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Mauricio Castro
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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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First thing I thought about was the Monty Python "Funniest Joke in the World" sketch
November 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Local news graphic "Quote From Man Stabbed" "'What are you gonna do, stab me?'"
November 29, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Repost with an iconic fictional band
Captain Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters
November 12, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Four children with the caption "Ya'll wanna see a dead body?" from Boyz n the Hood.
October 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Doing a thing starting this week.
October 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Lisa Simpson saying "I know those words but that sentence makes no sense."
September 24, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Two shots from Tokyo Story. Kyoko asks "Isn't life disappointing?" Noriko responds with "Yes, nothing but disappointment."
September 16, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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Pretty sure it was this. Paid off big during Reign of the Supermen!
July 13, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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July 7, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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I mean, I can't be the only one who thought of this?
May 31, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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I was going over my materials for teaching Britpop again in Rock 'n' Roll at the end of the week and this popped into my head.
Groundskeeper Willie standing by a window saying "Brothers and sister are natural enemies -- like Oasis and Blur. Or Suede and Blur." Willie leans against the window and continues "Or Nirvana and Blur. Or Damon Albarn and other members of Blur." An angry Willie shakes his fist and says "Damn Blur! They ruined Britpop!"
May 4, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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It's publication day for Metropolitan Latinidad, a volume edited by A. K. Sandoval-Strausz, featuring a slew of amazing historians, and which includes my chapter on the Cold War and Latino urban history!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
April 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Amazing
April 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Ok, but have we considered...
The stonks meme guy standing next to a rising stock trend line with the word "Woke" on it.
April 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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I'm going to tell my kids this was N.W.A.
March 29, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Angry Bart Simpson as his classmates laugh at him. The caption reads "(CHILDREN LAUGHING) NOW, SETH MOULTON'S SCORING OFF ME. OH, THAT'S IS IT."
March 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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A search from LibGen for "Mauricio Castro" shows at least one long-form book review taken as AI training data: "Revolutionary Ideology and the Special Period in Cuban History" from Reviews in American History.
March 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Meme with two panels. The first shows a black and white dog looking at a monitor with the caption "What a lovely day on the inter-" In the second panel the dog is looking away from the monitor and at the camera with the caption "Good lord".
March 20, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Uh-huh...
The cover of the Economist from late November of 2024 featuring Argentinian president Javier Milei, the quote "My contempt for the state is infinite" in block text, the subhead "What Javier Milei can teach Donald Trump," and a listing of other features including "The least bad deal for Ukraine" and "Mapping out a trade war."
March 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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March 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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So, in the midst of everything falling apart, I did get some good news this past Friday!
Screenshot of the Centre College Instagram with a picture of Mauricio Castro and noting that the college's Board of Trustees approved tenure and promotion for three faculty members, among them Mauricio Castro.
February 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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I love my job.
An auditorium style class screen showing the menu screen for 1944's Double Indemnity
January 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Vreenak from the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode In the Pale Moonlight holding up faked records while confronting Captain Bejamin Sisko
January 3, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Screenshot of a chef on Iron Chef saying "It's an art."
December 31, 2024 at 10:37 PM
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"You will be visited by three spirits."

The three spirits:
Peter Sellers as President Merkin Muffley, Dr. Strangelove, and Group Captain Lionel Mandrake in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
December 24, 2024 at 3:51 AM