Matt Thompson
@mvthomster.bsky.social
PhD in Plant Physiology. Despairing of ever building platforms for Agriculture. E-bike commuter.
->Plant trees EVERYWHERE<-
LBCA-raised, he/him, 3 kids
#trees #plantscience #agriculture #culturalevolution
->Plant trees EVERYWHERE<-
LBCA-raised, he/him, 3 kids
#trees #plantscience #agriculture #culturalevolution
Pinned
anyone in a position of authority who supported Trump and argued "it won't be that bad, he'll just lower taxes" has a vanishingly small amount of time left to make it right to the people who trusted them, before their reputations disappear forever in a puff of sulfurous smoke
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The blessed day is upon us once again
Happy large boulder the size of a small boulder day for all who celebrate
January 27, 2026 at 11:10 AM
The blessed day is upon us once again
yeah, the National Guard supplying coffee and donuts was probably a really big deal
January 27, 2026 at 5:48 AM
yeah, the National Guard supplying coffee and donuts was probably a really big deal
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Martinez took five bullets from a CBP agent, and DHS went into overdrive claiming she was an armed threat to the agents who were merely defending themselves. Sound familiar?
The woman who survived five gunshots from a Border Patrol agent in Chicago, only to be criminally charged and then cleared, now wants a judge’s permission to share records showing how the feds respond when agents use deadly force.
@chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
@chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Woman shot by Border Patrol in Chicago asks judge to let her release evidence
Marimar Martinez is blocked from releasing evidence in her case by what's known as a "protective order." Though standard, her attorney says it's “become an albatross” around her neck and “keeps the en...
chicago.suntimes.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Martinez took five bullets from a CBP agent, and DHS went into overdrive claiming she was an armed threat to the agents who were merely defending themselves. Sound familiar?
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The testing ground for Bovino’s Operation At Large was Los Angeles. A California judge initially prohibited ICE/CBP’s most flagrant constitutional violations. SCOTUS overruled her 6–3, handing Bovino a blank check to inflict unspeakable brutality on Chicago and Minneapolis. The 6 bear so much blame.
BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted
The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.
www.theatlantic.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:18 AM
The testing ground for Bovino’s Operation At Large was Los Angeles. A California judge initially prohibited ICE/CBP’s most flagrant constitutional violations. SCOTUS overruled her 6–3, handing Bovino a blank check to inflict unspeakable brutality on Chicago and Minneapolis. The 6 bear so much blame.
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Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
January 27, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
anyone collaborating with Palantir, or anyone else promoting a surveillance state, gambled their reputations as patriotic Americans, and have already lost
and in the most casually naive and arrogant manner imaginable
and in the most casually naive and arrogant manner imaginable
There is some instinct to fight the current fight (Trump) before moving on to the next fight: the technocrats who want to own us. But Trump will be gone, we know that, one way or the other, so we might as well start this fight now:
psychopete1.substack.com/p/the-palant...
psychopete1.substack.com/p/the-palant...
The Palantir Gambit
How Peter Thiel Became Big Brother — and How to Fight the Eye That Sees All
psychopete1.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:43 AM
anyone collaborating with Palantir, or anyone else promoting a surveillance state, gambled their reputations as patriotic Americans, and have already lost
and in the most casually naive and arrogant manner imaginable
and in the most casually naive and arrogant manner imaginable
hard to overstate the cultural self-harm
The Trump regime got rid of 10,109 PhDs in science and related fields, representing 14% of the total number of PhD scientists in the federal workforce.
U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies
www.science.org
January 27, 2026 at 1:38 AM
hard to overstate the cultural self-harm
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Bovino out is a great indicator. It’s a great start. But none of us can be appeased right now. It’s still abolish ICE. It’s still prosecute these fascists. It’s still destroy the whole apparatus that has been terrorizing and disappearing and murdering our neighbors.
January 27, 2026 at 1:09 AM
Bovino out is a great indicator. It’s a great start. But none of us can be appeased right now. It’s still abolish ICE. It’s still prosecute these fascists. It’s still destroy the whole apparatus that has been terrorizing and disappearing and murdering our neighbors.
Everyone of significance on this website right now, from Jamelle Bouie to Bill Kristol, posting something like Lincoln's unsent letter to George Meade (1863), but addressed to Democrats in Congress.
January 27, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Everyone of significance on this website right now, from Jamelle Bouie to Bill Kristol, posting something like Lincoln's unsent letter to George Meade (1863), but addressed to Democrats in Congress.
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From "Napoleon's Maxims of War."
January 27, 2026 at 1:19 AM
From "Napoleon's Maxims of War."
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if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.
January 27, 2026 at 1:07 AM
if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.
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They are wounded and flailing. Press the advantage.
January 27, 2026 at 12:08 AM
They are wounded and flailing. Press the advantage.
should signify the end of several careers (all millennials, as it turns out), but the elite in this country have a habit of spending a fortune for people to be wrong on purpose
The Democratic commentators, "strategists," and data bros who've been counseling appeasement of Trump's fascism need to take responsibility for how unbelievably fucking wrong they were.
For history tells us that appeasement signals weakness, encourages escalation, and accelerates freedom's end.
For history tells us that appeasement signals weakness, encourages escalation, and accelerates freedom's end.
January 27, 2026 at 1:03 AM
should signify the end of several careers (all millennials, as it turns out), but the elite in this country have a habit of spending a fortune for people to be wrong on purpose
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BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted
The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.
www.theatlantic.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:40 PM
BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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"what if the next administration will be democratic and they cut all the contracts with us?"
maybe a something all these corporations that decided to throw themselves whole-hog into trumpism should have thought about!
maybe a something all these corporations that decided to throw themselves whole-hog into trumpism should have thought about!
Some comments from workers in the hours after Pretti's killing:
“In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."
www.wired.com/story/palant...
“In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."
www.wired.com/story/palant...
January 26, 2026 at 11:39 PM
"what if the next administration will be democratic and they cut all the contracts with us?"
maybe a something all these corporations that decided to throw themselves whole-hog into trumpism should have thought about!
maybe a something all these corporations that decided to throw themselves whole-hog into trumpism should have thought about!
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Characters from Victor Hugo's 1831 Romantic novel NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS (published in English under the title THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME)
January 25, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Characters from Victor Hugo's 1831 Romantic novel NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS (published in English under the title THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME)
We'll always have Tolkien (as secular morality), and while I'm sure he would've had a lot of negative things to say about trans folk, at least we can still grant him the benefit of the doubt
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Younger generations “have fallen out of love with Harry Potter because they have fallen out of love with the worldview the series represents,” writes Louise Perry. “Which is to say that young people have fallen out of love with liberalism.”
Younger generations “have fallen out of love with Harry Potter because they have fallen out of love with the worldview the series represents,” writes Louise Perry. “Which is to say that young people have fallen out of love with liberalism.”
Opinion | Why Gen Z Doesn’t Love ‘Harry Potter’
The wizarding worldview is naïve.
nyti.ms
January 26, 2026 at 9:32 PM
We'll always have Tolkien (as secular morality), and while I'm sure he would've had a lot of negative things to say about trans folk, at least we can still grant him the benefit of the doubt
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Jeff Bezos is putting the Washington Post into hospice: defector.com/jeff-bezos-i...
Jeff Bezos Is Putting The Washington Post Into Hospice | Defector
The Washington Post’s suicide-by-1,000-cuts business plan is going swimmingly. Word of the most recent act of self-harm came with a New York Times report on Friday on an internal memo informing the…
defector.com
January 26, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Jeff Bezos is putting the Washington Post into hospice: defector.com/jeff-bezos-i...
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Minnesota, my home, is carrying a heavy burden right now.
Being kind is not being weak. The strength to care for others, to love and protect our neighbors, to be a shield and not a sword, to be warmth in the cold is true Minnesota nice.
(Photo by local photographer Ricky Roman, MN)
Being kind is not being weak. The strength to care for others, to love and protect our neighbors, to be a shield and not a sword, to be warmth in the cold is true Minnesota nice.
(Photo by local photographer Ricky Roman, MN)
January 26, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Minnesota, my home, is carrying a heavy burden right now.
Being kind is not being weak. The strength to care for others, to love and protect our neighbors, to be a shield and not a sword, to be warmth in the cold is true Minnesota nice.
(Photo by local photographer Ricky Roman, MN)
Being kind is not being weak. The strength to care for others, to love and protect our neighbors, to be a shield and not a sword, to be warmth in the cold is true Minnesota nice.
(Photo by local photographer Ricky Roman, MN)
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ICE guys: so yeah you're pretty much going to abolish us now, huh
January 26, 2026 at 9:17 PM
ICE guys: so yeah you're pretty much going to abolish us now, huh
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Today is a great day to remember Wilhoit's law: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
January 26, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Today is a great day to remember Wilhoit's law: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
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Normal thing for a major urban American newspaper to have to post.
Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 26, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Normal thing for a major urban American newspaper to have to post.
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We’re just innocent men
January 26, 2026 at 5:30 PM
We’re just innocent men