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Matt

@mattferrel.bsky.social

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Political news junkie. Blocks doomers, bigots, & engagement farmers following > 10k on sight. No patience for non-voters or far left who blame Dems instead of GOP for our problems.

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Matt @mattferrel.bsky.social · Oct 21

Pinned post for moderation lists, cool feeds, other useful stuff

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 6h

I seem to recall that it was the biggest 1st Amendment attack in American history when the Biden admin alerted social media companies to some content and said "hey does this violate your policies?" Will Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger and (lol) CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss call this out?

Tweet from Pam Bondi:

Today following outreach from
@thejusticedept
, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target
@ICEgov
agents in Chicago.

The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 6h

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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captainawesome.bsky.social @captainawesome.bsky.social · 4h

theonion.com/gop-maintain...

GOP Maintains Solid Hold On Youth That Already Look Like Old Men

The Republican Party may have an insurmountable lead among young voters who dress and act like they’re already 50 years old.

theonion.com

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Matt @mattferrel.bsky.social · 2h

I wonder if any of these guys are not still virgins

Matt @mattferrel.bsky.social · 3h

Not their only bad take

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 3h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 4h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Matt @mattferrel.bsky.social · 8h

The 25% that is the Trump/MAGA base absolutely do, but the rest of us do not

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Nick-or-treat! @nickwidzowski.bsky.social · 9h

No Kings (but if Olivia Colman can be on standby to give Charles Dance a death glare every now and then, that would be swell)

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 11h

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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Matt @mattferrel.bsky.social · 8h

The replies on that account are mostly doom. Another for my Doomers blocklist

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Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 12h

Was there ever a more epic press failure than the 2024 election

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 16h

Thinking fondly of all the pre-election fact-checks that said we couldn’t possibly know whether Republicans wanted to get rid of pre-existing condition protections.

• New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said that Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, "want to ... repeal the Affordable Care Act and elim nate protections for preexisting conditions." It's unclear what Trump would do, since he hasn't released a plan to replace the ACA. He said he would do so, if "we can come up With something that's better."

Schumer, meanwhile, was wrong to
say, as he did on the Senate floor April 28, that the bill goes "back to the day when insurance companies could deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions."

perorats and Republicans have made
competing claims on whether the latest version of the GOP health care bill maintains protections for people with preexisting medical conditions. President Trump has said, "Pre-existing conditions are in the bill. And I mandate it." Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer has said that
"insurance companies could deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions."
Neither of those comments quite gets it right. The latest version offers lesser protections than the Affordable Care Act, but it doesn't allow insurers to deny coverage to someone with a health

Who's right? Like everything else in health care, it's complicated.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

Again, every time this happens, we literally have no idea if the masked, plainclothes people are actual government agents, or private citizens acting in party-affiliated paramilitaries. The whole point of IDs & uniforms & no masks is that we know these things.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 1d

This is an essential. "Democrats need to beat the Trumpists in elections that we ensure are free" is the best strategy for the next 2-4 years. But it is not a long-term strategy! The only possible long-term strategy is that someone else needs to defeat the Trumpists for control of the Repub Party.

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism

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ayaeniw.bsky.social @ayaeniw.bsky.social · 23h

Ok so what *are* you going to do? Keep encouraging others to raid camps while you do all the dirty work of being an online edgelord?

They want a violent response. The whole plan hinges on it. Are you blind? Answering absurdity with absurdity reveals who is truly absurd and erodes their support.

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Matt @mattferrel.bsky.social · 17h

That account is full of bad ideas. One of the people is right and it isn’t the deluxe star man

starmendeluxe.bsky.... @starm... • 3h
* Joined Dec '24
And just so he can't block me and hide what he said, here's a screenshot. Pay attention to the DARVO "They want a violent response. The whole plan hinges on it" part.

ayaeniw.bsky.social

@ayaeniw.bsky.social
Ok so what *are* you going to do? Keep encouraging others to raid camps while you do all the dirty work of being an online edgelord?
They want a violent response. The whole plan hinges on it. Are you blind? Answering absurdity with absurdity reveals who is truly absurd and erodes their support.
October 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 1d

150+ unvaccinated kids in two schools? What the fuck are we doing here??

Clip from the attached story that says: He points to the current outbreak in South Carolina where more than 150 unvaccinated school children at two schools are now being subject to a 21-day quarantine after being exposed

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

everyone say "good job Gemini" or Gemini will kill itself

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 1d

These are the same kind of weasels who would’ve called George Washington & America’s revolutionaries “terrorists.” They spend their days sucking up to King Trump & demonizing peaceful protest just as some in America sought to appease King George III.

Looking forward to No Kings Day.

Johnson describes planned No Kings rally as ‘hate America,’ ‘pro-Hamas’ gathering

Organizers largely blew off the rhetoric, but some Democrats online criticized the tone.

www.politico.com

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

These people really don't grasp the connection between "gleefully forcing a bunch of highly educated and highly motivated people out of their jobs" and "those people now have a lot of free time and hate you even more than they did before," do they

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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José Sepúlveda @josesepulveda.bsky.social · 1d

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

My latest video for @propublica.org.

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 23h

This one is up there

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K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 1d

The original post has been deleted or I've been blocked, so my recreation of the greatest political compass of all time.

Y Axis: Good Faith / Bad Faith
X Axis: Can Read / Can't Read

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

Most "classics" are boring as fuck to a modern reader in no small part because the context of the story is not understood by them and so many of the allusions and "inside jokes" known to then-contemporary readers have been lost in time and in translation

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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