steven monacelli
@stevanzetti.bsky.social
special investigative correspondent @texasobserver.org • columnist @thebarbedwire.com • contributor @coolzonemedia.bsky.social • publisher @proteanmag.com • send tips via Signal: stevanzetti.12
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steven monacelli
@stevanzetti.bsky.social
· Nov 19
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Thrilled to say that one of my stories is Texas Observer's most read story of 2025, making this the second year in a row.
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Our Most-Read Stories of 2025
Some of the articles that y'all really loved this year
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December 30, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Thrilled to say that one of my stories is Texas Observer's most read story of 2025, making this the second year in a row.
www.texasobserver.org/most-read-st...
www.texasobserver.org/most-read-st...
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#BestOf2025, from @stevanzetti.bsky.social: The Texas Observer revealed that ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden operated "GlomarResponder," a white supremacist account on the social network X.
ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account
The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical…
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December 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
#BestOf2025, from @stevanzetti.bsky.social: The Texas Observer revealed that ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden operated "GlomarResponder," a white supremacist account on the social network X.
This is what it's like to drive through Arlington, Texas
December 29, 2025 at 3:08 AM
This is what it's like to drive through Arlington, Texas
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It was an honor to be interviewed in-depth by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social @proteanmag.com
A key theme: how to analyze “extractive frontiers” from a world-systemic perspective attentive to both the structures of colonialism and capitalism—and to socio-ecological struggle proteanmag.com/2025/12/22/e...
A key theme: how to analyze “extractive frontiers” from a world-systemic perspective attentive to both the structures of colonialism and capitalism—and to socio-ecological struggle proteanmag.com/2025/12/22/e...
December 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
It was an honor to be interviewed in-depth by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social @proteanmag.com
A key theme: how to analyze “extractive frontiers” from a world-systemic perspective attentive to both the structures of colonialism and capitalism—and to socio-ecological struggle proteanmag.com/2025/12/22/e...
A key theme: how to analyze “extractive frontiers” from a world-systemic perspective attentive to both the structures of colonialism and capitalism—and to socio-ecological struggle proteanmag.com/2025/12/22/e...
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Frankly, I have always wondered why more campaigns didn't do this. Constituent services are such an important part of good politics.
🧵 Our mutual aid hub has been a HUGE draw for our immense volunteer base, many of whom have never wanted to be involved politics before now.
This model isn’t just about the immediate impacts: It’s about showing our values, building a community, and reaching voters — without selling our soul!
This model isn’t just about the immediate impacts: It’s about showing our values, building a community, and reaching voters — without selling our soul!
Turning campaigns into mutual aid hubs isn’t good for campaigns or mutual aid! Your campaign manager should be entirely too busy to schlep around 5600 tampons!
December 27, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Frankly, I have always wondered why more campaigns didn't do this. Constituent services are such an important part of good politics.
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I’m at the Pizza Hut. I’m at the cia. I’m at the combination pizza hut and CIA.
December 26, 2025 at 4:39 AM
I’m at the Pizza Hut. I’m at the cia. I’m at the combination pizza hut and CIA.
Looking forward to explaining to my nephews that NORAD shot down Santa but I managed to recover their gifts from the smoldering crater containing the remains of his sleigh
December 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Looking forward to explaining to my nephews that NORAD shot down Santa but I managed to recover their gifts from the smoldering crater containing the remains of his sleigh
I woke up this morning and confirmed that this was not a fever dream
December 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I woke up this morning and confirmed that this was not a fever dream
This is the funniest Christmas gift I've ever gotten
December 26, 2025 at 3:40 AM
This is the funniest Christmas gift I've ever gotten
As I'm bombarded with algorithmically served advertisements aimed to induce me to purchase more consumer goods this holiday season, I am reflecting on this essay I wrote six years ago for @proteanmag.com
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proteanmag.com/2019/08/28/s...
Simulacra & Self-Simulation
by Steven Monacelli. If we are what we repeatedly do, then let’s face it: we are becoming increasingly machine-like through our near-constant interactions with technology.
proteanmag.com
December 25, 2025 at 9:35 PM
As I'm bombarded with algorithmically served advertisements aimed to induce me to purchase more consumer goods this holiday season, I am reflecting on this essay I wrote six years ago for @proteanmag.com
proteanmag.com/2019/08/28/s...
proteanmag.com/2019/08/28/s...
The same way every other developed nation has done it
I'm here willing to read anything someone puts together that details how we can get from here to there
I'm all for universal healthcare. Tell me how we get there.
I'm all for universal healthcare. Tell me how we get there.
December 25, 2025 at 12:23 AM
The same way every other developed nation has done it
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Shane Boyle reviews Craig Gent's Cyberboss: The Rise of Algorithmic Management. "Rather than representing a step towards scientific perfection, algorithmic management is simply the latest episode in capital’s interminable struggle to subjugate labor."
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The Workplace Arms Race • Protean Magazine
Shane Boyle reviews Craig Gent's Cyberboss: The Rise of Algorithmic Management. "Rather than representing a step towards scientific perfection, algorithmic management is simply the latest episode in c...
proteanmag.com
December 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Shane Boyle reviews Craig Gent's Cyberboss: The Rise of Algorithmic Management. "Rather than representing a step towards scientific perfection, algorithmic management is simply the latest episode in capital’s interminable struggle to subjugate labor."
proteanmag.com/2025/12/23/t...
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Global TV is a low-effort conservative-leaning private network, and this wasn’t “treachery” this was “it was the weekend before Christmas and they just broadcast the episode that was sent to them digitally by CBS on Friday”, no one in the office on the weekend even if CBS tried to warn them
From the Atlantic attempt to justify Bari Weiss' decision. What's Canadian for "perfidious Albion?"
December 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Global TV is a low-effort conservative-leaning private network, and this wasn’t “treachery” this was “it was the weekend before Christmas and they just broadcast the episode that was sent to them digitally by CBS on Friday”, no one in the office on the weekend even if CBS tried to warn them
All great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice...the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.
why did you say that now it's going to happen.
December 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
All great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice...the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.
Broken clocks, twice a day
NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![The Government asked this Court to stay the District Court's order. After the response and reply were filed, JUSTICE BARRETT referred the application to the Court. We directed the parties to file supplemental letter briefs on an issue that the District Court had addressed but the parties' initial briefs had not: the meaning of the term "regular forces" in §12406(3). In its supplemental brief, the Government argues that the term refers to civilian law enforcement officers, such as those employed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Federal Protective Service.
Respondents, echoing the District Court, maintain that the term refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary.
We conclude that the term "regular forces" in §12406(3) likely refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary. This interpretation means that to call the Guard into active federal service under §12406(3), the President must be "unable" with the regular military "to execute the laws of the United States." Because the statute requires an assessment of the military's ability to execute the laws, it likely applies only where the military could legally execute the laws. Such circumstances are exceptional: Under the Posse Comitatus Act, the military is prohibited from "execut[ing] the laws" "except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress."
18 U. S. C. §1385. So before the President can federalize the Guard under §12406(3), he likely must have statutory or constitutional authority to execute the laws with the regular military and must be "unable" with those forces to perform that function.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiftbhzwvn3vgwhqsi7k2paizvdw4t26ailljvovso3chqupnmj364@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Broken clocks, twice a day
Next thing you know he's presiding over the Summer Olympics
a) this is pathetic regime shit from CBS.
b) this is genuinely his dream, he would so much rather be a TV host than president.
b) this is genuinely his dream, he would so much rather be a TV host than president.
December 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Next thing you know he's presiding over the Summer Olympics
Viral coffee hole
December 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Viral coffee hole
Jeffrey Epstein wrote a letter to another child sex offender that said Pres. Donald Trump "also shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to ‘grab snatch’, whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Jeffrey Epstein apparently wrote letter to Larry Nassar referencing Trump
Letter to former US gymnastics team doctor postmarked three days after Epstein’s death
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Jeffrey Epstein wrote a letter to another child sex offender that said Pres. Donald Trump "also shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to ‘grab snatch’, whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
60 Minutes samizdat
And now someone has uploaded a version that wasn't filmed off a TV.
There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...
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December 23, 2025 at 12:45 AM
60 Minutes samizdat
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In this wide-ranging interview, Laleh Khalili (@lalehkhalili.bsky.social) speaks with Thea Riofrancos (@triofrancos.bsky.social) about her new book, "Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism"—on lithium mining, prospects for a just climate transition, and more.
proteanmag.com/2025/12/22/e...
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Extractive Frontiers: An Interview With Thea Riofrancos • Protean Magazine
In this extensive, wide ranging interview, Laleh Khalili speaks with Thea Riofrancos about her new book Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism, the political economy of lithium mining, the poss...
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December 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
In this wide-ranging interview, Laleh Khalili (@lalehkhalili.bsky.social) speaks with Thea Riofrancos (@triofrancos.bsky.social) about her new book, "Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism"—on lithium mining, prospects for a just climate transition, and more.
proteanmag.com/2025/12/22/e...
proteanmag.com/2025/12/22/e...
My cannabis curious retired neighbor showed me an edible they purchased at a local dispensary. They asked if I thought it was a good one. The package had five gummies, each with 200mg of THC. I politely told them that if they ate an entire gummy they'd be sent to the nether realms.
December 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
My cannabis curious retired neighbor showed me an edible they purchased at a local dispensary. They asked if I thought it was a good one. The package had five gummies, each with 200mg of THC. I politely told them that if they ate an entire gummy they'd be sent to the nether realms.
This is why it's crucial to provide subjects reasonable amounts of time to respond. I've even given subjects time extensions. But I've never held a story because someone didn't want to respond. And it's hard to imagine that 60 Minutes didn't provide their subjects with adequate time to respond.
I have never, once in my career, heard of a news org responding to a decline-to-comment with, “Well, we’ll hold it until you do.”
The reason is obvious — it gives the subject of your story a pocket veto.
The reason is obvious — it gives the subject of your story a pocket veto.
December 22, 2025 at 2:56 AM
This is why it's crucial to provide subjects reasonable amounts of time to respond. I've even given subjects time extensions. But I've never held a story because someone didn't want to respond. And it's hard to imagine that 60 Minutes didn't provide their subjects with adequate time to respond.
I've never had to do this
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I've never had to do this