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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 · 7h

This person crossed my feed and I appreciate their message: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMUD4jPJ/

Love ya!

TikTok video by Cowboy Kenna

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 20h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 1d

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 1d

Finally I can see it
These [FROGS] not meant to [HOP] alone
Finally I can see it
These [FROGS] not meant to [HOP] alone

Finally I can see it
These [FROGS] not meant to [HOP] alone
Finally I can see it
These [FROGS] not meant to [HOP] alone

🐸✊🏾

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 2d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

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Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 1d

🤞🏾🇸🇻🤞🏾

Pa’ Mundial, Muchachos!

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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 1d

As USC considers Trump's offer tying funding to conservative policies, MIT firmly rejects it

As USC considers Trump’s offer tying funding to conservative policies, MIT firmly rejects it

MIT is among the first to express forceful views either in favor of or against an agreement the White House billed as providing "multiple positive benefits."

www.latimes.com

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 1d

🤡

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1d

OH. MY. GOD. 🫠

Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 1d

I just realized those patches on his jacket. Lord.

Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 1d

This guy is critiquing hair styles?

(Just imagine all the time and hairspray cans he spent to get his straight, blonde hair to stand up like a Christopher “Kid” Reid high-top fade.)

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Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 2d

It’s tradition that when you see the frogs, you show them respect 🫡

(Someone should do the Creed cut with the footage)

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 2d

You can wear this one and hold a sign that says we're all trying to find antifa

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”

Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 2d

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

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Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 2d

He dresses down the national conservative political party in Spain for climate denial and aligning with Trump.

Their “patriotic” stance is anti-Spain and its future, he says.

This response is 🔥🔥🔥.

Emilio Delgado @emiliodelgado.bsky.social · 2d

El científico del CSIC Emilio Santiago Muiño poniendo a Vox en su sitio ayer en el congreso.

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Emilio Delgado @emiliodelgado.bsky.social · 2d

El científico del CSIC Emilio Santiago Muiño poniendo a Vox en su sitio ayer en el congreso.

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Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 2d

The peace deal will fall apart in…. 48 hours? What do you think?

Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 2d

(It kinda bugs me the poster misrepresents/misquotes him.)

Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 2d

The extra layer of joy that he lost to a Venezuelan.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

María Corina Machado of Venezuela, the opposition leader who built a powerful social movement challenging President Nicolás Maduro and has been living in hiding since last year, was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. Here's what to know: nyti.ms/47iFxzh

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 3d

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Juan Escalante @juansaaa.com · 2d

lol @people.com didn’t hold back

PEOPLE MAGAZINE HEADLINE: Trump Loses Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan Politician María Corina Machado After Repeatedly Saying He Wants the Award →

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