Matt H
@matt-hallauer.bsky.social
Counselor, coach, and former journalism teacher in KC.
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Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
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The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone.
Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care.
The system is broken.
Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care.
The system is broken.
September 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone.
Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care.
The system is broken.
Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care.
The system is broken.
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This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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August 28, 2025 at 10:24 AM
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Wins, Last 37 Games:
Colorado Rockies, 15
Chicago White Sox, 15
New York Yankees, 14
Colorado Rockies, 15
Chicago White Sox, 15
New York Yankees, 14
July 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Wins, Last 37 Games:
Colorado Rockies, 15
Chicago White Sox, 15
New York Yankees, 14
Colorado Rockies, 15
Chicago White Sox, 15
New York Yankees, 14
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EPSTEIN LATEST: In light of what we released last week from my staff's investigation, I'm handing Trump's DOJ a ready-made case with seven different lines of investigation for them to follow the money on Jeffrey Epstein.
NEWS --> Sen Ron Wyden writes to Pam Bondi, urging DOJ to probe $1.5 billion in Epstein financial transactions that banks flagged for Treasury Dept. He lays out roadmap for DOJ to examine money flow related to sex trafficking. Challenges Bondi in new way.
Read here:
newrepublic.com/article/1982...
Read here:
newrepublic.com/article/1982...
Trump’s Epstein Fiasco Takes Darker Turn as Dem Senator Drops New Bomb
Ron Wyden has some ideas for Pam Bondi to pursue—if, that is, she’s genuinely interested in getting to the bottom of the Epstein scandal.
newrepublic.com
July 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
EPSTEIN LATEST: In light of what we released last week from my staff's investigation, I'm handing Trump's DOJ a ready-made case with seven different lines of investigation for them to follow the money on Jeffrey Epstein.
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“I’m plainly convinced that my situation in this ICE jail is direct retaliation for my coverage,” Mario Guevara told @ajc.com in an exclusive interview from the Folkston, Georgia ICE detention center where he is currently detained, despite a judge's bail order. “I haven’t committed any crimes.”
Hispanic journalist in Atlanta detained by ICE speaks out
Mario Guevara tells the AJC about his month behind bars, and his once positive feelings toward Donald Trump.
www.ajc.com
July 20, 2025 at 1:01 AM
“I’m plainly convinced that my situation in this ICE jail is direct retaliation for my coverage,” Mario Guevara told @ajc.com in an exclusive interview from the Folkston, Georgia ICE detention center where he is currently detained, despite a judge's bail order. “I haven’t committed any crimes.”
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I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.
NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out
Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
www.wired.com
July 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.
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I love that former NYT public editor @sulliview.bsky.social is public-editing from the outside.
"With this made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani.
"And no lofty explanation about the mission can disguise it."
"With this made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani.
"And no lofty explanation about the mission can disguise it."
Is the New York Times trying to wreck Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral bid? | Margaret Sullivan
With their made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani
www.theguardian.com
July 7, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I love that former NYT public editor @sulliview.bsky.social is public-editing from the outside.
"With this made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani.
"And no lofty explanation about the mission can disguise it."
"With this made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani.
"And no lofty explanation about the mission can disguise it."
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2/ I've said it a million times but...the Times would be so well-served by restoring the public editor. For accountability and transparency, but also to help guide needed course corrections--which every institution must do!
July 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
2/ I've said it a million times but...the Times would be so well-served by restoring the public editor. For accountability and transparency, but also to help guide needed course corrections--which every institution must do!
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Over the past decade, the world’s richest 1% have increased their wealth by at least $33.9 trillion, according to a new analysis from the global anti-poverty group Oxfam International.
World’s richest 1% increased wealth by $33.9 trillion since 2015, Oxfam says
That amount is “more than enough to eliminate annual poverty 22 times over,” according to a new analysis from the anti-poverty group.
www.inquirer.com
June 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Over the past decade, the world’s richest 1% have increased their wealth by at least $33.9 trillion, according to a new analysis from the global anti-poverty group Oxfam International.
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WATCH: “I FEEL BETRAYED.”
1 of 3 U.S. Marine sons of the innocent landscaper brutally beaten by Trump’s Gestapo speaks out.
Their go fund me has raised almost $100K: www.gofundme.com/f/justice-fo...
1 of 3 U.S. Marine sons of the innocent landscaper brutally beaten by Trump’s Gestapo speaks out.
Their go fund me has raised almost $100K: www.gofundme.com/f/justice-fo...
June 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
WATCH: “I FEEL BETRAYED.”
1 of 3 U.S. Marine sons of the innocent landscaper brutally beaten by Trump’s Gestapo speaks out.
Their go fund me has raised almost $100K: www.gofundme.com/f/justice-fo...
1 of 3 U.S. Marine sons of the innocent landscaper brutally beaten by Trump’s Gestapo speaks out.
Their go fund me has raised almost $100K: www.gofundme.com/f/justice-fo...
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“family members identified the victim as Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all U.S. Marines”
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June 22, 2025 at 11:45 PM
“family members identified the victim as Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all U.S. Marines”
ktla.com/news/local-n...
ktla.com/news/local-n...
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Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.
June 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.
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"We are alarmed to learn that reporter Mario Guevara — who has work authorization in the United States — was transferred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention after being arrested on Sunday while covering a protest." — Katherine Jacobsen, CPJ's US, Canada + Caribbean program coordinator
June 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
"We are alarmed to learn that reporter Mario Guevara — who has work authorization in the United States — was transferred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention after being arrested on Sunday while covering a protest." — Katherine Jacobsen, CPJ's US, Canada + Caribbean program coordinator
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Trump’s federal government imposing collective punishment on US cities because their citizens and residents exercised their constitutionally protected right to free speech. Pure dictator behavior, anti-constitutional, and abhorrent to the entire US system
More punishment for June 14.
Sean Duffy to withhold transportation funds from cities with anti-ICE protests
Sean Duffy to withhold transportation funds from cities with anti-ICE protests
Sean Duffy to withhold transportation funds from cities with anti-ICE protests
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Monday his department would withhold funding from cities where anti-ICE demonstrations were allowed to take place.In a Monday post on X, Duffy responded to Pre...
www.rawstory.com
June 16, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Trump’s federal government imposing collective punishment on US cities because their citizens and residents exercised their constitutionally protected right to free speech. Pure dictator behavior, anti-constitutional, and abhorrent to the entire US system
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I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.
June 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.
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NBC wrote an entire article about a group that has 1/10th as many Twitter followers as I do
Some far-left groups have encouraged peaceful protests to turn violent, experts say.
Some far-left groups have encouraged peaceful protests to turn violent, experts say
Unrest in Los Angeles follows a recent pattern: Protests that break out remain mostly peaceful during the day, but at night agitators engage in fiery clashes with police.
nbcnews.to
June 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
NBC wrote an entire article about a group that has 1/10th as many Twitter followers as I do
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An Army vet heading to the VA took a wrong turn—and was detained by Marines in LA. While they acted professionally, their detaining him was likely illegal under the Posse Comitatus Act. It’s another line being crossed—and it puts our Marines in a bad spot. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows
Marines deployed to Los Angeles carried out the detention of a civilian on Friday, the U.S. military confirmed after being presented with Reuters images, in the first known detention by active-duty troops deployed there by President Donald Trump.
www.reuters.com
June 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM
An Army vet heading to the VA took a wrong turn—and was detained by Marines in LA. While they acted professionally, their detaining him was likely illegal under the Posse Comitatus Act. It’s another line being crossed—and it puts our Marines in a bad spot. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
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ICE detentions of people with no criminal records are up nearly 900 percent over the same period last year. Gift link: wapo.st/43DxcEB
June 11, 2025 at 1:40 PM
ICE detentions of people with no criminal records are up nearly 900 percent over the same period last year. Gift link: wapo.st/43DxcEB
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Turns out the "illegal" pregnant woman was a US citizen, and she's since been hospitalized.
June 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Turns out the "illegal" pregnant woman was a US citizen, and she's since been hospitalized.
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It is completely unlawful for ICE to turn away members of Congress like this. The law could not be more clear; no member of Congress may be denied access to a facility where ICE is detaining someone, and they cannot be required to schedule in advance. Surprise inspections must be surprise.
If ICE were acting entirely within the law and maintaining good conditions in all its facilities, they would not be turning Congresspeople away.
But they clearly aren't.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/n...
But they clearly aren't.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/n...
5 Lawmakers in California and New York Are Denied Access to Federal Detention Facilities
www.nytimes.com
June 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
It is completely unlawful for ICE to turn away members of Congress like this. The law could not be more clear; no member of Congress may be denied access to a facility where ICE is detaining someone, and they cannot be required to schedule in advance. Surprise inspections must be surprise.
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DOJ under Trump is dismantling guardrails designed to stop political interference in criminal investigations involving politicians, federal judges and other public figures.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
June 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
DOJ under Trump is dismantling guardrails designed to stop political interference in criminal investigations involving politicians, federal judges and other public figures.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Read this but also even just the paragraph that starts “On the 30th anniversary of the massacre, Thompson went back to My Lai and met some of the people whose lives he had saved…”
www.latimes.com/opinion/op-e...
www.latimes.com/opinion/op-e...
Op-Ed: A forgotten hero stopped the My Lai massacre 50 years ago today
Everybody’s heard of the My Lai massacre — March 16, 1968, 50 years ago today — but not many know about the man who stopped it: Hugh Thompson, an Army helicopter pilot.
www.latimes.com
June 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Read this but also even just the paragraph that starts “On the 30th anniversary of the massacre, Thompson went back to My Lai and met some of the people whose lives he had saved…”
www.latimes.com/opinion/op-e...
www.latimes.com/opinion/op-e...