Sjonia Harper
@sjoniaharper.bsky.social
Musings of a woman looking for a different social media experience.
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By adopting the administration’s language, the mainstream media has helped normalize Trump’s Venezuela escalation instead of interrogating its legality or consequences.
The mass media's blind spot on Trump's Venezuela escalation
Iraq-era mistakes of blind deference by the mainstream press are back
www.salon.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:09 AM
By adopting the administration’s language, the mainstream media has helped normalize Trump’s Venezuela escalation instead of interrogating its legality or consequences.
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We cannot become numb to the outrage of this. The wife of the President’s Senior Advisor threatens a sovereign nation.
January 4, 2026 at 11:45 PM
We cannot become numb to the outrage of this. The wife of the President’s Senior Advisor threatens a sovereign nation.
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So many in media are ill-equipped to interview officials about what’s happening because they begin with the presumption of legitimacy and don’t know enough about history or U.S. foreign policy to foment intelligent pushback and hold officials accountable.
January 4, 2026 at 11:32 PM
So many in media are ill-equipped to interview officials about what’s happening because they begin with the presumption of legitimacy and don’t know enough about history or U.S. foreign policy to foment intelligent pushback and hold officials accountable.
Woke up to learn that US imperialism has been unleashed on Venezuela. As punishment for Hugo Chavez nationalizing Venezuela's oil industry, the US is now just going to take it AND change the regime. This is Marco Rubio's wet dream.
January 3, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Woke up to learn that US imperialism has been unleashed on Venezuela. As punishment for Hugo Chavez nationalizing Venezuela's oil industry, the US is now just going to take it AND change the regime. This is Marco Rubio's wet dream.
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We are a rogue state, run by a dictator, and the international community should treat us as such including all appropriate economic and diplomatic sanctions
January 3, 2026 at 3:36 PM
We are a rogue state, run by a dictator, and the international community should treat us as such including all appropriate economic and diplomatic sanctions
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If America threatens and attacks all of our allies, then those countries will turn away from us and seek alliances with other major powers.
China and Russia win by simply doing nothing and letting Trump self-destruct our country.
Remarkable.
China and Russia win by simply doing nothing and letting Trump self-destruct our country.
Remarkable.
January 3, 2026 at 7:25 PM
If America threatens and attacks all of our allies, then those countries will turn away from us and seek alliances with other major powers.
China and Russia win by simply doing nothing and letting Trump self-destruct our country.
Remarkable.
China and Russia win by simply doing nothing and letting Trump self-destruct our country.
Remarkable.
January 2, 2026 at 4:55 PM
January 2, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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Find me the conservative parents with kids in daycare who would be okay with a group of anonymous men, some masked, some with cameras, being allowed without their permission into their kid’s daycare in the middle of the day to *film their kids*.
Find me one.
Find me one.
January 2, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Find me the conservative parents with kids in daycare who would be okay with a group of anonymous men, some masked, some with cameras, being allowed without their permission into their kid’s daycare in the middle of the day to *film their kids*.
Find me one.
Find me one.
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Today in Chicago History: Oprah Winfrey debuts on ‘AM Chicago’
Today in Chicago History: Oprah Winfrey debuts on ‘AM Chicago’
Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Jan. 2, according to the Tribune’s archives.
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January 2, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Today in Chicago History: Oprah Winfrey debuts on ‘AM Chicago’
December 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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If you want to know more about CECOT, this story — featuring some excellent reporting from "60 Minutes" in the Before Times — can fill you in.
Trump & Deportations: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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December 22, 2025 at 12:46 PM
If you want to know more about CECOT, this story — featuring some excellent reporting from "60 Minutes" in the Before Times — can fill you in.
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Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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December 22, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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CBS postpones '60 Minutes' report on El Salvador's CECOT prison reut.rs/4jcmds3
CBS postpones '60 Minutes' report on El Salvador's CECOT prison
CBS News pulled a "60 Minutes" report on El Salvador's CECOT prison just hours before its scheduled Sunday broadcast, saying it would air at a future time.
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December 22, 2025 at 2:40 AM
CBS postpones '60 Minutes' report on El Salvador's CECOT prison reut.rs/4jcmds3
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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🔥 KOH: “What we’re seeing is what the founding fathers feared the most — the collapse of our checks & balances. The Supreme court is supposed to be a co-equal branch, It's basically a mouthpiece for Trump. Members of congress are resigning rather than stand up to him.”
December 5, 2025 at 3:52 AM
🔥 KOH: “What we’re seeing is what the founding fathers feared the most — the collapse of our checks & balances. The Supreme court is supposed to be a co-equal branch, It's basically a mouthpiece for Trump. Members of congress are resigning rather than stand up to him.”
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To make common cause with this Administration is to support an affirmatively white supremacist vision of this country. Period.
Every corporation.
Every Republican.
Every influencer.
Every Governor.
Every evangelical leader.
Every voter. Yes. Every voter.
Every corporation.
Every Republican.
Every influencer.
Every Governor.
Every evangelical leader.
Every voter. Yes. Every voter.
Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
November 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
To make common cause with this Administration is to support an affirmatively white supremacist vision of this country. Period.
Every corporation.
Every Republican.
Every influencer.
Every Governor.
Every evangelical leader.
Every voter. Yes. Every voter.
Every corporation.
Every Republican.
Every influencer.
Every Governor.
Every evangelical leader.
Every voter. Yes. Every voter.
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Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.
Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.
“If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”
www.motherjones.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.
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You and me both. And now folks are treating Bush Jr. like a nice old paintin' grandpa who everybody misses; forgetting the whole "lies to take us into an unnecessary war," literal torture at our Cuba concentration camp, letting the Ninth Ward in NOLA drown, mass surveillance and more.
It's cute, reading all these anguished cries: "when this is all over, these guys need to go to jail!" I remember saying that during Bush I crimes, and during Bush II crimes, and during Trump I crimes.
Guess how many of those guys went to jail.
Guess how many of those guys went to jail.
November 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM
You and me both. And now folks are treating Bush Jr. like a nice old paintin' grandpa who everybody misses; forgetting the whole "lies to take us into an unnecessary war," literal torture at our Cuba concentration camp, letting the Ninth Ward in NOLA drown, mass surveillance and more.
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RFK Jr. wants you to know he’s personally responsible for anti-vax misinformation on the CDC website
RFK Jr. wants you to know he’s personally responsible for anti-vax misinformation on CDC website
He told the New York Times there’s no proof that vaccines don’t cause autism, which is a lie.
www.motherjones.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM
RFK Jr. wants you to know he’s personally responsible for anti-vax misinformation on the CDC website
Read this article and carefully consider where you receive care AND make sure you have a strong advocate and lawyer on standby.
Hospitals often discharged patients to subpar nursing homes after having them placed under guardianship, according to a new Chicago Tribune investigation.
Chicago hospitals funnel patients into long-lasting guardianships, angering friends and family
Chicago-area hospitals recently initiated hundreds of guardianship petitions in just 18 months, a Chicago Tribune investigation has found.
trib.al
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Read this article and carefully consider where you receive care AND make sure you have a strong advocate and lawyer on standby.
I need #BrianMcKnight to take us all out the group chat.
November 24, 2025 at 3:32 AM
I need #BrianMcKnight to take us all out the group chat.
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
Minority Report type shit
AP finds a secretive Border Patrol intelligence program detains Americans for “suspicious” travel. Critics call it mass surveillance.
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Minority Report type shit