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Puertorriqueña. @MSUjschool alumni and Associate Professor in journalism and media production. I love news.

Puerto Rico
Joined April 2011
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We still don’t know for sure whether Democrat Scott Colom is going to become the next U.S. senator from Mississippi, but for now he’s holding on to a lead of more than 2,500 votes. The prediction markets are entirely certain Colom has won, but his victory has not been called by the Associated Press or any major media outlets. Whatever happens, there will be hard questions about why national Democrats did not see this result coming and didn’t do more than the very little they did to help Colom upset the evidently weak Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith, writes political columnist Ed Kilgore. Yes, several leading Black politicians, plus Rhode Island senator Sheldon Whitehouse, offered Colom some hands-on assistance. And, yes, during the final two weeks of the campaign, the national Senate Democratic PAC bought some ads and threw some money Colom’s way. But compared to what the party was committing to other Senate races, it was sofa-cushion money. Early on, Democrats targeted national spending on races their candidates eventually won easily, and later, they focused on late-breaking opportunities like Kansas and South Carolina while spending to shore up Democratic-leaning races in Maine and Michigan. They spent heavily on Ohio and Texas nonstop. A little more in Mississippi might have eliminated any doubt about one of the most remarkable political upsets in living memory. So what was the problem? Read Kilgore’s full column: nymag.visitlink.me/JNfVda
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Pablo José mandó a ver mi página. Abrí otra pestaña. 👀 La FEC registra 80 donativos a su campaña ($37,031) de personas que reportan a McConnell Valdés como patrono. La firma cabildea para el proponente de Esencia. El tesorero de campaña es abogado allí. detrasdeesencia.com
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80 donativos. $37,031 a la campaña de Pablo José. Los donantes reportaron como patrono a McConnell Valdés, firma cabildera del proponente de Esencia. Entre ellos, Melba Acosta (Hacienda, García Padilla) y Roberto Prats.
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¿Así o más colonia? Estados Unidos ha recibido y desembolsado $12,000 millones en petróleo venezolano desde enero. El dinero va a una cuenta controlada por Washington. Venezuela pide fondos de esa cuenta y Estados Unidos decide si se lo da y cuánto nytimes.com/2026/11/10/world…
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The FDA announced Monday that it is requiring new warnings on popular diabetes and weight loss drugs, including Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and Zepbound, over a potential increased risk for a rare eye condition that can cause permanent vision loss. abcnews.link/xQVXW7B
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Percentage of Republican voters who voted for Democratic candidates (Party ID) US Senate 🟦Kansas: Adam Hamilton 12% 🟦South Carolina: Annie Andrews 11% 🟦Texas: James Talarico 11% 🟦North Carolina: Roy Cooper 10% 🟦Louisiana: Jamie Davis 9% 🟦Georgia: Jon Ossoff 8% 🟦Florida: Angie Nixon 7% 🟦Iowa: Josh Turek 7% 🟦Maine: Troy Jackson 7% 🟦Mississippi: Scott Colom 6% 🟦Alaska: Mary Peltola 5% 🟦Michigan: Abdul El-Sayed 5% 🟦Minnesota: Peggy Flanagan 4% Source: CNN exit poll
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Reconociendo la supremacía y el campo ocupado de la Ley de Quiebras, creo que la Asamblea Legislativa de Puerto Rico debe evaluar con premura cómo robustecer nuestro marco jurídico ante estos cierres operacionales masivos. Empleados sin las debidas notificaciones de cierre, nóminas pendientes, deudas millonarias por concepto de IVU, suplidores afectados en plena época navideña, entre muchas otras historias penosas.
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The Senate races in Alaska and Mississippi, which are yet to be called, will determine the strength of the Democratic majority. Both contests have narrow margins with votes still outstanding, even as the scale of Democrats’ victory across the country comes into focus. The Mississippi Senate race is very close and several thousand provisional ballots are still being counted. In Alaska, no candidate has yet secured the 50% of the votes required in the state's ranked choice system.
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PRESS POOL UPDATE: CNN was scheduled for TV pool duty today, but the White House left CNN off the schedule last night. This is another escalation in Trump's disruption to the decades-long pool arrangement. Here’s the context: In the wake of the court order halting Trump’s ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico from White House grounds, the administration tried a new approach, preventing CNN from fulfilling its travel pool responsibilities by barring the network’s reporters from Air Force One. This led the news outlets to seek further relief from the court last week. Yesterday the news outlets followed up and filed for a preliminary injunction, as MS NOW’s @falgallagher reported (link below). A hearing has been scheduled for December 2. Today, Trump is not scheduled to travel anywhere, so there is no travel pool. The White House left CNN off the in-town pool rotation. At the moment, Trump isn’t scheduled to hold any open press events. But if he does, there won’t be pooled TV coverage. >> Today’s print pooler, @svdate of HuffPost, wrote to colleagues just now, “Be advised that there is no TV pool today because it is CNN’s turn and the president is mad at them.” ms.now/news/trump-media-ban-…
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Some election night live-streamers reached big audiences, but broadcast and cable TV accumulated much bigger audiences overall. Most live-streamers are narrow while TV networks are still broad
Individual live streamers and new media are drawing massive viewership for the midterm results. A snapshot of viewership for the top 24 (combined across platforms like YouTube, Twitch, Rumble, Kick, etc.)
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Updated #'s for prime time election coverage on the six biggest networks: NBC: 6.80 million ABC: 5.12 million MS NOW: 4.19 million CNN: 4.18 million Fox News: 4.08 million CBS: 2.73 million All the networks were up versus 2022 midterm night except for Fox News. More #'s in 🧵:
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The Hispanic vote is vastly divided by national origin. Just look at Florida’s 50%+ Hispanic precincts by largest origin: Cuban: 🔴 Moody +7.5 South American: 🔵 Nixon +11.9 Mixed or other Hispanic: 🔵 Nixon +23.0 Puerto Rican: 🔵 Nixon +33.1
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'In 1860, an enslaved man named Sheppard Peek was listed among the possessions of William Peek. His value was placed at $1400. More than a century and a half later, Sheppard’s great-great-granddaughter, Keisha Lance Bottoms, was elected governor of GA' ajc.com/politics/2026/11/kei…
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Elecciones de medio periodo en EEUU 🇺🇸 Buenos días. La ola azul fue mucho mayor a lo que las encuestas anticipaban. Más que una ola azul fue un “tsunami azul”. Nadie anticipó la contundencia de este triunfo demócrata. Las noticias que llegan de Estados Unidos ofrecen un motivo de alivio democrático: los electores han impuesto una contundente derrota al oficialismo y un límite político a Donald Trump. La recuperación demócrata de ambas cámaras del Congreso expresa un rechazo a su gestión y abre la posibilidad de restablecer una fiscalización efectiva del Ejecutivo. Sería un error, sin embargo, confundir este revés con la neutralización de su presidencia. Trump conservará amplias atribuciones ejecutivas, el poder de veto y capacidad para condicionar la agenda nacional e internacional. Cabe esperar que recurra a esas facultades para compensar su debilitamiento legislativo. Las órdenes ejecutivas, aunque sujetas a límites legales y revisión judicial, seguirán siendo un instrumento central de su gobierno. El valor democrático del resultado reside en que, a partir de enero, el presidente deberá enfrentar un Congreso con incentivos para investigar a su administración, exigir explicaciones y disputar sus prioridades presupuestarias. Sin embargo, el gobierno dividido no garantiza moderación ni buenos acuerdos: puede producir bloqueo y agravar la confrontación. Pero devuelve fuerza a un principio esencial del sistema constitucional estadounidense: el presidente debe rendir cuentas ante un poder independiente que es el Congreso. Los dos últimos años de la segunda presidencia de Trump serán, previsiblemente, más difíciles y conflictivos. La responsabilidad de la nueva mayoría será convertir el castigo electoral en controles eficaces, investigaciones rigurosas y una alternativa creíble. La democracia estadounidense ha demostrado capacidad para corregir el rumbo. Ahora sus instituciones deberán demostrar que pueden traducir ese mandato en límites efectivos al poder. Resumiendo: Aunque su nombre no figuraba en la papeleta, Donald Trump pidió a los electores que votaran como si así fuera. Convirtió de ese modo las elecciones legislativas en un referéndum sobre su gestión errática, corrupta e incompetente. El resultado lo obliga a asumir la responsabilidad política de una contienda que él mismo decidió personalizar: el principal derrotado de estas elecciones legislativas de medio periodo tiene nombre y apellido: Donald Trump.
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"Let's do it. Let's try to call the president." @DashaBurns did that earlier in the evening, and Trump picked up:
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El demócrata Eliott Rodríguez supera, con el 69% de los votos contados, a la congresista republicana María Elvira Salazar, por 3.5%, en el distrito 27 de Miami.
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AP exec editor @juliepace's great advice for tonight: “Be patient and prioritize facts over speculation. Votes can take time to count, and the absence of an immediate answer doesn’t mean something is wrong. At AP, we’ve been counting votes and reporting election results for more than 175 years. A big lesson from all that experience is that getting it right matters more than getting it first.” cnn.com/newsletters/reliable…
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EXCLUSIVO: NOLA, la empresa a la que Suzanne Roig le adjudicó un contrato de $38millones, le declaró hoy al Senado tras una petición de información, que su contacto inicial con Puerto Rico fue con la Gobernadora en una reunión del Partido Republicano.
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[AHORA] Culpable Jonathan Rosario Ortiz, alias ‘Gallo The Producer’ por agredir a su colega Edwin ‘Mondongo’ Marrero. En el juicio fue esencial el testimonio de Jorge Pabón ‘Molusco’, quien aseguró que la reyerta no fue planificada aunque sí hicieron dinero usando el contenido.
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