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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 10h

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 · 12h

You support Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Mark

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

People are spontaneously posting up near any laborers or street vendors they spot. Just saw a rapid responder guarding a man working on a building exterior. Many things are terrible today but lord, this stuff matters.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.

People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.

Know your rights flyer in Spanish on street pole

Alderperson Maria Hadden on street corner

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

Better than people thinking you’re the unspeakable horrors guy

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

The Department of Justice's analysis of H.R. 1522 (Puerto Rico Statehood Admission Act) has been that the PROMESA Act—what allows the USA to forbid Puerto Rico from lowering its taxes—would continue under statehood:

www.congress.gov/117/meeting/...

docs.house.gov/Committee/Ca...

Screenshot of paragraph of the Department of Justice's analysis of H.R. 1522 (Puerto Rico Statehood Admission Act), which is the first link in the skeet. Two sentences have been highlighted, and they read:

More broadly, we think a good argument can be made that PROMESA would not violate the uniformity requirements of the Bankruptcy Clause at all were Puerto Rico to become a state. PROMESA was enacted under the Territories Clause and its bankruptcy provisions would attach to any relevant debt before Puerto Rico becomes a state and uniformity requirements applied.

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

Some people who don't know what they're talking about will still object that surely Puerto Rico would lower its tax rates if the USA made it a state. But legally the USA doesn't allow Puerto Rico to lower its taxes, because they are pledged to repay debt: www.power4puertorico.com/statements/p...

Screenshot from the Power 4 Puerto Rico web page linked from the skeet. It reads:

The PRSA must be straightforward on taxation. Puerto Ricans must be informed upfront in the PRSA whether a 70 percent income tax rate would be applied to Puerto Rico, if Puerto Ricans choose statehood.

Congress’s imposed fiscal control board has already negotiated debt-repayment plans on the backs of Puerto Rican families for the next 30 years. Therefore, Puerto Rico’s current income tax rates hovering at the high 30 percent cannot be lowered. It’s important to note that California has the highest state income tax rate at 13.3 percent.

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

Imagine you graduate from the University of Puerto Rico and you manage to get a local job that pays $25k (the median household income)... and some gringo Democrats who don't give a shit but say you gotta vote for them make Puerto Rico a state, so your taxes more than triple from $1,120 to $3,872:

Spreadsheet showing Puerto Rico local and USA federal income tax rates for individual taxpayers, together with what the combined tax rates would be if Puerto Rico was a state. The row for incomes between $12,400 and $25,000 is highlighted, which shows that an individual earning $25,000 who pays $1,120 in Puerto Rico today would end up paying $3,872.

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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 2d

Cuando hice el hilo en Twitter lo ilustré con videos de asentadores sionazis sentándose en las sillas de palestinos en Cisjordania, como este: x.com/midnucas/sta...

Benito hasn't denounced the genocide 🇵🇷 on X: "@sanbenito Random video I saw today: "Many Palestinian families in the West Bank, even entire towns, are forced to stay awake all night to protect themselves from settler attacks and attempts to seize land, destroy crops, kill livestock, and poison wells." https://t.co/vWsoJhvTEN" / X

@sanbenito Random video I saw today

x.com

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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 2d

Contexto

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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 2d

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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 2d

Subramanyam "Subu" Vedam fue soltado recientemente de la prisión tras 43 años por un asesinato que se probó al final que no cometió, pero... la migra lo agarró el instante que salió y lo tienen preso

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 2d

They gave it to a woman trying to instigate a war against her own country, you dummy

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Oubao Moin 𓆏𓆌𓆉𓆈𓆚 🇵🇷🇱🇧|🍉🌻🌿 #VivaPuertoRicoLibre @astrophobia.bsky.social · 3d

Puerto Rico es un país diseñado con el sumo propósito de ser hostil contra las personas con discapacidades y contra los peatones. Son las últimas personas que se toman en consideración ante todo. Esta sociedad de carro maligna e híperindividualista será nuestra tumba.

Metro Puerto Rico @metropr.bsky.social · 3d

Atropellan a mujer en silla de ruedas en Toa Alta

https://www.metro.pr/noticias/2025/10/11/atropellan-a-mujer-en-silla-de-ruedas-en-toa-alta/

Atropellan a mujer en silla de ruedas en Toa Alta

La mujer fue transportada a una institución hospitalaria, donde posteriormente se certificó su muerte

www.metro.pr

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Pedro @petegp.bsky.social · 3d

Quando os supermercados colocam alarmes no leite em pó para bebés ... 😑

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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 2d

I think when he calls people “normies” he means it as an euphemism for “stupid plebes”

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 2d

“For more than 3 hours, officers can be seen walking past while he lay on the floor in his urine in obvious distress…noting he was foaming at the mouth & having seizure-like activity…mistaking his medical emergency for a drug overdose…”

Except a drug overdose is also a medical emergency...

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 2d

And then of course the execs will brag that AI did all the spreadsheets

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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 2d

Much sooner than that, actually, the bullshit machines will become just good enough to replace their creators’ janitors’ kids’ teachers so that their school districts can hire more cops

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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 2d

It’s like the flipside to the hasbara trolls who ask people in bad faith to name a single Palestinian who’s made a positive contribution to humanity. Democrats can’t name any of the Puerto Ricans in Bad Bunny’s video, but they’ll insist that they all contributed greatly to the USA.

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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 2d

Last time Benito tried to put Puerto Rican history in the spotlight for a gringo audience was when he reacted to “island of garbage” by posting his 2021 concert intro video. It had Lolita, Albizu, Blanca Canales, Corretjer… and gringo Dems said it was about “Puerto Ricans’ contributions to the USA.”

Denise Oliver-Velez @deniseoliver-velez.bsky.social · 3d

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl 2026 Halftime Show Could Finally Bring Puerto Rican History Into the Spotlight
www.teenvogue.com/story/bad-bu...

Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Could Finally Spotlight Important Boricua History on the Mainland

Bad Bunny is perhaps the only pop star fully equipped to take on the current American sociopolitical ecosystem and the fact that a show must entertain.

www.teenvogue.com

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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 2d

That’s about as useless as trying to explain to a gringo Democrat that Puerto Rico is not part of the United States. Y’all will reject it and call us idiots it even if we show you your own damn Supreme Court saying it.

bsky.app/profile/midn...

midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 14d

With Bad Bunny headlining the Super Bowl we're getting a really bad case of idiot gringos lecturing other idiot gringos that "PuERTo RICo Is PaRt oF the UNItED STAtes," a claim that the Supreme Court of the United States has rejected for over 100 years and says instead that the USA "merely" OWNS us

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

Imagine winning the Nobel Peace Prize when you're busy stirring up foreign military attacks against your own country

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 3d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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

es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%...

José Jerí - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Jerí

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

The most incredible thing about Peru’s new sex pest rapist president José Jerí, from Spanish Wikipedia: he got only 12k votes but was awarded his congressional seat anyway because his opponent who got 208k was subsequently disqualified from office 🤯🤯🤯

Machine translated paragraph from Spanish language Wikipedia, linked in my next skeet. It reads:

“In the 2021 parliamentary elections, José Jerí ran for the Republic for the electoral list of Metropolitan Lima of Somos Perú, being number 3 on the list of candidates. Despite obtaining only 11,654 preference votes, Jerí managed to be elected as a congressman of the republic for the 2021-2026 parliamentary period. This was due to the disqualification of Martín Vizcarra, former president and congressional candidate who obtained 208,387 votes, from any public office.0

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