Steven Bodzin, yes THAT Steven Bodzin
@stevenbodzin.bsky.social
Investigative financial reporter at REDD Intelligence, focused on Latin America. Find me on iNaturalist or on my bike. My employer has nothing to do with my posts. I am quick to mute people who argue without introducing themselves by name. Clean on opsec
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it's actually kinda funny in a way to get to the finish line of curing cancer and having the government go eh you know what. never mind
A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
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December 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
it's actually kinda funny in a way to get to the finish line of curing cancer and having the government go eh you know what. never mind
First photo shows a six lane one way road with wide lanes and endless sight lines. Second photo zooms in on a tiny yellow dot in the middle distance on the left side of the first picture. The yellow dot turns out to be a small road sign on a street pole that says, cyclists ahead, slow. #bikes
December 13, 2025 at 7:23 AM
First photo shows a six lane one way road with wide lanes and endless sight lines. Second photo zooms in on a tiny yellow dot in the middle distance on the left side of the first picture. The yellow dot turns out to be a small road sign on a street pole that says, cyclists ahead, slow. #bikes
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25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
December 12, 2025 at 5:36 AM
25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
Kristi "Garden" Gnoem
December 12, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Kristi "Garden" Gnoem
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"We think that what this means is that the heterotrophs -- microorganisms that feed on organic carbon from decomposing microbes and other marine life -- are taking up a lot of inorganic carbon in addition to the organic carbon that they usually consume,"- Santoro
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
The deep ocean is fixing carbon in ways no one expected
Researchers have uncovered surprising evidence that the deep ocean’s carbon-fixing engine works very differently than long assumed. While ammonia-oxidizing archaea were thought to dominate carbon fixa...
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December 11, 2025 at 10:49 PM
"We think that what this means is that the heterotrophs -- microorganisms that feed on organic carbon from decomposing microbes and other marine life -- are taking up a lot of inorganic carbon in addition to the organic carbon that they usually consume,"- Santoro
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Obviously no one I know in Canada is going to the States. What's surprising is that no one I talk to in Indonesia and Singapore wants to go to the States either, not even for meetings or stop overs
December 12, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Obviously no one I know in Canada is going to the States. What's surprising is that no one I talk to in Indonesia and Singapore wants to go to the States either, not even for meetings or stop overs
The only reason I could afford to freelance for you is that I was in Canada with universal health care. I hope you enjoyed my reports.
I'm not saying you paid badly. You paid well, thank you. But most people can't afford to quit and become entrepreneurs/freelancers in the USA.
I'm not saying you paid badly. You paid well, thank you. But most people can't afford to quit and become entrepreneurs/freelancers in the USA.
For all Universal HC/Single Payer/M4A advocates.
What do the biggest, expensive hospital chains do. Do they opt out and only serve the rich ?
Who in the USA gov runs the program?
R U ok with having to see a primary care doc before you can see a specialist ?
What do the biggest, expensive hospital chains do. Do they opt out and only serve the rich ?
Who in the USA gov runs the program?
R U ok with having to see a primary care doc before you can see a specialist ?
December 11, 2025 at 11:47 PM
The only reason I could afford to freelance for you is that I was in Canada with universal health care. I hope you enjoyed my reports.
I'm not saying you paid badly. You paid well, thank you. But most people can't afford to quit and become entrepreneurs/freelancers in the USA.
I'm not saying you paid badly. You paid well, thank you. But most people can't afford to quit and become entrepreneurs/freelancers in the USA.
The biggest, most direct attack on the free press in decades.
December 11, 2025 at 11:32 AM
The biggest, most direct attack on the free press in decades.
It's always 37. Why is that? Ivanka can you tell us
www.nbcchicago.com/news/busines...
www.nbcchicago.com/news/busines...
December 10, 2025 at 1:30 AM
It's always 37. Why is that? Ivanka can you tell us
www.nbcchicago.com/news/busines...
www.nbcchicago.com/news/busines...
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Ozymandias but everyone in the office calls her “Mandy” and it just feels too late to tell them she’d rather they didn’t
December 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Ozymandias but everyone in the office calls her “Mandy” and it just feels too late to tell them she’d rather they didn’t
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It's interesting because the online model of masculinity today is everything that I was taught not to be. Whiney, self-centred, arrogant, narcissistic, unkind, vain, selfish.
I'm re-watching Magnum P.I. and I can't believe how vastly superior the 1980s ideal of masculinity is, vs today's whining, lying misogynist edgelord ideal that we see in culture all the way up to the Presidency.
The 50's stereotypical man had at least some other things to offer. Typically noble or stoic. Perhaps serving the greater good. Instead it's now a bunch of energy drink selfish neurotics who spend too much time at the gym and have no developed personality at all but being online.
December 9, 2025 at 7:02 AM
It's interesting because the online model of masculinity today is everything that I was taught not to be. Whiney, self-centred, arrogant, narcissistic, unkind, vain, selfish.
Someone needs to dig into the causes of this, and especially if there is any impact from the November election.
New York City went 12 days without a murder in November / December. That's tied for the longest stretch in history, according to the NYPD. As someone who was here when there were 6+ murders per day in this town, it continues to amaze me how safe the place is.
December 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Someone needs to dig into the causes of this, and especially if there is any impact from the November election.
One thing that keeps coming up is how these guys are always in gigantic SUVs and a lot of the people who get away are on bikes.
December 6, 2025 at 11:22 PM
One thing that keeps coming up is how these guys are always in gigantic SUVs and a lot of the people who get away are on bikes.
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A good heuristic is that anyone who tries rationalize the decimation of the Reconstruction Amendments is a Confederate
You could write this. Or you could write: “That notion, which has been the rule in nearly every country in the Western Hemisphere for over a century, is grounded in the language of the 14th Amendment.”
All how you choose to frame it.
All how you choose to frame it.
December 6, 2025 at 12:07 PM
A good heuristic is that anyone who tries rationalize the decimation of the Reconstruction Amendments is a Confederate
Wait. This indicates that every body can interaction is being fed into a facial recognition database. Is that legal? #bikenyc
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/n...
December 6, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Wait. This indicates that every body can interaction is being fed into a facial recognition database. Is that legal? #bikenyc
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/n...
Interesting that one of the most notorious "enchufados," people who made millions or billions through their connections with the bolivarian revolution, is now under arrest in the UK. Auspicious timing. (Via alek boyd on Instagram)
#betancourt #derwick
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
#betancourt #derwick
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Interesting that one of the most notorious "enchufados," people who made millions or billions through their connections with the bolivarian revolution, is now under arrest in the UK. Auspicious timing. (Via alek boyd on Instagram)
#betancourt #derwick
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
#betancourt #derwick
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
I just saw a real cock fight. They fought for like 3 minutes, then one skulks away and the other crows like crazy. It was pretty entertaining! And no one got tortured.
December 6, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I just saw a real cock fight. They fought for like 3 minutes, then one skulks away and the other crows like crazy. It was pretty entertaining! And no one got tortured.
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This is a worthwhile article, replete though it is with NYTisms. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u... 🎁
Second Strike Scrutiny Obscures Larger Question About Trump’s Boat Attacks
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:54 AM
This is a worthwhile article, replete though it is with NYTisms. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u... 🎁
The housing crisis is actually a pension crisis.
Businesses around the world, with government complicity, took away fixed pensions and told people to rely on home value appreciation instead. And that only works if there is too little housing.
Businesses around the world, with government complicity, took away fixed pensions and told people to rely on home value appreciation instead. And that only works if there is too little housing.
Downzoning was used by cities around the world to preserve neighborhood aesthetics & protect property values.
New evidence from Chicago in @findingspress.org ⏬ shows downzoning's effects over several decades:
—Massive drop in housing construction
—Higher home prices
—Increased racial segregation
New evidence from Chicago in @findingspress.org ⏬ shows downzoning's effects over several decades:
—Massive drop in housing construction
—Higher home prices
—Increased racial segregation
Downzoning Chicago: How Local Land Use Policy Has Reduced Housing Construction and Reinforced Segregation | Published in Findings
By Yonah Freemark, George Kisiel. Downzonings were used by US cities in the postwar period to preserve neighborhood character. These land-use policies were associated with lower housing supply, higher...
findingspress.org
December 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The housing crisis is actually a pension crisis.
Businesses around the world, with government complicity, took away fixed pensions and told people to rely on home value appreciation instead. And that only works if there is too little housing.
Businesses around the world, with government complicity, took away fixed pensions and told people to rely on home value appreciation instead. And that only works if there is too little housing.
We've replaced all our 911 operators with a dog who can speak!
But I am having a heart attack and need an ambulance
Can you believe you are speaking with an oracular pooch? This is the coolest thing ever!
I am literally dying
Arf! Arf arf!!
But I am having a heart attack and need an ambulance
Can you believe you are speaking with an oracular pooch? This is the coolest thing ever!
I am literally dying
Arf! Arf arf!!
December 1, 2025 at 1:59 AM
We've replaced all our 911 operators with a dog who can speak!
But I am having a heart attack and need an ambulance
Can you believe you are speaking with an oracular pooch? This is the coolest thing ever!
I am literally dying
Arf! Arf arf!!
But I am having a heart attack and need an ambulance
Can you believe you are speaking with an oracular pooch? This is the coolest thing ever!
I am literally dying
Arf! Arf arf!!
Greetings from outside the USA, where corruption is now considered the only path to success.
in the midst of our supposed campaign against Venezuelan drug traffickers the President of the United States has chosen to pardon the Former President of Honduras, freeing him from his long prison sentence earned for trafficking more than 400 tons of cocaine into the United States
November 28, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Greetings from outside the USA, where corruption is now considered the only path to success.
Oh look it's like the 911 memorial but inspiring instead of dismal
November 28, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Oh look it's like the 911 memorial but inspiring instead of dismal
The future is here and the furries won
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 AM
The future is here and the furries won
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How is it that we already know so much about the guy who shot 2 national guardsmen this afternoon but we know pretty much nothing about the two guys who tried to assassinate the president months ago?
November 27, 2025 at 3:53 AM
How is it that we already know so much about the guy who shot 2 national guardsmen this afternoon but we know pretty much nothing about the two guys who tried to assassinate the president months ago?