Matt Robinson
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Matt Robinson
@mrobinson587.bsky.social
Musician, singer, lover, humor and shitposting, activism and politics, video games, IU basketball, technology. Orlando based
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This is class solidarity.

In case you’re at all confused.
September 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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I always feel my class based differences really strongly when something like this happens.

I share zero of my professional colleagues’ impulses.
September 11, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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There can be no defense of this, whether it’s Trump giving the orders or your California golden boy — this is grotesque torture.
We asked people who experienced "sweeps" of homeless encampments to write about it in their own words.

In Portland, Teresa Stratton told us about how her husband’s ashes were taken in a removal:
August 16, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Pundit brain is very US focused: the points of reference are US left/right, and the Smart Take is always saying the right has a point that the left refuses to acknowledge. This is a huge blindspoint when "the point" is a is a bad-faith misdirection to justify authoritarianism.
Oh my fucking god has anyone in the national media ever read a single book about authoritarianism
August 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Gavin Newsom is probably the platonic ideal of the modern Democrat, an empty suit who stands for nothing, a slimeball lab grown for a presidential run in a previous era, not so long ago, when he would have been King of the Empty Suits. he's obviously real mad that the rules of the game have changed
March 7, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Okay Tennis Bluesky, talk to me. Watching Navarro vs Swiatek right now. Do Emma's shots (especially her forehand) seem to have an incredible amount of pepper behind them? Anyone have the stats? #AO #AustrailianOpen
January 22, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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The bias and partisan control of these institutions isn't a natural fact. It's a product of neglect by Democratic politicians to reshape the rules of the game where & when they could to enrich & reinforce the institutional avenues available to them to realize their policy goals.
The Senate and Supreme Court are *extremely* tilted against Democrats and could stay that way for a long time
Obviously, the Democrats are still reeling from Trump's win, and there is focus on what Harris could or should have done differently (not much, probably!). Yet, the Dems' biggest long term issue is the Senate. The Democrats desperately need to expand the Senate map. 1/x
November 18, 2024 at 2:35 AM
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once again we have people lying about the campaign we all witnessed
First quote in this new @politico.com story is from RI's Dem committeeman Joe Paolino: "The progressive wing of the party has to recognize — we all have to recognize — the country’s not progressive, and not to the far left or the far right. They’re in the middle” www.politico.com/news/2024/11...
Centrist Dems seize opening at the DNC: ‘I don’t want to be the freak show party’
Recriminations over Kamala Harris’ defeat are shaping the early stages of the race for DNC chair.
www.politico.com
November 16, 2024 at 12:31 AM
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“Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, the two Georgia poll workers defamed by Rudolph W. Giuliani after the 2020 election, received his watch collection, a ring and his vintage Mercedes-Benz on Friday.”
Georgia Poll Workers Defamed by Giuliani Receive Some of His Assets
A watch collection, a ring and a vintage Mercedes-Benz belonging to the former Trump lawyer were delivered nearly a year after he was ordered to pay $148 million to the workers he had spread lies abou...
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2024 at 1:38 AM
Wife just said Bill Maher looks like a Wish version of Anderson Cooper LOL
November 16, 2024 at 2:09 AM
Wife just said Bill Maher looks like a Wish version of Anderson Cooper LOL
November 16, 2024 at 2:09 AM
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when we first launched 5-4, a serious concern was what to do when we run out of terrible Supreme Court decisions. in retrospect it is very embarrassing that we were ever worried.
June 25, 2024 at 3:57 PM
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"Ain't no rule that says you can't plagiarize wikipedia"
January 10, 2024 at 12:32 AM