Matteo S.
@matteosmaldone.bsky.social
Graphic designer. Political scientist. Anti-fascist. The Bay. 🚩🏴🇺🇸🇮🇹
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BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 12:31 AM
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
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A new report details the grim and often violent conditions endured by people the Trump administration has deported to El Salvador.
Deep Dive: The US Sent Migrants to 'Hell' in El Salvador
A new report details the harrowing and dangerous conditions migrants endure after the Trump administration deported them.
inkstickmedia.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:38 AM
A new report details the grim and often violent conditions endured by people the Trump administration has deported to El Salvador.
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put those national guardsmen down as the final two casualties of afghanistan, assassinated by their own country with a bullet that took nine years to fly home
November 29, 2025 at 4:19 AM
put those national guardsmen down as the final two casualties of afghanistan, assassinated by their own country with a bullet that took nine years to fly home
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The Librarian’s Call: Documenting Is Resistance
History is protected by those who collect, preserve, and share the facts. 📚
Lots of banger quotes in this @commondreams.org article by Rodney Freeman Jr. about how library and archives workers collect and preserve materials, including zines.
History is protected by those who collect, preserve, and share the facts. 📚
Lots of banger quotes in this @commondreams.org article by Rodney Freeman Jr. about how library and archives workers collect and preserve materials, including zines.
The Librarian’s Call: Documenting Is Resistance | Common Dreams
History is protected by those who collect, preserve, and share the facts.
www.commondreams.org
November 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
The Librarian’s Call: Documenting Is Resistance
History is protected by those who collect, preserve, and share the facts. 📚
Lots of banger quotes in this @commondreams.org article by Rodney Freeman Jr. about how library and archives workers collect and preserve materials, including zines.
History is protected by those who collect, preserve, and share the facts. 📚
Lots of banger quotes in this @commondreams.org article by Rodney Freeman Jr. about how library and archives workers collect and preserve materials, including zines.
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A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
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h/t @adamwren.bsky.social
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
November 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
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Wow. If this were a war, it'd be crystal clear war crime. Without a war, it's just an astonishing case of murder.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Wow. If this were a war, it'd be crystal clear war crime. Without a war, it's just an astonishing case of murder.
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I think the White House press corps as an institution is fundamentally broken and is causing harm to democracy.
And don't even get me started about the Saudi journalist who censored all mentions of Jamal Khashoggi's assassination from her morning foreign pool report of Trump's meeting with MBS
And don't even get me started about the Saudi journalist who censored all mentions of Jamal Khashoggi's assassination from her morning foreign pool report of Trump's meeting with MBS
At what point will the press corps, as a chorus, in unison, just shout back, “THATS NOT TRUE”!
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I think the White House press corps as an institution is fundamentally broken and is causing harm to democracy.
And don't even get me started about the Saudi journalist who censored all mentions of Jamal Khashoggi's assassination from her morning foreign pool report of Trump's meeting with MBS
And don't even get me started about the Saudi journalist who censored all mentions of Jamal Khashoggi's assassination from her morning foreign pool report of Trump's meeting with MBS
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POLITICO: “Israeli soldiers on Thursday appeared to kill a pair of Palestinian men in the occupied West Bank after they had surrendered to troops, drawing Palestinian accusations that the men were executed “in cold blood.”“ www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 27, 2025 at 11:56 PM
POLITICO: “Israeli soldiers on Thursday appeared to kill a pair of Palestinian men in the occupied West Bank after they had surrendered to troops, drawing Palestinian accusations that the men were executed “in cold blood.”“ www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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Just learned there are companies offering rental communities the ability to split their monthly rent payments via third party.
Biggest recession indicator yet.
Biggest recession indicator yet.
November 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Just learned there are companies offering rental communities the ability to split their monthly rent payments via third party.
Biggest recession indicator yet.
Biggest recession indicator yet.
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This is the light from a cop cars sitting with its lights on under the Green St bridge to make sure no one on the street sleeps there
Coming across a wide intersection and several dozen feet into our bedroom
None of this is okay
Coming across a wide intersection and several dozen feet into our bedroom
None of this is okay
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 AM
This is the light from a cop cars sitting with its lights on under the Green St bridge to make sure no one on the street sleeps there
Coming across a wide intersection and several dozen feet into our bedroom
None of this is okay
Coming across a wide intersection and several dozen feet into our bedroom
None of this is okay
She chose to be an agent of fascism, she had no business being in the city of DC. She made her choice and the fascist politicians that sent her there should be held accountable.
Trump announced that U.S. Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom of Summersville, West Virginia, one of the National Guardsmen attacked yesterday in Washington, D.C., has just passed away.
November 28, 2025 at 1:43 AM
She chose to be an agent of fascism, she had no business being in the city of DC. She made her choice and the fascist politicians that sent her there should be held accountable.
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“COP has proven ineffective, exclusionary and hostile towards the people it should centre,” one grassroots leader from the Global South tells @timsmedley.bsky.social.
It’s time for COP’s next chapter
The UN climate conference must evolve to meet the challenges ahead
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 10:13 AM
“COP has proven ineffective, exclusionary and hostile towards the people it should centre,” one grassroots leader from the Global South tells @timsmedley.bsky.social.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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MGT has seen her networth jump from $700k to $25 million since joining Congress in 2021. And she served juuust long enough to get a lifetime tax payer-funded pension.
She got the joke.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
She got the joke.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Marjorie Taylor Greene Came So Close to Getting the Joke
What the Georgia representative learned in Washington
www.theatlantic.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
MGT has seen her networth jump from $700k to $25 million since joining Congress in 2021. And she served juuust long enough to get a lifetime tax payer-funded pension.
She got the joke.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
She got the joke.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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The folks at @afghanevac.bsky.social have in hand a new USCIS directive which largely targets Afghan refugees who fled the Taliban in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal in 2021.
In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM
The folks at @afghanevac.bsky.social have in hand a new USCIS directive which largely targets Afghan refugees who fled the Taliban in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal in 2021.
In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
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No idea why an Afghan refugee shot National Guard soldiers within walking distance of the White House, but this new USCIS directive was revealed on Monday. Worth noting.
The folks at @afghanevac.bsky.social have in hand a new USCIS directive which largely targets Afghan refugees who fled the Taliban in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal in 2021.
In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
November 27, 2025 at 5:19 AM
No idea why an Afghan refugee shot National Guard soldiers within walking distance of the White House, but this new USCIS directive was revealed on Monday. Worth noting.
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spraying someone point blank with pepper spray is apparently what the St Paul Police Federation calls the "absolute minimum force necessary"
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November 27, 2025 at 10:34 AM
spraying someone point blank with pepper spray is apparently what the St Paul Police Federation calls the "absolute minimum force necessary"
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A legal expert slammed prosecutors in Georgia on Wednesday after they moved to dismiss a long-standing case against President Donald Trump because it would take too long to prosecute.
'Perversion of justice': Legal expert slams prosecutor for handing Trump an easy court win
A legal expert slammed prosecutors in Georgia on Wednesday after they moved to dismiss a long-standing case against President Donald Trump because it would take too long to prosecute. Prosecutors in Georgia charged Trump with crimes under the state's RICO statutes for his attempts to interfere in th...
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November 27, 2025 at 10:40 AM
A legal expert slammed prosecutors in Georgia on Wednesday after they moved to dismiss a long-standing case against President Donald Trump because it would take too long to prosecute.
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If you want to see how quickly everyone goes into manufacturing consent mode, compare the full-court press tonight to the response to any of the people ICE has shot in the last few months, some of whom died.
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
If you want to see how quickly everyone goes into manufacturing consent mode, compare the full-court press tonight to the response to any of the people ICE has shot in the last few months, some of whom died.
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big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts
No more PJM data centers unless they can be reliably served: market monitor
The PJM Interconnection’s market monitor urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to rule that large data centers can only come online if the grid operator can still meet reliability metrics.
www.utilitydive.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
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Gupta: It’s clear that there’s age-related cognitive decline.
He’s confused a lot. He sometimes mumbles sort of incoherent nonsense when he’s asked a question in the Oval Office.
Clearly they’re not getting MRIs just because, because that’s the moment that we live in. There’s a reason
He’s confused a lot. He sometimes mumbles sort of incoherent nonsense when he’s asked a question in the Oval Office.
Clearly they’re not getting MRIs just because, because that’s the moment that we live in. There’s a reason
November 26, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Gupta: It’s clear that there’s age-related cognitive decline.
He’s confused a lot. He sometimes mumbles sort of incoherent nonsense when he’s asked a question in the Oval Office.
Clearly they’re not getting MRIs just because, because that’s the moment that we live in. There’s a reason
He’s confused a lot. He sometimes mumbles sort of incoherent nonsense when he’s asked a question in the Oval Office.
Clearly they’re not getting MRIs just because, because that’s the moment that we live in. There’s a reason