Matt
@mattylyons.bsky.social
History instructor/fan of democracy, reading, running, Springsteen, & Detroit Lions
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The attempted mugging of a visiting president was about the world war that Musk, Trump, and Vance have chosen. If we attend to what Vance and Trump said yesterday, we can work our way to the unreason of American policy, and to the chaos that will follow.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-tr...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-tr...
The War Trump Chooses
That wasn't Trump against Zelens'kyi. It was Americans against reason
snyder.substack.com
March 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The attempted mugging of a visiting president was about the world war that Musk, Trump, and Vance have chosen. If we attend to what Vance and Trump said yesterday, we can work our way to the unreason of American policy, and to the chaos that will follow.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-tr...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-tr...
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I can’t think of a better military investment than spending $175B to eliminate half of Russia’s military capacity without a drop of US blood.
March 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I can’t think of a better military investment than spending $175B to eliminate half of Russia’s military capacity without a drop of US blood.
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Five former defense secretaries denounced President Trump’s firing last week of the Joint Chiefs chairman and several other senior military officials, saying that the officers were “fired for purely partisan reasons” and urging Congress to hold hearings.
Former defense chiefs denounce Trump’s ‘reckless’ Pentagon firings
Jim Mattis and four other former defense secretaries called Trump’s ouster of Gen. C.Q. Brown and other top military officers dangerous and unjustified.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 28, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Five former defense secretaries denounced President Trump’s firing last week of the Joint Chiefs chairman and several other senior military officials, saying that the officers were “fired for purely partisan reasons” and urging Congress to hold hearings.
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The reason we stand with trans people is because they are people.
This isn’t difficult…
This isn’t difficult…
February 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The reason we stand with trans people is because they are people.
This isn’t difficult…
This isn’t difficult…
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Слава Україні! Slava Ukraini!
Героям слава!, Heroiam slava!
Героям слава!, Heroiam slava!
February 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Слава Україні! Slava Ukraini!
Героям слава!, Heroiam slava!
Героям слава!, Heroiam slava!
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Ukraine Fact Sheet - February 21, 2025: isw.pub/UkraineFacts...
February 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Ukraine Fact Sheet - February 21, 2025: isw.pub/UkraineFacts...
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I was just an Education Department guy under Reagan and the most junior WH senior staffer under G.H.W. Bush, so what do I know? But if I were an ex-president, and the current president were executing the most disastrous turn in American foreign policy in 80 years, I think I might say something?
February 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I was just an Education Department guy under Reagan and the most junior WH senior staffer under G.H.W. Bush, so what do I know? But if I were an ex-president, and the current president were executing the most disastrous turn in American foreign policy in 80 years, I think I might say something?
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‘It is going to get a lot worse’ www.persuasion.community/p/the-crisis...
The Crisis of Democracy Is Here
And it’s going to get a lot worse.
www.persuasion.community
February 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
‘It is going to get a lot worse’ www.persuasion.community/p/the-crisis...
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Without going all Martin Niemöller here, I do think that it's bad not to speak up for immigrants, transgender Americans, civil servants, women, Ukraine, and everyone else the MAGA bullies are going after. We're beyond picking and choosing whom to defend. It's time to stand up and speak out.
February 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Without going all Martin Niemöller here, I do think that it's bad not to speak up for immigrants, transgender Americans, civil servants, women, Ukraine, and everyone else the MAGA bullies are going after. We're beyond picking and choosing whom to defend. It's time to stand up and speak out.
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This is a quote ascribed to Napoleon Bonaparte, who launched a coup against the French Republic and installed himself as First Consul and later Emperor of the French Empire. So, yeah, things are going great.
February 15, 2025 at 6:49 PM
This is a quote ascribed to Napoleon Bonaparte, who launched a coup against the French Republic and installed himself as First Consul and later Emperor of the French Empire. So, yeah, things are going great.
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I’m having great difficulty right now seeing how our political system doesn’t devolve into violence.
February 15, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I’m having great difficulty right now seeing how our political system doesn’t devolve into violence.
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He's preparing to do something really bad.
February 15, 2025 at 8:23 PM
He's preparing to do something really bad.
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the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
February 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
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I feel like I’m standing in the middle of a freeway, screaming that a truck is barreling toward us, while everyone around me nods thoughtfully, asks if I’ve considered being less alarmist, and wonders aloud whether the truck has some valid economic anxieties.
February 15, 2025 at 3:49 AM
I feel like I’m standing in the middle of a freeway, screaming that a truck is barreling toward us, while everyone around me nods thoughtfully, asks if I’ve considered being less alarmist, and wonders aloud whether the truck has some valid economic anxieties.
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None of this is about efficiency. The goal is to strip the government of capacity to check oligarch abuses. There's a ratchet effect too. Once govt is stripped down and can't deliver, it feeds more cynicism of govt, which justifies more cuts to government.
February 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
None of this is about efficiency. The goal is to strip the government of capacity to check oligarch abuses. There's a ratchet effect too. Once govt is stripped down and can't deliver, it feeds more cynicism of govt, which justifies more cuts to government.
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A reminder: Vladimir Putin could end the war in Ukraine right now, just by ordering his soldiers to go home. No need for treaties or negotiations.
February 13, 2025 at 12:17 PM
A reminder: Vladimir Putin could end the war in Ukraine right now, just by ordering his soldiers to go home. No need for treaties or negotiations.
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Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons:
-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
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-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
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February 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons:
-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
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-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
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@gtconway.bsky.social & @marcelias.bsky.social - loop in @mdg650hawk.bsky.social to any conversation; I would love to hear the three of you muse about events of the day! I think it would mitigate the existential angst many of us feel. Hawk is amazing!
February 12, 2025 at 4:15 AM
@gtconway.bsky.social & @marcelias.bsky.social - loop in @mdg650hawk.bsky.social to any conversation; I would love to hear the three of you muse about events of the day! I think it would mitigate the existential angst many of us feel. Hawk is amazing!
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The Acting President discusses affairs of state, while the young boy and the old man share their boredom.
February 12, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The Acting President discusses affairs of state, while the young boy and the old man share their boredom.
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Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important
Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone
Call it a Day Of Transparency
Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone
Call it a Day Of Transparency
February 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important
Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone
Call it a Day Of Transparency
Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone
Call it a Day Of Transparency
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As a parent of two kids with special needs, I'm pretty damn excited to know that a racist billionaire who routinely uses the slur "r*tards" is destroying the federal department that's a bulwark for special education and support for disabled children.
February 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
As a parent of two kids with special needs, I'm pretty damn excited to know that a racist billionaire who routinely uses the slur "r*tards" is destroying the federal department that's a bulwark for special education and support for disabled children.