Oriol Salvador
Journalist. Pop culture nerd and social media jedi. Working for @weathernetwork.bsky.social and BNN Bloomberg. Personal views, etc.
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- Exactly what the United States needs from Democratic political leaders in this troubling times: another memes account
- Catherine O’Hara died at age 71
- U.S. prosecutors can’t seek the death penalty against Luigi Mangione in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a judge ruled, foiling the Trump administration’s bid to see him executed for what it called a “premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America.”
- Exactly what we need in 2026, yet another social media platform. @upscrolled.bsky.social is founded by Palestinian entrepreneur @issamhijazi.bsky.social and supported by the @techforpalestine.org incubator. I’m giving it a chance or, at the very least, registering my handle there. Anyone there?
- The @actxpalestine.bsky.social concert-manifesto on Thursday, Jan. 29, will be livestreaming on YouTube, 8 p.m. CET (2 p.m. ET) Set up a reminder on, so you don't miss it:
- "Politics at an (international) stage is a cynical craft." @breachmedia.ca's take on the Mark Carney speech in Davos:
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- Do you remember Bad Bunny is playing the #SuperBowl Halftime Show on Feb. 8? Completing the music line up: Green Day opening, Charlie Puth performing the national anthem, Brandi Carlile singing “America the Beautiful” and Coco Jones will “Lift Every Voice and Sing.”
- A high-speed train derailed, jumped onto the track in the opposite direction and slammed into an oncoming train in Spain, killing at least people 21 and injuring dozens more.
- I am not a big fan of the horror genre, but for Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan I made an exception and finally watched #Sinners.
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- From MAGA to Mamdani: @moreperfectunion.bsky.social talks to Trump voters who also voted for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
- 6 things you might not know about the Canadian ICE (not so NICE)
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- About the journalism model at Documented, a publication focused on immigrant communities in New York City: "Understanding the media ecosystem for immigrants is also essential, because each community gets their news in slightly different ways, on different platforms, or through various mediums."
- The trial of Sean Binder and 23 other humanitarians who had been volunteering to save refugees from drowning in the sea off Lesvos in Greece concluded today. All defendants were found not guilty.
- Everyone is twelve now @scrolldeep.bsky.social
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- Happy 2,000th report, @natetwn.bsky.social! 🎉
- The problem with elevators in North America. New video by @uytaelee.bsky.social
- This week I published four interviews on YouTube with journalists and activists from UNSILENCE FORUM in Barcelona. Titles, descriptions and captions are available in Catalan, Spanish, English, French, Italian and Arabic, using ChatGPT and YouTube’s AI tools.
- Francino hablando de #HeatedRivalry no me lo esperaba
- The woman shot dead by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis has been identified as Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three who had just moved to the city.
- Stories with strong context educate, inform, and give audiences more than headlines, turning fleeting attention into insight audiences can carry with them. New monthly blog post to keep my personal website fresh:
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- Great episode of The Moment with a journalist from @radio-ambulante.bsky.social on the ground in Caracas, a former senior official in the Biden administration and an advisor to Trump.
- MTV is still right there, and the idea that it isn’t is just a by-product of our chaotic information environment.
- Interview to Youmna El Sayed, Al Jazeera journalist from Gaza, exiled to Egypt in 2024
- Looking for analysis on why Trump is sending Maduro specifically to New York, of all possible U.S. states? Is he trying to compromise Zohran Mamdani's position? Is there anything @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social can do about it with his powers as Mayor?
- Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says the government does not recognize “any legitimacy of the Maduro regime.”
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- Reposted by Oriol SalvadorIt’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.
- Venezuelan ruling party leader Nahum Fernández told The Associated Press that Maduro and Flores were at their home within the Ft. Tiuna military installation when they were captured.
- If I do not have anything nice to say, I prefer not to say anything at all. So all I am going to say about finally watching #StrangerThings end is this: in 2026, let us go back to calling series episodes that run for more than one hour what they are. Movies.
- “Every second we spend fielding questions about traffic, hornets or bad haircuts is time that could otherwise be helping someone in a life-threatening emergency situation.”
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- Reposted by Oriol SalvadorThe full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
- Champs Bar in Montreal will present a marathon of all six episodes of #HeatedRivalry on Dec. 26, beginning at 6 p.m. @cultmtl.com
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- Philippe J. Fournier: “Our politics are so focused on the image of leaders that we can’t get out of this situation: an unpopular leader cannot lift a party up.”
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- Sharyn Alfonsi, 60 Minutes correspondent: "Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a 'kill switch'' for any reporting they find inconvenient."
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- El Partido Popular gana las elecciones pero, sin mayoría, seguirá necesitando a Vox. Debacle del PSOE, que pierde diez diputados y más de 108.000 votos. A pesar del resultado histórico de Unidas por Extremadura, que logra tres escaños más, la izquierda no suma.
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- I couldn't sleep due to jet lag, so I asked ChatGPT to recap 2025 using so-called “woke” terms that Trump tried to ban from U.S. government documents. This is the result, with some human-made edits and links to real news.
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- The way I cried happy tears with the ending of this week's episode of #HeatedRivalry! Totally worth waking up at 6 a.m. to watch it before any spoilers
- Campaign in the U.K. to make Together For Palestine's "Lullaby" this Christmas' Number 1. Streams and buys count until 11:59pm, local time, on Dec. 18. Money raised from sales will go towards charities supporting Palestinian children.
- Concert-Manifest X Palestina el 29 de gener de 2026 al Palau Sant Jordi de Barcelona, amb Bad Gyal, Oques Grasses, Lluís Llach, Amaia, Tinariwen, Zaho de Sagazan, Morad, Zeyne, Lina Makoul i molts més. Ja podeu compartir l'spot a YouTube:
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- Reposted by Oriol Salvadori have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.
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- Per fi he pogut veure PUBERTAT, la sèrie de Leticia Dolera, i ha estat tan bona que he acabat veient els sis capítols en una sola nit.
- Walt Disney is investing US$1 billion in OpenAI and will let it use characters from Star Wars, Pixar and Marvel franchises in its Sora AI video generator.
- Who are the 'Architects of AI' on the cover of TIME's magazine?
- Nova Scotia is failing to adequately protect female migrant workers employed on farms and seafood plants in the province, a new report shows.
