Matt Grady
@mattvt.bsky.social
retired IBM engineer, reasonably decent home cook, very sad about the <Oakland> A's, it is wonderful to be alive
will this <finally> be the thing that breaks this fever, and gets people to abandon this cult of personality?
Trump is demanding that GOP side with him over Epstein's victims, Rep Ansari tells me. She had a harrowing exchange with one victim who recounts how her mom had cancer and he exploited that.
Also note her mockery of network disclaimers on Trump. More like this, Ds:
newrepublic.com/article/2031...
Also note her mockery of network disclaimers on Trump. More like this, Ds:
newrepublic.com/article/2031...
November 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
will this <finally> be the thing that breaks this fever, and gets people to abandon this cult of personality?
pretty esoteric...but there has been much past academic work 'showing' that the 'hot hand' in sports was an illusion...but that's been debunked!
This is fascinating, can't believe I hadn't seen it before – 'it is not a fallacy to believe in the hot hand'
November 10, 2025 at 10:04 PM
pretty esoteric...but there has been much past academic work 'showing' that the 'hot hand' in sports was an illusion...but that's been debunked!
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Some thought-provoking reflections on USAID: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
November 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Some thought-provoking reflections on USAID: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
interesting analysis/predictions of what comes next...
Eight Senate Dems Caved, and Caved Too Early
With one more week, Trump would have owned far more of the responsibility for SNAP and flight cutbacks.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/10/e...
With one more week, Trump would have owned far more of the responsibility for SNAP and flight cutbacks.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/10/e...
Eight Senate Dems Caved, and Caved Too Early - emptywheel
The eight Democrats who voted for a deal to reopen government not just caved, but caved at least a week too early.
www.emptywheel.net
November 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
interesting analysis/predictions of what comes next...
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Eight Senate Dems Caved, and Caved Too Early
With one more week, Trump would have owned far more of the responsibility for SNAP and flight cutbacks.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/10/e...
With one more week, Trump would have owned far more of the responsibility for SNAP and flight cutbacks.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/10/e...
Eight Senate Dems Caved, and Caved Too Early - emptywheel
The eight Democrats who voted for a deal to reopen government not just caved, but caved at least a week too early.
www.emptywheel.net
November 10, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Eight Senate Dems Caved, and Caved Too Early
With one more week, Trump would have owned far more of the responsibility for SNAP and flight cutbacks.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/10/e...
With one more week, Trump would have owned far more of the responsibility for SNAP and flight cutbacks.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/10/e...
there are still many leaders taking action and speaking up in our country.
accusing him of weaponizing the legal system, using it to pursue political enemies while shielding allies and major donors from investigation or accountability. Read what he wrote here: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why I Am Resigning
A federal judge explains his reasoning for leaving the bench.
www.theatlantic.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
there are still many leaders taking action and speaking up in our country.
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Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."
October 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."
this of course immediately put me in mind of @nytpitchbot.bsky.social ...
October 15, 2025 at 11:36 PM
this of course immediately put me in mind of @nytpitchbot.bsky.social ...
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today seems like a things-fall-apart-the-center-cannot-hold sorta day so how about a timeline cleanse for you? this is absolutely the best thing you will watch at least this week
(via Matt Storer on IG)
(via Matt Storer on IG)
October 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
today seems like a things-fall-apart-the-center-cannot-hold sorta day so how about a timeline cleanse for you? this is absolutely the best thing you will watch at least this week
(via Matt Storer on IG)
(via Matt Storer on IG)
hope you can make time to read this...
This piece is just an essential, important and excellent intervention as Coates' Vanity Fair essay was. One NYT column isn't that important, but an accommodationist mindset has spread in center-left elite circles. And it should be rejected forcefully. democracyamericana.com/posts/c5d024...
Where Is the Line?
On Ezra Klein, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and the struggle to define the boundaries of what is acceptable in America
democracyamericana.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
hope you can make time to read this...
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The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured
September 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured
owners of ball clubs should have more responsibility to the cities the teams reside in. the A's were such a treasure in northern california, and now this. www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...
For A's fans, new city, same anger
A year after the move to West Sacramento, franchise still grapples with low attendance and outrage at owner.
www.espn.com
September 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
owners of ball clubs should have more responsibility to the cities the teams reside in. the A's were such a treasure in northern california, and now this. www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...
I'd like to suggest you read this, just so you can get to this point: "Well, the next time someone brings up a terrible anecdote about Cambodia or Vietnam, I will definitely drop the Star Wars story to show that people have two sides."
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...?
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...?
Can Liberalism Be Saved?
The legal scholar Cass Sunstein argues for a more expansive definition of an ideology under threat.
www.newyorker.com
September 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I'd like to suggest you read this, just so you can get to this point: "Well, the next time someone brings up a terrible anecdote about Cambodia or Vietnam, I will definitely drop the Star Wars story to show that people have two sides."
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...?
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...?
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September 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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@michaelharriot.bsky.social wrote this two years before George Floyd was murdered on camera by police. It seems even more appropriate now. www.theroot.com/civility-is-...
Civility is for White People
We should not speak ill of the dead.Even if the truth is unsavory, the dead deserve our condolences and respect. We must be civil. Especially if they are
www.theroot.com
September 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
@michaelharriot.bsky.social wrote this two years before George Floyd was murdered on camera by police. It seems even more appropriate now. www.theroot.com/civility-is-...
this seems to capture the moment extremely well. also, I think people should read 'black pilled' by Elle Reeve, amazing story about how she gained the trust of many in this 'extremely online' society. (gift link for the atlantic article:) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
September 13, 2025 at 11:34 AM
this seems to capture the moment extremely well. also, I think people should read 'black pilled' by Elle Reeve, amazing story about how she gained the trust of many in this 'extremely online' society. (gift link for the atlantic article:) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
agree with this, I am subscribing to wired (I have been meaning to do this!)
Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work
the entire media ecosystem is just not built or ready for events like this and far right billionaires like larry ellison buying news orgs will only make this worse
September 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM
agree with this, I am subscribing to wired (I have been meaning to do this!)
I might have to read Elle Reeve's 'Black Pilled' again.
"Many young extremists now believe in a much simpler binary: Order and chaos. And if you are spending any time at all trying to derive meaning from violent acts like this then you are, by definition, their enemy."
www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki...
www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki...
Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme
Making sense of our dark new era of extremely online political violence
www.garbageday.email
September 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I might have to read Elle Reeve's 'Black Pilled' again.
Jill Lepore really knows how to get at the heart of the matter. Long read, but well worth it. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
How Originalism Killed the Constitution
A radical legal philosophy has undermined the process of constitutional evolution.
www.theatlantic.com
September 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Jill Lepore really knows how to get at the heart of the matter. Long read, but well worth it. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
you might only have 11 more days to get fall vaccinations (esp. C-19). people who want to get this done should probably act with urgency.
September 8, 2025 at 6:52 PM
you might only have 11 more days to get fall vaccinations (esp. C-19). people who want to get this done should probably act with urgency.
prof. Bernick is correct...thank God we still have real intellectuals on top of these issues!
With all respect to Professor Dorf, this is unfair to the great game of Calvinball. Anyone who participates in Calvinball can change the rules. What SCOTUS is doing is worse.
September 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
prof. Bernick is correct...thank God we still have real intellectuals on top of these issues!
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The same woke leftists who have been arguing for decades that overpopulation is the root cause of all the planet’s ills are now apoplectic that the Trump and Netanyahu governments are taken proactive steps to address the problem.
- Bari Weiss
- Bari Weiss
September 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The same woke leftists who have been arguing for decades that overpopulation is the root cause of all the planet’s ills are now apoplectic that the Trump and Netanyahu governments are taken proactive steps to address the problem.
- Bari Weiss
- Bari Weiss
CVS has lots of slots open in Vermont. I suggest going before Sep19 (some sort of rfk jr. 'what should we recommend?' meeting is happening then, I wonder what they will say?). there's a button that needs to be clicked 'yes' when stating you have a risk condition.
We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...
How Are You Supposed To Get The COVID Vaccine Now? An Explainer | Defector
As the muggy malaise of summer winds down, you might find yourself interested in taking advantage of one of several safe and proven vaccines to help protect you from the inevitable brumal surge of res...
defector.com
September 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
CVS has lots of slots open in Vermont. I suggest going before Sep19 (some sort of rfk jr. 'what should we recommend?' meeting is happening then, I wonder what they will say?). there's a button that needs to be clicked 'yes' when stating you have a risk condition.
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We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...
How Are You Supposed To Get The COVID Vaccine Now? An Explainer | Defector
As the muggy malaise of summer winds down, you might find yourself interested in taking advantage of one of several safe and proven vaccines to help protect you from the inevitable brumal surge of res...
defector.com
September 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...