Matthew Downhour
@matthewdownhour.bsky.social
Liberal, Montanan. Subscribe to Paine-Wollstonecraft-Douglass-George thought, Bolivar-Juarez-Nkomo-Zelenskyy praxis
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The erasure of the Heroes fandom thanks to the later seasons is so bad I saw a clickbait youtube title calling it a series "you've never seen".
Look, the show was MASSIVE (for a few months), everyone saw it and then collectively forgot it.
Look, the show was MASSIVE (for a few months), everyone saw it and then collectively forgot it.
November 27, 2025 at 3:26 AM
The erasure of the Heroes fandom thanks to the later seasons is so bad I saw a clickbait youtube title calling it a series "you've never seen".
Look, the show was MASSIVE (for a few months), everyone saw it and then collectively forgot it.
Look, the show was MASSIVE (for a few months), everyone saw it and then collectively forgot it.
Okay to be 100% honest I am holding on to my cracked old phone specifically to avoid contributing to the economy
*real patriots* smash their phone and tv every sunday.
If a phone still works fine, it’s not “device hoarding” to keep using it. It’s common sense.
November 27, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Okay to be 100% honest I am holding on to my cracked old phone specifically to avoid contributing to the economy
Horrific
Firefighters battled a blaze at a Hong Kong high-rise apartment complex for the second day on Thursday, as the death toll rose to 94 in one of the deadliest blazes in the city’s modern history.
Fire that killed at least 44 burns in Hong Kong towers for a second day
Firefighters are battling one of Hong Kong’s deadliest modern blazes for a second day, fighting to control the fire that blackened several high-rise towers and killed at least 44 people.
bit.ly
November 27, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Horrific
Ukraine actually made an effort at maintaining a multi ethnic state but we saw where that got them
November 27, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Ukraine actually made an effort at maintaining a multi ethnic state but we saw where that got them
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Branko is at it again (highly derogatory)
November 27, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Branko is at it again (highly derogatory)
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For the joy of way to many acas on love with “dekkkommunity” 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤣🤣🤣
AI-enabled NIMBYism has come to clean energy deployment. Virtually all the examples mentioned in this piece are wind, solar and transmission projects. 💡🔌
How Scottish campaigners are using AI to battle rural planning applications
Tool allows individuals to send unique, complex objections of about 4,000 words within a couple of minutes
www.ft.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM
For the joy of way to many acas on love with “dekkkommunity” 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤣🤣🤣
If there was a better time to be in the U.S. than now, 2006 has to be close to that time right? With the exception probably of trans acceptance?
Was 2006 not the best time?
November 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
If there was a better time to be in the U.S. than now, 2006 has to be close to that time right? With the exception probably of trans acceptance?
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Ok grandpa let’s take you to the hague
November 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Ok grandpa let’s take you to the hague
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thinking of her today
November 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
thinking of her today
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a cancer nurse in a state I've never been to told messaged me and said that reading out Rice Truck aloud as it happened was the only day in her entire 14 year career on chemo ward that nobody cried and it's probably the best compliment I will ever get in my life
What is the best compliment you ever received? Putting aside whether or not you believed it.
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
a cancer nurse in a state I've never been to told messaged me and said that reading out Rice Truck aloud as it happened was the only day in her entire 14 year career on chemo ward that nobody cried and it's probably the best compliment I will ever get in my life
I wonder if any reactionary nationalists in history have ever ruined some undesirable group so monumentally with inhumane border and visa policies that one of they group lashed out in violent frustration, and then used that violence to provoke pogroms against that same group
November 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I wonder if any reactionary nationalists in history have ever ruined some undesirable group so monumentally with inhumane border and visa policies that one of they group lashed out in violent frustration, and then used that violence to provoke pogroms against that same group
“What’s the optimal number of bread loaves to ship to your town each year?” “That’s an absurd question—I have no idea. Let the market figure it out.”
“What’s the optimal number of foreign workers to immigrate to the U.K. each year?” “Less than 205,000”
to paraphrase @chrisfreiman.bsky.social
“What’s the optimal number of foreign workers to immigrate to the U.K. each year?” “Less than 205,000”
to paraphrase @chrisfreiman.bsky.social
PM describes net migration of 205k as "a step in the right direction". His govt has no public position on a sustainable level of immigration is, nor any known process to decide what, why & how. Starmer is now implying he wants it significantly lower
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
Net migration drop ‘step in the right direction’ – Starmer
Net migration peaked at a record 944,000 in the year to March 2023 but has fallen sharply since then.
www.standard.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
“What’s the optimal number of bread loaves to ship to your town each year?” “That’s an absurd question—I have no idea. Let the market figure it out.”
“What’s the optimal number of foreign workers to immigrate to the U.K. each year?” “Less than 205,000”
to paraphrase @chrisfreiman.bsky.social
“What’s the optimal number of foreign workers to immigrate to the U.K. each year?” “Less than 205,000”
to paraphrase @chrisfreiman.bsky.social
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He characterise an 80% drop as a "step in the right direction"
PM describes net migration of 205k as "a step in the right direction". His govt has no public position on a sustainable level of immigration is, nor any known process to decide what, why & how. Starmer is now implying he wants it significantly lower
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
Net migration drop ‘step in the right direction’ – Starmer
Net migration peaked at a record 944,000 in the year to March 2023 but has fallen sharply since then.
www.standard.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
He characterise an 80% drop as a "step in the right direction"
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Even where Donald Trump has not consolidated his control, supposedly liberal media have been utterly inept at opposing him. We must do better and do more: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
November 27, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Even where Donald Trump has not consolidated his control, supposedly liberal media have been utterly inept at opposing him. We must do better and do more: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
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We are over $120,000 counting all contributions to Liberal Currents since the start of our drive on Monday. Let's have a good holiday weekend.
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November 27, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Thank you @whstancil.bsky.social for your kind words of support.
We are over $120,000 counting all contributions to Liberal Currents since the start of our drive on Monday. Let's have a good holiday weekend.
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We are over $120,000 counting all contributions to Liberal Currents since the start of our drive on Monday. Let's have a good holiday weekend.
Link to the page where you can donate: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
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The comparison is instructive in the sense that, like Palestine-Israel, Trump has no interest in addressing difficult problems and regards US interests as foremost coextensive with his own interest to claim victory (however hollow and fragile) and lobby for a Nobel Prize
November 27, 2025 at 6:59 AM
The comparison is instructive in the sense that, like Palestine-Israel, Trump has no interest in addressing difficult problems and regards US interests as foremost coextensive with his own interest to claim victory (however hollow and fragile) and lobby for a Nobel Prize
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I think plenty of it speaks to the state of the media, but an obvious one is that Vox and Vanity Fair barely investigated her and that she managed to commit an unforgivable journalistic crime before getting a book deal and walking into another prestige job, while plenty of others are being laid off
you know, what if they aren't actually a commentary on journalism or the state of media. what if these people are just extremely weird
November 27, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I think plenty of it speaks to the state of the media, but an obvious one is that Vox and Vanity Fair barely investigated her and that she managed to commit an unforgivable journalistic crime before getting a book deal and walking into another prestige job, while plenty of others are being laid off
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Tapping the sign that says
“middle class people felt richer in the 50s & 60s because their houses and cars were smaller and many expensive medical treatments were undiscovered leaving them with a greater % discretionary income”
but the font is too small to read
“middle class people felt richer in the 50s & 60s because their houses and cars were smaller and many expensive medical treatments were undiscovered leaving them with a greater % discretionary income”
but the font is too small to read
November 25, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Tapping the sign that says
“middle class people felt richer in the 50s & 60s because their houses and cars were smaller and many expensive medical treatments were undiscovered leaving them with a greater % discretionary income”
but the font is too small to read
“middle class people felt richer in the 50s & 60s because their houses and cars were smaller and many expensive medical treatments were undiscovered leaving them with a greater % discretionary income”
but the font is too small to read
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The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
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It's not just that the United States has stopped trying to promote liberal democratic ideas internationally. It's that the United States is actively trying to promote the contrary. It's trying to turn more countries into Hungary.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
U.S. to Press Europe and Other Allies on ‘Mass Migration,’ Document Says
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:06 AM
It's not just that the United States has stopped trying to promote liberal democratic ideas internationally. It's that the United States is actively trying to promote the contrary. It's trying to turn more countries into Hungary.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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Yes exactly.
They were sent there to intimidate the population
In a country full of guns it’s almost inevitable that some unstable person will take that intimidation personally and do something extremely rash about it
They were sent there to intimidate the population
In a country full of guns it’s almost inevitable that some unstable person will take that intimidation personally and do something extremely rash about it
November 26, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Yes exactly.
They were sent there to intimidate the population
In a country full of guns it’s almost inevitable that some unstable person will take that intimidation personally and do something extremely rash about it
They were sent there to intimidate the population
In a country full of guns it’s almost inevitable that some unstable person will take that intimidation personally and do something extremely rash about it
However, an attempt laser focus on affordability almost won the notably uncharismatic Polliviere the Prime Ministership if not for the meddling toddler to his south
Also, when you say people saying "Dems would win everywhere with a Mamdani-style platform," I think it's important to remember that that platform delivered the most charismatic candidate in recent history a whopping 50.4% of the vote against a street vigilante and actual vampire, in New York City
November 26, 2025 at 11:36 PM
However, an attempt laser focus on affordability almost won the notably uncharismatic Polliviere the Prime Ministership if not for the meddling toddler to his south
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As Liberal Currents works to raise money for its Startup Fund - a few of my articles I'm most proud of over the past...several years. A thread: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
Donate to The Liberal Currents Startup Fund, organized by Adam Gurri
To fight fascism we need opposition media with a backbone. Liberal Currents is that. Help… Adam Gurri needs your support for The Liberal Currents Startup Fund
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November 26, 2025 at 5:02 AM
As Liberal Currents works to raise money for its Startup Fund - a few of my articles I'm most proud of over the past...several years. A thread: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
Like the 2020 protests-turned-uprisings, at the end of the day people don’t like chaos and default to Mandate of Heaven causality
I don't think this shooting will "play into Trump's hands" fwiw
November 26, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Like the 2020 protests-turned-uprisings, at the end of the day people don’t like chaos and default to Mandate of Heaven causality