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Tratando de entender el mundo un día a la vez. Abogada y Staffer Congresional. Me pongo hoops y suits rositas pa hablar de crisis fiscal, inmigración, relaciones internacionales y French Bulldogs. 🇵🇷🇲🇽

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The Last of Us.

21.04.2025 02:51 — 👍 586    🔁 55    💬 25    📌 5
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Nydia Velázquez dice estar frustrada por auditoría que reveló pérdida de $1 millón en fondos para pescadores en Puerto Rico Bajo los convenios de colaboración, cada pescador elegible se suponía que recibiera entre $2,419 y $15,000 por pérdidas sufridas durante la pandemia

Nydia Velázquez dice estar frustrada por auditoría que reveló pérdida de $1 millón en fondos para pescadores en Puerto Rico

05.04.2025 15:08 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.

This is horrific. An innocent man is being held in prison in a foreign country simply for being brown.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

01.04.2025 04:16 — 👍 1450    🔁 503    💬 80    📌 37
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CNN: A new poll gives us a sense of who Democrats and Democratic leaning voters think best aligns with the party's core values. And that's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

16.03.2025 16:24 — 👍 14201    🔁 2343    💬 527    📌 384
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Facebook’s secrets, by the insider Zuckerberg tried to silence Careless People author and former Meta director Sarah Wynn-Williams reveals what it was like ‘babysitting’ her boss

“She describes [Zuckerberg] as a cross between a truculent teen and a toddler: he doesn’t like to get up before midday, even to meet prime ministers, and his obsequious colleagues feel obliged to let him beat them at board games.”

Sigh. The tech bros are all the same.

17.03.2025 00:03 — 👍 12837    🔁 3324    💬 411    📌 203

Rest in power Congressman Grijalva! We will miss you deeply.

14.03.2025 01:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A theater in Miami screened the Oscar winning “No Other Land” and now the mayor is moving to end their lease

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

13.03.2025 02:10 — 👍 316    🔁 106    💬 12    📌 6
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Trump honored a cancer survivor. The boy's doctors now face his budget cuts. President Donald Trump honored a child cancer survivor during his joint address to Congress amid proposing vast cuts to medical research.

"A renowned medical school whose faculty helped treat a young cancer survivor honored this week by President Donald Trump is facing potentially devastating funding cuts because of the White House."

10.03.2025 13:51 — 👍 2472    🔁 989    💬 81    📌 62

They want to keep it quiet, so you know what to do.

09.03.2025 00:21 — 👍 13494    🔁 6790    💬 329    📌 217

The man is shook. Cut through all the BS and see that the man is shook.

Keep the pressure on.

07.03.2025 02:29 — 👍 3262    🔁 676    💬 123    📌 28

This list is so long and taking up so much real estate in his speech it’s almost like they want to distract from their massive cuts to Medicaid

05.03.2025 02:47 — 👍 82100    🔁 11429    💬 1840    📌 212

Im just dead inside. I no longer feel anything when I hear him. He is a loser and we shall persist. Fuck T and Musk.

05.03.2025 02:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

DOGE "is headed by Elon Musk," Donald Trump says.

Cc:
@annabower.bsky.social
Federal judges in DC, Maryland, and Virginia
Yaakov Roth

05.03.2025 02:45 — 👍 8870    🔁 1778    💬 89    📌 60
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Atlanta Fed shock sounds 'Trumpcession' warning: McGeever "Trumpcession".

“Trumpcession” sounds like it’s going to be a thing. www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

04.03.2025 03:27 — 👍 307    🔁 70    💬 12    📌 10

Maybe the right question to ask is not "how much money has DOGE actually saved" but "how many people have died as a result of DOGE cuts?"

03.03.2025 17:54 — 👍 655    🔁 231    💬 24    📌 3
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Playbook: Democrats in despair And Volodymyr Zelenskyy seeks a warmer reception in Europe.

Translation: How to keep our power and institutional security at Third Way and look like we care about the middle class.

Just make sure any reforms don't wreck our happy hours.

Third Way, disclosure your funders and we can see where your loyalty really lies.

www.politico.com/newsletters/...

03.03.2025 01:24 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Exclusive: FDA staff reviewing Musk’s Neuralink were included in DOGE employee firings, sources say U.S. Food and Drug Administration employees reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink were fired over the weekend as part of a broader purge of the federal workforce, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter.

“U.S. Food and Drug Administration employees reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink were fired over the weekend as part of a broader purge of the federal workforce”

18.02.2025 04:08 — 👍 2278    🔁 950    💬 80    📌 103
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On the left:

President Trump: "I am pleased to announce that the Great Elon Musk ... will lead the Department of Government Efficiency ('DOGE")"

On the right:

Government declaration (by Joshua Fisher) submitted to Judge Chutkan stating Elon Musk is not the leader of DOGE

18.02.2025 03:52 — 👍 4625    🔁 1670    💬 204    📌 158
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Trump administration set to purchase $400 million worth of armored Teslas That's according to a public State Department procurement document. It comes as ethics experts raise conflict of interest questions about the chief executive of Tesla, Elon Musk, who is a top White Ho...

After reports circulated Wednesday night of the State Department's intent to purchase Tesla vehicles, the document was edited, at 9:12 p.m., and now says the federal contract is for $400 million worth of "armored electric vehicles," but the word "Tesla" was removed.

www.npr.org/2025/02/13/g...

13.02.2025 05:06 — 👍 1545    🔁 655    💬 165    📌 279

Folks were asking which MoCs did make the commitment on the spot. Celebrate these leaders!
Sen. Warren
Sen. Van Hollen
Rep. Waters
Rep. Pallone
Rep. Pressley
Rep. Cleaver
Rep. Beatty
Rep. Velázquez
Rep. Ansari
Rep. Foster
Rep. Simon
Rep. Amo
Rep. Meeks
Rep. Balint
Rep. Magaziner
Rep. Raskin

11.02.2025 01:46 — 👍 1396    🔁 325    💬 59    📌 48

Not even DOJ lawyers know what Musk and his minions are up to

11.02.2025 03:02 — 👍 495    🔁 102    💬 14    📌 3
9. I understand from our Office Manager, however, that as of Sunday,
February 2, no funds have been deposited to our bank account. We have checked our accounts multiple times a day since January 29, but no funds have been transmitted. We have received no information or explanation from the Administration for Community Living about the interruption in funds.
10. In short: we have received no federal funds since the OMB Freeze Memo was issued. Our Center had enough money to meet payroll on Friday, January 31, and to cover outstanding bills. But we did not have enough money on hand to cover another two-week pay period at full staffing.
11. Thus, on Friday, January 31, the Board of Directors voted to lay off three of our five employees and drastically reduce services to our customers. This presented a dire situation for our customers, who have immediate needs.
12. For example, on Monday, February 3, we are scheduled to take an
86-year-old woman to dialysis treatments (which we do for her every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday). Our agency is her only way to get to these life-sustaining appointments.

9. I understand from our Office Manager, however, that as of Sunday, February 2, no funds have been deposited to our bank account. We have checked our accounts multiple times a day since January 29, but no funds have been transmitted. We have received no information or explanation from the Administration for Community Living about the interruption in funds. 10. In short: we have received no federal funds since the OMB Freeze Memo was issued. Our Center had enough money to meet payroll on Friday, January 31, and to cover outstanding bills. But we did not have enough money on hand to cover another two-week pay period at full staffing. 11. Thus, on Friday, January 31, the Board of Directors voted to lay off three of our five employees and drastically reduce services to our customers. This presented a dire situation for our customers, who have immediate needs. 12. For example, on Monday, February 3, we are scheduled to take an 86-year-old woman to dialysis treatments (which we do for her every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday). Our agency is her only way to get to these life-sustaining appointments.

NEW: The board president of a small WV nonprofit says they haven't received their HHS funding since the Trump/Musk budget freeze. They had to lay off 3 of 5 employees on Friday. An 86-yr-old woman is counting on them to take her dialysis tomorrow. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

03.02.2025 03:59 — 👍 10756    🔁 4505    💬 434    📌 398

If you are a federal worker being offered a buyout, I would advise against taking it.

Of course, this is a personal decision for everyone and it’s your choice.

But these offers are a rush job. The legality is questionable and this admin does not keep to its word.

They aren’t firing for a reason.

30.01.2025 18:02 — 👍 135851    🔁 24588    💬 2812    📌 840

It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too.

Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more.

Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.

30.01.2025 04:03 — 👍 121584    🔁 19400    💬 2352    📌 889
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Evelyn Quartz: Capitol Hill Democrats Must be Better Prepared to Talk about Democracy Take it from a former Congressional staffer who watched all the chaos of the Trump administration unfold the first time

couriernewsroom.com/news/evelyn-...

24.01.2025 17:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

La Jefa! 🫡

24.01.2025 08:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Velázquez: Donald Trump did not care a bit about safer communities when he released those who were convicted of beating the shit out of police officers. So, don’t come to us and talk about security and safer communities when you do that

23.01.2025 19:32 — 👍 11847    🔁 3205    💬 311    📌 315

Voy a extrañar tiktok 🥺🥺🥺

19.01.2025 03:03 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Todo exfuncionario público o consultor partidista que se dedique a ser negacionista del desplazamiento en PR debe responder la siguiente pregunta: ¿Cuántos clientes Ley 22 tienes?

06.01.2025 15:07 — 👍 13    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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No way to truly understand Bad Bunny ‘s new album & want Puerto Rico 🇵🇷to be a US State 🇺🇸

For decades Hawaii was used by US Statehood supporters as an example of how diverse ppls could become “equal” to USians

Understanding DTMF is to know that “equality” was a false promise

06.01.2025 00:52 — 👍 41    🔁 18    💬 0    📌 0

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