Julio Ricardo Varela
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Sr. Director, Marketing & Comms, https://t.co/IyURh4svKn. Founder, @latnewsletter (2024), @latinorebels (2011). @MSNBC columnist. Opinions mine here & no one else's 🇵🇷
Joined October 2008
Imagine if we could have deployed the National Guard this quickly to test millions of people in March.
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Hey @CNN, @cindymccain is not the only reason that Biden won Arizona. It wasn't just that. Can you at least discuss the overwhelming Latino support and the organizing history of young Latinos in the time of SB1070?.
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AOC mentions "colonization" in her remarks. I don't think I have heard that word from a DNC convention primetime set of remarks ever. #DemocraticNationalConvention.
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Yes, you can be Latino AND a white supremacist. Yes, you can be Latino AND anti-migrant. This is nothing new. You just haven't been paying attention to years of commentary and writing about all this.
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Sorry but needs to be said: when @JulianCastro challenged Biden last debate, he was labeled as "mean" and it became a top story. When @PeteButtigieg challenged candidates tonight, he is being praised for his "passion.". Angry Mayor Pete didn't play well. Sad to see. #DemDebate.
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JUST IN: Just got confirmation from the office @SenSanders that he will be a Senate co-sponsor of the 2021 Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act. The Senate version of this act will be submitted to the Senate and the House tomorrow. #PuertoRico.
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Two things here. 1) @PaulaReidCBS with actual journalism.2) And the @CNN chryons too. Then attack journalists. We need MORE of this. Now more than ever. Hold power accountable.
I don't know this reporter's name. But man, she would not let up even in the face of President Trump's attacks.
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#PuertoRico has no power but American news media has told us that a funeral of a monarch is 1,000 times more important.
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This initial question by @billmaher to @JulianCastro is yet another example of what is wrong with white liberals. Good for Castro for not falling for that trap.
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After hanging out in #Detroit's predominantly Latino neighborhood the last two days, I was struck by how so many people kept telling me that they're all supporting @BernieSanders and that people should step back for a minute and wait until #MichiganPrimary is over next Tuesday.
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Taking a moment to remind fellow journalists that @jorgeramosnews was also kicked out of a @realDonaldTrump press conference during the campaign and the vast majority of you said Ramos was out of line and you did not defend him. Don't tell us that we didn't tell you so.
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People are really trying to dissect what is a "cage," what is a "facility," what is a "shelter," when the bigger issue we should be dissecting is very simple: why have we as a country been criminalizing migration from the Global South since the 1990s and even before that?.
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"Madam Secretary, I would match my record against yours any day of the week." @BernieSanders #DemDebate.
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Can we please stop with the "Trump gained with Latino voters" hot takes? If you talked to ANY academic, commentator or journalist who has covered Latino voters over the last 40 years, the GOP has historically gotten a third of Latino voters nationally.
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Got this from a Facebook friend, & it is with a heavy heart to admit that the worse is still yet to come in #PuertoRico. Please RT.
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Fascinating graphic by @UCLAlatino study of Latino vote and 2020 Iowa Caucus analysis. @BernieSanders ran away with the Latino vote in Iowa, which has seen a 346 percent increase in number of Latino registered voters from 2004 to 2020. #IowaCaucuses #Election2020
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Puerto Ricans are not Americans. Puerto Ricans are American colonial subjects. Big difference. Discuss.
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Hello, all you political reporters and commentators who are now covering #PuertoRico's decades-long political status debate. Please take a moment to connect with actual Puerto Rican journalists who have been covering this issue for years. Thank you.
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Am still taken aback at how the only Latino presidential candidate in 2020, @JulianCastro, is not speaking during any prime time slot at @DNC convention this week. It's not like he was a keynote speaker in 2012. Dems are sending a really bad message here. Do they want to win?.
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Federal arrests happening in #PuertoRico this morning. Former director of Health Insurance Administration Ángela Ávila arrested. @TorresGotay reporting that FBI will be arresting others today.
AHORA: empiezan arrestos federales con la detención está mañana de Ángela Ávila, ex directora ejecutiva de ASES
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The use of the word "surge" needs to be eliminated from mainstream American newsrooms that still fail to cover immigration stories in the more accurate context of a yearslong humanitarian refugee crisis principally caused by US policy.
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Derek Smith just was not having it with Nelson. Not for a second. Solid witness for prosecution. #ChauvinTrial.
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Can the word "fluke" now be eliminated from any description of @AOC moving forward? She crushed primary opponents tonight with more than 70% of the vote. It wasn't even close. #NYPrimary #NY14.
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Another major underreported angle.
3 AZ counties on Navajo Nation went 97% for Biden. via @navajotimes.
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Remember that @QuinnipiacPoll about 45% of Latinos didn't think President Trump was racist?. I asked Quinnipiac last week about sample size, and I got this reply right now from them:. "We surveyed 95 registered voters who identified themselves as Hispanic.". 95 registered voters.
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#BretStephens is on @MSNBC saying Twitter "brings out worst in people." Says GW professor used dehumanizing language. He is obsessing about being called a "bedbug.". "I had no intention of getting him in professional trouble," Stephens said. OMG, the white male fragility tears.
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Latinos got the job done in Arizona. They helped turn the state blue
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So when do we start talking about a real Latino (mostly Mexican American) voter bloc in the West and Southwest that is consistently voting blue?. CA.OR.WA.AZ.NV.NM.CO. Eventually (maybe in 2-3 more cycles), TX too. Enough with the single-note FL takes. #Election2020.
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The United States: where domestic terrorists get fed organic food while migrant children get separated from their families.
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Dear fellow Latin Americans:. Please stop coming to my timeline to "defend" that the region's race relations are perfectly fine and that there is no racism in Latin America because "we have all races in us" claim. Just stop. White supremacy is also a thing in Latin America.
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I have some personal news to share on the job front. I have been named Editorial Director for @futuromedia, which means that I'm entrusted in editorial vision/oversight for @LatinoUSA @InTheThickShow and @latinorebels. Will still be involved as head of new biz for @futurostudios.
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Have some news to share. I have accepted an offer to become a columnist for @MSNBC. Will write 2-3 pieces a month. Yes, it is a regular columnist side gig. Will still be rocking it full-time for @futuromedia but my dream has always been to be a columnist. Yay!.
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Am also thinking of all those lost lives who didn't have the means for a proper funeral and death notice.
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Would be nice if US media would just call @GregAbbott_TX for what he is: a human trafficker.
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Proof that counters "Latinos are resistant to the vaccines" and "The virus is spreading through the border" BS narrative. Majority of Texas counties in Texas with large Latino populations have highest rates of vaccinations, some even close to 80%. SOURCE:
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I will always think what would have happened if US corporate media (broadcast, print, cable news, digital) made white supremacy its top beat instead of enabling and actually personifying it. Now it feels so convenient. That they "discovered" this angle.
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Am not engaging anyone who can't understand why Latinos voted who they voted this cycle. If you need explanations today, you can read my last 3 years of work. This was always possible. The results do not surprise me.
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While everyone is freaking out about @VP walking out of a football game, 93% of people in #PuertoRico have no power.
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Don't know if you saw this yesterday, but here is Fred Rogers' widow telling Megyn Kelly what she thinks Mr. Rogers would be talking about now. Listen to what she says: It's about immigrant children. h/t @MSalasBlair
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He is going to deliver a loan. Lucky #PuertoRico! Can this get any more colonial? . PS The island needs $94 billion in aid. Not a $2 billion loan.
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FINALLY, the amazing team at @cpipr is getting global attention they deserve. They've been doing this work for years. So flipping proud of them!. Puerto Rico's mass protests were partly sparked by this news outlet's publication of leaked texts - CNN .
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How can @JulianCastro not even be in that montage of 2020 candidates. I mean, @sethmoulton is in the montage but no Julián? Wow. That's just sad. Only Latino candidate and not in montage. #DemocraticConvention #DemocraticNationalConvention.
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Thank you, @chrislhayes, for saying what you just said about #PuertoRico tonight on your show. It is an absolute outrage.
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Puerto Rico is not part of the United States. It is property of the United States. Big difference.
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Sanders brings up US history of push for universal health care. "I will not sign a bill that will reduce the health care benefits they have. I will only expand it," Sanders says about Culinary Union.
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Not to minimize any lives lost through suicide, but here's hoping that the name #MarcoAntonioMuñoz, who killed himself hours after his 3-year-old child was taken away from him by the US gov't, trends as much as #KateSpade and #AnthonyBourdain
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WTF WTF WTF WTF . Border officers circulate coin memorializing treatment of Haitian migrants in Del Rio
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Sorry, you can't say "I'm Puerto Rican" to defend very harmful and inaccurate takes about Mexico, as if that gives you any authority. It doesn't. It's also insulting to those Boricuas who have studied and written about Mexican history, and work to be allies. #AmericanDirt.
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Am waiting for the time when I hear the cable news punditry say that @BernieSanders won the two border counties of California and virtually every border county (12 of out 16) on Texas. That's just a fact.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that it is unconstitutional to punish abortion, unanimously annulling several provisions of a law from Coahuila — a state on the Texas border — that had made abortion a criminal act.
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BREAKING: a judge has ruled that @cpipr CAN have access to death certificates in #PuertoRico . This is BIG NEWS. Can lead to even more transparency and accurate reporting about #PuertoRicoDeathToll post-Hurricane María.
¡Victoria para el acceso a la información de los muertos por María! . "Este Tribunal ordena que se permita el acceso a los certificados de defunción, por inclinarse la balanza a favor del derecho constitucional de acceso a la información", sentencia firmada por la jueza Roques 👇
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Seriously, @billmaher came in hard on @JulianCastro and was skeptical of a Latino candidate. Maher was actually kind of a pendejo. It's as if he wants a white guy to win the Democratic primary. It's so obvious. His @PeteButtigieg interview last week was a lovefest.
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FYI, am going to be brutally honest right now: I can think of 20 political journalists of color who could have moderated this #PresidentialDebate tonight.
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#BREAKING @ricardorossello: I will be resigning as Gov of Puerto Rico on August 2 at 5pm #RickyRenuncia.
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FYI, @FoxNews Decision Desk has now quadrupled down on its Arizona call for Biden. #ElectionResults2020.
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BREAKING. Univision has terminated its contract with @DAVILACOLON . “Earlier this week on WKAQ Radio in Puerto Rico, Luis Dávila Colón used an offensive, despicable slur. We do not tolerate or accept any such vile language or attitudes in our workplace or on our air. ”.
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NOBODY who has been following Trump and what his campaign did this cycle is surprised by the support he got. NOBODY. The conversation needs to be this instead: there was NEVER a unified Latino voting bloc on the national level. Ever.
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I am a loyal @BostonGlobe reader who has gotten the paper delivered every day since the 80s. I don't ever recall seeing so many pages in the death notices section. Maybe since 9/11, which also impacted Massachusetts. But seeing this today was a real punch to the gut.
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'My latest for @NBCNewsThink American Dirt' is a bestseller because it reflects guilty liberals' quiet beliefs about migrants
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More than 90k people cross port of entry at San Diego-Tijuana border every day. These are people who have jobs, who have families, who do business, who live lives between two nations. It is one of the busiest ports of entry in world. And @realDonaldTrump closed it for politics.
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I'm 100% certain (can't prove it, though) that when @WhiteHouse is feeling the heat, it instantly pivots to immigration enforcement and fear of losing national sovereignty.
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One of the most untold and underreported stories of #Election2020 is how many young Latinos are supporting @BernieSanders.
New Poll: Millennial Latinos in California Strongly Favor Bernie Sanders by @LatinoDecisions #Election2020 .
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Remember when everyone was slamming @JulianCastro for daring to say that #IowaCaucus should not be the first primary in the nation for Democrats due to fact that it doesn't reflect Dems' diverse base? Now, it seems EVERYONE is saying this morning that Iowa shouldn't be first now.
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Let's see the wall-to-wall coverage about the life of a migrant father who killed himself bc the federal govt took his child away from him. Let's have that conversation.
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He doesn't have to. He doesn't have to prove that he grew up in a bilingual, bicultural household.
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Not all these notices are COVID-19 related but a majority are. So sad.
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Two weeks ago, #HurricaneMaria destroyed #PuertoRico. 95% of island still does not have power. 55% of island still does not have water.
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