Frank Bajak
@fbajak.bsky.social
Journalist with tech focus. Ex-Associated Press foreign correspondent. First AP tech editor, Andes chief. frankbajak.com fbajak(at)proton(dot)me - DM for Signal#
“I don’t know who they’re a subcontractor with, but I don’t work with them because I have a conflict of interest and I fully recused myself,” said DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin. “My marriage is one thing and work is another. I don’t combine them.” Her husband is Strategy Group CEO Ben Yoho.
November 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
“I don’t know who they’re a subcontractor with, but I don’t work with them because I have a conflict of interest and I fully recused myself,” said DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin. “My marriage is one thing and work is another. I don’t combine them.” Her husband is Strategy Group CEO Ben Yoho.
Breaking: Beetle Bailey to be tapped as new CyberCom chief. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en...
October 11, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Breaking: Beetle Bailey to be tapped as new CyberCom chief. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en...
Such self-serving hogwash. Independent, fact-based U.S. journalism is on life-support as a business. McKenzie, interestingly, runs a “media org” that platforms lots of refugees from legit news orgs destroyed by broligarchs who hate real journalism. It also platforms right-wing extremists.
October 6, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Such self-serving hogwash. Independent, fact-based U.S. journalism is on life-support as a business. McKenzie, interestingly, runs a “media org” that platforms lots of refugees from legit news orgs destroyed by broligarchs who hate real journalism. It also platforms right-wing extremists.
Minting this coin, while Trump is alive, appears to be illegal. The 1866 Thayer amendment says "no portrait or likeness of any living person shall be engraved or placed upon any of the bonds, securities, notes, or postal currency of the United States."
October 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Minting this coin, while Trump is alive, appears to be illegal. The 1866 Thayer amendment says "no portrait or likeness of any living person shall be engraved or placed upon any of the bonds, securities, notes, or postal currency of the United States."
This snippet of reporting obviously reflects an effort but doesn’t tell us much. How about identifying some of the dead? Get photos, details on who they were …
September 30, 2025 at 2:16 AM
This snippet of reporting obviously reflects an effort but doesn’t tell us much. How about identifying some of the dead? Get photos, details on who they were …
For years, the US refused to give Gabriel Garcia Marquez a visa for his leftist politics. In 1996 it revoked the visa of a sitting Colombia president, Ernesto Samper, who had been elected with Cali cartel cash but cleared by a drug-corrupted Colombian Congress.
September 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
For years, the US refused to give Gabriel Garcia Marquez a visa for his leftist politics. In 1996 it revoked the visa of a sitting Colombia president, Ernesto Samper, who had been elected with Cali cartel cash but cleared by a drug-corrupted Colombian Congress.
Trump regime claims Petro was inciting violence. It accuses him of reckless and incendiary actions. Meantime, Trump’s military murders 17 alleged Vzln drug runners on the high seas.
September 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Trump regime claims Petro was inciting violence. It accuses him of reckless and incendiary actions. Meantime, Trump’s military murders 17 alleged Vzln drug runners on the high seas.
Trump is feeling especially drunk with power this Friday night., demanding Msft fire Lisa Monaco. It would be nice to see a powerful global player like Msft show some backbone and refuse.
September 27, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Trump is feeling especially drunk with power this Friday night., demanding Msft fire Lisa Monaco. It would be nice to see a powerful global player like Msft show some backbone and refuse.
The NYT giving Trump’s fracker-in-chief a publicity boost by hosting him at a Times event is just a bit too much bending over backwards in the name of faux impartiality, dontcha think?
September 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The NYT giving Trump’s fracker-in-chief a publicity boost by hosting him at a Times event is just a bit too much bending over backwards in the name of faux impartiality, dontcha think?
This @coldwarsteve.bsky.social collage complements the @wired.com cover.
September 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
This @coldwarsteve.bsky.social collage complements the @wired.com cover.
Dr. Yoysy Rondon Acosta is Cuba’s National Coordinator for Autism and other Neurodevelopmental Disorders. Her photo:
September 23, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Dr. Yoysy Rondon Acosta is Cuba’s National Coordinator for Autism and other Neurodevelopmental Disorders. Her photo:
AP-NORC poll: Just over half of Republicans say the country is heading in the wrong direction. That’s twice what it was on Trump’s second inauguration day.
September 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
AP-NORC poll: Just over half of Republicans say the country is heading in the wrong direction. That’s twice what it was on Trump’s second inauguration day.
Korean Times photo at homecoming of S. Koreans seized by ICE and deported from US
September 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Korean Times photo at homecoming of S. Koreans seized by ICE and deported from US
Poland’s military command, on ex-Twitter, reports Russian drone activity in western Ukraine but not, at least for now, in Polish airspacez. Lublin airport closed as a precaution.
September 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Poland’s military command, on ex-Twitter, reports Russian drone activity in western Ukraine but not, at least for now, in Polish airspacez. Lublin airport closed as a precaution.
Put on a pair of these and you won’t have to worry about facial recognition!
September 8, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Put on a pair of these and you won’t have to worry about facial recognition!
Reuters: Trump‘s Pentagon is sending three Navy destroyers to coastal Venezuela to “fight drug cartels.” In all, mobilizing 4,000 sailors Marines in a counternarcotics deployment in the southern Caribbean. Not sure how this will shake out and whether the idea is to provoke Maduro’s armed forces.
August 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Reuters: Trump‘s Pentagon is sending three Navy destroyers to coastal Venezuela to “fight drug cartels.” In all, mobilizing 4,000 sailors Marines in a counternarcotics deployment in the southern Caribbean. Not sure how this will shake out and whether the idea is to provoke Maduro’s armed forces.
apnews.com/article/texa... Death threats against Pulitzer Prize-winner over Texas flooding cartoon lead to journalism-support event postponement at history museum in Buffalo, N.Y.
July 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
apnews.com/article/texa... Death threats against Pulitzer Prize-winner over Texas flooding cartoon lead to journalism-support event postponement at history museum in Buffalo, N.Y.
Rep. Ogles is a gun fan. If he plans on leading a Mamdani posse into NYC he best do so unarmed.
July 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Rep. Ogles is a gun fan. If he plans on leading a Mamdani posse into NYC he best do so unarmed.
And if you visit Boston don’t miss the exhibit of the late Roxbury native John Wilson’s incredible work at the Museum of Fine Arts.
June 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
And if you visit Boston don’t miss the exhibit of the late Roxbury native John Wilson’s incredible work at the Museum of Fine Arts.
There goes the neighborhood …
June 18, 2025 at 10:51 PM
There goes the neighborhood …
Peru’s La Republica reports the Gorriti news.
May 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Peru’s La Republica reports the Gorriti news.
NYT: 2,000 DEA, ATF and US Marshals agents to be pressed into service in immigrant dragnet. This comes as Trump admin dials back enforcement on white-collar and cyber crime, Russian espionage and money-laundering investigations.
May 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
NYT: 2,000 DEA, ATF and US Marshals agents to be pressed into service in immigrant dragnet. This comes as Trump admin dials back enforcement on white-collar and cyber crime, Russian espionage and money-laundering investigations.