Rio LaMeta
riolameta.bsky.social
Rio LaMeta
@riolameta.bsky.social
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the system profits off of your self-blame. because as long as you’re mad at yourself for buying too many things, for not having enough savings, for not picking a better major, you won't organize, strike, demand or revolt. instead, you demand that it’s your fault even if the system is rigged.
May 1, 2025 at 11:24 AM
If trump is an “over correction” of a response to having a black president, then I can’t wait for the over correction of Trump. That is if we still have a democracy to correct
April 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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The Trump Admin is trying to disappear almost 200 more people to El Salvador.

This is a violation of due process.

If we let Trump get away with disappearing immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act, there is nothing stopping him from disappearing U.S. citizens next. (1/2)
April 18, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Sen. Van Hollen makes a very good point: If all these accusations the Trump administration is making against Abrego Garcia, why have they not made them to the courts?
April 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison.

It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.
April 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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leftists: the system is corrupt up because it is a system that creates massive inequality, structured by race, class and gender

right wingers: the system is corrupt because i was supposed to be rich. my whiteness was supposed to give me privilege so i can live a comfortable life. i was lied to!
April 18, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Exclusive: Immigrants falsely labeled dead by the Social Security Administration are showing up at field offices with documents proving they are alive, leading staff to reinstate nearly three dozen people over the past week, according to records obtained by The Post.
Immigrants prove they are alive, forcing Social Security to undo death label
The immigrants who have requested a reversal and been reinstated in Social Security databases include a Haitian asylum seeker and a minor child.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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True facts are true
April 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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the most heinous acts under fascist regimes happened outside the heartland of those countries, they occurred in zones designed to be beyond oversight, beyond citizenship and beyond legal challenge
April 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Dear @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

STOP telling America we are in a Constituional crisis (which we are)

but ACTING like it’s politics as usual.

IF IT’S A GDMF CRISIS, ACT LIKE IT!

We don’t want to see more speeches & interviews. We want to see open rebellion from YOU!!
April 18, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Shame on these people for wanting this version of the world
April 18, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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It is really bothering me (understatement) that the message is “bring back that one innocent guy” and not “WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK SHUT DOWN THIS WHOLE OPERATION IMMEDIATELY.”
April 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Like, as a member of the can't work, can't feed/dress/bathe myself contingent, I'm legit terrified of what he proposes to do with people who can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.
April 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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The tariff saga and its impact on disabled people cannot be separated from the administration’s brutal cuts to Medicaid.

“It’s really the most vulnerable of the most vulnerable…who need technologies to live.”
Tariffs are about to hit lifesaving medical equipment
"It's really the most vulnerable of the most vulnerable...who need technologies to live."
www.motherjones.com
April 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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A conservative federal judge issued a dire warning on Thursday: The government must bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the US, or else the country will descend into lawlessness.
A conservative judge just issued a dire warning about the Abrego Garcia case
The government has brought us to the brink of "lawlessness.:
www.motherjones.com
April 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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I’M GOING TO KEEP POSTING THIS STORY UNTIL ANDRY IS FREED: Gay Venezuelan makeup artist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced cop's report

Andry Hernandez Romero sought shelter in the U.S. because he was persecuted as a gay man, one of the "particular social groups" allowed to claim asylum.
Gay Venezuelan stylist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced cop's report
Now a contractor for ICE, the officer was on a list of disgraced cops in Milwaukee. His report helped send a man to a notorious prison in El Salvador.
www.usatoday.com
April 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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He's creating chaos because he has nothing to offer. No philosophy. No vision. No ideas. So he's just tearing down what competent people built.
April 17, 2025 at 1:14 AM