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Robert Hernandez

@webjournalist.bsky.social

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USCAnnenberg Digital Profe, #JOVRNALISM creator, NAHJ Hall of Famer/Program Manager, CalMatters & InquireFirst board member. Chicas Poderosas #wjchat #HorizontalLoyalty he/him 🇸🇻 // I live sweat but I dream light years.

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Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · Dec 19

I wish we were living in a different timeline, but in this one we have to have the courage to speak up and, as they say, "meet the moment." And I predict you will. www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/well...

We’ll draw the lines we will not cross

"This year, I predict that you — yes, <em>you</em> — will stand up, speak up, and do the right thing for the communities we aim to serve."

www.niemanlab.org

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Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 3h

Sensei!

Illustration from: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMSycBbx/

Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 8h

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

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Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 8h

an elderly woman in a green shirt says it 's been 84 years ...

ALT: an elderly woman in a green shirt says it 's been 84 years ...

media.tenor.com

Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 8h

Hahahahaha! Totally missed that!

Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 10h

I thought this was a joke until I saw the second, closeup photo.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

Good lord.

@apnews.com

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Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 12h

I am told that this Anti-Antifa is also at the roundtable talking about his assault at the hands of a liberal professor.

Dr. Jones is woke and violent!

Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 12h

Is Richard Spencer at the roundtable talking about being punched in the face in January 2017? Punching a Nazi is very Antifa.

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Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 12h

Ah, yes. I remember. truthout.org/articles/rig...

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Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 12h

When you openly say that anti-fascists were fighting against the Nazis, as if that makes them the bad guys.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 13h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 14h

"If you come for my people, you come through me."

That quote doesn't sound right to me... maybe it should be "you got to get through" or "you gotta fight me first."

But "come through me" sounds like he's the exclusive facilitator.

Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 14h

Are people talking about how RFK Jr is the inspiration for Col. Lockjaw’s look in One Battler After Another… or nah?

Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 14h

We won’t comply after we’ve complied. But it was OUR choice to comply.

youtu.be/eHmbO6s1DmU?...

Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 18h

I am told “Mama Mia!” prefix was edited out from the original headline.

(I am joking. Comedy is hard.)

Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 19h

Literally in the first sentence/lede: “his hometown of San Pedro”

San Pedro, CA.

Why frame him as Sicilian?

Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 19h

Sicilian man said to work for Mexican Mafia charged with racketeering in L.A. gang bust

Authorities in Los Angeles announced charges Tuesday against suspected members of a San Pedro gang, including a state prisoner who allegedly used contraband cellphones to carry out the bidding of the Mexican Mafia.

www.latimes.com

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 19h

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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Yo Gabapentin @yogabapentin.bsky.social · 1d

Claude AI’s logo is unironically Kurt Vonnegut’s butthole drawing

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 1d

Thugs

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Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 1d

🚩🚩🚩 from the video vibes.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1d

What will the new Adam O'Neal–hosted WaPo opinions podcast sound like for the next few decades? Maybe a little something like this x.com/WashPostComm...

Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 1d

Smarter people can express it better but that conversation really exposes that. No matter how well meaning someone is, sometimes they can’t phantom an alternative life experience outside of theirs so they dismiss it, even calling it bias since it is not “normal.”

Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 1d

If you can turn it around for next week, I think you can make it. But after, then yeah. Maybe it is a podcast extra.

ACTUALLY, there is a bigger convo there that would be longer segment: the white-centered framing of journalism and its defining of norms, roles and ethics at the cost of ….

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Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 1d

I do hope CBS News or 60 Minutes does a piece on their new owners and leadership.

Sacred cows make for great hamburger.

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss once wrote an NYT column under the headline "We're All Fascists Now."
She said Dave Rubin was called an "anti-Fascist lieutenant" by lefties.
She linked to a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" (left).
The most amazing correction followed. (right)

web.archive.org/web/20180307...

Looks like the Fascist Lieutenant @RubinReport is speaking at an Alt-Right event today. You know what to do, comrades. #Antifa #NoPlatform

Editors’ Note: March 7, 2018

An earlier version of this essay cited criticism of the commentator Dave Rubin as an example of left-leaning attacks on liberals in the public sphere, and linked to tweets that described him as a fascist. Those tweets came from an account that has been reported to be fake. Therefore the example and the links have been removed.

Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 1d

That was your only Klein/Coates moment.

I’m kidding. I swear! Kidding. Bad joke.

Speaking of which, are y’all going to do a segment on that conversation. Klein’s existential crisis on what his role is, is a great topic for OTM.

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