Robert Hernandez
@webjournalist.bsky.social
USCAnnenberg Digital Profe, #JOVRNALISM creator, NAHJ Hall of Famer/Program Manager, CalMatters & InquireFirst board member. Chicas Poderosas #wjchat #HorizontalLoyalty he/him 🇸🇻 // I live sweat but I dream light years.
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They’re not coming
"We can't hide behind false claims of objectivity but also claim to 'give voice to the voiceless' or 'comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.'"
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You’re not crazy.
You’re not alone.
But they aren’t coming.
It’s up to us.
My @niemanlab.org prediction:
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/they...
You’re not alone.
But they aren’t coming.
It’s up to us.
My @niemanlab.org prediction:
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/they...
Does this mean he has to return the FIFA Peace Prize?
January 3, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Does this mean he has to return the FIFA Peace Prize?
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NEWSFLASH: Loud explosions were reported overnight across parts of Venezuela.
Recently, the U.S. has been escalating pressure in the form of maritime strikes, a tanker seizure, and a recent drone attack on a port.
Recently, the U.S. has been escalating pressure in the form of maritime strikes, a tanker seizure, and a recent drone attack on a port.
January 3, 2026 at 7:32 AM
NEWSFLASH: Loud explosions were reported overnight across parts of Venezuela.
Recently, the U.S. has been escalating pressure in the form of maritime strikes, a tanker seizure, and a recent drone attack on a port.
Recently, the U.S. has been escalating pressure in the form of maritime strikes, a tanker seizure, and a recent drone attack on a port.
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The first reaction from a political leader comes from the President of Colombia, who is calling for immediate meetings of the Organization of American States and the United Nations:
January 3, 2026 at 7:12 AM
The first reaction from a political leader comes from the President of Colombia, who is calling for immediate meetings of the Organization of American States and the United Nations:
After committing war crimes, we are now engaging in an unprovoked war with a country (likely for oil).
And you voted for this because of the cost of eggs (due to bird flu) you ignorant fool.
And you voted for this because of the cost of eggs (due to bird flu) you ignorant fool.
January 3, 2026 at 7:38 AM
After committing war crimes, we are now engaging in an unprovoked war with a country (likely for oil).
And you voted for this because of the cost of eggs (due to bird flu) you ignorant fool.
And you voted for this because of the cost of eggs (due to bird flu) you ignorant fool.
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The way I just laughed! What a 🤡
Ok I really am working out the logistics of permanently shuttering my twitter account - but my god is this funny.
January 3, 2026 at 3:49 AM
The way I just laughed! What a 🤡
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THIS ISN’T GETTING ENOUGH ATTENTION.
More than 100 immigration judges have been fired nationwide since Trump took office. 21 in San Francisco alone, many without explanation.
Why? Because these judges provided due process under US law.
The Trump admin doesn’t want hearings or fairness.
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More than 100 immigration judges have been fired nationwide since Trump took office. 21 in San Francisco alone, many without explanation.
Why? Because these judges provided due process under US law.
The Trump admin doesn’t want hearings or fairness.
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January 2, 2026 at 9:26 PM
THIS ISN’T GETTING ENOUGH ATTENTION.
More than 100 immigration judges have been fired nationwide since Trump took office. 21 in San Francisco alone, many without explanation.
Why? Because these judges provided due process under US law.
The Trump admin doesn’t want hearings or fairness.
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More than 100 immigration judges have been fired nationwide since Trump took office. 21 in San Francisco alone, many without explanation.
Why? Because these judges provided due process under US law.
The Trump admin doesn’t want hearings or fairness.
1/2
Here’s the trick that the CDC doesn’t want you to know about!
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January 3, 2026 at 3:14 AM
Here’s the trick that the CDC doesn’t want you to know about!
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If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
January 2, 2026 at 2:26 AM
If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
I finally saw The Book of Clarence… Jesus Christ, what a brilliant film!! On so many levels!
It’s on Hulu. Go see it!
www.imdb.com/title/tt2286...
It’s on Hulu. Go see it!
www.imdb.com/title/tt2286...
The Book of Clarence (2023) ⭐ 5.7 | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
2h 9m | PG-13
www.imdb.com
January 3, 2026 at 12:29 AM
I finally saw The Book of Clarence… Jesus Christ, what a brilliant film!! On so many levels!
It’s on Hulu. Go see it!
www.imdb.com/title/tt2286...
It’s on Hulu. Go see it!
www.imdb.com/title/tt2286...
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I covered this hunger strike, and met Richard. This makes me want to cry.
@anniemcdonough.bsky.social:
"Yellow cab driver Richard Chow was on hunger strike for medallion debt relief with Zohran Mamdani a little over four years ago.
Today, he drove now Mayor Zohran Mamdani to City Hall for his inauguration in his taxi."
Chow's brother killed himself over his debt.
"Yellow cab driver Richard Chow was on hunger strike for medallion debt relief with Zohran Mamdani a little over four years ago.
Today, he drove now Mayor Zohran Mamdani to City Hall for his inauguration in his taxi."
Chow's brother killed himself over his debt.
January 2, 2026 at 7:41 PM
I covered this hunger strike, and met Richard. This makes me want to cry.
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Trans communities warned for years about the NYT's transphobia, but the specifics of how this was ordered were often shrouded behind corporate hierarchy.
No more. Sweeney lays out specifically how the highest ranks of the NYT rigged coverage in favor of anti-trans bigots.
No more. Sweeney lays out specifically how the highest ranks of the NYT rigged coverage in favor of anti-trans bigots.
![You've talked about the paper's treatment of the pretty infamous Cass report, especially from your spot at the international desk. What happened in that case?
It wasn't on my radar as much as it ought to have been. I was starting to wind down my time. I left the Times at the end of May of that year. There was an awareness that [Hilary] Cass was coming out with a report. The day before it officially came out, there was a lot of coverage in the BBC and UK media. Cass was already talking about it before its official release.
The day editor's counterparts are in Seoul and London. My counterpart in London — who was actually filling in that day, but did so on a regular basis — assigned a UK reporter to do a story.
That was standard practice, to be clear.
[Chuckling] There’s so many examples of how standard it was. She assigned it to a UK correspondent, who wrote it in the context of UK politics, talked about it being very contentious, talked about the criticisms of its findings. Cass was talking about them herself, this isn't jumping to any conclusions at that point. It really put it in the context of being this very contentious, very political sort of document.
When I saw it, because we're a few hours behind, there were 600, 700 words written. I had a pretty good sense of how the story was going to turn out. But within a few hours the story was to the top New York editors, and I don't know who exactly it was who did that. I assume it was Carolyn or her intermediary. They said ‘oh no, we want the science desk to do that,’ specifically that was Azeen [Ghorayshi], who had been a key reporter in a lot of the other anti-trans coverage.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gm2gj4v7isgrlsww3ya7hpy2/bafkreiauimpnoaneahu2xoujps44cnvpgrbuuweyq764hwvswkize3jr7a@jpeg)
January 1, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Trans communities warned for years about the NYT's transphobia, but the specifics of how this was ordered were often shrouded behind corporate hierarchy.
No more. Sweeney lays out specifically how the highest ranks of the NYT rigged coverage in favor of anti-trans bigots.
No more. Sweeney lays out specifically how the highest ranks of the NYT rigged coverage in favor of anti-trans bigots.
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In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
January 1, 2026 at 6:32 PM
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
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This is the MO of much of the reactionary centrist crowd, supporting monstrous policies but pushing them with a veneer of civility.
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 1, 2026 at 11:32 PM
This is the MO of much of the reactionary centrist crowd, supporting monstrous policies but pushing them with a veneer of civility.
This was THE moment for me.
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 1, 2026 at 10:48 PM
This was THE moment for me.
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In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing.
You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics.
That is all.
You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics.
That is all.
January 1, 2026 at 10:30 PM
In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing.
You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics.
That is all.
You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics.
That is all.
“For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty.”
January 1, 2026 at 8:11 PM
“For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty.”
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This is not a hard message.
Localize it.
Embrace it.
Win.
Localize it.
Embrace it.
Win.
January 1, 2026 at 7:39 PM
This is not a hard message.
Localize it.
Embrace it.
Win.
Localize it.
Embrace it.
Win.
The way he grifts so blatantly and people will die to defend him, even at the cost of losing family and friends.
Trump golfed 1/4 of the days he was president in 2025. Costing US taxpayers to pay his Golf clubs $110,600,000.
January 1, 2026 at 7:27 PM
The way he grifts so blatantly and people will die to defend him, even at the cost of losing family and friends.
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We just cancelled all federal funding for foreign language & area studies at America’s universities to “save”…$86,000,000:
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Trump golfed 1/4 of the days he was president in 2025. Costing US taxpayers to pay his Golf clubs $110,600,000.
January 1, 2026 at 5:45 PM
We just cancelled all federal funding for foreign language & area studies at America’s universities to “save”…$86,000,000:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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day one in mamdani’s new york
January 1, 2026 at 5:10 PM
day one in mamdani’s new york
Fun fact: Robert Van Winkle is known to buy up hundreds of houses — sight unseen — to hoard as investments. He has bragged about it in interviews.
Vanilla Ice is a larger negative impact on housing prices rather than undocumented immigrants.
Vanilla Ice is a larger negative impact on housing prices rather than undocumented immigrants.
Vanilla Ice performing with a dancing Ninja Turtle at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago New Year’s Eve party
January 1, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Fun fact: Robert Van Winkle is known to buy up hundreds of houses — sight unseen — to hoard as investments. He has bragged about it in interviews.
Vanilla Ice is a larger negative impact on housing prices rather than undocumented immigrants.
Vanilla Ice is a larger negative impact on housing prices rather than undocumented immigrants.
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The corporate media continues to minimize elite complicity in this administration’s cruel policies. This is not a nameless Ninja Turtle. This is Michaelangelo. Name and shame these guys!
Vanilla Ice performing with a dancing Ninja Turtle at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago New Year’s Eve party
January 1, 2026 at 4:55 PM
The corporate media continues to minimize elite complicity in this administration’s cruel policies. This is not a nameless Ninja Turtle. This is Michaelangelo. Name and shame these guys!