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🇨🇺🇺🇸 Strategic communications + media relations. Policy nerd + sci-fi geek. Signal: parrav.43 / [email protected]

Washington, DC
Joined December 2008
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Stephen Miller’s role in Trump’s immigration crackdown has drawn far more attention, but he has also been a key architect and driving force behind Trump’s increasingly aggressive use of military force in Latin America. Latin American officials are watching his elevation to chief of staff veeery closely
Stephen Miller pushed for Trump's lethal strikes on civilian boats, which many legal experts say are extrajudicial killings. Here's a gift link to our @nytimes investigation on how Miller and Rubio's actions led to the strikes and the attack on Venezuela: nytimes.com/2025/12/27/us/po…
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We already know the Michelin Guide charges Florida’s tourism agencies more than $3 million to include Florida restaurants in its guides. Now we know what it charges simply to put on the event to announce those new restaurants. I posted the contract: carlosfrias.com/blog/f/why-m…
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Something no one caught: @RobertGarcia described investigating DHS and ICE abuses as a 4th priority, then 3rd, then 2nd right after the election behind Trump fam corruption Its rising priority speaks to palpable anger in the Latino electorate, which swung hard against GOP Tues👇🏽
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Finally... someone who can articulate in a succinct, accessible way why foreign aid is good not just for the world but for America-- esp when it's done efficiently. America's interests are best served when upholding its values, which are universal, including basic humanity
My vision for diplomacy and USAID.
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Beautiful 1000/10 no notes
My vision for diplomacy and USAID.
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9:10 PM: Check Uber. Ride is $22. 9:12 PM: Text friends back. Re-open app. Ride is $38. 9:14 PM: Refresh map twice. Ride jumps to $54. Uber Screen: "Fares are higher due to increased demand." Rider: Opens iPhone Settings and turns off Precise Location for Uber. Drops the pickup pin two blocks off the main street and walks to that corner. Force closes Uber and opens Lyft for 2 minutes. 9:17 PM...
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Excellent point. Sadly, there are still too many states that need more investment in a dominant statewide local news source (ie FL, LA, KY etc). Lacking a drumbeat of accountability reporting and shared information sources, politics gets nationalized and polarization increases.
I'm a local reporter in Texas. If you’re trying to understand the paradigm shift here or the history unfolding in Mississippi, you need to be following these local news orgs. (1/5)
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Scene at the gravesite of Texas’ last Democratic and female governor, Ann Richards. #txlege Video courtesy of @gardnerselby.
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The number one issue that drove Latinos to vote Democratic this year — apparently a key reason that Texas went blue — was Trump’s mass deportation policies. Thus, it’s interesting to see the demand on the right for doubling down on this strategy.
Time to ramp up the deportations.
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It's important to remember that Stephen Miller's work is not merely about immigration, per se. It's about redefining who counts as American. This has implications well beyond immigration policy. nytimes.com/2026/02/06/magaz…
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How far did the blue wave go? A special education teacher named Elizabeth Holmes beat the Florida state rep who sponsored the bill to rename Palm Beach International Airport after Trump, in a Trump +10 seat in Palm Beach County
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Your new WH chief of staff
The first two screenshots are about a pivotal meeting in May 2025, when Stephen Miller called the heads of all 25 ICE field offices to DC and screamed at them to stop focusing on criminals and instead start raiding Home Depots and the like. Two weeks later, the LA raids began.
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NEW: Stephen Miller, now WH chief of staff, has repeatedly sought to wield the the federal govt against the Somali population in Minnesota in the name of fraud. Asking agency heads to pull funding to Minnesota. Installing a key ally at DOJ. And more tinyurl.com/36d49w2b
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As a teacher in both Florida and New York I have to agree with DeSantis here. We’re not getting 2x the services, we’re getting 10x up here. Florida public services suck lmao pay your taxes and fund schools
Gov. Ron DeSantis: "My budget's $117 billion. New York State's budget's $268 billion. That's more than twice the budget. Obviously, they have heavy taxes. The question is, are you getting twice the services living in New York?"
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Marco Rubio should feel real shame as a son of Miami, Belen and their Jesuit teachings, and his family to be associated with any of this. No le da pena?
Stephen Miller smiling as he boards Air Force One.
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And Stephen Miller, the new WH chief of staff, is urgently trying to deport them.
The fate of these Afghans — including a gay man married to a U.S. citizen who's lived here since he was a child in the early 1980s — is still up in the air. This was only a temporary reprieve, but ICE is still saying it wants to deport these people to Afghanistan via Pakistan.
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They’re going to double down on deportations.
Replying to @Carrasquillo
“I guess time will tell if Stephen Miller continues to wreck the economy, wreck families and Republican political coalition and destroy president Trump’s legacy”
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Introducing my gringo Seattle boyfriend to my family at a large and very Cuban family Thanksgiving please where should we eat in Miami? Thanks to @Carlos_Frias the GOAT I have a good starter list. (Bonus for good spots with music.)
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Carlos is making me go to Versailles pero no me gusta
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