@thejoshtorres.bsky.social
A human being with real emotions. I care deeply about liberation for all. I believe in science. Far from perfect, but trying my best. ❤️🔥 🇵🇸 🇵🇷 ✊🏽
This literally just made my year
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Former FTC chair Lina Khan was just named to NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's transition team—just one sign that his new administration will take tech matters seriously, writes Rebecca Williams. She offers a tech agenda for the new mayor to advance his campaign goals:
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UPDATE on Propel supporting #SNAPmatters households with @give-directly.bsky.social
⬆️$10M+ raised
⬆️55K families enrolled
⬆️7.6M missed #SNAP deposits
😬"weeks or months" until partial deposits may arrive.
Donate to help households in urgent need: www.propel.app/shutdown-fun...
The entire right-wing propaganda machine came after Zohran Mamdani.
The president and his allies came after him.
Democratic leaders, by and large, did not have his back until the last minute.
He still won, turning out historic numbers and inspiring young voters.
His politics can win anywhere.
No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong,
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
"purity tests" "circular firing squad" "the left eat their own" are such bullshit phrases.
people disagree on politics! that's how it works.
deal with it instead of whining about marginalized people correctly pointing out that certain "compromises" only strengthens fascism
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
"[Chicago mom] Andrea Soria... overheard her 6-year-old whisper to her dolls: 'We have to be good or ICE will get us.'"
apnews.com/article/chic...
This is so completely out of control 😣
03.11.2025 18:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Out on patrol. ICE very active on the far North Side including Edgewater and Lincoln Square. Multiple abductions. Vulnerable folks should get off the street if they can. Street vendors should be bought out, landscapers warned. If you’re in Chicago and you’re not ICE watch trained, pls get trained.
03.11.2025 16:52 — 👍 854 🔁 409 💬 6 📌 15I know there's a lot going on, but occasionally it's good to remind people that billions of animals suffer in crazy conditions in factory farms. In the U.S. it's gotten worse / denser in recent yrs, contrary to popular conception.
https://www.palladiummag.com/2025/11/01/factory-farming-is-a-blight/
Fun solo date night to see the Paranormal Activity stage play premiere in Chicago
02.11.2025 15:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0ICE detained a Virginia mom while she was driving her 16yo daughter to school bc she couldn’t recall her SS#.
“The agent got flustered and lunged at her,” said her daughter.
ICE arrested her even after she showed proof of legal status.
“I want this video out there because I want my mother home.”
The people on the right getting mad at Tucker Carlson for hosting Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes on his podcast don’t seem to have gotten mad at all at Donald Trump for hosting Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes at his home for dinner. Funny that.
01.11.2025 23:51 — 👍 6366 🔁 1261 💬 97 📌 23
Christian Zionists often profess to love both Israel and the Jewish people, but for many of them, this devotion is intrinsically tied to their beliefs about the fate of the Jews in the end times—and it’s not pretty.
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My alderwoman Rossana Rodriguez @ward33chicago.bsky.social just posted this tearful video about witnessing two people snatched at Lawrence and Kedzie who she says are citizens www.instagram.com/reel/DQevzqA...
31.10.2025 17:06 — 👍 44 🔁 27 💬 0 📌 0ICE marauding around Evanston all day, snatching people near schools, all schools on soft lockdown, on fucking Halloween. 🖕🖕
31.10.2025 17:59 — 👍 334 🔁 142 💬 9 📌 10Systems either die young or live long enough to be corrupted.
31.10.2025 03:21 — 👍 296 🔁 51 💬 17 📌 6I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
31.10.2025 08:19 — 👍 17325 🔁 7021 💬 718 📌 1229A person I interviewed for this story told me her 8th grader recently read Night by Elie Wiesel in school and observed “it’s sort of like what’s happening here right now” in case you’re wondering how things are going for Chicago’s kids.
31.10.2025 12:43 — 👍 1254 🔁 488 💬 16 📌 12Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Just subscribed because journalism matters, especially independent journalism. Not to mention a co-op of feminist writers. ✅
30.10.2025 14:24 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving:
$100 billion
Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:
$100 billion
One is decried as "welfare." One is not.
Why?
The U.S. is building an international reputation as a police state that punishes free speech.
30.10.2025 13:53 — 👍 161 🔁 83 💬 5 📌 3Andrew Cuomo is a bad man pulling on a dangerous thread because he wants to win a job he doesn’t actually want to do in a place he hates
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For informational purposes: www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
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Just gonna drop this right here: www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
29.10.2025 19:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
