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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 36m

In 2009 Tomás Rivera Schatz, as president of the Senate, said of opposition senator Sila Mari González that she "remind[ed] him of Mary Magdalene," the companion of Jesus that church tradition says was a prostitute.

But Rivera Schatz supports Puerto Rico statehood so he must be a good guy

midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 40m

October 10, 2019: Then- (and now-) Puerto Rico Senate President, Tomás Rivera Schatz, posts some typical invective against journalist Jay Fonseca, which ends with the following "idiom":

"For a pig's squeals, a butcher's ears! You're gonna get your Christmas Eve, piggy!"

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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 42m

September 16, 2021 posting by Puerto Rican statehood leader Tomás Rivera Schatz where he posts an Alianza legislators' confidential property tax records to instigate an investigation against her, which dragged on until the appeals court confirmed the lower court rejection of all charges.

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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 45m

April 18, 2024 letter from the Puerto Rican Journalists' Association to the president of the Elections Commission, asking how the statehooders' senate leader Tomás Rivera Schatz obtained from them a journalist and 3 citizens' info that he doxxed on Facebook & Twitter to accuse them of election fraud

First page of Spanish-language letter summarized in the skeet.

Second page of Spanish-language letter summarized in the skeet.

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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 48m

This is Thomas Rivera Schatz's mugshot from 2002 from when several of the top leaders of Puerto Rico's pro-statehood political party, the Partido Nuevo Progresista, assaulted Puerto Rico's Women's Affairs Office because they felt it did not have enough USA flags.

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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 50m

Thomas Rivera Schatz has repeatedly over the years launched racist insults against black Puerto Rican journalist Benjamín Torres Gotay, whom he nicknames "El Cimarrón" ("The Maroon"). Again, Rivera Schatz is one of the top advocates for statehood in Puerto Rico.

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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 56m

May 25, 2023: In a radio interview with Alex Delgado, Thomas Rivera Schatz threatens former legislator and Alianza candidate Manuel Natal: "He doesn't have the build to take a punch and he's asking for it. If he had the build it'd be worth to punch him." (Source: @Fe_Humolandia on Twitter)

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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 1h

Here's a billboard in San Juan, Puerto Rico on September 25, 2024: “On November 5, we will sweep! So that Benito will _uck it! Vote straight ticket PNP. Political message paid for: Thomas Rivera Schatz election committee”

(Source: @ValeriaCollazoC on Twitter)

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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 1h

Here's a video of Thomas Rivera Schatz at an October 26, 2024 campaign caravan, throwing water from a moving truck at a woman who held a sign in favor of Juan Dalmau's campaign for governor. Schatz is one of the very top pro-statehood figures in Puerto Rico.

(Source: @RobbyCortes on Twitter)

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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 1h

If you don't translate what this guy actually says but instead you told a Democrat that he's the leader of Puerto Rico's statehood supporters in the Senate, just with that description they'd immediately think he's a good guy like they fashion themselves and wish he'd be US senator

midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 1h

President of Puerto Rico's senate, Thomas Rivera Schatz, speaks for his bill that guts Puerto Rico's freedom of information law: "We are not intimidated by the lefties, communists, socialists, the diminute, Madurists, nobody intimidates us. If y'all gonna do something, come at us."

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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 1h

The story at CPIPR (Centro de Periodismo Investigativo de Puerto Rico; more or less the Puerto Rican equivalent of ProPublica): periodismoinvestigativo.com/2025/10/reck...

With Reckless Disregard for the Truth

The Senate announced late Friday that this week it will bring to a vote a bill that threatens the right to know for all of us who live in Puerto Rico.

periodismoinvestigativo.com

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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 1h

The most outrageous bit, from CPIPR's story (linked next skeet): "[A]gencies would no longer be required to provide hard copies of requested documents. Instead, they could merely allow you to view the records at their offices, just for a single day, and still be considered in compliance."

Screenshot of paragraph from story from CPIPR, linked in the thread and at the bottom of this Alt text. It reads:

"The bill is problematic for many reasons. To summarize a few: it doubles the time for agencies to deliver requested materials and adds layers of bureaucracy; it makes it easier to classify information as confidential without due process; it requires agencies to notify their heads every time an information request is filed; it eliminates the possibility of requesting data in open formats such as Excel or CSV; it creates new barriers for citizens without digital access; and it imposes only symbolic, ineffective penalties that do nothing to ensure real transparency."

https://periodismoinvestigativo.com/2025/10/reckless-disregard-for-the-truth/

Screenshot of paragraph from story from CPIPR, linked in the thread and at the bottom of this Alt text. It reads:

"As if that weren’t enough, under the proposed law, agencies would no longer be required to provide hard copies of requested documents. Instead, they could merely allow you to view the records at their offices, just for a single day, and still be considered in compliance. In the case of environmental matters, for instance, planning and permitting documents often run hundreds of pages and include plans and maps. If you can only view them for one day, without copies, in a disorganized fashion, you lose the right to review and analyze them carefully and effectively."

https://periodismoinvestigativo.com/2025/10/reckless-disregard-for-the-truth/

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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 1h

President of Puerto Rico's senate, Thomas Rivera Schatz, speaks for his bill that guts Puerto Rico's freedom of information law: "We are not intimidated by the lefties, communists, socialists, the diminute, Madurists, nobody intimidates us. If y'all gonna do something, come at us."

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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 3h

Ok then, how about you wear a mask only when you’re breathing

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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 3h

That wouldn’t have been as bad as handing it to María Corina Machado

midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 3h

Oh yes why don’t you lecture us with your rational assessment of the threat environment in light of droplets and T-cells, Mr. op-ed columnist at the New York Times

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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 3h

Not five years ago we saw world leaders, wielding that exact “vax and relax” nonargument, kill millions of people and disable untold tens or hundreds of millions. You just don’t want to wear masks no matter where and when, and you don’t care who gets hurt.

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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 3h

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 1d

"My children are dead!"

A Palestinian prisoner released today was expecting to embrace his family, only to find out they had been killed weeks ago in Israel's genocidal war on Gaza.

Reposted by midnucas 🇵🇷

Truth Not War @truthnotwar.bsky.social · 1d

While our ABC repeatedly gives precious air time to 'Trumps peace deal'& Netanyahu's infuriating speech, lying to the world that it's always been about the prisoners of their long & brutal occupation .. HOWEVER Palest1ne's hostages are returning to utter utter devastation of their occupied lands.

Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 1d

"My children are dead!"

A Palestinian prisoner released today was expecting to embrace his family, only to find out they had been killed weeks ago in Israel's genocidal war on Gaza.

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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 3h

It’s been two years of videos similar to that

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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 4h

There’s a video of a freed Palestinian hostage who’d made a gift for his daughter’s birthday this week only to learn that Israel killed his whole family weeks ago. Also a video of another whose torturers had told him that his family had all been killed, and found them alive

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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 4h

The pages are from the original Spanish-language edition of Ivonne Acosta Lespier’s “La Mordaza,” a book that now exists in English as well:

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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 4h

Rigged jury trials in 1951 Puerto Rico, as related to the ACLU at the time by noted African-American civil rights lawyer Conrad Lynn who was defending Ruth Reynolds, a USA woman who was tried for supporting the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party:

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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 23h

Vito Corleone. Ettore Boiardi

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 1d

You support Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Mark

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