Matt Schneider
@chottomatto.bsky.social
anthropology @ ucla // researching climate change, finance, thermal power, sewage, & birds in UK and Japan // he/him
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Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.
November 5, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.
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Okay, yes, humanity did not enact the single best possible outcome in response to the single worst problem we have ever faced as a species
In no way was it wrong to try, and in no way is it wrong to continue trying to jam a wrench in the greedy fossil fuel economy. Everything is still on the table
In no way was it wrong to try, and in no way is it wrong to continue trying to jam a wrench in the greedy fossil fuel economy. Everything is still on the table
World ‘very likely’ to exceed 1.5C climate goal in next decade: UN
Despite Paris Agreement pledges, countries 'have landed off target' on climate goals multiple times, the UN warns.
www.aljazeera.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Okay, yes, humanity did not enact the single best possible outcome in response to the single worst problem we have ever faced as a species
In no way was it wrong to try, and in no way is it wrong to continue trying to jam a wrench in the greedy fossil fuel economy. Everything is still on the table
In no way was it wrong to try, and in no way is it wrong to continue trying to jam a wrench in the greedy fossil fuel economy. Everything is still on the table
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Even as attention has turned to other cities, masked men continue to snatch people off the streets of LA. It is a heavy, evil thing to live with.
DAILY MEMO: Feds Rip Through Election Day, Taking At Least 25, Including Elderly, a Toddler, and Her U.S. Citizen Father
🧵 2 parts
🧵 2 parts
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Even as attention has turned to other cities, masked men continue to snatch people off the streets of LA. It is a heavy, evil thing to live with.
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I really believe that if you tell people the truth and say it with passion and without compromise, they will be receptive. Not everyone, but more than you’d think. It’s the same way I feel about teaching. Don’t act like people are stupid and incurious.
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I really believe that if you tell people the truth and say it with passion and without compromise, they will be receptive. Not everyone, but more than you’d think. It’s the same way I feel about teaching. Don’t act like people are stupid and incurious.
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Israel is piling crime on top of crime on top of crime.
No wonder it is determined to bring down the entire edifice of international humanitarian law - it's the only hope of protecting itself from consequences.
Btw: the allegations are significantly worse than bedbugs.
No wonder it is determined to bring down the entire edifice of international humanitarian law - it's the only hope of protecting itself from consequences.
Btw: the allegations are significantly worse than bedbugs.
Greta Thunberg says she is being detained by Israel in cell ‘infested with bedbugs’
Greta Thunberg says she is being detained by Israel in cell ‘infested with bedbugs’
Exclusive: Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water
Environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg has told Swedish officials she is being subjected to harsh treatment in Israeli custody after her detention and removal from a flotilla carrying aid to Gaza, according to correspondence seen by the Guardian.
According to the correspondence, Israeli forces are also reported by another detainee to have taken photographs where Thunberg was allegedly forced to hold flags. The identity of the flags are unknown. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Israel is piling crime on top of crime on top of crime.
No wonder it is determined to bring down the entire edifice of international humanitarian law - it's the only hope of protecting itself from consequences.
Btw: the allegations are significantly worse than bedbugs.
No wonder it is determined to bring down the entire edifice of international humanitarian law - it's the only hope of protecting itself from consequences.
Btw: the allegations are significantly worse than bedbugs.
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important for us in the US to note: even a solidly right wing government can't ignore this.
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
bit.ly
October 4, 2025 at 1:07 PM
important for us in the US to note: even a solidly right wing government can't ignore this.
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I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America
October 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America
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Making war crimes great again
Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."
September 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Making war crimes great again
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what Pritzker is doing would be unexceptional if he wasn't the only one with a leadership role consistently doing it! like yes, the bar is low, but barely anyone is clearing it
Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"
September 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
what Pritzker is doing would be unexceptional if he wasn't the only one with a leadership role consistently doing it! like yes, the bar is low, but barely anyone is clearing it
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Kamala Harris’s election memoir shows just how deluded the Democrats still are | Nesrine Malik
Kamala Harris’s election memoir shows just how deluded the Democrats still are | Nesrine Malik
This unapologetic trawl through a doomed campaign reveals a celebrity-obsessed party high on its own supply. It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so tragic, says columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
September 29, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Kamala Harris’s election memoir shows just how deluded the Democrats still are | Nesrine Malik
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Keep your eye on this. A decade ago, Debt Collective launched a student debt strike. Mainstream media scoffed and laughed. Then billions got canceled. We’re repeating that playbook with back rent debt: strike, shift moral culpability, target bad actors, change consumer protection law for the better.
A small group of former Equity Residential tenants is launching a first-of-its-kind back rent debt strike that will go public in early October. The campaign's broader strategy is to challenge what organizers see as systematic abuse of renters.
Tenants say it’s time for landlords to cancel back rent debt
Tenants are going on strike against their landlords.
www.vox.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Keep your eye on this. A decade ago, Debt Collective launched a student debt strike. Mainstream media scoffed and laughed. Then billions got canceled. We’re repeating that playbook with back rent debt: strike, shift moral culpability, target bad actors, change consumer protection law for the better.
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It is a tribute to our dysfunctional information environment that right-wingers can basically commit 99% of the domestic terrorism, for *decades*, and that simple fact never penetrates to the public. They pay zero political price.
After showing his guns emblazoned with racial slurs, far-right slogans, Minneapolis shooting suspect displayed a message "Hail Breivik. Hail Brenton."
Neo-Nazi Anders Breivik killed 77 in Norway in 2011. Brenton Tarrant killed 51 in shootings at 2 mosques in New Zealand in 2019.
Neo-Nazi Anders Breivik killed 77 in Norway in 2011. Brenton Tarrant killed 51 in shootings at 2 mosques in New Zealand in 2019.
August 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
It is a tribute to our dysfunctional information environment that right-wingers can basically commit 99% of the domestic terrorism, for *decades*, and that simple fact never penetrates to the public. They pay zero political price.
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We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.
August 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.
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The greatest advantage of Trumpists is that can say whatever they want (no matter how false, racist, inconsistent, or nonsensical) and suffer absolutely no consequences. You don't have to understand any issues or reality - you just make up shit and sound confident about it.
JD Vance: "As we've kicked illegal aliens out of our country, you actually see housing costs start to level off."
August 21, 2025 at 4:39 AM
The greatest advantage of Trumpists is that can say whatever they want (no matter how false, racist, inconsistent, or nonsensical) and suffer absolutely no consequences. You don't have to understand any issues or reality - you just make up shit and sound confident about it.
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This is such an insane statistic that it's hard to understand. 40% of what is shipped is fossil fuels -- not 40% of things are shipped *by* fossil fuels. 40% of *what is being carried* is the fossil fuels themselves.
We ship 11 billion tonnes of stuff around the world and 40% of that is fossil fuels.
Baltimore shipping channel reopened after explosion on cargo ship near site of 2024 bridge collapse
Authorities are investigating the cause of an explosion aboard a cargo ship that was leaving the Port of Baltimore when it issued a mayday call.
apnews.com
August 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This is such an insane statistic that it's hard to understand. 40% of what is shipped is fossil fuels -- not 40% of things are shipped *by* fossil fuels. 40% of *what is being carried* is the fossil fuels themselves.
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Last week, ICE arrested a six-year-old Queens public school student at her family's scheduled check-in. This morning, she was deported along with her mother. One of her siblings remains in detention.
The cruelty of this federal administration knows no bounds.
The cruelty of this federal administration knows no bounds.
6-Year-Old NYC Elementary School Student and Her Mom Deported
The mother's 19-year-old son remains in ICE custody in New Jersey, while her distraught teenage minor is now in the care of her 21-year-old brother.
www.thecity.nyc
August 19, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Last week, ICE arrested a six-year-old Queens public school student at her family's scheduled check-in. This morning, she was deported along with her mother. One of her siblings remains in detention.
The cruelty of this federal administration knows no bounds.
The cruelty of this federal administration knows no bounds.
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An unprecedented opportunity for the next Congress to not just restore these programs but to dramatically expand funding for higher education.
2 bits of data from new Economist/YouGov poll.....
13% support for cutting research funding to universities. 24% among Republicans. Polling on this continues to be catastrophic for the Rs, suggests Dems should be learning far harder into standing up for science and our universities. 1/
13% support for cutting research funding to universities. 24% among Republicans. Polling on this continues to be catastrophic for the Rs, suggests Dems should be learning far harder into standing up for science and our universities. 1/
August 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
An unprecedented opportunity for the next Congress to not just restore these programs but to dramatically expand funding for higher education.
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It bears repeating: choosing to double down and accelerate our burning of fossil fuels will kill off a substantial proportion of humanity
That is something we want to avoid - and can choose to avoid
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
That is something we want to avoid - and can choose to avoid
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A climate of unparalleled malevolence’: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction?
The long read: Churning quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at the rate we are going could lead the planet to another Great Dying
www.theguardian.com
August 19, 2025 at 8:50 AM
It bears repeating: choosing to double down and accelerate our burning of fossil fuels will kill off a substantial proportion of humanity
That is something we want to avoid - and can choose to avoid
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
That is something we want to avoid - and can choose to avoid
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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She can say this because she's an Irish citizen living in Ireland.
Say it in the UK and you could face 14 years in prison. Crazy.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Say it in the UK and you could face 14 years in prison. Crazy.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sally Rooney says she will support Palestine Action despite ban
The Irish novelist says
www.bbc.co.uk
August 18, 2025 at 12:36 PM
She can say this because she's an Irish citizen living in Ireland.
Say it in the UK and you could face 14 years in prison. Crazy.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Say it in the UK and you could face 14 years in prison. Crazy.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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This is a plan for an American gulag archipelago, its second-ever system of domestic concentration camps.
The black sites of the Bush administration have finally truly come home
The black sites of the Bush administration have finally truly come home
Exclusive: An internal planning road map obtained by The Post shows the strategy behind ICE’s breakneck expansion, a chaotic effort that has already triggered lawsuits and accusations of cruelty. wapo.st/41FWkck
August 18, 2025 at 11:52 AM
This is a plan for an American gulag archipelago, its second-ever system of domestic concentration camps.
The black sites of the Bush administration have finally truly come home
The black sites of the Bush administration have finally truly come home
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Successive UK govts have expected the City of London to revive the economy. This faith is misplaced.
In 2024, £25.3bn new shares issued on the London Stock Exchange
£92.1bn paid in dividends
£57.1bn paid in share buybacks.
Companies sweat assets, leads to low productivity.
Yet no govt reforms.
In 2024, £25.3bn new shares issued on the London Stock Exchange
£92.1bn paid in dividends
£57.1bn paid in share buybacks.
Companies sweat assets, leads to low productivity.
Yet no govt reforms.
Our state has become a guarantor of corporate profits
Equitable distribution of income and wealth would go a long way towards stimulating domestic demand and investment...
leftfootforward.org
August 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Successive UK govts have expected the City of London to revive the economy. This faith is misplaced.
In 2024, £25.3bn new shares issued on the London Stock Exchange
£92.1bn paid in dividends
£57.1bn paid in share buybacks.
Companies sweat assets, leads to low productivity.
Yet no govt reforms.
In 2024, £25.3bn new shares issued on the London Stock Exchange
£92.1bn paid in dividends
£57.1bn paid in share buybacks.
Companies sweat assets, leads to low productivity.
Yet no govt reforms.
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pretty good barometer of a state's soul when nearly 1 in 5 kids grows up in poverty while one local oligarch can make more than $2 billion in just the last few months
Ohio’s poverty rate was 13.2% in 2023 and the state’s child poverty rate was 17.5%, according to a new report. Ohio’s poverty rate in 2023 was the 15th highest in the country and has been consistently higher than the national average since 2007. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/08/18/o...
Ohio’s poverty rate ranked 15th highest in nation in 2023, according to new report • Ohio Capital Journal
Ohio’s poverty rate was 13.2% in 2023 and the state’s child poverty rate was 17.5%, according to the latest report from the Ohio Association of Community Action Agencies.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
August 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
pretty good barometer of a state's soul when nearly 1 in 5 kids grows up in poverty while one local oligarch can make more than $2 billion in just the last few months
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📣 New post and article on Scientists and Emergency Action 📣
🥼 On the many ways we can take action... and why we're powerful when we do: abiperrin.com/p/scientists...
💬 On how we can support the movements that drive transformation, via @theconversation.com: theconversation.com/how-scientis...
🥼 On the many ways we can take action... and why we're powerful when we do: abiperrin.com/p/scientists...
💬 On how we can support the movements that drive transformation, via @theconversation.com: theconversation.com/how-scientis...
August 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
📣 New post and article on Scientists and Emergency Action 📣
🥼 On the many ways we can take action... and why we're powerful when we do: abiperrin.com/p/scientists...
💬 On how we can support the movements that drive transformation, via @theconversation.com: theconversation.com/how-scientis...
🥼 On the many ways we can take action... and why we're powerful when we do: abiperrin.com/p/scientists...
💬 On how we can support the movements that drive transformation, via @theconversation.com: theconversation.com/how-scientis...
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The right wing in this country and their allies in academic administration are unilaterally destroying what it takes to maintain a free people.
A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.
August 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The right wing in this country and their allies in academic administration are unilaterally destroying what it takes to maintain a free people.