Matt Cordeiro
@deiro.bsky.social
Maybe let's try winning this time.
If Platner keeps his lead in the polls, I think it's an interesting test to see what types of lefty ideas have permeated to the public. Left coded populism is compelling when presented by the right messenger. I also think that the left's promotion of second chances plays a role here too.
October 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
If Platner keeps his lead in the polls, I think it's an interesting test to see what types of lefty ideas have permeated to the public. Left coded populism is compelling when presented by the right messenger. I also think that the left's promotion of second chances plays a role here too.
It kinda sucks that most debate on the left is an exercise of competing logics that are generally divorced from their real world implications. People plug in assumptions, often overbroad or not quite right, and plug them into an argument like it's a paper they need to finish for class.
October 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
It kinda sucks that most debate on the left is an exercise of competing logics that are generally divorced from their real world implications. People plug in assumptions, often overbroad or not quite right, and plug them into an argument like it's a paper they need to finish for class.
One lesson I feel like the left should internalize more is that your actions and be both righteous and theoretically correct while ultimately dooming your cause. People act like conviction is free of consequence.
October 20, 2025 at 6:58 AM
One lesson I feel like the left should internalize more is that your actions and be both righteous and theoretically correct while ultimately dooming your cause. People act like conviction is free of consequence.
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DHS has been lying about this shooting of an American citizen. 🧵
Trump's federal agents shot Marimar Martinez, a US citizen, multiple times for allegedly menacing them with her car in Chicago. Only hours later, Kristi Noem and DHS started spreading disinformation about the shooting.
Now the official line is crumbling. 1/
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newrepublic.com/article/2019...
Now the official line is crumbling. 1/
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newrepublic.com/article/2019...
Trump’s Secret Police Shot a Citizen. Then Damning New Info Emerged.
As the official Trump administration line about the shooting of a Chicago woman crumbles, Senator Chris Murphy is asking pointed questions about what really happened here. Will we ever get answers?
newrepublic.com
October 19, 2025 at 12:28 PM
DHS has been lying about this shooting of an American citizen. 🧵
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Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants
Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates
www.gelliottmorris.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
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Yeah I do think the various attempts to will elite capitulation into being were briefly a successful bit of self-fulfilling prophesying but for various reasons are failing now - huge protests, university's rejecting the compact, the press refusing to go along with Hegseth's new pentagon policy, etc.
Remember back in January when all these sage politics-knowers were writing about how there had been a vibe shift and now the resistance was over?
lol. lmao.
lol. lmao.
October 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Yeah I do think the various attempts to will elite capitulation into being were briefly a successful bit of self-fulfilling prophesying but for various reasons are failing now - huge protests, university's rejecting the compact, the press refusing to go along with Hegseth's new pentagon policy, etc.
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Based on early numbers, there are easily more people participating in the second No Kings Day than in the first. Trump's strategy of constantly talking about this on TV and GOP govs sending in the national guard obviously energized the left. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
20251018_No Kings Day 2 Protests Unofficial Attendance Crowdsourcing
docs.google.com
October 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Based on early numbers, there are easily more people participating in the second No Kings Day than in the first. Trump's strategy of constantly talking about this on TV and GOP govs sending in the national guard obviously energized the left. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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BREAKING
Jeffrey Epstein skied with, had dinners with a top Florida prosecutor on his case, docs show
Full Story: bit.ly/4nVTRUe
Jeffrey Epstein skied with, had dinners with a top Florida prosecutor on his case, docs show
Full Story: bit.ly/4nVTRUe
October 18, 2025 at 1:38 AM
BREAKING
Jeffrey Epstein skied with, had dinners with a top Florida prosecutor on his case, docs show
Full Story: bit.ly/4nVTRUe
Jeffrey Epstein skied with, had dinners with a top Florida prosecutor on his case, docs show
Full Story: bit.ly/4nVTRUe
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genuinely wild the number of quote tweets that see this as an insult toward mamdani rather than as praise for his discipline and skill at translating personal charisma into political appeal
Zohran Mamdani is a trained performer who has an extremely disciplined and laser-focused ability to recite on-message talking points in response to any question, and yet voters overwhelming praise him as being especially "authentic" compared to other politicians. There's a lesson here!
October 17, 2025 at 11:08 AM
genuinely wild the number of quote tweets that see this as an insult toward mamdani rather than as praise for his discipline and skill at translating personal charisma into political appeal
An underrated aspect in the discussion of how lefties should hold Zohran accountable is the relatively narrow band of organizing philosophies that guide the vast majority of work people participate in. I think we're seeing how the lack of strategic diversity guides politics, not the other way around
A spectre is haunting NYCDSA and it's the spectre of Saul Alinksy.
October 17, 2025 at 2:51 AM
An underrated aspect in the discussion of how lefties should hold Zohran accountable is the relatively narrow band of organizing philosophies that guide the vast majority of work people participate in. I think we're seeing how the lack of strategic diversity guides politics, not the other way around
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Zero Regard for Safety, ICE Escalation in Chicago Leaves Baby in Harm’s Way🇺🇸
October 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Zero Regard for Safety, ICE Escalation in Chicago Leaves Baby in Harm’s Way🇺🇸
A spectre is haunting NYCDSA and it's the spectre of Saul Alinksy.
October 15, 2025 at 12:49 AM
A spectre is haunting NYCDSA and it's the spectre of Saul Alinksy.
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this is getting very dangerous very fast and it is entirely the feds' doing. in fact the discipline and courage of protesters is the only thing slowing down escalation.
At 105th chaos erupted when ICE agents allegedly crashed into an SUV. A crowd formed and objects were thrown. Pepper balls were shot into the crowd. Police arrived to try to have dialogue with the crowd when witnesses stated they began throwing rocks at ICE. ICE then deployed tear gas.
October 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
this is getting very dangerous very fast and it is entirely the feds' doing. in fact the discipline and courage of protesters is the only thing slowing down escalation.
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I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?
Is it...requesting content moderation?
Is it...requesting content moderation?
October 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?
Is it...requesting content moderation?
Is it...requesting content moderation?
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imagine this being your response to people showing up in miserable conditions outside an ICE facility when wearing one of these costumes has gotten the wearer shot with less lethal ammunition
October 13, 2025 at 3:02 AM
imagine this being your response to people showing up in miserable conditions outside an ICE facility when wearing one of these costumes has gotten the wearer shot with less lethal ammunition
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Kah really said "...the refs are not doing a good job tonight" dueing that interview with Holly as politely as I've ever heard Kah say anything 😭
I need one of those NBA players to eat the fine 😂 #WNBA
I need one of those NBA players to eat the fine 😂 #WNBA
October 11, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Kah really said "...the refs are not doing a good job tonight" dueing that interview with Holly as politely as I've ever heard Kah say anything 😭
I need one of those NBA players to eat the fine 😂 #WNBA
I need one of those NBA players to eat the fine 😂 #WNBA
Great article
"My parents do not know I’m in DSA."
Their Families Fled Soviet Socialism. Now They’re Knocking Doors for Mamdani.
A world away from their parents’ Iron Curtain upbringings, young New Yorkers with roots from Poland to Turkmenistan are helping power the Democratic mayoral nominee’s sunny socialist campaign.
buff.ly
October 11, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Great article
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ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.
David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.
Here's their story.
David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.
Here's their story.
ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.
A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.
www.mississippifreepress.org
October 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM
ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.
David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.
Here's their story.
David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.
Here's their story.
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This from @aselrod.bsky.social resonates with the conversation that @sifill.bsky.social had with us at Vassar last week: "We have passed through the veil. Whatever becomes of American liberal democracy in the near or distant future, it will be a resurrection and not a continuation."
I wrote about how hard it is to do politics in reality right now, both because of the fictions beings imposed on us and because of the fictions we maintain in our own minds. Read at @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/all-in-our-h...
www.liberalcurrents.com/all-in-our-h...
All In Our Heads: On Losing Our Democracy and Life Beyond Our Imaginations
Our language has to meet the moment, and we have to be relentless about dispelling the fiction MAGA is selling.
www.liberalcurrents.com
October 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
This from @aselrod.bsky.social resonates with the conversation that @sifill.bsky.social had with us at Vassar last week: "We have passed through the veil. Whatever becomes of American liberal democracy in the near or distant future, it will be a resurrection and not a continuation."
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"no more superficial individual expression"
September 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
"no more superficial individual expression"
The Fever injury and fouled out squad could be their own WNBA expansion team.
Overtime in Las Vegas with a chance to play the Phoenix Mercury in the WNBA Finals on the line. The Fever will be without Aliyah Boston, Chloe Bibby, Caitlin Clark, Sydney Colson, Sophie Cunningham, Damiris Dantas, Aari McDonald and Kelsey Mitchell.
October 1, 2025 at 3:55 AM
The Fever injury and fouled out squad could be their own WNBA expansion team.
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I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this
I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were
September 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this