Matt Calcara
@mattcalcara.bsky.social
Lancer, Trojan, friend of Dorothy, tech project manager, fmr travel writer, ran for office once & likely never again, dog Dad to Zuvvy.
Fun fact: I went to an Iftar celebration co-sponsored by CAIR here in Kansas in 2017.
It was basically a bunch of people on picnic blankets eating truly delicious food once the sun set. It was lovely.
Pretty sure they aren't terrorists.
It was basically a bunch of people on picnic blankets eating truly delicious food once the sun set. It was lovely.
Pretty sure they aren't terrorists.
Abbott is the first state leader to make such a declaration about the organizations, according to the New York Times.
Texas Governor Declares Muslim Civil Rights Group A Terrorist Organization
Abbott is the first state leader to make such a declaration about the organizations, according to the New York Times.
www.forbes.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Fun fact: I went to an Iftar celebration co-sponsored by CAIR here in Kansas in 2017.
It was basically a bunch of people on picnic blankets eating truly delicious food once the sun set. It was lovely.
Pretty sure they aren't terrorists.
It was basically a bunch of people on picnic blankets eating truly delicious food once the sun set. It was lovely.
Pretty sure they aren't terrorists.
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Plus, here’s how you can support immigrants in Kansas and Missouri.
ICE brings ‘volatile’ activity to KC area. What to know & how to stay safe
Plus, here’s how you can support immigrants in Kansas and Missouri.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Plus, here’s how you can support immigrants in Kansas and Missouri.
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The Democratic Party would be a lot better if it had embraced Zohran Mamdani the way it's embracing Marjorie Taylor Greene.
November 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The Democratic Party would be a lot better if it had embraced Zohran Mamdani the way it's embracing Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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I know I make fun of Duke University a lot. But if I'm being honest, I have to admit that I do it because it's a risibly self-important school full of douchebags, built on a fortune obtained by selling carcinogens to children.
November 19, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I know I make fun of Duke University a lot. But if I'm being honest, I have to admit that I do it because it's a risibly self-important school full of douchebags, built on a fortune obtained by selling carcinogens to children.
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JFC—even the birds in Sweden are more environmentally conscious than the people here!! 😳
November 19, 2025 at 3:30 AM
JFC—even the birds in Sweden are more environmentally conscious than the people here!! 😳
I was today years old when I learned that Tupac was a theater kid.
Mamdani is 100% a theater kid and the mistake being made here is buying the propaganda that hides a good chunk of hip hop culture is dominated by theater kids
Tupac was a theater kid
Tupac was a theater kid
November 19, 2025 at 4:47 AM
I was today years old when I learned that Tupac was a theater kid.
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Oh they don’t like the whistles? Hey everyone, they don’t like the whistles. If you use them it makes the armed goons sad.
Kristi Noem is mad that protesters are blowing whistles at ICE agents.
November 18, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Oh they don’t like the whistles? Hey everyone, they don’t like the whistles. If you use them it makes the armed goons sad.
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This has been one of my strongest held policy beliefs for years.
We should absolutely make private equity illegal.
We should absolutely make private equity illegal.
There's a future in campaigning on Abolish Private Equity.
November 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
This has been one of my strongest held policy beliefs for years.
We should absolutely make private equity illegal.
We should absolutely make private equity illegal.
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STOP SUMMONING TORNADOES WITH YOUR GAY LITTLE STICK
November 19, 2025 at 1:36 AM
STOP SUMMONING TORNADOES WITH YOUR GAY LITTLE STICK
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Most of us have no idea how bad it is inside ICE detention centers because they have kept it hidden. Then a truth teller shows up and says it plain.
The conditions are filthy. The treatment is inhumane. The abuse is Systematic and routine.
The conditions are filthy. The treatment is inhumane. The abuse is Systematic and routine.
November 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Most of us have no idea how bad it is inside ICE detention centers because they have kept it hidden. Then a truth teller shows up and says it plain.
The conditions are filthy. The treatment is inhumane. The abuse is Systematic and routine.
The conditions are filthy. The treatment is inhumane. The abuse is Systematic and routine.
It would be the height of irony, and absolutely hilarious, if Trump's gerrymandering push ended up netting a bunch of new seats for Democrats--and almost none for Republicans.
A Trump-appointed judge blocks Trump’s Texas gerrymander.
In a bombshell decision, a federal court in Texas blocked a new congressional map that was created after President Donald Trump demanded that the state redraw district lines to hand Republicans five new seats.
In a bombshell decision, a federal court in Texas blocked a new congressional map that was created after President Donald Trump demanded that the state redraw district lines to hand Republicans five new seats.
A Trump-appointed judge just blocked Trump’s Texas gerrymander
Trump could lose the redistricting war he started.
www.motherjones.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:04 AM
It would be the height of irony, and absolutely hilarious, if Trump's gerrymandering push ended up netting a bunch of new seats for Democrats--and almost none for Republicans.
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I just think Newsom puts us at high risk of Starmerism. :/
November 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I just think Newsom puts us at high risk of Starmerism. :/
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Inside the GOP’s Assault on Youth Voting Rights talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/inside-...
Inside the GOP’s Assault on Youth Voting Rights
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Inside the GOP’s Assault on Youth Voting Rights talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/inside-...
Wait. There's an "AOC in Tennessee"?
Well hot damn, thanks Fox News. Good to know!
www-foxnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.foxn...
Well hot damn, thanks Fox News. Good to know!
www-foxnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.foxn...
David Hogg campaigns for the 'AOC of Tennessee' to flip ruby-red district as special election looms
Former Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair David Hogg campaigned for Aftyn Behn ahead of Tennessee's 7th Congressional District special election.
www-foxnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org
November 19, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Wait. There's an "AOC in Tennessee"?
Well hot damn, thanks Fox News. Good to know!
www-foxnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.foxn...
Well hot damn, thanks Fox News. Good to know!
www-foxnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.foxn...
I don't think AI is going to, like, become sentient & decide to murder humanity.
I do think it could do something possibly almost as bad, tho.
It could rob us of what it means to be human by entrenching racism, misogyny & homophobia, and depriving us of the world's collective wisdom.
I do think it could do something possibly almost as bad, tho.
It could rob us of what it means to be human by entrenching racism, misogyny & homophobia, and depriving us of the world's collective wisdom.
What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison
What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison
The long read: As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missing
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:29 AM
I don't think AI is going to, like, become sentient & decide to murder humanity.
I do think it could do something possibly almost as bad, tho.
It could rob us of what it means to be human by entrenching racism, misogyny & homophobia, and depriving us of the world's collective wisdom.
I do think it could do something possibly almost as bad, tho.
It could rob us of what it means to be human by entrenching racism, misogyny & homophobia, and depriving us of the world's collective wisdom.
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This week's @runforsomething.net feel-good update: A full list of our November winners so far! rfsfeelgoodupdates.substack.com/p/rfs-feel-g...
RFS feel-good update (11/17): The Trump backlash quietly (or not so quietly) underway
😈 😈 😈 😈
rfsfeelgoodupdates.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This week's @runforsomething.net feel-good update: A full list of our November winners so far! rfsfeelgoodupdates.substack.com/p/rfs-feel-g...
Man. Even Zohran Mamdani's Instagram DMs were on point.
Seriously, tho, this is a great use of this tech given that he was an extremely online sort of candidate but needed extremely offline volunteer efforts.
www.fwiw.news/p/how-i-help...
Seriously, tho, this is a great use of this tech given that he was an extremely online sort of candidate but needed extremely offline volunteer efforts.
www.fwiw.news/p/how-i-help...
How I helped Zohran Mamdani turn 45,000 social media DMs into a real-life army of volunteers
Social media chatbots are worth the hype (I promise).
www.fwiw.news
November 18, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Man. Even Zohran Mamdani's Instagram DMs were on point.
Seriously, tho, this is a great use of this tech given that he was an extremely online sort of candidate but needed extremely offline volunteer efforts.
www.fwiw.news/p/how-i-help...
Seriously, tho, this is a great use of this tech given that he was an extremely online sort of candidate but needed extremely offline volunteer efforts.
www.fwiw.news/p/how-i-help...
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I love and admire Ben for many reasons, and one of them is how perfectly he is able to distill the pathetic-ness of the right and instill hope and solidarity in everyone else around him.
Anyway, go read his interview with the biggest Spanish newspaper here: english.elpais.com/technology/2...
Anyway, go read his interview with the biggest Spanish newspaper here: english.elpais.com/technology/2...
Ben Collins, from ‘The Onion’: ‘The powerful have a revenge fantasy, it’s the revenge of the dorks’
The CEO of the leading US satirical website explains what to do when reality is crazy, and how he is trying to buy the website of a famous conspiracy theorist
english.elpais.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:48 AM
I love and admire Ben for many reasons, and one of them is how perfectly he is able to distill the pathetic-ness of the right and instill hope and solidarity in everyone else around him.
Anyway, go read his interview with the biggest Spanish newspaper here: english.elpais.com/technology/2...
Anyway, go read his interview with the biggest Spanish newspaper here: english.elpais.com/technology/2...
We really need to restore funding for public media as soon as possible.
In the meantime, there's this:
e.givesmart.com/events/LYw/i/
In the meantime, there's this:
e.givesmart.com/events/LYw/i/
Last Week Tonight
Help Public Media Company c/o Partially Important Productions, LLC spread the word about Public Media Company C/O Last Week Tonight!
e.givesmart.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:18 AM
We really need to restore funding for public media as soon as possible.
In the meantime, there's this:
e.givesmart.com/events/LYw/i/
In the meantime, there's this:
e.givesmart.com/events/LYw/i/
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Post-Trump Reform Requires Reinvigorating American Democracy talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/post-...
Post-Trump Reform Requires Reinvigorating American Democracy
After I wrote this “status interview” piece on Tuesday, I heard from...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Post-Trump Reform Requires Reinvigorating American Democracy talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/post-...
If a "model minority" like Indian-Americans is subject to an astonishing amount of hate from the right, that means they'll attack anyone who's different from their white, Christian, hetero ideal.
#solidarity folks. It's the only way.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/u...
#solidarity folks. It's the only way.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/u...
Racists are now openly targeting Indian Americans | CNN
How bad is it? Even Indian Americans like Kash Patel and Nikki Haley in the MAGA coalition are being targeted.
www.cnn.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:17 AM
If a "model minority" like Indian-Americans is subject to an astonishing amount of hate from the right, that means they'll attack anyone who's different from their white, Christian, hetero ideal.
#solidarity folks. It's the only way.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/u...
#solidarity folks. It's the only way.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/u...
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New York City First Deputy Mayor designee Dean Fuleihan, with 47 years of experience in state and local government budgeting and policy implementation, spoke exclusively to The Nation about why he believes Zohran Mamdani’s affordability agenda is absolutely realistic AND absolutely achievable.
Can Mamdani Deliver? “Yes! It’s an Unqualified Yes!”
Dean Fuleihan, Mamdani’s incoming first deputy mayor, speaks exclusively about how the mayor-elect will make his agenda a reality.
www.thenation.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:58 PM
New York City First Deputy Mayor designee Dean Fuleihan, with 47 years of experience in state and local government budgeting and policy implementation, spoke exclusively to The Nation about why he believes Zohran Mamdani’s affordability agenda is absolutely realistic AND absolutely achievable.
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We could've had VP Tim Walz sharing his Thanksgiving dressing recipe right now, but no
November 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
We could've had VP Tim Walz sharing his Thanksgiving dressing recipe right now, but no