José Orozco

Chicago Chicano editing, reporting news for Bloomberg in Mexico City. Working class kid. Caracas before. He/him. RTs not endorsements because they don't pay.

[José Orozco @orozcomjo]

My story on Bogotá's La Rolita, an all-electric public bus fleet with a gender equity focus -- half the drivers are women -- created by the Colombian capital to refurbish the image of its public transit system.

https://t.co/JPAJGs9oHo

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: You could end up on a watchlist for fighting back in the class war.

The feds now consider opposition to data centers, inequality, and Big Tech as potential domestic terrorism.

We uncovered how the FBI is colluding with corporate America to surveil ordinary Americans.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

JD Vance: "I think Nixon's historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. I joked that if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story. The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy."

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

Shoutout to every “expert” who responded to my NSPM-7 coverage by insisting nothing would happen because there’s no domestic terrorism law

[Acyn @Acyn]

Earthquake Survivor in Venezuela: The scene was like a horror movie. We had to climb over the rubble and everything. The building superintendent with the baby and older neighbors coming down. But from that building, I only saw that one family got out.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

War is over, time to get back to the Epstein Files. New piece is quite something: https://t.co/Rlyzb10wBI

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

I read this 5 times to make sure I was properly comprehending that he is actually facing 30 years for having leftist reading materials. Beyond insane

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: New Mexico's governor calls for criminal probe after AP report that DEA let staggering number of fentanyl pills hit street. https://t.co/MzvtyCdUSj

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Just nonstop Islamophobia on this site today from people on the right who pretend to care about antisemitism.

The lesson of last night and today is not that there's lots of mainstreamed antisemitism on the left but that there's lots of mainstreamed Islamophobia on the right.

[ProPublica @propublica]

As a climate reporter, Alex Cuadros writes that he is always looking for ways to make the seemingly abstract problem of global warming feel more concrete.

He found a story in oil tycoon — and Trump donor — Jeffery Hildebrand.
https://t.co/GopSVAUxnx

[David Klion @DavidKlion]

Since 10/7, Israel’s defenders have tried deplatforming critics, arresting protesters, criminalizing boycotts, flooding primaries with dark money, blackmailing universities, literally buying CBS and turning it into a propaganda channel. It’s only made their position less popular.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨How Jeffrey Epstein’s Israeli Network Shaped Congo’s Deadly Mineral Trade

Leaked documents reveal how military contractors linked to Israeli intelligence secretly trained a special operations strike force in mineral-rich eastern Congo.

New from @MazMHussain and @ryangrim

https://t.co/e6ed6fannG

[José Orozco @orozcomjo]

Wow, tells you something that (some of) the Americans calling for more affordable ticket prices were overruled.

[Lindsay Owens @owenslindsay1]

Surprise, surprise. New reporting from @guardian confirms what fans have long suspected. Sky-high World Cup tickets were not inevitable. FIFA staff pushed for a more affordable ticketing strategy.

FIFA leadership instead made a deliberate business decision to maximize profits with dynamic pricing, even if it meant pricing diehard fans out of a once-in-a-generation experience.

The results have been what you might expect: the most expensive World Cup in history.
https://t.co/8xA2HZXwRY

[Harsha Walia (she/her) @HarshaWalia]

how zines were used as evidence to sentence Prairieland defendants to decades in prison at 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility

"They didn’t like my book club.” - Elizabeth Soto, mother of three and defendant.

https://t.co/mCJs0uZbkg

[The Baffler @thebafflermag]

Yesterday, eight people were sentenced to decades in prison for protesting outside an ICE facility in Prairieland, TX. In our latest issue, Lauren Fadiman covers the case and the right-wing “Antifa” panic surrounding it:
https://t.co/jOwwhb21ih

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Yeah, that’s illegal. The Post Office can’t refuse to deliver mail to try and get policy concessions.

[Celine Castronuovo @cecelou18]

SCOOP: White House adviser Stephen Miller was the driving force behind DOJ’s memo authorizing states to institutionalize people with disabilities rather than fund community-based care, said people briefed on the situation.

From @benjaminpenn and me: https://t.co/cH9OITQgLd

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Since taking office as Mayor of New York City, there's not one fucking thing Zohran Mamdani has done for New Yorkers that could be described as "radical."

Since taking office on January 1, 2026, as New York City’s first Muslim and South Asian mayor, Zohran Mamdani has prioritized an "affordability first" agenda focused on working-class New Yorkers. Balancing democratic socialist policy goals with pragmatic municipal service management (coining the phrase "pothole politics"), his administration has targeted child care, tenant relief, street infrastructure, and local political organizing.

👶 Expansion of Early Child Care

ㆍ Universal 2-K Funding: Partnered with Governor Kathy Hochul to secure $1.2 billion in state funding for fiscal year 2027.

ㆍ New Toddler Seats: Rolled out the first 2,000 full-day, full-year 2-K seats for toddlers in low-income neighborhoods like Canarsie, Brownsville, and Ozone Park.

ㆍ Provider Resources: Created an interactive child care provider tracking tool and launched a streamlined permitting portal to help local daycare centers expand operations.

🏠 Tenant Protections & Housing Policy

ㆍ Financial Restitution: Secured $34 million in repairs, settlements, and legal judgments on behalf of wronged tenants.

ㆍ Construction Task Forces: Signed executive orders creating the SPEED and LIFT Task Forces to aggressively clear red tape and encourage new housing construction on city-owned land.

ㆍ Landlord Crackdowns: Revitalized the Mayor's Office to Protect Tenants and appointed prominent tenant organizers to target predatory landlord loopholes.

🚗 Municipal Services ("Pothole Politics")

ㆍ Road Infrastructure: Reconditioned fractured city streets by successfully filling over 100,000 potholes following a harsh winter.

ㆍ Sewer Performance: Allocated $108 million citywide to upgrade sewer performance and combat neighborhood flooding.

ㆍ Trash Bins Expansion: Initiated a citywide timeline to fully transition New York away from black garbage bags and into secure, containerized covered trash bins by 2031.

💼 Worker Rights & Local Economy

ㆍ Wage Recovery: Clawed back $9.3 million in restitution for exploited workers and small businesses.

ㆍ Extreme Heat Mandate: Signed a recent executive order expanding legal protections and mandatory rest times for outdoor and industrial workers facing extreme temperatures.

ㆍ Deliverista Hubs: Opened the nation's first dedicated rest and charging hub for app-based delivery workers.

🚇 Public Transit & Other Stalled Initiatives

ㆍ Bus Lane Progress: Upgraded and widened bus and bike lanes on major corridors like Manhattan's Sixth Avenue to speed up commutes.

ㆍ Free Buses Delay: His flagship campaign promise of a completely fare-free citywide bus system has mostly stalled due to state budget friction, though pilot programs have begun on one line in each borough.

ㆍ City Grocery Stores: Announced plans to open the city's first municipally-owned, affordable grocery store in East Harlem.

🏛️ Political Shift & Regional Influence

ㆍ Primary Sweeps: Proved his immense political capital in the June 2026 Democratic primaries. Mamdani-backed progressive challengers dramatically ousted powerful establishment incumbents (including Dan Goldman and Adriano Espaillat), altering the landscape of New York's congressional delegation.

[Mother Jones @MotherJones]

Public records show FBI secretly extracted data from ICE protesters' phones https://t.co/AoK6hRDJZC

[Andrew Solender @AndrewSolender]

💥NEW: House Dems reeling from NY primary results

- One called it an "earthquake" & a "huge defeat" for leadership
- "It was a tough night," Rep. Meeks, Queens Dem Party chair, told @axios
- Senior House Dem, asked if members are worried: "Yes they are" https://t.co/iQq4lQOCYq

[Mother Jones @MotherJones]

Activists who didn’t plan the protest and left when asked still received 50-year terms. https://t.co/0Nq0xu8WzF