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Mauricio Castro

@castrohistorian

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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Oh hell yeah!

13.03.2026 02:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So am I the only one that has had this stuck in his head for days?
youtu.be/zoS8DrrlnTQ?...

13.03.2026 00:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sorcerer (1977), Dir. William Friedkin

12.03.2026 04:41 πŸ‘ 2012 πŸ” 427 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 8
An orange flower in shallow focus.

An orange flower in shallow focus.

Some pink and white flowers in shallow focus.

Some pink and white flowers in shallow focus.

Some white flowers in shallow focus.

Some white flowers in shallow focus.

A yellow flower in shallow focus.

A yellow flower in shallow focus.

Took some pictures of flowers near my place last summer with my old X-370.

12.03.2026 01:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"I got a blue error screen and now a giant eagle is eating my innards! ...yes, I'll hold..."

11.03.2026 20:09 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Any non-profit environmentalist groups want tp hire a historian of animal agriculture for policy analysis? My specialty is the politics of meat eating and he environmental consequences of doing so!

11.03.2026 16:46 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The trailer for EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY. In select theaters starting April 17th πŸΏπŸ€‘πŸ€£

10.03.2026 20:02 πŸ‘ 5605 πŸ” 1645 πŸ’¬ 149 πŸ“Œ 303

Strongly encourage all academics, novelists, reporters, bloggers, whatever to just email this account and state that you want to opt out of this idiocy.

Overload them with emails and make them regret they ever tried this shit.

expertoptout@superhuman.com

11.03.2026 00:27 πŸ‘ 1248 πŸ” 512 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 14

ICE is buying warehouses across America and calling them detention centers. But there's a problem no one in the federal government seems to want to answer: where does the water come from? A thread. 🧡

10.03.2026 12:03 πŸ‘ 91 πŸ” 55 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 8

We were doing a scavenger hunt across London for our students which had me sitting at the John Snow pub waiting to pass out clues and drinking imperial pints and muttering "Cholera, not ignorance" to myself, knowing students would not get it.

I'm doing great, why do you ask?

09.03.2026 22:31 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

All this "how could we have known?" bullshit was always disingenuous, but now it seems particularly ghoulish.

09.03.2026 14:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you see this, we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.

05.03.2026 03:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"You don't understand WARFIGHTING! We're not defensecuckmaxxing anymore!"

People are fucking dying, the region is in flames, the world economy is destabilized, and defense vulnerabilities are exacerbated, but this guy gets to play out his little fantasies.

04.03.2026 13:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A flower on a balcony at sunset

A flower on a balcony at sunset

A flower at sunset with a shining sea behind it

A flower at sunset with a shining sea behind it

A flower with golden hour light going through the petals

A flower with golden hour light going through the petals

Man, I took a lot of shots of this flower on a balcony at sunset that day

Man, I took a lot of shots of this flower on a balcony at sunset that day

Took some nice shots of this flower over winter break with my Lumix G1.

03.03.2026 16:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Trump admin and admin adjacent hillbilly cosplay will never cease to amuse me.

01.03.2026 15:42 πŸ‘ 262 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 2

The purpose of this website is to help unburden your brain by releasing horrible sentences that live in there like demons

28.02.2026 05:09 πŸ‘ 4584 πŸ” 775 πŸ’¬ 43 πŸ“Œ 42

[thumbs in suspenders] kinetic. lethality

28.02.2026 03:25 πŸ‘ 168 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

Scott has spent the last 15 years of his life working in the highest echelons of government, as FL Governor (from 2011-2019) and as a U.S. Senator (since 2019), during which time he has undermined every effort to use the tools of governance to improve the public sphere.

24.02.2026 16:26 πŸ‘ 3755 πŸ” 778 πŸ’¬ 223 πŸ“Œ 43

That Bulbasaur is pretty spot on.

22.02.2026 16:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hey, urban history folks, do you know any adjuncts in the NYC area that might be able to teach the history of the city or something similar?

21.02.2026 21:49 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's a treasure trove!

17.02.2026 22:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Already passed it along to a student in our senior seminar who is working on the 2008 financial crisis.

17.02.2026 21:54 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is fucking sick

16.02.2026 03:42 πŸ‘ 916 πŸ” 78 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 0

Actually, I have a class on politics and the media in modern U.S. history for college first years this term. Could be a great fit!

15.02.2026 17:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So sick of this ice.

10.02.2026 12:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Mostly, I remember Lopez wearing a Puerto Rican flag cape and a lot of confused people online asking why she was wearing a Texas flag.

10.02.2026 12:17 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Holy shit...

09.02.2026 01:30 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I am only getting into film in the last year. I loved my x-370, but it had a shutter capping problem, so I upgraded to the 700.

07.02.2026 19:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Black and white self portrait of a man holding a film camera.

Black and white self portrait of a man holding a film camera.

Self portrait shot with a Minolta x 700 on Arista 100 film.

#film #photography

07.02.2026 15:59 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me 5 classes you took in college:

1. Contemporary China 1945-Present
2. Soviet Film: Propaganda, Myth, and Modernism
3. History of Architecture
4. Relativity
5. The Japanese Cinema

31.01.2026 18:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0