Siva
@sivav.bsky.social
Writer. Professor. Golden retriever papa. Bylines in Guardian, Slate, TNR, many other places. Supervises VQR. Wrote a pile of books you might like.
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"Hernández boasted that he would 'stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses' while trafficking more than 500 tons of cocaine into the US.
"Trump freed him, saying, 'If somebody sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president and put him in jail'..."
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"Trump freed him, saying, 'If somebody sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president and put him in jail'..."
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After Venezuela operation, Trump haunted by his pardon for Honduran drug trafficker
Two Latin American strongmen were charged with drug trafficking. One was captured as part of a military raid, the other is free thanks to a Trump pardon.
www.ms.now
January 5, 2026 at 7:33 PM
"Hernández boasted that he would 'stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses' while trafficking more than 500 tons of cocaine into the US.
"Trump freed him, saying, 'If somebody sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president and put him in jail'..."
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
"Trump freed him, saying, 'If somebody sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president and put him in jail'..."
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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"The Monroe Doctrine was a policy born of US weakness and discarded as soon as the US became a world power" should be something that all journalists know
January 5, 2026 at 9:06 PM
"The Monroe Doctrine was a policy born of US weakness and discarded as soon as the US became a world power" should be something that all journalists know
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Lying to the American people and to American courts is just what real presidents do, and we strongly approve... writes Jeff Bezos' English editors at WaPo. This paper becomes more farcical with each passing day.
January 6, 2026 at 4:48 AM
Lying to the American people and to American courts is just what real presidents do, and we strongly approve... writes Jeff Bezos' English editors at WaPo. This paper becomes more farcical with each passing day.
Lia Smith just wanted to swim.
A devastating story about the life and death of Lia Smith, a transgender woman and college student targeted by conservatives online because she briefly participated on the school's diving team. Lia was found dead by suicide last fall at the age of 21.
(Unlocked article below)
(Unlocked article below)
At Middlebury, She Hoped to Start Fresh. In Trump’s America, It Seemed Impossible.
www.nytimes.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:02 AM
Lia Smith just wanted to swim.
More stupid than evil? Tough call.
TAPPER: Can you rule out the US is going to take Greenland by force?
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
January 6, 2026 at 2:17 AM
More stupid than evil? Tough call.
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Way down the list on how insane and evil this is, but... just a point of con law trivia, I guess: the president doesn't have the power to annex territory. Like, even assuming we militarily occupied it. Just on the domestic law angle, it still wouldn't be "part of the US" w/o Congress saying so.
TAPPER: Can you rule out the US is going to take Greenland by force?
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
January 6, 2026 at 12:36 AM
Way down the list on how insane and evil this is, but... just a point of con law trivia, I guess: the president doesn't have the power to annex territory. Like, even assuming we militarily occupied it. Just on the domestic law angle, it still wouldn't be "part of the US" w/o Congress saying so.
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It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason
January 6, 2026 at 12:35 AM
It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason
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this is small comfort given he has state power and i don’t but i am struck by what an obviously weak and fragile man miller is. a blubbering piss baby whose entire affect and personality is an attempt to make up for his profound feelings of inadequacy
MILLER: The US is using its military to secure our interests unapologetically in our hemisphere. We're a superpower. It's absurd we'd allow a nation in our backyard to become a supplier of resources to our adversaries
TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want?
M: *yells*
TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want?
M: *yells*
January 5, 2026 at 11:52 PM
this is small comfort given he has state power and i don’t but i am struck by what an obviously weak and fragile man miller is. a blubbering piss baby whose entire affect and personality is an attempt to make up for his profound feelings of inadequacy
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Children will die with RFK Jr.'s new vaccine recommendations. We're NOT doing the "experts disagree" game. The US vaccine schedule was painstakingly constructed through a deep & thorough process by experts with unquestionable expertise. This is policy by fiat. It is pre-meditated murder. 1/
January 5, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Children will die with RFK Jr.'s new vaccine recommendations. We're NOT doing the "experts disagree" game. The US vaccine schedule was painstakingly constructed through a deep & thorough process by experts with unquestionable expertise. This is policy by fiat. It is pre-meditated murder. 1/
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@CNN and @nytimes.com should have a “US Measles Cases” ticker running every minute of every day. This is a national emergency. It matters more than the DJIA.
January 5, 2026 at 3:17 AM
@CNN and @nytimes.com should have a “US Measles Cases” ticker running every minute of every day. This is a national emergency. It matters more than the DJIA.
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I used to help draft the Article 51 letters for the US government.
This dog's breakfast of nonsense from USUN is just embarrassing.
The US government has no plausible self defense claim for its unlawful attack on Venezuela.
This dog's breakfast of nonsense from USUN is just embarrassing.
The US government has no plausible self defense claim for its unlawful attack on Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 12:36 AM
I used to help draft the Article 51 letters for the US government.
This dog's breakfast of nonsense from USUN is just embarrassing.
The US government has no plausible self defense claim for its unlawful attack on Venezuela.
This dog's breakfast of nonsense from USUN is just embarrassing.
The US government has no plausible self defense claim for its unlawful attack on Venezuela.
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Copyright Cases To Watch In 2026 www.law360.com/media/articl...
Copyright Cases To Watch In 2026 - Law360
U.S. federal courts this year will continue to review consequential copyright infringement suits involving artificial intelligence, while appeals court decisions remain pending in a pair of notable fa...
www.law360.com
January 5, 2026 at 12:35 PM
Copyright Cases To Watch In 2026 www.law360.com/media/articl...
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We cannot become numb to the outrage of this. The wife of the President’s Senior Advisor threatens a sovereign nation.
January 4, 2026 at 11:45 PM
We cannot become numb to the outrage of this. The wife of the President’s Senior Advisor threatens a sovereign nation.
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Maduro’s Ouster Plays Right Into Putin’s Hands www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/o...
Opinion | Maduro’s Ouster Plays Right Into Putin’s Hands
www.nytimes.com
January 5, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Maduro’s Ouster Plays Right Into Putin’s Hands www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/o...
When I was a reporter we entered every event and interview assuming every statement every politician uttered was BS or a lie. They don’t come to it like that any more.
I’ve seen the continued repeating of Trump’s claim that the US is reclaiming its stolen oil and no questions on that framing and no explanation of whether that claim is true or not.
January 5, 2026 at 12:30 PM
When I was a reporter we entered every event and interview assuming every statement every politician uttered was BS or a lie. They don’t come to it like that any more.
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So many in media are ill-equipped to interview officials about what’s happening because they begin with the presumption of legitimacy and don’t know enough about history or U.S. foreign policy to foment intelligent pushback and hold officials accountable.
January 4, 2026 at 11:32 PM
So many in media are ill-equipped to interview officials about what’s happening because they begin with the presumption of legitimacy and don’t know enough about history or U.S. foreign policy to foment intelligent pushback and hold officials accountable.
The AI destruction of undergraduate education is about to get much worse. Yet universities do nothing but pander to the industry
www.chronicle.com/article/can-...
www.chronicle.com/article/can-...
Advice | Can Educators Counter ‘Agentic AI’?
If academics don’t deal with these problematic tools now, we’ll lose online education.
www.chronicle.com
January 5, 2026 at 10:28 AM
The AI destruction of undergraduate education is about to get much worse. Yet universities do nothing but pander to the industry
www.chronicle.com/article/can-...
www.chronicle.com/article/can-...
I don’t understand all these white Americans trying to get EU citizenship, as if Europe did not invent and perfect fascism and as if France and Germany are not about to elect fascists like Italy, Hungary, Slovenia, and (almost) Poland already have. Even NL and Sweden are fascist-adjacent now.
January 5, 2026 at 10:07 AM
I don’t understand all these white Americans trying to get EU citizenship, as if Europe did not invent and perfect fascism and as if France and Germany are not about to elect fascists like Italy, Hungary, Slovenia, and (almost) Poland already have. Even NL and Sweden are fascist-adjacent now.
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As a teenager, Marco Rubio worked for his brother-in-law Orlando Cicilia in an import and sale business of exotic animals. It was a front for moving nearly half a million pounds of cocaine and marijuana
Maureen Tkacik
prospect.org/2025/12/23/n...
Maureen Tkacik
prospect.org/2025/12/23/n...
The Narco-Terrorist Elite - The American Prospect
Why is Marco Rubio so hell-bent on making Iran-Contra again?
prospect.org
January 5, 2026 at 2:38 AM
As a teenager, Marco Rubio worked for his brother-in-law Orlando Cicilia in an import and sale business of exotic animals. It was a front for moving nearly half a million pounds of cocaine and marijuana
Maureen Tkacik
prospect.org/2025/12/23/n...
Maureen Tkacik
prospect.org/2025/12/23/n...
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Love this from Guillermo del Toro
January 5, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Love this from Guillermo del Toro
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With that being said, Grok and other AI image generators should be destroyed. If we had a just society, it never would have gotten this far.
January 5, 2026 at 1:11 AM
With that being said, Grok and other AI image generators should be destroyed. If we had a just society, it never would have gotten this far.
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The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.
January 5, 2026 at 1:10 AM
The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.
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Colin and Sophie Hortman, the children of Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, are asking Trump to remove the false posts about their parents' killing:
January 5, 2026 at 2:13 AM
Colin and Sophie Hortman, the children of Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, are asking Trump to remove the false posts about their parents' killing:
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Canadian officials are correct, and it’s truly a tragedy.
Canadian officials say US health institutions no longer dependable for accurate information
Misinformation from the Trump administration is cited as fuelling Canadians’ concerns over childhood vaccinations
www.theguardian.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:51 AM
Canadian officials are correct, and it’s truly a tragedy.
“No Peace Prize? I’ll show them!”
January 5, 2026 at 4:53 AM
“No Peace Prize? I’ll show them!”