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Sam Aretuo

@nerdyconperro.bsky.social
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Periodista veneka/ Venezuelan journalist. Migrant, she/ella. Pequeña y agresiva con la vida. Se habla español and English. 📍Treaty 7/Calgary, Canada.

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
RFK: MMR vaccine is the "most effective way" to prevent measles spread www.axios.com/2025/04/06/k... He must do MUCH more, including apologizing for – and definitively retracting – decades of harmful lies. Also, he continues to push unproven BS.
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RFK says the "most effective way" to prevent measles spread is the MMR vaccine
Kennedy has a long record of sowing skepticism about vaccines.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/04/2025
Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Few Americans know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)
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That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial
A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
NEW: Trump Said Cuts Wouldn’t Affect Public Safety. Then He Fired Hundreds of Workers Who Help Fight Wildfires.
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Trump Said Cuts Wouldn’t Affect Public Safety. Then He Fired Hundreds of Workers Who Help Fight Wildfires.
The White House and DOGE have sought to eliminate thousands of jobs from the Forest Service. The wildland firefighting force is one of many targets within the agency.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/03/2025
1/ We wanted to take a moment to quickly introduce you to our HHS reporters. THREAD 🧵
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17/03/2025
The Trump administration moved one large step closer to a constitutional showdown with the judicial branch of government when airplane-loads of Venezuelan detainees deplaned in El Salvador even though a federal judge had ordered that the planes reverse course and return the detainees to the U.S.
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With Deportations, Trump Steps Closer to Showdown With Judicial Branch
“Oopsie … Too late,” El Salvador’s president said, mocking a court order that deportation flights to his country turn back to the United States. Top administration officials thanked him.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 16/03/2025
The Trump administration said it arrested and expelled hundreds of alleged members of Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang to El Salvador for imprisonment, even as a federal judge ordered a halt to some deportations
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Trump Deports Hundreds Under Enemies Act as Court Rebukes Law
The Trump administration said it arrested and expelled hundreds of alleged members of Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang to El Salvador for imprisonment, even as a federal judge ordered a halt to some de...
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Gabriel Labrador @periodistagl.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Our @elfaroenglish.bsky.social editor @romangressier.com in this episode of Latino USA, giving context on the recent deportations announced by the Trump administration. podcasts.apple.com/sv/podcast/l...
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Can El Salvador Really Jail Americans?
Episodio de podcast · Latino USA · 16/03/2025 · 29 min
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Sam Aretuo @nerdyconperro.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Anoche desperté a las 3 de la mañana pensando en que todos lo países nos odian, me odian, por ser venezolana. Feliz semana para todos.
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NPR @npr.org · 16/03/2025
It was not clear if the deportations happened before a D.C. federal judge ordered the administration to stop using wartime powers to deport anyone immediately, and turn around any planes in the air.
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U.S. deports hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador, despite court order
It was not clear if the deportations happened before a D.C. federal judge ordered the administration to stop using wartime powers to deport anyone immediately, and turn around any planes in the air.
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elDiario.es @eldiario.es · 16/03/2025
❗ Trump deporta a cientos de venezolanos a El Salvador pese a que un juez ordenó no hacerlo
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Trump deporta a cientos de venezolanos a El Salvador pese a que un juez ordenó no hacerlo
El presidente de El Salvador ha confirmado el internamiento de 238 venezolanos deportados desde Estados Unidos en la prisión que el mandatario edificó para encarcelar a los miembros de las maras salva...
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Emma Goldman was deported along with another 600 anarchists, communists & socialists, while 10k+ more nationwide were rounded up in the Palmer Raids, 105 years ago during the First Red Scare and tbh idek which number Red Scare we're on now www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
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When America Tried to Deport Its Radicals
A hundred years ago, the Palmer Raids imperilled thousands of immigrants. Then a wily official got in the way.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
The White House claims planes bearing migrants to El Salvador were in international waters off the Yucatán, so that’s why they ignored the court order to turn them around. International waters, eh? Isn’t that the Gulf of *America* now?
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Ed @peaceandpaine.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Each new passing day reveals to us horrors beyond imagination committed by the dumbest, vilest, most selfish idiots among us. But getting your own wife deported and failing to acknowledge your role in that tragedy is a whole multiverse beyond the pale. What a weak man he is.
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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
The Voice of America may not live up to its ambitious name for much longer. Today staffers were told to stop working. Some were told to hand in badges. And contracts with other American-funded networks were cancelled. This is a massive purge. 🧵
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This is a very sad story, but what makes me crazy is that people tried to explain that this is what would happen and got caricatured as "woke" hysterics www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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He voted for Trump. Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center.
ICE's deportation actions signal that anyone who isn't a US citizen is 'at risk – period,' immigration attorney says.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
I think it has more to do with you might get locked up for absolutely no reason at all and then flown to El Salvador to die in prison even though a judge said you should be released
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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
This at least twice in less than 48 hours the Trump Administration blatantly defied court orders not to deport someone.
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Nandini @nandini0306.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
In the honor of International LC Awareness - The Calgary Tower in Alberta Canada was lit up in teal. Peace to all those living life with LC. My daughter is 14 and is in her 4th year of LC. @longcovid-adri.bsky.social @jvipondmd.bsky.social
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This is outrageous. Judge Boasberg’s order went against government agencies which were in the US, and which were in direct contact with the plane. He must hold them in contempt of court.
Axios post on X: EXCLUSIVE: The White House says it ignored a court order to turn around two planeloads of alleged Venezuelan gang members because the flights were over international waters and therefore the ruling didn't apply, two senior officials tell @MarcACaputo.
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Sam Aretuo @nerdyconperro.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Exactly what the Venezuelan state channel did and does.
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Cabin Radio @cabinradio.ca · 16/03/2025
Yellowknife loses power in lengthy Sunday afternoon outage Residents across Yellowknife reported losing power shortly after 5pm on Sunday in one of the city's lengthier outages of recent months.
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Yellowknife loses power in lengthy Sunday afternoon outage
Residents across Yellowknife reported losing power shortly after 5pm on Sunday in one of the city's lengthier outages of recent months.
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Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This is GREAT news!
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Early on in the time as Senator, I went for coffee with @drjaredwesley.bsky.social - and he became the “muse” who inspired my podcast Alberta Unbound. His research on western identity and Alberta identity is sharp and authoritative. And a must read for Canadians everywhere. #Alberta #ualberta
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 16/03/2025
1. Germany has issued a travel advisory for trans and GNC people who wish to travel to the United States. International Pride organization InterPride has done likewise. Travel may be dangerous with visa restrictions. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Germany, InterPride Issue LGBTQ Travel Advisories About United States
At least one foreign LGBTQ rights group has already pulled out of WorldPride to “safeguard our trans and nonbinary staff” from persecution by the U.S. government.
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FRANCE 24 @france24.com · 17/03/2025
Trump invoque une loi de temps de guerre pour expulser 200 membres présumés d'un gang vénézuélien
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Trump invoque une loi de temps de guerre pour expulser 200 membres présumés d'un gang vénézuélien
Le président américain Donald Trump a décidé d'invoquer une loi de 1798, utilisée pour la dernière fois pendant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, pour lutter contre un gang vénézuélien. Sa décision a été bloquée par un juge, mais trop tard. Plus de 200 membres…
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
The U.S. is making more seizures of illegal eggs than fentanyl at its Canadian and Mexican borders thelogic.co/news/canada-...
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The U.S. is making more seizures of illegal eggs than fentanyl at its Canadian and Mexican borders - The Logic
Since October, U.S. customs officers have made 3,768 seizures of bird and poultry-related products, including eggs, compared to 352 fentanyl seizures.
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Markham Hislop @markhamhislop.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Only 6.6% of countries are full democracies. Canada is one of them. That's something to be proud of. Something worth fighting for. *Data comes from a division of The Economist. The report is interesting reading if you're worried about the state of modern politics.
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Connie Walker @conniewalker.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
“When I got to know everyone else in there, and heard all of their stories and how long they were in there, I was like, ‘OK, I’m not allowed to feel sorry for myself at all, because every single person in here is in a way worse situation than me,’” she said. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
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Canadian woman who was detained in U.S. immigration jails returns to Vancouver
After a dozen days being shuffled between detention centres in the U.S., Jasmine Mooney has made it back to Vancouver.
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
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Janis Irwin @janisirwin.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
In case anyone needed a reminder, ✨ Libraries are for everyone ✨ Visibility and symbols of inclusion matter ✨ Neutrality is not an option in times of injustice ♥️📚
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
”we have condemned 228 men to die in a foreign prison without charge or trial” is a fact that I cannot shake from my mind. It just keeps reasserting itself. God have mercy bc this is just the beginning.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/03/2025
Over the past several weeks, ProPublica has identified dozens of people who worked for DOGE. #ICYMI: We just added 20 names to our tracker, bringing the total to 66.
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Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing.
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Sam Aretuo @nerdyconperro.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Reading about it on Twitter didn’t help, but again, most of the Hispanic media, Venezuelan media and Latam journalists are over there…
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Sam Aretuo @nerdyconperro.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Been with a knot in my stomach all day over this. Stigmatized just for being Venezuelans. Again, we don’t know who they were, who they were or even if all of them are Venezuelans. Thinking about my 🇻🇪 friends and family in the US.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 16/03/2025
Ignoring a court order on the grounds that “ah-ah-ah, the law doesn’t apply once you get to international waters!!” is absolutely sanctionable. 8th grade-ass lawyering. Completely unserious.
Inside the White House, officials discussed whether to order the planes to turn around. On advice from a team of administration lawyers, the administration pressed ahead.
• "There was a discussion about how far the judge's ruling can go under the circumstances and over international waters and, on advice of counsel, we proceeded with deporting these thugs," the senior official said.
• "They were already outside of US airspace. We believe the order is not applicable," a second senior administration official told Axios.
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Sam Aretuo @nerdyconperro.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
This is what I’m talking about, not due process, we don’t even know who they are or even if they are Venezuelans. All aprehended and disappeared by the State.
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Sam Aretuo @nerdyconperro.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I’m so tired of having to apologize or ask for permission or give extra explanations just because I’m Venezuelan. As if it wasn’t enough the over 20 years of chavismo and having to leave the country because of the dictatorship. Now we’re guilty everywhere just because.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16/03/2025
A kidney transplant specialist and professor at Brown University’s medical school has been deported from the U.S., even though she had a valid visa and a court order temporarily blocking her expulsion, according to her lawyer and court papers.
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Brown University Surgeon and Professor Are Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order
Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist and Brown University professor who had a valid visa, was expelled in apparent defiance of a court order.
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Sam Aretuo @nerdyconperro.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Leyendo anécdotas en Threads de canadienses blancos con green cards que fueron detenidos o amenazados cuando quisieron regresar a EEUU porque venían de visitar a sus familias. Ya sabemos qué queda pal resto.
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Sam Aretuo @nerdyconperro.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Yep. The United States is turning into an arbitrary state where the law doesn't matter. And if you don't know how ICE is on the inside, search for all the feature stories of the Latin American immigrants imprisoned there for months or even a year. I hope Rebecca can get out soon.
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Joshua Collins @murosinvisibles.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
We've been saying for months at PWS that with pressure to get deportation numbers up, and few arrivals at the border, the Trump administration will start going after other vulnerable communities, "legality" be damned This is just the beginning
Marco Rubio saying he will revoke the green cards of Hamas supporters
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Show us the way, teenage girl in New Jersey.
A 16-year-old Oradell high school student pointed out the double standard in objecting to a book “because a boy dresses up in a girl costume,” but not, for example, “‘Captain Underpants,’ a book where a man dresses up in underwear at a school.”

Her question drew clapping and appreciative cheers.

“This may seem like mockery,” the teenager went on, “but in reality, it exposes the true intention of banning this author from coming: discrimination and censorship.”
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Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
never thought I'd see a Canadian PM campaign on the "US invasion issue"
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
A Clearer Picture of #COVID19’s Lasting Effects on the Body. Five years on, scientists are starting to understand how the virus can lead to long-term, sometimes invisible changes. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/w... via @nytimes.com @alicecallahan.bsky.social #LongCOVID
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Covid’s Long-Term Effects on the Lungs, Gut, Brain and More
Five years on, scientists are starting to understand how the virus can lead to long-term, sometimes invisible changes.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people. Sound efficient? HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social
Graphic full of statistics on the inefficiency of private automobiles
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 10/03/2025
Mark Carney, the Canadian economist who helped steer two countries through major financial upheaval as the governor of their central banks, was elected leader of Canada’s ruling Liberal Party on Sunday. Here’s what to know about Canada’s next prime minister.
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Canada’s next leader says he’ll stand up to Trump. Who is Mark Carney?
Mark Carney was elected leader of Canada’s Liberal Party, poising the former governor of two central banks to replace Justin Trudeau as prime minister.
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Sam Aretuo @nerdyconperro.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Nice kicker. “.. The president .. has hailed announcements by Apple, TSMC and Honda, which he said would be opening a plant in Indiana. A company spokesman later said: ‘Honda has made no such announcement.’” @washingtonpost.com @davidjlynch.bsky.social
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Trump’s tariffs face long odds in bid to bring factories home
Trump’s tariff-first strategy could end a long stagnation in U.S. manufacturing. But Trump is battling powerful long-term forces.
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Sam Aretuo @nerdyconperro.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Looooool. No wonder my timeline wasn't loading. Twitter caído!
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Courtney Theriault @ctheriault.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
A friendly reminder. Yes, Carney will be Prime Minister without a seat as the Liberal party members alone elected him, just as Danielle Smith became Premier without a seat as the UCP members alone elected her. It's how our system has always worked, it's not new.
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