Paloma Contreras

PhD Candidate @NYUHistory | 20th c Brazil. Doutoranda em história brasileira do século XX.

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@isaiah_bb I find it so hard to believe that Gaza alone is what lost the election. Dems also didn’t have a msg for the working class. Gaza part of it, to be sure, but I bet many who voted Trump for cheaper groceries would have gone for a dem affordability platform if it existed

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@HugeAarhead FINALLY

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Ding dong the witch is dead!

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@tropigalia Uuhuuu!

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@lpferraz @sauls_jim Ahaha amamos CPDOC 💘

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After @sauls_jim tweeted in November about being sozinho no arquivo & sozinho no bar, an amizade was born. And today we were juntos no arquivo & juntos no bar!

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@tropigalia @sauls_jim 😇

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@sanmavicha @sauls_jim That's riiiiiiight!

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of my research on public & political discourse/s in twentieth-century Brazil. Looking forward to finding out!

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Super excited to be joining the Spring 2023 @NYHistory ICH seminar on the Constitutional History of Misinformation! Many academic treatments of corruption exclude misinformation, but my approach is to explore the life of corruption as a boogey-man in public & political discourse.

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I specifically designed this approach to capture how impactful such discourses can be regardless of whether they are true or accurate. I wonder what evaluating the circumstances under which misinformation is flourishing in the U.S. today will bring to light in the context (...)

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The calm before Carnaval

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@RogueChieftan It also grows in Seattle WA, where several of my Chilean family members carefully (and successfully) cultivate copihue vines in their gardens!

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@omweekes Every time.

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@FJPavia @UW No freakin way! The dream! Congrats Frankie!

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@BenjaminFogel Congrats, Ben!

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@sauls_jim See!!!

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@czeltsman Congratulations!