Matt Hodler
@mhodler.bsky.social
assoc professor uri 🌊 | ex-swimmer | former bartender & bus-washer | miamioh uncg uiowa | race, gender, class, nation, & sport | views & typos = mine | he/him | cis
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I thought the shutdown was the fight, did I get that wrong
Democrats have been fighting for months to address America's healthcare crisis
For the millions who will lose coverage
For people with cancer who won't get the care they need
For working families who can't afford to pay $25K more a year for healthcare
We will keep fighting
For the millions who will lose coverage
For people with cancer who won't get the care they need
For working families who can't afford to pay $25K more a year for healthcare
We will keep fighting
November 10, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I thought the shutdown was the fight, did I get that wrong
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reminder to any ambitious Dems waiting in the wings: announcing a primary challenge right now to a squishy Democrat who’s up in 2026, whether they voted tonight to shine Trump’s shoes or not, will almost instantaneously be awash in cash. fortune—and a primary challenge—favors the bold.
November 10, 2025 at 2:14 AM
reminder to any ambitious Dems waiting in the wings: announcing a primary challenge right now to a squishy Democrat who’s up in 2026, whether they voted tonight to shine Trump’s shoes or not, will almost instantaneously be awash in cash. fortune—and a primary challenge—favors the bold.
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"They saw us tasting hope after Tuesday..." – @gwensnyder.bsky.social
They saw us tasting hope after Tuesday and they REALLY did not like that, huh
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 AM
"They saw us tasting hope after Tuesday..." – @gwensnyder.bsky.social
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This moment demands fighters, not folders.
Official statement from @jamestalarico.bsky.social on shutdown negotiations
November 10, 2025 at 12:48 AM
This moment demands fighters, not folders.
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BROOKLYN WE ARE GOING TO CHUCKS! Join us across from 9 PPW at 8:30 *tonight*
Bring pots and pans, let’s make some noise about Chuck folding (again).
Not another #SchumerSurrender
@indivisible.org @riseandresist.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social @handsoffnyc.bsky.social
Bring pots and pans, let’s make some noise about Chuck folding (again).
Not another #SchumerSurrender
@indivisible.org @riseandresist.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social @handsoffnyc.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 12:55 AM
BROOKLYN WE ARE GOING TO CHUCKS! Join us across from 9 PPW at 8:30 *tonight*
Bring pots and pans, let’s make some noise about Chuck folding (again).
Not another #SchumerSurrender
@indivisible.org @riseandresist.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social @handsoffnyc.bsky.social
Bring pots and pans, let’s make some noise about Chuck folding (again).
Not another #SchumerSurrender
@indivisible.org @riseandresist.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social @handsoffnyc.bsky.social
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I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
November 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
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Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Imagine having enough money to support countless human artists: playwrights, carpenters, glass blowers, writers, poets, musicians, painters, sculptors, etc., and this is what you choose to do.
(I know he’s a eugenicist White Supremacist & this is part of his project, but…)
(I know he’s a eugenicist White Supremacist & this is part of his project, but…)
Just in case you're wondering how realistic Musk's "I will always love you" video might be...
November 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Imagine having enough money to support countless human artists: playwrights, carpenters, glass blowers, writers, poets, musicians, painters, sculptors, etc., and this is what you choose to do.
(I know he’s a eugenicist White Supremacist & this is part of his project, but…)
(I know he’s a eugenicist White Supremacist & this is part of his project, but…)
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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
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Legit what i be screaming about. This gens celebs dont be about shit except maybe like 3-4 ppl
January 18th 1968. Eartha Kitt confronted President Lyndon B. Johnson and First Lady Bird Johnson about the Vietnam War at a White House luncheon. She went so hard about protecting the soldiers that First Lady ended up crying and they had the CIA start a file on her.
November 2, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Legit what i be screaming about. This gens celebs dont be about shit except maybe like 3-4 ppl
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🚨 1/ SCOOP We all know Pamela Paul is not a good journalist. But in her (poorly argued) WSJ screed on the alleged "growing divide" in LGBTQ circles abt trans rights, she reports ESPECIALLY badly—including abt Jose Arango & his boyfriend who dumped him.
Paul didn't talk to the boyfriend.
I did.
Paul didn't talk to the boyfriend.
I did.
November 2, 2025 at 7:06 PM
🚨 1/ SCOOP We all know Pamela Paul is not a good journalist. But in her (poorly argued) WSJ screed on the alleged "growing divide" in LGBTQ circles abt trans rights, she reports ESPECIALLY badly—including abt Jose Arango & his boyfriend who dumped him.
Paul didn't talk to the boyfriend.
I did.
Paul didn't talk to the boyfriend.
I did.
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Trump is withholding funding that’s *already there* for SNAP. They’re using hunger as a political weapon by choice.
While federal Republicans willingly let kids go hungry, we passed $70M in the State Senate to do what we can.
While federal Republicans willingly let kids go hungry, we passed $70M in the State Senate to do what we can.
October 31, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Trump is withholding funding that’s *already there* for SNAP. They’re using hunger as a political weapon by choice.
While federal Republicans willingly let kids go hungry, we passed $70M in the State Senate to do what we can.
While federal Republicans willingly let kids go hungry, we passed $70M in the State Senate to do what we can.
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“OH NO! NO WAY! OH MY GOD! YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME!”
Davis Schneider’s dad posted a video of the leadoff home run from his point of view
Davis Schneider’s dad posted a video of the leadoff home run from his point of view
October 30, 2025 at 12:47 AM
“OH NO! NO WAY! OH MY GOD! YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME!”
Davis Schneider’s dad posted a video of the leadoff home run from his point of view
Davis Schneider’s dad posted a video of the leadoff home run from his point of view
“I guess the trouble was that we didn't have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist.” - John Steinbeck, 1966
I always get drawn back to Al Gore telling voters that he’d only raise taxes on the top 1% and then after the election a poll showed that something like 20% of voters thought they were in the top 1% and another 20% thought they would be in the next five years. Just a total tragic disconnect.
Maaaaan, this. So much this. Every time there's any kind of actual in-depth survey we find that the American people are *abysmally* ignorant about even the most basic political facts, but the pundit class just immediately forgets & proceeds with political analysis based on subtle policy differences.
October 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
“I guess the trouble was that we didn't have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist.” - John Steinbeck, 1966
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The poorest people on this list are the Fisher family worth $1.6 billion. Joe Gebbia was part of DOGE and he's the co-founder of Airbnb which the city has basically banned. He does not live in NYC. A huge chunk of this list doesn't.
October 29, 2025 at 11:35 AM
The poorest people on this list are the Fisher family worth $1.6 billion. Joe Gebbia was part of DOGE and he's the co-founder of Airbnb which the city has basically banned. He does not live in NYC. A huge chunk of this list doesn't.
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NOAA retirees “volunteering” including one who is working as an “unpaid intern” in order to help. I would like to never again hear anyone bitch about civil servants’ work ethic tyvm.
Volunteers Step In to Help Understaffed NOAA Track Hurricane Melissa
www.nytimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
NOAA retirees “volunteering” including one who is working as an “unpaid intern” in order to help. I would like to never again hear anyone bitch about civil servants’ work ethic tyvm.
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Bari Weiss' most underappreciated quality is that she is dumb.
October 28, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Bari Weiss' most underappreciated quality is that she is dumb.
Randall “Pink” Floyd is all grown up and is the cool high-end bespoke weed dealer you‘re happy to share your shit with
October 29, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Randall “Pink” Floyd is all grown up and is the cool high-end bespoke weed dealer you‘re happy to share your shit with
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A federal judge in San Francisco on Tuesday indefinitely barred the Trump administration from firing federal employees during the government shutdown, saying that labor unions were likely to prevail on their claims that the cuts were arbitrary and politically motivated. https://to.pbs.org/48NN0HX
Judge extends order barring the Trump administration from firing federal workers during the shutdown
A federal judge in San Francisco on Tuesday indefinitely barred the Trump administration from firing federal employees during the government shutdown, saying that labor unions were likely to prevail o...
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October 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
A federal judge in San Francisco on Tuesday indefinitely barred the Trump administration from firing federal employees during the government shutdown, saying that labor unions were likely to prevail on their claims that the cuts were arbitrary and politically motivated. https://to.pbs.org/48NN0HX
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To all those “Let them go without food for a month, maybe they’ll get a job” people: Most SNAP recipients have jobs. Exploitative jobs that keep them living just below the poverty line. — Should they starve to death? And then what?
October 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
To all those “Let them go without food for a month, maybe they’ll get a job” people: Most SNAP recipients have jobs. Exploitative jobs that keep them living just below the poverty line. — Should they starve to death? And then what?
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centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.
October 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.
“I did not know there were so many cowards in this country.”
October 28, 2025 at 12:07 PM
“I did not know there were so many cowards in this country.”
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This game is like I got caught smoking a baseball and now I have to smoke a whole pack of baseball
October 28, 2025 at 5:01 AM
This game is like I got caught smoking a baseball and now I have to smoke a whole pack of baseball
Okay. Ohtani & Betts are coming up in the bottom of the 15th...I’ll stay up a little longer
Great game, but I’m going to bed if Jays do’t score here in the 15th
October 28, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Okay. Ohtani & Betts are coming up in the bottom of the 15th...I’ll stay up a little longer