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Tucson Xicano (Carlos Romero)

@tucsonxicano.bsky.social
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Daddy, husband, free thinker, hiphop aficionado, basketball lover, xicano activist, freedom fighter, 3rd generation U of A Wildcat alum, from westside Tucson.

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Tucson Xicano (Carlos Romero) @tucsonxicano.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Our city leaders, and cities across this country, always tout semiconductor plants when a company decides to put its facilities here. While at the same time welcoming data centers. Driving us all to an AI plastic death.
theguardian.com
‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn
Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres
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Tucson Xicano (Carlos Romero) @tucsonxicano.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
What a chickenshit move by the Tucson City Council. Instead of voting straight up on renaming Murrieta Park after Sal Baldenegro, Lane Santa Cruz made a substitute motion to put a moratorium on all park name changes and to change the process. Just stand by what you believe in and tell the
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Tucson Xicano (Carlos Romero) @tucsonxicano.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
So now we're comparing Sal Baldenegro to Cesar Chavez? 50 year old allegations of domestic violence with no stories from survivors = 60 year old allegations of rape of teens with statements from survivors? And were using that to deny the campaign to change Joaquin Murrieta Park to Sal Baldenegro
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Tucson Xicano (Carlos Romero) @tucsonxicano.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
We sure do know how to pick our constables. Smh
tucsonsentinel.com
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Tucson Xicano (Carlos Romero) @tucsonxicano.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
How about we take all that vouchers for the rich money and use it to pay teachers instead?
tucson.com
The companies filling Arizona's teacher gaps are making billions
Just before the 2025-26 school year, Tucson Unified faced a severe teacher shortage, with math teachers frequently replaced by long-term substitutes and private agency staff amid district struggles to...
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Big Ernie McCracken @bigerniemccracken.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
You would think Potus falling into a deep slumber, every day, on TV, would be a bigger story.... ....but Sleepy Joe.... Our media is hopelessly broken.
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Tucson Xicano (Carlos Romero) @tucsonxicano.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Big Brother will keep us safe. Why is the news quoting fascist grant kreuger about safety? Because scanners and cameras and IDs and the judgment of "troublemaker" by a bar are never infallible.
kold.com
Downtown Tucson businesses adopt new ID scanners to flag disruptive patrons
The new devices can share real-time information across 16 venues.
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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PinkTweets @pinktweets.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
No surprise. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
nbcnews.com
Bags in vehicle of man fatally shot by ICE did not contain drugs, Texas DA says
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 51-year-old father of three, was killed by ICE during a traffic stop in Texas in early July. A family attorney said a substance alleged to be drugs was salt to combat the hea...
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Tucson Xicano (Carlos Romero) @tucsonxicano.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Fascist fuckfaces cheated this Sikh boy out of a win in the national civics contest.
notus.org
Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest
America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.
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Tucson Xicano (Carlos Romero) @tucsonxicano.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
In different states, in different prisons, among men from different countries and ethnicities, the fascist ice cowards maintained their cruelty and crimes against humanity.
mysanantonio.com
ICE detainees are dying by suicide at an 'alarming' rate, an AP investigation finds
Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees are taking their own lives at a pace that’s unprecedented in the agency’s two-decade history.
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Tucson Xicano (Carlos Romero) @tucsonxicano.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Desalination is only a bandaid. We need to ban all data centers in Arizona and take control over our farmland from corporations and foreign countries. We need to end all reckless developments that dont have a 100 year supply. They dont live here and they dont depend on our water. NOT 1 MORE CENTER!
tucson.com
Arizona could get water from San Diego within 6 months
For Star subscribers: A new agreement signed by federal officials and leaders of water agencies in Arizona, California and Nevada could eventually lead to the transfer of potentially large amounts
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Tucson Xicano (Carlos Romero) @tucsonxicano.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
PCC taking $12 million handouts from Beale, the project blue construction company. The fascists cut funds that serve the people from the federal government which then forces those institutions that lost the funds to take blood money from private corporations to compensate.
threesonorans.substack.com
The Night They Called Compassion a Civil Rights Violation at Pima Community College
Inside the PCC board meeting where the Trump administration's war on TRIO, a suspicious $12.7 million donation, and a sustainability fight all landed in the same room.
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Tucson Xicano (Carlos Romero) @tucsonxicano.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
"A society reveals its priorities through the conditions it gives to the people who sustain its most serious tasks. When teachers live provisionally, thought itself begins to inherit the structure of provisional life. Courses continue, students learn, institutions function, and the surface remains
working-mass.com
Intellectual Homelessness: The Adjunct and the Disappearing University - Working Mass
By: Ashraf Hazeyen Every semester, the adjunct professor walks into the classroom carrying the full symbolic weight of the university while possessing almost none of its protections. They enter with a...
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Tucson Xicano (Carlos Romero) @tucsonxicano.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Data centers increase the temperature of surrounding areas by 4 degrees. They emit 2 to 6 times the intensity of the energy of the sun onto the surface. 4100 megawatts of more data centers planned for construction. Phoenix will be uninhabitable in a few decades. What are we doing?
azcentral.com
Data center growth could worsen Phoenix heat, ASU study says
As the number of data centers grows across Phoenix, researchers say neighborhoods could see higher temperatures.
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Tucson Xicano (Carlos Romero) @tucsonxicano.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
If we're going to heed months old allegations about someone dead for 33 years about actions they did 60 years ago because its a brown man then we need to take the Sam Hughes name off our schools, neighborhoods, and roads. He married an 11 year old Mexican girl when he was 30. He financed and
change.org
Sign the Petition
Demand Tucson Open a Community Process to Rename Sam Hughes Landmarks
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Tucson Xicano (Carlos Romero) @tucsonxicano.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
100,000 kids with fucked up childhoods. Just imagine being a kid and having that happen to you. Imagine the lifelong trauma you'd have to deal with. Not one of these sorry ass ice fascists grew up without their mom. How does separating the families of US citizens make anything better?
propublica.org
More Than 100,000 American Kids Have Had a Parent Detained in Immigration Sweeps, Report Estimates
Since the Trump administration doesn’t track how many children have been separated from their parents by immigration detention, a Brookings report tried to calculate it — and it cited ProPublica’s rep...
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Tucson Xicano (Carlos Romero) @tucsonxicano.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
519 RTA batch of ballots still not explained. 5019 reduction in the voter registration total still not explained. Why didnt the County just release the information to explain the missing batch and the voter registration reduction? I voted no on RTA and almost everyone in my circles did the same,
threesonorans.substack.com
🧾 Tucson Handed the RTA $2.67 Billion — Then Refused to Print the Receipt
Numbers changed silently. Records were swapped. The court looked away. Three Sonorans isn't.
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Tucson Xicano (Carlos Romero) @tucsonxicano.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
The edgar looks terrible on everyone because its a bowl cut but I dont think its indicative of a change in chicano or cholo/lowridwr culture or as serious as Maxwell puts it here. A part of it is resistance to amurkkkan culture just like the shaved head & slicked back hair with a media on before it.
thedailychela.com
The “Edgar” Boom Is Loud—But Cholo Culture Runs Deep
Old school cholos didn’t need to be loud or chase attention. They commanded it through their style and presence.
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Tucson Xicano (Carlos Romero) @tucsonxicano.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Utah is going to build a 40k acre data center that requires more power than the entire state. Theyre going to destroy the great Salt Lake which has already been in a prolonged drought and for what? So AI can do your essay and flyers for you? Or are they building a compound for Joseph Smith's return?
theguardian.com
‘Irresponsible’: backlash as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan
Facility would require more power than entire state uses and suck up vast amount of water in drought-stricken area
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Tucson Xicano (Carlos Romero) @tucsonxicano.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The last Upward Bound program in Tucson is still doing great things with its students. All of Pima's UB programs were illegally destroyed, this is the only one that remains, it's at the U of A and serves Cholla and Pueblo students.
azpm.org
As graduation nears, these first-gen students from Tucson are Upward Bound
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Tucson Xicano (Carlos Romero) @tucsonxicano.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
What happens in Eloy is coming soon to Marana. MTC already has a history of abuse when they previously ran the Marana site back in the 90s and 00s. Wtf did the governor approve the sale of state land back to MTC?!?!?!!
cronkitenews.azpbs.org
Arizona ICE detention center: Report sparks debate on detainee treatment
A recent report by the Florence Immigration & Refugee Rights Project includes multiple accounts of medical abuse and neglect at the Eloy Detention Center.
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Tucson Xicano (Carlos Romero) @tucsonxicano.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Swear to god there is absolutely NO COORDINATION for all these road/sidewalk/parks/libraries construction throughout Tucson. Why are sidewalks at Tucson High and Safford being worked on right now? We couldn't wait three more weeks until school was over? You know, when there is almost no traffic at
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Tucson Xicano (Carlos Romero) @tucsonxicano.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Suchir Balaji was murdered for blowing the whistle on OpenAI. Not only do these tech corporations want our water and electricity, they kill us for exposing their unethical and immoral actions. Viva Suchir! No data centers in TUCSON!
thenation.com
The Death of an AI Whistleblower
Suchir Balaji sought to expose OpenAI’s data abuses. Did it come at the expense of his own life?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
The Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965 this week. It was a slap in the face to the countless activists who fought for the VRA — and those who died for it. But we cannot give up. Here's how we should respond.
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Tucson Xicano (Carlos Romero) @tucsonxicano.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
If U of A is going to rename the Cesar Chavez Building then let's name it after the first chicano to earn a PhD from the U or someone tied to higher education in Tucson. NOT Dolores Huerta, NOT Raul Grijalva, NOT Leopoldo Carrillo.
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Tucson Xicano (Carlos Romero) @tucsonxicano.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
What a fuckin tragedy. Visiting Teotihuacan is a life changing experience. As a Mexican you feel insignificant and yet a part of so much history at the same time, I can't explain it. When I went they still weren't letting people climb up the pyramids of the Moon and Sun because of covid, now I fear
apnews.com
Gunman shoots several tourists at historic pyramids in Mexico, killing a Canadian
Mexico's government says a Canadian tourist has been killed and 13 other people injured when a man with a gun opened fire at the Teotihuacan pyramids.
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Tucson Xicano (Carlos Romero) @tucsonxicano.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Our government is stealing and trashing the belongings of immigrants. Impoundment has been a racket for PDs across ths country for citizens for decades, often times people thousands even when they've never been convicted of a crime. This needs to end.
salon.com
ICE said their property was “lost.” Then it magically resurfaced - Salon.com
Detainees were told their clothing, phones, documents and money were gone — and then their lawyers went to work
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Tucson Xicano (Carlos Romero) @tucsonxicano.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
DLR Group employees are having a come to Jesus moment like some raytheon employees did. Nothing changes without a general strike because thats when their profits stop.
motherjones.com
Top architecture firm won’t design more ICE prisons after employees revolt
They thought their firm focused on humane design. Then they learned of the private detention center contract.
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Tucson Xicano (Carlos Romero) @tucsonxicano.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
So beyond tired of the lawlessness in our "law enforcement." The phx pigs are on a roll lately. 1 of their sergeants wanted to bait children into assault so he could have them arrested so he went to an anti-ice protest with a mask and a gun. Then we found out the phx pigs had several police cars
threesonorans.substack.com
🔥 La Placa Got Caught Using Placas de México — and Nobody Asked Permission
Listen now | From Mexican license plates on unmarked cop cars to an armed sergeant baiting students — the context you need to understand what's really happening in Arizona.
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Tucson Xicano (Carlos Romero) @tucsonxicano.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
How stupid are republikkkans? How stupid are amerikkkans for voting for this shit?
hollywoodreporter.com
Pete Hegseth Reads Tarantino’s Fake Bible Quote From ‘Pulp Fiction’ at Prayer Service
Sean Parnell, chief Pentagon spokesman, released a statement defending Hegseth, arguing that "anyone saying the Secretary misquoted Ezekiel 25:17 is peddling fake news and ignorant of reality."
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Tucson Xicano (Carlos Romero) @tucsonxicano.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Viva Dr. Rudy Acuña! ✊🏽
threesonorans.substack.com
Dr. Rudy Acuña, father of Chicano Studies, 1932–2026
They banned his book, called his history a threat, and lost in federal court. Dr. Rudy Acuña died today at 93 — and the fight he started isn't over.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
A reminder: The Attorney General of the United States should be the people's lawyer, not the president's personal attorney. The Department of Justice should act to protect the public, not the occupant of the Oval Office and his political allies.
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Tucson Xicano (Carlos Romero) @tucsonxicano.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Wouldn't it be awesome if every raytheon employee in Tucson had their come to Jesus moment? Wouldn't it be awesome if they had some tezcatlipoca? Wouldn't it be a dream if they converted all that brain power for peace?
tucson.com
Tim Steller's column: War makes some Tucson Raytheon employees, retirees question work
A Tomahawk missile that was almost certainly assembled in Tucson struck a school in Iran. It's one of the triggers for some soul-searching among a few Raytheon employees and retirees.
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Y.O.L.O.0311 @yolo0311.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Facts spoken by an ex-trumper...
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Tucson Xicano (Carlos Romero) @tucsonxicano.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
It only took getting to April to have March weather. Everything is blooming a month early. 🌱🌹🌼
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Tucson Xicano (Carlos Romero) @tucsonxicano.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
25 MOTHAFUCKIN YEARS!!!¡!!!!!!! BEAR THE FUCK DOWN!!
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Tucson Xicano (Carlos Romero) @tucsonxicano.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Crimes against humanity. All because theyre brown kids.
propublica.org
The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
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Tucson Xicano (Carlos Romero) @tucsonxicano.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
“There is also right and wrong in history and it is wrong for a person to be born with millions of dollars while another is born with a crack habit. If you know something is wrong, you have a duty (not an obligation) to do something about it. A person should not separate his or her scholarship from
calonews.com
Iconic Chicano scholar Rodolfo ‘Rudy’ Acuña dies at 93
Chicano scholar and activist Rodolfo "Rudy" Francisco Acuña, largely considered the father of Chicano Studies, has died at 93.
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Tucson Xicano (Carlos Romero) @tucsonxicano.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
I'm not gonna say shit about Cesar Chavez, and no one else should either, until we know the facts and who is making these allegations and what is being alleged. This smells like cia/fbi smear tactics. Let the truth be heard!
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Tucson Xicano (Carlos Romero) @tucsonxicano.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Arizona should be the #1 overall seed. Bear down.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
I cannot adequately explain how fucked up the World Cup situation is wihen the president of a host nation *threatens the safety* of one of the participants (Iran). The USA should be removed as a host nation and if it's not, the games shoud be boycotted and ANYONE WITH A MORAL CENTER should see that.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Everything the Ellison family could own if Paramount buys Warner Bros: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central Cartoon Network And more... This is a rotten deal that the Trump regime has rubber stamped. State AGs must step in and block it.
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Tucson Xicano (Carlos Romero) @tucsonxicano.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
This racist USA detains children, detains them months past what is legally allowed. This racist USA detains immigrants that follow the rules and procedures and go to all of their check-ins. This racist USA detains brown people for succeeding in a country that does everything it can to make life hard
propublica.org
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Tucson Xicano (Carlos Romero) @tucsonxicano.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
#1 Overall Seed Fuck puke. Fuck Michigan. They're not finishing the big 12 with 2 losses. Bear. The. Fuck. Down!
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 15/03/2026
These are the fascists who wrote and are enacting Project 2025. It was never about "legal immigration." It was always about banning all non-white immigration. Dems needs to take this seriously or these MAGA fascists absolutely will enact a full ban to make USA a white ethno-state like Nazi Germany.
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Tucson Xicano (Carlos Romero) @tucsonxicano.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Alright Tucson, today is RTA election day. So what's your prediction? I say it goes down 60-40. Vote no!
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Tucson Xicano (Carlos Romero) @tucsonxicano.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Dual Language programs work and students score higher on all tests after going through them. Much like MAS however, this racist state, especially the pendejo Tom Horne, wants to destroy dual language programs and have them be illegal. We should've been doing dual language in education 100 years ago.
kold.com
Dual language students outperform peers in Tucson USD
Tucson Unified School District dual-language third graders score about 10% better on state English tests.
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Tucson Xicano (Carlos Romero) @tucsonxicano.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Chomsky was just hanging out with epstein even though he believed in race science and even sent Chomsky a link to an article written by white supremacists that believe in the pseudoscience.
archive.is
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Tucson Xicano (Carlos Romero) @tucsonxicano.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This racist country detains 3 week old brown babies.
sacurrent.com
Two-month-old baby 'choking on his own vomit' while detained in Dilley
'His life is in danger,' U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said about newborn Juan Nicolás. The child fell ill after spending almost a month — or half his life — in a San Antonio-area family detention facility...
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