Matthew Rothenberg
@mmrothenberg.bsky.social
Content ‘n’ such.
“[W]hat you get is a piece making the various more or less bovine noises of studious grey-lady impartiality, with the labor of anything resembling “appraisal” surgically excised.” *chef’s kiss*
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
“[W]hat you get is a piece making the various more or less bovine noises of studious grey-lady impartiality, with the labor of anything resembling “appraisal” surgically excised.” *chef’s kiss*
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lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Suitable for framing!
November 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Suitable for framing!
TL;DR To succeed, Mayor Mamdani should abandon all his goals and govern more like Cuomo or Bloomberg. 🍑🤡🤡🤡
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...
Opinion | How Mayor Mamdani Can Write New York’s Next Chapter
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
TL;DR To succeed, Mayor Mamdani should abandon all his goals and govern more like Cuomo or Bloomberg. 🍑🤡🤡🤡
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...
… Cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you’re born,
You’re never gonna see no exododus! 😞
You’re never gonna see no exododus! 😞
November 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
… Cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you’re born,
You’re never gonna see no exododus! 😞
You’re never gonna see no exododus! 😞
Two dopey ideas I hope to hear less of:
1. Zohran Mamdani’s goals for NYC are impossible.
2. He’ll fail completely if he doesn’t manage to implement 100% absolutely everything on his list.
MAGA set big goals and are achieving many of them. How about we non-fascists try that? (Omitting the evil.)
1. Zohran Mamdani’s goals for NYC are impossible.
2. He’ll fail completely if he doesn’t manage to implement 100% absolutely everything on his list.
MAGA set big goals and are achieving many of them. How about we non-fascists try that? (Omitting the evil.)
November 3, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Two dopey ideas I hope to hear less of:
1. Zohran Mamdani’s goals for NYC are impossible.
2. He’ll fail completely if he doesn’t manage to implement 100% absolutely everything on his list.
MAGA set big goals and are achieving many of them. How about we non-fascists try that? (Omitting the evil.)
1. Zohran Mamdani’s goals for NYC are impossible.
2. He’ll fail completely if he doesn’t manage to implement 100% absolutely everything on his list.
MAGA set big goals and are achieving many of them. How about we non-fascists try that? (Omitting the evil.)
What if the Dems were to seize back control of executive and legislative branches in 2028? (SCOTUS will be MAGA for a generation.)
I fear the extent of their pushback would be moves like improving the plumbing in the concentration camps and bodycams for ICE.
I fear the extent of their pushback would be moves like improving the plumbing in the concentration camps and bodycams for ICE.
October 30, 2025 at 6:33 PM
What if the Dems were to seize back control of executive and legislative branches in 2028? (SCOTUS will be MAGA for a generation.)
I fear the extent of their pushback would be moves like improving the plumbing in the concentration camps and bodycams for ICE.
I fear the extent of their pushback would be moves like improving the plumbing in the concentration camps and bodycams for ICE.
This is a nice little counterpoint to all the right-wing insurgencies pretty much everywhere else! 😬
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Centrist D66 party will win most seats in Dutch election, exit poll suggests
Result would pave the way for the Netherlands’ first out gay prime minister and end far-right populist Geert Wilders’ time in power
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:43 PM
This is a nice little counterpoint to all the right-wing insurgencies pretty much everywhere else! 😬
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
If you put a Zionist frame on the Trump administrations acts against immigrants and POC in general, you arrive at the question, “Does the U.S. have the right to exist as a white Christian state?”
And your response to that IMO should inform your response to Israel.
And your response to that IMO should inform your response to Israel.
October 27, 2025 at 11:23 AM
If you put a Zionist frame on the Trump administrations acts against immigrants and POC in general, you arrive at the question, “Does the U.S. have the right to exist as a white Christian state?”
And your response to that IMO should inform your response to Israel.
And your response to that IMO should inform your response to Israel.
Remember when @lizzobeeating.bsky.social played James Madison’s Crystal flute and Republicans lost their minds? What happened to all that historical agita? 🤔
October 23, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Remember when @lizzobeeating.bsky.social played James Madison’s Crystal flute and Republicans lost their minds? What happened to all that historical agita? 🤔
All those people who got upset about the removal of Confederate monuments seem kinda quiet about the destruction of the East Wing! 😳
October 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
All those people who got upset about the removal of Confederate monuments seem kinda quiet about the destruction of the East Wing! 😳
RE No Kings demonstrations: To paraphrase Chris Rock, I haven't seen white people this mad since they cancelled M*A*S*H!
So far, all the photos I’m finding from places like Atlanta and Baltimore are super-Caucasian … Is it a question of coverage or a real thing?
So far, all the photos I’m finding from places like Atlanta and Baltimore are super-Caucasian … Is it a question of coverage or a real thing?
October 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
RE No Kings demonstrations: To paraphrase Chris Rock, I haven't seen white people this mad since they cancelled M*A*S*H!
So far, all the photos I’m finding from places like Atlanta and Baltimore are super-Caucasian … Is it a question of coverage or a real thing?
So far, all the photos I’m finding from places like Atlanta and Baltimore are super-Caucasian … Is it a question of coverage or a real thing?
Reposted by Matthew Rothenberg
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
Is there any organized knowledge-sharing afoot about effective tactics to subvert and thwart the invasions of US cities? I’d love to learn about innovative practices that can scale.
October 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Is there any organized knowledge-sharing afoot about effective tactics to subvert and thwart the invasions of US cities? I’d love to learn about innovative practices that can scale.
Reposted by Matthew Rothenberg
Please watch her final words to us all. They are beautiful and have given me a grounding sort of hope. Maybe they’ll help you too.
Bless Dr. Jane Goodall’s Final Message To Humanity
In which she tells us who she'd launch into space.
www.thegodpodcast.com
October 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Please watch her final words to us all. They are beautiful and have given me a grounding sort of hope. Maybe they’ll help you too.
Comedian Tim Dillon said on his podcast last month that he signed up for financial reasons. … He told his detractors to ‘get over it, ‘ adding, ‘So what if they have slaves, they're paying me enough to look the other way.’ “
all these guys like "well see there was money involved..." my personal favorite is the coward who blames his wife for him taking the gig
maybe I am just old-fashioned but didn't people used to have principles?
www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...
maybe I am just old-fashioned but didn't people used to have principles?
www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...
Marc Maron, Human Rights Watch and others slam Saudi comedy festival
The participation of big name funnymen, including Dave Chappelle, Aziz Ansari and Kevin Hart, provoked criticism from fellow comedians and human rights groups.
www.npr.org
September 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Comedian Tim Dillon said on his podcast last month that he signed up for financial reasons. … He told his detractors to ‘get over it, ‘ adding, ‘So what if they have slaves, they're paying me enough to look the other way.’ “
Holy smokes! “Exurban reactionary swinger” totally nails it! 🍍
The whole exurban reactionary swinger takeover of the GOP is wild
I suspect we are, probably for our own mental health, underestimating the degree to which the Trump administration is dominated by the worst swingers imaginable
September 23, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Holy smokes! “Exurban reactionary swinger” totally nails it! 🍍
Right? Even if I could stomach any position he took, he was a podcaster who argued with college kids. 🙄🙄🙄
September 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Right? Even if I could stomach any position he took, he was a podcaster who argued with college kids. 🙄🙄🙄
RE claims that these aren’t First Amendment issues because corporations are doing the censoring and censuring: Threats from the administration are the definition of government censorship.
September 21, 2025 at 9:03 PM
RE claims that these aren’t First Amendment issues because corporations are doing the censoring and censuring: Threats from the administration are the definition of government censorship.
Gift article: I’m so glad I ditched WaPo. (I really need to do the same with the NYT.) 🤢
Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...
Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...
Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting
www.nytimes.com
September 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Gift article: I’m so glad I ditched WaPo. (I really need to do the same with the NYT.) 🤢
Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...
Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...
Reposted by Matthew Rothenberg
The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.
September 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.
Turns out I’m not the only one who made this connection.
It’s also interesting that Klein mentions the reichstag fire because what’s going on feels a lot more like the canonizing response to the murder of Horst Wessel, a response that Klein is now participating in with this reprehensible piece.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_W...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_W...
Horst Wessel - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
September 12, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Turns out I’m not the only one who made this connection.