Matthew Simon Ryan Cavalletto
@mcavalletto.bsky.social
Progressive techie. New York City sidewalk gardener. SCAdian herald. Married to Piglet, father of Alex.
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This Saturday (11/15), join us for a citywide day of community action where New Yorkers are coming together to build our relationships, visibility, and collective strength—borough by borough, block by block—in resistance to the Trump administration.
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November 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM
This Saturday (11/15), join us for a citywide day of community action where New Yorkers are coming together to build our relationships, visibility, and collective strength—borough by borough, block by block—in resistance to the Trump administration.
Find an event near you:
www.HandsOffNYC.com/nov15
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www.HandsOffNYC.com/nov15
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quite a hill to die on this late in the war
Dershowitz: The predecessor on your show described Epstein as a convicted pedophile. He pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. That’s not a pedophile.
November 15, 2025 at 2:36 AM
quite a hill to die on this late in the war
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For folks who remember the concept of "selling out", I wrote this a few years ago so you can explain it to younger people who are not familiar with what the idea meant within culture. www.anildash.com/2023/04/18/w... It's hard to explain why someone would not license their song for a commercial.
November 14, 2025 at 4:09 AM
For folks who remember the concept of "selling out", I wrote this a few years ago so you can explain it to younger people who are not familiar with what the idea meant within culture. www.anildash.com/2023/04/18/w... It's hard to explain why someone would not license their song for a commercial.
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If you use LLMs, people are laughing at you.
I’m not going to name you publicly, but if you were the speaker who put in the abstract that was so obviously written by ChatGPT it made me groan “Oh, come on” so loud people asked what I was looking at and then they groaned too, you should be almost as embarrassed as the people who accepted it
November 14, 2025 at 4:18 AM
If you use LLMs, people are laughing at you.
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I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.
November 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.
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You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
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Imagine trying to convince someone a decade ago that this sentence would be a 100% literally accurate description of the American political situation.
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
November 13, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Imagine trying to convince someone a decade ago that this sentence would be a 100% literally accurate description of the American political situation.
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But *their* emails?
Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?
Stuff like this makes me wonder why there hasn't been any reporting about Trump having affairs during his presidencies
November 12, 2025 at 11:08 PM
But *their* emails?
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
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The Speaker of the House shut the chamber down for two months to block the release of the Epstein Files and the president is huddled in the Situation Room of the White House to formulate a plan to keep them from being released, and I don't know why you crazy libs think there's some kind of cover up.
November 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The Speaker of the House shut the chamber down for two months to block the release of the Epstein Files and the president is huddled in the Situation Room of the White House to formulate a plan to keep them from being released, and I don't know why you crazy libs think there's some kind of cover up.
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So on Epstein, the Democratic position should be "Trump should resign." If you are a Democratic elected, practice saying "We demand the president's resignation" in front of a mirror as many times as it takes until the dry-heaving that comes from having a phobia about actually doing politics passes.
November 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
So on Epstein, the Democratic position should be "Trump should resign." If you are a Democratic elected, practice saying "We demand the president's resignation" in front of a mirror as many times as it takes until the dry-heaving that comes from having a phobia about actually doing politics passes.
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✅ he was extremely close friends with Epstein
✅ Epstein had like 11 ways to contact Trump
✅ Epstein sourced teens from maralago
✅ Epstein introduced Melania to Trump
✅ the DoJ combed evidence looking only for Trump and did a u-turn on releasing files
✅ Trump has been found guilty of sex crimes
✅ Epstein had like 11 ways to contact Trump
✅ Epstein sourced teens from maralago
✅ Epstein introduced Melania to Trump
✅ the DoJ combed evidence looking only for Trump and did a u-turn on releasing files
✅ Trump has been found guilty of sex crimes
November 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
✅ he was extremely close friends with Epstein
✅ Epstein had like 11 ways to contact Trump
✅ Epstein sourced teens from maralago
✅ Epstein introduced Melania to Trump
✅ the DoJ combed evidence looking only for Trump and did a u-turn on releasing files
✅ Trump has been found guilty of sex crimes
✅ Epstein had like 11 ways to contact Trump
✅ Epstein sourced teens from maralago
✅ Epstein introduced Melania to Trump
✅ the DoJ combed evidence looking only for Trump and did a u-turn on releasing files
✅ Trump has been found guilty of sex crimes
Over a hundred people turned out in NYC City Hall Park tonight for a veterans' day event against militarism organized by About Face aboutfaceveterans.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Over a hundred people turned out in NYC City Hall Park tonight for a veterans' day event against militarism organized by About Face aboutfaceveterans.org
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They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
November 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
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‘zines for saturday’s sidewalk social.
November 12, 2025 at 5:26 AM
‘zines for saturday’s sidewalk social.
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The Shutdown stuff is taking center stage for the upcoming primaries, as it should be (Chuck Schumer is a complete sentence), but we must remind ourselves that there are active concentration camps operating on and off US soil.
“Abolish ICE” should be the moderate position. Vote accordingly.
“Abolish ICE” should be the moderate position. Vote accordingly.
Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari of Arizona’s 3rd District describes the “horrific conditions” she witnessed inside the Eloy ICE Detention Center near Phoenix — including a leukemia patient “vomiting blood,” detained in February and forced to wait eight months before finally seeing an oncologist...
November 11, 2025 at 8:42 PM
The Shutdown stuff is taking center stage for the upcoming primaries, as it should be (Chuck Schumer is a complete sentence), but we must remind ourselves that there are active concentration camps operating on and off US soil.
“Abolish ICE” should be the moderate position. Vote accordingly.
“Abolish ICE” should be the moderate position. Vote accordingly.
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Those of us who remember the Afghanistan War will recognize this as the Fighting Season having Ended
"Another source with direct knowledge said the number of Border Patrol agents currently operating in the Chicago area will go from 250 down to 100. But in March, that number could increase to 1,000 agents."
chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet... w/ @jonseidel.bsky.social
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U.S. Border Patrol boss Greg Bovino, fellow agents expected to leave Chicago soon
Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin insists “we aren’t leaving Chicago,” but the feds' immigration campaign is expected to begin winding down. However, one source said they could b...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Those of us who remember the Afghanistan War will recognize this as the Fighting Season having Ended
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/4 As for her belief in psychics and disbelief we landed on the moon, she’s saying those things in the context of widespread belief that tarrifs are not taxes and are paid by the foreign country from which goods are imported, so I don’t think she stands out much.
November 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
/4 As for her belief in psychics and disbelief we landed on the moon, she’s saying those things in the context of widespread belief that tarrifs are not taxes and are paid by the foreign country from which goods are imported, so I don’t think she stands out much.
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Charts on inequality are often misleading because they include income that comes from welfare, which mutes the effects.
Here's what wages actually look like as a percentage of national income, adjusted for inflation, minus government transfers
Here's what wages actually look like as a percentage of national income, adjusted for inflation, minus government transfers
November 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Charts on inequality are often misleading because they include income that comes from welfare, which mutes the effects.
Here's what wages actually look like as a percentage of national income, adjusted for inflation, minus government transfers
Here's what wages actually look like as a percentage of national income, adjusted for inflation, minus government transfers
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![Section 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department [sic][note 2][7] or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.
Section 4 addresses the case of a president who cannot discharge the powers and duties of the presidency but also cannot, or does not, execute the voluntary declaration contemplated by Section 3.[3]: 117
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![While the framers did imagine that medical evidence would be helpful to the determination of whether the President is unable, neither medical expertise nor diagnosis is required for a determination of inability ... To be sure, foremost in [the minds of the framers] was a physical or mental impairment. But the text of Section 4 sets forth a flexible standard intentionally designed to apply to a wide variety of unforeseen emergencies.[4]: 7,20
Among potential examples of such unforeseen emergencies, legal scholars have listed kidnapping of the president and "political emergencies" such as impeachment. Traits such as unpopularity, incompetence, impeachable conduct, poor judgment, or laziness might not in themselves constitute inability, but should such traits "rise to a level where they prevented the President from carrying out his or her constitutional duties, they still might constitute an inability, even in the absence of a formal medical diagnosis." In addition, a president who already manifested disabling traits at the time he was elected is not thereby immunized from a declaration of inability.[4]: 21n63,22n67
The "principal officers of the executive department[s]" are the 15 Cabinet members enumerated in the United States Code at 5 U.S.C. § 101:[11][12]
Secretary of State
Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of Defense
Attorney General
Secretary of the Interior
Secretary of Agriculture
Secretary of Commerce
Secretary of Labor
Secretary of Health and Human Services
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Secretary of Transportation
Secretary of Energy
Secretary of Education
Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Secretary of Homeland Security
Acting secretaries can participate in issuing the declaration.[3]: 117-8 [4]: 13
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![Section 4
Section 4 has never been invoked.[48]
Considered invocations of Section 4
1981: Reagan assassination attempt
See also: Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan
Draft Section 3 letter prepared (though never signed) after Ronald Reagan was shot on March 30, 1981
Draft Section 4 letter prepared (though never signed) after Ronald Reagan was shot on March 30, 1981
Following the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981, Vice President George H. W. Bush did not assume the presidential powers and duties as acting president. Reagan had been rushed into surgery with no opportunity to invoke Section 3; Bush did not invoke Section 4 because he was on a plane at the time of the shooting, and Reagan was out of surgery by the time Bush landed in Washington.[49] In 1995, Birch Bayh, the primary sponsor of the amendment in the Senate, wrote that Section 4 should have been invoked.[50] Physician to the President Daniel Ruge, who supervised Reagan's treatment immediately after the shooting, said he had erred by not having Reagan invoke Section 3 because Reagan needed general anesthesia and was in an intensive care unit.[51]
2021: Trump and the Capitol attack
See also: Second impeachment of Donald Trump
After the January 6 United States Capitol attack, President Donald Trump was accused of having incited the incident,[52][53][54] and by evening some of his Cabinet members were reportedly considering trying to get Vice President Mike Pence to agree to invoke Section 4.[55] According to multiple sources, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was reluctant to impeach Trump a second time and, as an alternative disciplinary measure, asked Pence to agree to invoke the 25th Amendment in early 2021. Pence refused.[56][57]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:w35yxkgrto7zvqc3wvsn435n/bafkreibgtjbzfaxjwwgagix7wioqikdk474mbgss2kc577gwhxe66gg3oq@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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I’ve been hearing Adam talk through this piece in stages for a year but didn’t understand it because I don’t understand gaming or the history of D&D. The last time we had dinner he went through the whole thing and it blew my mind
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I’ve been hearing Adam talk through this piece in stages for a year but didn’t understand it because I don’t understand gaming or the history of D&D. The last time we had dinner he went through the whole thing and it blew my mind
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Trump: "Nobody knows what magnets are."
November 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Trump: "Nobody knows what magnets are."
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Very much in a ‘burn down the Democratic Party and replace it with a progressive party’ mood. Annoyingly there’s no way to practically do that in our system without conceding the nation to fascism, so we need to stage a total takeover from within somehow.
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Very much in a ‘burn down the Democratic Party and replace it with a progressive party’ mood. Annoyingly there’s no way to practically do that in our system without conceding the nation to fascism, so we need to stage a total takeover from within somehow.
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There’s no way out of this that doesn’t include these people admitting they were wrong and that in their strident refusal to accept they were wrong, they have fucked it into orbit around Neptune. There is no other way.
November 11, 2025 at 8:03 AM
There’s no way out of this that doesn’t include these people admitting they were wrong and that in their strident refusal to accept they were wrong, they have fucked it into orbit around Neptune. There is no other way.
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genuinely have been thinking about this all day i cannot stop laughing about the second verses lyrics
second verse on this is one of the funniest things i've ever heard
November 11, 2025 at 5:22 AM
genuinely have been thinking about this all day i cannot stop laughing about the second verses lyrics