Olga Gonzalez-Silen
@gonzalezsilen.bsky.social
Historian of Venezuela, Spain, Latin America, and the Atlantic World :|: Editor of the Diary of Philip DePeyster :|: Digital archivist
https://harvard.academia.edu/OlgaGonzalezSilen
https://harvard.academia.edu/OlgaGonzalezSilen
It has been a beautiful day among so many people who are energized to protect our democracy.
October 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
It has been a beautiful day among so many people who are energized to protect our democracy.
My cat eats mostly wet food and some Purina LiveClear kibble. This kibble stopped mild allergy symptoms fully for four people! It made a huge difference.
October 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM
My cat eats mostly wet food and some Purina LiveClear kibble. This kibble stopped mild allergy symptoms fully for four people! It made a huge difference.
Definitely large language systems are neither intelligent nor hallucinate. We are owning ourselves by creating a powerful fiction.
September 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Definitely large language systems are neither intelligent nor hallucinate. We are owning ourselves by creating a powerful fiction.
I am a big tomato eater. Mostly agree with one exception: this variety grown using dry farming methods in California. Hard to explain how subtle, complex, and alive these tomatoes are.
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dryfarming.org/product/dirt...
Dirty Girl Tomato | The Dry Farming Institute
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August 31, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I am a big tomato eater. Mostly agree with one exception: this variety grown using dry farming methods in California. Hard to explain how subtle, complex, and alive these tomatoes are.
dryfarming.org/product/dirt...
dryfarming.org/product/dirt...
I am a small donor and I have stopped looking at text messages completely other than to block them. Sad part is that there were two politicians that I liked to hear from, but not on a daily basis. Whoever gives the donor emails to every campaign has done a disservice to the party.
August 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am a small donor and I have stopped looking at text messages completely other than to block them. Sad part is that there were two politicians that I liked to hear from, but not on a daily basis. Whoever gives the donor emails to every campaign has done a disservice to the party.
It is heartbreaking. The legislation to allow deported veterans to return keeps failing in Congress.
www.govtrack.us/congress/bil...
www.govtrack.us/congress/bil...
Veterans Visa and Protection Act of 2023 (2023 - H.R. 6381)
To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a veterans visa program to permit veterans who have been removed from the United States to return as immigrants, and for other purposes.
www.govtrack.us
July 15, 2025 at 11:44 PM
It is heartbreaking. The legislation to allow deported veterans to return keeps failing in Congress.
www.govtrack.us/congress/bil...
www.govtrack.us/congress/bil...
It used to be that a green card, for most practical matters, was as good as citizenship but without voting. The deported vets were still incredibly patriotic and were begging to come back to their families.
July 15, 2025 at 11:34 PM
It used to be that a green card, for most practical matters, was as good as citizenship but without voting. The deported vets were still incredibly patriotic and were begging to come back to their families.
The immigration system has gotten increasingly punitive in the last 25 years. These green card veterans fell through the cracks. When I visited 8 years ago, they had VA-paid healthcare and the right to be bury in the US, but could never visited the country again alive.
July 15, 2025 at 11:32 PM
The immigration system has gotten increasingly punitive in the last 25 years. These green card veterans fell through the cracks. When I visited 8 years ago, they had VA-paid healthcare and the right to be bury in the US, but could never visited the country again alive.
It changed my view of green cards. I know that it used to be common to have green cards for decades, but now it sure is a big gamble. Before this administration, my advice to friends was to become a citizen as soon as allowed. Now, though, it is hard to tell if the government will act in bad faith.
July 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
It changed my view of green cards. I know that it used to be common to have green cards for decades, but now it sure is a big gamble. Before this administration, my advice to friends was to become a citizen as soon as allowed. Now, though, it is hard to tell if the government will act in bad faith.
I took a tour of the San Diego Tijuana border where we visited a center of deported veterans. Our guide mentioned that, as the immigration and criminal data began to converge, many longtime green card holders got unexpectedly deported with devastating consequences.
July 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I took a tour of the San Diego Tijuana border where we visited a center of deported veterans. Our guide mentioned that, as the immigration and criminal data began to converge, many longtime green card holders got unexpectedly deported with devastating consequences.
Only thing missing: our taxes are paying room and board to keep this person in a concentration camp.
April 2, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Only thing missing: our taxes are paying room and board to keep this person in a concentration camp.
Reading the letter, I just kept thinking: How low can you go? It was a modern struggle session. A mind-blowing endowment is not substitute to principles.
April 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Reading the letter, I just kept thinking: How low can you go? It was a modern struggle session. A mind-blowing endowment is not substitute to principles.
March 28, 2025 at 4:14 AM
It is implicit in all your facts but it has to be said: -no clear is they will be freed in the foreseeable future.
Bonus fact: Unlikely as Bukele will be charging a sizable fee per keeping them incarcerated.
Bonus fact: Unlikely as Bukele will be charging a sizable fee per keeping them incarcerated.
March 16, 2025 at 11:23 PM
It is implicit in all your facts but it has to be said: -no clear is they will be freed in the foreseeable future.
Bonus fact: Unlikely as Bukele will be charging a sizable fee per keeping them incarcerated.
Bonus fact: Unlikely as Bukele will be charging a sizable fee per keeping them incarcerated.
We can be better. I hope we as a nation choose to leave all the gratuitous cruelty behind soon. People like you and migrant organizations lead the way ❤️
March 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
We can be better. I hope we as a nation choose to leave all the gratuitous cruelty behind soon. People like you and migrant organizations lead the way ❤️
So much bad faith. In addition to the usual, it occurs to me that some Venezuelans may be afraid of their country people. High crime rates, state repression, and the new paranoia of Tren de Aragua add up. A tragedy
March 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
So much bad faith. In addition to the usual, it occurs to me that some Venezuelans may be afraid of their country people. High crime rates, state repression, and the new paranoia of Tren de Aragua add up. A tragedy
Many Venezuelans in the US who have TPS support deportations. The line is: ‘There has been a mistake. We want the bad Venezuelans gone.’ Zero awareness that all of them are considered the bad ones.
March 14, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Many Venezuelans in the US who have TPS support deportations. The line is: ‘There has been a mistake. We want the bad Venezuelans gone.’ Zero awareness that all of them are considered the bad ones.
💯. Consider also sitting with your boy and talking to him about his value to algorithms, gaming, white supremacy, misogyny, and racism. Tell him what you stand for and why. Never too early.
March 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
💯. Consider also sitting with your boy and talking to him about his value to algorithms, gaming, white supremacy, misogyny, and racism. Tell him what you stand for and why. Never too early.
I have wrestled long with this issue, and will continue to. My stance is that I do not want to give up on the Venezuelan community in Twitter. There I support the opposition against Maduro and Trump, tackle vaccine disinformation in Spanish, and promote scholarship on Venezuelan history.
February 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I have wrestled long with this issue, and will continue to. My stance is that I do not want to give up on the Venezuelan community in Twitter. There I support the opposition against Maduro and Trump, tackle vaccine disinformation in Spanish, and promote scholarship on Venezuelan history.
Ritualistic humiliation comes to mind. Trump is enjoying the show of bending Rubio’s will for all to see.
February 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Ritualistic humiliation comes to mind. Trump is enjoying the show of bending Rubio’s will for all to see.
It is an interesting problem. Who teaches you irony? I learned sarcasm as a young child at home, but I would have love to have learned irony more formally instead. In part, the quotation marks maybe show a smaller vocabulary and limited rhetorical knowledge.
February 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
It is an interesting problem. Who teaches you irony? I learned sarcasm as a young child at home, but I would have love to have learned irony more formally instead. In part, the quotation marks maybe show a smaller vocabulary and limited rhetorical knowledge.