Lorenzo Salgado, jr.
@oznezol.bsky.social
district of columbia. Houston born & raised somewhere between engineer and writer. Rockets fan 🇺🇸 + 🇲🇽
dc statehood is non-negotiable after trump's actions in his second term. republicans despise the people of the city that hosts them, and there is little reason to think that, now that the seal is broken on treating them as an occupied population, a next republican president will be more restrained
NEW: The head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a statement firmly condemning plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan. Archbishop Paul Coakley calls the decision “a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered.” www.usccb.org/news/2026/us...
NPR@npr.org · 2d agoThe Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the execution would be "public. n.pr/4hNSlSu
Hard to overstate how much Hegseth's execution stream mirrors the U.S. military's traditional description of ISIS propaganda: broadcast killings designed to send a message, strike fear and create a social media spectacle. Will almost certainly be repurposed by online terror cells
tiktok made me angry with the first video it opened up on so I noted that feeling and closed, then deleted the app because i don’t need that energy in my life
For the second time, a Journey Aviation ICE flight has stopped in Gitmo on its way to removal stops in Africa. On Sept. 24, a Journey plane deported Somali nationals held at Gitmo via Kenya.
Status reports that ABC News deleted that explosive story about the Trump kids getting billions in federal contracts for their companies. ABC hasn't explained why they nuked the story, even as Trump has crowed about its deletion, sparking a firestorm behind scenes. www.status.news/p/david-elli...
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
me, an immigrant, watching people who said immigrants are corrupting america engage in actual corrupt behavior
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3d agoKimberly Guilfoyle was preparing for her congressional hearing to become U.S. ambassador to Greece when she reached out to a Trump donor with an urgent request: She needed $100,000 that she said she owed American Express—in a way that wouldn't leave a paper trail.
ICE is terrorizing our city and our communities. They’ve just shot someone with a five-year-old in the car. There is no justification for this or their presence in New York. ICE out of NYC. #abolishice. Image via @gothamist.com
GIL SCOTT-HERON in 1982 showing the side of Washington D.C. that tourists never got to see and politicians tried to imagine didn’t exist.
marco no se asimila con el pueblo pero con los imperialistas
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d agoFunny how Marco Rubio tries to differentiate himself from all the other children of recent immigrants who are now getting removed from the country by the master he now serves. Rubio, you see, is a descendent of *the West*
Immigration and Customs Enforcement leadership told agents nationwide to increase immigration arrests by 1,000 more people daily, returning to a previous goal of 3,000 daily arrests, according to two sources familiar with the verbal directive. https://cnn.it/4zgcsQc
awesome ad-buying deep dive by @iarnsdorf.bsky.social — the campaign ad rate edge, and all those early buys by the talarico campaign, is just bonkers www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Some Extremely Cool Shit we have going on @chron.com: We've partnered with the Daily Cougar at the Univ. of Houston to bring their journalism to our website. You can now read really great, important work by student journalists like this story on chron dot com: www.chron.com/news/article...
Why Texas may see fewer Iranian lawyers
“The administration can’t just ban a whole race or ethnicity from taking the LSAT.”
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wrote about cooper flagg, whose second season feels like it should be a way bigger deal than it is: www.theringer.com/2026/10/07/n...
The Cooper Flagg Leap Is Hiding in Plain Sight
He was historically good as a rookie. Now imagine what happens when his team actually helps him.
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Over the moon. They have two little kids, and Gabi had to flee their home due to harassment after she began organizing. A whole community came together to support this family and I am so glad they are reunited.
BIG NEWS. Martin Soto, one of the orginal organizers of the Delaney Hall hunger strike, whose wife Gabi was an integral part of organizing on the outside against deplorable conditions, IS FREE. He was released just a few moments ago.
"The Archdiocese of St. Louis has filed a lawsuit ... claims that the Ste. Genevieve County Jail and ICE have violated the First Amendment rights of immigrant detainees by preventing Catholic priests from delivering communion, hearing confessions and celebrating Mass." fox2now.com/news/missour...
Archdiocese of St. Louis sues ICE officials over blocked religious services
The Archdiocese of St. Louis has filed a lawsuit against Ste. Genevieve County officials and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) leadership over alleged restrictions on Catholic religiou…
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Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.
psst… what young men need are decent jobs with good pay and benefits that allow them to focus on companionship, family, and community. They are lonely because school, trades, etc are inaccessible. The owners of capital are laser focused on tricking men to resent anyone but the billionaires
The Washington Sun@washingtonsun.com · 4d agoC-SPAN, panels and polling: Two days of “making space for men” at a conference in Washington.
I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.
Ken Schwencke@schwanksta.com · 4d agoA year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?
ProPublica@propublica.org · 4d ago4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.
Pope Leo XIV’s top ally in Washington Cardinal Robert McElroy has told Catholics to convert the politicians who tolerate Trump’s war on immigrants “or replace them.” He was met with a standing ovation.
Ezra Klein: “What is, to you, the ‘rage economy’?” James Talarico: “The billionaires own the algorithms and the news networks. They have created for-profit platforms that divide us on an hourly basis — by party, by race, by gender, by religion. They elevate the most extreme voices."
James Talarico on Texas officially banning THC: “Texans aren’t going to stop smoking weed and eating edibles because politicians in Austin say so. We are now telling full-grown adults how to live their lives. This is the nanny state at its worst; this is big government at its worst."
A new IWPR report confirms that college-educated Black women are more likely to lead in government than in companies. Which is why the DOGE cuts that slashed federal jobs have been particularly devastating for college-educated Black women. #blacksky
Economic Policy Institute@epi.org · 5d agoFrom 1979-2007, Black women with bachelor’s degrees were the only group of women to maintain labor force participation rates above 80 percent. Yet, despite their high labor force participation, highly educated Black women have been—and continue to be—systematically held back from upward mobility.
