#  @AlbertoMedinaPR Alberto C. Medina Alberto C. Medina posts on X about puerto rico, united states, in the, status the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::995006696673161216/interactions)  - [--] Week [-------] -45% - [--] Month [---------] +4,626% - [--] Months [---------] -89% - [--] Year [----------] +108% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::995006696673161216/posts_active)  - [--] Months [--] +47% - [--] Year [---] -53% ### Followers: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::995006696673161216/followers)  - [--] Week [-----] +3.30% - [--] Month [-----] +7.80% - [--] Months [-----] +13% - [--] Year [-----] +18% ### CreatorRank: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::995006696673161216/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) [finance](/list/finance) [us election](/list/us-election) [musicians](/list/musicians) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [stocks](/list/stocks) **Social topic influence** [puerto rico](/topic/puerto-rico) #107, [united states](/topic/united-states) #4156, [in the](/topic/in-the), [status](/topic/status), [palestine](/topic/palestine), [bad bunny](/topic/bad-bunny), [this is](/topic/this-is), [country](/topic/country), [island](/topic/island), [donald trump](/topic/donald-trump) **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@curaffairs](/creator/undefined) [@juandalmaupr](/creator/undefined) [@budpr](/creator/undefined) [@latnewsletter](/creator/undefined) [@julito77](/creator/undefined) [@necrowolfpr](/creator/undefined) [@zer_o_0_pr](/creator/undefined) [@hashtagroberto](/creator/undefined) [@realicomplex1](/creator/undefined) [@dardanidae1](/creator/undefined) [@jenaroabraham](/creator/undefined) [@elnuevodia](/creator/undefined) [@sanbenito](/creator/undefined) [@abxc___](/creator/undefined) [@tesla](/creator/undefined) [@nasserism](/creator/undefined) [@newrepublic](/creator/undefined) [@durgaone](/creator/undefined) [@deoliver47](/creator/undefined) [@ministrociencia](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Tesla, Inc. (TSLA)](/topic/tesla) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "Puerto Rico Could Be About to Elect Its First Pro-Independence Governor Something unprecedented is happening in Puerto Rico which like the U.S. will hold its general election on November 5th. For the first time ever the island could elect a governor who favors Puerto Ricos independence from the United States. That" [X Link](https://www.dailykos.com/story/2024/10/20/2278185/-Puerto-Rico-Could-Be-About-to-Elect-Its-First-Pro-Independence-Governor) 2024-10-21T09:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@KateAronoff @chimeraelf Because God says so https://www.wsj.com/articles/god-puerto-rico-and-bankruptcy-law-11615506219 https://www.wsj.com/articles/god-puerto-rico-and-bankruptcy-law-11615506219" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1572085007442640898) 2022-09-20T04:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The problem with the federal government's continued insistence that they can only do things if/as the Puerto Rican government requests them is that it rings hollow after the U.S. installed a Junta that completely controls PR's finances and often overrules local leaders. Some southern municipalities in #PuertoRico that were hit hard by #Fiona were not included in the major disaster declaration approved by President Biden yesterday. FEMA says the approval was done based on the info given to them by the local government. https://t.co/i837hQ3wbm Some southern municipalities in #PuertoRico that" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1572983395399139336) 2022-09-22T16:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@thomaschattwill Probably @FluentMundo: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/07/magazine/bad-bunny.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/07/magazine/bad-bunny.html" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1574105753413206019) 2022-09-25T18:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The irony is that the United States basically let Puerto Rico have sports sovereignty as one of a handful of "look look: they have self-rule so we're not an empire" moves in the 40s and 50s. Well now we love it and and they'll have to pry it from our cold dead hands" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1636476397643530240) 2023-03-16T21:15Z [----] followers, 19.1K engagements "@SEvangelistaNY Puerto Rico has been a colony under every single Democratic administration that you and others would describe as "pro-democracy." I'm not saying that means anybody should vote for West but we should make that crystal clear" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1665897263330390017) 2023-06-06T01:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The "argument" made by some Americans that maybe Puerto Rico shouldn't be free because we might end up being ruled by some undemocratic tyrant was always insulting. But now From the country that elected (and might very well reelect) Donald Trump It's downright laughable" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1679937054816468993) 2023-07-17T22:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "I really think it's time to retire the language of "self-determination" for Puerto Rico. [--]. It's overly academic/legalistic. [--]. It can be misunderstood (or twisted) to mean anything. But mostly [--]. it's become a euphemism to prevent or obscure clear advocacy for independence" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1681792782577418243) 2023-07-19T22:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Sure Trump threw paper towels. But Obama installed the Junta that has "legitimized" and accelerated bondholders' continued sacking of Puerto Rico and Biden hasn't done a single meaningful thing re: PRexcept deny us SSI. All (should be) punished" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1687167196072464384) 2023-08-03T18:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Puerto Ricans have something many Americans would kill for: the chance to build a political future free from the racist kleptocracy of Republicans or the corporate gerontocracy of Democrats. Give that up to become a state and play "who sucks less" every 2/4 years No thanks" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1687503159759970313) 2023-08-05T06:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Asking as some misguided people still do whether Puerto Rico is "ready" for independence is deeply wrongheaded and offensive. It's the nation-level equivalent of asking as defenders of slavery did in centuries past whether Black people were "ready" for freedom. 1/5" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1689726407344336896) 2023-08-10T19:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "All these legal and political decisions that harm Puerto Ricansnot to mention the myriad crises in PRare mere symptoms of the colonial disease: U.S. rule over Puerto Rico. Trying to fight each individual symptom is a fools errand. Its time to focus on the cure: independence" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1690115806741630976) 2023-08-11T21:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Whose fault are Puerto Rico's problems Well: with great power comes great responsibility. Legally and politically the U.S. has ultimate power over PR. That's not me saying that it's Congress and the Supreme Court. 1/2" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1691158401278169088) 2023-08-14T18:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Colonialism leads to corruption. When a place like Puerto Rico has no meaningful self-rule elected "leaders" don't see government as public service or themselves as stewards of the public good. They see it as just another industry rife with opportunities for graft" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1699092689130852803) 2023-09-05T16:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "This of course convinces many that the colonized people dont have the capacity for or deserve or are ready for self-rule. And so the innate corruption of colonialism becomes its own sick justification. Colonialism leads to corruption. When a place like Puerto Rico has no meaningful self-rule elected "leaders" don't see government as public service or themselves as stewards of the public good. They see it as just another industry rife with opportunities for graft. Colonialism leads to corruption. When a place like Puerto Rico has no meaningful self-rule elected "leaders" don't see government" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1699189387849069033) 2023-09-05T22:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "I would hope that @AOCs desire for Latin American sovereignty extends to the one nation in the continent that actually lacks itPuerto Ricoand that she is ready to become a forceful advocate for her own peoples independence" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1700543694762655903) 2023-09-09T16:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Today is @USDemocracyDay. Problem is: the U.S. isn't a democracy at all. As long as it keeps Puerto Rico and other colonies it's an empire. If Americans want that to change they're going to have to take a stand and a stance on PR's status. My latest: https://medium.com/centerforcooperativemedia/opinion-its-time-for-americans-to-take-a-stand-on-puerto-rico-s-status-a5b25297a2ce https://medium.com/centerforcooperativemedia/opinion-its-time-for-americans-to-take-a-stand-on-puerto-rico-s-status-a5b25297a2ce" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1702675383358001413) 2023-09-15T13:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Americans not taking a position on Puerto Rico's status is not "respecting" Puerto Ricans. It's *not* respecting us enough to care one way or the other about whether your nation should keep or free mine [---] years after invading it. My latest:" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1702791529138684273) 2023-09-15T21:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Its gross that the @Marlins would choose conservative Latinos for Trump annexationist Jenniffer Gonzlez to honor Roberto Clemente a man who bristled at being called Bob battled racism and fought for racial justice. Whats tomorrow Ted Cruz for Hispanic Heritage Month" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1702837391919313146) 2023-09-16T00:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@roxalot58 @BUDPR @Deoliver47 .it would require a level of assimilation that would lead to the weakening + destruction of PR's culture and make an island of [--] million Latinos permanently part of a racist nation. The U.S. invaded PR and it should free it. That's the helpful thing to say and support" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1703896832479543748) 2023-09-18T22:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "I think Americans should do with Puerto Rico's status what they (in theory) do with any other issue: listen to all sides examine their principles make up their minds and fight like hell for whatever they conclude is good and right and true" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1703904532005306501) 2023-09-18T22:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "When a guy from *Bloomberg* is writing in The Washington Post that Puerto Rico is too nice to rich Americans you know weve really gone too far" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1705241924247175672) 2023-09-22T15:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Anybody can point at a problem. Political courage demands and political action requires supporting a solution. If you denounce colonialism in Puerto Rico without demanding its independence your indictment is incomplete at besthollow and insincere at worst" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1705657355885752659) 2023-09-23T18:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "When Scorsese was growing up it was all cowboys and indians shit99% of which was racist claptrapand the culture turned out fine. I mean a generation of boomers grew up idolizing Clint Eastwood and ended up voting for Ronald Reagan but other than that" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1706438134983229580) 2023-09-25T22:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Remember: both in The Little Giants movie and in real life the annexation of Puerto Rico is a trick play" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1708183663928897903) 2023-09-30T18:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "I wrote this about Puerto Ricobut its also about everywhere else" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1711062258237816939) 2023-10-08T16:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "If Americans can have an opinion on the Israel-Palestine conflict in which the United States is an indirect participant they should certainly have a position on Puerto Ricos statuswhich is a product of their own countrys ongoing colonial occupation" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1711147842138489309) 2023-10-08T22:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "When Israel began its occupation of the Palestinian territories and the expulsion of its people the United States had already held Puerto Rico as a colonial possession for [--] years" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1711166260635988402) 2023-10-08T23:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "As a Puerto Rican I know one thing: if Palestinians did not violently resist their relative passivity would be interpreted as acquiescenceas proof that the conditions under which they live couldnt possibly be that bad or theyd be violently resisting Damned if you do" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1712295128554242470) 2023-10-12T02:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "May no nation's colonization endure as long as Puerto Rico's has: [---] years. and counting" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1714313700683952288) 2023-10-17T16:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Palestine deserves the solidarity and decolonial fervor of every American. But far closer to home the U.S. keeps its own colony under less directly brutalbut no less immoralpolitical subordination. Can you spare an ounce of outrage for Puerto Rico" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1714621348394217549) 2023-10-18T12:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "I'm going to repeat this until I'm blue in the face: I never again want to hear another progressive tell me that it's "not their place" to take a position on Puerto Rico's status. If you have the moral courage to say: "Free Palestine" you can also say: "Free Puerto Rico."" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1715126448334229654) 2023-10-19T22:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Ritchie Torres' maniacal support for Israel is a matter of political expediency surebut I think he also really believes in it. After all he supports Puerto Rican statehood. So in both cases he thinks a powerful country should get to invade a nation abuse it and keep it" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1716611036877340957) 2023-10-24T00:22Z [----] followers, 29.6K engagements "As a progressive pro-independence Puerto Rican I already had every reason not to vote for Joe Bidenor most other Democrats/Republicans for that matter. But you could've talked me into it on civic responsibility Trump is worse lesser of two evils grounds. Not anymore. 1/3" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1717298428508561856) 2023-10-25T21:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Here too there is a lesson for Puerto Ricans and others who celebrate the billions in "aid" that the United States sends to Puerto Rico. just as it sustains the colonial reality that makes such aid necessary in the first place" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1717694598661988660) 2023-10-27T00:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "This is indeed great reporting but I wish the headline were more accurate. By the U.S. government's own admission PR is not part of America it just belongs to it. I know that sounds like ideological nitpicking but clarity about colonialism is vital to shifting perspectives" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1717998740961656960) 2023-10-27T20:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@PhillipStell @MorePerfectUS That's immoral nonsenseand I'm not even pro-statehood. You don't put preconditions on people having basic democratic rights. If we did let me know when I can take away Americans' voting rights because Bob Menendez has gold bars in his jacket pockets and Trump is. Trump" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1718011944504803414) 2023-10-27T21:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "This is a great fucking tweet and clearly I need more followers at the intersection of gaming and politics" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1718055608916607191) 2023-10-28T00:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "I finally did it: the all Puerto Rican @immaculategrid" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1718466005570052376) 2023-10-29T03:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "It's been over for Puerto Rican statehood for a long time. but now it's *really* over. The moment it becomes fodder for right-wing attack ads and opposing statehood becomes a litmus test for conservatism its (already weak/fake) support in the GOP goes from [----] to -10000" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1719130837193539653) 2023-10-30T23:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "All arguments to excuse colonialism are essentially the same. In Puerto Rico pro-statehood zealots and other U.S. apologists say that the United States didnt do anything wrong when it invaded Puerto Rico because PR didnt really existit was just Spain territory. What a joke" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1720145615747739954) 2023-11-02T18:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Nature is healing" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1720466292581286291) 2023-11-03T15:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@conor64 What should have happened from the start: a far more targeted and at least semi-proportional response. Does that leave the door open to a cycle of killings Yes: until Israel's settle colonial project in Palestine which does not excuse but feeds the violence actually ends" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1724935482264482232) 2023-11-15T23:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "My first op-ed in @thehill tackles the influx of ultrarich Americans to Puerto Rico who take advantage of an economically vulnerable nation's admittedly bad tax policy and serve as one example of how colonialism manifests in the 21st century" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1727367051092935031) 2023-11-22T16:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "I once again feel compelled to remind you that Congressman Ritchie Torres' vicious Zionism and his support for Puerto Rican statehood share the same morally rotten foundation: A belief that it is OK for a more powerful nation to invade a less powerful one and ultimately keep it" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1727773747988357350) 2023-11-23T19:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "One of the sneakily cruelest things that even well-intentioned Americans unthinkingly do is frame Puerto Rico's 125-year-old political status debate as a fight over just one option statehood. even as the U.S. government continues to ignore and reject that very alternative" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1729646694231384082) 2023-11-28T23:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The problem with focusing on the right process instead of the right outcome re: Puerto Rico's status is that what derails every process is massive opposition in Congress to one outcome: statehood. Everyone understands this political reality but too many pretend they don't" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1730371504389406850) 2023-11-30T23:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "As they often do with Puerto Rico people point to societal ills in Palestine like corruption or intolerance as implicit justifications for its domination or destruction by another nation. But human rights cannot be contingent on how "good" or well-behaved a people are" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1732518439632175532) 2023-12-06T21:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@ijbailey @lluaces @TheFIREorg There are [--] million college students in the U.S. 3% is [------]. Even if FIRE is way off (which it might be) and it's 1/10th what they claim that's [-----] punished. for speech Your mileage may vary on what constitutes a crisis but that's a higher number than I'd like" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1732520912828633418) 2023-12-06T22:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@ijbailey @lluaces @TheFIREorg Or think of it this way: Less than 1% of the U.S. population is incarcerated and we still describe it (rightfully) as "mass incarceration." It's a big giant populous country A tiny fraction of people experiencing harm is still a hell of a lot of people" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1732523240961015887) 2023-12-06T22:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "This is insightful reporting on some of the legal inequality created by U.S. colonialism in Puerto Rico. For example: The First Circuits relationship with Puerto Rico is a complicated one and the judges carefully walk the line between inclusion and intrusion. Heres what I witnessed when I accompanied them on their most recent trip to the island https://t.co/kwYqMyPhbc The First Circuits relationship with Puerto Rico is a complicated one and the judges carefully walk the line between inclusion and intrusion. Heres what I witnessed when I accompanied them on their most recent trip to the island" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1733632543054798854) 2023-12-09T23:39Z [----] followers, 16.5K engagements "Many many many things about Puerto Rico's legal and political systems can be directly traced back to the United States' economic exploitation of its colony. Kudos to @alliereed for including details like this one which aren't mere details at all" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1733638111970656633) 2023-12-10T00:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "This by the way is a colonial problem that would not be solved by statehood unless it led to English replacing Spanish as the primary language in Puerto Ricothe kind of linguistic and cultural assimilation and destruction of Puerto Rican identity that many of us fear" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1733866660472274962) 2023-12-10T15:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements ""Vienen cambios importantes incluyendo el apoyo al independentismo." Gracias a @urtziurruti y @naiz_info por una excelente entrevista sobre los vientos de cambio poltico que soplan en Puerto Rico y que poco a poco nos llevarn hasta la soberana" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1733899376198668722) 2023-12-10T17:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Aplaudo las expresiones de @juandalmauPR con quien tuve el placer de compartir hace unos meses de @marialourdespip y otros hoy en la asamblea del @PIPtwitteando sobre el valor de la dispora boricua en la lucha por la independencia. Hasta la victoria" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1733991032977514791) 2023-12-10T23:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "These are the two U.S. diplomats who have voted in the United Nations to veto a ceasefire in Gaza. I call this tableau: The Limits and Inadequacies of Diversity and Inclusion" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1734258309794824592) 2023-12-11T17:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Est bien responderle a los fotutos y participar del toma y dame en las redes; eso es parte de hacer poltica en [----]. Pero si fuera yo contestara cada fotutera con una propuesta una denuncia un plan. Que quede claro que ellos solo tienen memes y nosotros ideas" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1734996849428136054) 2023-12-13T18:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Esto como muchas otras cosas lo entendemos perfectamente los puertorriqueos que vemos todos los das a dizque paladines de la democracia criticar a Nicaragua y Venezuela por ser regimenes dictatoriales. .y luego ves su Twitter bio y dice que son "ULTRA MAGA." 🤡🤡🤡" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1735074131547189525) 2023-12-13T23:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "El Senado de EE.UU. no quiere darnos ni un triste informe sobre la limpieza de nunca acabar en Vieques y Culebra. Casi $900 mil millones en la nueva legislacin pero para rendir cuentas sobre sus bombas nada. Y hay quien cree que el que no da un PDF va a dar la estadidad" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1735455685041615246) 2023-12-15T00:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Americans who say they want statehood for Puerto Rico (but won't lift a finger to make it happen) must understand they are essentially condemning Puerto Ricans to remain a colonized people until wild political impossibilities like a Democratic Senate supermajority take place" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1735747169301283129) 2023-12-15T19:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Heres something a little different from me. A bit silly but also deadly serious. Its the story of the United States refusing to make Puerto Rico a state presented as a 125-year-old dialogue between the U.S. and PR. Hope you laugh learn and reflect" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1736455111151419539) 2023-12-17T18:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "I wrote this in April [----] before the Board was created. Many many people warned this would be the case. Nobody cared then and nobody cares now" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1736835659187261461) 2023-12-18T19:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "El plan econmico del PNP Fabricarle armas al imperio escribe Jos Aponte en @thehill. Ms all de cualquier consideracin ideolgica demuestra la podredumbre de la "visin" estadista que siempre pone primero las necesidades de Estados Unidos no las de Puerto Rico" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1736878125718355980) 2023-12-18T22:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "I often feel compelled to compare Puerto Rico's colonial status to other injusticesand sometimes catch flak for it from people who think that summoning the specter of e.g. slavery is inappropriate. So I think this @mashagessen speech is valuable" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1736890215862612315) 2023-12-18T23:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Jenniffer Gonzlez escoge al presidente del Partido Republicano de Puerto Rico como director poltico. Pierluisi insiste en que el PNP es el partido ms conservador. Los estadistas dan por perdida la izquierda y se enfocan en que la derecha no se les vaya para Proyecto Dignidad" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1737578031294587331) 2023-12-20T20:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Esto como todo tiene consecuencias para el debate de estatus. Mientras ms se vayan para la derecha los estadistas se convertirn en persona non grata con los Demcratas en D.C. En fin todas las tendencias polticas alejan no acercan la anexin" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1737578032649371770) 2023-12-20T20:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Algunos dicen que no se puede hablar en voz alta sobre el estatus en la Alianza porque eso resta en vez de sumar. Ahora dirn que tampoco hablemos de sistemas econmicos; de ser capitalista o socialdemcrata. Cuidado que no nos quedamos sin nada importante de qu hablar" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1737868981887754542) 2023-12-21T16:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@T_E_S_L_A_ Una cosa es lo que est sobre el papel y otra es la presin explcita e implcita a resaltar (o no) ciertos temas. No es que la Alianza tenga que adoptar X o Y ideas o ideologas. Es que no se mande a callar o hablar en voz baja a los que nos parece importante compartirlas" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1737873159565570147) 2023-12-21T16:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@T_E_S_L_A_ S y no. Si la Alianza es el vehculo poltico que se ha creado para pedirle el voto al pueblo y que tiene y tendr toda la atencin pblica y meditica que eso conlleva tambin tiene que ser (hasta cierto punto) un vehculo en el que se pueda compartir ideas con el pueblo" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1737876643467718957) 2023-12-21T16:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@T_E_S_L_A_ Todos los partidos tienen diversidad ideolgica interna. Puede ser una fortaleza o una debilidad dependiendo de cmo se le plantee al pueblo. Si alguien le pidiera a Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez que no hable en nombre del Partido Demcrata eso hara ms dao que otra cosa creo yo" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1737878482208649619) 2023-12-21T16:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@T_E_S_L_A_ Personal es otra cosa. Pero en lo poltico creo que lo que planteas no es realista. Si t eres un candidato o lder electo de una colectividad y dices o publicas algo nadie va a pensar "bueno pero el logo no est en el flyer o no haba un banner MVC detrs as que no cuenta"" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1737880825062977847) 2023-12-21T17:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@T_E_S_L_A_ Por algo es una agenda no un programa de gobierno con posturas y propuestas completas de poltica pblica. Eso es lo que hace falta para gobernar bien y para eso hacen faltas las ideas e insumo de toda esa gente que mencionas. Que las puedan compartir libremente; eso es todo" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1737895212435812767) 2023-12-21T17:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Tomemos nota de que "self-determination" se ha convertido en un eufemismo liberalucho; un "talking point" sin fuerza moral y poltica alguna. Para EE.UU. el derecho de "autodeterminacin" de los Palestinos incluye el derecho a ser masacrados. Qu incluir el de Puerto Rico" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1737900140113879192) 2023-12-21T18:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "🧵 Hay que ganar elecciones. Hay que gobernar. Pero tambin hay que mover al pas hacia unas posturas fundamentales: -El capitalismo desenfrenado hace dao; ms an cuando beneficia a EE.UU. y no a PR. -La estadidad no viene por ah; debemos y podemos ser libres. 1/5" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1737917300798362068) 2023-12-21T19:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Dejar de hacerlo por tratar (casi siempre sin xito) de ganarse el voto inmediato de unos cuantos es dar un paso hacia adelante y cinco hacia atrs. Es (como se pasa diciendo con razn @CesarLizasuain) desaprovechar un momento histrico en que hay apertura a nuevas ideas. 2/5" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1737917302522180015) 2023-12-21T19:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Pero sobre todo an en el mejor de los casos en que se gane la eleccin es autocondenarse a gobernar un pueblobueno a una coloniaa la deriva sin idea de qu esperar y exigirle a un nuevo gobierno ms all de no robar y ser de otro color. 3/5" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1737917304132776444) 2023-12-21T19:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Entonces es tambin autocondenarse a perder la *siguiente* eleccin cuando el pas no mejore porque el pueblo no te compr las propuestas y las ideas que realmente hacan falta para mejorarporque con tal de no restar ni trataste de vendrselas. 4/5" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1737917305709810168) 2023-12-21T19:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "En fin trato de hacer unas sugerencias constructivas para la Alianza que apoyo y que est a tiempo para acogerlas. Para que su inevitable diversidad ideolgica sea una ventaja no una debilidad y para que cuente con la profundidad poltica que tanto nos hace falta como pueblo" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1737917307152667134) 2023-12-21T19:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Maybe my favorite bit from my silly/serious little play about the United States rejecting refusing and denying statehood to Puerto Rico. Which is here:" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1737971815077568968) 2023-12-21T23:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "It's that (self-indulgent) time again My [----] Writing about Puerto Rico Year in Review. Just a handful of essays etc. this year as I took on some other projects. But I hope I at least managed some quality if not quantity. Here we go: 🧵" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1740734644570468753) 2023-12-29T14:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Not sure what's worse: the (stupid) idea that Republicans would stop being racist enough to embrace Puerto Rican statehood if our financial house was in order or the (immoral) idea that political rights should be contingent on good bookkeeping" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1742328412251824358) 2024-01-02T23:33Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@babadookspinoza Sounds like U.S rule over Puerto Rico which at least one Israeli minister has already floated as a model for Palestine" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1747806186592727061) 2024-01-18T02:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Too many individuals' and organization's activism re: Puerto Rico revolves around denouncing every time the United States punches us in the face. Friends: the problem isn't each individual punch: it's the fact that the U.S. is legally and politically allowed to do the punching" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1749531890850443265) 2024-01-22T20:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "This event on Puerto Rico's status starts in just under an hour. Register + join the conversation On Monday January [--] our friend and collaborator @JenaroAbraham will speak about Puerto Rican independence at this @NEIULibraries virtual event. Join the conversation to hear an informed and insightful perspective on Puerto Rico's status Info + RSVP: https://t.co/lQWOyhQb2r https://t.co/4GfxjUBb5X On Monday January [--] our friend and collaborator @JenaroAbraham will speak about Puerto Rican independence at this @NEIULibraries virtual event. Join the conversation to hear an informed and insightful" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1749578427437359473) 2024-01-22T23:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Puerto Rican and American politics are going in opposite directions. While in the U.S. voters can only choose between two octogenarians with blood on their hands in Puerto Rico progressive and pro-independence forces are transforming the political landscape for the better" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1750288266090221584) 2024-01-24T22:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Both Puerto Ricans and Americans should reflect on what that means for the Puerto Rico status debate. The United States could very well be a politically sinking ship continuing its backslide into autocracy and supercharging racial/economic inequality. Why stay on that ship" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1750288267516252259) 2024-01-24T22:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Anti-Latino sentiment has become and perhaps always was one of the foundational dynamics and driving forces in American politics. The notion that *this* country would accept Puerto Rico as a state is almost as senseless as the idea that we should want it to. UPDATE - [--] Republican governors issue a joint statement in support of Texas in its border dispute with the federal government Vermont's governor was the lone exception. https://t.co/ObXWfbyBHd UPDATE - [--] Republican governors issue a joint statement in support of Texas in its border dispute with the federal government Vermont's governor" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1750683470777516418) 2024-01-26T00:54Z [----] followers, 12.5K engagements "@Kamenootwt There are already [--] million Latinos in the United States. The entire southwestern part of the country used to be Mexico. The idea that [--] million Puerto Ricans are going to be the tipping point that makes the U.S. not racist is a fantasy" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1750698561681891601) 2024-01-26T01:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Puerto Rico has been a colony of the United States for nearly twice as long as Israel has occupied Palestine. Colonialism need not feature daily brutal violence to be immoral and despicablethough it has hardly been totally peaceful in Puerto Rico. if biden dropped [-----] bombs on puerto rico killed one percent of the population destroyed all the schools and hospitals and also wouldn't let anyone out or aid in would you still tell people to be "adult" and still vote for him @aoc if biden dropped [-----] bombs on puerto rico killed one percent of the population destroyed all the schools and" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1751318640001957938) 2024-01-27T18:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Then why is the Biden admin spending $5 billion on fossil fuel infrastructure in Puerto Rico The (much smaller) push for solar makes for good PR while behind the scenes the U.S. government is setting up natural gas companies to make a killing in its captive colonial market. The results are in: 100% renewable energy is 100% possible for Puerto Rico by [----]. After two years of analysis and engaging with stakeholders across Puerto Rico @ENERGY has published a summary of results from the PR100 Study https://t.co/SoQNt2JRhE https://t.co/uTQQdaRSew The results are in: 100% renewable energy is 100%" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1755348682990370952) 2024-02-07T21:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@SecGranholm @jm_lozadar @ENERGY Then why is the Biden admin spending $5 billion on fossil fuel infrastructure in Puerto Rico The (much smaller) push for solar makes for good press while behind the scenes the U.S. government is setting up natural gas companies to make a killing in its captive colonial market" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1755348802045661541) 2024-02-07T21:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Its hard to overstate just how unthinkable this would be in the United States right now. And this is with conservatives largely in control of the legislature But conservatives in PR are (mostly) not the insane science deniers that the GOP is. Even our worst are better" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1755770644749320602) 2024-02-09T01:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Vladimir Putin is a rank imperialist. The fact that parts of the left have partially or totally excused his invasion of Ukraine by yelling that the United States is imperialist toowhich it ishas frankly been an embarrassment" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1756177731249737741) 2024-02-10T04:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Colonialism creates perverse political incentives. In every nation leaders need the economy to do well to get (re)elected. In Puerto Rico the pro-statehood party is just fine with rampant poverty which leads many to believe that PR needs statehood and therefore needs them" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1758929855339770050) 2024-02-17T19:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Perhaps @BreeNewsome has changed her mind on this; I hope she has But being neutral about statehoodmeaning the full annexation of Puerto Rico and the rest of Americas coloniesseems remarkably close to normalizing white people stealing nonwhite peoples land. The way folks normalize white people massacring nonwhite people & stealing their land is bananas to me The way folks normalize white people massacring nonwhite people & stealing their land is bananas to me" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1760739839765565763) 2024-02-22T18:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@SettleIt @BreeNewsome The United States keeping a nation it invaded is either a just and moral outcome or it is not. This is surely the heart of the disagreement but in my view the fact that a plurality of Puerto Ricans might want it doesn't make it any more just" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1760766018585076100) 2024-02-22T20:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "You truly have to admire the Biden administrations commitment to the How many different kinds of brown people can I piss off and still win the election bit. NEW tonight President Biden is debating whether to invoke a sweeping presidential authority that gained infamy during the Trump administration to stage a crackdown on migrants coming to the U.S. southern border. More on @cbsnews: https://t.co/uxRzpHHEVp NEW tonight President Biden is debating whether to invoke a sweeping presidential authority that gained infamy during the Trump administration to stage a crackdown on migrants coming to" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1760799278845354365) 2024-02-22T22:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The most unintentionally() telling thing about @julito77's excellent column on American neglect of Puerto Rico is that the video embedded on the website is of Joe Biden surveying hurricane damage. .in Florida. If it weren't tragic it'd be hilarious" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1762188201102287246) 2024-02-26T18:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "It bears repeating and frankly it requires a little shaming that so many Puerto Rican activists + others in U.S. media/academia/politics are basically this meme. I know the theory's that the neutrality is strategically useful. Yeahmaybe for their careers. Not for Puerto Rico" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1762848126950350933) 2024-02-28T14:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Most Americans' thinking on Puerto Rico's status suffers from the fallacy of relative privation or "appeal to worse problems." The United States could nuke PR tomorrow and many of these people would say: "Yeah but an independent Puerto Rico would probably get nuked TWICE"" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1763309871535992893) 2024-02-29T21:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@himbonomics It would only be cherry-picking if you could prove that many/most other economists disagree. But you can't decide whether you care about expertise or not. Send me a single piece of research that supports what you're saying It really shouldn't be this hard to back up your claim" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1763328112367177728) 2024-02-29T22:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@himbonomics By the way none of these people say nor do I that independence would be "smooth sailing." You're switching the claim to a straw man and hoping nobody notices. Your claimagain based on zero evidence you're willing to sharewas that it would be "disastrous." Not the same" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1763332697383215597) 2024-02-29T22:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The United States has been so historically dismissive of Puerto Ricans that we conducted one of the most brazen political attacks in U.S. history and the Boston Globe described it as weird drama Shades of the headline fuckery we see re: Israel-Palestine today" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1763688479207104888) 2024-03-01T22:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@andypr33 Yo creo que hay una diferencia sutil pero importante entre tenemos opcin de triunfo y voten por el que parezca que le puede ganar al de turno. Lo primero me parece bien como motivacin adicional. Pero lo segundo no porque o le aplica a cualquiera o somos deshonestos" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1763808167551463912) 2024-03-02T06:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "A major hearing has started re: Puerto Rico's debt. One journalist describes it as the "trial of the decade" for PR's finances. It's taking place of course in federal court before a U.S.-appointed judge in a language 80% of Puerto Ricans don't speak. It's legal colonialism" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1764757985593573485) 2024-03-04T21:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "X/Twitter ain't what it used to be and I know some of those [----] followers are bots. But I'm grateful for the real onesliterally and figurativelywho have signed up for my rants about Puerto Rico and who make this a tolerable and useful space to share ideas. Gracias" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1764786789816926522) 2024-03-04T22:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Pronto ni siquiera la educacin en Puerto Rico ser para los puertorriqueos" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1767621009127915533) 2024-03-12T18:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@MinistroCiencia @LoreNNNlll Te contradices: si SUAGM quisiera competir con universidades estadounidenses por el "mercado" de estudiantes puertorriqueos ms todava tomaran medidas para que sea atractivo y factible para esos jvenes estudiar veterinaria en Puerto Rico en vez de irse" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1767639697080058138) 2024-03-12T19:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@MinistroCiencia @LoreNNNlll Yo no soy abogado y creo que t tampoco. Pero no tiene sentido alguno que una universidad pblica pueda tener una regla que limite out-of-staters y una privada no pueda. El punto hace dos tuits no era que las privadas pueden hacer lo que quieran Ah y SUAGM ya es un HSI" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1767650276167541133) 2024-03-12T20:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@MinistroCiencia @LoreNNNlll Esa actitud es un crculo vicioso e intelectualmente deshonesto. Si los reclamos se traducen en realidad depende de que gente como t se pongan del lado correcto y apoyen el reclamo. No va a pasar -- No lo apoyo -- No va a pasar es pardon my french una mamonera" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1767662860992217159) 2024-03-12T21:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@Bryan_Alexis_ Mientras en Puerto Rico haya animales y mascotaso sea siempreharn falta veterinarios. Es un asunto de salud y dignidad; incluso salud humana y salud pblica. Tengamos una visin ms amplia del bienestar social. No todo debe o puede ser ajustarse al mercado laboral" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1767764185138471154) 2024-03-13T04:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "La respuesta (predecible claro) de quienes defienden sin falta a la empresa privada y a los americanos desplazadores es que ste es otro ejemplo de la xenofobia nacionalista. Pero amigos: la denuncia que cito la hace una publicacin" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1767942603520069899) 2024-03-13T15:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@CovingtonEDU @JenaroAbraham Thank you for hosting this important conversation. Hope to hear more episodes on Puerto Rico in the future" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1769050476073369926) 2024-03-16T17:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Americans brains turn into a melted puddle of imperialist goo when it comes to Puerto Rico. Granting Puerto Rico statehood as a way to compensate for the decades-long repression of *pro-independence* activists would be like honoring Gandhi by making India part of the UK. If Biden wins reelections and the Dems take over Congress they should give Puerto Rico statehood immediately. It's the least our government can do after the decades long brutal repression of Puerto Rican activists. If Biden wins reelections and the Dems take over Congress they should give Puerto Rico statehood immediately." [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1771015088033742948) 2024-03-22T03:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Kamala Harris claps along to a song protesting her presence. Thats either a demented level of mockery (not impossible) or more likely it just didnt occur to her to have a Spanish-speaking aide at her side during a visit to her Spanish-speaking colonywhich is its own insult. Translation of the song pleneros were singing in Spanish during VP Harris visit to Puerto Rico: we want to know we want to know Kamala what you came here to do Harris was seen clapping to the rhythm of the music. 🎥: @JoseADelgadoEND https://t.co/dGQaWxf8sQ Translation of the song pleneros were singing in Spanish during VP" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1771306610071310804) 2024-03-22T22:42Z [----] followers, 243.4K engagements "Throwing out crazy numbers like $140 billion is pure political gaslighting. As @julito77 wrote last month by the U.S. governments own admission less than $2 billion has been spent in Puerto Rico. We can argue about why but it makes the @VPs statement an outrageous lie. President Biden and I have already invested over $140 billion to help Puerto Rico recover and build a more resilient sustainable and prosperous future. I am grateful to Mara and her family for welcoming me to their new home. https://t.co/TJQSO7W3xD President Biden and I have already invested over $140 billion to help Puerto" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1771353498212589887) 2024-03-23T01:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "At the end of the day this isnt a shot at Harris who is just doing awkward politician shit. But this is the kind of thing that happens when one nation colonizes anotherand when one people politically dominate another who literally speak a different language. 1/3 Kamala Harris claps along to a song protesting her presence. Thats either a demented level of mockery (not impossible) or more likely it just didnt occur to her to have a Spanish-speaking aide at her side during a visit to her Spanish-speaking colonywhich is its own insult. Kamala Harris claps along to a song protesting her presence." [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1771363624696844342) 2024-03-23T02:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Theres a reason language is central to the debate over Puerto Ricos status. What does it mean when our leaders (read: rulers) cant understand us when we speak our native tongue What does it mean to have to speak *their* language in order to be heard 2/3" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1771363633739833495) 2024-03-23T02:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The U.S. Supreme Court continues its Dimmagio-esque streak of anti Puerto Rico decisions. The latest: SCOTUS has refused to consider a case that challenges the colonial fiscal control boards power to nullify a labor law passed by Puerto Ricos elected representatives. 🧵In the past [--] years the U.S. Supreme Court has made a series of decisions (and non-decisions) that have reaffirmed the United States' colonial control over Puerto Rico and directly harmed our people. And if you think it's been just the conservatives on the Courtread on. 1/X https://t.co/nwWVjYSsR3 🧵In the past [--] years the U.S." [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1772785879930769730) 2024-03-27T00:41Z [----] followers, 13K engagements "I didnt have @wejustnormalmen getting political in my [----] bingo card but happy to see it. Were just normal men. [------] (at time of counting) normal people. Now lets talk about innocence. In Gaza there are the most heart-wrenching horrific things happening to innocent children women and men. 1/6 Were just normal men. [------] (at time of counting) normal people. Now lets talk about innocence. In Gaza there are the most heart-wrenching horrific things happening to innocent children women and men. 1/6" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1774275151812575437) 2024-03-31T03:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "For political historical cultural economic and moral reasons: Puerto Rico must be free. It's a privilege to make the case for Puerto Rican independence in @curaffairs and to challenge Americans to add their voices to a clarion call for liberation. https://www.currentaffairs.org/2024/04/the-case-for-puerto-rican-independence https://www.currentaffairs.org/2024/04/the-case-for-puerto-rican-independence" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1776341197738459610) 2024-04-05T20:08Z [----] followers, 11.1K engagements ""Nothing short of full political sovereigntynot statehood not a continuation of the 'Commonwealth' colonial statuswill do." Read my latest article on Puerto Rico's status and the moral imperative for independence in @curaffairs. https://www.currentaffairs.org/2024/04/the-case-for-puerto-rican-independence https://www.currentaffairs.org/2024/04/the-case-for-puerto-rican-independence" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1776409183195160687) 2024-04-06T00:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Got a response to this article from a (white) guy claiming Puerto Rico can't be independent because of "population density" and "lack of natural resources." These are racist ideas: can't have too many brown people together unless they're mining gold https://www.currentaffairs.org/2024/04/the-case-for-puerto-rican-independence https://www.currentaffairs.org/2024/04/the-case-for-puerto-rican-independence" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1777109385526833196) 2024-04-07T23:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Yo espero que nunca haya una presidenta de Estados Unidos latina porque por ah hay dos o tres que dejaran de denunciar el colonialismo en Puerto Rico si quien lidera el imperio se llama Mara Prez" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1777172555637379341) 2024-04-08T03:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "🧵time Last Friday I published The Case for Puerto Rican Independence in @curaffairs. It's my longest article yet on Puerto Rico's colonial political status. I hope you'll read it and thanks if you already have. Some acknowledgments and thoughts. 1/10 https://www.currentaffairs.org/2024/04/the-case-for-puerto-rican-independence https://www.currentaffairs.org/2024/04/the-case-for-puerto-rican-independence" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1777335751702708489) 2024-04-08T14:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@eljovenadso A m s me interesa entrar en los mritos pues creo que mi argumento los tiene Profundidad tambin" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1778120695400001928) 2024-04-10T17:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "If you're a Puerto Rican or an American who has not taken a position on Puerto Rico's colonial status because you think that "neutrality" is useful or appropriate. Here's my question: How many Puerto Rican children have to die before you consider that you might be wrong" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1778763749144535504) 2024-04-12T12:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Los fotutos han puesto al da sus talking points. Antes los independentistas ramos el 3%. Ahora vamos por el 14%. Despus de noviembre tendrn que decir que somos [--] o [--] o. Cualquier movimiento poltico dara lo que sea por tal crecimiento. Nos honran reconocindolo" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1778819780192948231) 2024-04-12T16:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "This is maybe the best tweet about Puerto Ricos status Ive ever seen from an American. Actual moral fucking clarity Yay Whole timeline today is mad that a Puerto Rican communist said Trump wasnt uniquely bad among US politicians but idk if my country was being bipartisanly held as the longest colony in history with dems calling for full annexation I would probably also have that opinion also Whole timeline today is mad that a Puerto Rican communist said Trump wasnt uniquely bad among US politicians but idk if my country was being bipartisanly held as the longest colony in history with dems" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1778904818834137462) 2024-04-12T21:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@__2024_PR Probablemente mejor que lo que siente no saber la diferencia entre basta y vasta" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1779251018255003887) 2024-04-13T20:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "En su afn de despreciar el activismo independentista sobre todo en la dispora muchos estadistas desprecian tanto a los casi [--] millones de puertorriqueos que vivimos en EE.UU. como a la idea misma del activismo y de luchar por lo que uno cree. Con razn nunca logran nada" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1779253441040113813) 2024-04-13T21:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The level of cognitive dissonance and political confusion it takes to have "Anti-imperialist" in your bio AND then say: "Puerto Ricans should join the empire that invaded them otherwise they're doomed to be poor helpless brown people" is astoundingthough not surprising Puerto Rico voted to become a state and realistically they would benefit massively from being part of the United States. Not doing so would just turn them into another impoverished Caribbean island nation but hey it's ultimately up to Puerto Ricans to decide their destiny. Puerto Rico voted to become a state and realistically" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1780648059317186634) 2024-04-17T17:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Oh look people are talking about Puerto Rico's status on the internet Perhaps before they spout off they might consider reading The Case for Puerto Rican Independence in @curaffairs. https://www.currentaffairs.org/2024/04/the-case-for-puerto-rican-independence https://www.currentaffairs.org/2024/04/the-case-for-puerto-rican-independence" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1780678908523802812) 2024-04-17T19:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@Nasserism @BUDPR Ah yes the awesome "power" of a handful of members in a do-nothing Congress full of racists and insurrectionists in a country that's about to reelect Donald Trump. Also if it's so easy how come it's been [---] years and it still hasn't happened" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1780712768150421839) 2024-04-17T21:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The United States has always manipulated the United Nations to uphold colonialism and empire. In [----] it convinced the UN to take Puerto Rico off its list of "non self-governing territories" even as decades later the U.S. would acknowledge PR remains a colonial possession" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1781081447123624131) 2024-04-18T22:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "American leftists and progressives must begin in earnest challenging the political duopoly in the United States. I know it seems impossible. It's not. Take inspiration from Puerto Rico where in just two cycles we knocked the two main parties down from 95% of the vote to 65%" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1782523563250962626) 2024-04-22T21:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "A confesin de partes relevo de pruebas. Y aqu hay dos confesiones importantes: [--]. La estadidad no va. Ni a corto ni mediano plazoyo dira que tampoco a largo pero corto/mediano basta para descartarla. [--]. Ante [--] los estadistas prefieren ms colonia" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1782826267873534395) 2024-04-23T17:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "El programa econmico de @juandalmauPR y del @PIPtwitteando. Denle bookmark para que lo tengan a la mano la prxima vez que alguien le diga que los independentistas nunca presentan planes o propuestas econmicas" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1782885214479364140) 2024-04-23T21:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Apparently someone at @PuertoRico51st likedor at least was intrigued bymy proposal to have Congress set a deadline on resolving Puerto Rico's status and if Congress continues to reject statehood to initiate a transition to independence. Good 1/3 https://www.pr51st.com/give-congress-a-deadline/ https://www.pr51st.com/give-congress-a-deadline/" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1785016851602477169) 2024-04-29T18:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Que se cuiden en Estados Unidos que as empezamos en Puerto Rico en el verano del [--]. Primero son jvenes aguantando pepper spray y par de semanas despus es el pas entero en la calle sacando pal carajo a un gobernante. Officers move in. Pepper spray has been deployed and protesters threw bottles and other projectiles at officers. https://t.co/4bB2h1UiSo Officers move in. Pepper spray has been deployed and protesters threw bottles and other projectiles at officers. https://t.co/4bB2h1UiSo" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1785118911253332002) 2024-04-30T01:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "All of this has happened before and it will all happen again. By the way while this may have nominally been done by the Puerto Rico police in [----] Puerto Rico was still ruled by a U.S. appointed governor. (As opposed to now when its ruled by a U.S.-appointed Junta.)" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1785540865454149846) 2024-05-01T05:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Its never a coincidence seeing the Puerto Rican flag next to the Palestinian flag. (Photo from @ColumbiaSpec: https://www.columbiaspectator.com/city-news/2024/05/02/cuny-and-columbia-organizers-hold-press-conference-and-rally-after-tuesday-police-sweeps/ https://www.columbiaspectator.com/city-news/2024/05/02/cuny-and-columbia-organizers-hold-press-conference-and-rally-after-tuesday-police-sweeps/" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1786230032613920976) 2024-05-03T03:03Z [----] followers, 126.7K engagements "The U.S. has said "no" to Puerto Rican statehood for [---] years. If you want to read when how and why you'll have to subscribe to @curaffairs and read my latest: "A Short Play on the Long History of the United States Rejecting Puerto Rico Statehood." https://support.currentaffairs.org/membership https://support.currentaffairs.org/membership" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1786527745494630725) 2024-05-03T22:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Breaking News: Hombre descubre que desafiar a instituciones con poder tendra consecuencias econmicas" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1787950465310724296) 2024-05-07T20:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The United States used to at least pretend to care about economic development in its Puerto Rican colonyeven if it was always a cover for subsidizing American corporations. But for decades now they havent even bothered to pretend" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1788627031854354624) 2024-05-09T17:48Z [----] followers, 18.4K engagements "Just had a great conversation about Puerto Rico with @RakeemShabazz for his the Wise the Dome podcast. Love to feel the solidarity Look for the episode next week. https://youtube.com/@wisethedometvsi=8vl5hsxePL-QvS4P https://youtube.com/@wisethedometvsi=8vl5hsxePL-QvS4P" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1788744912353059172) 2024-05-10T01:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "While the U.S. Secretary of Energy does photo ops in Puerto Rico and promises chump change for solar panels heres whats really happening in Puerto Ricos energy sector. 1/3 On its latest earnings call New Fortress Energy puts forth long-term vision for #PuertoRico's electrical generation that is at odds w/ push for full renewables. Moreover an interesting disclosure that NFE was in PR just [--] days after #HurricaneMaria. https://t.co/ptiE9IMDpp 1/3 On its latest earnings call New Fortress Energy puts forth long-term vision for #PuertoRico's electrical generation that is at odds w/ push for full" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1789006364037075129) 2024-05-10T18:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Por mi que los Carlos Mercader de la vida sigan perdiendo el tiempo tratando de imitar a Fox News y de importar a Puerto Rico discursos derechoides que aqu en mi opinin no funcionan. Que se disfrute los [--] tristes likes que tiene este tuit mientras los dems avanzamos" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1789010282833997924) 2024-05-10T19:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Si estn en St. Louis y/o conocen a boricuas u otros compaeros en esa rea que podran estar interesados en acompaarnos por favor compartan Two fantastic events coming up this Wednesday May [--] in St. Louis - 5:30pm at @SLU_Official: a panel on the anticolonial struggles of Puerto Rico and Palestine. - 8:00pm at Salsa Rosada: a social event and fundraiser to support decolonization RSVP: https://t.co/e8wbBbczSg https://t.co/ZZkQVIUxa9 Two fantastic events coming up this Wednesday May [--] in St. Louis - 5:30pm at @SLU_Official: a panel on the anticolonial struggles of Puerto Rico and Palestine. -" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1790163561895043583) 2024-05-13T23:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Facebook Memories me recuerda esta publicacin. Julio Medina es mi to-tatarabuelo. Como pueden ver alzar la voz y utilizar la pluma para luchar por la independencia se lleva en la sangre. Qu privilegio que me toc vivir en una poca en la que no voy a ir preso por hacerlo" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1790429508929040396) 2024-05-14T17:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "El problema con la columna de Ana Teresa Toro es que da la impresin que como puertorriqueos colonizados no tenemos ms remedio que afirmar nuestra identidad y nacionalidad a travs de un reality show. Pero pueta: s lo tenemos. Podemos y debemos apoyar la independencia" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1794096488009613687) 2024-05-24T20:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@renatabb Pero lo que se deja fuera del retrato importa. Si yo escribiera [---] palabras sobre cmo reacciona al hambre un nio hambriento me merecera sendas crticas si no menciono ni de pasada que resolveramos bastante si caramba le diramos al nio de comer" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1794111532571209868) 2024-05-24T21:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@renatabb Como poco y respetando la licencia potica pudo haber escrito que Puerto Rico no se ha liberado no que nunca se liber. Hay un mundo de diferencia ah" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1794112106935058618) 2024-05-24T21:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@renatabb Y por eso no la critico a ella (que me consta es independentista) como escritora ni al resto de su obra. Critico esta columna especficamente. Porque mientras Puerto Rico siga siendo colonia necesitamos 1568" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1794117506367381809) 2024-05-24T21:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Its important to advocate for Puerto Rico in Congress. Ive done it and Ill continue to do it because as long as PR remains a U.S. colony the U.S. has certain political responsibilitieseven if it routinely abdicates them. 1/2 Not surprising in the least. At the end of the day the U.S. government will never prioritize or even think its a big deal if rich Americans are exploiting Puerto Rico. As a colony Puerto Rico exists in order to be exploited https://t.co/kJEHiC9AG0 Not surprising in the least. At the end of the day the U.S. government will never prioritize or even think its a big deal if" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1795633909973279056) 2024-05-29T01:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "But lets be real: the U.S. hasnt cared about Puerto Rico for [---] years and theyre not about to start now. Thats why Puerto Rico advocates lose 99% of the battles we fight. And its why he only truly useful and meaningful thing we can demand of Congress is our independence" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1795633912108208401) 2024-05-29T01:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Hace meses envi una columna a @ElNuevoDia que nunca publicaron vaticinando la victoria de JGo. Para el elector estadista/colonizado la comisara residente y su aparente (aunque ilusoria) cercana al poder son sumamente atractivos en el mbito electoral" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1797462981175029890) 2024-06-03T02:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Three notable things about @RepRoKhanna's speech: [--]. Congressman Khanna is not Puerto Rican. Good It shouldn't just be the Puerto Rican members of Congress discussing PR's status. This issue should concern all and will require broad coalitions in and beyond D.C. 1/3 The U.S. has kept Puerto Rico as a territory for more than [---] years. Over [--] million people have been denied full political rights. Colonialism was wrong in India during my grandfathers lifetime. And it is wrong in Puerto Rico in [----]. https://t.co/pfhjA4RivS The U.S. has kept Puerto Rico as a territory for more than [---] years." [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1798499600908882320) 2024-06-05T23:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "2. Rep. Khanna rightfully connects Puerto Rico's decolonial struggle to his family's legacy of fighting for India's decolonization. Of course India's and so many other nations' political subordination ended with independence. So should Puerto Rico's 2/3" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1798499603320565831) 2024-06-05T23:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "3. Also good: no platitudes about how it's all up to Puerto Ricans and how we must achieve consensus first. Congress has the power and the moral and political duty to decolonize. It's time to work with Rep. Khanna and other allies in Congress to make good on that commitment" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1798499605057032302) 2024-06-05T23:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Relevant to Puerto Rico: "Congress decides the principles of American colonialism not the Court." This is why efforts to overturn the Insular Cases are ultimately insufficient. Importantly and of course carefully as C.J. Roberts always is the Court drew "self-determination" from Congress. Congress decides the principles for American colonialism not the Court. The Court looked to Congress's findings and applied them faithfully. https://t.co/mWbukPA0jv Importantly and of course carefully as C.J. Roberts always is the Court drew "self-determination" from Congress. Congress decides the principles" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1798739712720740441) 2024-06-06T15:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Yo creo que vendra bien un plebiscito. Las opciones soberanas obtendran un resultado histrico sobre todo el mismo da que se votar por Dalmau/Alianza. Y cuando el Congreso ignore otra victoria estadista ms evidencia de que es #5ueo1mposible" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1800230372636237914) 2024-06-10T18:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Si esto sigue as y @juandalmauPR presenta un plan factible y creble para eliminar a LUMA y mejorar el servicio de energa elctrica puede convertir ese asunto en el issue central de su campaa y ganar la eleccin" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1801102007576768854) 2024-06-13T03:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Given Ritchie's political views we can only assume that he would support the U.S. establishing a full Israeli-style occupation of Puerto Rico. Then again who needs soldiers and checkpoints when men in suits appointed by Congress can do the work of colonialism just as well This is outrageous: over [------] Puerto Ricans are without electricity RIGHT NOW. The state of the electrical grid is unacceptable. We demand explanations. The federal government must treat this as an emergency and do everything at its disposal for the people of Puerto Rico. This is outrageous: over [------] Puerto Ricans are" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1801308377055957391) 2024-06-13T17:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "La estadidad para Puerto Rico no est ms cerca que nunca. Est ms lejos. Antes los Republicanos fingan apoyo para la estadidado al menos para the will of the people. Pero ahora es de rigeur oponerse pblicamente para ser considerado un buen conservador. Estocada mortal" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1801635094081220886) 2024-06-14T15:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Publicar un vdeo en este momento que incluye este "logro" es la Rossellada ms Rossellista que alguien podra Rossellar. Reforming and running out of time are deeply intertwined themes. This video created by @beatrizrossello was made after a whirlwind of reforms. Little did I know time was ticking. I tackle this and other topics in my book. Pre-Orders are available now: https://t.co/vhSzvIwymQ https://t.co/ImfYne1ZYM Reforming and running out of time are deeply intertwined themes. This video created by @beatrizrossello was made after a whirlwind of reforms. Little did I know time was ticking. I" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1801700489362301376) 2024-06-14T19:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The U.S. media is terrible at writing headlines about Puerto Rico. Im pretty sure Puerto Ricans grasp the impact of constant blackouts just fine. You can find them all over social media crying with rage at how it may cost them their livelihoodsor their lives" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1802072084551524430) 2024-06-15T20:14Z [----] followers, 16.2K engagements "@RakeemShabazz So many of the greats played in Puerto Rico. https://negroleaguerspuertorico.com https://negroleaguerspuertorico.com" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1804339342866878969) 2024-06-22T02:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Mejor todava sobre todo para el elector joven una versin digital que puedan consultar en el telfono al votar. Pero que la tengan en un mensaje de texto o WhatsApp no que tengan que meterse en la pgina web de MVC a buscarla" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1804562585661939961) 2024-06-22T17:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Yo estoy convencido que si Rubn Berros hubiera tenido Twitter y el PIP de los aos [--] (o de cualquier dcada) podcasts YouTube y mil otras maneras de hacer llegar su mensaje sin depender de los medios tradicionales y de campaas carsimas hubiesen ganado hace tiempo" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1804594738881851789) 2024-06-22T19:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Pro-Palestinian activists in the U.S. are now experiencing a fraction of what pro-independence activists endured in Puerto Ricoover many more decades and with far more severe and deadly consequences. So can we say that Puerto Ricans have exercised true self-determination New: Gov. Josh Shapiro is backing a bipartisan bill to block state appropriations to any college or university that divests from Israel after a wave of protests on college campuses calling for such action in response to the War in Gaza. Via @KateHuangpu13 https://t.co/UcLtme8rUa New: Gov. Josh Shapiro is backing a bipartisan" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1804595840398594372) 2024-06-22T19:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "This past week @BUDPR was at the @UN denouncing colonialism and advocating for Puerto Rico's independence. At the link some reflections on why we did/do it even in the face of the UN's inaction and ineffectiveness when it comes to PR Palestine etc. https://albertomedina.medium.com/puerto-rico-at-the-united-nations-3cf0f81ea2c6 https://albertomedina.medium.com/puerto-rico-at-the-united-nations-3cf0f81ea2c6" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1804634185602412938) 2024-06-22T21:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The colonial project still depends on seeing Puerto Ricans as unfit for self-rule. That's one reason why while it's usually almost impossible to get American media to report on PR anything having to do with corruption gets published and republished by hundreds of outlets" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1805656349365207405) 2024-06-25T17:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "And it works Spend some time in the comments of an article/social media post about Puerto Rico's status and read the deluge of Americans who immediately bring up corruption. It's the only thing many of them know about PR because it's the only thing their media has told them" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1805658147421405490) 2024-06-25T17:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@vman29397 @PRexitBook They are worse than Puerto Ricos. Trump might get reelected every member of Congress engages in insider trading theres a revolving door between lobbying and government and a Senator got caught with gold bars from foreign agents in his house. And hes still in the Senate" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1806147087479804279) 2024-06-27T02:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Look if the Van Joness of the world are saying Biden is done hes D-U-N done" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1806519865533960631) 2024-06-28T02:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@MinistroCiencia Aprovech tu tuit para decir algo que no necesariamente estaba dirigido a tia menos que te des por aludido. Pero lo s y no me importa. Bienvenido eres en el independentismo y cuando seamos libres espero que mi izquierda le gane a tu derecha" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1806544861048320009) 2024-06-28T04:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Estados Unidos est al igual que Puerto Rico atrapado en un bipartidismo inepto y corrupto. Pero ellos estn atrs porque en PR ya comenzamos a construir y apoyar otras alternativas electorales. En EE.UU. todava no. En eso y mucho ms ya superamos polticamente al imperio" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1806712814817456504) 2024-06-28T15:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Part of the case for Puerto Rican independence is that it's the only option that ensures our people won't be ruled by Trump Biden or any of the corrupt political establishments that led them to power. Read the rest of the case in @curaffairs : https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2024/04/the-case-for-puerto-rican-independence https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2024/04/the-case-for-puerto-rican-independence" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1806752798782214358) 2024-06-28T18:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@SHS_2015_1997 @PillagePro @erikmbaker Its a Star Wars reference" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1806819278462521643) 2024-06-28T22:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Evergreen question" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1806825082536210505) 2024-06-28T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Being Puerto Rican is like a superpower for understanding American politics. Oh are you now discovering that a large swath of the Democratic Party is (almost) as morally and intellectually bankrupt as the Republic Party Puerto Ricans have known that all along" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1807522703861055525) 2024-06-30T21:12Z [----] followers, 15.8K engagements "When SCOTUS confirmed *eight years ago* that Puerto Rico is a colony it de facto held that the President is an emperorbecause only empires have colonies. So what we should really step back to consider is why nobody cared then but is freaking out now. I just want to take a step back and say that I think the Supreme Court just fundamentally altered the structure and nature of democracy in America. It awards the president the measure of power and immunity that is much much closer to a king or emperor than an elected official. I just want to take a step back and say that I think the Supreme Court" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1807821082302226688) 2024-07-01T16:58Z [----] followers, 25.6K engagements "Here we go again. As they do every time they despair for their precious democracy liberals will now start endlessly musing on social media about statehood for Puerto Rico. Thankfully they dont actually care about Puerto Ricans enough to actually push for it" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1807944501543293133) 2024-07-02T01:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Hace cuatro aos escrib que el plebiscito de estatus de [----] a pesar de ser una artimaa electoral era una buena idea. Reitero el argumento con todava ms fuerza ahora que el independentismo est en su mejor momento" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1808168402613051683) 2024-07-02T15:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "I am of course not celebrating July 4th. But I do celebrate independence as the just political future for any colonized nation. It's as right for Puerto Rico as it was for the United Stateswhere as James Madison once wrote it was also an unpopular idea until it wasn't.👇🏽" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1808925653917458713) 2024-07-04T18:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Hey Joe Biden: do you wanna maybe do the right thing" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1809460453698928789) 2024-07-06T05:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@yudel @curaffairs Setting aside that it would be borderline evil for Democrats to use Puerto Rico as a chess piece in their battle against the GOP theyve already proven theyre too feckless and uninterested in PR statehood. They wont even do DC and thats not a nation of [--] million Latinos" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1810124457643528218) 2024-07-08T01:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@yudel @curaffairs Go ahead and fight for DC statehood. But as for Puerto Rico: no thanks Fix your own damn problems without subjecting the nation youve kept colonized for [---] years to the fascism youre trying (and failing) to defeat" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1810131518553010255) 2024-07-08T01:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Arroyo. Barea. Alvarado. The marginal NBA point guard but Goliath-destroying superstar when hes playing with Puerto Rico pipeline continues. https://youtu.be/2IpJTCElD7ksi=C1DNpL9RVjBWqMBJ https://youtu.be/2IpJTCElD7ksi=C1DNpL9RVjBWqMBJ" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1810133971755262267) 2024-07-08T02:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Cuando se present el Proyecto Young sobre el estatus de Puerto Rico en [----] el entonces Congresista Luis Gutirrez present una enmienda para que como estado Puerto Rico mantuviera su Comit Olmpico. As qued la votacin: [--] a favor y [---] en contra" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1810422765671047598) 2024-07-08T21:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "La independencia de Puerto Rico es una oportunidad de desligarnos de un pas cada da ms sumido en la gerontocracia el fascismo el racismo la violencia poltica interna y externa. En fin: todo un sinnmero de males que cada da nos afectarn ms directamente" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1812580365627756758) 2024-07-14T20:10Z [----] followers, 18.9K engagements "I hope all these liberals who muse about fleeing the U.S. start explicitly supporting Puerto Ricos independence. After all if individual marginalized folks in America are in danger just imagine how vulnerable [--] million colonized subjects in Puerto Rico are. I think a lot of people should start making an exit plan to leave the US. We've reached a tipping point into instability as a country. Trump is likely to win and enact retribution against his enemies without any check on his power. It's going to get beyond ugly. I think a lot of people should start making an exit plan to leave the US." [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1812881656270954689) 2024-07-15T16:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@deviIette @midnucas Gross. Hope shes changed her mind. If she hasnt this is the most immoral kind of position from a progressive activist. Because it basically signals that shes willing to fight excruciatingly hard battles for justice in the U.S. but shrugs and surrenders to empire re: PR" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1812919010230739452) 2024-07-15T18:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "It's morally bonkers to suggest that Puerto Rico join a country that you consider so dangerous to minorities and marginalized people that you're otherwise advising Americans to flee it. (Props to @deviIette for the find.) I think a lot of people should start making an exit plan to leave the US. We've reached a tipping point into instability as a country. Trump is likely to win and enact retribution against his enemies without any check on his power. It's going to get beyond ugly. I think a lot of people should start making an exit plan to leave the US. We've reached a tipping point into" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1812927421559058590) 2024-07-15T19:09Z [----] followers, 15.3K engagements "Mientras los Demcratas le prometen la estadidad a Washington D.C. a Puerto Rico solo le dicen que apoyan el proyecto de estatus natimuerto que saben nunca tendr los votos en el Senado. O sea para todos los efectos prcticos apoyan que siga la colonia" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1813274783532130674) 2024-07-16T18:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@SkiesOfViolet03 @astrophobiac_ @yxximoon Show me the studies and/or the expert consensus that supports the claim an independent PR is not economically viable. Don't just say it's "obvious" or cite the current economic data which reflects what PR is as a colony not what it can be as a free nation. Prove your point" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1813292535013413318) 2024-07-16T19:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@cxg133 @BUDPR @LatNewsletter Como discuto en el artculo: en gran medida porque estn convencidos que Puerto Rico enviara a Demcratas al Congreso. Pero tambin porque significara ms fondos federales y poder poltico para latinos" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1813341380162314443) 2024-07-16T22:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Steady yourselves Puerto Rico twitter. The more Democrats flounder this summer and fall and especially if (when) they lose in November the more intense and frequent their ultimately feckless tweeting about how they need to make Puerto Rico a state will become" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1813368159182717401) 2024-07-17T00:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@TorresGotay Eso lo entendemos t y yo y unos cuantos ms. Pero todava no suficiente gente. Hay que ver qu seguimos haciendo para que lo entiendan ms sobre todo los que no saben leer entre lneas" [X Link](https://x.com/AlbertoMedinaPR/status/1813624645494681777) 2024-07-17T17:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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Social topic influence puerto rico #107, united states #4156, in the, status, palestine, bad bunny, this is, country, island, donald trump
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"Puerto Rico Could Be About to Elect Its First Pro-Independence Governor Something unprecedented is happening in Puerto Rico which like the U.S. will hold its general election on November 5th. For the first time ever the island could elect a governor who favors Puerto Ricos independence from the United States. That"
X Link 2024-10-21T09:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@KateAronoff @chimeraelf Because God says so https://www.wsj.com/articles/god-puerto-rico-and-bankruptcy-law-11615506219 https://www.wsj.com/articles/god-puerto-rico-and-bankruptcy-law-11615506219"
X Link 2022-09-20T04:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The problem with the federal government's continued insistence that they can only do things if/as the Puerto Rican government requests them is that it rings hollow after the U.S. installed a Junta that completely controls PR's finances and often overrules local leaders. Some southern municipalities in #PuertoRico that were hit hard by #Fiona were not included in the major disaster declaration approved by President Biden yesterday. FEMA says the approval was done based on the info given to them by the local government. https://t.co/i837hQ3wbm Some southern municipalities in #PuertoRico that"
X Link 2022-09-22T16:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@thomaschattwill Probably @FluentMundo: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/07/magazine/bad-bunny.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/07/magazine/bad-bunny.html"
X Link 2022-09-25T18:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The irony is that the United States basically let Puerto Rico have sports sovereignty as one of a handful of "look look: they have self-rule so we're not an empire" moves in the 40s and 50s. Well now we love it and and they'll have to pry it from our cold dead hands"
X Link 2023-03-16T21:15Z [----] followers, 19.1K engagements
"@SEvangelistaNY Puerto Rico has been a colony under every single Democratic administration that you and others would describe as "pro-democracy." I'm not saying that means anybody should vote for West but we should make that crystal clear"
X Link 2023-06-06T01:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The "argument" made by some Americans that maybe Puerto Rico shouldn't be free because we might end up being ruled by some undemocratic tyrant was always insulting. But now From the country that elected (and might very well reelect) Donald Trump It's downright laughable"
X Link 2023-07-17T22:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I really think it's time to retire the language of "self-determination" for Puerto Rico. [--]. It's overly academic/legalistic. [--]. It can be misunderstood (or twisted) to mean anything. But mostly [--]. it's become a euphemism to prevent or obscure clear advocacy for independence"
X Link 2023-07-19T22:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Sure Trump threw paper towels. But Obama installed the Junta that has "legitimized" and accelerated bondholders' continued sacking of Puerto Rico and Biden hasn't done a single meaningful thing re: PRexcept deny us SSI. All (should be) punished"
X Link 2023-08-03T18:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Puerto Ricans have something many Americans would kill for: the chance to build a political future free from the racist kleptocracy of Republicans or the corporate gerontocracy of Democrats. Give that up to become a state and play "who sucks less" every 2/4 years No thanks"
X Link 2023-08-05T06:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Asking as some misguided people still do whether Puerto Rico is "ready" for independence is deeply wrongheaded and offensive. It's the nation-level equivalent of asking as defenders of slavery did in centuries past whether Black people were "ready" for freedom. 1/5"
X Link 2023-08-10T19:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"All these legal and political decisions that harm Puerto Ricansnot to mention the myriad crises in PRare mere symptoms of the colonial disease: U.S. rule over Puerto Rico. Trying to fight each individual symptom is a fools errand. Its time to focus on the cure: independence"
X Link 2023-08-11T21:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Whose fault are Puerto Rico's problems Well: with great power comes great responsibility. Legally and politically the U.S. has ultimate power over PR. That's not me saying that it's Congress and the Supreme Court. 1/2"
X Link 2023-08-14T18:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Colonialism leads to corruption. When a place like Puerto Rico has no meaningful self-rule elected "leaders" don't see government as public service or themselves as stewards of the public good. They see it as just another industry rife with opportunities for graft"
X Link 2023-09-05T16:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This of course convinces many that the colonized people dont have the capacity for or deserve or are ready for self-rule. And so the innate corruption of colonialism becomes its own sick justification. Colonialism leads to corruption. When a place like Puerto Rico has no meaningful self-rule elected "leaders" don't see government as public service or themselves as stewards of the public good. They see it as just another industry rife with opportunities for graft. Colonialism leads to corruption. When a place like Puerto Rico has no meaningful self-rule elected "leaders" don't see government"
X Link 2023-09-05T22:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I would hope that @AOCs desire for Latin American sovereignty extends to the one nation in the continent that actually lacks itPuerto Ricoand that she is ready to become a forceful advocate for her own peoples independence"
X Link 2023-09-09T16:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Today is @USDemocracyDay. Problem is: the U.S. isn't a democracy at all. As long as it keeps Puerto Rico and other colonies it's an empire. If Americans want that to change they're going to have to take a stand and a stance on PR's status. My latest: https://medium.com/centerforcooperativemedia/opinion-its-time-for-americans-to-take-a-stand-on-puerto-rico-s-status-a5b25297a2ce https://medium.com/centerforcooperativemedia/opinion-its-time-for-americans-to-take-a-stand-on-puerto-rico-s-status-a5b25297a2ce"
X Link 2023-09-15T13:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Americans not taking a position on Puerto Rico's status is not "respecting" Puerto Ricans. It's not respecting us enough to care one way or the other about whether your nation should keep or free mine [---] years after invading it. My latest:"
X Link 2023-09-15T21:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Its gross that the @Marlins would choose conservative Latinos for Trump annexationist Jenniffer Gonzlez to honor Roberto Clemente a man who bristled at being called Bob battled racism and fought for racial justice. Whats tomorrow Ted Cruz for Hispanic Heritage Month"
X Link 2023-09-16T00:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@roxalot58 @BUDPR @Deoliver47 .it would require a level of assimilation that would lead to the weakening + destruction of PR's culture and make an island of [--] million Latinos permanently part of a racist nation. The U.S. invaded PR and it should free it. That's the helpful thing to say and support"
X Link 2023-09-18T22:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"I think Americans should do with Puerto Rico's status what they (in theory) do with any other issue: listen to all sides examine their principles make up their minds and fight like hell for whatever they conclude is good and right and true"
X Link 2023-09-18T22:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"When a guy from Bloomberg is writing in The Washington Post that Puerto Rico is too nice to rich Americans you know weve really gone too far"
X Link 2023-09-22T15:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Anybody can point at a problem. Political courage demands and political action requires supporting a solution. If you denounce colonialism in Puerto Rico without demanding its independence your indictment is incomplete at besthollow and insincere at worst"
X Link 2023-09-23T18:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"When Scorsese was growing up it was all cowboys and indians shit99% of which was racist claptrapand the culture turned out fine. I mean a generation of boomers grew up idolizing Clint Eastwood and ended up voting for Ronald Reagan but other than that"
X Link 2023-09-25T22:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Remember: both in The Little Giants movie and in real life the annexation of Puerto Rico is a trick play"
X Link 2023-09-30T18:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I wrote this about Puerto Ricobut its also about everywhere else"
X Link 2023-10-08T16:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"If Americans can have an opinion on the Israel-Palestine conflict in which the United States is an indirect participant they should certainly have a position on Puerto Ricos statuswhich is a product of their own countrys ongoing colonial occupation"
X Link 2023-10-08T22:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"When Israel began its occupation of the Palestinian territories and the expulsion of its people the United States had already held Puerto Rico as a colonial possession for [--] years"
X Link 2023-10-08T23:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"As a Puerto Rican I know one thing: if Palestinians did not violently resist their relative passivity would be interpreted as acquiescenceas proof that the conditions under which they live couldnt possibly be that bad or theyd be violently resisting Damned if you do"
X Link 2023-10-12T02:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"May no nation's colonization endure as long as Puerto Rico's has: [---] years. and counting"
X Link 2023-10-17T16:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Palestine deserves the solidarity and decolonial fervor of every American. But far closer to home the U.S. keeps its own colony under less directly brutalbut no less immoralpolitical subordination. Can you spare an ounce of outrage for Puerto Rico"
X Link 2023-10-18T12:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I'm going to repeat this until I'm blue in the face: I never again want to hear another progressive tell me that it's "not their place" to take a position on Puerto Rico's status. If you have the moral courage to say: "Free Palestine" you can also say: "Free Puerto Rico.""
X Link 2023-10-19T22:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Ritchie Torres' maniacal support for Israel is a matter of political expediency surebut I think he also really believes in it. After all he supports Puerto Rican statehood. So in both cases he thinks a powerful country should get to invade a nation abuse it and keep it"
X Link 2023-10-24T00:22Z [----] followers, 29.6K engagements
"As a progressive pro-independence Puerto Rican I already had every reason not to vote for Joe Bidenor most other Democrats/Republicans for that matter. But you could've talked me into it on civic responsibility Trump is worse lesser of two evils grounds. Not anymore. 1/3"
X Link 2023-10-25T21:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Here too there is a lesson for Puerto Ricans and others who celebrate the billions in "aid" that the United States sends to Puerto Rico. just as it sustains the colonial reality that makes such aid necessary in the first place"
X Link 2023-10-27T00:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"This is indeed great reporting but I wish the headline were more accurate. By the U.S. government's own admission PR is not part of America it just belongs to it. I know that sounds like ideological nitpicking but clarity about colonialism is vital to shifting perspectives"
X Link 2023-10-27T20:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@PhillipStell @MorePerfectUS That's immoral nonsenseand I'm not even pro-statehood. You don't put preconditions on people having basic democratic rights. If we did let me know when I can take away Americans' voting rights because Bob Menendez has gold bars in his jacket pockets and Trump is. Trump"
X Link 2023-10-27T21:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"This is a great fucking tweet and clearly I need more followers at the intersection of gaming and politics"
X Link 2023-10-28T00:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I finally did it: the all Puerto Rican @immaculategrid"
X Link 2023-10-29T03:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"It's been over for Puerto Rican statehood for a long time. but now it's really over. The moment it becomes fodder for right-wing attack ads and opposing statehood becomes a litmus test for conservatism its (already weak/fake) support in the GOP goes from [----] to -10000"
X Link 2023-10-30T23:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"All arguments to excuse colonialism are essentially the same. In Puerto Rico pro-statehood zealots and other U.S. apologists say that the United States didnt do anything wrong when it invaded Puerto Rico because PR didnt really existit was just Spain territory. What a joke"
X Link 2023-11-02T18:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Nature is healing"
X Link 2023-11-03T15:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@conor64 What should have happened from the start: a far more targeted and at least semi-proportional response. Does that leave the door open to a cycle of killings Yes: until Israel's settle colonial project in Palestine which does not excuse but feeds the violence actually ends"
X Link 2023-11-15T23:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"My first op-ed in @thehill tackles the influx of ultrarich Americans to Puerto Rico who take advantage of an economically vulnerable nation's admittedly bad tax policy and serve as one example of how colonialism manifests in the 21st century"
X Link 2023-11-22T16:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I once again feel compelled to remind you that Congressman Ritchie Torres' vicious Zionism and his support for Puerto Rican statehood share the same morally rotten foundation: A belief that it is OK for a more powerful nation to invade a less powerful one and ultimately keep it"
X Link 2023-11-23T19:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"One of the sneakily cruelest things that even well-intentioned Americans unthinkingly do is frame Puerto Rico's 125-year-old political status debate as a fight over just one option statehood. even as the U.S. government continues to ignore and reject that very alternative"
X Link 2023-11-28T23:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The problem with focusing on the right process instead of the right outcome re: Puerto Rico's status is that what derails every process is massive opposition in Congress to one outcome: statehood. Everyone understands this political reality but too many pretend they don't"
X Link 2023-11-30T23:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"As they often do with Puerto Rico people point to societal ills in Palestine like corruption or intolerance as implicit justifications for its domination or destruction by another nation. But human rights cannot be contingent on how "good" or well-behaved a people are"
X Link 2023-12-06T21:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@ijbailey @lluaces @TheFIREorg There are [--] million college students in the U.S. 3% is [------]. Even if FIRE is way off (which it might be) and it's 1/10th what they claim that's [-----] punished. for speech Your mileage may vary on what constitutes a crisis but that's a higher number than I'd like"
X Link 2023-12-06T22:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@ijbailey @lluaces @TheFIREorg Or think of it this way: Less than 1% of the U.S. population is incarcerated and we still describe it (rightfully) as "mass incarceration." It's a big giant populous country A tiny fraction of people experiencing harm is still a hell of a lot of people"
X Link 2023-12-06T22:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"This is insightful reporting on some of the legal inequality created by U.S. colonialism in Puerto Rico. For example: The First Circuits relationship with Puerto Rico is a complicated one and the judges carefully walk the line between inclusion and intrusion. Heres what I witnessed when I accompanied them on their most recent trip to the island https://t.co/kwYqMyPhbc The First Circuits relationship with Puerto Rico is a complicated one and the judges carefully walk the line between inclusion and intrusion. Heres what I witnessed when I accompanied them on their most recent trip to the island"
X Link 2023-12-09T23:39Z [----] followers, 16.5K engagements
"Many many many things about Puerto Rico's legal and political systems can be directly traced back to the United States' economic exploitation of its colony. Kudos to @alliereed for including details like this one which aren't mere details at all"
X Link 2023-12-10T00:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This by the way is a colonial problem that would not be solved by statehood unless it led to English replacing Spanish as the primary language in Puerto Ricothe kind of linguistic and cultural assimilation and destruction of Puerto Rican identity that many of us fear"
X Link 2023-12-10T15:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""Vienen cambios importantes incluyendo el apoyo al independentismo." Gracias a @urtziurruti y @naiz_info por una excelente entrevista sobre los vientos de cambio poltico que soplan en Puerto Rico y que poco a poco nos llevarn hasta la soberana"
X Link 2023-12-10T17:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Aplaudo las expresiones de @juandalmauPR con quien tuve el placer de compartir hace unos meses de @marialourdespip y otros hoy en la asamblea del @PIPtwitteando sobre el valor de la dispora boricua en la lucha por la independencia. Hasta la victoria"
X Link 2023-12-10T23:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"These are the two U.S. diplomats who have voted in the United Nations to veto a ceasefire in Gaza. I call this tableau: The Limits and Inadequacies of Diversity and Inclusion"
X Link 2023-12-11T17:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Est bien responderle a los fotutos y participar del toma y dame en las redes; eso es parte de hacer poltica en [----]. Pero si fuera yo contestara cada fotutera con una propuesta una denuncia un plan. Que quede claro que ellos solo tienen memes y nosotros ideas"
X Link 2023-12-13T18:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Esto como muchas otras cosas lo entendemos perfectamente los puertorriqueos que vemos todos los das a dizque paladines de la democracia criticar a Nicaragua y Venezuela por ser regimenes dictatoriales. .y luego ves su Twitter bio y dice que son "ULTRA MAGA." 🤡🤡🤡"
X Link 2023-12-13T23:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"El Senado de EE.UU. no quiere darnos ni un triste informe sobre la limpieza de nunca acabar en Vieques y Culebra. Casi $900 mil millones en la nueva legislacin pero para rendir cuentas sobre sus bombas nada. Y hay quien cree que el que no da un PDF va a dar la estadidad"
X Link 2023-12-15T00:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Americans who say they want statehood for Puerto Rico (but won't lift a finger to make it happen) must understand they are essentially condemning Puerto Ricans to remain a colonized people until wild political impossibilities like a Democratic Senate supermajority take place"
X Link 2023-12-15T19:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Heres something a little different from me. A bit silly but also deadly serious. Its the story of the United States refusing to make Puerto Rico a state presented as a 125-year-old dialogue between the U.S. and PR. Hope you laugh learn and reflect"
X Link 2023-12-17T18:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I wrote this in April [----] before the Board was created. Many many people warned this would be the case. Nobody cared then and nobody cares now"
X Link 2023-12-18T19:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"El plan econmico del PNP Fabricarle armas al imperio escribe Jos Aponte en @thehill. Ms all de cualquier consideracin ideolgica demuestra la podredumbre de la "visin" estadista que siempre pone primero las necesidades de Estados Unidos no las de Puerto Rico"
X Link 2023-12-18T22:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I often feel compelled to compare Puerto Rico's colonial status to other injusticesand sometimes catch flak for it from people who think that summoning the specter of e.g. slavery is inappropriate. So I think this @mashagessen speech is valuable"
X Link 2023-12-18T23:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Jenniffer Gonzlez escoge al presidente del Partido Republicano de Puerto Rico como director poltico. Pierluisi insiste en que el PNP es el partido ms conservador. Los estadistas dan por perdida la izquierda y se enfocan en que la derecha no se les vaya para Proyecto Dignidad"
X Link 2023-12-20T20:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Esto como todo tiene consecuencias para el debate de estatus. Mientras ms se vayan para la derecha los estadistas se convertirn en persona non grata con los Demcratas en D.C. En fin todas las tendencias polticas alejan no acercan la anexin"
X Link 2023-12-20T20:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Algunos dicen que no se puede hablar en voz alta sobre el estatus en la Alianza porque eso resta en vez de sumar. Ahora dirn que tampoco hablemos de sistemas econmicos; de ser capitalista o socialdemcrata. Cuidado que no nos quedamos sin nada importante de qu hablar"
X Link 2023-12-21T16:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@T_E_S_L_A_ Una cosa es lo que est sobre el papel y otra es la presin explcita e implcita a resaltar (o no) ciertos temas. No es que la Alianza tenga que adoptar X o Y ideas o ideologas. Es que no se mande a callar o hablar en voz baja a los que nos parece importante compartirlas"
X Link 2023-12-21T16:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@T_E_S_L_A_ S y no. Si la Alianza es el vehculo poltico que se ha creado para pedirle el voto al pueblo y que tiene y tendr toda la atencin pblica y meditica que eso conlleva tambin tiene que ser (hasta cierto punto) un vehculo en el que se pueda compartir ideas con el pueblo"
X Link 2023-12-21T16:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@T_E_S_L_A_ Todos los partidos tienen diversidad ideolgica interna. Puede ser una fortaleza o una debilidad dependiendo de cmo se le plantee al pueblo. Si alguien le pidiera a Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez que no hable en nombre del Partido Demcrata eso hara ms dao que otra cosa creo yo"
X Link 2023-12-21T16:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@T_E_S_L_A_ Personal es otra cosa. Pero en lo poltico creo que lo que planteas no es realista. Si t eres un candidato o lder electo de una colectividad y dices o publicas algo nadie va a pensar "bueno pero el logo no est en el flyer o no haba un banner MVC detrs as que no cuenta""
X Link 2023-12-21T17:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@T_E_S_L_A_ Por algo es una agenda no un programa de gobierno con posturas y propuestas completas de poltica pblica. Eso es lo que hace falta para gobernar bien y para eso hacen faltas las ideas e insumo de toda esa gente que mencionas. Que las puedan compartir libremente; eso es todo"
X Link 2023-12-21T17:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Tomemos nota de que "self-determination" se ha convertido en un eufemismo liberalucho; un "talking point" sin fuerza moral y poltica alguna. Para EE.UU. el derecho de "autodeterminacin" de los Palestinos incluye el derecho a ser masacrados. Qu incluir el de Puerto Rico"
X Link 2023-12-21T18:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"🧵 Hay que ganar elecciones. Hay que gobernar. Pero tambin hay que mover al pas hacia unas posturas fundamentales: -El capitalismo desenfrenado hace dao; ms an cuando beneficia a EE.UU. y no a PR. -La estadidad no viene por ah; debemos y podemos ser libres. 1/5"
X Link 2023-12-21T19:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Dejar de hacerlo por tratar (casi siempre sin xito) de ganarse el voto inmediato de unos cuantos es dar un paso hacia adelante y cinco hacia atrs. Es (como se pasa diciendo con razn @CesarLizasuain) desaprovechar un momento histrico en que hay apertura a nuevas ideas. 2/5"
X Link 2023-12-21T19:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Pero sobre todo an en el mejor de los casos en que se gane la eleccin es autocondenarse a gobernar un pueblobueno a una coloniaa la deriva sin idea de qu esperar y exigirle a un nuevo gobierno ms all de no robar y ser de otro color. 3/5"
X Link 2023-12-21T19:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Entonces es tambin autocondenarse a perder la siguiente eleccin cuando el pas no mejore porque el pueblo no te compr las propuestas y las ideas que realmente hacan falta para mejorarporque con tal de no restar ni trataste de vendrselas. 4/5"
X Link 2023-12-21T19:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"En fin trato de hacer unas sugerencias constructivas para la Alianza que apoyo y que est a tiempo para acogerlas. Para que su inevitable diversidad ideolgica sea una ventaja no una debilidad y para que cuente con la profundidad poltica que tanto nos hace falta como pueblo"
X Link 2023-12-21T19:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Maybe my favorite bit from my silly/serious little play about the United States rejecting refusing and denying statehood to Puerto Rico. Which is here:"
X Link 2023-12-21T23:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"It's that (self-indulgent) time again My [----] Writing about Puerto Rico Year in Review. Just a handful of essays etc. this year as I took on some other projects. But I hope I at least managed some quality if not quantity. Here we go: 🧵"
X Link 2023-12-29T14:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Not sure what's worse: the (stupid) idea that Republicans would stop being racist enough to embrace Puerto Rican statehood if our financial house was in order or the (immoral) idea that political rights should be contingent on good bookkeeping"
X Link 2024-01-02T23:33Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@babadookspinoza Sounds like U.S rule over Puerto Rico which at least one Israeli minister has already floated as a model for Palestine"
X Link 2024-01-18T02:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Too many individuals' and organization's activism re: Puerto Rico revolves around denouncing every time the United States punches us in the face. Friends: the problem isn't each individual punch: it's the fact that the U.S. is legally and politically allowed to do the punching"
X Link 2024-01-22T20:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"This event on Puerto Rico's status starts in just under an hour. Register + join the conversation On Monday January [--] our friend and collaborator @JenaroAbraham will speak about Puerto Rican independence at this @NEIULibraries virtual event. Join the conversation to hear an informed and insightful perspective on Puerto Rico's status Info + RSVP: https://t.co/lQWOyhQb2r https://t.co/4GfxjUBb5X On Monday January [--] our friend and collaborator @JenaroAbraham will speak about Puerto Rican independence at this @NEIULibraries virtual event. Join the conversation to hear an informed and insightful"
X Link 2024-01-22T23:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Puerto Rican and American politics are going in opposite directions. While in the U.S. voters can only choose between two octogenarians with blood on their hands in Puerto Rico progressive and pro-independence forces are transforming the political landscape for the better"
X Link 2024-01-24T22:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Both Puerto Ricans and Americans should reflect on what that means for the Puerto Rico status debate. The United States could very well be a politically sinking ship continuing its backslide into autocracy and supercharging racial/economic inequality. Why stay on that ship"
X Link 2024-01-24T22:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Anti-Latino sentiment has become and perhaps always was one of the foundational dynamics and driving forces in American politics. The notion that this country would accept Puerto Rico as a state is almost as senseless as the idea that we should want it to. UPDATE - [--] Republican governors issue a joint statement in support of Texas in its border dispute with the federal government Vermont's governor was the lone exception. https://t.co/ObXWfbyBHd UPDATE - [--] Republican governors issue a joint statement in support of Texas in its border dispute with the federal government Vermont's governor"
X Link 2024-01-26T00:54Z [----] followers, 12.5K engagements
"@Kamenootwt There are already [--] million Latinos in the United States. The entire southwestern part of the country used to be Mexico. The idea that [--] million Puerto Ricans are going to be the tipping point that makes the U.S. not racist is a fantasy"
X Link 2024-01-26T01:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Puerto Rico has been a colony of the United States for nearly twice as long as Israel has occupied Palestine. Colonialism need not feature daily brutal violence to be immoral and despicablethough it has hardly been totally peaceful in Puerto Rico. if biden dropped [-----] bombs on puerto rico killed one percent of the population destroyed all the schools and hospitals and also wouldn't let anyone out or aid in would you still tell people to be "adult" and still vote for him @aoc if biden dropped [-----] bombs on puerto rico killed one percent of the population destroyed all the schools and"
X Link 2024-01-27T18:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Then why is the Biden admin spending $5 billion on fossil fuel infrastructure in Puerto Rico The (much smaller) push for solar makes for good PR while behind the scenes the U.S. government is setting up natural gas companies to make a killing in its captive colonial market. The results are in: 100% renewable energy is 100% possible for Puerto Rico by [----]. After two years of analysis and engaging with stakeholders across Puerto Rico @ENERGY has published a summary of results from the PR100 Study https://t.co/SoQNt2JRhE https://t.co/uTQQdaRSew The results are in: 100% renewable energy is 100%"
X Link 2024-02-07T21:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@SecGranholm @jm_lozadar @ENERGY Then why is the Biden admin spending $5 billion on fossil fuel infrastructure in Puerto Rico The (much smaller) push for solar makes for good press while behind the scenes the U.S. government is setting up natural gas companies to make a killing in its captive colonial market"
X Link 2024-02-07T21:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Its hard to overstate just how unthinkable this would be in the United States right now. And this is with conservatives largely in control of the legislature But conservatives in PR are (mostly) not the insane science deniers that the GOP is. Even our worst are better"
X Link 2024-02-09T01:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Vladimir Putin is a rank imperialist. The fact that parts of the left have partially or totally excused his invasion of Ukraine by yelling that the United States is imperialist toowhich it ishas frankly been an embarrassment"
X Link 2024-02-10T04:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Colonialism creates perverse political incentives. In every nation leaders need the economy to do well to get (re)elected. In Puerto Rico the pro-statehood party is just fine with rampant poverty which leads many to believe that PR needs statehood and therefore needs them"
X Link 2024-02-17T19:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Perhaps @BreeNewsome has changed her mind on this; I hope she has But being neutral about statehoodmeaning the full annexation of Puerto Rico and the rest of Americas coloniesseems remarkably close to normalizing white people stealing nonwhite peoples land. The way folks normalize white people massacring nonwhite people & stealing their land is bananas to me The way folks normalize white people massacring nonwhite people & stealing their land is bananas to me"
X Link 2024-02-22T18:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@SettleIt @BreeNewsome The United States keeping a nation it invaded is either a just and moral outcome or it is not. This is surely the heart of the disagreement but in my view the fact that a plurality of Puerto Ricans might want it doesn't make it any more just"
X Link 2024-02-22T20:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"You truly have to admire the Biden administrations commitment to the How many different kinds of brown people can I piss off and still win the election bit. NEW tonight President Biden is debating whether to invoke a sweeping presidential authority that gained infamy during the Trump administration to stage a crackdown on migrants coming to the U.S. southern border. More on @cbsnews: https://t.co/uxRzpHHEVp NEW tonight President Biden is debating whether to invoke a sweeping presidential authority that gained infamy during the Trump administration to stage a crackdown on migrants coming to"
X Link 2024-02-22T22:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The most unintentionally() telling thing about @julito77's excellent column on American neglect of Puerto Rico is that the video embedded on the website is of Joe Biden surveying hurricane damage. .in Florida. If it weren't tragic it'd be hilarious"
X Link 2024-02-26T18:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"It bears repeating and frankly it requires a little shaming that so many Puerto Rican activists + others in U.S. media/academia/politics are basically this meme. I know the theory's that the neutrality is strategically useful. Yeahmaybe for their careers. Not for Puerto Rico"
X Link 2024-02-28T14:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Most Americans' thinking on Puerto Rico's status suffers from the fallacy of relative privation or "appeal to worse problems." The United States could nuke PR tomorrow and many of these people would say: "Yeah but an independent Puerto Rico would probably get nuked TWICE""
X Link 2024-02-29T21:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@himbonomics It would only be cherry-picking if you could prove that many/most other economists disagree. But you can't decide whether you care about expertise or not. Send me a single piece of research that supports what you're saying It really shouldn't be this hard to back up your claim"
X Link 2024-02-29T22:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@himbonomics By the way none of these people say nor do I that independence would be "smooth sailing." You're switching the claim to a straw man and hoping nobody notices. Your claimagain based on zero evidence you're willing to sharewas that it would be "disastrous." Not the same"
X Link 2024-02-29T22:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The United States has been so historically dismissive of Puerto Ricans that we conducted one of the most brazen political attacks in U.S. history and the Boston Globe described it as weird drama Shades of the headline fuckery we see re: Israel-Palestine today"
X Link 2024-03-01T22:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@andypr33 Yo creo que hay una diferencia sutil pero importante entre tenemos opcin de triunfo y voten por el que parezca que le puede ganar al de turno. Lo primero me parece bien como motivacin adicional. Pero lo segundo no porque o le aplica a cualquiera o somos deshonestos"
X Link 2024-03-02T06:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"A major hearing has started re: Puerto Rico's debt. One journalist describes it as the "trial of the decade" for PR's finances. It's taking place of course in federal court before a U.S.-appointed judge in a language 80% of Puerto Ricans don't speak. It's legal colonialism"
X Link 2024-03-04T21:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"X/Twitter ain't what it used to be and I know some of those [----] followers are bots. But I'm grateful for the real onesliterally and figurativelywho have signed up for my rants about Puerto Rico and who make this a tolerable and useful space to share ideas. Gracias"
X Link 2024-03-04T22:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Pronto ni siquiera la educacin en Puerto Rico ser para los puertorriqueos"
X Link 2024-03-12T18:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@MinistroCiencia @LoreNNNlll Te contradices: si SUAGM quisiera competir con universidades estadounidenses por el "mercado" de estudiantes puertorriqueos ms todava tomaran medidas para que sea atractivo y factible para esos jvenes estudiar veterinaria en Puerto Rico en vez de irse"
X Link 2024-03-12T19:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@MinistroCiencia @LoreNNNlll Yo no soy abogado y creo que t tampoco. Pero no tiene sentido alguno que una universidad pblica pueda tener una regla que limite out-of-staters y una privada no pueda. El punto hace dos tuits no era que las privadas pueden hacer lo que quieran Ah y SUAGM ya es un HSI"
X Link 2024-03-12T20:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@MinistroCiencia @LoreNNNlll Esa actitud es un crculo vicioso e intelectualmente deshonesto. Si los reclamos se traducen en realidad depende de que gente como t se pongan del lado correcto y apoyen el reclamo. No va a pasar -- No lo apoyo -- No va a pasar es pardon my french una mamonera"
X Link 2024-03-12T21:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@Bryan_Alexis_ Mientras en Puerto Rico haya animales y mascotaso sea siempreharn falta veterinarios. Es un asunto de salud y dignidad; incluso salud humana y salud pblica. Tengamos una visin ms amplia del bienestar social. No todo debe o puede ser ajustarse al mercado laboral"
X Link 2024-03-13T04:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"La respuesta (predecible claro) de quienes defienden sin falta a la empresa privada y a los americanos desplazadores es que ste es otro ejemplo de la xenofobia nacionalista. Pero amigos: la denuncia que cito la hace una publicacin"
X Link 2024-03-13T15:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@CovingtonEDU @JenaroAbraham Thank you for hosting this important conversation. Hope to hear more episodes on Puerto Rico in the future"
X Link 2024-03-16T17:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Americans brains turn into a melted puddle of imperialist goo when it comes to Puerto Rico. Granting Puerto Rico statehood as a way to compensate for the decades-long repression of pro-independence activists would be like honoring Gandhi by making India part of the UK. If Biden wins reelections and the Dems take over Congress they should give Puerto Rico statehood immediately. It's the least our government can do after the decades long brutal repression of Puerto Rican activists. If Biden wins reelections and the Dems take over Congress they should give Puerto Rico statehood immediately."
X Link 2024-03-22T03:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Kamala Harris claps along to a song protesting her presence. Thats either a demented level of mockery (not impossible) or more likely it just didnt occur to her to have a Spanish-speaking aide at her side during a visit to her Spanish-speaking colonywhich is its own insult. Translation of the song pleneros were singing in Spanish during VP Harris visit to Puerto Rico: we want to know we want to know Kamala what you came here to do Harris was seen clapping to the rhythm of the music. 🎥: @JoseADelgadoEND https://t.co/dGQaWxf8sQ Translation of the song pleneros were singing in Spanish during VP"
X Link 2024-03-22T22:42Z [----] followers, 243.4K engagements
"Throwing out crazy numbers like $140 billion is pure political gaslighting. As @julito77 wrote last month by the U.S. governments own admission less than $2 billion has been spent in Puerto Rico. We can argue about why but it makes the @VPs statement an outrageous lie. President Biden and I have already invested over $140 billion to help Puerto Rico recover and build a more resilient sustainable and prosperous future. I am grateful to Mara and her family for welcoming me to their new home. https://t.co/TJQSO7W3xD President Biden and I have already invested over $140 billion to help Puerto"
X Link 2024-03-23T01:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"At the end of the day this isnt a shot at Harris who is just doing awkward politician shit. But this is the kind of thing that happens when one nation colonizes anotherand when one people politically dominate another who literally speak a different language. 1/3 Kamala Harris claps along to a song protesting her presence. Thats either a demented level of mockery (not impossible) or more likely it just didnt occur to her to have a Spanish-speaking aide at her side during a visit to her Spanish-speaking colonywhich is its own insult. Kamala Harris claps along to a song protesting her presence."
X Link 2024-03-23T02:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Theres a reason language is central to the debate over Puerto Ricos status. What does it mean when our leaders (read: rulers) cant understand us when we speak our native tongue What does it mean to have to speak their language in order to be heard 2/3"
X Link 2024-03-23T02:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The U.S. Supreme Court continues its Dimmagio-esque streak of anti Puerto Rico decisions. The latest: SCOTUS has refused to consider a case that challenges the colonial fiscal control boards power to nullify a labor law passed by Puerto Ricos elected representatives. 🧵In the past [--] years the U.S. Supreme Court has made a series of decisions (and non-decisions) that have reaffirmed the United States' colonial control over Puerto Rico and directly harmed our people. And if you think it's been just the conservatives on the Courtread on. 1/X https://t.co/nwWVjYSsR3 🧵In the past [--] years the U.S."
X Link 2024-03-27T00:41Z [----] followers, 13K engagements
"I didnt have @wejustnormalmen getting political in my [----] bingo card but happy to see it. Were just normal men. [------] (at time of counting) normal people. Now lets talk about innocence. In Gaza there are the most heart-wrenching horrific things happening to innocent children women and men. 1/6 Were just normal men. [------] (at time of counting) normal people. Now lets talk about innocence. In Gaza there are the most heart-wrenching horrific things happening to innocent children women and men. 1/6"
X Link 2024-03-31T03:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"For political historical cultural economic and moral reasons: Puerto Rico must be free. It's a privilege to make the case for Puerto Rican independence in @curaffairs and to challenge Americans to add their voices to a clarion call for liberation. https://www.currentaffairs.org/2024/04/the-case-for-puerto-rican-independence https://www.currentaffairs.org/2024/04/the-case-for-puerto-rican-independence"
X Link 2024-04-05T20:08Z [----] followers, 11.1K engagements
""Nothing short of full political sovereigntynot statehood not a continuation of the 'Commonwealth' colonial statuswill do." Read my latest article on Puerto Rico's status and the moral imperative for independence in @curaffairs. https://www.currentaffairs.org/2024/04/the-case-for-puerto-rican-independence https://www.currentaffairs.org/2024/04/the-case-for-puerto-rican-independence"
X Link 2024-04-06T00:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Got a response to this article from a (white) guy claiming Puerto Rico can't be independent because of "population density" and "lack of natural resources." These are racist ideas: can't have too many brown people together unless they're mining gold https://www.currentaffairs.org/2024/04/the-case-for-puerto-rican-independence https://www.currentaffairs.org/2024/04/the-case-for-puerto-rican-independence"
X Link 2024-04-07T23:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Yo espero que nunca haya una presidenta de Estados Unidos latina porque por ah hay dos o tres que dejaran de denunciar el colonialismo en Puerto Rico si quien lidera el imperio se llama Mara Prez"
X Link 2024-04-08T03:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"🧵time Last Friday I published The Case for Puerto Rican Independence in @curaffairs. It's my longest article yet on Puerto Rico's colonial political status. I hope you'll read it and thanks if you already have. Some acknowledgments and thoughts. 1/10 https://www.currentaffairs.org/2024/04/the-case-for-puerto-rican-independence https://www.currentaffairs.org/2024/04/the-case-for-puerto-rican-independence"
X Link 2024-04-08T14:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@eljovenadso A m s me interesa entrar en los mritos pues creo que mi argumento los tiene Profundidad tambin"
X Link 2024-04-10T17:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"If you're a Puerto Rican or an American who has not taken a position on Puerto Rico's colonial status because you think that "neutrality" is useful or appropriate. Here's my question: How many Puerto Rican children have to die before you consider that you might be wrong"
X Link 2024-04-12T12:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Los fotutos han puesto al da sus talking points. Antes los independentistas ramos el 3%. Ahora vamos por el 14%. Despus de noviembre tendrn que decir que somos [--] o [--] o. Cualquier movimiento poltico dara lo que sea por tal crecimiento. Nos honran reconocindolo"
X Link 2024-04-12T16:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"This is maybe the best tweet about Puerto Ricos status Ive ever seen from an American. Actual moral fucking clarity Yay Whole timeline today is mad that a Puerto Rican communist said Trump wasnt uniquely bad among US politicians but idk if my country was being bipartisanly held as the longest colony in history with dems calling for full annexation I would probably also have that opinion also Whole timeline today is mad that a Puerto Rican communist said Trump wasnt uniquely bad among US politicians but idk if my country was being bipartisanly held as the longest colony in history with dems"
X Link 2024-04-12T21:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@__2024_PR Probablemente mejor que lo que siente no saber la diferencia entre basta y vasta"
X Link 2024-04-13T20:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"En su afn de despreciar el activismo independentista sobre todo en la dispora muchos estadistas desprecian tanto a los casi [--] millones de puertorriqueos que vivimos en EE.UU. como a la idea misma del activismo y de luchar por lo que uno cree. Con razn nunca logran nada"
X Link 2024-04-13T21:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The level of cognitive dissonance and political confusion it takes to have "Anti-imperialist" in your bio AND then say: "Puerto Ricans should join the empire that invaded them otherwise they're doomed to be poor helpless brown people" is astoundingthough not surprising Puerto Rico voted to become a state and realistically they would benefit massively from being part of the United States. Not doing so would just turn them into another impoverished Caribbean island nation but hey it's ultimately up to Puerto Ricans to decide their destiny. Puerto Rico voted to become a state and realistically"
X Link 2024-04-17T17:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Oh look people are talking about Puerto Rico's status on the internet Perhaps before they spout off they might consider reading The Case for Puerto Rican Independence in @curaffairs. https://www.currentaffairs.org/2024/04/the-case-for-puerto-rican-independence https://www.currentaffairs.org/2024/04/the-case-for-puerto-rican-independence"
X Link 2024-04-17T19:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@Nasserism @BUDPR Ah yes the awesome "power" of a handful of members in a do-nothing Congress full of racists and insurrectionists in a country that's about to reelect Donald Trump. Also if it's so easy how come it's been [---] years and it still hasn't happened"
X Link 2024-04-17T21:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The United States has always manipulated the United Nations to uphold colonialism and empire. In [----] it convinced the UN to take Puerto Rico off its list of "non self-governing territories" even as decades later the U.S. would acknowledge PR remains a colonial possession"
X Link 2024-04-18T22:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"American leftists and progressives must begin in earnest challenging the political duopoly in the United States. I know it seems impossible. It's not. Take inspiration from Puerto Rico where in just two cycles we knocked the two main parties down from 95% of the vote to 65%"
X Link 2024-04-22T21:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"A confesin de partes relevo de pruebas. Y aqu hay dos confesiones importantes: [--]. La estadidad no va. Ni a corto ni mediano plazoyo dira que tampoco a largo pero corto/mediano basta para descartarla. [--]. Ante [--] los estadistas prefieren ms colonia"
X Link 2024-04-23T17:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"El programa econmico de @juandalmauPR y del @PIPtwitteando. Denle bookmark para que lo tengan a la mano la prxima vez que alguien le diga que los independentistas nunca presentan planes o propuestas econmicas"
X Link 2024-04-23T21:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Apparently someone at @PuertoRico51st likedor at least was intrigued bymy proposal to have Congress set a deadline on resolving Puerto Rico's status and if Congress continues to reject statehood to initiate a transition to independence. Good 1/3 https://www.pr51st.com/give-congress-a-deadline/ https://www.pr51st.com/give-congress-a-deadline/"
X Link 2024-04-29T18:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Que se cuiden en Estados Unidos que as empezamos en Puerto Rico en el verano del [--]. Primero son jvenes aguantando pepper spray y par de semanas despus es el pas entero en la calle sacando pal carajo a un gobernante. Officers move in. Pepper spray has been deployed and protesters threw bottles and other projectiles at officers. https://t.co/4bB2h1UiSo Officers move in. Pepper spray has been deployed and protesters threw bottles and other projectiles at officers. https://t.co/4bB2h1UiSo"
X Link 2024-04-30T01:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"All of this has happened before and it will all happen again. By the way while this may have nominally been done by the Puerto Rico police in [----] Puerto Rico was still ruled by a U.S. appointed governor. (As opposed to now when its ruled by a U.S.-appointed Junta.)"
X Link 2024-05-01T05:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Its never a coincidence seeing the Puerto Rican flag next to the Palestinian flag. (Photo from @ColumbiaSpec: https://www.columbiaspectator.com/city-news/2024/05/02/cuny-and-columbia-organizers-hold-press-conference-and-rally-after-tuesday-police-sweeps/ https://www.columbiaspectator.com/city-news/2024/05/02/cuny-and-columbia-organizers-hold-press-conference-and-rally-after-tuesday-police-sweeps/"
X Link 2024-05-03T03:03Z [----] followers, 126.7K engagements
"The U.S. has said "no" to Puerto Rican statehood for [---] years. If you want to read when how and why you'll have to subscribe to @curaffairs and read my latest: "A Short Play on the Long History of the United States Rejecting Puerto Rico Statehood." https://support.currentaffairs.org/membership https://support.currentaffairs.org/membership"
X Link 2024-05-03T22:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Breaking News: Hombre descubre que desafiar a instituciones con poder tendra consecuencias econmicas"
X Link 2024-05-07T20:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The United States used to at least pretend to care about economic development in its Puerto Rican colonyeven if it was always a cover for subsidizing American corporations. But for decades now they havent even bothered to pretend"
X Link 2024-05-09T17:48Z [----] followers, 18.4K engagements
"Just had a great conversation about Puerto Rico with @RakeemShabazz for his the Wise the Dome podcast. Love to feel the solidarity Look for the episode next week. https://youtube.com/@wisethedometvsi=8vl5hsxePL-QvS4P https://youtube.com/@wisethedometvsi=8vl5hsxePL-QvS4P"
X Link 2024-05-10T01:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"While the U.S. Secretary of Energy does photo ops in Puerto Rico and promises chump change for solar panels heres whats really happening in Puerto Ricos energy sector. 1/3 On its latest earnings call New Fortress Energy puts forth long-term vision for #PuertoRico's electrical generation that is at odds w/ push for full renewables. Moreover an interesting disclosure that NFE was in PR just [--] days after #HurricaneMaria. https://t.co/ptiE9IMDpp 1/3 On its latest earnings call New Fortress Energy puts forth long-term vision for #PuertoRico's electrical generation that is at odds w/ push for full"
X Link 2024-05-10T18:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Por mi que los Carlos Mercader de la vida sigan perdiendo el tiempo tratando de imitar a Fox News y de importar a Puerto Rico discursos derechoides que aqu en mi opinin no funcionan. Que se disfrute los [--] tristes likes que tiene este tuit mientras los dems avanzamos"
X Link 2024-05-10T19:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Si estn en St. Louis y/o conocen a boricuas u otros compaeros en esa rea que podran estar interesados en acompaarnos por favor compartan Two fantastic events coming up this Wednesday May [--] in St. Louis - 5:30pm at @SLU_Official: a panel on the anticolonial struggles of Puerto Rico and Palestine. - 8:00pm at Salsa Rosada: a social event and fundraiser to support decolonization RSVP: https://t.co/e8wbBbczSg https://t.co/ZZkQVIUxa9 Two fantastic events coming up this Wednesday May [--] in St. Louis - 5:30pm at @SLU_Official: a panel on the anticolonial struggles of Puerto Rico and Palestine. -"
X Link 2024-05-13T23:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Facebook Memories me recuerda esta publicacin. Julio Medina es mi to-tatarabuelo. Como pueden ver alzar la voz y utilizar la pluma para luchar por la independencia se lleva en la sangre. Qu privilegio que me toc vivir en una poca en la que no voy a ir preso por hacerlo"
X Link 2024-05-14T17:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"El problema con la columna de Ana Teresa Toro es que da la impresin que como puertorriqueos colonizados no tenemos ms remedio que afirmar nuestra identidad y nacionalidad a travs de un reality show. Pero pueta: s lo tenemos. Podemos y debemos apoyar la independencia"
X Link 2024-05-24T20:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@renatabb Pero lo que se deja fuera del retrato importa. Si yo escribiera [---] palabras sobre cmo reacciona al hambre un nio hambriento me merecera sendas crticas si no menciono ni de pasada que resolveramos bastante si caramba le diramos al nio de comer"
X Link 2024-05-24T21:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@renatabb Como poco y respetando la licencia potica pudo haber escrito que Puerto Rico no se ha liberado no que nunca se liber. Hay un mundo de diferencia ah"
X Link 2024-05-24T21:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@renatabb Y por eso no la critico a ella (que me consta es independentista) como escritora ni al resto de su obra. Critico esta columna especficamente. Porque mientras Puerto Rico siga siendo colonia necesitamos 1568"
X Link 2024-05-24T21:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Its important to advocate for Puerto Rico in Congress. Ive done it and Ill continue to do it because as long as PR remains a U.S. colony the U.S. has certain political responsibilitieseven if it routinely abdicates them. 1/2 Not surprising in the least. At the end of the day the U.S. government will never prioritize or even think its a big deal if rich Americans are exploiting Puerto Rico. As a colony Puerto Rico exists in order to be exploited https://t.co/kJEHiC9AG0 Not surprising in the least. At the end of the day the U.S. government will never prioritize or even think its a big deal if"
X Link 2024-05-29T01:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"But lets be real: the U.S. hasnt cared about Puerto Rico for [---] years and theyre not about to start now. Thats why Puerto Rico advocates lose 99% of the battles we fight. And its why he only truly useful and meaningful thing we can demand of Congress is our independence"
X Link 2024-05-29T01:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Hace meses envi una columna a @ElNuevoDia que nunca publicaron vaticinando la victoria de JGo. Para el elector estadista/colonizado la comisara residente y su aparente (aunque ilusoria) cercana al poder son sumamente atractivos en el mbito electoral"
X Link 2024-06-03T02:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Three notable things about @RepRoKhanna's speech: [--]. Congressman Khanna is not Puerto Rican. Good It shouldn't just be the Puerto Rican members of Congress discussing PR's status. This issue should concern all and will require broad coalitions in and beyond D.C. 1/3 The U.S. has kept Puerto Rico as a territory for more than [---] years. Over [--] million people have been denied full political rights. Colonialism was wrong in India during my grandfathers lifetime. And it is wrong in Puerto Rico in [----]. https://t.co/pfhjA4RivS The U.S. has kept Puerto Rico as a territory for more than [---] years."
X Link 2024-06-05T23:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"2. Rep. Khanna rightfully connects Puerto Rico's decolonial struggle to his family's legacy of fighting for India's decolonization. Of course India's and so many other nations' political subordination ended with independence. So should Puerto Rico's 2/3"
X Link 2024-06-05T23:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"3. Also good: no platitudes about how it's all up to Puerto Ricans and how we must achieve consensus first. Congress has the power and the moral and political duty to decolonize. It's time to work with Rep. Khanna and other allies in Congress to make good on that commitment"
X Link 2024-06-05T23:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Relevant to Puerto Rico: "Congress decides the principles of American colonialism not the Court." This is why efforts to overturn the Insular Cases are ultimately insufficient. Importantly and of course carefully as C.J. Roberts always is the Court drew "self-determination" from Congress. Congress decides the principles for American colonialism not the Court. The Court looked to Congress's findings and applied them faithfully. https://t.co/mWbukPA0jv Importantly and of course carefully as C.J. Roberts always is the Court drew "self-determination" from Congress. Congress decides the principles"
X Link 2024-06-06T15:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Yo creo que vendra bien un plebiscito. Las opciones soberanas obtendran un resultado histrico sobre todo el mismo da que se votar por Dalmau/Alianza. Y cuando el Congreso ignore otra victoria estadista ms evidencia de que es #5ueo1mposible"
X Link 2024-06-10T18:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Si esto sigue as y @juandalmauPR presenta un plan factible y creble para eliminar a LUMA y mejorar el servicio de energa elctrica puede convertir ese asunto en el issue central de su campaa y ganar la eleccin"
X Link 2024-06-13T03:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Given Ritchie's political views we can only assume that he would support the U.S. establishing a full Israeli-style occupation of Puerto Rico. Then again who needs soldiers and checkpoints when men in suits appointed by Congress can do the work of colonialism just as well This is outrageous: over [------] Puerto Ricans are without electricity RIGHT NOW. The state of the electrical grid is unacceptable. We demand explanations. The federal government must treat this as an emergency and do everything at its disposal for the people of Puerto Rico. This is outrageous: over [------] Puerto Ricans are"
X Link 2024-06-13T17:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"La estadidad para Puerto Rico no est ms cerca que nunca. Est ms lejos. Antes los Republicanos fingan apoyo para la estadidado al menos para the will of the people. Pero ahora es de rigeur oponerse pblicamente para ser considerado un buen conservador. Estocada mortal"
X Link 2024-06-14T15:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Publicar un vdeo en este momento que incluye este "logro" es la Rossellada ms Rossellista que alguien podra Rossellar. Reforming and running out of time are deeply intertwined themes. This video created by @beatrizrossello was made after a whirlwind of reforms. Little did I know time was ticking. I tackle this and other topics in my book. Pre-Orders are available now: https://t.co/vhSzvIwymQ https://t.co/ImfYne1ZYM Reforming and running out of time are deeply intertwined themes. This video created by @beatrizrossello was made after a whirlwind of reforms. Little did I know time was ticking. I"
X Link 2024-06-14T19:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The U.S. media is terrible at writing headlines about Puerto Rico. Im pretty sure Puerto Ricans grasp the impact of constant blackouts just fine. You can find them all over social media crying with rage at how it may cost them their livelihoodsor their lives"
X Link 2024-06-15T20:14Z [----] followers, 16.2K engagements
"@RakeemShabazz So many of the greats played in Puerto Rico. https://negroleaguerspuertorico.com https://negroleaguerspuertorico.com"
X Link 2024-06-22T02:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Mejor todava sobre todo para el elector joven una versin digital que puedan consultar en el telfono al votar. Pero que la tengan en un mensaje de texto o WhatsApp no que tengan que meterse en la pgina web de MVC a buscarla"
X Link 2024-06-22T17:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Yo estoy convencido que si Rubn Berros hubiera tenido Twitter y el PIP de los aos [--] (o de cualquier dcada) podcasts YouTube y mil otras maneras de hacer llegar su mensaje sin depender de los medios tradicionales y de campaas carsimas hubiesen ganado hace tiempo"
X Link 2024-06-22T19:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Pro-Palestinian activists in the U.S. are now experiencing a fraction of what pro-independence activists endured in Puerto Ricoover many more decades and with far more severe and deadly consequences. So can we say that Puerto Ricans have exercised true self-determination New: Gov. Josh Shapiro is backing a bipartisan bill to block state appropriations to any college or university that divests from Israel after a wave of protests on college campuses calling for such action in response to the War in Gaza. Via @KateHuangpu13 https://t.co/UcLtme8rUa New: Gov. Josh Shapiro is backing a bipartisan"
X Link 2024-06-22T19:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"This past week @BUDPR was at the @UN denouncing colonialism and advocating for Puerto Rico's independence. At the link some reflections on why we did/do it even in the face of the UN's inaction and ineffectiveness when it comes to PR Palestine etc. https://albertomedina.medium.com/puerto-rico-at-the-united-nations-3cf0f81ea2c6 https://albertomedina.medium.com/puerto-rico-at-the-united-nations-3cf0f81ea2c6"
X Link 2024-06-22T21:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The colonial project still depends on seeing Puerto Ricans as unfit for self-rule. That's one reason why while it's usually almost impossible to get American media to report on PR anything having to do with corruption gets published and republished by hundreds of outlets"
X Link 2024-06-25T17:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"And it works Spend some time in the comments of an article/social media post about Puerto Rico's status and read the deluge of Americans who immediately bring up corruption. It's the only thing many of them know about PR because it's the only thing their media has told them"
X Link 2024-06-25T17:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@vman29397 @PRexitBook They are worse than Puerto Ricos. Trump might get reelected every member of Congress engages in insider trading theres a revolving door between lobbying and government and a Senator got caught with gold bars from foreign agents in his house. And hes still in the Senate"
X Link 2024-06-27T02:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Look if the Van Joness of the world are saying Biden is done hes D-U-N done"
X Link 2024-06-28T02:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@MinistroCiencia Aprovech tu tuit para decir algo que no necesariamente estaba dirigido a tia menos que te des por aludido. Pero lo s y no me importa. Bienvenido eres en el independentismo y cuando seamos libres espero que mi izquierda le gane a tu derecha"
X Link 2024-06-28T04:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Estados Unidos est al igual que Puerto Rico atrapado en un bipartidismo inepto y corrupto. Pero ellos estn atrs porque en PR ya comenzamos a construir y apoyar otras alternativas electorales. En EE.UU. todava no. En eso y mucho ms ya superamos polticamente al imperio"
X Link 2024-06-28T15:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Part of the case for Puerto Rican independence is that it's the only option that ensures our people won't be ruled by Trump Biden or any of the corrupt political establishments that led them to power. Read the rest of the case in @curaffairs : https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2024/04/the-case-for-puerto-rican-independence https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2024/04/the-case-for-puerto-rican-independence"
X Link 2024-06-28T18:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@SHS_2015_1997 @PillagePro @erikmbaker Its a Star Wars reference"
X Link 2024-06-28T22:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Evergreen question"
X Link 2024-06-28T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Being Puerto Rican is like a superpower for understanding American politics. Oh are you now discovering that a large swath of the Democratic Party is (almost) as morally and intellectually bankrupt as the Republic Party Puerto Ricans have known that all along"
X Link 2024-06-30T21:12Z [----] followers, 15.8K engagements
"When SCOTUS confirmed eight years ago that Puerto Rico is a colony it de facto held that the President is an emperorbecause only empires have colonies. So what we should really step back to consider is why nobody cared then but is freaking out now. I just want to take a step back and say that I think the Supreme Court just fundamentally altered the structure and nature of democracy in America. It awards the president the measure of power and immunity that is much much closer to a king or emperor than an elected official. I just want to take a step back and say that I think the Supreme Court"
X Link 2024-07-01T16:58Z [----] followers, 25.6K engagements
"Here we go again. As they do every time they despair for their precious democracy liberals will now start endlessly musing on social media about statehood for Puerto Rico. Thankfully they dont actually care about Puerto Ricans enough to actually push for it"
X Link 2024-07-02T01:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Hace cuatro aos escrib que el plebiscito de estatus de [----] a pesar de ser una artimaa electoral era una buena idea. Reitero el argumento con todava ms fuerza ahora que el independentismo est en su mejor momento"
X Link 2024-07-02T15:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"I am of course not celebrating July 4th. But I do celebrate independence as the just political future for any colonized nation. It's as right for Puerto Rico as it was for the United Stateswhere as James Madison once wrote it was also an unpopular idea until it wasn't.👇🏽"
X Link 2024-07-04T18:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Hey Joe Biden: do you wanna maybe do the right thing"
X Link 2024-07-06T05:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@yudel @curaffairs Setting aside that it would be borderline evil for Democrats to use Puerto Rico as a chess piece in their battle against the GOP theyve already proven theyre too feckless and uninterested in PR statehood. They wont even do DC and thats not a nation of [--] million Latinos"
X Link 2024-07-08T01:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@yudel @curaffairs Go ahead and fight for DC statehood. But as for Puerto Rico: no thanks Fix your own damn problems without subjecting the nation youve kept colonized for [---] years to the fascism youre trying (and failing) to defeat"
X Link 2024-07-08T01:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Arroyo. Barea. Alvarado. The marginal NBA point guard but Goliath-destroying superstar when hes playing with Puerto Rico pipeline continues. https://youtu.be/2IpJTCElD7ksi=C1DNpL9RVjBWqMBJ https://youtu.be/2IpJTCElD7ksi=C1DNpL9RVjBWqMBJ"
X Link 2024-07-08T02:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Cuando se present el Proyecto Young sobre el estatus de Puerto Rico en [----] el entonces Congresista Luis Gutirrez present una enmienda para que como estado Puerto Rico mantuviera su Comit Olmpico. As qued la votacin: [--] a favor y [---] en contra"
X Link 2024-07-08T21:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"La independencia de Puerto Rico es una oportunidad de desligarnos de un pas cada da ms sumido en la gerontocracia el fascismo el racismo la violencia poltica interna y externa. En fin: todo un sinnmero de males que cada da nos afectarn ms directamente"
X Link 2024-07-14T20:10Z [----] followers, 18.9K engagements
"I hope all these liberals who muse about fleeing the U.S. start explicitly supporting Puerto Ricos independence. After all if individual marginalized folks in America are in danger just imagine how vulnerable [--] million colonized subjects in Puerto Rico are. I think a lot of people should start making an exit plan to leave the US. We've reached a tipping point into instability as a country. Trump is likely to win and enact retribution against his enemies without any check on his power. It's going to get beyond ugly. I think a lot of people should start making an exit plan to leave the US."
X Link 2024-07-15T16:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@deviIette @midnucas Gross. Hope shes changed her mind. If she hasnt this is the most immoral kind of position from a progressive activist. Because it basically signals that shes willing to fight excruciatingly hard battles for justice in the U.S. but shrugs and surrenders to empire re: PR"
X Link 2024-07-15T18:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"It's morally bonkers to suggest that Puerto Rico join a country that you consider so dangerous to minorities and marginalized people that you're otherwise advising Americans to flee it. (Props to @deviIette for the find.) I think a lot of people should start making an exit plan to leave the US. We've reached a tipping point into instability as a country. Trump is likely to win and enact retribution against his enemies without any check on his power. It's going to get beyond ugly. I think a lot of people should start making an exit plan to leave the US. We've reached a tipping point into"
X Link 2024-07-15T19:09Z [----] followers, 15.3K engagements
"Mientras los Demcratas le prometen la estadidad a Washington D.C. a Puerto Rico solo le dicen que apoyan el proyecto de estatus natimuerto que saben nunca tendr los votos en el Senado. O sea para todos los efectos prcticos apoyan que siga la colonia"
X Link 2024-07-16T18:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@SkiesOfViolet03 @astrophobiac_ @yxximoon Show me the studies and/or the expert consensus that supports the claim an independent PR is not economically viable. Don't just say it's "obvious" or cite the current economic data which reflects what PR is as a colony not what it can be as a free nation. Prove your point"
X Link 2024-07-16T19:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@cxg133 @BUDPR @LatNewsletter Como discuto en el artculo: en gran medida porque estn convencidos que Puerto Rico enviara a Demcratas al Congreso. Pero tambin porque significara ms fondos federales y poder poltico para latinos"
X Link 2024-07-16T22:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Steady yourselves Puerto Rico twitter. The more Democrats flounder this summer and fall and especially if (when) they lose in November the more intense and frequent their ultimately feckless tweeting about how they need to make Puerto Rico a state will become"
X Link 2024-07-17T00:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@TorresGotay Eso lo entendemos t y yo y unos cuantos ms. Pero todava no suficiente gente. Hay que ver qu seguimos haciendo para que lo entiendan ms sobre todo los que no saben leer entre lneas"
X Link 2024-07-17T17:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
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