J.L. Torres
@ricanwriter.bsky.social
Award-winning writer, critic, editor, gadfly. Writing from the Post Barrio Universe.
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J.L. Torres
@ricanwriter.bsky.social
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Happy to announce Arte Publico Press will publish my novella, Clemente Between the Worlds. Scheduled launch: September, 2026. After thirteen years of interrupted writing, research, revisions and various drafts, I'm grateful it has found a deserving home. #writesky #genteofBsky #Booksky #BoricuasPR
Ding dong, the witch is dead. #ByeElise
Elise Stefanik Drops Out of N.Y. Governor’s Race and Will Leave Congress
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December 19, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Ding dong, the witch is dead. #ByeElise
A MAGA Christmas.
Cartoon: Naughty to nice list
A cartoon by Mike Luckovich. Related |� Nothing says 'tough on drugs' like Trump pardoning a ...
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December 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
A MAGA Christmas.
Of course not, because it's all about deporting as many non-white people as possible. #MagaFascists
Most Immigrants Arrested in City Crackdowns Have No Criminal Record www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Most Immigrants Arrested in City Crackdowns Have No Criminal Record www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
ICE Arrest Data Shows Many Immigrants With No Criminal Record
In high-profile operations, more than half of those arrested had no criminal record, an analysis shows.
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December 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Of course not, because it's all about deporting as many non-white people as possible. #MagaFascists
Most Immigrants Arrested in City Crackdowns Have No Criminal Record www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Most Immigrants Arrested in City Crackdowns Have No Criminal Record www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Puerto Ricans fought hard to get the Navy out of Vieques in 2003. We don't want them back. This is outrageous.
Puerto Ricans fought to get the military out of Vieques to protect their health and environment. I am deeply alarmed by the reports of DoD’s renewed military presence in Vieques.
November 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Puerto Ricans fought hard to get the Navy out of Vieques in 2003. We don't want them back. This is outrageous.
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I can just hear his shrill Neu Yawk accent saying this.
Cartoon: Chuck Schumer, shutdown negotiator
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November 15, 2025 at 4:14 AM
I can just hear his shrill Neu Yawk accent saying this.
This says it all.
November 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This says it all.
With all the talk about Mamdani and socialism, this video from Matthew Cooke is required viewing.
Socialism Never Worked
YouTube video by Matthew Cooke
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November 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
With all the talk about Mamdani and socialism, this video from Matthew Cooke is required viewing.
Watched this yesterday. Great directing by Bigelow. Super cast. Tight, well-written screenplay, not as difficult to follow as some critics claim. Main takeaway: Reminder that the final decision in a Defcon 1 scenario would be in TFG's hands. Frightening. #TrumpHasTheNuclearCodes
November 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Watched this yesterday. Great directing by Bigelow. Super cast. Tight, well-written screenplay, not as difficult to follow as some critics claim. Main takeaway: Reminder that the final decision in a Defcon 1 scenario would be in TFG's hands. Frightening. #TrumpHasTheNuclearCodes
This an example of righteous indignation.
Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.
November 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
This an example of righteous indignation.
They use this cliched refrain because they still think it instills fear in people. Most of us say good riddance, if it is even true. And if the 385,000 millionaires who live there move that's 4.5% of the population. And since most of them aren't paying squat in taxes what does it matter?
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
They use this cliched refrain because they still think it instills fear in people. Most of us say good riddance, if it is even true. And if the 385,000 millionaires who live there move that's 4.5% of the population. And since most of them aren't paying squat in taxes what does it matter?
These nefarious, greedy SOB's. It's outrageous that even to fulfill your civic duty to file a return you have to pay some corporation because they donated to TFG's inauguration. This broken system, that's breaking the backs of working class people, needs nothing less than radical change.
TurboTax makers Intuit have lobbied the government for years to block free public tax-filing.
Now Trump has terminated the free IRS Direct File program, nearly a year after Intuit gave his inauguration $1M.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
Now Trump has terminated the free IRS Direct File program, nearly a year after Intuit gave his inauguration $1M.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
November 7, 2025 at 1:30 AM
These nefarious, greedy SOB's. It's outrageous that even to fulfill your civic duty to file a return you have to pay some corporation because they donated to TFG's inauguration. This broken system, that's breaking the backs of working class people, needs nothing less than radical change.
Like any iconic photograph, it goes beyond the image to encapsulate so much about the man and his administration. It's eerily accurate and truthful.
This is officially one of the strangest pictures in American history, and I do not doubt that it will be considered iconic a hundred years from now.
100% serious here.
100% serious here.
November 6, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Like any iconic photograph, it goes beyond the image to encapsulate so much about the man and his administration. It's eerily accurate and truthful.
For such a devout Christian Johnson is an audacious, flagrant liar: "A false witness shall not be unpunished and he that speaketh lies shall perish." Proverbs 19:9.
November 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
For such a devout Christian Johnson is an audacious, flagrant liar: "A false witness shall not be unpunished and he that speaketh lies shall perish." Proverbs 19:9.
From the USDA: "The USDA estimates the average wholesale price for frozen whole hen turkeys will be $1.32 per pound in 2025, which is a 40% increase from 2024's average of $0.94 per pound. Some estimates place the wholesale price even higher, at $1.71 per pound."
Like shoppers aren't going to notice that this is a blatant lie. He must think we're as stupid as he is.
November 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
From the USDA: "The USDA estimates the average wholesale price for frozen whole hen turkeys will be $1.32 per pound in 2025, which is a 40% increase from 2024's average of $0.94 per pound. Some estimates place the wholesale price even higher, at $1.71 per pound."
Unwarranted, excessive force to intimidate and silence opposition is characteristic of any fascist para-military organization.
Excessive force. PERIOD!
They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.
📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.
They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.
📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.
November 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Unwarranted, excessive force to intimidate and silence opposition is characteristic of any fascist para-military organization.
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Zohran for hope. NYC go vote and start the change we need.
Cities thrive not on fear but empathy, on cooperation not division.
That's the NYC we know and love. It has found expression in this movement. And it is rising up at the ballot box today.
Polls close at 9pm: zohranfornyc.com/vote
That's the NYC we know and love. It has found expression in this movement. And it is rising up at the ballot box today.
Polls close at 9pm: zohranfornyc.com/vote
November 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Zohran for hope. NYC go vote and start the change we need.
Are We Losing Our Democracy?
The NY Times believes we are close to losing it completely.
"Once countries begin taking steps away from democracy, the march often continues. We offer these 12 markers as a warning of how much Americans have already lost and how much more we still could lose."
The NY Times believes we are close to losing it completely.
"Once countries begin taking steps away from democracy, the march often continues. We offer these 12 markers as a warning of how much Americans have already lost and how much more we still could lose."
Opinion | Are We Losing Our Democracy?
Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Are We Losing Our Democracy?
The NY Times believes we are close to losing it completely.
"Once countries begin taking steps away from democracy, the march often continues. We offer these 12 markers as a warning of how much Americans have already lost and how much more we still could lose."
The NY Times believes we are close to losing it completely.
"Once countries begin taking steps away from democracy, the march often continues. We offer these 12 markers as a warning of how much Americans have already lost and how much more we still could lose."
The New Colossus 2025
Give me your entitled rich,
Your muddled whites yearning to enslave,
The retched refuse of your scheming chores.
Give me your entitled rich,
Your muddled whites yearning to enslave,
The retched refuse of your scheming chores.
Live updates: Trump administration limits refugee admissions to mostly white South Africans
President Donald Trump's administration is restricting the number of refugees it admits into the country to 7,500, and they will mostly be white South Africans.
apnews.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:28 PM
The New Colossus 2025
Give me your entitled rich,
Your muddled whites yearning to enslave,
The retched refuse of your scheming chores.
Give me your entitled rich,
Your muddled whites yearning to enslave,
The retched refuse of your scheming chores.
Every working American should watch this
Some myths about the economy are like zombies — they just keep crawling back. Here are the three that eat at me the most. https://youtu.be/j3vbYwZecFU?si=ru-0S4-LC-_N1C5m
Zombie Myths: The Economic Lies that Just Won't Die | Robert Reich
Robert Reich
youtu.be
October 28, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Every working American should watch this
The bottom line is always grift with TFG.
Funders of Trump's $300M ballroom and East Wing destruction include:
-Amazon
-Apple
-Coinbase
-Lockheed Martin
-Google
-Meta
-Microsoft
-Palantir
-Tobacco companies
-The Adelson family
Don't forget — they're not just buying a ballroom. They're buying Trump's favor.
-Amazon
-Apple
-Coinbase
-Lockheed Martin
-Meta
-Microsoft
-Palantir
-Tobacco companies
-The Adelson family
Don't forget — they're not just buying a ballroom. They're buying Trump's favor.
October 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The bottom line is always grift with TFG.
And not a peep from the allegedly fiscally responsible GOP. You have to wonder how much of this "spending" is going to the pockets of TFG and his cronies.
US hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic
The U.S. government's gross national debt has surpassed $38 trillion during the federal shutdown, marking a record high.
apnews.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
And not a peep from the allegedly fiscally responsible GOP. You have to wonder how much of this "spending" is going to the pockets of TFG and his cronies.