're angry your party gave up negotiating power right before Trump would have been made to eat ruined holidays? You fool. You absolute dullard! You were never getting your healthcare back!"
You don't have to hand it to people who are bad at politics because they stumbled into a good news cycle.
You don't have to hand it to people who are bad at politics because they stumbled into a good news cycle.
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your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
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Remarkable. Seems pretty clear that someone wanted to make an example of him.
at one point, i watched a cook county sheriff’s officer (who appears to be in charge) point out a priest in the crowd.
he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.
situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.
situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
November 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Remarkable. Seems pretty clear that someone wanted to make an example of him.
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MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.
November 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.
So, a few things
1. This was literally a Black Mirror episode
2. I don't want an uncanny valley shiny skin version of a loved one with no idea who my loved one was. LLM's can't help but hallucinate citations, but they'll make it feel like I'm talking to the real person from a three minute video?
1. This was literally a Black Mirror episode
2. I don't want an uncanny valley shiny skin version of a loved one with no idea who my loved one was. LLM's can't help but hallucinate citations, but they'll make it feel like I'm talking to the real person from a three minute video?
November 14, 2025 at 1:13 PM
So, a few things
1. This was literally a Black Mirror episode
2. I don't want an uncanny valley shiny skin version of a loved one with no idea who my loved one was. LLM's can't help but hallucinate citations, but they'll make it feel like I'm talking to the real person from a three minute video?
1. This was literally a Black Mirror episode
2. I don't want an uncanny valley shiny skin version of a loved one with no idea who my loved one was. LLM's can't help but hallucinate citations, but they'll make it feel like I'm talking to the real person from a three minute video?
Pretty sure this is how we got mad cow.
oh wow that’s crazy
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
November 14, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Pretty sure this is how we got mad cow.
Repost with an iconic fictional band
November 12, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Repost with an iconic fictional band
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🚨#History #envhist Job Alert: My Department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Environmental History.
🗃️
Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students!
See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word...
👇👇👇
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
🗃️
Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students!
See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word...
👇👇👇
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125) at University of Warwick
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www.jobs.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
🚨#History #envhist Job Alert: My Department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Environmental History.
🗃️
Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students!
See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word...
👇👇👇
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
🗃️
Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students!
See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word...
👇👇👇
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
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your first response might be that bari weiss is incredibly incompetent, but your second response should be that this is exactly what she was hired to do
“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
your first response might be that bari weiss is incredibly incompetent, but your second response should be that this is exactly what she was hired to do
"...Pulte arrived at President Donald Trump’s Palm Beach Golf Club with a roughly 3-by-5 posterboard in hand. A graphic of former President Franklin Roosevelt appeared below '30-year mortgage' and one of Trump below '50-year mortgage.' The headline was 'Great American Presidents.'”
November 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
"...Pulte arrived at President Donald Trump’s Palm Beach Golf Club with a roughly 3-by-5 posterboard in hand. A graphic of former President Franklin Roosevelt appeared below '30-year mortgage' and one of Trump below '50-year mortgage.' The headline was 'Great American Presidents.'”
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Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
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Dick Durbin suffers from a terminal case of Senate Brain, in which the big prize is a handshake deal with your distinguished colleagues where they'll allow you to hold a meaningless vote that you can then point to with pride to your constituents as they go broke from crushing medical bills.
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Dick Durbin suffers from a terminal case of Senate Brain, in which the big prize is a handshake deal with your distinguished colleagues where they'll allow you to hold a meaningless vote that you can then point to with pride to your constituents as they go broke from crushing medical bills.
So, any of the inevitable news stories about who exactly said what and threatened to cave out yet?
Not that it much matters. Every Senate Dem owns this one until they prove they don't. I can think of a few who most likely fought it, but at this point no one gets the benefit of the doubt.
Not that it much matters. Every Senate Dem owns this one until they prove they don't. I can think of a few who most likely fought it, but at this point no one gets the benefit of the doubt.
November 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
So, any of the inevitable news stories about who exactly said what and threatened to cave out yet?
Not that it much matters. Every Senate Dem owns this one until they prove they don't. I can think of a few who most likely fought it, but at this point no one gets the benefit of the doubt.
Not that it much matters. Every Senate Dem owns this one until they prove they don't. I can think of a few who most likely fought it, but at this point no one gets the benefit of the doubt.