Matt Rodier
@matthewrodier.bsky.social
Photojournalist primarily focused on the impact of conflict on civilians and political movements.
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the only thing democrats should be saying today is “the entire republican party is engaged in a coverup of the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history”
November 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
the only thing democrats should be saying today is “the entire republican party is engaged in a coverup of the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history”
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WARNING: The violence and cruelty is hard to watch, but impossible for families to endure.
This is a sickening example of Trump and ICE's blatant disregard for humanity as they terrorize our families and communities.
It is shameful, cruel, and it must end.
This is a sickening example of Trump and ICE's blatant disregard for humanity as they terrorize our families and communities.
It is shameful, cruel, and it must end.
November 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
WARNING: The violence and cruelty is hard to watch, but impossible for families to endure.
This is a sickening example of Trump and ICE's blatant disregard for humanity as they terrorize our families and communities.
It is shameful, cruel, and it must end.
This is a sickening example of Trump and ICE's blatant disregard for humanity as they terrorize our families and communities.
It is shameful, cruel, and it must end.
CPJ documents violence against journalists working domestically. Unfortunately one of those profiles is about me. I respectfully disagree with this article. It’s terrible that journalists feel afraid to do their work in a country that’s supposed to be a democracy, but it’s not the same risks as war.
When your local reporter needs the same protection as a war correspondent
Check out this story by @zenagrossa.bsky.social in @poynterinstitute.bsky.social:
Check out this story by @zenagrossa.bsky.social in @poynterinstitute.bsky.social:
When your local reporter needs the same protection as a war correspondent - Poynter
Five months of covering ICE raids taught our small LA newsroom hard lessons — and we're still figuring out how to sustain it
www.poynter.org
November 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
CPJ documents violence against journalists working domestically. Unfortunately one of those profiles is about me. I respectfully disagree with this article. It’s terrible that journalists feel afraid to do their work in a country that’s supposed to be a democracy, but it’s not the same risks as war.
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Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
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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.
www.msnbc.com
September 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
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Sitting US Senator Alex Padilla forcibly wrestled to the ground and arrested by the FBI for attempting to ask a question of DHS secretary Kristin Noem.
June 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Sitting US Senator Alex Padilla forcibly wrestled to the ground and arrested by the FBI for attempting to ask a question of DHS secretary Kristin Noem.
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ICE is continuing to abduct immigrants in Lower Manhattan.
On Wednesday, a family that was separated at the border was separated again by ICE after the father went in for a check-in. His family had to watch as he was loaded by masked and hooded agents into an SUV.
On Wednesday, a family that was separated at the border was separated again by ICE after the father went in for a check-in. His family had to watch as he was loaded by masked and hooded agents into an SUV.
In Lower Manhattan, More ICE Abductions Rip Families Apart
A family that was separated at the border was separated again by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Wednesday afternoon.
hellgatenyc.com
June 7, 2025 at 9:37 PM
ICE is continuing to abduct immigrants in Lower Manhattan.
On Wednesday, a family that was separated at the border was separated again by ICE after the father went in for a check-in. His family had to watch as he was loaded by masked and hooded agents into an SUV.
On Wednesday, a family that was separated at the border was separated again by ICE after the father went in for a check-in. His family had to watch as he was loaded by masked and hooded agents into an SUV.
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kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes
June 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes
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Maybe an 8 yo boy tries to comfort his mother as she’s seized by ICE at an immigration check in.
I believe we must share all these videos as widely as possible www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjbgXEP7/
I believe we must share all these videos as widely as possible www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjbgXEP7/
A young boy attempts to calm his mother as his family is detained by #ICE in #SanAntonio after a routine immigration check-in. #iceraids
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June 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Maybe an 8 yo boy tries to comfort his mother as she’s seized by ICE at an immigration check in.
I believe we must share all these videos as widely as possible www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjbgXEP7/
I believe we must share all these videos as widely as possible www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjbgXEP7/
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BREAKING: ICE raid and community resistance in front of Home Depot in Paramount, California.
June 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
BREAKING: ICE raid and community resistance in front of Home Depot in Paramount, California.
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Here are some texts I got from an immigration lawyer friend of mine. Shared with permission. Some of the bleakest shit I’ve ever heard.
June 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Here are some texts I got from an immigration lawyer friend of mine. Shared with permission. Some of the bleakest shit I’ve ever heard.
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A father screams for his child from a tiny interview room within a basement waiting room inside LA federal building. The space is not a holding area. No food. No water. No diapers. Those initially detained include a 2-year-old US citizen and a woman with high-risk pregnancy.
June 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
A father screams for his child from a tiny interview room within a basement waiting room inside LA federal building. The space is not a holding area. No food. No water. No diapers. Those initially detained include a 2-year-old US citizen and a woman with high-risk pregnancy.
Nowhere in Ukraine is currently safe right now. Whatever success Ukrainian air defenses have had against drones (and they do a really good job with that) Russia’s continued use of ballistic missiles proves that. But you experience the war differently based on where you are in Ukraine. 1/
April 16, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Nowhere in Ukraine is currently safe right now. Whatever success Ukrainian air defenses have had against drones (and they do a really good job with that) Russia’s continued use of ballistic missiles proves that. But you experience the war differently based on where you are in Ukraine. 1/
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all accurate. To my friends who keep saying “we’ll see how this plays out,” it played out.
April 15, 2025 at 3:06 PM
all accurate. To my friends who keep saying “we’ll see how this plays out,” it played out.
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There’s just no plausible way you can describe the U.S. as a free country anymore.
The student paper at the college at which I teach reports a "tsunami of takedown requests" from international students terrified of being targeted for innocuous, legitimate op-eds & opinions.. Many ask in person--leave no trace in writing. Reminds me of my father's account of studying in the USSR.
April 16, 2025 at 3:28 AM
There’s just no plausible way you can describe the U.S. as a free country anymore.
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Trump is cozying up to Putin and putting no pressure on him to end his war in Ukraine, even as Russia ramps up drone and missile strikes against civilian targets.
Trump Cozies Up to Putin As Russia Kills Ukrainian Civilians
Trump’s White House has put no pressure on Vladimir Putin to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, as ever more innocents are slain.
www.rollingstone.com
April 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Trump is cozying up to Putin and putting no pressure on him to end his war in Ukraine, even as Russia ramps up drone and missile strikes against civilian targets.
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"Still, legal analysts have raised questions about the legality of sending US citizens to prisons abroad."
what are we doing here. it is illegal. there is literally zero question that it is illegal. what is this 'raised questions' stuff.
what are we doing here. it is illegal. there is literally zero question that it is illegal. what is this 'raised questions' stuff.
President Donald Trump said that he asked if El Salvador could build more prisons to jail as many American criminals as possible — US citizens included
Trump Wants El Salvador to Build More Prisons to Jail Americans
President Donald Trump said that he asked his counterpart Nayib Bukele if El Salvador could build more prisons to jail as many American criminals as possible — US citizens included.
www.bloomberg.com
April 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"Still, legal analysts have raised questions about the legality of sending US citizens to prisons abroad."
what are we doing here. it is illegal. there is literally zero question that it is illegal. what is this 'raised questions' stuff.
what are we doing here. it is illegal. there is literally zero question that it is illegal. what is this 'raised questions' stuff.
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I know we beat this drum daily, but today especially it’s obvious these are not the actions of a party that anticipates ever losing power.
April 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I know we beat this drum daily, but today especially it’s obvious these are not the actions of a party that anticipates ever losing power.
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Wrote a thing at how the Bukele/Trump meeting, full of absolute nonsense and bullshit in support of out-and-out fascism and despotism, is yet another dark day in America. www.techdirt.com/2025/04/14/t...
Trump & Bukele Plot US Citizen Detention In Salvadoran Torture Camps, While Defying Supreme Court Via Gibberish Responses To Reporters
In a stunning White House appearance that should alarm anyone who cares about constitutional rights, democracy, the rule of law or anything of the sort, Donald Trump and Salvadoran dictator Nayib B…
www.techdirt.com
April 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Wrote a thing at how the Bukele/Trump meeting, full of absolute nonsense and bullshit in support of out-and-out fascism and despotism, is yet another dark day in America. www.techdirt.com/2025/04/14/t...
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Can’t say more strongly: they are claiming the power to disappear people with no recourse, to entirely remove anyone they want to, forever, with no ability to stop them.
“Unamerican” doesn’t do it justice. Diametrically opposed to anything even remotely resembling a society we should support.
“Unamerican” doesn’t do it justice. Diametrically opposed to anything even remotely resembling a society we should support.
April 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Can’t say more strongly: they are claiming the power to disappear people with no recourse, to entirely remove anyone they want to, forever, with no ability to stop them.
“Unamerican” doesn’t do it justice. Diametrically opposed to anything even remotely resembling a society we should support.
“Unamerican” doesn’t do it justice. Diametrically opposed to anything even remotely resembling a society we should support.
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One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse
April 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse
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The slope isn't slippery; the frog isn't gradually getting boiled. Within its first hundred days the Trump administration has openly asserted the right/ power to seize and imprison anyone— including political dissidents, including citizens— and deprive them of any legal recourse at all.
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April 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The slope isn't slippery; the frog isn't gradually getting boiled. Within its first hundred days the Trump administration has openly asserted the right/ power to seize and imprison anyone— including political dissidents, including citizens— and deprive them of any legal recourse at all.
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Russia admits Sumy missile strike but predictably blames Kyiv and unloads a bunch of disinformation around it. Meanwhile, Trump can't condemn the attack, instead calls it a "mistake," falsely blaming Zelensky for starting the war. Latest with @maxseddon.bsky.social:
www.ft.com/content/edb5...
www.ft.com/content/edb5...
Russia admits to missile attack that killed Ukrainian civilians
Moscow says it targeted and hit military commanders gathered in northeastern city of Sumy
www.ft.com
April 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Russia admits Sumy missile strike but predictably blames Kyiv and unloads a bunch of disinformation around it. Meanwhile, Trump can't condemn the attack, instead calls it a "mistake," falsely blaming Zelensky for starting the war. Latest with @maxseddon.bsky.social:
www.ft.com/content/edb5...
www.ft.com/content/edb5...