Alvaro M. Bedoya
@bedoyausa.bsky.social
For the little guy. Former FTC commissioner. Current Bad Bunny stan
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Alvaro M. Bedoya
@bedoyausa.bsky.social
· Oct 15
I used to focus on left versus right. Now I’m much more worried about the money at the top. But while it might seem strange to say it, I think this is a hopeful way of looking at the world that opens the door to coalitions that seemed impossible before. My first for the @newrepublic.com:
Minneapolis, not Fallujah
January 18, 2026 at 1:09 AM
Minneapolis, not Fallujah
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Coordinated a beer drop by a white friend to deliver a 30-rack of Hamm’s to a Hispanic friend’s doorstep because his wife wouldn’t let him leave the house to go buy more beer for fear he’d be brutalized by lawless armed masked federal paramilitaries. This is Minnesota community. We take care of us.
January 17, 2026 at 2:22 AM
Coordinated a beer drop by a white friend to deliver a 30-rack of Hamm’s to a Hispanic friend’s doorstep because his wife wouldn’t let him leave the house to go buy more beer for fear he’d be brutalized by lawless armed masked federal paramilitaries. This is Minnesota community. We take care of us.
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I think at the 16min mark and beyond is where everyone should pay close attention.
January 10, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I think at the 16min mark and beyond is where everyone should pay close attention.
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@bedoyausa.bsky.social doing his best to fight for people's rights and protections even after he was illegally ousted from the FTC by the Trump administration.
We talked:
- why people are signing up for ICE in droves
- how DHS's $75B *could* have been spent
- how the law treats billionaire lawbreakers (vs ICE protestors)
- driving in Chavez’s Venezuela
- the hell that'll follow if we send our young people to “run” that country
Feedback + follows welcome
- why people are signing up for ICE in droves
- how DHS's $75B *could* have been spent
- how the law treats billionaire lawbreakers (vs ICE protestors)
- driving in Chavez’s Venezuela
- the hell that'll follow if we send our young people to “run” that country
Feedback + follows welcome
January 11, 2026 at 2:31 PM
@bedoyausa.bsky.social doing his best to fight for people's rights and protections even after he was illegally ousted from the FTC by the Trump administration.
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Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.
From the minnesota community on Reddit: ST. PAUL, MN: A sobbing resident calls 911 as federal agents force their way into her home to chase down a DoorDash driver who was just trying to deliver food.
Explore this post and more from the minnesota community
www.reddit.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.
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excellent, recommended listening. The different interpretation method (as opposed to "Democrats" versus MAGA) is very useful.
We talked:
- why people are signing up for ICE in droves
- how DHS's $75B *could* have been spent
- how the law treats billionaire lawbreakers (vs ICE protestors)
- driving in Chavez’s Venezuela
- the hell that'll follow if we send our young people to “run” that country
Feedback + follows welcome
- why people are signing up for ICE in droves
- how DHS's $75B *could* have been spent
- how the law treats billionaire lawbreakers (vs ICE protestors)
- driving in Chavez’s Venezuela
- the hell that'll follow if we send our young people to “run” that country
Feedback + follows welcome
January 9, 2026 at 8:30 PM
excellent, recommended listening. The different interpretation method (as opposed to "Democrats" versus MAGA) is very useful.
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This highlights how commercial data brokers have used law enforcement as a way to be shielded from necessary regulation. @bedoyausa.bsky.social was working on these issues more than a decade ago. Congress has failed to do its job.
ICE has recently bought the capability of monitoring the location histories of entire neighborhoods worth of phones. The data is likely harvested from apps that sell your data, which filters up through data brokers and eventually to companies that sell to ICE:
www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...
www.404media.co
January 9, 2026 at 4:57 PM
This highlights how commercial data brokers have used law enforcement as a way to be shielded from necessary regulation. @bedoyausa.bsky.social was working on these issues more than a decade ago. Congress has failed to do its job.
We talked:
- why people are signing up for ICE in droves
- how DHS's $75B *could* have been spent
- how the law treats billionaire lawbreakers (vs ICE protestors)
- driving in Chavez’s Venezuela
- the hell that'll follow if we send our young people to “run” that country
Feedback + follows welcome
- why people are signing up for ICE in droves
- how DHS's $75B *could* have been spent
- how the law treats billionaire lawbreakers (vs ICE protestors)
- driving in Chavez’s Venezuela
- the hell that'll follow if we send our young people to “run” that country
Feedback + follows welcome
January 9, 2026 at 3:47 PM
We talked:
- why people are signing up for ICE in droves
- how DHS's $75B *could* have been spent
- how the law treats billionaire lawbreakers (vs ICE protestors)
- driving in Chavez’s Venezuela
- the hell that'll follow if we send our young people to “run” that country
Feedback + follows welcome
- why people are signing up for ICE in droves
- how DHS's $75B *could* have been spent
- how the law treats billionaire lawbreakers (vs ICE protestors)
- driving in Chavez’s Venezuela
- the hell that'll follow if we send our young people to “run” that country
Feedback + follows welcome
moving to Venezuela now
Will be going live at 845am ET with Max Miller to talk about who is profiting from what’s happening in Minneapolis and Venezuela. Extra bonus, you’ll hear about what it was like to be in Chavez’s Venezuela from someone who had the misfortune to have to go there in 2008
January 9, 2026 at 2:21 PM
moving to Venezuela now
Will be going live at 845am ET with Max Miller to talk about who is profiting from what’s happening in Minneapolis and Venezuela. Extra bonus, you’ll hear about what it was like to be in Chavez’s Venezuela from someone who had the misfortune to have to go there in 2008
January 9, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Will be going live at 845am ET with Max Miller to talk about who is profiting from what’s happening in Minneapolis and Venezuela. Extra bonus, you’ll hear about what it was like to be in Chavez’s Venezuela from someone who had the misfortune to have to go there in 2008
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three bylines, six months late, almost zero new information we hadn't reported months ago. lowercased our name and mentioned deep in the story. no link to us. said they couldnt find the govt privacy document (we did). good job wall street journal
One of the WSJ's A1 stories today was reported *6 months ago* by @404media.co, a team of just four journalists.
January 5, 2026 at 10:10 PM
three bylines, six months late, almost zero new information we hadn't reported months ago. lowercased our name and mentioned deep in the story. no link to us. said they couldnt find the govt privacy document (we did). good job wall street journal
Beatings every 30 minutes. Beating genitals. Forcing men to drink filthy bath and toilet water. This is the report that Paramount/Skydance pulled down as part of its campaign to curry favor with the President for its bid to buy Warner Brothers. I'll discuss on @theweeknightmsnbc.bsky.social tonight.
December 30, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Beatings every 30 minutes. Beating genitals. Forcing men to drink filthy bath and toilet water. This is the report that Paramount/Skydance pulled down as part of its campaign to curry favor with the President for its bid to buy Warner Brothers. I'll discuss on @theweeknightmsnbc.bsky.social tonight.
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 5/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 5/5
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 4/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:29 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 4/5
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 3/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:29 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 3/5
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 2/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 2/5
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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even among really smart folks, i think ppl have greatly underestimated just how much resources the ultra-wealthy have put into culture war bullshit to get us to fight each other instead of them
December 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
even among really smart folks, i think ppl have greatly underestimated just how much resources the ultra-wealthy have put into culture war bullshit to get us to fight each other instead of them
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You work at a call center. You just finished call #17. It was rough. The AI silently analyzing your voice detects frustration. But it doesn’t give you a break. It keeps you at your desk and makes you watch this video. “Breathe in. Imagine you’re swimming beside a sea turtle.”
December 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
You work at a call center. You just finished call #17. It was rough. The AI silently analyzing your voice detects frustration. But it doesn’t give you a break. It keeps you at your desk and makes you watch this video. “Breathe in. Imagine you’re swimming beside a sea turtle.”
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December 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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I still can't believe they're trying to make a war happen out of thin air. Not just their abrogation of Congress's role in formally declaring a war -- that's been a slippery slope for decades -- but their total unwillingness even to go through the motions of drumming up public support.
December 17, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I still can't believe they're trying to make a war happen out of thin air. Not just their abrogation of Congress's role in formally declaring a war -- that's been a slippery slope for decades -- but their total unwillingness even to go through the motions of drumming up public support.
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December 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Call #18: "Hello, I'm swimming next to a sea turtle, how can I help you?"
December 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Call #18: "Hello, I'm swimming next to a sea turtle, how can I help you?"
I have been reliably informed that recording a voice note is "creepy." So. If you have a question about surveillance at work, you can now
(1) send us an email
(2) record it directly at TheFairFightPod dot com OR
(3) send us a creepy voice note
(1) send us an email
(2) record it directly at TheFairFightPod dot com OR
(3) send us a creepy voice note
December 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I have been reliably informed that recording a voice note is "creepy." So. If you have a question about surveillance at work, you can now
(1) send us an email
(2) record it directly at TheFairFightPod dot com OR
(3) send us a creepy voice note
(1) send us an email
(2) record it directly at TheFairFightPod dot com OR
(3) send us a creepy voice note
You work at a call center. You just finished call #17. It was rough. The AI silently analyzing your voice detects frustration. But it doesn’t give you a break. It keeps you at your desk and makes you watch this video. “Breathe in. Imagine you’re swimming beside a sea turtle.”
December 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
You work at a call center. You just finished call #17. It was rough. The AI silently analyzing your voice detects frustration. But it doesn’t give you a break. It keeps you at your desk and makes you watch this video. “Breathe in. Imagine you’re swimming beside a sea turtle.”