Steven Bodzin

guacamayan@journa.host

US-based investigative financial reporter. I write about corporate and sovereign debt in Venezuela, Colombia, Peru and Chile at REDD Latin America. Expect posts about Latin American finance, energy, climate. I complain about New York City and post bad jokes at <a href="https://thepit.social/@stevenbodzin" class="u-url mention">@stevenbodzin</a>Posts are mine, and while I try not to embarrass my employer, REDD has nothing to do with anything I write here.

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Post #1735995
Downloading an audiobook that I paid for, I am using Duck Duck Go&#39;s new tracker trapper to watch in real time as Kobo uses Google to try, more than once per second, to detect ... something. Duck Duck Go says Google is &quot;known to detect&quot; everything from headphone status to gender Let me just buy a damn book Post edited to reflect that this is Kobo&#39;s fault, and that I don&#39;t know exactly what it&#39;s trying to detect.
Post #1722268
@molly0xfff as a business reporter, I appreciate the constructive criticism and vocabulary suggestions, but I don&#39;t think readers care if you add the word &quot;notional.&quot; The takeaway number is the same. More importantly, I don&#39;t think anything you&#39;re saying is unique to crypto. Real estate trades are generally in fiat currency, but buyers rarely hold the money for more than a few hours, and never had the money to pay for a house in the first place (it&amp...
Post #1722267
NY Times has sued the US DOJ to force the release of Vol. 2 of Jack Smith&#39;s report, on Pres. Trump absconding with classified documents and obstructing their return. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69560598/the-new-york-times-company-v-united-states-department-of-justice/
Post #1722266
Nice to be living in Venezuela again Pentagon Removes General Milley’s Security Detail and Revokes His Clearance https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/us/politics/trump-pentagon-milley-security.html?unlocked_article_code=1.s04._bQX.g4yTSrs9VbxJ
Post #1722265
Trump: &quot;Today I&#39;m also signing an executive order to instruct the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,000 person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay. Most people don&#39;t even know about it.&quot; https://www.c-span.org/program/white-house-event/president-trump-signs-laken-riley-act/655102
Post #1722264
Listening to Kim Lane Chappelle on the Amicus podcast with Dahlia Lithwick. She is pulling Trump&#39;s recent actions into perspective very well. Shows the real threat. It&#39;s not about cancelling the next election or putting thanks on the street. It&#39;s about systematically undermining and defunding all opposition. https://slate.com/podcasts/amicus/2025/02/donald-trumps-executive-orders-put-us-on-the-road-to-autocracy
Post #1722263
&quot;He used us.&quot; Here, you can learn about why Magazuela supported Trump even as he promised to go after &quot;undocumented&quot; immigrants. People seriously thought that having TPS meant they were documented, that they were not in the firing line. https://www.npr.org/2025/02/04/nx-s1-5285470/venezuelans-florida-tps-immigration-trump #Venezuela #USpol
Post #1722262
@faraiwe if you are bitching about what links people post, sit the fuck down. The internet is still out there and it&#39;s imperative for people to get links to original sources, even if they are at websites that many of us find distasteful.
Post #1722261
This makes two commercial air disasters in two weeks since Trump fired the head of the FAA and insulted all the air traffic controllers with a (probably illegal) buyout offer. I am pretty sure these were first two fatal, hull loss commercial air disasters in the US since 2009 Small Plane With 10 Dead Found Crashed in Alaska https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/us/alaska-plane-missing.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vU4.CLK0.-RRjcWt2qa-m
Post #1722260
Perfect time for US AID to be offline https://mastodon.social/@Rory29/113970895287422138
Post #1722259
@catsalad cat ass trophy
Post #1722258
Is this forced disappearance? #Venezuela #uspol Some Migrants Sent by Trump to Guantánamo Are Being Held by Military Guards https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/us/gitmo-migrants-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wk4.QKyZ.CS2yQfqjpGsC
Post #1722257
@samlitzinger this is something the SEC has been doing for years. 8 could send you 100 Biden SEC press releases using the word &quot;charges&quot; about civil suits. It&#39;s annoying but apparently not totally wrong.
Post #1722256
An enterprising reporter could make a living just covering lawsuits against Elon Musk. More than 80 new cases this year. Most look like appeals or random BS, but there are enough big, interesting cases in there to keep someone very busy.
Post #1722254
@ronaldtootall he has pardon power