Michael Matthews
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16 Senate Democrats, including the ranking member of the science committee, voted today for the Trump regime's NASA Administrator. #agu25
Here's our reporting on the proposed dismantling of the jewel of US atmospheric science, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social.
The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 #AGU25 #climate
The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 #AGU25 #climate
Trump team plans to break up ‘global mothership’ of climate science
Much of the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s non-climate portfolio will be dispersed, the White House says.
www.nature.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:01 AM
16 Senate Democrats, including the ranking member of the science committee, voted today for the Trump regime's NASA Administrator. #agu25
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Mayor of Evanston, Ill.:
Daniel Biss: "Following my confrontation with Greg Bovino, it is clear that ICE/CBP intends to persist with their community disruptions. I am calling for the immediate mobilization of rapid response teams to utilize whistles and other alert systems to protect our residents."
December 18, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Mayor of Evanston, Ill.:
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The Palantir Democrat wants you to stop worrying and learn to love the death-tech industry, lest they only fund Republicans. They want to hold you hostage, just like the permanent war economy has been doing to you for your entire life. Don’t listen to them www.un-diplomatic.com/p/how-i-almo...
How I Almost Became a Palantir Democrat
First stop: San Francisco’s Embarcadero.
www.un-diplomatic.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The Palantir Democrat wants you to stop worrying and learn to love the death-tech industry, lest they only fund Republicans. They want to hold you hostage, just like the permanent war economy has been doing to you for your entire life. Don’t listen to them www.un-diplomatic.com/p/how-i-almo...
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December 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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the thing most people struggle with is understanding that doj wasn’t hesitant to go hard at trump because they were unsure of the outcome, they were hesitant because they were VERY sure of the outcome (conviction) and it scared the shit out of them.
I also developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt of this, using the investigative methods of "reading the words that the president regularly spoke and wrote in public forums."
BREAKING on MS NOW:
Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says:
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."
Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says:
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."
December 18, 2025 at 12:14 AM
the thing most people struggle with is understanding that doj wasn’t hesitant to go hard at trump because they were unsure of the outcome, they were hesitant because they were VERY sure of the outcome (conviction) and it scared the shit out of them.
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Stephen Miller and Netanyahu are horrible people. Their ancestors survived genocide by the Nazis only for them to deploy the same dehumanizing tactics in their modern political hate campaigns against people they deem “other”.
Great essay by @gregsargent.bsky.social on the roots of Stephen Miller's white nationalist and anti-immigration worldview.
There is a lot to like and talk about...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
There is a lot to like and talk about...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
newrepublic.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Stephen Miller and Netanyahu are horrible people. Their ancestors survived genocide by the Nazis only for them to deploy the same dehumanizing tactics in their modern political hate campaigns against people they deem “other”.
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If you want to know what it was like for Jews to be kidnapped in broad daylight by their governments and that then to become just normal life, now you know.
An immigrant driver from India is arrested by border patrol at the O’Hare rideshare lot. He said he has never committed a crime in 11 years in the United States: “oh my God no”
December 17, 2025 at 11:06 PM
If you want to know what it was like for Jews to be kidnapped in broad daylight by their governments and that then to become just normal life, now you know.
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Yet another instance of frozen funds.
The Trump administration got the lesson from the last appropriations bill that they are not going to be meaningfully sanctioned for impounding funds. So they're going to keep doing it, as I wrote today.
prospect.org/2025/12/17/c...
The Trump administration got the lesson from the last appropriations bill that they are not going to be meaningfully sanctioned for impounding funds. So they're going to keep doing it, as I wrote today.
prospect.org/2025/12/17/c...
December 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Yet another instance of frozen funds.
The Trump administration got the lesson from the last appropriations bill that they are not going to be meaningfully sanctioned for impounding funds. So they're going to keep doing it, as I wrote today.
prospect.org/2025/12/17/c...
The Trump administration got the lesson from the last appropriations bill that they are not going to be meaningfully sanctioned for impounding funds. So they're going to keep doing it, as I wrote today.
prospect.org/2025/12/17/c...
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Fascinating from @donmoyn.bsky.social. I think Democrats should be efficient but not brutal—move fast and reform the Supreme Court, pardon power and voting rights, increase US safety and fairness, shrink the wealth gap, restore the American Dream. ASAP. Procedural obstacles no excuse. Waive 'em.
New, from me: Recently Marc Dunkelman wrote "What the Left Could Learn From Trump’s Brutal Efficiency" in the Times.
I respond here, not to dunk on Dunkelman, but because it represents a mistaken view of governance that progressives are tempted to embrace. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/democrats-...
I respond here, not to dunk on Dunkelman, but because it represents a mistaken view of governance that progressives are tempted to embrace. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats need a theory of power, but democracies need a theory of accountability
No, the Trump administration is not a model for how to get things done
donmoynihan.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Fascinating from @donmoyn.bsky.social. I think Democrats should be efficient but not brutal—move fast and reform the Supreme Court, pardon power and voting rights, increase US safety and fairness, shrink the wealth gap, restore the American Dream. ASAP. Procedural obstacles no excuse. Waive 'em.
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We tested every new EV to find out which ones are true breakthroughs, and which are also-rans.
Welcome to the InsideEVs Breakthrough Awards 2: Electric Boogaloo.
Welcome to the InsideEVs Breakthrough Awards 2: Electric Boogaloo.
2026 Breakthrough Awards: We've Tested Hundreds Of EVs. These Are The Best
Our editors tested dozens of EVs to find out which ones are true breakthroughs, and which are also-rans. These are the stand-outs.
insideevs.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
We tested every new EV to find out which ones are true breakthroughs, and which are also-rans.
Welcome to the InsideEVs Breakthrough Awards 2: Electric Boogaloo.
Welcome to the InsideEVs Breakthrough Awards 2: Electric Boogaloo.
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It's crazy how drivers think "I didn't see you" is exculpatory when they almost run you over. Yeah dude I don't think much of you but I'm pretty sure you don't drive around trying to crush pedestrians for fun. You not seeing me is the problem
December 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
It's crazy how drivers think "I didn't see you" is exculpatory when they almost run you over. Yeah dude I don't think much of you but I'm pretty sure you don't drive around trying to crush pedestrians for fun. You not seeing me is the problem
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there is really no difference between the current administration and having the country run by david duke
On that last post: I genuinely cannot think of any good-faith reason to bar international adoptions from those 39 countries. Under this new ban, consulates will refuse adoption visas for any baby from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Nigeria, or any of the 39 other countries.
December 17, 2025 at 3:17 AM
there is really no difference between the current administration and having the country run by david duke
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Again, anti-wokeness is a backlash to integration of white collar work. Only white men are allowed to have prestigious jobs otherwise it's unfair bsky.app/profile/mike...
Wow, the horror. Completely shut out of an industry that … promoted him to senior reporter by 40
December 16, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Again, anti-wokeness is a backlash to integration of white collar work. Only white men are allowed to have prestigious jobs otherwise it's unfair bsky.app/profile/mike...
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They’re stealing from us. They are stealing from us and we have to put a stop to this. This cannot stand.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 2:25 AM
They’re stealing from us. They are stealing from us and we have to put a stop to this. This cannot stand.
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Never mind the actual data we have on the racial gap in income, poverty, wealth and employment. Never mind that peer-review studies show that a white person with a high school degree has lower unemployment rate than Black person who went to college, a few elite institutions worked in diversity, so.
December 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Never mind the actual data we have on the racial gap in income, poverty, wealth and employment. Never mind that peer-review studies show that a white person with a high school degree has lower unemployment rate than Black person who went to college, a few elite institutions worked in diversity, so.
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We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM
We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.
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He decided racism was the cure to his mid-life crisis. Many such cases.
Wow, the horror. Completely shut out of an industry that … promoted him to senior reporter by 40
December 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
He decided racism was the cure to his mid-life crisis. Many such cases.
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where is Human Rights Campaign
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 3:16 PM
where is Human Rights Campaign
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use a different LLM if you’re going to use an LLM.
December 16, 2025 at 1:29 AM
use a different LLM if you’re going to use an LLM.
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I’m not making free content for a website owned by a guy who thinks my family existing is a form of genocide against white people, which is why I’m not going back to that place.
December 15, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I’m not making free content for a website owned by a guy who thinks my family existing is a form of genocide against white people, which is why I’m not going back to that place.
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thirteen years since the gop definitively said, "We are okay with dead children if it means we keep getting gun money"
A gunman shot and killed 26 people at Sandy Hook 13 years ago, marking the deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. elementary school.
Democrats Remember Sandy Hook Shooting and Renew Calls for Gun Reform
www.newsweek.com
December 14, 2025 at 10:12 PM
thirteen years since the gop definitively said, "We are okay with dead children if it means we keep getting gun money"
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Incredible, not in a good way, how many academics, journalists, and policy folks continue to actively attend the Nazi Bar on a daily basis.
The richest man on the planet has a pinned tweet that's just straight up white nationalism. I can't say I miss Twitter!
December 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Incredible, not in a good way, how many academics, journalists, and policy folks continue to actively attend the Nazi Bar on a daily basis.
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This bit from Smith is crucial. The people most surprised & dismayed by the behavior of Republican senators? Democratic senators.
No one understands the contemporary right *less* than Dems embedded in DC institutions.
No one understands the contemporary right *less* than Dems embedded in DC institutions.
December 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
This bit from Smith is crucial. The people most surprised & dismayed by the behavior of Republican senators? Democratic senators.
No one understands the contemporary right *less* than Dems embedded in DC institutions.
No one understands the contemporary right *less* than Dems embedded in DC institutions.
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yeah. when asked, the most common view around the world is that about 1-2% of people in the world are Jewish ie 70-140 million people.
it's 0.19%
there are 12 million of us. world Jewish population has never returned to the pre-Holocaust number of 18m
ajourneyintotheholocaust.com/wp-content/u...
it's 0.19%
there are 12 million of us. world Jewish population has never returned to the pre-Holocaust number of 18m
ajourneyintotheholocaust.com/wp-content/u...
December 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
yeah. when asked, the most common view around the world is that about 1-2% of people in the world are Jewish ie 70-140 million people.
it's 0.19%
there are 12 million of us. world Jewish population has never returned to the pre-Holocaust number of 18m
ajourneyintotheholocaust.com/wp-content/u...
it's 0.19%
there are 12 million of us. world Jewish population has never returned to the pre-Holocaust number of 18m
ajourneyintotheholocaust.com/wp-content/u...
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The anti-Semitic mass shooting in Australia will cause a national conversation and policy change. We know this because the 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to significant restrictions on guns.
The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.
The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.
‘I heard 40, 50 shots’: Witnesses fled Bondi Beach as gunmen targeted Jewish event
‘I heard 40, 50 shots’: Witnesses fled Bondi Beach as gunmen targeted Jewish event
Gunshots ripped through a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, killing at least 12 people
www.irishtimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The anti-Semitic mass shooting in Australia will cause a national conversation and policy change. We know this because the 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to significant restrictions on guns.
The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.
The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.