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Matt Ghoulberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · Oct 19

With all the new arrivals and the ability to pin a post, I figured I'd offer a brief introduction:

I'm the former Editorial Manager for Turner Classic Movies and, before that, a Senior Editor for Collider for 14 years. I currently freelance, and I also launched a newsletter, commentarytrack.net.

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Matt Ghoulberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 7h

Cletus Van Damme cannot be stopped.

Matt Ghoulberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 7h

I can’t believe we have Walton Goggins as the celebrity endorsement for Walmart and Doritos, but I’m not mad about it.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 10h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10h

Not gonna link the troll but Bari Weiss clearly represents “thought police” more than 100,000 Bluesky leftists scolding you for writing a defense of Weiss ever will, and ignoring that reality is clearly designed to curry the favor of thought police. You’re not a free thinker, you’re the boot licker.

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Matt Ghoulberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 9h

Whoa!! Congratulations!!

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Nu Pogodi! Enjoyer @lameposting.bsky.social · 10h

Congo is a real treat. It’s so amazing.

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 10h

Also of course the Delroy Lindo Tim Curry masterclass. Somehow this movie is considered bad despite having the best actors giving the best performances in the best movie ever made about fighting gorillas with lasers

Congo (3/9) Movie CLIP - Stop Eating My Sesame Cake! (1995) HD

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Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · Oct 30

Four ads from the Previews catalogue for Topps adaptation of the Coppola Dracula movie

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Matt Ghoulberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 10h

I’m so sorry, Eric.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 11h

How much money do you think DHS has expended so far on punishing this one man

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 11h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Matt Ghoulberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 11h

There may be other settings at play, but I don’t know your 4K player. I use my PlayStation 5 and most 4Ks have looked terrific, including Amadeus. The only one that looked off was Terminator 2, which people say is a poor transfer.

Matt Ghoulberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 11h

It’s wild how so many of these Republicans who liked to see themselves as moderates (see also Collins, Romney) are now shocked that their actions have consequences.

Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 15d

Justice Anthony Kennedy tells @npr.org's @ninatotenberg.bsky.social "very worried" about our country, and that "Democracy is not guaranteed to survive."

Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions.

www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 11h

This is such an embarrassing way to defend an article. “Here’s our new piece. Being mad at it makes it correct! IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT, YOU ARE THE COPS.”

Okay, lady, we get it. You like Bari Weiss. That’s legal in America. Nobody is arresting you.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 14h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Matt Ghoulberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 12h

They definitely labor under their idea that Star Trek isn’t “cool” and so you need everything to be sleek and shiny, and I find that aesthetic to be exhausting after a while.

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Matt Ghoulberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 12h

If I had to serve on that ship I’d just chuck myself over to the Borg. Assimilate me. This shit sucks.

Matt Ghoulberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 12h

House rules.

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Terrence O'Brien @terrenceobrien.bsky.social · 13h

It's a long weekend, weather is gray and miserable on the east coast. Why not get cozy at home with one of the most bonkers movies ever made: 1977's Japanese fantasy horror film House.

The Verge @theverge.com · 13h

You need to watch the bonkers Japanese fantasy horror film House

The nightmare logic and surreal visuals of Japanese fantasy horror film House will leave you wondering “WTF did I just watch?”

buff.ly

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 2d

anybody who's good at history want to tell me if it's good or not to starve your troops

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Matt Ghoulberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 12h

The production design also makes the bridge look like the inside of a toaster oven.

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Matt Ghoulberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 12h

A great thread that helps explain why I felt automatic revulsion at the latest Star Trek show looking like this:

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Matt Ghoulberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 13h

That candy isn’t going to crush itself

Matt Ghoulberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 13h

Seems like a problem if* NOW WHO’S SMOOTH-BRAINED

Matt Ghoulberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 13h

And yeah, ACAB, but it’s wild to be like “cops are heroes but also it’s fine if they quit when they don’t get their way.”

Matt Ghoulberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 13h

I know Bari’s brain is as smooth as can be, but it seems like a people who pledge to serve and protect will only do so under their preferred politicians.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 15h

Well golly it sounds like you should let long-standing precedents stand until you rule on the merits, then. That is not what you’re doing!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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