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Jose Caldas

@josemanolitocaldas.bsky.social
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"Otro mundo es posible" "¡Ay buey! ¡La guerra es cabrona!" "The only way out is through"

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 2h
"While Bo Hines was leading the White House push to pass the Genius Act, Tether—the company with the most at stake in the bill—was steering millions of dollars to a business he co-owned, according to internal documents and records reviewed by The Wall Street Journal..." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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He Crafted a Crypto Law for Trump—as His Company Got Millions From a Crypto Giant
Money from Tether flowed to Nxum while Bo Hines worked in the White House on landmark stablecoin legislation. Once the law passed, Tether hired him as its U.S. chief.
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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 6h
As both a certified CAR GUY and an economist-ish, I cannot imagine a headline more designed to drive me, personally, insane. This "flying car" technology is neither new nor novel. It is not practical and would not sell. Let me tell a story of actually useful car tech that never made it to market.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11h
Elon Musk, who has major business interests in Texas, appeared to funnel $158 million to back Ken Paxton’s Senate bid.
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Elon Musk Spends Heavily to Back Ken Paxton’s Senate Bid in Texas
The world’s richest person, who has become the biggest known midterm donor, gave $158 million to a group that quickly spent that much to help Mr. Paxton’s Senate bid in Texas.
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Jose Caldas @josemanolitocaldas.bsky.social · 8h
Oh c'mon! What a load of horseshit! www.elnuevodia.com/tecnologia/o...
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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 23h
Elon Musk is single-handedly funding the Ken Paxton campaign:
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Portland Press Herald @pressherald.com · 23h
Lockheed Martin showered Susan Collins with cash as F-35 program hit turbulence
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Lockheed Martin showered Susan Collins with cash as F-35 program hit turbulence
Collins received tens of thousands from Lockheed during a two-month period surrounding a critical 2023 watchdog report.
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Jim LaPorta @jimlaporta.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
New: In Dec. 2025, two months before the U.S. war with Iran began, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George wrote an assessment that they would be critically short on missile defense munitions until 2030. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ousted George in April. www.cbsnews.com/news/randy-g...
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Ousted general warned of years-long missile defense shortage before Iran war
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George, ousted by Defense Secretary Hegseth, said the shortage of missile defense munitions would extend into 2030.
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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
To use everyone's favorite phrase, I wrote about why the reported attempt to denaturalize Ilhan Omar is outrageous as an American and yes As A Jew for @forward.com forward.com/opinion/8561...
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Whatever you think of Ilhan Omar, these threats are unconscionable
American Jews should oppose the intimidation and denaturalization of the Minnesota Congresswoman
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
We’re a banana republic And Republicans in Congress endorse every bit of it.
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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
This is a sitting member of Congress who called for immigrants to be executed by throwing them to their deaths out of helicopters. Mike Collins personally amplified neo-Nazi propaganda online. It's disqualifying for a member of Congress and for a candidate for the U.S. Senate.
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Juan Escalante @juanescalante.com · 14/10/2026
I guess helping rebuild local businesses after a major hurricane is also grounds for deportation
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Five hundred people on hunger strike inside a for-profit ICE concentration camp in Georgia.
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Approximately 500 participate in hunger strike at Folkston immigration detention center - The Current
Approximately 500 detainees at a private ICE facility in Folkston, Georgia, launched a hunger strike to protest poor living conditions and alleged asylum protocol violations while awaiting judicial he...
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Project HALO @halovote.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Project HALO volunteers commit to a code of conduct that includes a promise of impartiality. We celebrate the act of voting and don't ask who anyone is voting for. Consider joining us to create a calm, welcoming atmosphere outside the polls. Think friendly faces, not agendas. halovote.org/volunteer
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Sarah E. Minnis, PhD 🏔️ @saraheminnisphd.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
🗳️Are you registered? 🗳️Have you looked up your voting dates? 🗳️Do you have a voting plan? 🗳️Does anyone you know need a ride to the polls? 🗳️Did you talk to your family and friends about the importance of voting? Your voice matters. VOTE!
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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Trust me: whatever you’re doing right now is less important than watching this candidate interview. No spoilers, just trust:
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 13/10/2026
40% of *everything being shipped everywhere on Earth* is fossil fuels Just an absolute laughing-stock clown-show of an energy source. This is laughably absurd, why do we treat this like it's normal and good Fossil fuels are a satirical fuel www.irena.org/-/media/File...
Global shipping transports fossil fuels and runs on oil: 40% of shipped products are fossil fuels or derivatives, while 99% of international shipping’s energy demand is met by oil-based fuels.
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Juan Escalante @juanescalante.com · 13/10/2026
❤️‍🩹
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Project HALO @halovote.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Voters in Georgia started voting today... and Project HALO was there to create a welcoming, celebratory, nonpartisan presence – so every Georgia voter feels safe, confident, and supported. And they were having fun too!! 🎉 Join us: halovote.org/volunteer
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Trusted Neighbors - NC @trustedneighborsnc.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
📍 Did you know you can vote at ANY early voting location in your county? Unlike Election Day, you aren't limited to your assigned precinct during early voting. Find a convenient location, check its hours, and make your plan! vt.ncsbe.gov/evsite #TrustedNeighbors #NCPol #Elections🗳️ #Civics🇺🇸
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Project HALO @halovote.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
@trustedneighborsnc.bsky.social is a great resource!
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Congresswoman Nikema Williams @repnikema.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This raid is another example of Trump weaponizing the DOJ to target his political enemies. And it’s no accident that this comes just weeks before an election in which Rep. Omar is on the ballot. This is an unacceptable abuse of power coming from our highest office of government. I stand with Ilhan.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar's D.C. home searched by Homeland Security investigators
Sources say the investigation centers on Rep. Ilhan Omar's immigration documents, involving paperwork filled out by her late father when she was a child.
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Jose Caldas @josemanolitocaldas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Make a war film rubbish. Paging Private Ryan
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The campaign of educational censorship sweeping Texas and other GOP-governed states in the name of “free speech” and “diversity of viewpoint” in many ways exceeds the worst of the McCarthy Era (gift link obvs) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
You have to go back to the loyalty oath cases of the Cold War period to see relatively analogous situations where the government was trying to silence academics with viewpoints that they didn’t like,” Emerson Sykes, an attorney with the ACLU, told me. “But even in those cases, we did not see the sort of brazen attempt to ban particular ideas or ideologies and scrub them from the public record or from public education.”
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”
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Clayton Tucker @claytontuckertx.com · 11/10/2026
The stars over Big Bend belong to all Texans, not the Ultra Wealthy. Now data center development in West Texas is raising new concerns about protecting our dark skies, including those surrounding McDonald Observatory. We need to protect our natural treasures before they’re lost to corporate greed.
Campaign graphic featuring a star-filled night sky over the Big Bend landscape, with rows of illuminated data center server racks in the foreground. Large white text reads, “Data center threatens Big Bend dark sky near McDonald Observatory.” The graphic includes Clayton Tucker’s campaign branding and @ClaytonTuckerTX.
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Jose Caldas @josemanolitocaldas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Scenes from #NYCC today
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Jose Caldas @josemanolitocaldas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
#BORICUAVERSE representing at #NYCC
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Jose Caldas @josemanolitocaldas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Picking up some signed ashcan copies of NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC with the legendary @attackerman.bsky.social at #NYCC
Spencer Ackerman signing at NY ComicCon
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WNBA @wnba.com · 10/10/2026
THE ATLANTA DREAM ARE HEADED TO THE FINALS 🅰️ The Dream defeat the Liberty 3-0 in the Semis to advance to the Finals for the first time since 2013! #WNBASeason30
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Sarah E. Minnis, PhD 🏔️ @saraheminnisphd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Is this NG? Troops standing around a ballot dropbox like this, even if they’re just chilling, is illegal.
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Sarah E. Minnis, PhD 🏔️ @saraheminnisphd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
North Carolina voters!
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The Chamberlain Network @chamberlainvets.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Nidal Hasan’s execution would be public; Pentagon officials later clarified it would be livestreamed. Hasan killed 13 people and injured 32 at Fort Hood in 2009. It would be the first U.S. military execution since 1961.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Tavern Brawl, after Gillis Van Tilborgh, 17th c, 📸 by @HagyPhoto
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Jose Caldas @josemanolitocaldas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Happy October 9th! (anticipatory)
Brian Blessed in BlackadderBrian Blessed in Flash Gordon
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Daedalus and Icarus (flipped), by Anthony van Dyck, 1615-25, 📸 via @cjzero.bsky.social
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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026
well this is the most horrifying story out there today, what the absolute fuck (article contains graphic descriptions so be careful if you click through)
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Project HALO @halovote.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Americans are starting to vote. Let's turn voting into a celebration. How do we make voting more festive? ⬇️ Want to help us celebrate voting? Sign up at Project HALO now: halovote.org/volunteer
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Jose Caldas @josemanolitocaldas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Joel Silverman in the footsteps of Walker Evans: geotagging Buttermilk Bottom in Atlanta. joelsilverman.com/blog/walker-...
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Rephotographing Walker Evans in Atlanta — joel silverman
In 1936 Walker Evans spent a single day photographing an Atlanta neighborhood. Nobody knew exactly where. I found the spots where he placed his tripod.
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Project HALO @halovote.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Today was the first day of early voting in Ohio and some of our volunteers were at the polls to help every voter feel safe, confident, and supported. We have many events between now and Election Day. Sign up to join us in GA, MI, NC, OH, PA, and VA. halovote.org/volunteer @itsapurdy.bsky.social
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Jose Caldas @josemanolitocaldas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Do not be intimidated. Vote.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Utah has already combed its voter rolls for any noncitizens registered to vote and found it to be a non-issue, but that’s not what the Trump administration and congressional Republicans want to hear, the state’s Republican elections chief said. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Utah’s GOP election head purged noncitizens from voter rolls, but the Trump team didn’t want to hear how few she found
Utah has already combed its voter rolls for any noncitizens registered to vote and found it to be a non-issue, but that’s not what the Trump administration and congressional Republicans want to hear, ...
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 06/10/2026
ICE has detained more than 500 U.S. citizens.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s me. The legend
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Jose Caldas @josemanolitocaldas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My daughter teaches High School AP Art History 😂
Extra credit AP art history
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Jose Caldas @josemanolitocaldas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Saw this movie when I was 10. I was waay too young, but folks sent me to tag along with my sister and her boyfriend.
Poster for "The House That Screamed/Finishing School" (La Residencia)
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Small victory
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After Outcry, Monitors the Trump Administration Tried to Scrap Return to Sea (Gift Article)
Under pressure from Congress, a network of ocean monitors that provides vital data to meteorologists, climate scientists, oceanographers and the fishing industry is being restored.
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Jose Caldas @josemanolitocaldas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Atlanta Dream take game 1! NY 19 turnovers, Atlanta 32 points off turnovers, 14 steals.
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Jose Caldas @josemanolitocaldas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Jordin Canada makin the Liberty pay
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Jose Caldas @josemanolitocaldas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Liberty playing like they ate too many lemon pepper wings at Magic City
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