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Manuel Salgado @manuelsalgado.bsky.social · 4h

Bro this started to induce a panic to me that they were caving. JFC.

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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 20h

Listen to Bad Bunny, YOU PEOPLE

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Manuel Salgado @manuelsalgado.bsky.social · 1d

Gustavo is a national treasure. ICE are the mission tortillas of federal agencies.

Col. Gustavo Arellano @gustavoarellano.bsky.social · 1d

MY LATEST @latimes.com ‬⁩ COLUMNA: Who knew ICE could be so funny? Just check out videos of their fails. Share, porfas!

Commentary: Who knew ICE could be so funny? Just check out videos of their fails

Crank up the Benny Hill theme song and let the belly laughs commence.

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Manuel Salgado @manuelsalgado.bsky.social · 1d

Love this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pritzker: "This guy is unhinged. He's insecure. He's a wannabe dictator. And there's one thing I really want to say to Donald Trump. If you come for my people, you come through me. So come and get me."

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Manuel Salgado @manuelsalgado.bsky.social · 1d

EJ champ right here! Very active in the data center fight. Love this.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 1d

Justin J. Pearson — the 30-year-old Memphis representative and member of the “Tennessee Three” who protested gun violence — has announced a bid to primary 76-year-old Democrat Steve Cohen for a seat in the U.S. House.

Justin J. Pearson of the 'Tennessee Three' Has Had It With 'Mediocrity' -- So He's Running for Congress

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Manuel Salgado @manuelsalgado.bsky.social · 1d

I'm supposed to believe AI is incredibly advanced when the Google assistant can't even understand me when I give it an album in Spanish and then it repeats the name with the album name in the whitest way possible? Yeah ok.

a woman is sitting in the back seat of a car with the words `` ignores you in spanish '' .

ALT: a woman is sitting in the back seat of a car with the words `` ignores you in spanish '' .

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Manuel Salgado @manuelsalgado.bsky.social · 1d

Look I really support work life balance, but sometimes a project at work brings me so much joy that working on it late into the night doesn't feel wrong. I can't wait to share this one out - especially with all my fellow Latinos.

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Pablo Manríquez @pabloreports.bsky.social · 2d

I made a video.

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Manuel Salgado @manuelsalgado.bsky.social · 2d

Oh I don't know, if you're like us and make content like this then its quite possible NEPA shutting down a concentration camp in FL is the sexiest thing you've seen all year. I guess NEPA does delay fascism.

NEPA Does Not Delay

Deregulation is Not the Solution for Clean Energy

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Manuel Salgado @manuelsalgado.bsky.social · 2d

Oh yeah man, don't come to main stream sports commentary from a data driven perspective as you will be sorely disappointed. That being said, there are some folks with you tube channels and podcasts who take a more analytical approach and I find that can be good content.

Manuel Salgado @manuelsalgado.bsky.social · 3d

Look we've dealt with lies from this man for a decade now but this is a new level of nonsense and one that every single media outlet who reports on this should be refuting. This is nonsense, and if Biden said anything like this, there would have been cries that he had lost his mind. DO YOUR JOB!

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4d

Trump: Portland is burning to the ground—insurrectionists all over the place. The politicians are afraid for their lives. That’s the only reason they say there’s nothing happening.

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Manuel Salgado @manuelsalgado.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me more.about how left wing terror is the problem.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

SOUTH CAROLINA… “Judge Goodstein was walking on the beach when the fire started. Her husband, Arnie, was in the house with children and perhaps grandchildren. The family had to escape by jumping from a window or balcony...” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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Manuel Salgado @manuelsalgado.bsky.social · 4d

I maintain he saw America to it's core and wrote about it so well and better than anyone else in that era. @esglaude.bsky.social s book about Baldwin in The Trump era is excellent.

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Manuel Salgado @manuelsalgado.bsky.social · 4d

Especially since they choose to go on a giant show! Also I can never tell if the participants are just media trained by pr firms during the reunions or if some of the participants actually are introspective and maybe getting therapy. Hard not to be cynical!

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Manuel Salgado @manuelsalgado.bsky.social · 4d

I was pretty self loathing about being Mexican American as a teen so I get it but I agee that we have tools available to help us understand and work through it. It's hard but it's harmful to our people to not push back against internalized white supremacy! It's ok to display frustration with them!

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Manuel Salgado @manuelsalgado.bsky.social · 4d

Schumer is definitely responsible for my lack of production from my running backs.

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Manuel Salgado @manuelsalgado.bsky.social · 4d

I read a good piece or thread (can't remember) that spoke to how authoritarianism has evolved and used Hungary and other examples in recent years which was a very good read on this very situation. I wish I could I could find it but man, it was spot on.

Manuel Salgado @manuelsalgado.bsky.social · 4d

Social media is their best tool outside of Fox News! I think back to the Arab Spring and how we imagined social media as a tool for progress and in fact its just been weaponized as a tool of manipulation and control for the most part. Man I wish I knew then what I know now.

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Manuel Salgado @manuelsalgado.bsky.social · 4d

There is no reason that Oregon officials should let this fly. This is absolutely illegal. If this was a protestor doing this to a cop they would have been beaten by the cops then faced incredible legal repercussions. We have to start holding these thugs accountable.

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Hell Naw Patrol-ling the Spooky Shadow Dockets @crawdadding.bsky.social · 4d

Been Knew ™️

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 4d

This week at an event for THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT, a reader asked in a gracious and cheeky way what I would hope white readers in particular would get out of the book. Or more directly, what I would TELL white readers. And this was basically my answer:

African-Americans are experts on America.

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 4d

America should listen to Black people

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 4d

This week at an event for THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT, a reader asked in a gracious and cheeky way what I would hope white readers in particular would get out of the book. Or more directly, what I would TELL white readers. And this was basically my answer:

African-Americans are experts on America.

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 4d

America should listen to Black people

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Manuel Salgado @manuelsalgado.bsky.social · 4d

I mean I don't think it was even hidden. The majority of the people in this country just haven't usually cared about who its happening to. 2020 was the exception but that faded pretty fast.

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Manuel Salgado @manuelsalgado.bsky.social · 4d

I really have to stop myself from replying to every person acting like ICE is somehow different from how almost all police operate when it comes to Black and Brown people in this country. I want them upset at ICE, but I want them to recognize this shit is NOT NEW - its how police always move.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 4d

You: ICE can't just detain a whole apartment building without probable cause! Fascism has finally come to America!

Me: There are ~1 million Black non-Hispanic and Afro-Latino men and boys living in NYC. In some years, NYPD does 700,000 stop and frisks. 90% of those happen to Black men and boys.

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Manuel Salgado @manuelsalgado.bsky.social · 4d

Good summary and insight today from @gelliottmorris.com .

All the polls on the government shutdown so far | Weekly roundup for October 5, 2025

Also this week: Dems lead in Virginia election polling; economic sentiment is down; people are turning against sports betting; + more!

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