Juan Miguel Castro

Mexican-American | UIC ‘22 | NLU ‘26

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest. Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract, or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people. This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel. To be clear, my views come from my own political convictions and should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people, for whom I have deep love and respect.  Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life.

This merger has real consequences for real people, and for the entire country. Scrutinizing the Ellisons, including Oracle’s business built on data, surveillance technology and government contracts, and the serious threat to editorial freedom and the loss of a livelihood for thousands of families, is fair and necessary. The $111 billion deal would hand one family control over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed in part by foreign money whose influence on editorial decisions has never been fully explained to the public. 

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for serious national security review, and regulators still haven’t given the public a real answer. Until they do, the merger shouldn’t move forward. Now is the time to dive boldly into all these issues, not step back or concede.

[Light Bowgun Brigadier @SourceDuMal]

Keep an eye on him. Police will intimidate and harass him for daring to speak

[nikki mccann ramírez @NikkiMcR]

Columbia had students who said this was true arrested, expelled, and stripped of their degrees. They were falsely accused of antisemitism by the international press and government for speaking out. What will the consequence be for the perpetrators admitting it? Probably nothing.

[I Smoked Lindsey Graham @BlackKnight10k]

Yall need to apologize to Hunter Biden

[𝕷𝖚𝖈𝖎𝖋𝖊𝖗 @LucifersTweetz]

It’s fucking perfect.

[ellie 💌 @stellarharus]

“they should teach media literacy in schools”

motherfucker thats called ENGLISH CLASS

[Doc Strangelove @DocStrangelove2]

It’s actually insane we have politicians committing a felony with irrefutable proof and they aren’t arrested. Any one of us would be in lockup right now.

[Ing Chacoito 🇷🇺🏆 @Chacoitismo]

Coco: 🎶 Recuérdame…

Coco 2:

[Yung Chente🌩️🇲🇽 @yungchente97]

Real Mexican patriots remember when you tried to trademark this holiday for yourselves

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

When India accidentally wiped out its vultures, half a million people died in five years.

The bird doing zoomies in this video runs the most extreme digestive system in the animal kingdom. Vulture stomach acid sits near pH 1, strong enough to destroy anthrax, rabies, and botulism in the carcasses they eat. A flock strips a cow to bone in about 45 minutes.

India had 50 million of them. Free sanitation at national scale, in a country where religious custom means most cattle die natural deaths and every dead cow becomes a carcass someone has to deal with.

Then the patent on diclofenac expired in 1994. Farmers started using the cheap painkiller on livestock. Trace amounts left in a carcass cause kidney failure in vultures. Within a decade, 50 million birds fell to a few thousand. The fastest collapse of any bird species since the passenger pigeon.

The carcasses didn't disappear. Feral dogs took the vultures' place and brought rabies with them. Rotting remains leached into waterways. In districts where vultures once thrived, human death rates rose more than 4 percent. Economists at Chicago and Warwick put the toll at 100,000 extra deaths a year and $69 billion in annual damages.

So yes, the goofy bird sprinting down the walkway is adorable. It's also a disease firewall that evolution spent millions of years building and one generic painkiller nearly erased in ten.

[Steve 🇺🇸 @SteveLovesAmmo]

Fun fact: The scrap value of gold and copper inside of a flock camera is worth more than a catalytic converter.

Carry on.

[✭ val ✭ mr nonchalant @westsidemanii]

so inde navarrette and ryan gosling can join the mcu upon request but mahershala had to wait 7 years just to get his film panned… okay disney

[Blackish Press @blackishpress]

Van Lathan, co-host of Higher Learning podcast, reacts to transphobic remarks by WNBA athlete Sophie Cunningham

"If you cannot gift trans people with visibility, humanity, and acceptance, could you at least gift them with silence? Could you at least shut the fu## up about it? Could you at least leave them the fu## alone?"

You guys are doing your victory lap on this shit, fucking up the country. You mean to tell me there are wars happening in the Middle East, food prices are crazy, like the environment is in the shitter, we can't eat lettuce without crap in our pants, all of this stuff, and you still picking on these people after all of this time?”

[JtheFrog @JtheFrog0]

Context: steam refunded a users BF6 game, after EA removed all the game modes he liked and were the reason he bought the game.

The "dangerous precedent" is holding companies accountable for fucking their fans without consent.

[Phoenix Insurgent @PhxInsurgent]

As I said...

[Marvel Argentina 🇦🇷 @_Margvel]

A Marvel no le dan los huevos para que Magneto sea palestino

[Christopher Skelly @Skelly4Liberty]

Opposing mass surveillance is patriotic btw.

[Christopher Skelly @Skelly4Liberty]

Flock is bad because:

It builds a searchable dragnet of Americans’ movements with persistent retention.

It operates without meaningful limits.

It allows searches without warrants or individualized suspicion in ordinary use.

It already has a clear track record of overreach and abuse.

[Jason Koebler @jason_koebler]

New: Police are being told to hide the fact that they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them in both encounters with citizens but ALSO in their official police reports:

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

Money out of politics.
Money in your pocket.
Medicare for All.

Michigan...

We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.