PJ

PJ

@pjvelez.bsky.social

Neighborhood Friendly Nuyorican Immigration Lawyer nova.law

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“You call your podcast ‘Straight Shooter’ bc you shoot straight at us, never them. Trump does all he can to destroy our history. It was a waste of time.” 🔥DL Hughley claps back at @stephenasmith for letting Trump (+ Maher) use him, reminds him what he’s done for Black folks.

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Medicine laureate Linda Buck tells her students: “Pick a problem that you’re extremely interested in.” Is there a challenge you’re trying to solve? #NobelPrize

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Puerto Ricans are already facing serious challenges as it is, including water shortages and ongoing infrastructure struggles. Instead of receiving the support they desperately need, communities are now facing increased ICE activity.

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George Lucas said numerous times he made Star Wars for kids. Nothing has changed. Andor and Rogue One aside it's all aimed at 12 year olds. This is the most beautiful thing about Star Wars. YouTubers miss the point when they apply children's films to a desire for some DudeBro Zack Snyder cool shit.

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"Hello. Yes. Hello. Can you help us? We are looking for the nuclear vessels." Walter Koenig has passed. He was 90. I loved him. My heart is sad. He was such a lovely, funny & warm person. Ensign Pavel Andreievich Chekov is a part of me and always will be. That's all. 💔

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Politico framing this as a problem. MAGA owners of this outlet are crap. Politico- ever been to New York? We love basketball, find all kinds of places & times to play it. And watch it. Rabid Knick & Nets fans. Police are scrambling to do their jobs poorly. Give me a break.

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‘The mayor occasionally plays pick up ball at the NYPD gym’ written with the tone of someone that thinks they’ve found something scandal-shaped. You guys really do have nothing and it shows

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There is a way that impassioned dad rants have a way of burning into you. When I was like 10, our landlord came to check out our house before we moved out, with her two adult sons. The landlord dropped the n-word...

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The hanging Walmart bag is 🧑‍🍳😘 An America without immigrants is a race to the bottom for virtually every quality of life we take for granted.

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This is the key point: the American Dream is that anyone can make a better life for themselves and their children no matter their circumstances When that dream is taken from one of us it is taken from all of us

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I will defend them until I take my last breath.

Tres Rivers (Three Rios)@paulegriffithjr.bsky.social

As a GC who’s worked alongside Hispanics for the better part of the last 25 years, I believe I’m qualified to declare their immense value to our society. Not only because of their skills & dependability, but because of who they are as humans. As much as I rely on them, they’re equally my friends.

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the markets have essentially become a gauge for how much corruption the government in power is going to let the business class get away with

Roy Edroso@edroso.bsky.social

Suck ass, The Economist

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FLASHBACK — Republican Paul Weyrich (co-founder of the Heritage Foundation & ALEC): “I don’t want everybody to vote… our leverage in elections goes up as the voting populace goes down.” They’ve been saying it out loud for years. Please vote. 🗳️ 🇺🇸

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We fought a war over this. 1 of every 30 Americans died. And then we amended the Constitution to add “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States”

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Rally speaker: "Mike Rogers is an American. Abdul has a birth certificate. The birth certificate says he's a citizen of America. You know what? a birth certificate doesn't make you an American."

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The Grand Old Rape Party

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

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The lesson from Serbia is that when no party represents the people, you can build your own alternative even if it takes years of community assemblies, organizing and resistance to severe state repression. Democracy and justice are fragile; it takes the utmost strength to keep them alive.

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🚨 Gov. Josh Shapiro rips into JD Vance in a new interview. “The only smart thing it seems like [Trump] did was not endorsing Vance. That guy is just a profoundly and PATHETICALLY WEAK human being who wants to preach morality every day.”