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Matt Young

@mattyoung.bsky.social

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WGA TV Writer/Producer: CW's KUNG FU; BLINDSPOT; WB TV Writers Workshop & Sundance Episodic Alum; SAG-AFTRA; board gamer; tabletop RPG player/gm/designer; semi-retired improvisor (fmr iOWest/SecondCityHwd); clawhammer banjo player; Minneapolis/LA; He/Him

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Matt Young @mattyoung.bsky.social · 8h

Got my ticket! If you're in the Twin Cities, come check this movie out!

JosephScrimshaw @josephscrimshaw.bsky.social · 8h

Two years ago today I finished writing the first draft. Now the horror movie I directed, DEAD MEDIA, is premiering in just a few days. Tix and info here: deadmediamoviempls102025.eventbrite.com

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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 8h

How many employees and staffers of this administration must be outed as Hitler Admirers before it becomes a widely accepted Problem

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Matt Young @mattyoung.bsky.social · 8h

Here's hoping they come back around again next year!

Matt Young @mattyoung.bsky.social · 9h

Heads-up, DC! Saw these guys last week and it was phenomenal.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 14h

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 1d

You can say amazing things if you know that the follow-up question will be "wow."

(Smith didn't plant anything at Mar-a-Lago because he was hired months after it was searched.)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Eric Trump: "We found out that Jack Smith was actually planting classified folders in Mar-a-Lago"

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"Look, I'm one of a handful of people that don't take corporate PAC money."

"What about AIPAC money? You take AIPAC money, don't you?"

"A minuscule percentage of my resources come from..."

"I read it's like $800,000...."

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 1d

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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Matt Young @mattyoung.bsky.social · 1d

Your work is incredible - thanks for posting!

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 2d

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Matt Young @mattyoung.bsky.social · 2d

Ennio Marconi

Matt Young @mattyoung.bsky.social · 3d

I can't get enough of that shit.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 3d

History gives us plenty of examples of disease used as a weapon. There are fewer cases of governments deliberately using disease against their own citizens. We are living (or dying) through one right now.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

www.nbcnews.com

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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 3d

46 years ago
Members of British ska groups The Selecter, Madness and The Specials on Brighton Beach at the first date of the 2 Tone Tour in October 1979.

Photo by Chalkie Davies

#punkrock #ska #thespecials #madness #theselecter #history #skahistory

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Matt Young @mattyoung.bsky.social · 3d

Disgusting and infuriating. That poor family. I can’t even imagine…

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 3d

We have to have some kind of cultural movement away from a society organized primarily around lying

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 4d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 4d

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Dak @dak.myatproto.social · 5d

🎶Whoa, Black Betty🎶

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 4d

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Matt Young @mattyoung.bsky.social · 4d

This is AI. Please remove it.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 4d

"Worked."

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 4d

They must be exhausted.

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Matt Young @mattyoung.bsky.social · 5d

a man in a suit and hat says both in a dark room

ALT: a man in a suit and hat says both in a dark room

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Matt Young @mattyoung.bsky.social · 5d

Two things about this plane trip…

1) Little Maxwell’s whole family is tired of his bullshit.

2) Lady next to me *chose* to watch Bohemian Rhapsody, then proceeds to sigh disappointedly and cover the screen with her hand any time something remotely gay happens.

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Matt Young @mattyoung.bsky.social · 6d

"Deeply un-..."

...wut?