Luis Toro
@luistoro.bsky.social
Boulder, Colorado litigator. Born in Phoenix, Arizona. 🌵 Not speaking for anyone but myself. He/him/él. Brown is beautiful! ✊🏽🇲🇽🇵🇷🇺🇸
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Luis Toro
@luistoro.bsky.social
· Sep 7
“Imposter syndrome” is just a fancy name for internalized racism/sexism/etc. It’s the coddled nepo babies who should feel like imposters.
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No Kings includes Draft Kings
February 8, 2026 at 11:49 PM
No Kings includes Draft Kings
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This years Super Bowl ads are all sponsored by the buy nothing movement
February 9, 2026 at 12:14 AM
This years Super Bowl ads are all sponsored by the buy nothing movement
Did everybody learn Spanish by today?
February 8, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Did everybody learn Spanish by today?
Best part of Netflix’s Elway documentary? This:
The Play from the Cal vs. Stanford 1982 Big Game #GoBears
YouTube video by UC Berkeley Inspires
youtu.be
February 7, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Best part of Netflix’s Elway documentary? This:
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Early in his career, William Randolph Hearst famously joked that if his papers kept losing $1 million a year, he'd lose all his money in 60 years. If the Post continues to lose $100 million a year, it will take Jeff Bezos 2000 years to lose his money.
February 5, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Early in his career, William Randolph Hearst famously joked that if his papers kept losing $1 million a year, he'd lose all his money in 60 years. If the Post continues to lose $100 million a year, it will take Jeff Bezos 2000 years to lose his money.
Sometimes it seems like all of these are my cases. 🤦🏽♂️
As of September 30, Colorado's federal judges had 37 motions in civil cases sitting for six months or longer. That is a dramatic reduction in the backlog from prior years. Still, persistent delays are concentrated among some judges:
www.coloradopolitics.com/2026/02/03/c...
www.coloradopolitics.com/2026/02/03/c...
Colorado's federal judges slash motions backlog to lowest in years
Colorado's federal trial judges collectively had 37 motions in civil cases that had been sitting on their dockets for at least six months without a ruling, as of September 30.
www.coloradopolitics.com
February 5, 2026 at 1:26 AM
Sometimes it seems like all of these are my cases. 🤦🏽♂️
Don’t give in now @harvard.edu!
The Trump administration is no longer trying to get cash from Harvard as it seeks a settlement. At this point, the White House seems happy to get a signature on anything they can call a compact.
Trump Drops Demand for Cash From Harvard After Stiff Resistance
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Don’t give in now @harvard.edu!
Got a nice note from a community member who said they almost spat out their coffee reading a brief I wrote because I got the other side so good.
February 2, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Got a nice note from a community member who said they almost spat out their coffee reading a brief I wrote because I got the other side so good.
RIP Dr. Loco! #feelingazul
Bay Area Chicano academic and musician José Bernardo Cuéllar, ‘Dr. Loco,’ dies
According to Radio Bilingue, José Bernardo Cuéllar, also known as Dr. Loco, has died.
www.calonews.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:58 PM
RIP Dr. Loco! #feelingazul
F “Dubai chocolate.” You know where chocolate comes from? México, baby! 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽
January 22, 2026 at 12:40 AM
F “Dubai chocolate.” You know where chocolate comes from? México, baby! 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽
Pick a prison fight, claim to be the victim of assault, demand a pardon because prison conditions are so bad.
Tina Peters in prison altercation caught on camera
Peters’ allies claim she was assaulted in prison and is being punished for the altercation. Prison officials say no one was hurt, and Peters has been relocated.
www.9news.com
January 21, 2026 at 2:21 AM
Pick a prison fight, claim to be the victim of assault, demand a pardon because prison conditions are so bad.
Worst case scenario. America’s number 1 hater of Latinos is acting President.
Every few weeks we get a story like this and it always fizzle out. Stephen Miller is in control. Let's not pretend otherwise. Even when Brooke Rollins convinced Trump to *publicly* say he'd back off of some raids, it took Miller just 48 hours to browbeat Trump into changing his mind.
Trump is privately worried about the "optics" of ICE raids and his advisers are looking for ways to soften them, Axios reports. I'm calling bullshit: The terror and violence cannot be hived off from the broader policy agenda. They are 100% intrinsic to it.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
January 16, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Worst case scenario. America’s number 1 hater of Latinos is acting President.
Why do candidates reach out as if it’s appealing when they say “I used to be a Republican, but then Trump came along”? You mean you supported the Iraq War, Bush v. Gore, endless tax cuts, supply-side economics, Sarah Palin, and Mitt Romney’s “self-deportation”? Maybe take a back seat.
January 15, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Why do candidates reach out as if it’s appealing when they say “I used to be a Republican, but then Trump came along”? You mean you supported the Iraq War, Bush v. Gore, endless tax cuts, supply-side economics, Sarah Palin, and Mitt Romney’s “self-deportation”? Maybe take a back seat.
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It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
January 12, 2026 at 10:56 PM
It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
The war on brown people rolls on.
4 members of Oglala Sioux Tribe detained by ICE in Minneapolis, president says
The president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe said Thursday that he's been "made aware" that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained four of its members in Minneapolis.
www.cbsnews.com
January 11, 2026 at 5:09 PM
The war on brown people rolls on.
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Yes, but for only certain parts of the country. Like a reverse Reconstruction.
The goal here is martial law. It’s martial law. Let’s be clear about that.
January 10, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Yes, but for only certain parts of the country. Like a reverse Reconstruction.
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I think the assumption has been "when we start killing people, they'll shut up and fall in line." Which has not, to put it mildly, been borne out
One thing I've been trying to keep in mind: What turns this around for the ICE/CPB/DHS Nazis? What do they do that makes people stop being angry to come out and yell at them in in the freezing cold, follow them around filming them, defending their neighbors? The answer is nothing. It will never stop
Protesters are keeping up the noise outside a hotel reportedly housing ICE agents in downtown Minneapolis.
Some protesters tried to get inside the building through the main entrance, where they were turned away by security.
📸: Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Some protesters tried to get inside the building through the main entrance, where they were turned away by security.
📸: Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 10, 2026 at 3:15 PM
I think the assumption has been "when we start killing people, they'll shut up and fall in line." Which has not, to put it mildly, been borne out
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Marco Rubio has spent his career voting against working people, and Senator John Hickenlooper helped him consolidate even more power to continue his reign of terror. Colorado deserves more than leaders who are complicit in their suffering.
Join me in fighting back 👉www.julieforcolorado.com
Join me in fighting back 👉www.julieforcolorado.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Marco Rubio has spent his career voting against working people, and Senator John Hickenlooper helped him consolidate even more power to continue his reign of terror. Colorado deserves more than leaders who are complicit in their suffering.
Join me in fighting back 👉www.julieforcolorado.com
Join me in fighting back 👉www.julieforcolorado.com
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Primary all of them
Senate Democrats are CURRENTLY negotiating a plan to INCREASE ICE funding by another 10%
SCOOP: Senate Negotiators Eye Another ICE Funding Increase
GOP pushes for even more "operational capacity" while Schumer and Jeffries balk at drawing red lines, fearing "Defund" optics.
migrantinsider.com
January 10, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Primary all of them
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"A former TV news reporter recalled before a jury on Tuesday being followed and assaulted by a Colorado man in December 2024, as the stranger demanded proof of his citizenship in the name of 'Trump’s America.'"
At trial, Colorado reporter recalls Marine following, strangling him after demanding proof of citizenship
Prosecutors say Marine veteran Patrick Egan pursued a local reporter for 40 miles, then strangled him outside his Grand Junction newsroom.
www.courthousenews.com
January 6, 2026 at 10:20 PM
"A former TV news reporter recalled before a jury on Tuesday being followed and assaulted by a Colorado man in December 2024, as the stranger demanded proof of his citizenship in the name of 'Trump’s America.'"
Not religious, but January 6 will always be Día de Reyes for me. 🇵🇷
January 6, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Not religious, but January 6 will always be Día de Reyes for me. 🇵🇷
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Back in my day, politicians at least felt the need to lie about starting wars on behalf of oil companies
Rep. Salazar: "We're gonna be doing a favor to us, to our children, to our economy, to our oil companies to be able to liberate. And to Venezuelans who wants to be free."
November 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Back in my day, politicians at least felt the need to lie about starting wars on behalf of oil companies
Which is worse: taking us into a war for oil based on lies, or taking us into a war for oil while saying “We’re doing this to take the oil.”?
January 4, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Which is worse: taking us into a war for oil based on lies, or taking us into a war for oil while saying “We’re doing this to take the oil.”?
We’re turning into just another petrodictatorship like Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Wrote a thing:
The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....
The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....
Five Facets of the Attack on Venezuela by the Rogue Nation the US Has Become
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They are saying it baldly: this is an oil grab. There is a history of oil grabs going back to British imperialism in the middle east in the late nineteenth century and murders of Osage Nation triba...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
January 3, 2026 at 9:44 PM
We’re turning into just another petrodictatorship like Saudi Arabia and Iran.