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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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Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy (CENFAD) @cenfad.bsky.social · 5d

Please join us for a lecture by Dr. Renata Keller (@renatakeller.bsky.social), University of Nevada, Reno

This event is in-person and also available via Zoom. Please use this link to register: temple.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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

"Academic freedom"

UT Austin professor dismissed from administrative duties for 'ideological differences'

Gov. Greg Abbott said Art Markman was dismissed from his role as senior vice provost for academic affairs for "ideological differences."

www.kut.org

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Toni Salazar L., PhD 🧿🇲🇽 @mexhistorian.bsky.social · 20h

Starting a new medication to help with the side-effects of another medication. I'm falling down a medication rabbit-hole. If this works, I can stop taking the other two meds I'm on. Blood work and oncology vists this week, too. Cancer is the gift that keeps on giving. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Jennifer Griffin Graham @jgriffingraham.bsky.social · 21h

SNAP benefits are going to be paused on November 1. If you are able, now is a good time to give to food banks, food pantries, or local mutual aid groups.

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Sleaford Mods @sleafordmods.bsky.social · 21h

The Good Life - coming tomorrow.
Tune into Craig Charles on BBC 6Music from 1pm or check back here at 3pm.
#TDOPX

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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 23h

The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.

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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 2d

They're giving all this money to Argentina so they have a safe place to go when the international trials start.

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Minnesota Sheltie Rescue @mnsheltierescue.bsky.social · 1d

#SableSunday featuring Maeve! This beautiful sweetheart is in Ames, #Iowa with Oh My Dog Rescue. Bio: www.petfinder.com/dog/maeve-78...

Adoption application: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#Sheltie #AdoptableSheltie #AdoptMe #ShetlandSheepdog

Adopt Maeve on Petfinder

Maeve is an adoptable Dog - Shetland Sheepdog / Sheltie searching for a forever family near Ames, IA. Use Petfinder to find adoptable pets in your area.

www.petfinder.com

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

She's sounds like a dream. I hope she finds a furever family soon!

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

Autumn is the season I still miss the most. Maybe someday I'll live somewhere where the two seasons aren't just "Hot" and "The Raging Fires of Hell".

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

We were glowing on our morning walk around the lake.

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

Of course not! Trump is a “Very Special Boy” whose tantrums and transgressions are ignored by the MSM on purpose.

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

Even Riley says “No kings!”

A Sheltie stands in a doorway with an American flag in his mouth next to a sign that’s says “No Kings”

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 1d

Some folks were worried that they'd sic thugs on the protestors or declare martial law. Instead they posted AI videos and complained.

These people have no juice. Their supporters are cowards. They are are all bark and no bite. They collapse when we push back. Remember that.

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John Patrick Pullen @jppullen.com · 2d

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Meet the Portland protest frog that started a movement

YouTube video by The Oregonian

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 2d

An urgent question.

According to the FEMA Daily Briefing a presidential disaster declaration was requested on October 16th. To the best of my knowledge it hasn’t been granted. Any event of this size should be an easy and immediate yes.

Bryce Maschino @bmaschino.bsky.social · 2d

Where is FEMA?

Western Alaska residents from storm-ravaged villages arrive in Anchorage by the hundreds

Kipnuk and Kwigillingok residents continued to land Thursday night in Anchorage, carrying backpacks and plastic bags filled with their belongings as they exited a military transport plane.

alaskapublic.org

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

A stable, functioning democracy is often unassuming, boring even. Easy to take for granted.

But this - millions coming together in a shared public space to insist on their rights as democratic citizens - is a mighty reminder that a proper democracy is something quite incredible and inspiring.

Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful

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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 2d

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

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Toni Salazar L., PhD 🧿🇲🇽 @mexhistorian.bsky.social · 2d

Wow, even The Woodlands!

Toni Salazar L., PhD 🧿🇲🇽 @mexhistorian.bsky.social · 2d

We got rained on, but that didn’t stop us.

Homemade sign with “No Kings” and a gold crown with a red X over it.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

On April 1, ICE apprehended 47 people — including 9 children — at a birthday party in Dripping Springs, Tex. The agency’s only disclosure about the raid describes the operation as targeting people believed to be connected to the Tren de Aragua gang. 🧵

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

M.I.T.
Brown.
Penn.
USC.

Now UVA — “the fifth school to rebuff a White House proposal to give universities preferential treatment if they uphold a set of White House demands.”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

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Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social · 6d

Wanna to go to a virtual No Kings rally that focuses on healthcare (with a side of "vaccines are good, actually" and "eugenics is bad, actually")?

Organized by disabled folks who can't go to an in-person event.

Join Saturday at 2:30pm Pacific time, zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/8467741742...

Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting

Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise cloud communications.

us06web.zoom.us

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 3d

Two more career prosecutors fired for refusing to indict NY AG Letitia James because they could not find probable cause to charge her. 🎁

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

Prosecutor Who Rejected Trump’s Pressure to Charge James Is Fired

www.nytimes.com

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