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Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 4h

Let me know if you need a coauthor

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Urban Land Rent🚰 @handle.invalid · 6h

SCOTUS wouldn’t let Biden forgive student loans lmao

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 7h

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

nyti.ms

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Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 5h

There is no bong in the world big enough to reasonably birth this take

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Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 15h

多谢🙏

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Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 1d

Trick question it's always Donald Trump

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Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 1d

好好学习赫格塞斯部长“吸酒瓶为核心”领导力思想

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

zeteo.com

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?

Is it...requesting content moderation?

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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Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 3d

Have spent almost two years teaching myself CAD and 3d printing in spare moments just to design and make this one thing and now the thing is almost made. Just a tremendous waste of time and I could not love this hobby more.

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Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 3d

Not exactly a hot take but I am firmly of the opinion no two people have ever been hotter in a movie than him and Maggie Cheung in ItMFL. Cannot even imagine what seeing him in that would do to the Shang Chi latecomers.

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Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 3d

I know I know😂 just wasn't expecting the babyface. Even in Chungking Express a couple years later he looks like the grown up Tony I'm used to

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Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 4d

Pizzer berns?

Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 4d

Wat

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Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 4d

Truly

Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 4d

That right there is quality

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Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 4d

Watching Hard Boiled for the first time, somehow did not know Tony Leung is in this and holy cow does he look young

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Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 4d

Have been turning more to history as of late to find hopeful lights to shine on the present. This piece is filled with excellent, inspirational examples speaking to that precise question.

Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 4d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o... I'm unreasonably pleased that the end of this fantastic piece provides a NYT shortlist of opinion pieces on "reclaiming the constitution" that includes my own. There's something in the air that both pick up on.

Opinion | The Constitution Doesn’t Belong to Trump or the Supreme Court

www.nytimes.com

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Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 5d

One would think they would but it seems they do not!

Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 6d

This was definitely worth breaking Google search to push on people

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Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 6d

Ok you got me

Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 6d

没看懂

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Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 6d

This would be like writing the U.S.'s National Defense University is "associated" with the Department of Defense, except that NDU doesn't go to elaborate and hilarious lengths to disguise its relationship to gullible foreigners.

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Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 6d

Today's niche China field gripe: It's the year of our lord 2025 and I'm still seeing purportedly serious China analysts write that CICIR is "associated" with the MSS, as if there is somehow something unclear about the relationship. CICIR *is* the MSS. It's literally an MSS bureau.

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Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 7d

Some impressive, careful work here by Devin Thorne of Recorded Future (whom I wish was on bsky so I could tag him). www.recordedfuture.com/research/bie...

BIETA: A Technology Enablement Front for China's MSS

Discover how China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) almost certainly operates BIETA and its subsidiary CIII as public fronts for cyber-espionage, covert communications, and technology acquisition. C...

www.recordedfuture.com

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Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 9d

Know I'm preaching to the choir saying this to the author of Our Towns, but also more stories about local and state-level officials enacting policies that *work*

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Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 11d

It's not the best, and no one's ever going to agree with me, but No Line on the Horizon might be the most interesting thing U2 have done post their Achtung/Zooropa trip to outer space

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