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Rafael Ramos

@configutron.com
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Product Manager at DTCC. Aspiring Activist & Humanitarian. Previously @ ASRC Federal, LT Apparel, TrueAccord, Vitals, MTV. Support @ACLU, @IndivisibleTeam 📍NYC | 🇲🇽

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Rafael Ramos @configutron.com · 03/01/2026
Truer words have never been written.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 07/11/2025
BREAKING: The Trump administration seeks an emergency pause to a court order demanding full November SNAP payments.
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Trump administration seeks to halt SNAP food aid payments after a court order
The Trump administration has asked a federal appeals court to block a judge’s order to distribute November’s full SNAP benefits during a U.S. government shutdown. U.S.
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Rafael Ramos @configutron.com · 06/11/2025
Half of the city’s women voted against Zohran. His first act as mayor-elect? A transition team made up entirely of women.
NYC Exit Polls data showing how women voted.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 23/10/2025
Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?
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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Never, even in my wildest dreams, did I imagine I'd see Jon Hamm playing El Profesor Jirafales deadline.com/gallery/snl-...
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
It’s incredible how companies are threatening employees to use AI or else but then have no idea how or what employees are supposed to do with it.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Suburban man retreats to safe space.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
One of the most important and powerful things any kid can do to make a better world is if they see someone being pushed around, stand up for them. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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NPR @npr.org · 27/07/2025
Public media has been defunded. Your support keeps journalists on the ground, lifts unheard voices, and connects communities. Help us plan for what’s next. Make a monthly gift today. Stand with public media: n.pr/458sOhq
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Once again, great reporting from @thecity.nyc www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/24/e...
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New Eric Adams ‘Donors’ Say They Never Gave to His Reelection Campaign
The campaign sought public matching funds from donors who insist they didn’t donate, just weeks after a judge dropped his corruption case.
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NPR @npr.org · 19/07/2025
Congress eliminated public media funding. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together. Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends. But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month. See you soon, NYC.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Cuomo: I am now running on affordability. Also Cuomo: there is no “real answer” on affordability.
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
“If there is one thing Mamdani has demonstrated over the course of this campaign so far it’s he’s pretty good at sticking to his principles and message discipline," says Chris Hayes.
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'Overwhelming enthusiasm': Inside Zohran Mamdani’s stunning victory
YouTube video by MSNBC
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I cannot emphasize enough how true & real this is. In almost anywhere on the political spectrum you ID with or major issue, there’s probably a bot/troll operation to encourage your rage and vitriol. And how/where that rage gets directed, esp understandable rage, is what they are out to influence.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
One thing I’d say about ranked choice voting in NYC is that you don’t have to do complex calculations of viability. You should rank in order of *who you want to be mayor* and if you *don’t* want someone to be mayor, you shouldn’t rank them!
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 22/05/2025
Republicans snuck an amendment into this bill to ban Affordable Care Act insurance plans from covering abortion care. This is part of their play for a national abortion ban, in the middle of the night, and ripping healthcare away from millions.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 12/05/2025
THIS WEEK: House Republicans are deciding how many families and senior citizens they’ll kick off Medicaid, SNAP, early education, and countless other programs that working families rely on — all to fund tax breaks for billionaires. Call your representative NOW if you live in a GOP district.
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CALL NOW: Tell your Republican Representative You Don’t Want To Pay The Price For Their Billionaire Tax Breaks
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Rafael Ramos @configutron.com · 12/05/2025
I thought James Carville had all the answers!
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
This isn't hypothetical. The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Your kids get a max of two toys and then grow up to work in the same factory as their father and grandfather screwing in tiny screws. It’s called The American Dream.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/04/2025
When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients. (Published Oct. 2024)
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“Not Medically Necessary”: Inside the Company Helping America’s Biggest Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Care
When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
WE MOVE!!
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Columbia Lecturer Creates 'Resistance Summer School' After University Eliminates Her Course On Race
Karen Attiah once led a popular course at Columbia University. After it was canceled the course, she created "Resistance Summer School."
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Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Lots of people I know that were furious about kids having to wear masks are real quiet about a two year old citizen being wrongfully deported
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Rafael Ramos @configutron.com · 25/04/2025
I believe this is called healthy living.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Intuit donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration. He's now planning to end the free IRS Direct File program. Apple donated $1M. Trump exempted most of Apple’s imports from tariffs. Coinbase donated $1M. Trump’s SEC dropped a major lawsuit against them. See how this works?
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Rafael Ramos @configutron.com · 16/04/2025
“Some books are prosciutto, and don’t you forget it.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/04/2025
Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment. By @tchristianmiller.bsky.social
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“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”
Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Pouring out a little liquor today for the handful of women astronauts who survived years of onerous training, men, and men only to have the press make Katy Perry their equal.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13/04/2025
Elon Musk now admits his Department of Government Efficiency will produce only 15% of the savings it promised. But even that estimate is inflated with errors and guesswork. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/u...
Elon Musk is looking toward the camera. He is wearing a black shirt. A headline reads: "DOGE Is Far Short of Its Goal, and Still Overstating Its Progress." Photo by Eric Lee/The New York Times
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
WHAT DO THESE GENIUSES THINK WILL HAPPEN TO MANUFACTURING JOBS IN THIS COUNTRY IF THERE IS A RECESSION !?!?!?!?!?!!?
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration. So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives. So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory
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Alexander Tin @alexander-a-tin.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The CDC's cruise ship inspectors have been laid off, as well as agency's head epidemiologist for investigating cruise ship outbreaks That baffled health officials since this program is paid for by cruise ship fees, not taxpayer dollars www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...
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CDC's cruise ship inspectors laid off amid bad year for outbreaks
The steep cuts to the cruise ship inspection team baffled officials in the program, which is not paid for by taxpayer dollars.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
After massive public backlash, the Social Security Administration is rolling back its disastrous cuts to phone services. This is a huge victory for the public against DOGE's rampage. Keep up the fight.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The 10% tariff alone is a $2500 per household annual tax hike!
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Members of Congress should never be allowed to trade stocks. Period.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/04/2025
Insurers’ denial rates are a critical measure of how reliably they pay for customers’ care. But they remain mostly secret to the public. Federal and state regulators have done little to change that. (Published 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)
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How Often Do Health Insurers Say No to Patients? No One Knows.
Insurers’ denial rates — a critical measure of how reliably they pay for customers’ care — remain mostly secret to the public. Federal and state regulators have done little to change that.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The top five egg producers own roughly half of all U.S. laying hens. The biggest of those corporations is Cal-Maine, which just announced quarterly profits of $509 million — more than 3x what it made a year ago. Corporate concentration + bird flu = a price-hiking free for all.
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 09/04/2025
BREAKING: NYC First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro signed an executive order Tuesday allowing ICE to reestablish an office on Rikers Island, rolling back a 2014 provision of the city’s sanctuary protections.
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Adams Administration Inks Executive Order Allowing ICE Back on Rikers Island
After the Trump administration demanded the mayor’s cooperation on immigration enforcement, a deputy authorizes federal officials to resume operations at the city’s jail complex.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 07/04/2025
NEW: Yesterday, the Justice Department sent armed marshals to warn former U.S. pardon attorney Liz Oyer not to disclose internal DOJ information during her Senate testimony. Today, Oyer is speaking out to condemn the DOJ’s actions and defend the rule of law.
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makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
SCOOP: DOGE is hosting a “hackathon” in DC next week with the goal of building one “mega API” for accessing all IRS data. Palantir has been brought up as a potential partner. www.wired.com/story/doge-h...
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DOGE Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data
DOGE operatives have repeatedly referred to the software company Palantir as a possible partner in creating a “mega API” at the IRS, sources tell WIRED.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/04/2025
Our 2024 annual report is a testament to our mission of using the moral force of investigative journalism to spur reform. We chronicle abuses of power and betrayals of public trust because we believe that people, armed with the facts, will confront injustice and try to make things better.
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ProPublica's 2024 Annual Report
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
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Rafael Ramos @configutron.com · 03/04/2025
File this under “Pretending to push back”.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
March saw the third-highest number of layoffs in U.S. history, and 80% of them were caused by DOGE This was before the tariffs It's just...unbelievable
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Mallory McMorrow @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The same people in DC who got us into this mess are not going to be the ones to get us out of it. Today I'm announcing my campaign for U.S. Senate. Because we don't have a minute to wait.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Please reporters and editors. I’m begging you!
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Rafael Ramos @configutron.com · 03/04/2025
There won’t be anything left by tomorrow morning…
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Rafael Ramos @configutron.com · 02/04/2025
Yes! More good news!
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Veni Kunche @veni.dev · 02/04/2025
👋🏾 Hey underrepresented folks in tech! Do you have a blog, podcast, course or youtube channel that folks in tech should know about? Please share it. I'm looking for content to share in @diversifytech.com's newsletter. Thank you!
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Rafael Ramos @configutron.com · 02/04/2025
Whoa! Deja Foxx? This is something to look forward to.
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