Steven Bodzin, yes THAT Steven Bodzin
@stevenbodzin.bsky.social
Investigative financial reporter at REDD Intelligence, focused on Latin America. Find me on iNaturalist or on my bike. My employer has nothing to do with my posts. I am quick to mute people who argue without introducing themselves by name. Clean on opsec
This is especially infuriating if you've spent any time around Civil War battlefields, where historic markers routinely refer to the anti-American side in heroic terms. Here, along the Potomac, traitor Gen. Lee had "stunning victories" and visitors are invited to "follow in their footsteps."
November 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
This is especially infuriating if you've spent any time around Civil War battlefields, where historic markers routinely refer to the anti-American side in heroic terms. Here, along the Potomac, traitor Gen. Lee had "stunning victories" and visitors are invited to "follow in their footsteps."
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November 2, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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We had fucking congressional hearings over Mortal Kombat.
There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
We had fucking congressional hearings over Mortal Kombat.
But it's too late. Now that they have insisted that they CAN go masked and not ID themselves, people will have to obey the criminals. Exactly as everyone predicted 9 months ago.
New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field.
In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.
By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:
In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.
By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:
FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
www.wired.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
But it's too late. Now that they have insisted that they CAN go masked and not ID themselves, people will have to obey the criminals. Exactly as everyone predicted 9 months ago.
People complimenting him for this, and it's deserved, but he might have seen the obvious fact: Cuomo would have lost anyway and they wouldn't have paid.
according to @jessyedwards.bsky.social of @hellgatenyc.com Curtis Sliwa just said on stage that he was offered $10 million to drop out of the race
November 5, 2025 at 3:54 AM
People complimenting him for this, and it's deserved, but he might have seen the obvious fact: Cuomo would have lost anyway and they wouldn't have paid.
November 2, 2025 at 6:30 AM
What is like when people choose order over liberty:
"Those found guilty of using abusive language against a public servant can be jailed for up to a year, fined up to $5,000, or both."
www.straitstimes.com/singapore/co...
"Those found guilty of using abusive language against a public servant can be jailed for up to a year, fined up to $5,000, or both."
www.straitstimes.com/singapore/co...
‘I can show you 100% gangster’: 3 men fined for taunting cop at murder scene near Kitchener Road
A fourth man, who recorded the video, had been convicted in September and was fined $3,500. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
www.straitstimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
What is like when people choose order over liberty:
"Those found guilty of using abusive language against a public servant can be jailed for up to a year, fined up to $5,000, or both."
www.straitstimes.com/singapore/co...
"Those found guilty of using abusive language against a public servant can be jailed for up to a year, fined up to $5,000, or both."
www.straitstimes.com/singapore/co...
If you are interested in the US military buildup around #Venezuela or Western Hemisphere affairs in general, you need to be reading Boz. He's been writing on the web and for clients for decades now and he just gets better. This one is great. $90 a year is a bargain for this.
Today's long newsletter on Venezuela
boz.substack.com/p/the-us-mil...
boz.substack.com/p/the-us-mil...
The US military can easily force out Maduro. But will it? And should it? What happens after? What happens if it doesn't?
Trump is improvising. He hasn't made up his mind yet. Somehow, there is a push to run a militarized Western Hemisphere policy for the next three years, but no plan for what to do next week.
boz.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:06 AM
If you are interested in the US military buildup around #Venezuela or Western Hemisphere affairs in general, you need to be reading Boz. He's been writing on the web and for clients for decades now and he just gets better. This one is great. $90 a year is a bargain for this.
The US Secretary of Transportation is busy warning people about the dangers of the NYC subway
October 29, 2025 at 1:24 AM
The US Secretary of Transportation is busy warning people about the dangers of the NYC subway
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1. There is no evidence that Venezuela produces fentanyl.
2. The UN drug office says it is not a cocaine-producing country.
3. Most illegal drugs come here in container ships, not small boats with outboard motors.
4. The admin has produced no evidence to justify these extra-judicial killings.
2. The UN drug office says it is not a cocaine-producing country.
3. Most illegal drugs come here in container ships, not small boats with outboard motors.
4. The admin has produced no evidence to justify these extra-judicial killings.
The meaning of America’s vast military build-up off Venezuela
The world’s largest aircraft-carrier is making for the Venezuelan coast. Its military aims are unclear
www.economist.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:49 PM
1. There is no evidence that Venezuela produces fentanyl.
2. The UN drug office says it is not a cocaine-producing country.
3. Most illegal drugs come here in container ships, not small boats with outboard motors.
4. The admin has produced no evidence to justify these extra-judicial killings.
2. The UN drug office says it is not a cocaine-producing country.
3. Most illegal drugs come here in container ships, not small boats with outboard motors.
4. The admin has produced no evidence to justify these extra-judicial killings.
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It's not unique to Twitter, obviously -- there are people posting on here taking the same tack as well -- but I think there's been a very, very noticeable de-sensitization to Nazi shit that's happened to leftists who've remained largely over there
October 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
It's not unique to Twitter, obviously -- there are people posting on here taking the same tack as well -- but I think there's been a very, very noticeable de-sensitization to Nazi shit that's happened to leftists who've remained largely over there
I know journalists are the worst people at making predictions, but I wonder: If Congress remains out of session, could the president declare an economic state of emergency and impose a budget? Who would stop him?
October 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I know journalists are the worst people at making predictions, but I wonder: If Congress remains out of session, could the president declare an economic state of emergency and impose a budget? Who would stop him?
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i’ll bet any amount of money that the data they used to train this model boils down to “all the examples of people holding weapons are Black” and that’s all the ai picked up on in this case
October 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
i’ll bet any amount of money that the data they used to train this model boils down to “all the examples of people holding weapons are Black” and that’s all the ai picked up on in this case
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Precisely. Racism is the gateway to Trump’s power grab.
It is impossible to imagine people allowing this to go on (or even participating in it within the government) if he was ordering the murder without any process of French citizens or Brits or Australians on boats no matter what they were alleged to be doing.
Trump: "I don't think we're necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We're going to kill them. They're going to be, like dead."
October 24, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Precisely. Racism is the gateway to Trump’s power grab.
Isn't the whole point of a primary to stress year the candidates and find out if they are the ones who can win? The system is working.
Reposting!! www.burnsnotice.com/you-cant-run...
You Can't Run the Nazi Tattoo Guy Against Susan from "The County"
"I am not accusing Platner of being a Nazi or a white supremacist. I am accusing Platner of being unfit for the US Senate. He is not irredeemable, he just isn't suited for one of the most powerful job...
www.burnsnotice.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Isn't the whole point of a primary to stress year the candidates and find out if they are the ones who can win? The system is working.
LANCELOT?
So, someone shared this with me. There are a series of pseudonymous essays from 2023 in the Claremont Institute that they think were authored by Russ Vought.
Any ideas how to verify this?
americanmind.org/author/lance...
Any ideas how to verify this?
americanmind.org/author/lance...
Lancelot A. Lamar, Author at The American Mind
americanmind.org
October 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
LANCELOT?
Aren't there laws? Can't someone get an injunction against this? It's weird to have everyone just watch in horror
They fucked up the demolition by not doing the proper due diligence and to cover that up, they are tearing it all down.
October 22, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Aren't there laws? Can't someone get an injunction against this? It's weird to have everyone just watch in horror
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Don’t have to imagine. Michelle Obama put in a vegetable garden and it was made into a full on multi cycle mainstream media affair that they were still bitching about years later.
October 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Don’t have to imagine. Michelle Obama put in a vegetable garden and it was made into a full on multi cycle mainstream media affair that they were still bitching about years later.
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As a fan of burning all the money in the world, I think its really funny the US just set $20 billion on fire
October 21, 2025 at 10:46 PM
As a fan of burning all the money in the world, I think its really funny the US just set $20 billion on fire
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Still appalled at how paltry and terrible the NYT coverage of the protests were and how nobody there feels any responsibility to address the criticism. This was not something that caught them off guard. This was many levels of decisions.
October 21, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Still appalled at how paltry and terrible the NYT coverage of the protests were and how nobody there feels any responsibility to address the criticism. This was not something that caught them off guard. This was many levels of decisions.
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This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal
To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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So the US had a huge case using high-level informants. Bukele wanted back 9 informants who could expose his govt's deals with that same gang to lower the level of violence, fueling his image as a crime-fighter. That Rubio made a deal was known. That he reneged on informants was not.
October 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
So the US had a huge case using high-level informants. Bukele wanted back 9 informants who could expose his govt's deals with that same gang to lower the level of violence, fueling his image as a crime-fighter. That Rubio made a deal was known. That he reneged on informants was not.
The US was investigating MS-13 in part because of the panic that Trump stirred up in his first term. But when it turns out that Bukele wanted to free some of its leaders, there are priorities!
This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal
To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:25 AM
The US was investigating MS-13 in part because of the panic that Trump stirred up in his first term. But when it turns out that Bukele wanted to free some of its leaders, there are priorities!
This really should have said "dozens." Are they really sure it was thousands?
October 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
This really should have said "dozens." Are they really sure it was thousands?