Vince Gonzales
@vincegonzales.bsky.social
Journalism Professor & Assoc. Dean at USC Annenberg, Investigative Reporter, Former Network Correspondent, Single Dad. Only speaking for myself here.
WTF? These people have sold their souls.
Kristi Noem: "Sir, you made it through hurricane season without a hurricane. You kept the hurricanes away. We appreciate that."
December 2, 2025 at 8:33 PM
WTF? These people have sold their souls.
I think we al know exactly what happened here.
The Los Angeles Unified School District data suggest that many new students who were expected to return to school have not done so. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-29/school-enrollment-plummets-lausd-amid-trump-immigration-raids?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_
School enrollment drops amid ICE raids. 'We just don't know what happened to them.'
Schools across Southern California are facing steeper enrollment declines as Trump immigration enforcement actions discourage or prevent students from enrolling.
www.latimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I think we al know exactly what happened here.
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Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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This👇🏼
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
This👇🏼
Elon removed the feature that proved what a true echo chamber/troll factory Xitter is, so now we don’t have to cover it as some cultural barometer. In fact, there are just 3 reasons to remain in that cesspool:
1. You’re a scammer
2. You like what they’re shoveling
3. You enjoy watching car crashes
1. You’re a scammer
2. You like what they’re shoveling
3. You enjoy watching car crashes
November 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Elon removed the feature that proved what a true echo chamber/troll factory Xitter is, so now we don’t have to cover it as some cultural barometer. In fact, there are just 3 reasons to remain in that cesspool:
1. You’re a scammer
2. You like what they’re shoveling
3. You enjoy watching car crashes
1. You’re a scammer
2. You like what they’re shoveling
3. You enjoy watching car crashes
Having extensively covered the Catholic Church scandal in California, I can say the League is also peddling lies. Minors were victims in every case I covered (mostly male but gender doesn’t matter when it comes to abusing children). The studies I’ve seen also said the majority were minors.
Catholic League uses homophobia to defend Megyn Kelly AND excuse the church's blind eye to sexual abuse.
This is quite the argument from the president of the Catholic League.
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Having extensively covered the Catholic Church scandal in California, I can say the League is also peddling lies. Minors were victims in every case I covered (mostly male but gender doesn’t matter when it comes to abusing children). The studies I’ve seen also said the majority were minors.
This is amazing👇🏼
On Oct. 11, @annabower.bsky.social started to receive Signal messages from the U.S. attorney who is leading the prosecution of Letitia James.
Throughout the exchange, Lindsay Halligan complained about Bower’s tweets and reporting on the indictment–but never once asked to be off the record.
Throughout the exchange, Lindsay Halligan complained about Bower’s tweets and reporting on the indictment–but never once asked to be off the record.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here.”
My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.
www.lawfaremedia.org
October 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
This is amazing👇🏼
Johnson is the kid who never showed after school for the fight he started. But he sure told everyone he would have won if he had.
Mike Johnson says he would accept Hakeem Jeffries's invitation to debate on TV but he's already "cleaned his clock"
October 7, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Johnson is the kid who never showed after school for the fight he started. But he sure told everyone he would have won if he had.
Just rewatched “Children of Men” for the first time in years —fascist/racist governments, anti-immigrant propaganda, troops on the streets, erosion of basic rights, non-citizens held in cages like animals. If humanity suddenly becomes infertile then reality is a lazy plagiarist. See ALT text caption
September 20, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Just rewatched “Children of Men” for the first time in years —fascist/racist governments, anti-immigrant propaganda, troops on the streets, erosion of basic rights, non-citizens held in cages like animals. If humanity suddenly becomes infertile then reality is a lazy plagiarist. See ALT text caption
If you’re looking for government waste👇🏼
Millions of dollars worth of contraceptives destined for low-income countries were destroyed at the direction of the Trump administration.
$10 Million in Contraceptives Have Been Destroyed on Orders From Trump Officials
The birth control pills, IUDs and hormonal implants were purchased by U.S.A.I.D. for women in low-income countries. They had been in limbo in a Belgian warehouse after the U.S. cut much of its foreign aid.
nyti.ms
September 12, 2025 at 12:18 AM
If you’re looking for government waste👇🏼
I didn’t realize the Dead Internet had a voice… or voices.
found out what former Wondery COO Jeanine Wright is up to: flooding the internet with unlistenable AI podcasts
Her company has put out around 156,000 AI podcast episodes in two years and has averaged about 64 listens per podcast total in that time (less than one download a week)
Her company has put out around 156,000 AI podcast episodes in two years and has averaged about 64 listens per podcast total in that time (less than one download a week)
September 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I didn’t realize the Dead Internet had a voice… or voices.
This whole thread is a revealing and depressing reality check for anyone who publishes in academic journals.
Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:
September 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
This whole thread is a revealing and depressing reality check for anyone who publishes in academic journals.
This is a good read👇🏼
September 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
This is a good read👇🏼
This👇🏼
I keep typing words and then deleting them because none of them are sufficient to capture how utterly fucked up and unacceptable this is. And yet it won't move a single Republican to give a damn.
The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents.
In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.
In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.
September 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
This👇🏼
Seeing these two posts one right after the other… it’s like Bluesky got what I was thinking😅
@scalzi.com
@scalzi.com
August 19, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Seeing these two posts one right after the other… it’s like Bluesky got what I was thinking😅
@scalzi.com
@scalzi.com
Love to see the strategy/planning docs that show how MS NOW survives without NBC News & its local stations. That’s a lot of hiring and a huge capability gap. You could end up with a weak, news-free cable channel and a less visible but still expensive NBC News. Maybe a justification for cuts at both?
Breaking News: MSNBC is changing its name to My Source News Opinion World, or MS NOW, as part of a corporate spinoff that is separating the company from its cousin, NBC News.
MSNBC to Change Its Name to MS NOW
The cable news network is changing its name this year because a corporate spinoff is separating MSNBC from its cousin, NBC News.
nyti.ms
August 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Love to see the strategy/planning docs that show how MS NOW survives without NBC News & its local stations. That’s a lot of hiring and a huge capability gap. You could end up with a weak, news-free cable channel and a less visible but still expensive NBC News. Maybe a justification for cuts at both?
🤦🏻♂️ So… the people setting the alleged guardrails for AI at Meta are racist, misogynistic and think it’s okay to sexualize children? Yeah, this AI-thing is a real boon to humanity.
Here's the related story. "Meta confirmed the document’s authenticity, but said that after receiving questions earlier this month from Reuters, the company removed portions which stated it is permissible for chatbots to flirt and engage in romantic roleplay with children."
Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with children
An internal Meta policy document reveals the social-media giant’s rules for chatbots, which have permitted provocative behavior on topics including sex and race.
www.reuters.com
August 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
🤦🏻♂️ So… the people setting the alleged guardrails for AI at Meta are racist, misogynistic and think it’s okay to sexualize children? Yeah, this AI-thing is a real boon to humanity.
Just want to share this with @jamesgunn.bsky.social and @mattreevesla.bsky.social. If DC can sue over a doctored poster, how about audio lifted directly from one of your movies? This IP theft uses the words of a hero to glorify a sickening political agenda. We know whose side The Batman would be on.
DHS just posted another anti-migrant propaganda video with a bible verse. This time from Proverbs. The voiceover seems to be from The Batman (2022)
July 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Just want to share this with @jamesgunn.bsky.social and @mattreevesla.bsky.social. If DC can sue over a doctored poster, how about audio lifted directly from one of your movies? This IP theft uses the words of a hero to glorify a sickening political agenda. We know whose side The Batman would be on.
Loved Superman but the most real and depressing part was the army of bureaucrats, techbros and wannabe IT types who cheered on and enabled a mad “genius” as he committed crimes, lied to America and set himself up to be a king. Every movie villain has had their henchmen but this felt too real today.
July 22, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Loved Superman but the most real and depressing part was the army of bureaucrats, techbros and wannabe IT types who cheered on and enabled a mad “genius” as he committed crimes, lied to America and set himself up to be a king. Every movie villain has had their henchmen but this felt too real today.
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REPORTER: What do you do next time to make sure people are alerted if they're dead asleep? Maybe a siren system?
TRUMP: Yeah. You'll probably have to do that. You'll probably come up with something very unique, because there's no system right now. A thing like this has never happened.
TRUMP: Yeah. You'll probably have to do that. You'll probably come up with something very unique, because there's no system right now. A thing like this has never happened.
July 11, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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This is disgusting. It’s how gangsters operate.
The United States is seeking to steal the sovereignty of Brazil, there's really no other way to describe this. It's an effort to overthrow their domestic political institutions.
July 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
This is disgusting. It’s how gangsters operate.
Watched Dr. Strangelove with my daughter and quickly realized the world hasn’t changed much: rabid conspiracies about fluoride in drinking water and communist plots, toxic masculinity, misogyny and powerful men with ED… all leading to incel fantasies and a warped reality that could doom us all. 5 ⭐️
June 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Watched Dr. Strangelove with my daughter and quickly realized the world hasn’t changed much: rabid conspiracies about fluoride in drinking water and communist plots, toxic masculinity, misogyny and powerful men with ED… all leading to incel fantasies and a warped reality that could doom us all. 5 ⭐️
This is our government being weaponized against itself, Constitutional order and the rule of law
This won’t succeed but it is not normal. This is very dangerous. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Sues Every Federal District Judge in Maryland, Challenging Due Process Rights
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
June 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
This is our government being weaponized against itself, Constitutional order and the rule of law