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Matt Shipman (he/him)

@shiplives.bsky.social

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Writer. Comms person. Mostly sci/tech/health. Sometimes music/food/culture. Lifelong Eagles fan from the South. (We exist!) Let’s make the South better, y’all. Stuff I write for fun here: https://medium.com/@shiplives

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Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · Feb 18

Was recently thinking about a sort of hierarchy of needs that speaks to this moment.

1) Survive. Nothing happens without this.

2) Hope. Believe in a better future.

3) Plan. What can I do to help make that future a reality (even a small thing)?

4) Act. Put your plan in motion.

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WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 4h

my 87yo Republican mother in law is taking it to the streets, for the first time in her life, with her friends at the retirement home on Saturday and that's why we will win

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 10h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Accidentally published placeholder lede.

Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 11h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

I'm today's main character

bsky.app/profile/kevi...

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 1d

I cleaned gutters today, folks.
So I can confirm that it is definitely the season for spooky tunes.

Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 9d

Happy Friday.

Listen to some spooky music.

open.spotify.com/playlist/2lS...

Ship's Halloween Playlist

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Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 1d

WTF? This dude is a sociopath.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2d

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2d

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 2d

Onion bagel (salt, garlic, poppyseed , or everything also okay - but onion is my favorite), toasted. Lox, red onion. That’s it.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

Like, I think our society has given way too much political power to guys whose worldview is reshaped by political invitations to dine with the King of England and have no idea about what is happening in American cities.

Mr. Benioff is close enough to Mr. Trump to have been invited last month to a state dinner that was hosted by King Charles for the president at Windsor Castle in England. Mr. Benioff said that he was incredibly honored to be seated directly across the table from Mr. Trump and spent the dinner telling him “how grateful I am for everything he’s doing,” he recounted.

Mr. Benioff, who also owns Time magazine, said he had not closely followed the news about the immigration raids, Mr. Trump’s call to gerrymander congressional districts before the midterm elections, the government shutdown or the Trump administration’s attacks on the media. He said Time, which named Mr. Trump its “Person of the Year” last year, had faced no pressure from the White House.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

These guys have gotten incredibly rich by fleecing the government with subpar tech that was designed for rentseeking rather than performance. A smart Dem agenda item would be to build internal tech capacity. The fact that it would punish these guys is just a silver lining.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 2d

Being a billionaire must really fuck with your mind. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 2d

In 2020, Trump put footage of vandalism and violence in Portland and elsewhere on repeat in his social media and campaign ads. This time, despite similar rhetoric about the city, he isn’t. And I bet you can guess why. www.pbump.net/o/the-presid...

The president’s pretend enemy

There is no crisis of unrest in Portland, Oregon. One way I know this to be true is that President Trump — who is insistent that Portland faces just such a crisis — doesn't offer any evidence of it. A...

www.pbump.net

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Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 2d

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha....

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/aaa...

“AAAGGGHHH!!!” A Memo from Animal, Your New Editor-in-Chief

“[Editor-in-chief of CBS News] Bari Weiss told network staffers in a morning editorial call that she wants to ‘win’ before delivering a rallying cr...

www.mcsweeneys.net

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 2d

Outrageous -- and apparently in blatant violation of yesterday's ruling protecting protesters and journalists from this kind of shit. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/w...

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2d

Farm bankruptcies are back in the news, so it's time to pull this chart out again.

Hey look they kept rising during Trump's first term. Then they went way down under Biden.

Now they're up again? So weird. Thanks Farm Bureau for the graphic

Screenshot from Farm Bureau article on farm bankruptcies. It shows farm bankruptcies climbing steadily 2014-2020, falling by half in 2021, & continuing to fall through 2023.

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Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 2d

sigh

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 3d

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Syreeta McFadden @reetamac.bsky.social · 2d

This.

John Knefel @johnknefel.bsky.social · 2d

Giving the Nobel Peace Prize to someone who is begging Trump to start a war of choice with her Latin American country, but doing it with a little swipe at Trump -- that's the excellence I'd expect from a body that bestowed the same award on Kissinger

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Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 3d

I haven’t read it. Is it a good read?

Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 3d

No offense to Bob and Bruce! But Johnny Cash was just an exceptionally cool human, even by music legend standards.

Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 3d

Johnny Cash.

Member of the Million Dollar Quartet and the Highwaymen?

The Man in Black?

Recorded his most famous album in a MFing prison?

The man who truly did not give a f**k what other people thought?

You thought he was “deeply uncool” compared to Bob Dylan? And you admitted that out loud?

bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 3d

wtaf are you talking about

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

practically a requirement for this administration to be a sex pest

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 3d

I almost never outline a story before I start writing, at least with any detail. The moment you’re talking about always hits me when the outline pops up out of my subconscious. It’s a relief *and* it’s daunting. So…dauntlief?

Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 3d

Oh no! Hope he is okay.

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Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like less predictable playcalling could make a huge difference on offense. Defense seems like a personnel issue; no pass rush gives opponents plenty of time to pick on soft spots in the secondary. No clue how to fix that this season.

Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 3d

Oof. From bad to worse.

Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 3d

The Eagles better get their sh** together in a hurry, or this will be the most humiliating loss in a loooong time. Good grief. A comedy of errors.

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