@mattschmer.bsky.social
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"But I've also heard, in my inbox, from people who want to kill immigrants and protestors and anyone who opposes Donald Trump, who enjoy seeing them gunned down on TV, and who go to megachurches where they preach that empathy is a sin. And these people have families, too, as well as lots of money."
New CBS News anchor Tony Dokoupil closing the broadcast from MN last night.
January 27, 2026 at 9:29 PM
"But I've also heard, in my inbox, from people who want to kill immigrants and protestors and anyone who opposes Donald Trump, who enjoy seeing them gunned down on TV, and who go to megachurches where they preach that empathy is a sin. And these people have families, too, as well as lots of money."
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when you lose Kole Calhoun
not even the baseball player just any dude named Kole Calhoun
not even the baseball player just any dude named Kole Calhoun
Former MLB OF Kole Calhoun speaks out. “What this administration is doing is blatantly racist…I’ve been silent because that is easy. I don’t care what side you’re on or who you voted for, this is wrong… Wake up! Speak out!”
January 26, 2026 at 7:49 PM
when you lose Kole Calhoun
not even the baseball player just any dude named Kole Calhoun
not even the baseball player just any dude named Kole Calhoun
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it's amazing to watch the We Are The Storm guys paralyzed in terror of the density and sophistication of spontaneous neighborhood watches put together by pissed-off baristas and suburban moms
January 26, 2026 at 7:36 PM
it's amazing to watch the We Are The Storm guys paralyzed in terror of the density and sophistication of spontaneous neighborhood watches put together by pissed-off baristas and suburban moms
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When ICE comes to your town, you're on your own. No one is coming to help. That is very clear from everything we've seen, but the people of Minneapolis have demonstrated how local support networks and community solidarity can peacefully resist the injustice and occupation.
January 26, 2026 at 5:26 PM
When ICE comes to your town, you're on your own. No one is coming to help. That is very clear from everything we've seen, but the people of Minneapolis have demonstrated how local support networks and community solidarity can peacefully resist the injustice and occupation.
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There's another way to look at this. ICE is doing everything the military manual tells you not to do to civilian populations because it creates insurgencies where none existed before.
January 26, 2026 at 5:12 PM
There's another way to look at this. ICE is doing everything the military manual tells you not to do to civilian populations because it creates insurgencies where none existed before.
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if the TikTok acquisition by weird technofascist zealots follows the usual trajectory they'll spend much of this year insisting nothing has changed to avoid mass defection, only for everyone to steadily find that's a lie as the algorithm increasingly marginalizes or censors opposition voices
January 26, 2026 at 5:21 PM
if the TikTok acquisition by weird technofascist zealots follows the usual trajectory they'll spend much of this year insisting nothing has changed to avoid mass defection, only for everyone to steadily find that's a lie as the algorithm increasingly marginalizes or censors opposition voices
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The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
January 26, 2026 at 4:17 PM
The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
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it is probably because they are responding to their earlier errors by taking positive action now, which helps defend their neighbors, rather than by retroactive reputation management in the Atlantic, which does not
January 26, 2026 at 1:48 PM
it is probably because they are responding to their earlier errors by taking positive action now, which helps defend their neighbors, rather than by retroactive reputation management in the Atlantic, which does not
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always liked this piece from Randy arguing that after the end of the Cold War, they pivoted "military Keynesianism" to "penal Keynesianism"
www.jstor.org/stable/40722...
www.jstor.org/stable/40722...
January 26, 2026 at 2:32 PM
always liked this piece from Randy arguing that after the end of the Cold War, they pivoted "military Keynesianism" to "penal Keynesianism"
www.jstor.org/stable/40722...
www.jstor.org/stable/40722...
The democrats handed conservatives the ability to suppress news on one of the biggest media platforms going right now. Just great work.
UPDATE: TIKTOK IS COOKED. Our videos went from tens of thousands to 0.
(seemingly a direct result of Trump & Bibi’s friends taking over)
(seemingly a direct result of Trump & Bibi’s friends taking over)
January 26, 2026 at 2:42 PM
The democrats handed conservatives the ability to suppress news on one of the biggest media platforms going right now. Just great work.
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It was kind of a tossed-off gag in a blog last week but the ICE/CBP forces in Minnesota really are an expansion team made up of the most readily available players in a depressingly glutted violence worker marketplace. Not even quad-A types. Independent league guys with well-known makeup issues.
Federal officers just came in and cleared the protest with tear gas. One officer asked press why we didn’t call 911 when the protesters were destroying the hotel and told us that we are bad Americans. Full video to come on @statuscoupnews.bsky.social
January 26, 2026 at 6:17 AM
It was kind of a tossed-off gag in a blog last week but the ICE/CBP forces in Minnesota really are an expansion team made up of the most readily available players in a depressingly glutted violence worker marketplace. Not even quad-A types. Independent league guys with well-known makeup issues.
When he’s right, he’s right.
You don’t have to love everything outlets like the Times or Atlantic do to understand that:
-many talented people of good faith work for most mainstream outlets
-their platforms are vastly larger than ours
Our resistance will die in secrecy or win by rallying the world to our side
-many talented people of good faith work for most mainstream outlets
-their platforms are vastly larger than ours
Our resistance will die in secrecy or win by rallying the world to our side
January 26, 2026 at 12:47 PM
When he’s right, he’s right.
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What these goons don't seem to realize is that decades of neoliberal policies have forced the work of care downstream--from the state onto families, and then onto women, who've had to get very good at caring for others through the crises that those same neoliberal policies tend to create.
I mostly just stay off Twitter altogether but after double checking that the Walter Hudson post was still up I ran across this and just had to share so the Romancelandians who bought hand warmers could hear about the PROFESSIONAL GRADE LOGISTICS.
January 26, 2026 at 12:09 PM
What these goons don't seem to realize is that decades of neoliberal policies have forced the work of care downstream--from the state onto families, and then onto women, who've had to get very good at caring for others through the crises that those same neoliberal policies tend to create.
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'This is exactly what tyranny looks like, by the way. Not jackboots marching in formation, but armed agents roaming neighborhoods, stopping people, killing civilians, and then daring the public to question it. Tyranny is execution followed by a press release.'
January 25, 2026 at 9:22 PM
'This is exactly what tyranny looks like, by the way. Not jackboots marching in formation, but armed agents roaming neighborhoods, stopping people, killing civilians, and then daring the public to question it. Tyranny is execution followed by a press release.'
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the entire difference between kyle rittenhouse and alex pretti is that kyle rittenhouse was there to shoot people the cops wanted to shoot and alex pretti was there to protect people the cops wanted to shoot
January 25, 2026 at 3:58 PM
the entire difference between kyle rittenhouse and alex pretti is that kyle rittenhouse was there to shoot people the cops wanted to shoot and alex pretti was there to protect people the cops wanted to shoot
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Mr Rogers told us to look for the helpers.
And ICE is killing them…
And ICE is killing them…
A nurse. A researcher. A helper.
January 24, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Mr Rogers told us to look for the helpers.
And ICE is killing them…
And ICE is killing them…
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This guy is so right wing coded that Zach Levi played him in a movie. Welcome to the team Kurt
THEY LOST KURT WARNER???????????????????????? JESUS FUCKING CHRIST
MOREOVER, ICE MUST BE DESTROYED
MOREOVER, ICE MUST BE DESTROYED
January 24, 2026 at 9:59 PM
This guy is so right wing coded that Zach Levi played him in a movie. Welcome to the team Kurt
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I was waiting tables graveyard shift at Waffle House in college and 10 minutes before my shift started we found out the cook had been arrested. Manager tells me I have to cook and bounces. I have no idea what the hell those poor people ate that night.
I wanna hear about the worst and/or funniest times you’ve fucked up at work
January 24, 2026 at 9:56 PM
I was waiting tables graveyard shift at Waffle House in college and 10 minutes before my shift started we found out the cook had been arrested. Manager tells me I have to cook and bounces. I have no idea what the hell those poor people ate that night.
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They shot an unarmed mother in the face in front of her wife then called her a “fucking bitch”.
They kidnapped a five year old and used them as bait.
They deported a two year old despite a judge’s orders.
They maced, pistol whipped, and disarmed a nurse legally carrying then shot him nine times.
They kidnapped a five year old and used them as bait.
They deported a two year old despite a judge’s orders.
They maced, pistol whipped, and disarmed a nurse legally carrying then shot him nine times.
January 24, 2026 at 7:42 PM
They shot an unarmed mother in the face in front of her wife then called her a “fucking bitch”.
They kidnapped a five year old and used them as bait.
They deported a two year old despite a judge’s orders.
They maced, pistol whipped, and disarmed a nurse legally carrying then shot him nine times.
They kidnapped a five year old and used them as bait.
They deported a two year old despite a judge’s orders.
They maced, pistol whipped, and disarmed a nurse legally carrying then shot him nine times.
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I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street
Minneapolis police chief Brian O'Hara says that the victim was a 37-year-old white man and US citizen with no criminal record and that he was a legally permitted gun owner.
January 24, 2026 at 6:29 PM
I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street
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So I always like to go "What would have happened had a Marine done this in Afghanistan" and it's so obvious in this case as to make the exercise moot.
January 24, 2026 at 6:37 PM
So I always like to go "What would have happened had a Marine done this in Afghanistan" and it's so obvious in this case as to make the exercise moot.
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We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.
January 24, 2026 at 6:02 PM
We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.
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Is the penguin wearing shoes, or does Donald Trump have penguin feet?
January 24, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Is the penguin wearing shoes, or does Donald Trump have penguin feet?
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A child should not suffer or be doomed to painful death because a parent is wilfully stupid or obstinate or loves Trump. And this isn't even about spreading to others. Children are not property. A parent treating them as such is why we're here now.
January 23, 2026 at 8:08 PM
A child should not suffer or be doomed to painful death because a parent is wilfully stupid or obstinate or loves Trump. And this isn't even about spreading to others. Children are not property. A parent treating them as such is why we're here now.