Steve Loiaconi

Steve Loiaconi

@sloiaconi.bsky.social

Journalist, television producer, and writer. Then: HLN Now: Firing Line on PBS Read my stories: https://steveloiaconi.wordpress.com/

422 Followers 2,522 Following 647 Posts Joined Oct 2024
18 hours ago
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Sure sounds like Iran has a lot of mines, missiles, and ships for a country whose military has been 100% destroyed 🤷‍♂️

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18 hours ago

I haven’t seen this show in like 35 years, but 12-year-old me highly recommends it

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1 day ago
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Trump Knew the Risk of Iran Blocking the Strait of Hormuz. He Still Went to War. The president told his White House team that Tehran would likely capitulate before closing the strait, the world’s most vital shipping lane.

CNN: Trump underestimated problem of Hormuz
Trump: FAKE NEWZ!!
WSJ: Trump's advisors didn't underestimate the problem, Trump kept the smart ones out of the room and ignored what contrary advice he got

www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

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1 day ago
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TikTok Investors Set to Pay $10 Billion Fee to Trump Administration

“…the transaction fee is about 70 percent of the company’s worth.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...

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Hegseth: "We will keep pushing, keep advancing. No quarter, no mercy for our enemies."

No quarter is the refusal to take prisoners and instead just execute everyone. It's been considered a war crime for over a century.

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1 day ago
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This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.

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1 day ago

Pretty special to witness a prosecutor violate her ethical obligations on live TV.

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5 days ago
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Hard to tell if the president is misinformed or just making stuff up, but neither option seems great under these circumstances.

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5 days ago

Very pleased with our decision not to fly for spring break this year

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6 days ago
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I don't think you have to Nostradamus to figure that bombing Iran might raise oil prices. And it seems pretty obvious that buying oil in advance of causing an oil price spike might just save Americans a lot of money. But...

...maybe there wasn't much planning?

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5 days ago

I had a relative who started giving people ball point pens when her dementia got really bad, don't know what made me think of that just now

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5 days ago
A picture of Marco Rubio shoes that are too large for him

I’m a grown man who works for the president of the United States who is afraid to not wear the shoes he bought me that do not fit

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6 days ago

When you put it that way, it sounds pretty bad

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6 days ago
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He’s aiming to personally profit from the nation’s 250th anniversary celebrations.

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6 days ago
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The Quiet Way Trump Has Made Life Easier for Polluters It’s not just about environmental rollbacks: Trump and Lee Zeldin have presided over a striking decline in the EPA enforcing existing laws.

"Compared with the final year under President Biden, the first year of Trump 2.0 produced a 40 percent plunge in lead paint hazard inspections, a 36 percent decline in toxic substances inspections..." newrepublic.com/article/2068...

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6 days ago

What if the United States had a Congress or a Constitution?

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6 days ago
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"The country has also detained a U.S. citizen, which has not been previously reported..."

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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6 days ago
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Attacks leave dead vs killed

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1 week ago

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

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1 week ago

I’m sorry, doing this in a baseball cap sold by your campaign store is deliberately disrespecting the dead.

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1 week ago
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So much online conservatism these days is just "I miss being a kid"

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1 week ago
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Bodycam video contradicts ICE claims in fatal shooting of U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas Video of last year's fatal shooting of Ruben Ray Martinez obtained by CBS News appears to contradict claims that Martinez was shot by an ICE agent because he "accelerated" and "intentionally ran over"...

DHS claimed "an ICE agent had fired 'defensive shots' into Martinez's vehicle after Martinez 'intentionally ran over' another agent."

But body cam video now "shows that Martinez's vehicle, a blue Ford Fusion, was stationary or going at a very low rate of speed when he was fatally shot."

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1 week ago

At some point, we really need to accept that we have no idea what’s happening in the labor market

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1 week ago
Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

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1 week ago
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I’m sorry, is that really the thing that it underscores?

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1 week ago

I didn't expect the "then they came for..." to hit me QUITE so specifically, but lesson learned.

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1 week ago
CNN: More than 1,000 civilians killed in Iran since war began, rights group reports
By Helen Regan
More than 1,000 people, including children, have been killed in Iran since the war began on Saturday, according to US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA).
The rights group said as of Tuesday afternoon ET, at least 1,097 civilians had been killed, including 181 children.
More than 5,400 civilians, including 100 children, have been injured, HRANA reported.
The group said its report is preliminary and is veritying hundreds more reported deaths.

At least 1,097 civilians had been killed in Iran so far, including 181 children.

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Analysis: The rationale for striking Iran was already a mess. Trump just made it worse. | CNN Politics The Trump administration’s stated justifications for going to war with Iran were already a jumbled and self-contradictory mess before the president’s latest comments Tuesday.

Really hard to overstate how insane it is to be four days into a war and still not even have a clear explanation from the government for why they started it
www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/p...

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Greg Bovino, other federal agents investigated for Operation Metro Surge actions Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said her office is already investigating 17 incidents involving potential unlawful conduct by federal agents.

The DA in Minneapolis is investigating Bovino and others.

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