Ricardo Arroyo
@RicardoNArroyo
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Attorney | Fmr. Boston City Councilor | Fmr. Public Defender @CPCSnews | @MCLA_Alumni | @LoyolaLaw Alum |
Boston, MA USA
Joined May 2013
NEW: @propublica investigates the Chicago raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged; - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
New: Agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter in a massive show of force. Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. But after the cameras were gone, federal prosecutors did not charge anyone.
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More than 252 Venezuelans expelled to El Salvador under Trump’s mass deportation policy suffered systematic and prolonged torture and abuse, including sexual assault, during their detention, according to a Human Rights Watch report published on Wednesday.
theguardian.com
Human rights groups accuse Trump officials of complicity and draw comparison with scandal at Abu Ghraib prison
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They died for America. Now they're being written out.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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Hi. Republicans don't want to negotiate with you. They don't care if Americans die. Glad we could clear that up. You're an embarrassment.
Shaheen: This was the only deal on the table. It was our best chance to reopen the government and immediately begin negotiations to extend the ACA tax credits that tens of millions of Americans rely on to keep costs down.
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Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.
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"Source adds Dems will “hold [Republicans] accountable” if they don’t play ball on ACA once the government is reopen."
Another source familiar with the deal says the December vote on a health care bill of Dems’ choosing will, specifically, take place by the end of the second week. Source adds Dems will “hold [Republicans] accountable” if they don’t play ball on ACA once the government is reopen.
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The average monthly SNAP benefit is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit is up to $550 a person/mo. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. Working people want leaders whose word means something.
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Schumer organized this, and then is voting no last second, and letting retiring Dems take the heat. If this goes through, that needs to be the end of Schumer leadership regardless of how he votes. He’s the minority leader, the buck stops at him.
Please don’t think this beltway game of having retiring Dem senators vote yes while everyone else votes no is going to shield leadership from the end result. We see what is happening and can’t be fooled by those games.
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Ensuring that Democratic Senators who cave for a promise will never be able to afford that spinal fusion they so obviously need.
An end to the shutdown is in sight. A senior Dem Senator tells me there will be more than enough Democrats to vote in favor of re-opening the government tonight. They’ll get a promise of a vote on health care — but nothing more. Most of the Democratic leadership will likely
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries just this morning on if House Dems would be happy with a promise on a future vote on ACA subsidies: “I don't think that the House Democratic Caucus is prepared to support a promise, a wing and a prayer, from folks who have been devastating
NEWS — A deal in the Senate to end the government shutdown is within reach, multiple sources from both parties told Axios. At least 10 Dems are likely to support a procedural vote on a package of funding bills and a CR, sources said. It would be in exchange for a vote on ACA
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“A promise of a vote on healthcare” is nothing
An end to the shutdown is in sight. A senior Dem Senator tells me there will be more than enough Democrats to vote in favor of re-opening the government tonight. They’ll get a promise of a vote on health care — but nothing more. Most of the Democratic leadership will likely
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“While some people see a 'new Marjorie,' on healthcare costs, the reality is that the Big Ugly Bill passed with ONE vote. Hers. This crisis is all because she didn't do the right thing when she could!” —Jasmine Crockett
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The world needs honest and courageous entrepreneurs and communicators who care for the common good. We sometimes hear the saying: “Business is business!” In reality, it is not so. No one is absorbed by an organization to the point of becoming a mere cog or a simple function. Nor
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the idea that billionaires are offended a public servant won’t personally meet with them says everything you need to know about the default system as well as Zohran for refusing them.
Canadian multimillionaire and Shark Tank guy Kevin O'Leary went on TV to say he's upset Zohran won't talk to him: "I and others who invest in real estate have tried to get a meeting to figure out what's rhetoric and what's policy. So far for me it's been crickets."
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Mamdani was what so many politicians, law firms, universities, media companies, and others have not been: totally, completely, authentically unafraid. That's the only way to defeat authoritarianism.
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Mamdani shows that the future of the Democratic Party has to be about principled movement building that imagines a different future, not a stale poll-tested defense of a status quo nobody wants.
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I will never be in a political party that has a "Hitler does not suck" wing to it, personally
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I think children should be allowed to experience cookies even if they are poor
When I go to the store and see them advertising big tubs of chocolate chip cookies as EBT eligible it makes me not care about it getting shut down.
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