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I was just named deputy chief of staff with @JoaquinCastrotx.
I’m looking forward to continuing to support his work for the folks in San Antonio in this new role.
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Sid Ravishankar
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Sid Ravishankar
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future: areoengineer. present: foreign policy/nat sec for @joaquincastrotx. past: @JulianCastro @saishopkins @saisstrat @wustl. tweets personal
Washington, DC Katılım Ocak 2011
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Making yourself feel powerful by sending special forces to arrest a 94 year old former leader of an island nation impoverished by U.S. sanctions doesn't exactly suggest a strong, self-confident and ascendant superpower.
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This kind of vile antisemitism should have no place in American politics.
Unfortunately, a Republican dark money PAC is spending big money to help elect this candidate in the Democratic primary runoff.
Democrats, please go out and vote for @johnnygarciatx.
Michael Karlis@MichaelKarlis
TX-35 Democratic candidate Maureen Galindo says she will convert ICE detention center in Karnes County into an internment camp for "American Zionists." "It will also be a castration processing center for pedophiles, which will probably be most of the Zionists," she added.
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A question for fellow Latin Americanists…
- Pinochet kept something like $12 million in secret accounts at Riggs Bank.
- Nicaragua's Arnoldo Aleman allegedly embezzled $100 million.
What Latin American presidential self-dealing approaches the amount here? Somoza? Duvalier?
Roger Parloff@rparloff
The Trump/Blanche $1.776B "settlement" fund purports to be challengeable only by those who colluded to create it. ... 1/5 documentcloud.org/documents/2813…
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BREAKING: GasBuddy Forecasts Most Expensive Summer at the Pump in Years Amid Strait Closure... possibly touching $5/gal, setting new record average of $4.80 per gallon, exceeding 2022's summer average of $4.43 if the Strait remains closed
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Republicans are spending $1 million to boost a disgustingly antisemitic candidate in Texas.
They’re resorting to the most vile tactics so they can hold onto power in November.
dccc.org/joint-statemen…
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Until Trump’s second term, the United States consistently stood by Venezuela’s democratic opposition. In El Salvador, by contrast, Washington has played a different role—first tolerating democratic backsliding in exchange for migration cooperation, and now celebrating it as a model.
Cristosal@Cristosal
🎙️ #CristosalEnMedios | "A lo largo de este proceso sentimos que el cumplimiento (de las medidas cautelares otorgadas por la CIDH) es insatisfactorio, sobre todo porque la familia todavía tiene restricciones para la visita, no tiene plena información sobre la situación de salud de Ruth que preocupa mucho a la familia. Imagínese no poder constar bienestar y estado de salud de un familiar." Nuestro director Noah Bullock (@NoahFBullock) en entrevista con Fernando Del Rincón (@soyfdelrincon) en @CNNEE. #LibertadParaRuth #JuicioPúblicoParaRuth
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CNN also reports that this settlement also forces the IRS to end any active audits into Trump, his family, and his businesses
Not only does it further protect POTUS from accountability, but he's expanding this shield to Don Jr. and Eric and Ivanka and Jared and their interests
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1
BREAKING: It's official. The Trump DOJ just confirmed the creation of a $1.776 billion slush fund that can be used to pay Trump allies who claim they've been wrongfully targeted by the Biden admin's ‘weaponization' — including, reportedly, Jan. 6 insurrectionists.
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“You're not going to blockade a country into democracy.” My interview w @biannagolodryga on @cnni 🇺🇸 v. 🇨🇺
edition.cnn.com/2026/05/18/tv/…
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Per this account, Trump consulted three monarchs on a planned renewal of the war on Iran, but not Congress or the American people:
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No American president has ever sought to benefit so directly, and so immediately, from his own political decisions. Unprecedented
Richard Stengel@stengel
George H.W. Bush kept his assets in a blind trust, as did Bill Clinton. Neither Obama nor Biden traded stocks or bonds while in office. 3,700 trades is probably more than all the trades of all the presidents until now. And he is trading stocks that are affected by his decisions. A walking conflict of interest, at the least, and perhaps insider trading. Just as members of Congress should not be able to trade stocks, so too the president. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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“We” to Trump means his rich friends not the person paying $5 per gallon of gas.
Leading Report@LeadingReport
President Trump on Venezuela: We have made a fortune with their oil.
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We’ve seen this story before. Including, yes, in the Middle East, as a pretext for disastrous wars of choice, one of which is ongoing.
Mario Díaz-Balart@MarioDB
We’ve seen the threat drones pose in the Middle East. Now they are 90 miles from our shores and near critical infrastructure. It’s clear that the Cuban regime is a national security threat.
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No country in the current economic and military situation that Cuba is in would ever preemptively strike a super power like the US. This is just propaganda to build a case for an invasion of Cuba.
Brian Allen@allenanalysis
🚨 Axios just published classified intelligence that the Trump administration says shows Cuba is planning drone attacks on Guantanamo Bay, US warships, and Key West. I'm calling FALSE FLAG. The source is one anonymous senior US official. Reuters could not independently verify the report. Axios’s own framing — in the article itself — states: “The intelligence could become a pretext for U.S. military action.” This is the second time this year a US administration has had classified intelligence leaked about a Caribbean adversary “planning attacks” on US targets during a period of US military buildup in the region.
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Here we go again. “We got to get them before they get us” bs that has led us into dumb wars.
Axios@axios
EXCLUSIVE: Cuba has acquired more than 300 military drones and recently began discussing plans to use them to attack U.S assets, according to classified intelligence shared with Axios. The intelligence could become a pretext for U.S. military action. axios.com/2026/05/17/us-…
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New: As ground beef nears $7/lb, the WH must decide how to proceed with an EO that was shelved earlier this week. Officials have discussed making changes to water down the initial version & limit impacts on ranchers politi.co/3PFLaSa @politico @YarrowGrace @drdesrochers
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“We’re facing the largest supply shortage of lubricating fluids in the modern history of America. Realistic, middle-of-the-road estimates are for our average available supply in this product category to drop by 40%.”
Internal AutoZone Memo
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Grocery prices in the U.S. soared faster in April than any month in nearly four years, driving up the cost of everything from frankfurters to tomatoes to cupcakes, according to government data. abcnews.link/xPaGhxl
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@Fascinate_Hist @historyinmemes Those speakers are from the windows 95/98 era. Not XP.
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This device could predict incoming phone calls (2000s)
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