Steven Bodzin, concerned living being
@stevenbodzin
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. Quick to mute anonymous arguments, please introduce yourself. Expect prolific profanity.
Reminder for the tens of millions of North Americans being smoked out by the Thunder Bay fires: you can get clean air with an only fans. Actually, it's not only a fan. You need to add a 20-inch furnace filter and a strap. DRAMATICALLY improves indoor AQI.
Fuck, once again, AI. But also thank you for kicking me off your rapidly enshittifying platform, @nytimes.com The reason for my ban is that I was playing against a long time opponent and joked with her that I was using juvenile words like anal and dildo because "I am 8 years old." I am 55.
AI is coming for our tacky bedroom decorations
But overall, daybreak has revealed the extent of the disaster. It's bad. This is footage from the seaside near Caracas. These were recently constructed buildings. I believe they were built after the Vargas tragedy of 1999.
All of this is reminiscent of 1999. Shortly after Hugo Chavez took office, there were major floods that killed ~20,000. He sent the military to handle relief and turned away US military assistance. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vargas_...
At least 5 fully collapsed large residential buildings in this one panning shot #Venezuela #quake
International airport near Caracas appears very badly damaged. There will likely be calls for US aid, both civilian and military
100 miles/160 km from epicenter, in Caracas. Not my video, but the locations are familiar and it looks very legit.
Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas, who just won the nomination to be the Dem candidate for state senate in District 13 (Jackson Heights), got $763,617.45 in normal donations and $850,000 in dark-money help. At current count, she got 6,476 votes. That might go up a bit, so call it 6,500. Almost $250 per vote!
John Ciafone lost his race to be a judge in Queens. He's the husband and lawyer of criminal suspect Gina Argento, whose alleged two-bit bribes allegedly halted bike & ped safety work on Mcguinness Blvd in Brooklyn. www.curbed.com/2023/06/arge...
Real US disposable income now SHRINKING for first time in years Combine that with a stock bubble bursting. Reflecting pool ass economy www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Why is @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social still using X to distribute emergency alerts? Cities have learned that X will not reliably send those to people in a timely manner. X is a fascist propaganda organ. New York City should not use X for official communications.
President of US says US forces bombed a building and killed a Tren de Aragua leader. Due process is for suckers, murder is just how we do things now. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
Photo editors are the unsung heroes. This one knew exactly what s/he was doing.
Hugo Chavez slashed the ranks of lifetime judges and instead put in "acting" and "provisional" judges who could be fired at will. It didn't help democracy: e-archivo.uc3m.es/rest/api/cor... "between 2004 and 2013...no sentence was ever pronounced against the Government"
The president has a weird bruise on her hand www.instagram.com/p/DZRIgyylbN...
When people say that they're moving to Canada because it is so much better than the US, I always give them side-eye. Now I can also give them poll results thehub.ca/2026/06/05/7...
This sort of take is really confused. Leftist principles are, like, seize the means of production. Not 1 "don't vote for rich guys" or 2 "don't support people with bad judgement." 2 is a wise but not a principle, 1 is pretty much irrelevant. Fred Engels was a rich guy!
How will they pay their victims www.npr.org/2026/02/11/n...
Finally found the one I was looking for. Singapore airport terminal under construction
It's a little too perfect that Nextdoor, the website that has given rise to more class panic than probably any other, is based on the border between Union square and the Tenderloin in San Francisco. Left, the building. Right, the view from there.