Matt Ciarelli
@mattcia0075.bsky.social
Husband, Duranie, chronically-tired IT guy, PC gamer, reader, atheist, has-been novelist, M. A. in American history, pasta and wine aficionado.
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“In a sane world: A former president who lied about voter fraud and incited a deadly insurrection to stay in power after losing an election would not be able to run for public office ever again…any public office, including the highest office in the land.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/in-a-sane-...
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In a Sane World (Take Five)
A picture of a presidency that would make sense—in 25 thoughts
www.americaamerica.news
November 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
“In a sane world: A former president who lied about voter fraud and incited a deadly insurrection to stay in power after losing an election would not be able to run for public office ever again…any public office, including the highest office in the land.”
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Ken, I like most of your work, flawed though some of it might be. But this claim is going way too far.
In his latest project, Ken Burns turns his lens to the American Revolution — an event he has called the most significant since the birth of Christ. n.pr/47GH56x
Ken Burns shares 3 thoughts on upcoming 'American Revolution' series
In his latest project, Ken Burns turns his lens to the American Revolution — an event he has called the most significant since the birth of Christ.
n.pr
November 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Ken, I like most of your work, flawed though some of it might be. But this claim is going way too far.
Turn the lights off when you leave the room.
Name something your dad taught you
November 14, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Turn the lights off when you leave the room.
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🚨 Do not hand your unlocked phone to law enforcement 🚨
Normalising the surrender of unlocked devices — esp at borders — is a dangerous precedent Apple is fore-fronting. Pushing an unlocked phone as standard-issue ID &commercialising #surveillance under the guise of “convenience”
#privacy #digitalID
Normalising the surrender of unlocked devices — esp at borders — is a dangerous precedent Apple is fore-fronting. Pushing an unlocked phone as standard-issue ID &commercialising #surveillance under the guise of “convenience”
#privacy #digitalID
Apple launches a Digital ID and says it’ll be accepted by the TSA
Apple launches a Digital ID and says it’ll be accepted by the TSA
A new way to present your ID.
buff.ly
November 13, 2025 at 1:14 PM
🚨 Do not hand your unlocked phone to law enforcement 🚨
Normalising the surrender of unlocked devices — esp at borders — is a dangerous precedent Apple is fore-fronting. Pushing an unlocked phone as standard-issue ID &commercialising #surveillance under the guise of “convenience”
#privacy #digitalID
Normalising the surrender of unlocked devices — esp at borders — is a dangerous precedent Apple is fore-fronting. Pushing an unlocked phone as standard-issue ID &commercialising #surveillance under the guise of “convenience”
#privacy #digitalID
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You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
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“This is a risk inherent in building a personality cult around one of the worst human beings in the United States—almost any moral violation you pick will, statistically, have a high likelihood of appearing somewhere on his résumé.”
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November 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
“This is a risk inherent in building a personality cult around one of the worst human beings in the United States—almost any moral violation you pick will, statistically, have a high likelihood of appearing somewhere on his résumé.”
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New in PN: “It’s 4chan shit" — @cwarzel.bsky.social on the federal government's deranged social media presence
"Now you see Trump administration accounts that look like they’re literally run by Groypers. What Homeland Security is tweeting out isn’t even dog-whistling anymore."
"Now you see Trump administration accounts that look like they’re literally run by Groypers. What Homeland Security is tweeting out isn’t even dog-whistling anymore."
“It’s 4chan s**t": The govt's deranged social media presence
"You see Trump administration accounts that look like they’re literally run by Groypers," Charlie Warzel tells us.
www.publicnotice.co
November 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
New in PN: “It’s 4chan shit" — @cwarzel.bsky.social on the federal government's deranged social media presence
"Now you see Trump administration accounts that look like they’re literally run by Groypers. What Homeland Security is tweeting out isn’t even dog-whistling anymore."
"Now you see Trump administration accounts that look like they’re literally run by Groypers. What Homeland Security is tweeting out isn’t even dog-whistling anymore."
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New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
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“Reality’s move from bent to broken accelerates.”
What a line. What a sobering, thoughtful piece on the dire situation we find ourselves in.
techpolicy.press/authoritaria...
What a line. What a sobering, thoughtful piece on the dire situation we find ourselves in.
techpolicy.press/authoritaria...
Authoritarian Arrogance and the End of the 'Reality-Based Community' | TechPolicy.Press
As trolling continues to arrogate power and authority, reality’s move from bent to broken accelerates, writes Paul Elliott Johnson.
techpolicy.press
November 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
“Reality’s move from bent to broken accelerates.”
What a line. What a sobering, thoughtful piece on the dire situation we find ourselves in.
techpolicy.press/authoritaria...
What a line. What a sobering, thoughtful piece on the dire situation we find ourselves in.
techpolicy.press/authoritaria...
Men reading in public is performative? I refuse to even go looking for this garbage article. Whoever wrote this crap would have been stunned by me in my teen years, when I used to *read books while walking* because I didn't want to stop.
November 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Men reading in public is performative? I refuse to even go looking for this garbage article. Whoever wrote this crap would have been stunned by me in my teen years, when I used to *read books while walking* because I didn't want to stop.
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The War Department's name was changed because the military was reorganized to accommodate this exciting new thing called the Air Force. We stopped fighting all out wars around this time because of the Nuclear Age. Political correctness had nothing to do with it.
Trump: "We have officially renamed the Dept of Defense back to the original name, Dept of War. And remember we won World War 1, we won World War 2, we won everything in between. We won everything that came before. And then we brilliantly decided to change the name. We became politically correct"
November 11, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The War Department's name was changed because the military was reorganized to accommodate this exciting new thing called the Air Force. We stopped fighting all out wars around this time because of the Nuclear Age. Political correctness had nothing to do with it.
I thought I told you I didn't order any snow...and yet here it is falling again.
November 11, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I thought I told you I didn't order any snow...and yet here it is falling again.
Yeah, so it snowed today. 0/10, do not want.
November 10, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Yeah, so it snowed today. 0/10, do not want.
🧵I've known the tariffs were stupid from the beginning, but this time, as they say, it's personal. I typically eat a pound of pasta a week, sometimes more. I will be able to afford the price increase, but it will remain a stupid idea, and I know that not everyone will be able to do so.
So my son eats a bowl of Barilla Penne pasta for dinner every night. He eats it plain - no butter, no oil, a little salt in the water. It's what he likes. Like blueberries, which I covered in May, we're concerned with what it means that access to some of the things he relies on may be difficult.
now they've done it www.wsj.com/world/europe...
November 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
🧵I've known the tariffs were stupid from the beginning, but this time, as they say, it's personal. I typically eat a pound of pasta a week, sometimes more. I will be able to afford the price increase, but it will remain a stupid idea, and I know that not everyone will be able to do so.
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Pinning this again:
Do not use milk, juice, urine, antacids, baking soda on pepper spray or tear gas. Just water. Plain water..
Optical saline ok in eyes, but maybe save it for the dumbasses who wore contact lenses.
Plain soap or shampoo ok on skin, but never in eyes.
Do not use milk, juice, urine, antacids, baking soda on pepper spray or tear gas. Just water. Plain water..
Optical saline ok in eyes, but maybe save it for the dumbasses who wore contact lenses.
Plain soap or shampoo ok on skin, but never in eyes.
November 10, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Pinning this again:
Do not use milk, juice, urine, antacids, baking soda on pepper spray or tear gas. Just water. Plain water..
Optical saline ok in eyes, but maybe save it for the dumbasses who wore contact lenses.
Plain soap or shampoo ok on skin, but never in eyes.
Do not use milk, juice, urine, antacids, baking soda on pepper spray or tear gas. Just water. Plain water..
Optical saline ok in eyes, but maybe save it for the dumbasses who wore contact lenses.
Plain soap or shampoo ok on skin, but never in eyes.
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It would create a tidy narrative arc if the American conservative movement’s first President opened his term by fucking over air traffic controllers, and then its last President tanked his career by fucking over air traffic controllers. millercenter.org/reagan-vs-ai...
Reagan vs. Air Traffic Controllers | Miller Center
Behind the scenes of how President Reagan handled the 1981 air traffic controllers strike
millercenter.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
It would create a tidy narrative arc if the American conservative movement’s first President opened his term by fucking over air traffic controllers, and then its last President tanked his career by fucking over air traffic controllers. millercenter.org/reagan-vs-ai...
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The jurors did not swallow the government's case
They had no appetite to convict
The government tried to get them to bite, but couldn't
So the jurors spit out an acquittal
They had no appetite to convict
The government tried to get them to bite, but couldn't
So the jurors spit out an acquittal
November 6, 2025 at 11:26 PM
The jurors did not swallow the government's case
They had no appetite to convict
The government tried to get them to bite, but couldn't
So the jurors spit out an acquittal
They had no appetite to convict
The government tried to get them to bite, but couldn't
So the jurors spit out an acquittal
You heard the man…
November 6, 2025 at 11:46 PM
You heard the man…
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Some late night informal thoughts about one important lesson from today's electoral results.
It's not over.
People stepped up and stood up and voted for what they want.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu9b...
It's not over.
People stepped up and stood up and voted for what they want.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu9b...
A Few Thoughts About Today's Electoral Results
YouTube video by Dr. Joanne Freeman
www.youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Some late night informal thoughts about one important lesson from today's electoral results.
It's not over.
People stepped up and stood up and voted for what they want.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu9b...
It's not over.
People stepped up and stood up and voted for what they want.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu9b...
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After those results, the Democratic response to GOP pressure to cave on the shutdown should simply be
a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair and making a funny face .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair and making a funny face .
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November 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
After those results, the Democratic response to GOP pressure to cave on the shutdown should simply be
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The great @attackerman.bsky.social on Dick Cheney www.thenation.com/article/poli...
His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies
As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.
www.thenation.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The great @attackerman.bsky.social on Dick Cheney www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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This would be stupider than Iraq.
And even though the GOP controls Congress, Trump is gonna try to do this without Cong. authorization, and the Mike Johnson cowards will let him.
This would be stupider than Iraq.
And even though the GOP controls Congress, Trump is gonna try to do this without Cong. authorization, and the Mike Johnson cowards will let him.
Trump Weighs Options, and Risks, for Attacks on Venezuela
www.nytimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
This would be stupider than Iraq.
And even though the GOP controls Congress, Trump is gonna try to do this without Cong. authorization, and the Mike Johnson cowards will let him.
This would be stupider than Iraq.
And even though the GOP controls Congress, Trump is gonna try to do this without Cong. authorization, and the Mike Johnson cowards will let him.
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Gunner, sandwich, cop!
November 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Gunner, sandwich, cop!