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El Hombre Tercero

@elhombretercero.bsky.social
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I mainly think about housing, migration, democracy, New York State, basketball, and books.

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El Hombre Tercero @elhombretercero.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Jalen Brunson is The Captain for a reason, I loved this profile www.vanityfair.com/culture/stor...
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Jalen Brunson Brought Winning Back to New York
In his four seasons leading the Knicks, New York’s most beloved athlete has restored the city’s belief in the possibility of its first NBA championship since the ’70s.
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El Hombre Tercero @elhombretercero.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
The NYC Democratic party is weak because it is run by charlatans and grifters who want to enrich themselves and couldn't give less of a damn about politics. We need to kick all of them out.
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El Hombre Tercero @elhombretercero.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Our country is so broken. This cannot continue
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El Hombre Tercero @elhombretercero.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Always
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
btw the civility panic a few years ago was about precisely this: the ability to have polite conversations about how black people are racially inferior in public without criticism or backlash bsky.app/profile/hann...
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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 27/01/2026
Street art memorializing Alex Pretti in Seattle. Per r/Seattle, it was painted on a building facing Swedish Hospital in the First Hill neighborhood www.reddit.com/r/nursing/co...
A bearded man in nurse's scrubs offers aid to Justice, wearing a blindfold and holding a sword and scales, who has fallen to her knees.
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El Hombre Tercero @elhombretercero.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
You can call the governor today. “My name is X. I live in X, zip code X. I am calling to urge the governor to support and sign the New York 4 All Act. If she does not, I will support her opponent in the primary this summer.” Add any details you like, like prosecuting ICE agents under NYS law.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 21/01/2026
BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
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Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.
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El Hombre Tercero @elhombretercero.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
A very merry Christmas brought to me by the Knicks
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Adam Conover @adamconover.net · 24/12/2025
I like being an uncle for the holidays because: Mom and dad are responsible, and will discipline you. Grandpa and Grandma are indulgent, and will coddle you. But the uncle... the uncle is unpredictable. The niece and nephew cannot know what the uncle will do, because the soul of the uncle is CHAOS
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El Hombre Tercero @elhombretercero.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
I find a universal quality among Americans is our absolute loathing for anyone who mentions an ancestor came on the Mayflower
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/11/2025
bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also don’t wipe your ass
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El Hombre Tercero @elhombretercero.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
This is the proudest I have felt to be a New Yorker and an American in years
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El Hombre Tercero @elhombretercero.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
I think Brunson is about to go on a burner
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
I just don’t think we’re freaking out enough about this SNAP cut. I have spent my whole career working with people who rely on SNAP for food. People who work multiple jobs. Who have kids. What do you think happens when 1/8th of the population can’t buy food anymore? Everything is going to collapse.
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Open New York @opennewyork.org · 30/10/2025
New housing stops landlords from raising rents—take it from the CEO of AvalonBay, one of NYC's largest landlords: "We're well-positioned… we face significantly less new supply. Land entitled for multifamily is hard to come by, the amount of time it takes to get those entitlements… sets us up well.”
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El Hombre Tercero @elhombretercero.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Andrew Cuomo is a vile racist piece of shit. Democrats need to tear this bigotry from the party root and stem
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El Hombre Tercero @elhombretercero.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Let’s go Knicks
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
It's bing bong season.
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El Hombre Tercero @elhombretercero.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
This is one of the most consequential political acts of this year (yes, 2025). Hard to overstate how much good this is going to do in California and what it could spark nationwide calmatters.org/housing/2025...
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Gavin Newsom signs law overhauling local zoning to build more housing
After weeks of waiting, California’s governor signed a bill that will allow mid-rise apartment buildings near major transit stops in California’s biggest metro areas.
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El Hombre Tercero @elhombretercero.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
This needs to be the message every day
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El Hombre Tercero @elhombretercero.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
If you aren’t watching A’Ja Wilson play you are missing one of the greatest athletes of all time at the peak of her career
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El Hombre Tercero @elhombretercero.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
This Lynx loss is on Cheryl Reeve. Why sit your big three when you’re only up by 10 in the playoffs?
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Don't think I've ever felt this embarrassed to be an American. There's shame and anger too. But mostly embarrassment. We're the laughingstock of the developed world. And we should be.
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El Hombre Tercero @elhombretercero.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
I am sad about the Liberty. But Breanna Stewart is a legend, she put the whole team on her back
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El Hombre Tercero @elhombretercero.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
If Hochul gets him to resign I will vote for her next year. This man is why NY has the democrats that we do
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El Hombre Tercero @elhombretercero.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Grim faced, determinedly speaking to the mirror when I wake up
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404 Media @404media.co · 16/09/2025
The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
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DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
extremely interesting indicator of where we are in postmodern syncretism that the guys making Kirk out to be a hero of the Christian faith will simply not comment on a Hindu proposing that he is now in the afterlife of Norse Paganism.
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El Hombre Tercero @elhombretercero.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Little too on the nose Liberty
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El Hombre Tercero @elhombretercero.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Excited for the playoffs but sad to see the end of the regular season. Let’s go Liberty!
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El Hombre Tercero @elhombretercero.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Aliya Boston is massively underrated
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El Hombre Tercero @elhombretercero.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
The Liberty have some improvements to make of course, but these foul calls are ridiculous. Refs might as well be saying they’re not allowed to play defense
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El Hombre Tercero @elhombretercero.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Well at least jury nullification is back in action
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El Hombre Tercero @elhombretercero.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
If the Liberty lose to the Sun I will simply have to walk into the sea
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 31/07/2025
By a vote of 27-17, Senate Democrats voted to stop sending arms shipments to a Netanyahu government which has waged a horrific, immoral and illegal war against the Palestinian people. The tide is turning. Americans don't want to spend billions to starve children in Gaza.
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El Hombre Tercero @elhombretercero.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Liberty holding up much better against the Lynx than I expected. Just waiting for Collier to step on the gas though…
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El Hombre Tercero @elhombretercero.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
I would like the Liberty to win and not get rolled by the Wings please. Stewie out, JJ still recovering, Sab and Tash having off nights... this is rough
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Thank you to @monachalabi.bsky.social for this powerful graphic, which starkly pictures the severity of the Israeli government’s policy of mass death through forced starvation.
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El Hombre Tercero @elhombretercero.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Do this all day Dems
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 22/07/2025
Two videos offer the first glimpse inside the detention site on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, where dozens of immigrants are being held for days at a time, according to an analysis by THE CITY of Immigration and Customs Enforcement data through the end of June. buff.ly/2RYycPt
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‘Like Dogs in Here’ — Videos Expose ICE Lock-up Inside 26 Federal Plaza
An analysis of ICE data by THE CITY shows that dozens of people have packed into locked rooms and increasingly held for days inside a Manhattan building the feds say isn’t a detention site.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die
July 21, 2025

AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip since its staff journalists left in 2024.

Along with a few others, they are now the only ones left to report what is happening in the Gaza Strip. The international press has been banned from entering the territory for nearly two years.

We refuse to watch them die.

One of them, Bashar, has been working with AFP since 2010, first as a fixer, then freelance photographer, and since 2024, as lead photographer. On July 19th he managed to post a message on Facebook: “I no longer have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work anymore.”

Bashar, 30, works & lives in the same conditions as all Gazans, moving from one refugee camp to another under Israeli bombings. For > a year he’s lived in utter destitution, working at extreme risk to his life. Hygiene is a major issue for him, with recurring bouts of severe intestinal illness.

Since Feb, Bashar’s been living in the ruins of his home in Gaza City with his mother, 4 brothers & sisters and the family of one of his brothers. Their house is devoid of any furnishings, except a few cushions. On Sunday morning, he reported that one of his brothers had “fallen, due to hunger.”

Even though these journalists receive a monthly salary from AFP, it’s no longer enough to buy food, or they have to pay completely exorbitant prices. The banking system has collapsed, and those who exchange money via online bank accounts charge a commission of up to 40%.

AFP no longer has the ability to provide them with a vehicle and there is not enough fuel to allow these journalists to travel for their reporting. Driving a car means becoming a target for Israeli airstrikes. AFP reporters therefore travel on foot or by donkey cart. (alt txt continued in next post)
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Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
They murdered somebody during one of their raids. They actually did it.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
I think officers and agents at ICE should be thinking less about the push for quotas and more about the fact that "just following orders" is not a defense when facing a genocide tribunal.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Donald Trump is attacking me because he is desperate to distract from his war on working people. We must and we will fight back.
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
In today’s @bostonglobe.com Kenia Guerrero writes about the loss of her husband. He is not dead but he is gone, disappeared by ICE. Please — I implore you — read every word and share. Since the Globe doesn’t have gift articles I have screenshotted the entire piece. We can’t turn away from this. 1/2
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ICE deported my husband.
Our everything is gone, and we are unraveling.
This is not just an immigration issue. This is an issue of basic humanity. It is the brutal unraveling of a family.
Kenia Guerrero • Updated June 30th, 2025, 7:38 AM
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Kenia Guerrero is co-owner of a painting business in Chelsea.
On Mother's Day, May 11, my life fell apart.
What should have been a day to celebrate family unity culminated in family separation at the hands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Chelsea.That morning, my husband, Daniel Flores-Martinez, noticed suspicious cars parked down the street from our home, but we continued our daily activities. We prepared ourselves to head to church. My husband helped our three children get into the car, including our 12-year-old daughter, who lives with multiple disabilities. A few minutes after driving away, we saw flashing lights behind us. I pulled over.
Suddenly, the suspicious cars my husband had seen surrounded us. Masked, armed officers swarmed our vehicle from both sides. One of them asked for my
identification, but he was clearly interested in my husband, not me. He insisted on knowing who my husband was.
I know my rights as a US citizen, and as the driver, I asked why they wanted to know about a passenger. I asked who they were and why our car had been stopped.
But I received no answers. Within moments, one of the officers raised what looked like a weapon and used it to tap the glass of the passenger window, suddenly threatening to break it. I begged them not to use violence because my children were in the back seat.Without any regard for our safety, they smashed the passenger-side window.
Glass shards flew into the car, even into the back seat, where our children were sitting. They screamed. We were all terrified. Within seconds, ICE officers physically reached inside the vehicle through the shattered window and unlocked the front passenger door. Then the officers opened the door and unbuckled Daniel's seat belt. They forcefully yanked him out of the car. They slammed him face down onto the sidewalk, their knees pressed into his back, even though he never resisted. A bystander captured it all on video.
I ran out to see what was happening, but an officer restrained me. I pleaded with her, saying, "Aren't you a mother?" But the officers did not stop. My children sobbed as the officers arrested Daniel, taking him away. No one ever told us who they were.
No one showed a warrant. And just like that, Daniel was gone.
Now he has been deported. And we are left behind.Daniel, an undocumented immigrant, was deported to Matamoros, Mexico - even though he has no ties there.
Daniel is a loving father and a devoted husband, and he helps run our small family painting business. He is the backbone of our home, community, and church. His sudden and violent removal has left our family in crisis - medically, emotionally, and economically.
Our daughter is disabled. She lives with epilepsy, hydrocephalus, and cerebral palsy. These conditions require constant medical care and hands-on support. She cannot dress or bathe without assistance.
Daniel provided all this care unassumingly, with love and diligence, every single day.
Since he was taken, our daughter's condition has worsened. Her mental health has deteriorated. She lacks motivation to attend school and has a hard time focusing in class. How can anyone blame her? Her father is gone.
I am doing my best, but I am now the sole caregiver to our children - our daughter and two sons, ages 14 and 3- and I am struggling.
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james folta @jamesfolta.com · 27/06/2025
I’m sick of being told it’s not practical to want a better world by people who have forgotten how to dream (for @literaryhub.bsky.social)
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The Supreme Court just approved anti-LGBT book bans.
On the last day of its term, America’s highest court gave legal backing to bigoted attempts to ban books and to erase queer people from public life. In Mahmoud v. Taylor, the Court ruled that Montg…
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El Hombre Tercero @elhombretercero.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
This is so monstrously evil and every person involved in it is going to burn in hell
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