Ben Derico
@benderico.bsky.social
🎥 Journalist and Producer making videos about climate
📺 Prev - BBC News | Work in - The Guardian, The Intercept, CNN
🚲 Probably riding my bike
📺 Prev - BBC News | Work in - The Guardian, The Intercept, CNN
🚲 Probably riding my bike
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Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.
January 3, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.
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going to be truly on brand when we’re about to win the league but it gets canceled for WW3
January 3, 2026 at 7:30 PM
going to be truly on brand when we’re about to win the league but it gets canceled for WW3
These photos are giving “cheap wedding photographer near me”
They’ve got Twitter up on the big screens in Trump’s Mar-a-Lago makeshift “situation room.”
Photos from Trump’s Truth Social account.
Photos from Trump’s Truth Social account.
January 3, 2026 at 7:20 PM
These photos are giving “cheap wedding photographer near me”
This is absolutely horrifying. Not just for what’s ahead for Venezuela but sovereignty in the rest of the world. If any dare push back against the interest of US corporations they can expect the boot of the US military. This is what a cadre of malignant billionaires will do when given power.
January 3, 2026 at 5:47 PM
This is absolutely horrifying. Not just for what’s ahead for Venezuela but sovereignty in the rest of the world. If any dare push back against the interest of US corporations they can expect the boot of the US military. This is what a cadre of malignant billionaires will do when given power.
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Donald Trump and Marco Rubio making it absolutely clear Cuba is next in their crosshairs.
It’s incredible to hear Rubio say Venezuela was “colonized” by Cubans — as the United States decapitates its government and claims it’s becoming an occupying power to steal the country’s oil wealth.
It’s incredible to hear Rubio say Venezuela was “colonized” by Cubans — as the United States decapitates its government and claims it’s becoming an occupying power to steal the country’s oil wealth.
January 3, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Donald Trump and Marco Rubio making it absolutely clear Cuba is next in their crosshairs.
It’s incredible to hear Rubio say Venezuela was “colonized” by Cubans — as the United States decapitates its government and claims it’s becoming an occupying power to steal the country’s oil wealth.
It’s incredible to hear Rubio say Venezuela was “colonized” by Cubans — as the United States decapitates its government and claims it’s becoming an occupying power to steal the country’s oil wealth.
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Cancer research costs too much but we have the money to run Venezuela
January 3, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Cancer research costs too much but we have the money to run Venezuela
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Rubio is claiming that they did not need Congress permission because it was a law enforcement mission. The US is behaving as a global police state, extending its own arbitrary legal decisions to the whole world.
This is not a problem just for Venezuela.
This is not a problem just for Venezuela.
January 3, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Rubio is claiming that they did not need Congress permission because it was a law enforcement mission. The US is behaving as a global police state, extending its own arbitrary legal decisions to the whole world.
This is not a problem just for Venezuela.
This is not a problem just for Venezuela.
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if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live
January 3, 2026 at 5:00 PM
if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live
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trump is being asked by reporters how he plans to run venezuela and there is clearly no plan.
January 3, 2026 at 5:17 PM
trump is being asked by reporters how he plans to run venezuela and there is clearly no plan.
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This is fucking insane. Trump took over another country for oil when he can’t even run the US.
Trump on Venezuela: "We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition"
January 3, 2026 at 5:02 PM
This is fucking insane. Trump took over another country for oil when he can’t even run the US.
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There is no plan, gang
January 3, 2026 at 4:48 PM
There is no plan, gang
12 in a row 😤 youtu.be/q8Do_LqPKeI
Gmac Cash - Pistons Won Again (Audio)
YouTube video by Gmac Cash
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 3:25 AM
12 in a row 😤 youtu.be/q8Do_LqPKeI
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When Stephen Miller hijacks the Major League Baseball social media account
October 6, 2025 at 8:18 PM
When Stephen Miller hijacks the Major League Baseball social media account
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Don't look away.
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
October 5, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Don't look away.
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I’m increasingly convinced by the argument China’s decade-long investment to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels, and particularly imports, is not only creating a new electrified model that other South countries can benefit from, but is leaving the West behind because it can’t ditch fossil fuels.
July 26, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I’m increasingly convinced by the argument China’s decade-long investment to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels, and particularly imports, is not only creating a new electrified model that other South countries can benefit from, but is leaving the West behind because it can’t ditch fossil fuels.
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Holy shit, this is phenomenal reporting by @404media.co. The NYT could never.
Frightening shit too. This is what I was worried about. Trump administration is hoping a good number of those disappeared have no family that would inquire into there whereabouts.
Anyway subscribe to 404.
Frightening shit too. This is what I was worried about. Trump administration is hoping a good number of those disappeared have no family that would inquire into there whereabouts.
Anyway subscribe to 404.
"flight manifests for 3 legally contested deportation flights from Texas to El Salvador contain dozens of additional, unaccounted for passengers than a previously published Department of Homeland Security (DHS) list of people deported from the United States on those flights, 404 Media has learned."
Flight Manifests Reveal Dozens of Previously Unknown People on Three Deportation Flights to El Salvador
Hacked data obtained by 404 Media reveals dozens more people on deportation flights to El Salvador who are unaccounted for. “We have not heard from these people’s families, so I think perhaps even they don’t know," one lawyer said.
www.404media.co
July 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Holy shit, this is phenomenal reporting by @404media.co. The NYT could never.
Frightening shit too. This is what I was worried about. Trump administration is hoping a good number of those disappeared have no family that would inquire into there whereabouts.
Anyway subscribe to 404.
Frightening shit too. This is what I was worried about. Trump administration is hoping a good number of those disappeared have no family that would inquire into there whereabouts.
Anyway subscribe to 404.
I’m home for 4th of July and just wanna say I successfully turned off motion smoothing on the TV
July 4, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I’m home for 4th of July and just wanna say I successfully turned off motion smoothing on the TV
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"ASK ME ABOUT MY REGRETFUL TESLA PURCHASE" is a good Tesla bumper sticker, as it suggests a certain level of introspection on the part of the driver rather than insisting that Tesla was entirely unproblematic before Elon suddenly "went crazy" out of nowhere
This is a new one. Based on the car pool sticker, they bought it in 2022
June 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
"ASK ME ABOUT MY REGRETFUL TESLA PURCHASE" is a good Tesla bumper sticker, as it suggests a certain level of introspection on the part of the driver rather than insisting that Tesla was entirely unproblematic before Elon suddenly "went crazy" out of nowhere
Last month I visited Chile to film a story about the new #RubinObservatory.
Today the first images were published. They are just incredible. It really inspires me to think about what may be out there that we'll soon see.
Our story, with few of the images, here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MdD...
Today the first images were published. They are just incredible. It really inspires me to think about what may be out there that we'll soon see.
Our story, with few of the images, here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MdD...
First images from powerful new telescope released | BBC News
YouTube video by BBC News
www.youtube.com
June 23, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Last month I visited Chile to film a story about the new #RubinObservatory.
Today the first images were published. They are just incredible. It really inspires me to think about what may be out there that we'll soon see.
Our story, with few of the images, here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MdD...
Today the first images were published. They are just incredible. It really inspires me to think about what may be out there that we'll soon see.
Our story, with few of the images, here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MdD...
Yeah but Gods a Tigers fan ✌🏻😎
June 11, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Yeah but Gods a Tigers fan ✌🏻😎
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If I were JD Vance, I would consider whether God is perhaps sending me some fairly specific messages
May 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM
If I were JD Vance, I would consider whether God is perhaps sending me some fairly specific messages
So I guess we are gonna down the rainforest so I can get an ai image of the pope ordering a beef with a caption that says yes chef huh?
May 9, 2025 at 12:38 AM
So I guess we are gonna down the rainforest so I can get an ai image of the pope ordering a beef with a caption that says yes chef huh?
Pistons deserved to win these last two games but you gotta be able to protect a lead. Up 10 with 5:00 in each game and lost. KAT and Brunson were ruthless. Our young injured team kept it close but not enough. Let’s see if they can fight one out in NY
April 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Pistons deserved to win these last two games but you gotta be able to protect a lead. Up 10 with 5:00 in each game and lost. KAT and Brunson were ruthless. Our young injured team kept it close but not enough. Let’s see if they can fight one out in NY