@mattheworlando.bsky.social
Pinned
One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · No Kings
Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and f...
www.mobilize.us
To meet the rising threats from authoritarian and fascist forces, it’s time Americans stand up, organize, and mobilize.
This summer we can join our fellow citizens in trainings in the basics of strategic non-cooperation, community organizing, and campaign design.
Please sign up and join in!
This summer we can join our fellow citizens in trainings in the basics of strategic non-cooperation, community organizing, and campaign design.
Please sign up and join in!
Reposted
“Witkoff has declined multiple offers from the CIA for a briefing on Russia.”
Steve Witkoff’s unlikely diplomatic ascent was bolstered by two fans: Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
Witkoff’s Other Backer in His Unlikely Diplomatic Ascent: Putin
The Kremlin release of an American prisoner and a Saudi backchannel bolstered the rise of Trump’s longtime friend.
on.wsj.com
December 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
“Witkoff has declined multiple offers from the CIA for a briefing on Russia.”
Reposted
Correct headline: Blanche announces Department of Justice will not abide by law, plans to violate statute, and overrules Legislative branch on behalf of President....
Blanche said the files “will come in all different forms,” including “photographs.”
DOJ Will Release Epstein Files In Batches, Blanche Says Ahead Of Initial Release Today
Blanche said the files “will come in all different forms,” including “photographs.”
www.forbes.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Correct headline: Blanche announces Department of Justice will not abide by law, plans to violate statute, and overrules Legislative branch on behalf of President....
Reposted
"Tiffany Cogell, executive director of the Boston Cyclist’s Union, told Mass Street Blog that the new bike lanes are “reducing crashes, improving predictability, and expanding mobility options without increasing congestion.”
“Protected bike infrastructure works,” she said. "
“Protected bike infrastructure works,” she said. "
Bostonians Wanted More Bike Lanes: Now They Have Them, and Traffic Is Down
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/bostonians-wanted-more-bike-lanes-now-they-have-them-and-traffic-is-down/ #goodnews
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/bostonians-wanted-more-bike-lanes-now-they-have-them-and-traffic-is-down/ #goodnews
Bostonians Wanted More Bike Lanes: Now They Have Them, and Traffic Is Down
Mayor Michelle Wu's ran on more protected bike lanes around the city to satisfy a perceived demand for better cycling infrastructure.
www.goodnewsnetwork.org
December 17, 2025 at 9:19 PM
"Tiffany Cogell, executive director of the Boston Cyclist’s Union, told Mass Street Blog that the new bike lanes are “reducing crashes, improving predictability, and expanding mobility options without increasing congestion.”
“Protected bike infrastructure works,” she said. "
“Protected bike infrastructure works,” she said. "
Reposted
Question: When the head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights division tweets out a false statement about an individual that results in them being barraged with death threats based on their religion and ethnicity, which governmental agency would look into whether that student’s Civil Rights had been infringed?
December 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Question: When the head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights division tweets out a false statement about an individual that results in them being barraged with death threats based on their religion and ethnicity, which governmental agency would look into whether that student’s Civil Rights had been infringed?
Reposted
" Instead, internal reports suggest that the White House’s violent boat-smashing operation in the Caribbean was merely a backup plan when a potential war on Mexico fell through." A reckless, criminal administration. newrepublic.com/post/204619/...
Trump Is Bombing Boats Because Stephen Miller Wanted to Bomb Mexico
The White House insisted Donald Trump isn’t influenced by anyone when he sets policy.
newrepublic.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
" Instead, internal reports suggest that the White House’s violent boat-smashing operation in the Caribbean was merely a backup plan when a potential war on Mexico fell through." A reckless, criminal administration. newrepublic.com/post/204619/...
Reposted
Reposted
Once again, government jobs are real jobs & you can't treat 16% of the workforce as a cancer on society & expect to not drive the economy into a ditch.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Trump: "The only reason our unemployment tucked up and went up to 4.5 percent [it's actually 4.6 percent] is because we are reducing the government workforce by numbers that have never been seen before."
December 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Once again, government jobs are real jobs & you can't treat 16% of the workforce as a cancer on society & expect to not drive the economy into a ditch.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Reposted
Trump’s DOJ and AG Pam Bondi are now breaking the law to protect powerful pedophiles. #TrumpEpsteinCoverup
December 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Trump’s DOJ and AG Pam Bondi are now breaking the law to protect powerful pedophiles. #TrumpEpsteinCoverup
Reposted
The "law" is what the people with guns say it is.
Interesting to consider that if you were to go and deface the Kennedy center by removing Trump’s name, you’d be arrested and charged with a crime, but your act would be no more unlawful than what they’re doing right now.
NEWS: They're adding Trump's name to the Kennedy Center building right now. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
December 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
The "law" is what the people with guns say it is.
Reposted
Reposted
I wish Boston 311 had a "Bike Lane Problem" category. Imagine if a big chunk of concrete was in the middle of a car lane?
You have categories for "Encampments ⛺" and "Abandoned Bicycle 🚲" but nothing for the problem I encounter every time I leave my house? @streets.boston.gov @ruthzee.bsky.social
You have categories for "Encampments ⛺" and "Abandoned Bicycle 🚲" but nothing for the problem I encounter every time I leave my house? @streets.boston.gov @ruthzee.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I wish Boston 311 had a "Bike Lane Problem" category. Imagine if a big chunk of concrete was in the middle of a car lane?
You have categories for "Encampments ⛺" and "Abandoned Bicycle 🚲" but nothing for the problem I encounter every time I leave my house? @streets.boston.gov @ruthzee.bsky.social
You have categories for "Encampments ⛺" and "Abandoned Bicycle 🚲" but nothing for the problem I encounter every time I leave my house? @streets.boston.gov @ruthzee.bsky.social
Reposted
Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety.
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
newrepublic.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety.
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Reposted
Tapper: This is one of the documents the DOJ released. It’s 100 pages. It’s all black. That’s the transparency we’re getting.
December 19, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Tapper: This is one of the documents the DOJ released. It’s 100 pages. It’s all black. That’s the transparency we’re getting.
Reposted
This this this. And if you, the public, cease to care, why should the President?
NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
December 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This this this. And if you, the public, cease to care, why should the President?
Reposted
Donald Trump announced the creation of the “Patriot Games,” a 4 day athletic event with one young man & one young woman from each state and territory.
A dictator making tributes from each state compete in an “athletic competition”...
Whose gonna tell him how that movie ends?
A dictator making tributes from each state compete in an “athletic competition”...
Whose gonna tell him how that movie ends?
December 18, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Donald Trump announced the creation of the “Patriot Games,” a 4 day athletic event with one young man & one young woman from each state and territory.
A dictator making tributes from each state compete in an “athletic competition”...
Whose gonna tell him how that movie ends?
A dictator making tributes from each state compete in an “athletic competition”...
Whose gonna tell him how that movie ends?
Reposted
It’s not a secret that Donald Trump has taken inspiration from several famous authoritarians of both the past and the present.
But I really didn’t think that The Hunger Games’ President Coriolanus Snow would eventually find his way onto that list.
But I really didn’t think that The Hunger Games’ President Coriolanus Snow would eventually find his way onto that list.
Trump just announced his own Hunger Games
In case you needed a reminder that we're living in a fascist hellscape.
www.motherjones.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:40 PM
It’s not a secret that Donald Trump has taken inspiration from several famous authoritarians of both the past and the present.
But I really didn’t think that The Hunger Games’ President Coriolanus Snow would eventually find his way onto that list.
But I really didn’t think that The Hunger Games’ President Coriolanus Snow would eventually find his way onto that list.
Reposted
The big climate news of the week is the Trump administration's moves to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado. Here are our partner's takes on the loss of what has been described as "a crown jewel of our weather and climate research infrastructure." ⬇️
December 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The big climate news of the week is the Trump administration's moves to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado. Here are our partner's takes on the loss of what has been described as "a crown jewel of our weather and climate research infrastructure." ⬇️
Reposted
December 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Reposted
“Do LinkedIn users understand how their data is getting used and what’s going to happen with it, and what protections they do and do not have under LinkedIn’s own terms of service?” EFF’s Corynne McSherry mused to @bloomberglaw.com. “I suspect they don’t.” news.bloomberglaw.com/artificial-...
LinkedIn’s War Against Bot Scrapers Ramps Up as AI Gets Smarter
Together, recent cases involving the career-focused social media giant paint a portrait of an online data landscape being reshaped by technology, increasingly at speeds that challenge companies to keep up without clear legal guardrails.
news.bloomberglaw.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
“Do LinkedIn users understand how their data is getting used and what’s going to happen with it, and what protections they do and do not have under LinkedIn’s own terms of service?” EFF’s Corynne McSherry mused to @bloomberglaw.com. “I suspect they don’t.” news.bloomberglaw.com/artificial-...
Reposted
Notice how Trump and Republicans were having the worst couple weeks in the administration's history and they decided to pivot to hardcore attacking trans people?
December 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Notice how Trump and Republicans were having the worst couple weeks in the administration's history and they decided to pivot to hardcore attacking trans people?
Reposted
The "poverty penalty."
Excellent points.
Excellent points.
December 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The "poverty penalty."
Excellent points.
Excellent points.
Reposted
I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
There is no national security logic that would impel the US to want to do regime change in Venezuela. It's simply not that important. I'm not even sure wag the dog is the right metaphor for what's happening here. Seems like an insane misallocation of US national security assets and attention.
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
Reposted
Today I received FOUR death notifications for people in ICE custody. That's 30 deaths since Trump took office. It's appalling & unacceptable.
ICE is required—by law—to ensure detainees are safe & their basic needs are met. It's clear this isn't the case. We NEED answers.
ICE is required—by law—to ensure detainees are safe & their basic needs are met. It's clear this isn't the case. We NEED answers.
December 18, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Today I received FOUR death notifications for people in ICE custody. That's 30 deaths since Trump took office. It's appalling & unacceptable.
ICE is required—by law—to ensure detainees are safe & their basic needs are met. It's clear this isn't the case. We NEED answers.
ICE is required—by law—to ensure detainees are safe & their basic needs are met. It's clear this isn't the case. We NEED answers.
Reposted
This kind of statement would once be made inside the most rarified councils of state, some ultralimited Special Group, wherein POTUS & his most trusted advisors would commit to never putting anything in writing yet some handwritten archival scrap excavated 50 years later would reveal the truth.
Trump on Venezuela: "Getting land, oil rights, whatever we had -- they took it away because we had a president that maybe wasn't watching. But they're not gonna do that. We want it back. They took our oil rights. We had a lot of oil there. They threw our companies out. And we want it back."
December 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
This kind of statement would once be made inside the most rarified councils of state, some ultralimited Special Group, wherein POTUS & his most trusted advisors would commit to never putting anything in writing yet some handwritten archival scrap excavated 50 years later would reveal the truth.
Reposted
I still can't believe they're trying to make a war happen out of thin air. Not just their abrogation of Congress's role in formally declaring a war -- that's been a slippery slope for decades -- but their total unwillingness even to go through the motions of drumming up public support.
December 17, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I still can't believe they're trying to make a war happen out of thin air. Not just their abrogation of Congress's role in formally declaring a war -- that's been a slippery slope for decades -- but their total unwillingness even to go through the motions of drumming up public support.