Juan José Ponce Vázquez

Unsurprising

The Massachusetts Department of Correction has been fighting me for months, trying to withhold data about its collaboration with ICE.

Yesterday, I won that fight, and obtained records showing that the state has transferred more than 2,000 people into ICE custody since 2009.

A quick thread:

The political reality is that he cannot win, that his government is a Frankenstein of leftists and nationalists that realized that it would be a lot worse with the extreme right in power. I’m not sure he will be able to repeat it in the next elections.

It is one of the few center left governments left in Europe, so in that sense, he is all we have left with a semblance of progressivism

Im not a fan el perro, but you have to concede the fact that he is very smart. Mariano is incapable of speaking of anything other than soccer.

100%. The framing is just bizarre

Spain’s Leader, Rejecting Iran War, Escalates Long Feud With Trump

El perro keeping things consistent.

I am also surprised that is not saying anything about how this is coming after the German PM threw Spain under the bus while visiting Trump in the White House. What a sorry spectacle.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/w...

Feijóo, tras el "no a la guerra" de Sánchez: "La relación con los EEUU debe preservarse" El líder del PP evita criticar los bombardeos ilegales de EEUU e Israel a Irán, y lamenta que el Gobierno se plante ante Trump: "España está más aislada internacionalmente que nunca. España no es fiab...

El servilismo de la derecha española a los Estados Unidos es bochornoso.

“Feijóo, tras el "no a la guerra" de Sánchez: "La relación con los EEUU debe preservarse"” vía @eldiarioes www.eldiario.es/1_c6f48d

I am just doing the job to the best of my ability.

I don’t have any kind of power among people with money to buy others coffee. I know, it’s a hell of a position.

It certainly does.

I do talk about Pirates of the Caribbean in my talk. It’s unavoidable, because it’s still the main pirate reference for anyone under 40.

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Well if someone has administrative ambitions, it’s certainly the first step.

If they are not even paying the department chair more money, that is truly beyond the pale.

Thank you brother.

People still congratulate me when i tell them I’m Director of Graduate Studies. If you find yourself in that situation, I have a pro tip for you: if you have to do a lot more work for the same pay, it’s not really a promotion.

Yes. The Caribbean pirates are the ones with which people are obsessed to the detriment of all others.

Careful. Drake was never a buccaneer. That is part of the talk 🙃

I have been teaching a course in Caribbean pirates and representations of piracy in popular cultures for years. This presentation was born out of this class.

If you think this is something your students would find instructive and enjoyable, please do not hesitate to reach out. I would love to come to your campus and talk about Caribbean pirates, the real ones and the imaginary ones.

My hope is to entertain an audience while letting them understand how to stereotypes of "pirates"as we see them represented in popular culture came to be.

I have developed a presentation titled "The Real Pirates of the Caribbean, and Why We Think We Love Them." I do a very quick pass to the history of Caribbean piracy, and then I jumped on to talk about representations of pirates in British literature and Hollywood films.

Do you like Caribbean pirates? Everyone does (myself included), but most people don't really know why. Why have we come to love characterizations of individuals who were so violent and brutal?

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I know these are dark times but I am delighted that Scrubs is back and I will not apologize.

Doing the pinewood derby with my kids right now, and it’s evident we will never be able to compete against the children of the guy who has a workshop for a living. 😅

Pedid tierra y libertad. Sea por Andalucía libre, España y la humanidad.

Feliz día andaluces

#diadeandalucia

I completely agree. I have learned the hard way. I’m not super consistent, it getting better

Also because we are a bunch of dumbasses. Pardon my French.

No no, these items are half off. No need to buy 2 to get the offer, but they don’t announce it like that