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Matt Kavanagh

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Matt Kavanagh @mattkavanagh.bsky.social · Nov 14

Since I’m new here, I thought I’d repost myTwitter thread from 2018 on #HannahArendt and #Trumphasia: a topic that is unfortunately still relevant today. 1/

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Matt Kavanagh @mattkavanagh.bsky.social · 26m

Hey, Chuck is in good company—Trump and Musk love Cuomo.

Matt Kavanagh @mattkavanagh.bsky.social · 27m

That sandwich is danger close

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 35m

Another big endorsement for Andrew Cuomo. And it only cost $959 million in tax breaks.

Elon Endorses Cuomo, with pictures of Adnrew Cuomo and Elon Musk

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @thefarce.org · 1h

Republicans used to not do this because their entire majority depends on a handful of districts in California and New York. They obviously have something else in mind for 2026.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Mike Johnson: "These blue states have abused the SNAP program just like they've abused Medicaid and so many other government programs."

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1h

You don’t get to name your kid X Æ A-12 and then say “or whatever his name is” about anyone else.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2h

Elon Musk endorses Cuomo for mayor of New York and makes sure to add some racism in there: “…Mumdumi or whatever his name is.”

Elon Musk: Remember to vote tomorrow in New York!
Bear in mind that a vote for Curtis is really a vote for Mumdumi or whatever his name is.
VOTE CUOMO!
11:45 AM • 11/3/25 • 1.2M Views

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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 8h

i am coming around to the idea of "less than 10 groupchats govern 30-40% of the value of the entire S&P 500"

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 3h

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 2h

Good question, Wired has been killing it, I wonder how long CN/Advance will allow that to continue.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2h

There's still the rumor that Bezos was going to buy Conde Naste which includes Vogue and Wired. I wouldn't be surprised if Wired ends up getting gutted too.

This is the Orbanization of media. Every outlet belongs to regime allied oligarchs.

www.thedissident.news/the-oligarch...

The Oligarchs' Coup Against the Free Press Is Happening Now

The American information space is not merely changing; it is undergoing a hostile takeover. It is a deliberate, coordinated campaign by a new class of oligarchs out of Silicon Valley that includes Jef...

www.thedissident.news

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 5h

PMC class consciousness is. somehow the most anti-fascist force in 21st century politics

Khalid @antikhalid.bsky.social · 8h

the funniest thing about those memes has to be that the people paying the most tax are objectively least likely to vote for the right

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 6h

We've got you 👍

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 5h

Post the good news when you see it…

Nature @nature.com · 9h

By studying the process through which a soil bacterium naturally produces a well-known drug, scientists have discovered a powerful antibiotic that could help to fight drug-resistant infections

go.nature.com/4hJ4d7K

Powerful new antibiotic that can kill superbugs discovered in soil bacteria

Nature - Surprise discovery could pave the way for new treatments against drug-resistant infections.

go.nature.com

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Matt Kavanagh @mattkavanagh.bsky.social · 6h

Does this make Eric Adams Kato Kaelin?

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 8h

I’m doing research for a project and found out about the “don’t buy where you can’t work” movement during the depression, where Black people boycotted and picketed places that wouldn’t hire us. Shout out to everyone who’s not going back to Target!

"Don't Buy Where You Can't Work" | National Museum of African American History & Culture.

<p>“Don’t Buy Where You Can’t Work” campaigns of the 1930s used effective direct-action tactics, such as boycotts and picketing. </p>

www.searchablemuseum.com

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Matt Kavanagh @mattkavanagh.bsky.social · 6h

a man with a mustache is talking to another man in a movie .

ALT: a man with a mustache is talking to another man in a movie .

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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 8h

In fact, if your bar is, “did a big newspaper report it?” you are missing… most of the news. Even the biggest newspapers have fewer reporters and editors than they used to. Local newspapers are gone entirely in large swaths of the country.

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Leon “Lee” Grayhare @grayharetherabbit.bsky.social · 8h

There’s no “Alt-Right” anymore and there hasn’t been in years, it’s just The Right

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 1d

There isn’t really a gap between Fuentes and MAGA. It’s like the Klan and the White Citizen’s Councils. They are part of the same white supremacist movement and largely disagree over tactics.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 3d

The gap between the white-supremacist influencer Nick Fuentes and the rest of the right is narrower than it has ever been, @alibreland.bsky.social argues.

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Matt Kavanagh @mattkavanagh.bsky.social · 7h

Yup. “Systemic risk” means you and your children are going to foot the bill for this.

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 8h

We are beyond “too big to fail” territory, so, when this bubble pops, you can expect that US taxpayers will be expected to foot the bill to make the investors whole. The result will be another massive redistribution of wealth upward.

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 3d

Welcome to technofeudalism on steroids: Just 8 of the S&P500 companies account for 35% of the entire US market’s value, 69% of the gains since the market bottomed in April, and almost 80% of the S&P 500’s net income growth in the last year.
www.ft.com/content/ae4d...

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Matt Kavanagh @mattkavanagh.bsky.social · 14h

Cuomo is getting Draked out here.

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Matt Kavanagh @mattkavanagh.bsky.social · 16h

Obscene

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17h

Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year – report

Oxfam warns Trump policies risk driving inequality to new heights – but Democrats have also exacerbated wealth gap The collective wealth of the top 10 US billionaires has soared by $698bn in the past year, according to a new report from Oxfam America published on Monday on the growing wealth divide. The report warns that Trump administration policies risk driving US inequality to new heights, but points out that both Republican and Democratic administrations have exacerbated the US’s growing wealth gap. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 20h

the next 20 years of politics, and i wanna be really clear i mean after the fascism is dealt with, are going to be unbearably frustrating and i absolutely think that the current coalition is going to splinter in wild new ways over tech issues and that those will be the core issues of those decades