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Jorge Torrico

@jorgeatorrico.bsky.social

Woke | πŸ‡§πŸ‡΄ Equitable Education, Multi Modal Transportation & VRU Safety Advocate, FCPS Parent & Alumn My own opinions, not my employer's/ORGs I belong to.

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Latest posts by jorgeatorrico.bsky.social on Bluesky

Hayes blasts Trump: β€˜Most pro-criminal president of my lifetime’
YouTube video by MSNBC Hayes blasts Trump: β€˜Most pro-criminal president of my lifetime’

The MAGA Cult and it's dear leader are single handedly involved in double speak anytime they talk about combating crime or being pro law and order.

Trump is the most pro-crime president in US history.
youtu.be/4-Q-NfuDp3c

27.08.2025 02:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Order to Return Man Wrongly Deported to El Salvador (Gift Article) The chief justice, acting on his own, issued an β€œadministrative stay,” a brief pause meant to give the court time to consider the matter. The justices are expected to act in the coming days.

The attorneys arguing to defend this travesty done by the Trump administration should be disbarred.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...

It's like the Trump administration is hoping to deny delay defend and indefensible action. The and their lawyers are risking the life of an innocent.

07.04.2025 22:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Yunseo Chung is on the Run ICE Targets Another Ivy League Student With Deportation Proceedings.

They are threatening and hoping to eliminate dissent from legal residents...

migrantinsider.com/p/yunseo-chu...

Naturalized people are next.

25.03.2025 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Can you legally cover your license plate in DC, Maryland or Virginia? A video posted online shows a Maryland driver with a remote license plate cover. Are those legal?

Many people who live & reside in Fairfax County, exemptions are for active duty & diplomats.

Drivers have criminal intent by utilizing opaque covers/other forms of altering their plates
www.wusa9.com/article/news...

It's clear how criminality is built into car-centric transportation systems.

17.03.2025 13:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Vehicle Registration Information - Department of Tax Administration - Fairfax County, Virginia

VA doesn't enforce the law that requires vehicles to be registered in 60 days in the county, many drivers are preventing automated ticket enforcement via states w/o reciprocity, but also evading local property taxes as they use local benefits & infrastructure:

www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dtavehicles/...

17.03.2025 13:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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One Driver With $186K in Unpaid Tickets: What DC Ticket Data Shows Tens of thousands of car owners each have dozens β€” in some cases hundreds β€” of unpaid D.C. traffic tickets. Data obtained by News4 shows one Maryland driver has more than $186,000 in unpaid fines. Aft...

I think a red light camera are appropriate, with plenty of signage.

One thing to speak with electeds about is to make sure we have ticket reciprocity, as people still don't pay many fines:

www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/o...

17.03.2025 13:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"Starve the beast" a strategy used by the right to attack all government functions at every level.

When public schools were no longer able to freely discriminate after 1954 Brown v BoE, that is when segregation academies, vouchers, charters, etc. All w/ long term goal of school only 4 the rich.

11.03.2025 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Fairfax County Bicycle Map | Transportation Fairfax County, Virginia - Fairfax County Bicycle Map

Ebikes have helped bridge some of that.. but frankly for me I like the 6 speeds on my Brompton and note they even have some with 12 speeds now.

I encourage your municipality to have something like this bike map from my county, if they don't already.
www.fairfaxcounty.gov/transportati...

11.03.2025 17:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We are still in our first home, 1,500 sqft, with access to some public transportation for commute hours. It will be 18 years, and no plans to move.

The key thing is some bikeability, trending positively.

11.03.2025 17:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Here is the Oklahoma HB1343.

"The Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services
is hereby abolished.

...the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services shall
be transferred to the State Department of Corrections.

eff: July 1, 2025."
www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.asp...

28.02.2025 02:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

An EO to provide "oversight" to
independent agencies & to "... re-establish a long standing norm that only the president or the AG can speak for the US when stating an opinion as to what the law is."

Coupled w/ his "saving country breaks no law" tweets + "presidential immunity"

20.02.2025 12:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A post by moss.and.fern.studio that reads: Fellow wyt women... This is our chance to "Karen" for the greater good.
See ICE trying to patrol an area and check people?
You need to film them. You need to ask for their badge number, their warrant that allows for this (or a written law they can PROVE allows this,) and their full name. You DEFINITELY need to speak to their manager. In fact... You're going to need to speak to their manager RIGHT NOW. You need a phone number ASAP. Become relentless. Become the Karen you were meant to be.

A post by moss.and.fern.studio that reads: Fellow wyt women... This is our chance to "Karen" for the greater good. See ICE trying to patrol an area and check people? You need to film them. You need to ask for their badge number, their warrant that allows for this (or a written law they can PROVE allows this,) and their full name. You DEFINITELY need to speak to their manager. In fact... You're going to need to speak to their manager RIGHT NOW. You need a phone number ASAP. Become relentless. Become the Karen you were meant to be.

29.01.2025 18:43 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It is very scary how there are so many parallels between what is going on in Project 2025 America.

29.01.2025 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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MAGA = expanding modern day slavery.

Example:
- Mississippi HB 1484
billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/20...

Also read
thehill.com/homenews/sta...

27.01.2025 22:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Roland EXPOSES Trump & MAGA's Economic ASSAULT On Black America | MUST SEE Masterclass
YouTube video by Roland S. Martin Roland EXPOSES Trump & MAGA's Economic ASSAULT On Black America | MUST SEE Masterclass

One hour of knowledge for people not afraid of the truth, provided by @rolandsmartin.bsky.social
youtu.be/3tbXo95cxsw
#KnowTheTruth #StayWoke #ResistRacism #NoToWhiteSupremacy

24.01.2025 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The cover of the book Parable of the Sower.

The cover of the book Parable of the Sower.

Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again."

She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.

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Charters, private schools, anything outside of a public department of education is largely unaccountable, rarely does good and more frequently negatively impacts students lives... for profit.

15.01.2025 17:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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HIRONO: Who won the 2020 presidential election?

BONDI: Joe Biden is the president

HIRONO: You cannot say who won the 2020 electon

BONDI: *sits in silence*

HIRONO: It's disturbing that you can't give voice to that fact

15.01.2025 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 3115    πŸ” 673    πŸ’¬ 101    πŸ“Œ 122
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Will see how much this runs afoul of Leon and his vice president.

22.12.2024 02:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Are Musk's threats (parroted by Trump) to elected officials' political careers, an attempt to "...influence the policy of a unit of government by intimidation or coercion..."?
youtu.be/MgB_S7WZfVM

Which set of actions is impacting the US population?
apnews.com/article/unit...

20.12.2024 14:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How much tax fraud exists?
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/n...

"Mr. Alvarez, ..., regularly falsified figures by submitting fictitious deductions, business expenses, capital losses and tax credits to get clients higher refunds, court documents show."

For small businesses & individuals.

18.12.2024 02:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This NYTimes opinion totally misses the mark, doing its very best to defend a greedy corporations.

www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...

The murdered CEO may've had a working class background but his individual success amidst a system systemically built against it, doesn't diminish the change needed.

17.12.2024 18:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The average American not understanding that a public service isn’t supposed to turn a profit is driving me mad.

17.12.2024 15:59 β€” πŸ‘ 55    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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More reporting:
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Here is a right leaning publication
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/fe...

1 billion could be collected.
www.tigta.gov/sites/defaul...

11.12.2024 02:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The rich are the free loaders.

IRS
www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs...
WaPo
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
CBS
www.cbsnews.com/news/high-in...

- 125K+ tax returns haven’t been filed since 2017
- 25K to those w/ $1+ million in income
- 100K+ [earn] $400K - $1 million between tax years 2017 - 2021

11.12.2024 02:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Who are the "free loaders"?

CNBC reports, "...thousands of wealthy Americans have simply not filed tax returns..."
- misdemeanor to not file
- felony to file fraudulent return
- "no resources to go after them" (aka starve the beast)
www.cnbc.com/2024/12/05/i...
IG www.instagram.com/reel/DDQE2me...

10.12.2024 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is exactly the safety that @fairfaxcounty.bsky.social and @vadotnova.bsky.social provide.

In addition to keeping speed limits high so that people can drive as fast as possible through communities that are in their way.

There was a 14yr old killed by a driver on 12/4 @615pm

12 killed in 7 yrs

09.12.2024 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Glad to hear the that the Federal Judge affirmed the importance of diversity in the military.

www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

@tjaag.bsky.social

08.12.2024 03:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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If we cannot break the hold zip codes have on whether someone merely applies to college, what chance do we have to break their hold on who enrolls in college?

07.12.2024 21:57 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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