Luis Toro

Your regular reminder that the reason all of the awful & illegal things keep happening in 🇺🇸 politics is bc there are never any actual elite consequences for all of the awful & illegal things happening in 🇺🇸 politics. <Everyone> from the GWB era went on to lucrative gigs in media, business & academia.

It's a scandal the way children in desperate need of medical treatment are being abandoned by clinic after clinic. It is no less of a scandal than diabetic patients cut off from insulin or poor people turned away from ERs if they can't pay.

TIL James Garfield was the first presidential to campaign in Spanish. That’s 1880!

And in the Americas!

Goldman Sachs to drop race, gender and LGBTQ+ criteria from board evaluations The move follows pressure from an activist shareholder group seeking end to DEI requirements

Boo! Let’s all stop using those Apple Cards!

Ok folks. The Minnesota Timberwolves are part owned by a firm in the concentration camp business.

Kansas Senate overrides governor’s veto of anti-trans ‘bathroom bill’ TOPEKA — The Kansas Senate overrode Gov Laura Kelly’s veto on Tuesday, putting the state one step closer to forcing people to use bathrooms in government buildings that match their biological sex at b...

Fuck you Kansas

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With no Colorado River deal in sight, risk of federal action intensifies. Here's what that means. Colorado River states are mired in stalled negotiations over the river's future. Another missed deadline makes federal action more likely.

I seriously doubt anyone on Trump’s team has the water law savvy to find a way to give water to UT and WY in the Upper Basin, and AZ and NV in the Lower Basin, while cutting off the states that voted against him (CA, CO, and NM).

Mobilize the NIMBYs of war

Chart of Dow Jones value, briefly topping 50,000 earlier in the week but currently 49,649.87

I thought to myself “these people lie about everything. Is it even true the Dow is above 50,000?” It’s not.

The 25th Amendment was ratified 59 years ago today back in 1967.

To celebrate, let's invoke Section 4 shall we?

Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.”

This is why we need to be telling our stories.

No Kings includes Draft Kings

This years Super Bowl ads are all sponsored by the buy nothing movement

Did everybody learn Spanish by today?

YouTube video by UC Berkeley Inspires The Play from the Cal vs. Stanford 1982 Big Game #GoBears

Best part of Netflix’s Elway documentary? This:

Early in his career, William Randolph Hearst famously joked that if his papers kept losing $1 million a year, he'd lose all his money in 60 years. If the Post continues to lose $100 million a year, it will take Jeff Bezos 2000 years to lose his money.

Sometimes it seems like all of these are my cases. 🤦🏽‍♂️

Don’t give in now @harvard.edu!

Got a nice note from a community member who said they almost spat out their coffee reading a brief I wrote because I got the other side so good.

Bay Area Chicano academic and musician José Bernardo Cuéllar, ‘Dr. Loco,’ dies According to Radio Bilingue, José Bernardo Cuéllar, also known as Dr. Loco, has died.

RIP Dr. Loco! #feelingazul

F “Dubai chocolate.” You know where chocolate comes from? México, baby! 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽

If we start releasing people because their health declined in prison, that would be
most people in prison.

Tina Peters in prison altercation caught on camera Peters’ allies claim she was assaulted in prison and is being punished for the altercation. Prison officials say no one was hurt, and Peters has been relocated.

Pick a prison fight, claim to be the victim of assault, demand a pardon because prison conditions are so bad.

Worst case scenario. America’s number 1 hater of Latinos is acting President.

Why do candidates reach out as if it’s appealing when they say “I used to be a Republican, but then Trump came along”? You mean you supported the Iraq War, Bush v. Gore, endless tax cuts, supply-side economics, Sarah Palin, and Mitt Romney’s “self-deportation”? Maybe take a back seat.

It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face.

If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.

4 members of Oglala Sioux Tribe detained by ICE in Minneapolis, president says The president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe said Thursday that he's been "made aware" that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained four of its members in Minneapolis.

The war on brown people rolls on.

Yes, but for only certain parts of the country. Like a reverse Reconstruction.

I think the assumption has been "when we start killing people, they'll shut up and fall in line." Which has not, to put it mildly, been borne out