Mike Mathews
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Mike Mathews
@memathews.bsky.social
B2B & Tech marketing, currently working in robotics, AI, vision systems. Wilderness advocate.
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Coming up at 11 am ET, we're talking about the Epstein files and Trump's flip on releasing them, the looming vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the investigatory process privilege & how it plays into the Epstein files, and way more.

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BREAKING: Trump FLIPS on Release of EPSTEIN FILES-- BUT WHY?!?!
YouTube video by Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin
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November 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
It's a constant game of 3-card monte
November 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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"They described being asked to drop cases for political reasons, to find evidence for flimsy investigations and to take positions in court they thought had no legitimate basis. They also talked about the work they...were told to abandon—investigations of terrorist plots, corruption and...fraud."
To understand how dramatically Trump has transformed federal law enforcement into his own personal political instrument of power, Emily Bazelon and @rachelposer.bsky.social interviewed 60 of the hundreds of Justice Department lawyers who have resigned or been fired. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
What we all need to realize
November 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
"Please don't take offense, but I need to ask..."
Kate Bolduan: "The president has not been accused of any crimes or wrongdoing as it relates to Jeffrey Epstein or these files even with these emails being released. That's one thing we need to make clear. There's no accusations of any wrongdoing so far."
November 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Tired: "Great Depression"

Wired: "quiet time in the labor market"
Kevin Hassett: "I think there could be a little bit of an almost quiet time in the labor market, because firms are finding that AI is making their workers so productive that they don't necessarily have to hire the new kids out of college and so on."
November 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Been in those meetings
November 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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claim that people don’t “wish” to do $120,000 / year jobs as automechanics seems detached from reality. www.bls.gov/ooh/installa... “median annual wage for automotive service technicians & mechanics was $49,670 in May 2024…lowest 10% earned less than $33,660, & highest 10% earned more than $80,850.”
November 17, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Whenever business leaders complain about skilled labour shortages, the automatic question should be ‘how are expanding __company’s
apprenticeship program to make sure the skills you need are available in the workforce??1/2
November 17, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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This is an official US government account.
November 15, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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SENATOR REVEREND NO ONE IS BETTER AT SOLVING THE PROBLEMS HE CREATES THAN PRESIDENT TRUMP. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
So let me get this straight: The President’s plan to lower prices is to roll back some of his own tariffs?
November 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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“.. dining with Wall Street bigwigs ..

“.. an opulent revamp of the White House at a time when Americans are struggling ..

“.. a $20 billion bailout for Argentina ..

“.. it is starting to open a rift with his supporters ..”

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November 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
That's a great outline for a farcical stage okay, or maybe a renegade Hallmark movie.
It's gotta be frustrating for journalists scraping by and doing great work to go to NY Times dot com and read a puff piece written by a nepo baby that whitewashes a journalist who had sex with a source and has now parlayed that into a new book and a job at Vanity Fair
November 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Thiel Fellowship co-founder Michael Gibson says that, “There is an American renaissance waiting for us if we stop funding higher ed and abolish public schools” … 1/ x.com/william_blak...
November 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
"DoorDash spokesperson told me, "We did not write that.""
🔥 The White House released an article on Monday citing a DoorDash report as confirmation that "inflation has been tamed."

I asked a DoorDash spokesperson today if the company had concluded from its report that inflation had been tamed. DoorDash spokesperson told me, "We did not write that."
NEW DATA: Lower Prices, Bigger Paychecks
President Donald J. Trump’s bold economic agenda is delivering real results for American families — with new data from DoorDash’s State of Local Commerce
www.whitehouse.gov
November 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Nuzzi, like TCW, exists as a kind of simulacrum of the midcentury public intellectual. Not even ripping off the writers of that era, but imitating a sort of half-remembered, half-invented idea of what those writers were sort of like and what their general vibe was.
November 14, 2025 at 5:49 PM
It's all about investing those taxes in the right places making a much better place to live. Rich people want rich lives (just like everyone else...shhh).
And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.

And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*

Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
November 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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In many cases, taxpayer funds were used to train the very scientists who have been fired by Trump and RFK Jr. Their training was investment in everyone’s health.

The US taxpayer has been defrauded by The Regime. Waste, fraud and abuse is their motto. Every accusation is a confession.
November 14, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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I have to reiterate that the loss to the United States of so many excellent scientists who were fired by Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is catastrophic to the future of the country.

And also to the present of the country.
November 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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NIH scientist Dr. Jenna Norton was just placed on nondisciplinary leave.

She led a team who wrote a sign-on letter critical of The Regime.

A person at NIH asked to give a reason for her leave called her “radical leftist”; while the NIH Director has claimed that “dissent is productive”.
N.I.H. Worker Who Criticized Trump Health Policies Says She Is on Administrative Leave
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Nope. Not the new Profiles In Courage.
Neil Gorsuch went on Fox & Friends this morning to hype his new [checks notes] children's book
November 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Meanwhile, here's an example of the horrendous things found in Hillary Clinton's emails—the only story worth covering for any serious news outlet in 2016, apparently.

This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.
November 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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A lot of people have helped Trump cover up his involvement with Epstein. They need to think very carefully about their choices going forward. It's one thing to cheer on his ballroom or root for DOGE. Running interference for pedophiles is something the history books won’t forget.
EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: Newly released emails show Jeffrey Epstein told Ghislaine Maxwell that Donald Trump “spent hours at my house,” “knew about the girls,” and “that dog that hasn’t barked is trump.”
November 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Are agencies in your state cooperating with ICE through the 287g program? Here are the participating agencies as of September 22, 2025 ⬇️

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Complete List of Local and State Agencies Working With ICE
Currently, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has about 1154 agreements with local and state agencies to enforce Trump’s mass deportation machine
open.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:57 AM