Matthew Federman
@matthewfederman.bsky.social
TV/Screenwriter. Co-Creator/EP of Blood and Treasure. Wrote on Limitless, Warehouse 13, Jericho, other stuff.
Post about writing, the industry, neurodiversity (PDA Autism) and other stuff at my website: www.matthewfederman.com
Post about writing, the industry, neurodiversity (PDA Autism) and other stuff at my website: www.matthewfederman.com
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Check Out Those Pupils — Matthew Federman
I am far from a perfect father and have no interest in being a Dadfluencer but every now and then I stumble on something and think: this might be helpful for other parents in my situation, and—you gue...
www.matthewfederman.com
Take a break from the chaos of the world for the chaos of parenting. New post on my blog about how I've learned to see my kid's meltdowns coming and (sometimes) avoid them. www.matthewfederman.com/pda-blog/pda...
How is this not fraud?
Lol a candidate for the Texas Railroad Commission solicited a bunch of money through ActBlue by pretending she was a Democrat, and then on Monday she filed for the office as a Republican www.chron.com/politics/art...
Texas candidate branded 'lying grifting fraudster' after party flip
"Switching from Democrat to Republican is not a decision you make on a whim."
www.chron.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
How is this not fraud?
Somewhere in Hollywood an exec is talking themselves into why 6-7 could make a great movie.
December 10, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Somewhere in Hollywood an exec is talking themselves into why 6-7 could make a great movie.
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Trump is a great president the way the Great Depression was a great depression
December 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Trump is a great president the way the Great Depression was a great depression
Thank God that the library system was created at a time when we believed in some version of a communal good because you’d never be able to build it today.
“As prices for streaming subscriptions continue to soar and finding movies to watch, new and old, is becoming harder as the number of streaming services continues to grow, people are turning to the unexpected last stronghold of physical media: the public library.”
The Last Video Rental Store Is Your Public Library
Audio-visual librarians are quietly amassing large physical media collections amid the IP disputes threatening select availability.
www.404media.co
December 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Thank God that the library system was created at a time when we believed in some version of a communal good because you’d never be able to build it today.
The hilarious proposition that if this administration actually had the proof they would have the impulse control to hold onto it for that long and wouldn’t be posting it as they read it.
Trump: "It was a rigged election. It's gonna come out over the next couple months too, loud and clear. Because we have all the information."
December 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The hilarious proposition that if this administration actually had the proof they would have the impulse control to hold onto it for that long and wouldn’t be posting it as they read it.
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we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
December 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
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"Now that I've hit everyone with ruinous taxes, I'll dole some of it back out to my political supporters as welfare payments."
Trump: "I'm delighted to announce this afternoon that the US will be taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars we receive in tariffs ... and we're going to be giving and providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. We love our farmers. The farmers like me ... $12 billion"
December 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
"Now that I've hit everyone with ruinous taxes, I'll dole some of it back out to my political supporters as welfare payments."
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Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.
December 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.
Jews are always in an Alien vs. Predator situation.
Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson are tearing the Republican Party apart.
Democrats can look at that and see it as a cause for celebration.
The problem is that American Jews — and Jews all over the world — are the ones who will pay the price.
Democrats can look at that and see it as a cause for celebration.
The problem is that American Jews — and Jews all over the world — are the ones who will pay the price.
December 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Jews are always in an Alien vs. Predator situation.
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This is how my local paper in the swing state of Nevada covered it: Huge picture, AP story with nary a hint that this was weird or corrupt.
As low as Trump’s approval ratings are, they’d be much lower if he didn’t have the help of large swaths of the media
As low as Trump’s approval ratings are, they’d be much lower if he didn’t have the help of large swaths of the media
December 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This is how my local paper in the swing state of Nevada covered it: Huge picture, AP story with nary a hint that this was weird or corrupt.
As low as Trump’s approval ratings are, they’d be much lower if he didn’t have the help of large swaths of the media
As low as Trump’s approval ratings are, they’d be much lower if he didn’t have the help of large swaths of the media
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The hepatitis B vaccine had been recommended for all newborns since 1991.
From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...
From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...
Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The hepatitis B vaccine had been recommended for all newborns since 1991.
From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...
From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
I don’t get Tarantino’s drive-by on Paul Dano, crazy level of vitriol and totally unprofessional. That said… the fact that Dano played two characters in that movie was a such an odd choice and threw me off in my first viewing. Finding out that it wasn’t planned that way was kind of a relief.
December 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM
I don’t get Tarantino’s drive-by on Paul Dano, crazy level of vitriol and totally unprofessional. That said… the fact that Dano played two characters in that movie was a such an odd choice and threw me off in my first viewing. Finding out that it wasn’t planned that way was kind of a relief.
It has come to my attention that some people don’t know you can make your Venmo transactions private which is the only acceptable excuse for why they are public.
December 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
It has come to my attention that some people don’t know you can make your Venmo transactions private which is the only acceptable excuse for why they are public.
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So far, in less than one year, Donald Trump has issued over TEN TIMES as many pardons as he did in his entire four-year first term. That’s a lot of criminals released onto our streets.
December 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
So far, in less than one year, Donald Trump has issued over TEN TIMES as many pardons as he did in his entire four-year first term. That’s a lot of criminals released onto our streets.
Things you don't want to hear from your kid in another room:
"Oh, I did something real stupid. And I regret it."
"Oh, I did something real stupid. And I regret it."
December 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Things you don't want to hear from your kid in another room:
"Oh, I did something real stupid. And I regret it."
"Oh, I did something real stupid. And I regret it."
Nuzzi joins the Right Wing mediasphere in 3...2...
1/“Some at the company initially downplayed Lizza’s depictions of Nuzzi’s relationship with politician Mark Sanford as Washington inside baseball that wouldn’t make much of a dent on the West Coast, where she would be starting work. “
Im sorry WHAT??? www.semafor.com/article/11/3...
Im sorry WHAT??? www.semafor.com/article/11/3...
Exclusive: Vanity Fair expected to let Olivia Nuzzi’s contract lapse, insiders say
Just weeks after Vanity Fair published an excerpt of Olivia Nuzzi’s book, it’s increasingly unlikely she’ll be a fixture on its print masthead.
www.semafor.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Nuzzi joins the Right Wing mediasphere in 3...2...
I keep re-discovering by accident that if you leave an item in a cart and then forget about it, you'll often get an email giving you some extra percent off to buy it. It took nearly 50 years, but finally my tendency to procrastinate bears fruit.
December 1, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I keep re-discovering by accident that if you leave an item in a cart and then forget about it, you'll often get an email giving you some extra percent off to buy it. It took nearly 50 years, but finally my tendency to procrastinate bears fruit.
He’ll release them with his taxes, and his health plan, and the Epstein files, and
December 1, 2025 at 5:42 AM
He’ll release them with his taxes, and his health plan, and the Epstein files, and
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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
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When Howard Dean was the Democratic frontrunner for President, he was disqualified, by the media, for yelling "Yeah!" once.
At some point we just have to admit that mainstream media sources are biased.
At some point we just have to admit that mainstream media sources are biased.
Remember in 2000 when Al Gore was repeatedly misquoted as having said he invented the internet and that was seen the eyes of many as disqualifying him from office? Simpler times. Today, Trump makes up lies equivalent to "I invented the internet" 30 times a week and no one bats an eye. Good job media
November 30, 2025 at 4:53 AM
When Howard Dean was the Democratic frontrunner for President, he was disqualified, by the media, for yelling "Yeah!" once.
At some point we just have to admit that mainstream media sources are biased.
At some point we just have to admit that mainstream media sources are biased.
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Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce"
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce
Artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, across finance, health care and professional services, according to MIT's study.
www.cnbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce"
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
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"oh, don't forget to highlight, in bright red, the two-letter word in the tagline! the two letter word that's kind of the whole point of this clever ad campaign! the two letter word that links this show to the horror movie of the same name!"
"no problem boss. i'm on it"
"no problem boss. i'm on it"
November 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
"oh, don't forget to highlight, in bright red, the two-letter word in the tagline! the two letter word that's kind of the whole point of this clever ad campaign! the two letter word that links this show to the horror movie of the same name!"
"no problem boss. i'm on it"
"no problem boss. i'm on it"
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Years ago, my colleagues at Business Insider and I tracked YouTuber “cancellation” arcs. What we found is that for many entertainers, “cancellation” actually sets the stage for a redemption arc, one that can raise their profile higher than ever. It wasn’t career-ending. It was fuel.
November 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Years ago, my colleagues at Business Insider and I tracked YouTuber “cancellation” arcs. What we found is that for many entertainers, “cancellation” actually sets the stage for a redemption arc, one that can raise their profile higher than ever. It wasn’t career-ending. It was fuel.
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In April 2025, Fiona Havers of the CDC reported on the impact of COVID on children in 2024.
She found that thousands of children were hospitalized.
Of those hospitalized, about 1 in 5 were admitted to the intensive care unit.
All were unvaccinated.
Half were previously healthy.
She found that thousands of children were hospitalized.
Of those hospitalized, about 1 in 5 were admitted to the intensive care unit.
All were unvaccinated.
Half were previously healthy.
Why the American Academy of Pediatrics is diverging from CDC vaccine guidelines
The American Academy of Pediatrics released new COVID vaccination guidelines, and for the first time, they diverge significantly from the recommendations from the CDC. The changes leave parents with c...
www.pbs.org
November 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
In April 2025, Fiona Havers of the CDC reported on the impact of COVID on children in 2024.
She found that thousands of children were hospitalized.
Of those hospitalized, about 1 in 5 were admitted to the intensive care unit.
All were unvaccinated.
Half were previously healthy.
She found that thousands of children were hospitalized.
Of those hospitalized, about 1 in 5 were admitted to the intensive care unit.
All were unvaccinated.
Half were previously healthy.