Dr. Matt
@matt-wye.bsky.social
Optimistically jaded chap trying to leave the world a bit better each day. Proud poll worker, voting rights advocate. Human to two lovely dogs- well, ok, one lovely dog and one I'm trying to have be a better canine. Offspring, Merele Haggard and Poppy fan.
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Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.
The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers. ProPublica found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet secretary got two...
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October 12, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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The Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection, when a violent mob swarmed the U.S. Capitol, occurred while Trump was still in office.
Donald Trump falsely says 'Biden FBI' placed agents in Jan. 6 crowds
The Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection, when a violent mob swarmed the U.S. Capitol, occurred while Trump was still in office.
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October 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection, when a violent mob swarmed the U.S. Capitol, occurred while Trump was still in office.
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LATEST: A federal appeals court in Chicago on Saturday denied the Trump administration’s request for an emergency stay of a district judge’s order barring the president from deploying National Guard troops in the city and state.
Appeals court denies Trump administration request to halt judge’s ruling on National Guard pending appeal
A federal appeals court in Chicago on Saturday denied the Trump administration’s request for an emergency stay of a district judge’s order barring the president from deploying National …
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October 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
LATEST: A federal appeals court in Chicago on Saturday denied the Trump administration’s request for an emergency stay of a district judge’s order barring the president from deploying National Guard troops in the city and state.
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#WARNING: The CPSC is warning consumers to immediately stop using KOOLDOO Bed Rails. The bed rails violate the mandatory standard for children’s portable bed rails, posing a risk of serious injury or death due to entrapment. Learn more: www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...
October 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
#WARNING: The CPSC is warning consumers to immediately stop using KOOLDOO Bed Rails. The bed rails violate the mandatory standard for children’s portable bed rails, posing a risk of serious injury or death due to entrapment. Learn more: www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...
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October 8, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Brunkow got the news of her prize from a photographer.
She said she had ignored the earlier call from the Nobel committee. “My phone rang and I saw a number from Sweden and thought: ‘That’s just, that’s spam of some sort.’”
Husband: “When I told Mary she won, she said, ‘don’t be ridiculous'."
She said she had ignored the earlier call from the Nobel committee. “My phone rang and I saw a number from Sweden and thought: ‘That’s just, that’s spam of some sort.’”
Husband: “When I told Mary she won, she said, ‘don’t be ridiculous'."
BREAKING: Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi win the Nobel Prize in medicine for work on peripheral immune tolerance.
The Nobel Prize in medicine goes to 3 scientists for work on peripheral immune tolerance
Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for their discoveries about peripheral immune tolerance.
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October 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Brunkow got the news of her prize from a photographer.
She said she had ignored the earlier call from the Nobel committee. “My phone rang and I saw a number from Sweden and thought: ‘That’s just, that’s spam of some sort.’”
Husband: “When I told Mary she won, she said, ‘don’t be ridiculous'."
She said she had ignored the earlier call from the Nobel committee. “My phone rang and I saw a number from Sweden and thought: ‘That’s just, that’s spam of some sort.’”
Husband: “When I told Mary she won, she said, ‘don’t be ridiculous'."
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I'm glad Jimmy Kimmel is back.
September 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I'm glad Jimmy Kimmel is back.
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Please repost -- The Univ. California Davis dept of Plant Pathology is hiring a Fungal biologist / Mycologist
Applications due Dec 1
Application portal: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339
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Applications due Dec 1
Application portal: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339
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September 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Please repost -- The Univ. California Davis dept of Plant Pathology is hiring a Fungal biologist / Mycologist
Applications due Dec 1
Application portal: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339
Screenshot shows part of the job posting (with alt-text of the same text)
Applications due Dec 1
Application portal: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339
Screenshot shows part of the job posting (with alt-text of the same text)
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This is Annie. She freaking loves fall. 13/10 (FB: James Osborne)
September 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
This is Annie. She freaking loves fall. 13/10 (FB: James Osborne)
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MSNBC: In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now Trump's border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents win government contracts in a second Trump admin.
Trump's DOJ just shut down the investigation into Homan's actions.
Trump's DOJ just shut down the investigation into Homan's actions.
Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.
The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.
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September 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
MSNBC: In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now Trump's border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents win government contracts in a second Trump admin.
Trump's DOJ just shut down the investigation into Homan's actions.
Trump's DOJ just shut down the investigation into Homan's actions.
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Trump loves to play the strongman, but in reality he is a weak, thin-skinned, petty little man-baby.
#SundayThoughts #Pinks ☕️🌞☕️
#SundayThoughts #Pinks ☕️🌞☕️
September 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Trump loves to play the strongman, but in reality he is a weak, thin-skinned, petty little man-baby.
#SundayThoughts #Pinks ☕️🌞☕️
#SundayThoughts #Pinks ☕️🌞☕️
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This commentary offers a clear, powerful statement of why freedom of speech is at the heart of democracy and must be defended, whether the speaker is Charlie Kirk or Jimmy Kimmel, MAGA supporters or MAGA opponents.
September 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
This commentary offers a clear, powerful statement of why freedom of speech is at the heart of democracy and must be defended, whether the speaker is Charlie Kirk or Jimmy Kimmel, MAGA supporters or MAGA opponents.
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Breaking news: Thirty-one journalists were killed in Israeli airstrikes on a newspaper complex in Yemen last week, according to a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
They say it was “the deadliest strike on journalists in the Middle East.”
They say it was “the deadliest strike on journalists in the Middle East.”
Israel killed 31 journalists in Yemen strike, press freedom group says
Last week’s attack was “the deadliest strike on journalists in the Middle East” ever documented by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
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September 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Breaking news: Thirty-one journalists were killed in Israeli airstrikes on a newspaper complex in Yemen last week, according to a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
They say it was “the deadliest strike on journalists in the Middle East.”
They say it was “the deadliest strike on journalists in the Middle East.”
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Donald Trump ostensibly sent National Guard troops to Washington, DC to fight crime. In reality they are collecting rubbish and spreading mulch in city parks. But if the president ratchets up these moves, would the law constrain him?
The president is putting America’s armed forces in a bind
Turning soldiers into cops was once a last resort. How far might he go?
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September 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Donald Trump ostensibly sent National Guard troops to Washington, DC to fight crime. In reality they are collecting rubbish and spreading mulch in city parks. But if the president ratchets up these moves, would the law constrain him?
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Contrary to Trump’s claim that “the radical left causes tremendous violence,” sociologists find that right-wing extremists account for the vast majority of attacks and deaths from domestic terrorism.
Right-wing extremist violence is more frequent and more deadly than left-wing violence − what the data shows
Donald Trump and top administration officials confidently assert that left-wing political violence is a huge problem in the US. They’re wrong, say researchers who study extremism.
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September 18, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Contrary to Trump’s claim that “the radical left causes tremendous violence,” sociologists find that right-wing extremists account for the vast majority of attacks and deaths from domestic terrorism.
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Let this sink in: A president can now (apparently) not only accept gifts (bribes) from foreign nations, but order lethal strikes on foreign boats in international waters too!
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How the Supreme Court Turned Trump Into a Danger to Everyone
The administration’s decision to launch an attack against alleged drug runners in the Caribbean is a lawless act—or at least it used to be.
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September 18, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Let this sink in: A president can now (apparently) not only accept gifts (bribes) from foreign nations, but order lethal strikes on foreign boats in international waters too!
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The UAE put $2B into a crypto firm largely owned by the Trumps and Witkoffs (as in Steve Witkoff, Special Envoy to the Middle East)—then got export restrictions lifted on AI chips.
And let's not forget Trump's other gift from the Middle East, his private jet from Qatar. trib.al/IiVL63t
And let's not forget Trump's other gift from the Middle East, his private jet from Qatar. trib.al/IiVL63t
Does Anybody Care This Is the Worst Bribery Scandal Since Teapot Dome?
The UAE put $2 billion into World Liberty Financial, then got export restrictions lifted on AI chips. Nothing to see here, move along.
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September 18, 2025 at 2:03 AM
The UAE put $2B into a crypto firm largely owned by the Trumps and Witkoffs (as in Steve Witkoff, Special Envoy to the Middle East)—then got export restrictions lifted on AI chips.
And let's not forget Trump's other gift from the Middle East, his private jet from Qatar. trib.al/IiVL63t
And let's not forget Trump's other gift from the Middle East, his private jet from Qatar. trib.al/IiVL63t
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Commentary: Ohio politicians pressured by a corrupt president look to be doubling down on blatantly partisan gerrymandering to help them in the 2026 midterms by manipulating congressional district boundaries in 2025 to silence the voices of opposition ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/09/17/n...
None of this is normal: Not unconstitutional gerrymandering and not the Ohio National Guard in D.C. • Ohio Capital Journal
Ohio politicians pressured by an openly corrupt president look to be doubling down on blatantly partisan gerrymandering to help them in the 2026 midterms by manipulating congressional district…
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September 17, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Commentary: Ohio politicians pressured by a corrupt president look to be doubling down on blatantly partisan gerrymandering to help them in the 2026 midterms by manipulating congressional district boundaries in 2025 to silence the voices of opposition ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/09/17/n...
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Gee, I wonder why.
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September 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Gee, I wonder why.
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Hiding the truth.
September 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Hiding the truth.
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Don’t forget to vote, Minnesotans!
Today’s special election will determine who fills the state House seat after Melissa Hortman and her husband were assassinated in June.
Today’s special election will determine who fills the state House seat after Melissa Hortman and her husband were assassinated in June.
September 16, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Don’t forget to vote, Minnesotans!
Today’s special election will determine who fills the state House seat after Melissa Hortman and her husband were assassinated in June.
Today’s special election will determine who fills the state House seat after Melissa Hortman and her husband were assassinated in June.
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They had kids, too.
September 15, 2025 at 11:50 PM
They had kids, too.
Folks, this is a reminder that the 2025 flu season is upon us. Get your flu shots soon in the next few weeks!
#flu #publichealth
#flu #publichealth
Looks like the University of Pennsylvania is seeing an increase in Covid and Influenza like illness.
September 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Folks, this is a reminder that the 2025 flu season is upon us. Get your flu shots soon in the next few weeks!
#flu #publichealth
#flu #publichealth
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The U.S. Department of Justice is sharing state voter roll information with the Department of Homeland Security in a search for noncitizens, the Trump administration confirmed. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/09/15/r...
DOJ is sharing state voter roll lists with Homeland Security • Ohio Capital Journal
The U.S. Department of Justice is sharing state voter roll information with the Department of Homeland Security in a search for noncitizens, the Trump administration confirmed.
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September 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The U.S. Department of Justice is sharing state voter roll information with the Department of Homeland Security in a search for noncitizens, the Trump administration confirmed. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/09/15/r...