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Fernando Barrera
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Former former journalist, now media strategist and comms guy. Son of 🇵🇷 🇨🇴 immigrants.
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Describing ICE kidnappings in US today or Argentina military kidnappings during the Dirty Wars getting horrifically similar. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/b...
The state-ordered abductions were a matter of both secrecy and spectacle: masked men jumping out from cars without license plates, grabbing people from city streets in the middle of the day. Panicked families tried to petition the courts to find out where the men had taken their loved ones, and why. Even the terrible finality of a death record would have provided a measure of relief.
July 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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One could write as a fact that the Trump family is profiteering, and not "critics say.."
“If there’s one family that hasn’t profited off politics, it’s the Trump family.” – Eric Trump, one of President Trump’s sons, to The Financial Times. Critics have accused the family of minting money via crypto — including a memecoin linked to the president — and other ventures that have benefited from his father’s political standing.
June 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Here's a disastrous benefit of Republican tax cuts, scammed folks lose money and are forced to pay tax bill. Trump 2017 tax cuts helped the rich people get richer and screwed the rest of us. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/y...
There used to be an easier way for people with the largest tax bills to deduct these losses from their income, using a tax deduction for victims of personal casualties, disasters and theft. But that and many other individual breaks were eliminated or narrowed as part of the Republican-led tax overhaul known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which helped to pay for broader tax cuts, including a reduced corporate tax rate.
March 9, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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FYI, folks. A fake user pretending to be @cagovernornewsom.bsky.social @support.bsky.team Already reported
A fake user, @governornewsum [using a u instead of o] pretending to be Governor Gavin Newsom.
January 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Met's pitcher Jesse Orosco falling down on his knees and raising his hands in celebration of team winning the 1986 World Series.
November 22, 2024 at 11:25 PM
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She voted for Trump. It may be the (early) death of her. #healthcare www.latimes.com/politics/la-...
Excerpt from LA Times: After struggling for years without insurance, the 55-year-old former small-business owner — who has battled diabetes, high blood pressure and two cancers — credits Obamacare with saving her life. Watson also voted for Donald Trump, believing the businessman would bring change. She dismissed his campaign pledges to scrap the Affordable Care Act as bluster. Now, as she watches the new president push to kill the law that provided her with a critical lifeline, Watson finds herself among many Trump supporters who must reconcile their votes with worries about the future of their healthcare.
November 11, 2024 at 5:42 AM
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We should be encouraging felons to find meaningful work.
Drudge Report posts a photo of Trump in the Ronald McDonald clown costume, with a title "One Fry Short of a Happy Meal! Felon Finds Work"
October 21, 2024 at 12:44 AM
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Did anyone notice? #editing
May 19, 2024 at 12:19 AM
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Quite a CA legacy.
May 11, 2024 at 6:35 PM