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@MSNBC columnist. Founder, Latino Rebels. Futuro Media alum. @suffolkmsoccer fan. Opinions mine and mine alone ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท

Boston, MA
Joined October 2008
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My latest for @MSNBC is out Opinion | The truth about Latino voters in 2024 is bad news for Biden โ€” and Trump
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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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US news media is utterly predictable (yet again) when covering migration. Here we go again: sensationalized coverage of the "surge" without ANY real context of why Haitians are desperately fleeing their island nation. The reasons are deeply rooted in history for years. Wake up.
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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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The death notices of today's Sunday โฆ @BostonGlobe โฉ are 11 pages long. #COVID19 #Massachusetts
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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.
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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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8 weeks out from trial will be sentencing. Bail is revoked. #ChauvinTrial
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This initial question by โฆ @billmaher โฉ to โฆ @JulianCastro โฉ 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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Wow, racist Rush Limbaugh is getting a Presidential Medal of Freedom. That, my friends is how White Supremacy works. #SOTU
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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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When Arizona goes to @JoeBiden , don't forget this. #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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"There's no sugar-coating it. Tonight's a tough night. Tonight's a tough night electorally," @AOC says in her Instagram live chat.
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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 รngela รvila arrested. @TorresGotay reporting that FBI will be arresting others today.
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Benjamรญn Torres Gotay ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท
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AHORA: empiezan arrestos federales con la detenciรณn estรก maรฑana de รngela รvila, 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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. @AOC says that the "number 1 enemy" of the movement "is cynicism."
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Just so people know: the US is the third-largest Spanish-speaking country in the world. Will be second very soon. Just saying. #RAISEAct
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Can @staceyabrams run the DNC after this cycle?
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Another major underreported angle.
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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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This little girl is no threat to national security, says @JoaquinCastrotx #RosaMaria
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For those wondering, @WhiteHouse already has a Spanish-language page up.
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When #Nevada finally gets called, remember this. #Election2020
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This is the part of the morning when I remind people that Puerto Rico ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท has more US citizens living there than 21 US states. #MariaPR
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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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Here is the Alicia Machado story
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. @AOC says that you should never ever "let your heart turn black" when it comes to fighting for issues you care about.
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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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Hi, colonialism. It's beyond outrage. #PuertoRico
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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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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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That's not a poll. That's my flipping family wedding.
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"We don't dismiss voters. We don't think people as disposable. Your vote matters," @AOC says about telling people to not blame older voters here.
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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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How is @JulianCastro not part of this segment with the 2020 candidates? #DemConvention
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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 Juliรกn? 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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Please, @CNN , please just let your viewers know that Puerto Ricans are US citizens as you cover #MariaPR today.
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Not to minimize any lives lost through suicide, but here's hoping that the name #MarcoAntonioMu รฑoz, 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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Latino Rebels โ˜†
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A family was separated at the border, and this distraught father took his own life
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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) โ€” Mexicoโ€™s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that it is unconstitutional to punish abortion, unanimously annulling several provisions of a law from Coahuila โ€” a state on the Texas border โ€” 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 Marรญa.
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ยกVictoria para el acceso a la informaciรณn de los muertos por Marรญa! "Este Tribunal ordena que se permita el acceso a los certificados de defunciรณn, por inclinarse la balanza a favor del derecho constitucional de acceso a la informaciรณn", sentencia firmada por la jueza Roques ๐Ÿ‘‡
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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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"The good news" is that a vast majority of Democratic voters believe in Medicare for All and climate change, @AOC says. She adds that they "are winning on the issues."
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Am still a bit taken aback by the language @POTUS said "illegals" to describe human beings in an heated exchange. #SOTU
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So you might see someone's work published for the first time in the @nytimes tomorrow (Wednesday). His first name rhymes with Coolio, his middle name rhymes with Gerardo and his last names rhymes with Vanilla.
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BREAKING Univision has terminated its contract with @DAVILACOLON โ€œEarlier this week on WKAQ Radio in Puerto Rico, Luis Dรกvila Colรณn used an offensive, despicable slur. We do not tolerate or accept any such vile language or attitudes in our workplace or on our air...โ€
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FYI, @FoxNews Decision Desk has now quadrupled down on its Arizona call for Biden. #ElectionResults2020
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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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"There's a generational divide in the Democratic Party on health care, on climate change, on foreign policy," @AOC says. Calls the divide is "stark" and "decisively different."
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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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. @AOC talks about the generational divide and congratulates @JoeBiden on winning his races tonight.
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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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Also, NO votes for Buttigieg here.
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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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One of the most untold and underreported stories of #Election2020 is how many young Latinos are supporting @BernieSanders .
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Latino Rebels โ˜†
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New Poll: Millennial Latinos in California Strongly Favor Bernie Sanders by @LatinoDecisions #Election2020
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"Our generation seems to have a streak of progressivism that doesn't seem to be going away soon," @AOC says.
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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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This is pretty amazing.
@UNITEDWEDREAM
United We Dream ๐ŸŠ
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The ENTIRE school district in Oklahoma City is standing with their undocumented students today. Communities work best when we stand up for EVERYONE. #HereToStay #HomeIsHere
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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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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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Not all these notices are COVID-19 related but a majority are. So sad.
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This has to be the first time in @MLB history were there were consecutive #WorldSeries champions led by Puerto Rican managers. ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท
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JUST IN According to the offices of @RepDarrenSoto and @RepJenniffer , these are the House sponsors of the 2021 Puerto Rico Statehood Admission Act.
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Just seeing @ElFaroEnglish 's photo of the @nayibbukele September 15 protest.
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