@matthewconradt.bsky.social
Artist based in Brooklyn; kinda reluctantly on Insta as well
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"As his popularity diminishes and his political power becomes more contested, he’s likely to become more reckless and more determined to harm the nation he was elected to lead. Americans, therefore, must be prepared to defend their country with only greater vigilance and vigor."
Make America Weak
Trump is systematically undermining America's interests at home and abroad.
open.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
"As his popularity diminishes and his political power becomes more contested, he’s likely to become more reckless and more determined to harm the nation he was elected to lead. Americans, therefore, must be prepared to defend their country with only greater vigilance and vigor."
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"The hospital was understaffed, and people in the camp were so anemic that they couldn’t get enough blood donations. [Dr.] Otieno had twice donated himself while he was midsurgery in order to save a pregnant woman’s life."
@annamaria.bsky.social on the real-world damage done by Trump's aid cuts:
@annamaria.bsky.social on the real-world damage done by Trump's aid cuts:
What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid
Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.
www.propublica.org
December 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM
"The hospital was understaffed, and people in the camp were so anemic that they couldn’t get enough blood donations. [Dr.] Otieno had twice donated himself while he was midsurgery in order to save a pregnant woman’s life."
@annamaria.bsky.social on the real-world damage done by Trump's aid cuts:
@annamaria.bsky.social on the real-world damage done by Trump's aid cuts:
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Sean Duffy says he now has veto power over appropriations passed by Congress and signed into law. He is the dictator over infrastructure funds. If you do something he doesn’t like, you lose the funds passed by Congress. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Sean Duffy on blue states: "What I can do is I can pull their money. That's the leverage I do have ... I guarantee you that the federal taxpayer is not going to fund their roads and bridges and their systems when they are putting illegals on the roads."
December 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Sean Duffy says he now has veto power over appropriations passed by Congress and signed into law. He is the dictator over infrastructure funds. If you do something he doesn’t like, you lose the funds passed by Congress. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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They really gave $150 million to hire the dumbest, least competent news producer in the history of television
December 23, 2025 at 1:54 AM
They really gave $150 million to hire the dumbest, least competent news producer in the history of television
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“It’s ok to be white” was an online slogan used by overt white supremacist groups just a few years ago. Now it’s being used on stage in front of cameras by the vice president of the United States.
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM
“It’s ok to be white” was an online slogan used by overt white supremacist groups just a few years ago. Now it’s being used on stage in front of cameras by the vice president of the United States.
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So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
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A hateful appeal to intolerance, all the more loathsome because he knows exactly what he's doing
Vance: "We are outraged at the injustice of Tim Walz allowing Somalian immigrants to defraud that program to the tune of billions of dollars. It ought to go to Americans because that's who it's there for."
December 22, 2025 at 4:32 AM
A hateful appeal to intolerance, all the more loathsome because he knows exactly what he's doing
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Man every where you went all day every day, “sorry for being white.” Glad that’s over.
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Man every where you went all day every day, “sorry for being white.” Glad that’s over.
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People are rightly disgusted by this speech, but it’s a measure of fascism’s normalization that many see this as more of the awful same rather than what I think most of us who’ve been reporting this beat hear it as: a significant calculated escalation. Full alert stuff.
JD Vance gets the biggest applause of his speech so far when he says "by the grace of God we always will be a Christian nation"
December 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
People are rightly disgusted by this speech, but it’s a measure of fascism’s normalization that many see this as more of the awful same rather than what I think most of us who’ve been reporting this beat hear it as: a significant calculated escalation. Full alert stuff.
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The vast majority of Rep Ilhan Omar’s voters and constituents are white. Median income is $82k. Among the highest density of college grads per capita nationally.
JD Vance: "They are not sending their best. Omar Fateh was Ilehan [sic] Omar's candidate for mayor of Mogadishu-- I mean Minneapolis. Little Freudian slip there."
December 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The vast majority of Rep Ilhan Omar’s voters and constituents are white. Median income is $82k. Among the highest density of college grads per capita nationally.
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This is straight-up, unvarnished Klan language from the Vice President of the United States.
We've had a lot of racist vice presidents and this one might be in the running for top of the list.
We've had a lot of racist vice presidents and this one might be in the running for top of the list.
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 9:55 PM
This is straight-up, unvarnished Klan language from the Vice President of the United States.
We've had a lot of racist vice presidents and this one might be in the running for top of the list.
We've had a lot of racist vice presidents and this one might be in the running for top of the list.
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I cannot emphasize enough that the White House has no authority to withhold funds from the Smithsonian. It can, however, try to persuade/threaten Congress to reduce future funding.
“American people will have no patience” for any museum that is “uncomfortable conveying a positive view of American history,” Trump aides wrote.
"It was not immediately clear how much money the White House might try to withhold, from which parts of the Smithsonian or on what authority."
"It was not immediately clear how much money the White House might try to withhold, from which parts of the Smithsonian or on what authority."
White House threatens Smithsonian funds in sweeping content review
It is not clear on what authority the administration could withhold Smithsonian funds, as President Trump tries to purge “woke” content from cultural institutions.
wapo.st
December 21, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I cannot emphasize enough that the White House has no authority to withhold funds from the Smithsonian. It can, however, try to persuade/threaten Congress to reduce future funding.
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He isn’t right often, but Rand Paul is right about Venezuela policy.
Rand Paul: "All these designations are steps towards war -- calling drug runners terrorists, saying, 'Oh, if they have a designation'-- Well, how'd they get it? We gave it to them. Why is the former president of Honduras released? So some narcoterrorists are okay & others we're going to blow up"
December 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
He isn’t right often, but Rand Paul is right about Venezuela policy.
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Trump, Sept. 20, in reference to Erik Siebert, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia: “He didn’t quit, I fired him!”
Trump’s deputy AG, three months later: Siebert wasn’t fired, he quit.
These guys keep assuming that we all have bad memories.
Trump’s deputy AG, three months later: Siebert wasn’t fired, he quit.
These guys keep assuming that we all have bad memories.
WELKER: Is the DOJ taking directions about who to prosecute from President Trump?
BLANCHE: No. Of course we're not. And also, Mr. Siebert wasn't fired because he refused to bring cases. He resigned.
BLANCHE: No. Of course we're not. And also, Mr. Siebert wasn't fired because he refused to bring cases. He resigned.
December 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Trump, Sept. 20, in reference to Erik Siebert, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia: “He didn’t quit, I fired him!”
Trump’s deputy AG, three months later: Siebert wasn’t fired, he quit.
These guys keep assuming that we all have bad memories.
Trump’s deputy AG, three months later: Siebert wasn’t fired, he quit.
These guys keep assuming that we all have bad memories.
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Khanna: "The problem here is there are rich and powerful people who either engaged in this abuse, covered it up, or we're on this island. What the American people want to know is who are these people? Instead of holding them accountable, Pam Bondi is breaking the law."
December 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Khanna: "The problem here is there are rich and powerful people who either engaged in this abuse, covered it up, or we're on this island. What the American people want to know is who are these people? Instead of holding them accountable, Pam Bondi is breaking the law."
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BLANCHE: What President Trump is saying is not that the Epstein files are a hoax. It's this game that Democrats have been playing for months around them that is a complete and total hoax.
WELKER: Some Republicans are pushing for their release too, to be clear
BLANCHE: Well, that's different
WELKER: Some Republicans are pushing for their release too, to be clear
BLANCHE: Well, that's different
December 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
BLANCHE: What President Trump is saying is not that the Epstein files are a hoax. It's this game that Democrats have been playing for months around them that is a complete and total hoax.
WELKER: Some Republicans are pushing for their release too, to be clear
BLANCHE: Well, that's different
WELKER: Some Republicans are pushing for their release too, to be clear
BLANCHE: Well, that's different
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WELKER: Why was Ghislaine Maxwell moved just days after you interviewed her?
BLANCHE: That's a Bureau of Prisons security issue that I will not talk about
WELKER: Did you have anything to do with it?
BLANCHE: I am responsible for the Bureau of Prisons, so every decision they make lands on my desk
BLANCHE: That's a Bureau of Prisons security issue that I will not talk about
WELKER: Did you have anything to do with it?
BLANCHE: I am responsible for the Bureau of Prisons, so every decision they make lands on my desk
December 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
WELKER: Why was Ghislaine Maxwell moved just days after you interviewed her?
BLANCHE: That's a Bureau of Prisons security issue that I will not talk about
WELKER: Did you have anything to do with it?
BLANCHE: I am responsible for the Bureau of Prisons, so every decision they make lands on my desk
BLANCHE: That's a Bureau of Prisons security issue that I will not talk about
WELKER: Did you have anything to do with it?
BLANCHE: I am responsible for the Bureau of Prisons, so every decision they make lands on my desk
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One thing worth remembering as all of this Epstein stuff roils is that we know of multiple occasions in which women were paid to keep them from talking about having sex with Trump.
WELKER: Why was this photo of a desk with a drawer open containing photos of Trump taken down?
BLANCHE: You can see in that photo there are photos of women. We learned there were concerns about them.
W: Are you saying those women are victims of Epstein?
B: No, that's not what I'm saying.
BLANCHE: You can see in that photo there are photos of women. We learned there were concerns about them.
W: Are you saying those women are victims of Epstein?
B: No, that's not what I'm saying.
December 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
One thing worth remembering as all of this Epstein stuff roils is that we know of multiple occasions in which women were paid to keep them from talking about having sex with Trump.
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Meanwhile the ADL denounces anything anti Israel
Racial Slurs and Nazi Symbols: Inside the Complaint That Shut Down The Harvard Salient | News | The Harvard Crimson
Screenshots and message logs obtained by The Crimson appear to show Salient leaders casually using racial slurs, defending extremist rhetoric, and dismissing internal concerns — conversations that lat...
www.thecrimson.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Meanwhile the ADL denounces anything anti Israel
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You would think they’d be better at this with the consequences being so high.
December 20, 2025 at 11:35 PM
You would think they’d be better at this with the consequences being so high.
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To put the point mildly, the US' current claims re Venezuela (and I think more broadly re its strikes in the Caribbean) do not meet this bar, whatsoever; the regime isn't even trying, because they ultimately equate lawless arbitrary violence with a glorious masculinity they so desperately crave.
December 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM
To put the point mildly, the US' current claims re Venezuela (and I think more broadly re its strikes in the Caribbean) do not meet this bar, whatsoever; the regime isn't even trying, because they ultimately equate lawless arbitrary violence with a glorious masculinity they so desperately crave.
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Democrats are forever “in disarray.”
Republicans are “in an uncharacteristic state of discord.”
Republicans are “in an uncharacteristic state of discord.”
December 21, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Democrats are forever “in disarray.”
Republicans are “in an uncharacteristic state of discord.”
Republicans are “in an uncharacteristic state of discord.”
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Those who speculated wildly about the Brown shooter without knowing any facts got things wrong—and it is important that they lose their credibility because of it, Graeme Wood argues.
How to Treat Purveyors of Baseless Speculation
Don’t log off. Keep score.
bit.ly
December 21, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Those who speculated wildly about the Brown shooter without knowing any facts got things wrong—and it is important that they lose their credibility because of it, Graeme Wood argues.
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In the wake of the tragedy at Brown, online conspiracists rushed to pin the horrific mass murder on an innocent Palestinian student. One of them was Shaun Maguire, a partner at leading VC firm Sequoia Capital.
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Sequoia's Shaun Maguire accused an innocent Palestinian of being the Brown shooter. Then he doubled down
Online sleuthing is not, it turns out, among the noted VC's talents.
www.fastcompany.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:38 PM
In the wake of the tragedy at Brown, online conspiracists rushed to pin the horrific mass murder on an innocent Palestinian student. One of them was Shaun Maguire, a partner at leading VC firm Sequoia Capital.
www.fastcompany.com/91463942/seq...
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