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Miguel Angel Aguilar @miguelyalater.bsky.social · 2d

If you are Pro-Kings, then organize a protest and get the proper permits to arrange your bootlicker march.

Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 2d

San Antonio's No Kings protest was disrupted by pro-Trump counterprotesters.

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 3d

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

White words on a black background read:

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Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

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Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Nov 23

Cycling is 10 times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities and 100 times more fun.

Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities

Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.

theconversation.com

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Miguel Angel Aguilar @miguelyalater.bsky.social · 12d

I knew wokism had gone too far when Family Matters went from being primarily about a Black, middle-class family to being primarily about a dorky, Black science kid who occasionally turns himself into a suave, Black man, vying for the affection of a police officer’s daughter.

Miguel Angel Aguilar @miguelyalater.bsky.social · 13d

I worry for people out here with allergies and food sensitivities far worse than mine.

Miguel Angel Aguilar @miguelyalater.bsky.social · 13d

Another barista at a different cafe gave me an ICED latte when I asked for HOT.

I don’t care if *you think* it’s too hot outside to be drinking hot coffee, but if you can’t listen to my order correctly on this detail, my trust in you wavers immensely on whether you are truly giving me DECAF.

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Miguel Angel Aguilar @miguelyalater.bsky.social · 13d

This rings slightly of “What is Aleppo?”

JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 13d

“Who” is, objectively, the funniest possible response here

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 13d

No firearms were on display among a couple dozen pro-Palestinian protesters at Milam Park, or outside Fox Tech High School, where a handful of students walked out mid-morning.

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Miguel Angel Aguilar @miguelyalater.bsky.social · 14d

Me, having an autoimmune condition resulting in hives on my face when I drink caffeine:

“Can I please get a decaf, vanilla latte, hot?”

Barista: “Was that a decaf, lavender latte?”

Me: “Sure. Let’s go with that instead.”

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Me, moments later: “I hope this ICED lavender latte is actually decaf.”

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Miguel Angel Aguilar @miguelyalater.bsky.social · 14d

This is what you get when you care more about liability to an institution than actual ethics and morality.

I support students’ right to peacefully protest.

Miguel Angel Aguilar @miguelyalater.bsky.social · 14d

Media coverage of these pro-Palestinian/anti-genocide student led protests in San Antonio is negligent and dangerous. Local commentators and school districts are so out-of-touch with young people and their concerns with Israel’s ongoing genocidal campaign in Gaza.

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Miguel Angel Aguilar @miguelyalater.bsky.social · 15d

I’m thinking along similar lines of: “Jan 6 was such an feckless and slow motion coup that few people could register it as such”

…then it was obfuscated by the media (legacy and social) to the point of it being a memory of gaslighting.

Miguel Angel Aguilar @miguelyalater.bsky.social · 15d

Is the deployment of troops to cities in Blue States an act of civil war in such slow motion that we aren’t registering it as an act of war?

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Miguel Angel Aguilar @miguelyalater.bsky.social · 18d

It’s still baffling that y’all let him put his name on this country.

Bill Kuchman @billkuchman.bsky.social · 18d

Treasury Department considers minting a $1 Trump coin www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Treasury Department considers minting a $1 Trump coin

The draft design of the coin, which was overseen by the Office of the U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach, features Trump’s profile on one side of the coin.

www.politico.com

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Miguel Angel Aguilar @miguelyalater.bsky.social · 18d

Reminder: Have your friends take pictures of you when you’re experiencing abject and utter sadness, when you’re completely emotionally devastated.

Then post it to social media.

For balance.

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Pam Belluck @pambelluck.bsky.social · 21d

NEW: Long Covid risk for children doubles after a second infection, study finds www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/h...

Long Covid Risk for Children Doubles After a Second Infection, Study Finds

www.nytimes.com

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Miguel Angel Aguilar @miguelyalater.bsky.social · 20d

I cannot justify this to you but every time I see a reel of people dancing to Katseye’s Gnarly, I must watch it.

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · Sep 20

Nothing but respect for MY president

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Sep 19

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

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Miguel Angel Aguilar @miguelyalater.bsky.social · Sep 20

Probably won’t be able to board a plane if “Little Marco” reads this.

Miguel Angel Aguilar @miguelyalater.bsky.social · Sep 20

I give myself too much credit. I bet I’m a centrist in countries that have a real Left wing political tradition.

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Miguel Angel Aguilar @miguelyalater.bsky.social · Sep 20

Tough time to be a Leftist in America right now, amirite?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Sep 18

David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.

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Miguel Angel Aguilar @miguelyalater.bsky.social · Sep 18

To hear my White friends from the upper class suburbs of Austin or Dallas or Houston talk about being a “poor college kid” always rang as untrue to me.

Miguel Angel Aguilar @miguelyalater.bsky.social · Sep 18

I was a Mexican-American kid who didn’t find “eating ramen every day” as a college student very different from growing up poor and “eating ramen every day” in a home where ramen was a primary staple in the pantry.

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