Richard Peña
@richardpena.bsky.social
Writing about election security, disinformation and extremism. Digital media survivor. Passionate about media literacy.
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This is just unconscionable man
February 13, 2026 at 1:43 AM
This is just unconscionable man
With everything going on around elections right now, wouldn’t it be a good thing for local election officials to come out and address some of what’s being said by the president and others?
February 10, 2026 at 2:36 AM
With everything going on around elections right now, wouldn’t it be a good thing for local election officials to come out and address some of what’s being said by the president and others?
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February 6, 2026 at 3:46 AM
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It was @asharangappa.bsky.social who first put this idea in my head, but really starting to feel like they're gonna try to get Maduro to cop to some insane 2020 election conspiracy in exchange for leniency
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Exclusive: US spy chief's office investigated voting machines in Puerto Rico
A team working for President Donald Trump's spy chief, Tulsi Gabbard, last spring led an investigation into Puerto Rico's voting machines, said Gabbard's office and three sources familiar with the pre...
www.reuters.com
February 5, 2026 at 12:05 AM
It was @asharangappa.bsky.social who first put this idea in my head, but really starting to feel like they're gonna try to get Maduro to cop to some insane 2020 election conspiracy in exchange for leniency
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
How is local news covering the epstein files?
February 4, 2026 at 6:05 AM
How is local news covering the epstein files?
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Holy fuck WHAT
February 1, 2026 at 6:53 AM
Holy fuck WHAT
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NEW: The @wired.com Security desk put together a comprehensive guide to filming ICE—with tips for reducing risk at the forefront. No paywall, but please consider subscribing to help find these kinds of resources. And stay safe out there. www.wired.com/story/how-to...
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How to Film ICE
Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact.
www.wired.com
January 31, 2026 at 10:55 AM
NEW: The @wired.com Security desk put together a comprehensive guide to filming ICE—with tips for reducing risk at the forefront. No paywall, but please consider subscribing to help find these kinds of resources. And stay safe out there. www.wired.com/story/how-to...
www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...
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In a few months, people from around the world (who look like people ICE is currently targeting) are going to be flying in and traveling between the U.S., Canada and Mexico and we’re just expecting everything to go smoothly?
I don’t know how this isn’t being talked about more.
I don’t know how this isn’t being talked about more.
January 31, 2026 at 3:25 AM
In a few months, people from around the world (who look like people ICE is currently targeting) are going to be flying in and traveling between the U.S., Canada and Mexico and we’re just expecting everything to go smoothly?
I don’t know how this isn’t being talked about more.
I don’t know how this isn’t being talked about more.
This is funny but there’s seriously no way Bovino will ever be able to make a routine trip to target or the post office again.
I can’t imagine he stays here. Same with other members of this administration.
I can’t imagine he stays here. Same with other members of this administration.
Bovino pricing flights to Buenos Aires.
January 27, 2026 at 1:17 AM
This is funny but there’s seriously no way Bovino will ever be able to make a routine trip to target or the post office again.
I can’t imagine he stays here. Same with other members of this administration.
I can’t imagine he stays here. Same with other members of this administration.
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Comer on Fox right now urging Trump to pull ICE out of Minneapolis to *punish* Minnesotans — will prove to the state how good it was to have ICE there! This is really some 5-D chess
January 25, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Comer on Fox right now urging Trump to pull ICE out of Minneapolis to *punish* Minnesotans — will prove to the state how good it was to have ICE there! This is really some 5-D chess
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Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.
January 24, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.
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Nothing will prevent it anyway.
January 16, 2026 at 12:59 AM
Nothing will prevent it anyway.
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It’s not just the ICE terror in Minnesota. This admin is continuing to tear up the borderlands, militarize communities, crush the endangered species, and wall people off from nature while pissing away billions of our tax dollars.
Now they're obliterating one of my favorite places in south Texas:
Now they're obliterating one of my favorite places in south Texas:
January 15, 2026 at 9:16 PM
It’s not just the ICE terror in Minnesota. This admin is continuing to tear up the borderlands, militarize communities, crush the endangered species, and wall people off from nature while pissing away billions of our tax dollars.
Now they're obliterating one of my favorite places in south Texas:
Now they're obliterating one of my favorite places in south Texas:
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I really hope they ban us from the Olympics, and I love the Olympics. America needs to be woken up by the global community.
January 3, 2026 at 6:33 PM
I really hope they ban us from the Olympics, and I love the Olympics. America needs to be woken up by the global community.
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If this year was about getting off US tech, 2026 is the year to reassess the digital revolution — what works, what doesn’t; what to keep, and what to reject.
I’ve only just started to consider what needs to change about how I use digital technology, but I’m excited to learn more next year.
I’ve only just started to consider what needs to change about how I use digital technology, but I’m excited to learn more next year.
We need to reassess our relationship to digital tech
Getting off US tech led me to a wider questioning of digital convenience
disconnect.blog
December 31, 2025 at 8:42 PM
If this year was about getting off US tech, 2026 is the year to reassess the digital revolution — what works, what doesn’t; what to keep, and what to reject.
I’ve only just started to consider what needs to change about how I use digital technology, but I’m excited to learn more next year.
I’ve only just started to consider what needs to change about how I use digital technology, but I’m excited to learn more next year.
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"any criticism of the election can lead to a minimum sentence of three years in prison, and even the death penalty"
Another reminder that elections are not the same thing as democracy
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Another reminder that elections are not the same thing as democracy
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
‘Not for the people’: Myanmar junta prepares for elections designed to legitimise grip on power
Elections will be first since military seized power in 2021, but analysts say vote is far from a step toward democracy
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 1:58 AM
"any criticism of the election can lead to a minimum sentence of three years in prison, and even the death penalty"
Another reminder that elections are not the same thing as democracy
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Another reminder that elections are not the same thing as democracy
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
December 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
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nature is healing: a restaurant near me that just opened a year ago but sucks and is offputting in every way is closing. and the narrative on instagram/reddit is "that place sucked," not "homelessness and crime and los angeles is impossible and and and and and"
December 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
nature is healing: a restaurant near me that just opened a year ago but sucks and is offputting in every way is closing. and the narrative on instagram/reddit is "that place sucked," not "homelessness and crime and los angeles is impossible and and and and and"
He’s Canadian?!
December 2, 2025 at 2:19 AM
He’s Canadian?!
Lots of talk about republicans turning on Trump and how that benefits democrats.
And yeah maybe a little but not as much as some think.
For one, A LOT of republicans are single-issue voters. Abortion being the biggest. And that’s just a hard no for them. No reasoning with them there.
And yeah maybe a little but not as much as some think.
For one, A LOT of republicans are single-issue voters. Abortion being the biggest. And that’s just a hard no for them. No reasoning with them there.
November 14, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Lots of talk about republicans turning on Trump and how that benefits democrats.
And yeah maybe a little but not as much as some think.
For one, A LOT of republicans are single-issue voters. Abortion being the biggest. And that’s just a hard no for them. No reasoning with them there.
And yeah maybe a little but not as much as some think.
For one, A LOT of republicans are single-issue voters. Abortion being the biggest. And that’s just a hard no for them. No reasoning with them there.
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Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.
Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury
Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.
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October 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.
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when Sora was released, the entire app was people making Spongebob and Pikachu videos
Now there are guardrails preventing that, so the entire app is people complaining they cant make Spongebob and Pikachu videos
seems like an app with real staying power
www.404media.co/sora-2-conte...
Now there are guardrails preventing that, so the entire app is people complaining they cant make Spongebob and Pikachu videos
seems like an app with real staying power
www.404media.co/sora-2-conte...
People Are Crashing Out Over Sora 2’s New Guardrails
OpenAI’s Sora 2 platform started just one week ago as an AI-generated copyright infringement free-for-all. Now, people say they’re struggling to generate anything without being hit with a violation er...
www.404media.co
October 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
when Sora was released, the entire app was people making Spongebob and Pikachu videos
Now there are guardrails preventing that, so the entire app is people complaining they cant make Spongebob and Pikachu videos
seems like an app with real staying power
www.404media.co/sora-2-conte...
Now there are guardrails preventing that, so the entire app is people complaining they cant make Spongebob and Pikachu videos
seems like an app with real staying power
www.404media.co/sora-2-conte...
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Someone looking at all this with a cold eye might say that Miller and Hegseth are seeking control over the power ministries before a Vance ally invokes the 25th Amendment.
October 6, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Someone looking at all this with a cold eye might say that Miller and Hegseth are seeking control over the power ministries before a Vance ally invokes the 25th Amendment.
Why aren’t democrats being as aggressive as AOC? Sure, they might not be as good in front of the camera as her, but there’s still a lot they can do.
WATCH — @aoc.bsky.social : “At some point we’ve gotta call these people’s B.S. for what it is. You can’t believe everything a con man is gonna tell you. We cannot live in perpetual fear of these clowns.” #TrumpShutdown
October 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Why aren’t democrats being as aggressive as AOC? Sure, they might not be as good in front of the camera as her, but there’s still a lot they can do.