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Matt Bodie
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A party that could not be sure of its hold on the past had to be nervous about its future.

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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 1d
First shot: sugarcane

The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times

Still used to make rum of course!
A musician playing a guitar in sugarcane that is somehow in the middle of a football field

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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 1d
omg on cue

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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 1d
Daniel Craig

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d
You should read this. It is the type of detail that experts in authoritarian regimes see as telling.
In this case, state agents are offered impunity from higher ups, and the legal system is rendered inoperative as a mode of accountability.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.
www.nytimes.com

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Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social · 2d
Things have not improved. The government won't comply with court orders. Agents are behaving more aggressively. Schools are offering remote learning into April. The tapering of national media coverage has emboldened DHS.

www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d
Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines
During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.
futurism.com

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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 4d
An excellent deep dive into one such instance by U Amsterdam Prof Ashley Mears

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 4d
the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 5d
🥶

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 5d
again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are

his net worth is $253.2 billion.
so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire
and then do it again tomorrow
and again the day after that
and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 5d
The hometown newspaper that I read as a teenager through Watergate and Vietnam and made me crave the life of a reporter is now being butchered by a billionaire who had $75 million to bribe and flatter a president and his wife but nothing to save journalism, an bulwark of the republic itself. Got it.

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Rebecca Hollander-Blumoff @rhollblum.bsky.social · 5d
Old: “Go on home, get a nice hot bath. Rest up...Then get your asses back in gear. Nothing's riding on this except the, uh, first amendment to the Constitution, freedom of the press, and maybe the future of the country.”

New: “Go on home…Nothing’s riding on this.”

RIP WaPo

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All the President's Men (1976) - Ending Scene
YouTube video by White Chaddar
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Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · 6d
Baby Bao ate his very first shrimp and absolutely crushed it. 🦐 Watching him figure it out is even cuter! 💙

📹: Animal care staff Katie

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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 8d
“You might say that this film is documenting this administration’s efforts to give birth to a nation, no?”

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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 8d
“So who’s to say, really?”

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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 8d
The “aw” kills me.

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 8d
In the last 48 hours, Musk's reactions to the Epstein release show exactly why he bought Twitter.

He's used the platform to call coverage of his emails with Epstein as "lies," elevated his fans who have defended him, and gotten positive reinforcement from his AI chatbot.

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Noah VanDowe @vandowe.bsky.social · 10d
For a week, right-wing media have baselessly smeared Alex Pretti as a "domestic terrorist" and "race traitor" who tried to "commit a mass murder" of DHS agents

New from me and @isabellasherk.bsky.social for @mmfa.bsky.social

www.mediamatters.org/immigration/...
The right-wing media figures who have justified Alex Pretti's killing by Trump’s DHS
Following the January 24 killing of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis, many right-wing media figures jumped to blame Pretti for his own death and spread false information about his ac...
www.mediamatters.org

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 10d
KKR's bill came due at S&S, I see. Oof.
More Job Cuts at S&S
After confirming on Monday that the publisher had made limited reductions to its staff, Simon & Schuster made another round of layoffs later in the week. More than a dozen jobs have been cut, mostly o...
www.publishersweekly.com

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National Labor Relations Board Union @nlrbu.bsky.social · 10d
We, the employees of the NLRB, are calling on members of Congress to reject the Senate’s proposed funding deal unless it includes meaningful reforms for ICE and CBP’s operations.

Our Union has never endorsed a government shutdown before. But we believe we have no other choice.

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Daniel Silliman @danielsilliman.bsky.social · 11d
A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor.

ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12d
HUGE news! This is about a Trump admin effort to arrest thousands of screened and vetted refugees in Minnesota and fly them to Texas to be jailed and then interrogated.

After the interrogation is over, people are being dumped on the street and told to find their own way back.
NY Times headline and photo + caption They Had Done Everything Right? ICE Detained Them Anyway. Dozens of refugees with valid status have been sent from Minnesota to Texas to be revetted, prompting a lawsuit. Those released have had to pay their way back. Underneath is a photo of DHS officer with a kiss and a gun getting out of a car. The caption reads as follows: “More than 100 refugees with no criminal record from about a dozen countries have been detained in Minnesota by agents in recent weeks.”

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 13d
Best read (if at all) after refreshing one's recollection about the rants in his interview with Isaac Chotiner www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
Q: You wrote last week, “In the United States, if the total death toll increases at about the same rate, the current 67 deaths should translate into about 500 deaths at the end.” We are currently at eight hundred deaths—over eight hundred deaths. [This was true when we spoke; the number is now over two thousand.] A: First of all, let me just say I wrote an amendment to that, the thing I regret most in that whole paper. But I was not so much interested in explaining why my number was right. I was interested in explaining why the other projections were wrong. Q: And you’re not an epidemiologist, correct? A: No, I’m trained in all of these things. I’ve done a lot of work in these particular areas. And one of the things that is most annoying about this debate is you see all sorts of people putting up expertise on these subjects, but they won’t let anybody question their particular judgment. One of the things you get as a lawyer is a skill of cross-examination. I spent an enormous amount of time over my career teaching medical people about some of this stuff, and their great strengths are procedures and diagnoses in the cases. Their great weakness is understanding general-equilibrium theory. Q: I’m not saying anything of the sort. A: Admit to it. You’re saying I’m a crackpot. Q: I’m not saying anything of the— A: Well, what am I then? I’m an amateur? You’re the great scholar on this? Q: No, no. I’m not a great scholar on this. A: Tell me what you think about the quality of the work! Q; O.K. I’m going to tell you. I think the fact that I am not a great scholar on this and I’m able to find these flaws or these holes in what you wrote is a sign that maybe you should’ve thought harder before writing it. A: What it shows is that you are a complete intellectual amateur. Period. Q: O.K. Can I ask you one more question? A: You just don’t know anything about anything. You’re a journalist. Would you like to compare your résumé to mine? Q: No, actually, I would not. A: Then good. Then maybe what you want to do is to say, “Gee, I’m not quite sure that this is right. I’m going to check with somebody else.” But, you want to come at me hard, I am going to come back harder at you. And then if I can’t jam my fingers down your throat, then I am not worth it. But you have basically gone over the line. If you want to ask questions, ask questions. I put forward a model. But a little bit of respect. Q: O.K. Let me ask you this question. All my questions are asked with respect. A: That’s not the way I hear it.

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Penguin Press @penguinpress.bsky.social · 13d
The #1 New York Times bestseller The Sirens’ Call is now in paperback! Chris Hayes masterfully explores how our focus has been commodified & manipulated, urging us to reclaim control over our lives & future. The Sirens’ Call is the big-picture vision we urgently need to offer clarity & guidance.

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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 15d
People keep referencing Rittenhouse, but he is only one salient example of many. I was at a gun control march in 2018 and there was a guy with an AR-15 (not law enforcement) just smiling as people went by.

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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 15d
Thanks for posting. This question is particularly salient for Minnesota folks.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 15d
For "One First," I wrote about DOJ's unprecedented attempt to secretly strong-arm a widely respected district judge in the Cities Church protest case—and why everyone, especially other federal judges, should read Chief Judge Schiltz's two letters in response:

www.stevevladeck.com/p/205-chief-...
205. Chief Judge Schiltz and the Department of Justice
Every federal judge (and justice) should read the two letters from Chief Judge Patrick Schiltz in the church protest case—and what they tell us about the Department of Justice's litigation behavior.
www.stevevladeck.com

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 16d
Never forget
Tech leaders at Trump inauguration in front row