Steve Loiaconi
@sloiaconi.bsky.social
Journalist, television producer, and writer.
Then: HLN
Now: Firing Line on PBS
Read my stories: https://steveloiaconi.wordpress.com/
Then: HLN
Now: Firing Line on PBS
Read my stories: https://steveloiaconi.wordpress.com/
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"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025
December 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025
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Brett Kavanaugh (September 2025): The facts and how they relate to the law don’t matter. Assume ICE and other federal forces always act with integrity, always respect rights, and consistently impose minimal burden.
Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong?
Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong?
Kavanaugh in a footnote in today's opinion says "the officers must not make interior immigration stops or arrests based on race or ethnicity."
December 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Brett Kavanaugh (September 2025): The facts and how they relate to the law don’t matter. Assume ICE and other federal forces always act with integrity, always respect rights, and consistently impose minimal burden.
Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong?
Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong?
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The cease-fire in Gaza is more than two months old. But the killing of Palestinians has not yet stopped for more than a day or two at a time.
The Truce Is 2 Months Old. So Why Have Hundreds of Gazans Been Killed?
Since the cease-fire took effect, Israel says it has targeted only militants. But death can come for Gazans while on a family outing or sleeping in a tent.
nyti.ms
December 24, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The cease-fire in Gaza is more than two months old. But the killing of Palestinians has not yet stopped for more than a day or two at a time.
Retroactively declaring them the “Trump Kennedy Center Honors” but not actually changing the logo is a weird mix of hardcore and super lazy sycophancy
December 24, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Retroactively declaring them the “Trump Kennedy Center Honors” but not actually changing the logo is a weird mix of hardcore and super lazy sycophancy
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I hadn’t thought about 60 Minutes in forever, but then they started hiding the news, like a cool scavenger hunt.
December 22, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I hadn’t thought about 60 Minutes in forever, but then they started hiding the news, like a cool scavenger hunt.
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Damned if you do; damned if you don't. The government spent months turning immigration court into a deportation trap.
More immigrants are not showing up for their mandatory immigration court hearings compared to prior years, an NPR analysis shows, allowing the government to order their immediate deportation. n.pr/4saLnem
NPR analysis shows skyrocketing number of 'no-shows' in immigration court
More immigrants are not showing up for their mandatory immigration court hearings compared to prior years, an NPR analysis shows, allowing the government to order their immediate deportation.
n.pr
December 22, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Damned if you do; damned if you don't. The government spent months turning immigration court into a deportation trap.
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I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
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BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
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really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
December 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
Seems like the fact that the change doesn’t appear to be legal should be a bigger part of the story
The rest of the world will continue calling it The Kennedy Center
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Kennedy Center board votes to rename ‘Trump-Kennedy Center’
Kennedy Center trustees, installed earlier this year by President Trump, have voted to rename the center after him, said Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Seems like the fact that the change doesn’t appear to be legal should be a bigger part of the story
Trump’s speech went well, I gather?
This is legitimately one of the most pathetic things I’ve ever seen on tv
December 18, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Trump’s speech went well, I gather?
Fox, of course, making no effort to inform their audience whether what Trump is saying is true (it’s not, recruiting exceeded targets in 2024)
December 18, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Fox, of course, making no effort to inform their audience whether what Trump is saying is true (it’s not, recruiting exceeded targets in 2024)
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i wonder what this totally brave soul is doing right now
December 17, 2025 at 11:17 PM
i wonder what this totally brave soul is doing right now
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They updated the website today to remove the word "independent"
Before (left), after (right)
Before (left), after (right)
December 17, 2025 at 8:25 PM
They updated the website today to remove the word "independent"
Before (left), after (right)
Before (left), after (right)
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well, nice to be able to skip the “this war isn’t for oil, how dare you” phase of things this time around
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 12:19 AM
well, nice to be able to skip the “this war isn’t for oil, how dare you” phase of things this time around
When did Venezuela steal “Oil, Land, and other Assets” from us?
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 1:27 AM
When did Venezuela steal “Oil, Land, and other Assets” from us?
It’s really telling that Wiles laughed off the notion that she should have tried to talk Trump out of weaponizing the Justice Department against one of his enemies
“So all of this talk,” I said, “about accusing Letitia James of mortgage
fraud….”
“Well, that might be the one retribution,” Wiles replied.
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fraud….”
“Well, that might be the one retribution,” Wiles replied.
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
![that."
"I don't think he's on a retribution tour," she said. "A governing principle for him is,
'I don't want what happened to me to happen to somebody else.' And so people that have done bad things need to get out of the government. In some cases, it may look like retribution. And there may be an element of that from time to time. Who would blame him? Not me."
so all of this talk," I said, "about accusing Letitia James of mortgage
fraud...."
"Well, that might be the one retribution," Wiles replied,
"So you haven't called him [out] on that, or said, 'Hey, wait a minute.'"
"No, no, not on her," Wiles said. "Not on her. She had a half a billion dollars of his money!" Wiles laughed. (The massive civil fraud penalty won by the New York attorney general's office in a case against Trump had just been thrown out by an appeals court.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t4x2ruk2qmob2b2cx55h4v7r/bafkreiflpilbhlfcf4vhlj2ucbynhhr5uojxvxbryuwo4auovzbfetxpdy@jpeg)
December 16, 2025 at 7:41 PM
It’s really telling that Wiles laughed off the notion that she should have tried to talk Trump out of weaponizing the Justice Department against one of his enemies
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utterly incapable of grace
December 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
utterly incapable of grace
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The guy who offered a bounty to anyone who could provide proof of Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio eating dogs -- and then offered as evidence a video of Congolese immigrants in Dayton, Ohio eating chicken -- has opinions about the right's "conspiracy, psychodrama, and tabloid conflicts."
It's wild how Chris Rufo openly talks about his own followers like they are the dumbest, most contemptible people alive. Which, fair!
But it says a lot about MAGA psychology that they don't seem to mind.
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But it says a lot about MAGA psychology that they don't seem to mind.
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December 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The guy who offered a bounty to anyone who could provide proof of Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio eating dogs -- and then offered as evidence a video of Congolese immigrants in Dayton, Ohio eating chicken -- has opinions about the right's "conspiracy, psychodrama, and tabloid conflicts."
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In American high schools, many teenagers are assigned few full books to read from beginning to end — often just one or two per year, according to researchers and thousands of responses to an informal reader survey by The New York Times. trib.al/gNp7kWK
December 12, 2025 at 10:28 PM
In American high schools, many teenagers are assigned few full books to read from beginning to end — often just one or two per year, according to researchers and thousands of responses to an informal reader survey by The New York Times. trib.al/gNp7kWK
Is this just going to become like a weekly thing now?
December 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Is this just going to become like a weekly thing now?
On some level, I’m going to miss him.
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams is on Capitol Hill today.
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He tells me about Zohran Mamdani announcing he's moving into Gracie Mansion:
"Beware of the ghost. I told [Zohran] about it. So the ghost is there. It's a friendly ghost, as long as you're doing right by the city. If you don't become right by the city, he turns into a poltergeist."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hf7ezrajxadu7v3tzcyij424/bafkreigis3istuaryrpny4ksmoh46xcs3yfowvfuj3t3iouxpy5uiyw2fq@jpeg)
December 11, 2025 at 1:08 AM
On some level, I’m going to miss him.
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So they *are* able to stop a ship in international waters and seize control of it without killing everyone on board?
Huh.
Huh.
Trump: "It's been an interesting day from the standpoint of news. As you probably know, we've just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela. Largest one ever seized actually. And other things are happening."
December 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
So they *are* able to stop a ship in international waters and seize control of it without killing everyone on board?
Huh.
Huh.
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“It’s very simple — with Netflix you get eyebrows. Unkempt, difficult to maintain eyebrows. But with Paramount — no eyebrows. It’s that simple. It’s that tidy. No eyebrows.”
December 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
“It’s very simple — with Netflix you get eyebrows. Unkempt, difficult to maintain eyebrows. But with Paramount — no eyebrows. It’s that simple. It’s that tidy. No eyebrows.”