Matt Thibault
@mattthibault.bsky.social
Journalist, writer, FGC nerd. Always banging on a keyboard and asking dumb questions. He/Him.
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Matt Thibault
@mattthibault.bsky.social
· Aug 12
I’ve been on social media much less and Bluesky’s long thread functionality is giving me conniptions so I’m just going to share my Fable account, follow me there to see what I’m reading going forward. I’ll post something at the end of the year.
fable.co/matt-thibaul...
fable.co/matt-thibaul...
I’ve been on social media much less and Bluesky’s long thread functionality is giving me conniptions so I’m just going to share my Fable account, follow me there to see what I’m reading going forward. I’ll post something at the end of the year.
fable.co/matt-thibaul...
fable.co/matt-thibaul...
August 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I’ve been on social media much less and Bluesky’s long thread functionality is giving me conniptions so I’m just going to share my Fable account, follow me there to see what I’m reading going forward. I’ll post something at the end of the year.
fable.co/matt-thibaul...
fable.co/matt-thibaul...
Interrupting a social media hiatus to say that DC is a safe place, a safe city, and a great place to call home. What’s happening is a nightmare and a clear reason why DC needs statehood, NOW.
August 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Interrupting a social media hiatus to say that DC is a safe place, a safe city, and a great place to call home. What’s happening is a nightmare and a clear reason why DC needs statehood, NOW.
My favorite season has always been winter, even though I grew up on the Canadian border in Upstate NY’s infamous North Country. Living in DC has only further convinced me I’m right, what the fuck do you MEAN it’s 80 degrees with 80% humidity?????
July 13, 2025 at 2:58 PM
My favorite season has always been winter, even though I grew up on the Canadian border in Upstate NY’s infamous North Country. Living in DC has only further convinced me I’m right, what the fuck do you MEAN it’s 80 degrees with 80% humidity?????
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All of you gloating about the Texas floods because they happened in Trump country want to believe that it can’t happen to you. But it can, and likely will, and when it does, other people will fall all over themselves to figure out reasons why *you* had it coming and they don’t
July 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
All of you gloating about the Texas floods because they happened in Trump country want to believe that it can’t happen to you. But it can, and likely will, and when it does, other people will fall all over themselves to figure out reasons why *you* had it coming and they don’t
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Here is a list of nearly every provision in the domestic policy bill nearing a vote by Senate Republicans, and how much it would cost or save Americans.
A List of Nearly Everything in the Senate G.O.P. Bill, and How Much It Would Cost or Save
The legislation includes tax cuts as well as big cuts to Medicaid, food benefits and other programs, and it would add more than $3 trillion to the national debt.
trib.al
June 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Here is a list of nearly every provision in the domestic policy bill nearing a vote by Senate Republicans, and how much it would cost or save Americans.
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The way people are talking about shit like free buses like it's dekulakization has me more convinced than ever that you could never get the idea of libraries off the ground today
June 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
The way people are talking about shit like free buses like it's dekulakization has me more convinced than ever that you could never get the idea of libraries off the ground today
“Gaming is dead” “I miss how gaming USED to be” “There are no good games anymore”
You were just a kid. That’s it. Everything is magical when you’re a kid.
You were just a kid. That’s it. Everything is magical when you’re a kid.
Best game of the century? Folks, would you believe it: It’s the game I spent the most time playing as a kid!
June 25, 2025 at 10:17 PM
“Gaming is dead” “I miss how gaming USED to be” “There are no good games anymore”
You were just a kid. That’s it. Everything is magical when you’re a kid.
You were just a kid. That’s it. Everything is magical when you’re a kid.
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🚨 ATTN: Journalists crossing through a U.S. border 🚨
Alongside @eff.org, we now have an extensive guide on preparing your devices for travel through a U.S. border, including a digital security checklist and additional resources.
Read, bookmark and share:
Alongside @eff.org, we now have an extensive guide on preparing your devices for travel through a U.S. border, including a digital security checklist and additional resources.
Read, bookmark and share:
Journalist searched and detained at US airport
CBP searched an Australian journalist’s phone. He noted he was questioned over materials in his blog, social media posts, and reporting
freedom.press
June 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
🚨 ATTN: Journalists crossing through a U.S. border 🚨
Alongside @eff.org, we now have an extensive guide on preparing your devices for travel through a U.S. border, including a digital security checklist and additional resources.
Read, bookmark and share:
Alongside @eff.org, we now have an extensive guide on preparing your devices for travel through a U.S. border, including a digital security checklist and additional resources.
Read, bookmark and share:
Take care of yourselves and each other. This is not final. And we certainly have a say in how we react as a nation.
June 22, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Take care of yourselves and each other. This is not final. And we certainly have a say in how we react as a nation.
I've neglected the book thread these past two months. It's since been updated. What an exceptionally tiring saga, but I'm now caught up, and incidentally, am going to blow through my goal of 40 books. Might even hit 60!
June 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I've neglected the book thread these past two months. It's since been updated. What an exceptionally tiring saga, but I'm now caught up, and incidentally, am going to blow through my goal of 40 books. Might even hit 60!
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"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
June 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
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The cruelty of this is, genuinely, staggering. This is a policy that saves virtually no money whatsoever whose success is measured in the number of children it kills.
Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.
June 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The cruelty of this is, genuinely, staggering. This is a policy that saves virtually no money whatsoever whose success is measured in the number of children it kills.
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🚨By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court UPHOLDS Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for minors, concluding that it does NOT discriminate on the basis of sex, is not subject to heightened scrutiny, and survives rational basis review. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
June 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
🚨By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court UPHOLDS Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for minors, concluding that it does NOT discriminate on the basis of sex, is not subject to heightened scrutiny, and survives rational basis review. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Really like this thread. The idea that the worst thing a story can be is “inconsistent factually” (more than “fucking terrible on the written or visual level”) is a bad bad moon and has done irreperable damage to the bulk of several generations-worth of readers. But hey, time to stan!
basically yeah. my theory is that "knowing things" basically peaked in perceived coolness somewhere around 1970 and has been steadily declining ever since. being a nerd is definitionally about your relationship to trivia but trivia isn't actually the same as expertise
I think a lot of the terror of the modern age can be understood by the fact that the Internet accelerated the development of the worst type of person, the "Anti-Intellectual Nerd."
June 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Really like this thread. The idea that the worst thing a story can be is “inconsistent factually” (more than “fucking terrible on the written or visual level”) is a bad bad moon and has done irreperable damage to the bulk of several generations-worth of readers. But hey, time to stan!
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I, like many of you, am not only devastated but furious at the assassination of two Minnesota lawmakers this morning.
This isn’t some isolated tragedy. It’s extremism, it’s fascist violence, and we have to treat it that way. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This isn’t some isolated tragedy. It’s extremism, it’s fascist violence, and we have to treat it that way. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Democratic lawmaker killed and another wounded in Minnesota in apparently ‘politically motivated’ attacks
Governor Tim Walz was briefed on ‘ongoing situation’ in which Minneapolis-area state senator and representative were shot
www.theguardian.com
June 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I, like many of you, am not only devastated but furious at the assassination of two Minnesota lawmakers this morning.
This isn’t some isolated tragedy. It’s extremism, it’s fascist violence, and we have to treat it that way. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This isn’t some isolated tragedy. It’s extremism, it’s fascist violence, and we have to treat it that way. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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These are unspeakably dark and horrific times. Going out today and standing with people who are demanding that this country become better than it is feels so small. But also, and crucially, it feels better than doing nothing.
June 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
These are unspeakably dark and horrific times. Going out today and standing with people who are demanding that this country become better than it is feels so small. But also, and crucially, it feels better than doing nothing.
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Super useful and very clear guidelines about going to protests. Exercise your first amendment rights, be in community, be safe. 👇
I'm a human rights lawyer. If you're exercising your human right to protest on June 14, here are 13 rules I recommend you follow.
No paywall. Free access. Please do read and share: www.qasimrashid.com/p/13-rules-t...
No paywall. Free access. Please do read and share: www.qasimrashid.com/p/13-rules-t...
13 Rules to Protect Yourself While Protesting
Read & Share if you're joining the No Kings protest on June 14, or know anyone who is
www.qasimrashid.com
June 14, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Super useful and very clear guidelines about going to protests. Exercise your first amendment rights, be in community, be safe. 👇
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I try not to be hyperbolic but this is the single worst comic I have ever seen in my entire life.
June 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I try not to be hyperbolic but this is the single worst comic I have ever seen in my entire life.
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BREAKING. JUDGE ORDERS THAT TRUMP RETURN THE CA NATIONAL GUARD TO GOV. NEWSOM IN A DEFEAT TO THE WH.
Trump's"actions were illegal—both exceeding the scope of his statutory authority and violating the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution," the judge wrote.
Trump's"actions were illegal—both exceeding the scope of his statutory authority and violating the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution," the judge wrote.
storage.courtlistener.com
June 13, 2025 at 12:57 AM
BREAKING. JUDGE ORDERS THAT TRUMP RETURN THE CA NATIONAL GUARD TO GOV. NEWSOM IN A DEFEAT TO THE WH.
Trump's"actions were illegal—both exceeding the scope of his statutory authority and violating the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution," the judge wrote.
Trump's"actions were illegal—both exceeding the scope of his statutory authority and violating the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution," the judge wrote.
Absolute fucking goblin
LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Absolute fucking goblin
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ACLU Statement:
"[T]he Trump administration is putting Angelenos in danger, creating legal and ethical jeopardy for troops, and recklessly undermining our foundational democratic principle that the military should not police civilians."
"unnecessary, inflammatory, and an abuse of power"
"[T]he Trump administration is putting Angelenos in danger, creating legal and ethical jeopardy for troops, and recklessly undermining our foundational democratic principle that the military should not police civilians."
"unnecessary, inflammatory, and an abuse of power"
ACLU Reacts to President Trump’s Federalizing National Guard Troops in Response to Protests | American Civil Liberties Union
WASHINGTON — Tonight, the Trump administration announced it will federalize 2,000 National Guard troops to counter protests in Los Angeles. The...
www.aclu.org
June 8, 2025 at 2:50 AM
ACLU Statement:
"[T]he Trump administration is putting Angelenos in danger, creating legal and ethical jeopardy for troops, and recklessly undermining our foundational democratic principle that the military should not police civilians."
"unnecessary, inflammatory, and an abuse of power"
"[T]he Trump administration is putting Angelenos in danger, creating legal and ethical jeopardy for troops, and recklessly undermining our foundational democratic principle that the military should not police civilians."
"unnecessary, inflammatory, and an abuse of power"
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Reminding myself that lunatic defiance is usually a better posture than doomerism
June 8, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Reminding myself that lunatic defiance is usually a better posture than doomerism
Despicable behavior, shooting tear gas and more at civilians, journalists, and protestors in the face of appalling conduct by ICE.
Two LA photojournalists have been shot with tear gas canisters by DHS HSI, including @acatwithnews.bsky.social who was directly targeted by HSI and struck in the head. Sean is en route to the ER with obvious facial injuries. He was conscious and talking when he left the scene.
June 8, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Despicable behavior, shooting tear gas and more at civilians, journalists, and protestors in the face of appalling conduct by ICE.
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Two LA photojournalists have been shot with tear gas canisters by DHS HSI, including @acatwithnews.bsky.social who was directly targeted by HSI and struck in the head. Sean is en route to the ER with obvious facial injuries. He was conscious and talking when he left the scene.
June 7, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Two LA photojournalists have been shot with tear gas canisters by DHS HSI, including @acatwithnews.bsky.social who was directly targeted by HSI and struck in the head. Sean is en route to the ER with obvious facial injuries. He was conscious and talking when he left the scene.