Matt Ray
@mattraymusic.bsky.social
Obie and Kennedy award winning theater maker and musician. Brooklynite.
DO NOT LOOK AWAY
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 12:40 PM
DO NOT LOOK AWAY
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I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.
November 5, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.
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We are this close to war with Venezuela because the sitting President of the United States is in the Epstein files.
October 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
We are this close to war with Venezuela because the sitting President of the United States is in the Epstein files.
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Thank you @reprashida.govpeeps.us for fighting for artists! We need the Living Wage for Musicians Act 💪
September 27, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Thank you @reprashida.govpeeps.us for fighting for artists! We need the Living Wage for Musicians Act 💪
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Your great grandmas family recipe is probably a 1932 Betty Crocker recipe.
September 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Your great grandmas family recipe is probably a 1932 Betty Crocker recipe.
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rewatching NETWORK for a project 👀 and it is absolutely shocking how prescient this film is. it’s like paddy chayefsky was granted a vision of america in 2025 and he furiously tried to turn what he saw into something intelligible to viewers in the 1970s
September 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
rewatching NETWORK for a project 👀 and it is absolutely shocking how prescient this film is. it’s like paddy chayefsky was granted a vision of america in 2025 and he furiously tried to turn what he saw into something intelligible to viewers in the 1970s
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we’d love to turn off the machine that convinces children to kill themselves, but we can’t really justify losing our ability to lay off customer service agents, now can we?
August 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
we’d love to turn off the machine that convinces children to kill themselves, but we can’t really justify losing our ability to lay off customer service agents, now can we?
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In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.
August 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.
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Not to add to the discourse, but…
It’s ‘toe the line,’ not ‘tow the line.’
It’s ‘free rein,’ and not ‘free reign.’
It’s ‘eke out,’ not ‘eek out.’
It’s ‘sleight of hand,’ not ‘slight of hand.’
It's ‘Anchors aweigh,’ and not ‘Anchor's away!’
It’s ‘toe the line,’ not ‘tow the line.’
It’s ‘free rein,’ and not ‘free reign.’
It’s ‘eke out,’ not ‘eek out.’
It’s ‘sleight of hand,’ not ‘slight of hand.’
It's ‘Anchors aweigh,’ and not ‘Anchor's away!’
August 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Not to add to the discourse, but…
It’s ‘toe the line,’ not ‘tow the line.’
It’s ‘free rein,’ and not ‘free reign.’
It’s ‘eke out,’ not ‘eek out.’
It’s ‘sleight of hand,’ not ‘slight of hand.’
It's ‘Anchors aweigh,’ and not ‘Anchor's away!’
It’s ‘toe the line,’ not ‘tow the line.’
It’s ‘free rein,’ and not ‘free reign.’
It’s ‘eke out,’ not ‘eek out.’
It’s ‘sleight of hand,’ not ‘slight of hand.’
It's ‘Anchors aweigh,’ and not ‘Anchor's away!’
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Washington DC has 702,000 people, is 45% Black and has 0 senators
Wyoming has 590,000 people, is 86% white and has 2 senators
DC needs a state with proper representation, not a military takeover
Wyoming has 590,000 people, is 86% white and has 2 senators
DC needs a state with proper representation, not a military takeover
August 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Washington DC has 702,000 people, is 45% Black and has 0 senators
Wyoming has 590,000 people, is 86% white and has 2 senators
DC needs a state with proper representation, not a military takeover
Wyoming has 590,000 people, is 86% white and has 2 senators
DC needs a state with proper representation, not a military takeover
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Gothamist deployed three reporters over two weeks — and identified dozens of signatures on Eric Adams' candidacy petitions "that were fraudulently obtained or outright forged" gothamist.com/news/forged-...
Forged signatures found on Mayor Adams’ petitions to run as an independent
The Adams campaign said it is conducting a review after Gothamist found signatures that were fraudulently obtained or outright forged.
gothamist.com
August 1, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Gothamist deployed three reporters over two weeks — and identified dozens of signatures on Eric Adams' candidacy petitions "that were fraudulently obtained or outright forged" gothamist.com/news/forged-...
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Mamdani should win but he's the latest example of the Democratic Party closing ranks to keep anyone young and exciting and full of energy out of the party - and then they spend countless millions on consultants trying to figure out why they're struggling with young voters
June 24, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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2 of 53 Republican senators spent the day mocking the assassination if a Democratic lawmaker from Minnesota. They will face no accountability from Corporate Media or Republicans because no one holds Republican lawmakers accountable for anything, they are assumed to have no agency for their actions.
“I told him it was brutal and cruel.”
Minnesota Senator @tinasmithmn (D) pulled Utah’s @senmikelee out of a Republican meeting and confronted him for his ugly tweets blaming Democrats for the shootings of Dems in Minnesota — by a man friends say was a staunch conservative.
Minnesota Senator @tinasmithmn (D) pulled Utah’s @senmikelee out of a Republican meeting and confronted him for his ugly tweets blaming Democrats for the shootings of Dems in Minnesota — by a man friends say was a staunch conservative.
June 17, 2025 at 12:27 AM
2 of 53 Republican senators spent the day mocking the assassination if a Democratic lawmaker from Minnesota. They will face no accountability from Corporate Media or Republicans because no one holds Republican lawmakers accountable for anything, they are assumed to have no agency for their actions.
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Anti-ICE protest happening now in San Francisco. “No ICE, no KKK, no fascist USA.”
June 10, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Anti-ICE protest happening now in San Francisco. “No ICE, no KKK, no fascist USA.”
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Homicide rates: NY 4.5, FL 7.2
Life expectancy: NY 79, FL 76.1
Uninsured rate: NY 4.8, FL 10.7
Life expectancy: NY 79, FL 76.1
Uninsured rate: NY 4.8, FL 10.7
Bessent: "We want the US to be more like Florida and less like New York"
May 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Homicide rates: NY 4.5, FL 7.2
Life expectancy: NY 79, FL 76.1
Uninsured rate: NY 4.8, FL 10.7
Life expectancy: NY 79, FL 76.1
Uninsured rate: NY 4.8, FL 10.7
Welp. Isn’t AI grand? Journalism will die this way, in a sad and lazy pile of hazy nonsense. Half the internet is already gobbledygook.
“.. The only problem — many of the books on that list do not exist.
The titles — and the book summaries — were dreamed up by artificial intelligence.”
@chicago.suntimes.com
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/05...
The titles — and the book summaries — were dreamed up by artificial intelligence.”
@chicago.suntimes.com
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/05...
May 21, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Welp. Isn’t AI grand? Journalism will die this way, in a sad and lazy pile of hazy nonsense. Half the internet is already gobbledygook.
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This right here......
May 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
This right here......
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“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”
May 9, 2025 at 11:19 PM
“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”
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May 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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