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Omar Valerio-Jiménez
@omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social
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Professor of History, Latinas/os, borderlands, immigration, U.S. West, history and memory of US-Mexico War.
Remembering Conquest: bit.ly/49iuqFv
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October 6, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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I am just so fucking proud of her.
October 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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The person who did all of these things was called a “tyrant…unfit to be the ruler of a free people” in 1776.

Yup.
Give it a read…
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Oct 1
Just gonna keep tapping the sign*

*𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
October 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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(Battle Hymn of the Republic continues playing)
And there’s the issue of masks. This Court has listened carefully to the reasons given by Öztürk’s captors for maskingup and has heard the same reasons advanced by the defendant Todd Lyons, Acting Director of ICE. It rejects this testimony as disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable. ICE goes masked for a single reason -- to terrorize Americans into quiescence. Small wonder ICE often seems to need our respected military to guard them as they go about implementing our immigration laws. It should be noted that our troops do not ordinarily wear masks. Can you imagine a masked marine? It is a matter of honor -- and honor still matters. To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police. Carrying on in this fashion, ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it. “We can not escape history,” Lincoln righty said. “[It] will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.” Abraham Lincoln, Second Annual Message to Congress (Dec. 1, 1862).
September 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream
The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.
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September 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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We are proud to welcome 17 U.S. historians to the OAH Lectureship Program! 🎉 From classrooms to community events, OAH Lecturers make history accessible, engaging, & inspiring. #OAHLecturer

👉 Explore the new speakers: ow.ly/RVoe50WVQRj
Grid of smiling faces
September 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Absolutely brilliant satire.

"These “Guess Stops” will be staffed by special agents known as Guess Stop Officers, or “Guess-Stop-O” for short. The Guess-Stop-O will make crime disappear by making undesirable people disappear."
mcsweeneys.net McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · Sep 9
"As you’re smashing car windows and pulling people out of their cars, you might be wondering how to determine whether the person is undocumented or not, or even whether you should be violently detaining them in the first place."
ICE’s Training Manual for Determining Who to Terrorize
“The Supreme Court on Monday lifted a federal judge’s order prohibiting government agents from making indiscriminate immigration-related stops in t...
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September 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Texas Rangers’ long role in upholding white supremacy
eji.org Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · Aug 30
On this day in 1956, mobs of white citizens blocked Mansfield High School to prevent Black children from registering. The mob also burned a Black effigy at the top of the school’s flagpole.
Aug. 30, 1956 | White Mobs Block School Integration in Mansfield, Texas
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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August 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Join us this afternoon.
iehs.bsky.social Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · Aug 11
***Tomorrow***

Join us at 4:15 PM EST on Tuesday, August 12 for our next online book event with @emilymitchelleaton.bsky.social and @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social. Hongdeng Gao will moderate the discussion.

Register: iehs.org/event/online...
Summer 2025 Online Books Series
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August 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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"At Tuesday night’s city council meeting... Arroyo revealed that city police had recently investigated her citizenship status and required her to prove her citizenship."

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Police investigate a Kansas city council member's citizenship after a complaint left via voicemail • Kansas Reflector
Lenexa City Councilwoman Melanie Arroyo speaks out after city police investigate her citizenship status and require her to prove her citizenship.
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August 7, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Really looking forward to this event next week! I can’t wait to learn from @emilymitchelleaton.bsky.social and @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social. This promises to be another great @iehs.bsky.social online book event! Registration details 👇🏽
iehs.bsky.social Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · Aug 5
***A week from today***

Join us at 4:15 PM EST on Tuesday, August 12 for our next online book event with @emilymitchelleaton.bsky.social and @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social. Hongdeng Gao will moderate the discussion.

Register: iehs.org/event/online...
Summer 2025 Online Books Series
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August 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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All those Trump surrogates who touted this, and news orgs that reported it credulously, owe Americans a big fat apology www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
White House has no plan to mandate IVF care, despite campaign pledge
President Donald Trump has said he wants a “baby boom,” but critics say his administration has yet to make significant family policy changes — and that Medicaid cuts will hurt.
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August 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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More attention here please.
nbcnews.com NBC News @nbcnews.com · Aug 1
A hunger strike at a South Florida immigration detention center state officials have named “Alligator Alcatraz” enters its tenth day, as detainees protest what they call inhumane and dangerous living conditions.
‘Alligator Alcatraz' detainees on hunger strike for 10th day, protesting conditions
One of the detainees, Pedro Hernández, was hospitalized during the strike but continued to refuse food, he said on Thursday.
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August 1, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Bendick on Valerio-Jiménez, 'Remembering Conquest: Mexican Americans, Memory, and Citizenship' | H-Net
Valerio-Jiménez, Omar. Remembering Conquest: Mexican Americans, Memory, and Citizenship. The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2024...
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July 17, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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***Summer Online Book Event***
Join us at 4:15 PM EST on Tuesday, August 12 for our next online book event with @emilymitchelleaton.bsky.social and @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social. Hongdeng Gao will moderate the discussion.

Register here: iehs.org/event/online...
Summer 2025 Online Books Series
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July 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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***Summer Online Book Event***

Join us at 4:15 PM EST on Tuesday, August 12 for our next online book event with Emily Mitchell-Eaton and @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social . Hongdeng Gao will moderate the discussion.

Please register here!

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June 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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www.axios.com/2025/06/15/a... Padilla says FBI and National Guard escorted him into Noem's press conference
June 16, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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My interview with Choice about my book Remembering Conquest. @uncpress.bsky.social

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TIE Talks with Omar Valerio-Jiménez - Choice 360
Omar Valerio-Jiménez discusses his latest book, Remembering Conquest: Mexican Americans, Memory, and Citizenship.
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May 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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I really enjoyed speaking with Kate Carpenter of @draftingthepast.bsky.social about my writing routine, engineering background, & latest book. I was honored to be interviewed since it is one my favorite podcast. @uncpress.bsky.social
draftingthepast.bsky.social Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social · May 9
New! A true pleasure to talk with @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social about his book Remembering Conquest and about his writing routine, the importance of exercise, and whether his engineering background translates to his writing (hint: a work log!). Listen: draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...
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May 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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It’s great to read a fabulous review of Remembering Conquest in Public Books.

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Borders May Change, But People Remain - Public Books
The legacies of conflict—and their increasingly accessible images in a global age—frame the shared bonds of trauma in keeping the memories of these conflicts alive.
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April 25, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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@schumer.senate.gov @fetterman.senate.gov what about this 👇👇👇
March 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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NEW: I heard from a *bunch* of federal employees tonight with more backbone that Chuck Schumer. Spread the word!

"Shutdowns suck, but what we’re experiencing is something much much worse and now is the moment to stand against it or you’re abdicating your duty as an elected official.”
'If You Don't Fight, You Can't Win': Federal Employees Want Chuck Schumer and the Democrats to Grow a Spine
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
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March 14, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Matamoros honors Catarino Garza with a monument near Gateway International Bridge.
February 21, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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The House is considering cutting up to $880 billion dollars from Medicaid.

This would have a catastrophic impact on people with disabilities. Congress needs to keep their hands off Medicaid.
Sweeping safety-net cuts have GOP centrists questioning Johnson’s budget
Conservatives are no longer the only concern for House GOP leaders.
www.politico.com
February 14, 2025 at 7:08 PM