Zach D Roberts
@zdroberts.bsky.social
writer/photojournalist/loves movies
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Writing: VisuNews.substack.com
Portfolio: ZDRoberts.com
Movie Talk: ECVPodcast.com
Signal: @ZDRoberts.81
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Hey looking for work. Literally fucking anything. I’m done with net30/60/whenever for $150 for a story that cost me $300 to cover. I have skills. PR, photo, video, producing etc. I’ve run 3 NYT bestselling book tours. Co-wrote a best selling book.
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November 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
It's not overkill if it works.
Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter downs a shahed drone with its minigun
November 13, 2025 at 7:39 PM
It's not overkill if it works.
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Is Transaurus, the popular crime-fighting robot dinosaur, the mascot the trans community needs?!
Transaurus Cookies (1993-1993): In the midst of monster truck mania, we got these bite-sized vanilla butter cookies, part of a collectible line, honoring the transforming, fire-breathing, car crushing, and apparently CRIME-FIGHTING dinosaur robot, Transaurus
November 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Is Transaurus, the popular crime-fighting robot dinosaur, the mascot the trans community needs?!
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
Larry “Africa is not polluted enough” Summers was the guy Obama brought in to save the economy after the financial crash that his friends caused and is currently on the board of OpenAi.
lol.
lol.
November 13, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Larry “Africa is not polluted enough” Summers was the guy Obama brought in to save the economy after the financial crash that his friends caused and is currently on the board of OpenAi.
lol.
lol.
This site continues to be a joke. A bunch of tech kids who wouldn’t know how to run a car into a wall.
Bluesky says it suspended author Sarah Kendzior because she was "expressing a desire to shoot the author of an article."
But there's more to the story:
But there's more to the story:
Bluesky Is Clearly Not a Johnny Cash Fan
A user was banned for making a Johnny Cash reference. Where's the dividing line between serious threat and jokey pop culture reference?
gizmodo.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 AM
This site continues to be a joke. A bunch of tech kids who wouldn’t know how to run a car into a wall.
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“We're not going to react to every single thing that Trump does. We can't stop that. What we can do is we can help feed the hungry people in our community. We can help provide shelter and warmth to the houseless people in our community.”
- @emily.gorcen.ski
- @emily.gorcen.ski
GLOBAL WARNING: Emily Gorcenski (Ep 4)
YouTube video by AWKWORD
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
“We're not going to react to every single thing that Trump does. We can't stop that. What we can do is we can help feed the hungry people in our community. We can help provide shelter and warmth to the houseless people in our community.”
- @emily.gorcen.ski
- @emily.gorcen.ski
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List is growing.
UPDATE — Here are the at least 11 congressional Democrats, 11 Democratic-aligned organizations, and 6 Democratic Senate candidates calling for Chuck Schumer to resign as leader:
November 12, 2025 at 4:13 AM
List is growing.
The perfect double picture for these trying times is:
Netflix's Death by Lightning
and then:
American Dad! SE11 EP19: Garfield and Friends
Netflix's Death by Lightning
and then:
American Dad! SE11 EP19: Garfield and Friends
November 12, 2025 at 4:12 AM
The perfect double picture for these trying times is:
Netflix's Death by Lightning
and then:
American Dad! SE11 EP19: Garfield and Friends
Netflix's Death by Lightning
and then:
American Dad! SE11 EP19: Garfield and Friends
Fuck Bob Dylan for licensing this to fucking Facebook. How does he not have enough money.
November 12, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Fuck Bob Dylan for licensing this to fucking Facebook. How does he not have enough money.
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“Journalist.”
“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 8:20 PM
“Journalist.”
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Conservative activist Scot Presler just learned about the THC ban, posting screenshots to his 2.4-million follower Twitter account this afternoon purporting to show followers (presumably MAGA?) despairing over the measure: x.com/ScottPresler...
November 11, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Conservative activist Scot Presler just learned about the THC ban, posting screenshots to his 2.4-million follower Twitter account this afternoon purporting to show followers (presumably MAGA?) despairing over the measure: x.com/ScottPresler...
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Colder than Montana is the name of my Miley Cyrus cover band.
November 12, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Colder than Montana is the name of my Miley Cyrus cover band.
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the entirety of the british press talked themselves into believing this woman is trans based almost entirely on JK Rowling's judgement of the athlete's appearance.
Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)
November 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
the entirety of the british press talked themselves into believing this woman is trans based almost entirely on JK Rowling's judgement of the athlete's appearance.
Someone please do a Hamilton style musical about Schumers week. lol
November 11, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Someone please do a Hamilton style musical about Schumers week. lol
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Thank you to Literaturhaus for hosting our Berlin book talk, moderated so memorably by Jakob Scherer! All part of the city’s official Berlin Freedom Week. Thank you to everyone who came out! What an incredible night! Fight fascism! 📺 WATCH: bit.ly/libe-revolution
November 11, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Thank you to Literaturhaus for hosting our Berlin book talk, moderated so memorably by Jakob Scherer! All part of the city’s official Berlin Freedom Week. Thank you to everyone who came out! What an incredible night! Fight fascism! 📺 WATCH: bit.ly/libe-revolution
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Do you live in New York and like comics? A bunch of your favorite creators are hanging out at Anyone Comics on Saturday to make anti-ICE literature and want you to join in:
Hands Off NYC Zine and Poster Fun in Brooklyn with local comics creators! · Mobilize
Join New York comic creators to fold zines and make posters to push back against ICE in our city! Stay to fold and color a while or just swing by to pick up zines and posters to distribute in your nei...
www.mobilize.us
November 11, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Do you live in New York and like comics? A bunch of your favorite creators are hanging out at Anyone Comics on Saturday to make anti-ICE literature and want you to join in:
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📣 We're accepting applications for our Communities for Safety Collective, a civic engagement and leadership development cohort that builds community power to find solutions to violence by addressing root causes, centering those most impacted, and separating healing from the criminal legal system.
November 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
📣 We're accepting applications for our Communities for Safety Collective, a civic engagement and leadership development cohort that builds community power to find solutions to violence by addressing root causes, centering those most impacted, and separating healing from the criminal legal system.
Hey a lot of new followers for some reason? Welcome. You can follow me for free at my newsletter visu.news and at my Patreon.com/zdroberts. I'm starting up a week in review style podcast tomorrow which will be behind a paywall but everything else I publish will be, as always free.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Hey a lot of new followers for some reason? Welcome. You can follow me for free at my newsletter visu.news and at my Patreon.com/zdroberts. I'm starting up a week in review style podcast tomorrow which will be behind a paywall but everything else I publish will be, as always free.
Meanwhile perplexingly Tesla is at 434 on the stock market. Proving once again that it’s all fucking made up.
meanwhile
Hertz has been divesting from Tesla vehicles and selling them over the last 2 years, as declining resale values crushed its fleet economics amid Tesla slashing prices due to declining demand over the last 3 years.
Hertz has been divesting from Tesla vehicles and selling them over the last 2 years, as declining resale values crushed its fleet economics amid Tesla slashing prices due to declining demand over the last 3 years.
Tesla can’t sell its cars anymore so it is renting them now
Tesla is launching a new car rental program out of its stores in the US, as sales are crashing due...
electrek.co
November 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Meanwhile perplexingly Tesla is at 434 on the stock market. Proving once again that it’s all fucking made up.
Check out Kit’s latest on Queer social clubs at @thebarbedwire.com
Queer social clubs offer a much-needed alternative to the bar scene. One founder said his group is about “bringing everyone together and tearing down these walls that, over time, have gradually gone up between the L, the G, the B, the T and the Q.”
Now out at @thebarbedwire.com:
Now out at @thebarbedwire.com:
Looking For Queer Community Outside the Bar? There’s a Walking (and Hiking and Yoga and Line-Dancing) Club For That.
Tired of alcohol? Join a queer walking club. “Sometimes, a sense of belonging can genuinely be lifesaving.”
thebarbedwire.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Check out Kit’s latest on Queer social clubs at @thebarbedwire.com
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Every chatbot startup: “I saw people were lonely so I made a widget.”
A former physician has launched Robyn, an empathetic AI companion | TechCrunch
Robyn wants to position it self as an empathetic chatbot and not as a companion or a therapy app
techcrunch.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Every chatbot startup: “I saw people were lonely so I made a widget.”
If @kaine.senate.gov truly thinks that his vote was for the best of Virginians then he should town halls in every city in the state explaining it.
If he doesn’t then he should resign in shame. In a decade of betrayals by the Democrats this has been one of the biggest. We deserve explanations.
If he doesn’t then he should resign in shame. In a decade of betrayals by the Democrats this has been one of the biggest. We deserve explanations.
November 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
If @kaine.senate.gov truly thinks that his vote was for the best of Virginians then he should town halls in every city in the state explaining it.
If he doesn’t then he should resign in shame. In a decade of betrayals by the Democrats this has been one of the biggest. We deserve explanations.
If he doesn’t then he should resign in shame. In a decade of betrayals by the Democrats this has been one of the biggest. We deserve explanations.
Pritzker is personally worth nearly FOUR BILLION DOLLARS. He could at absolute least hire the best lawyers for immigrants. He could tell his state troopers to stop attacking protesters.
He doesn’t do anything other than post. Just like all the other Democrat mayors and Governors.
He doesn’t do anything other than post. Just like all the other Democrat mayors and Governors.
Making fun of our neighborhoods and communities is disgusting.
Greg Bovino and his masked agents are not here to make Chicago safer. As children are tear gassed and U.S. citizens detained, they are posing for photo ops and producing reality TV moments. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
Greg Bovino and his masked agents are not here to make Chicago safer. As children are tear gassed and U.S. citizens detained, they are posing for photo ops and producing reality TV moments. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
Border Patrol Agents Pose At The Bean For Apparent Photo Op
The photo op came after agents tear-gassed a Little Village street and were spotted in the area numerous times. At the Bean, one agent shouted, "Everyone say, 'Little Village!'"
blockclubchicago.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Pritzker is personally worth nearly FOUR BILLION DOLLARS. He could at absolute least hire the best lawyers for immigrants. He could tell his state troopers to stop attacking protesters.
He doesn’t do anything other than post. Just like all the other Democrat mayors and Governors.
He doesn’t do anything other than post. Just like all the other Democrat mayors and Governors.