Matt Samberg
@mattsamberg.bsky.social
Lawyer, philosopher, DIY cosmetic enthusiast.
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seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
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Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
If our constitutional system survives this moment, abolishing the Senate really needs to be one of the reforms on the table.
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 AM
If our constitutional system survives this moment, abolishing the Senate really needs to be one of the reforms on the table.
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i suspect there’s some truth to this and also why we should be EXTREMELY skeptical that senate dems as currently constituted would ditch the filibuster should they ever have a trifecta again
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
i suspect there’s some truth to this and also why we should be EXTREMELY skeptical that senate dems as currently constituted would ditch the filibuster should they ever have a trifecta again
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Feel like, as a society, we might consider moving Halloween to the last Friday in October (observed.) Vibes truly immaculate tonight.
October 31, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Feel like, as a society, we might consider moving Halloween to the last Friday in October (observed.) Vibes truly immaculate tonight.
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do i think the institutional democratic party would do better with a more populist economic message? yes. but there is the problem of getting voters to *hear* it and to *believe* it and that is where i think attention should go.
October 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
do i think the institutional democratic party would do better with a more populist economic message? yes. but there is the problem of getting voters to *hear* it and to *believe* it and that is where i think attention should go.
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you could also charge me whatever you wanted, i don't give a fuck
October 24, 2025 at 2:54 AM
you could also charge me whatever you wanted, i don't give a fuck
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if disney does a theatrical release of the original star wars films for the 50th anniversary and offers them on physical media i will forgive them for every terrible decision they've made with star wars
just discovered that there was a leak from someone involved in the restoration team revealing that Disney is, indeed, restoring the theatrical cuts of the original Star Wars trilogy! complete with screenshots!
From the StarWarsLeaks community on Reddit: Star Wars Theatrical OT Leaked Restoration Screenshots
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October 24, 2025 at 2:53 AM
if disney does a theatrical release of the original star wars films for the 50th anniversary and offers them on physical media i will forgive them for every terrible decision they've made with star wars
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worth reiterating again that “the executive can raise and spend money however he likes” has been anathema even under monarchies for centuries
we’re not rolling back anything in US history here, we’re rolling back the English Civil War
we’re not rolling back anything in US history here, we’re rolling back the English Civil War
Odds are this aggressively did not happen. But it would of course be just as unconstitutional to spend money donated to the government without a duly enacted appropriation as it is to spend tax money that way.
Trump: "By the way, a friend of mine called us the other day and he said 'I'd like to contribute any shortfall you have because of the Democrat shutdown. I'd like to contribute any shortfall you have with the military.' Today, he sent us a check for $130 million. It's gonna go the military."
October 24, 2025 at 1:23 AM
worth reiterating again that “the executive can raise and spend money however he likes” has been anathema even under monarchies for centuries
we’re not rolling back anything in US history here, we’re rolling back the English Civil War
we’re not rolling back anything in US history here, we’re rolling back the English Civil War
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The Supreme Court announcing that a president cannot not be held criminally liable for virtually anything he does in office based on nothing in the text, structure, or history of the Constitution was extremely bad, IMHO
October 21, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The Supreme Court announcing that a president cannot not be held criminally liable for virtually anything he does in office based on nothing in the text, structure, or history of the Constitution was extremely bad, IMHO
@patrickwyman.bsky.social If there are 1000s of cuneiform tablets sitting in archives waiting to be studied, that seems like an awesome use case for an AI tool. Sounds like there’s loads of training data out there, and that’s the sort of thing that machine learning would be great at churning thru.
October 19, 2025 at 11:57 PM
@patrickwyman.bsky.social If there are 1000s of cuneiform tablets sitting in archives waiting to be studied, that seems like an awesome use case for an AI tool. Sounds like there’s loads of training data out there, and that’s the sort of thing that machine learning would be great at churning thru.
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Hell yes, Pittsburgh. Love Yinz. No Kings.
October 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Hell yes, Pittsburgh. Love Yinz. No Kings.
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We’re going to have a lot of work to do identifying and punishing every single one of these criminal thugs with the full force of the law.
Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.
October 8, 2025 at 12:08 AM
We’re going to have a lot of work to do identifying and punishing every single one of these criminal thugs with the full force of the law.
I’m no expert, but I feel like revolutions have started over less.
Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.
For the crime of … complaining about government policy.
Core 1A speech.
With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.
For the crime of … complaining about government policy.
Core 1A speech.
With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.
Here’s video of the incident
October 8, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I’m no expert, but I feel like revolutions have started over less.
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They’re moving quickly because they get less popular every day.
They’ll never be more popular than they are now and they are extremely unpopular.
They’ll never be more popular than they are now and they are extremely unpopular.
October 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
They’re moving quickly because they get less popular every day.
They’ll never be more popular than they are now and they are extremely unpopular.
They’ll never be more popular than they are now and they are extremely unpopular.
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Pretty clear Stephen Miller, Noem, Hegseth and Trump are trying to provoke a Civil War at this point. What's interesting is they want to do it now, because even though they're unpopular, they seem to believe this is the most popular they'll be ever again. We can't let them win.
This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States.
America is on the brink of martial law.
Do not be silent.
America is on the brink of martial law.
Do not be silent.
This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.
October 6, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Pretty clear Stephen Miller, Noem, Hegseth and Trump are trying to provoke a Civil War at this point. What's interesting is they want to do it now, because even though they're unpopular, they seem to believe this is the most popular they'll be ever again. We can't let them win.
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you! are! a! lawyer!
I fear that the legal community will act like Trump admin's lawyers are normal lawyers--like they'll get nice firm jobs and their law schools will invite them to talk to students, etc--but the lawyers facilitating Trump's lawlessness should be professionally and socially shamed
I fear that the legal community will act like Trump admin's lawyers are normal lawyers--like they'll get nice firm jobs and their law schools will invite them to talk to students, etc--but the lawyers facilitating Trump's lawlessness should be professionally and socially shamed
DOJ: CA NG is already federalized
Judge: You are an officer of the court. Do you think this is an appropriate way to deal with my order? Appropriate way of dealing with ruling you disagree with?
DOJ: Well, I'm not a policy maker
Judge: You're a lawyer
Judge: You are an officer of the court. Do you think this is an appropriate way to deal with my order? Appropriate way of dealing with ruling you disagree with?
DOJ: Well, I'm not a policy maker
Judge: You're a lawyer
October 6, 2025 at 3:30 AM
you! are! a! lawyer!
I fear that the legal community will act like Trump admin's lawyers are normal lawyers--like they'll get nice firm jobs and their law schools will invite them to talk to students, etc--but the lawyers facilitating Trump's lawlessness should be professionally and socially shamed
I fear that the legal community will act like Trump admin's lawyers are normal lawyers--like they'll get nice firm jobs and their law schools will invite them to talk to students, etc--but the lawyers facilitating Trump's lawlessness should be professionally and socially shamed
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Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
@jamellebouie.net @sifill.bsky.social @strictscrutiny.bsky.social I liked your explanation that we need to enunciate a clear view of what the constitution means to us on the left. I feel like democrats have been hoodwinked by Scalia et al. into adopting a form of originalism (1/3)
September 30, 2025 at 1:07 PM
@jamellebouie.net @sifill.bsky.social @strictscrutiny.bsky.social I liked your explanation that we need to enunciate a clear view of what the constitution means to us on the left. I feel like democrats have been hoodwinked by Scalia et al. into adopting a form of originalism (1/3)
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The gap between what the right thinks happens on college campuses and what actually happens is absurd. I had some great students and some awful ones; we talked about some difficult topics, from sexual violence to capitalism to exploitation; it was fine. Nobody lost their shit, because we're adults.
September 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The gap between what the right thinks happens on college campuses and what actually happens is absurd. I had some great students and some awful ones; we talked about some difficult topics, from sexual violence to capitalism to exploitation; it was fine. Nobody lost their shit, because we're adults.
@patrickwyman.bsky.social Replies are muted in the Elias Isquith thread, but this is an underappreciated distinction. In law school, I wrote a paper in a legal philosophy class criticizing the deontological view of democracy, where democracy is the duty, and any deviation from it is suspects. 1/3
September 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
@patrickwyman.bsky.social Replies are muted in the Elias Isquith thread, but this is an underappreciated distinction. In law school, I wrote a paper in a legal philosophy class criticizing the deontological view of democracy, where democracy is the duty, and any deviation from it is suspects. 1/3
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“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
September 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
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Everything @bessbell.bsky.social writes is perfect but especially this.
September 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Everything @bessbell.bsky.social writes is perfect but especially this.