Matt
@oscillation.bsky.social
Bicycle nerd, former auditor, tax accounting weirdo, Antifa
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So I have the cover story in next month's TNR.
I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.
They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.
They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here
With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.
newrepublic.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
So I have the cover story in next month's TNR.
I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.
They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.
They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
Mean girl and Instacart ex-CEO, Fidji Simo, is now CEO of Applications at OpenAI.
In collaboration w/ @groundwork.bsky.social & @moreperfectunion.bsky.social, we convened hundreds of volunteers from across the country to investigate Instacart’s AI-assisted pricing experiments at popular grocery stores like Target & Kroger. Read our full investigation below:
Instacart’s AI-Enabled Pricing Experiments May Be Inflating Your Grocery Bill, CR and Groundwork Collaborative Investigation Finds - Consumer Reports
Exclusive: Instacart’s AI pricing may be inflating your grocery bill.
www.consumerreports.org
December 24, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Mean girl and Instacart ex-CEO, Fidji Simo, is now CEO of Applications at OpenAI.
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I don’t wish cancer on anyone, but let’s not start with the Ben Sasse hagiographies. He was terrible senator and an even worse university president, ripping off the taxpayers for millions of dollars while hiding behind piety.
December 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I don’t wish cancer on anyone, but let’s not start with the Ben Sasse hagiographies. He was terrible senator and an even worse university president, ripping off the taxpayers for millions of dollars while hiding behind piety.
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Coke admitted they had to generate 70,000 video clips for their latest Christmas slopvertising
BY MY CALCS:
- 4x the CO2 impact of a normal ad project
- 1 day of 2-5 medium hospitals
- 1 month of 250 households
- 44 years of continuous Netflix viewing
futurism.com/artificial-i...
BY MY CALCS:
- 4x the CO2 impact of a normal ad project
- 1 day of 2-5 medium hospitals
- 1 month of 250 households
- 44 years of continuous Netflix viewing
futurism.com/artificial-i...
December 17, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Coke admitted they had to generate 70,000 video clips for their latest Christmas slopvertising
BY MY CALCS:
- 4x the CO2 impact of a normal ad project
- 1 day of 2-5 medium hospitals
- 1 month of 250 households
- 44 years of continuous Netflix viewing
futurism.com/artificial-i...
BY MY CALCS:
- 4x the CO2 impact of a normal ad project
- 1 day of 2-5 medium hospitals
- 1 month of 250 households
- 44 years of continuous Netflix viewing
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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If Trump wasn't wrecking the economy with his stupid tariffs, farmers wouldn't need a bailout in the first place.
Oh and what's the GOP plan for all the farmers who get health care through the ACA whose premiums are skyrocketing?
Right, there is NO PLAN.
Oh and what's the GOP plan for all the farmers who get health care through the ACA whose premiums are skyrocketing?
Right, there is NO PLAN.
Farmers say Trump's payment isn't enough amid rising health care costs
President Trump announced $12 billion in one-time payments to farmers as they adjust to increased tariffs on exports. Some farmers say even with that help they still face rising health care costs.
www.npr.org
December 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
If Trump wasn't wrecking the economy with his stupid tariffs, farmers wouldn't need a bailout in the first place.
Oh and what's the GOP plan for all the farmers who get health care through the ACA whose premiums are skyrocketing?
Right, there is NO PLAN.
Oh and what's the GOP plan for all the farmers who get health care through the ACA whose premiums are skyrocketing?
Right, there is NO PLAN.
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We asked activists from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
We asked activists from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said
Activists from Hungary, El Salvador and Turkey offer advice to the US about what they’ve learned about authoritarians
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
We asked activists from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
December 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
Why does this sound totally believable?
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Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
1/23/2012 2:54:42 PM
Weingarten, Reid
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November 14, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Why does this sound totally believable?
I live in a city where immigrants did all of this and more: They’ve saved the city from itself.
They’ve packed it with children, small businesses, and immaculate multi-generational homes.
They’ve “gentrified” it in all the right ways.
Twenty-five years ago, this place was a nasty meth ghetto.
They’ve packed it with children, small businesses, and immaculate multi-generational homes.
They’ve “gentrified” it in all the right ways.
Twenty-five years ago, this place was a nasty meth ghetto.
Immigrants didn’t take your house. Immigrants built your house, grew and prepared your food, raised your wages, and made your community safer.
November 14, 2025 at 9:11 AM
I live in a city where immigrants did all of this and more: They’ve saved the city from itself.
They’ve packed it with children, small businesses, and immaculate multi-generational homes.
They’ve “gentrified” it in all the right ways.
Twenty-five years ago, this place was a nasty meth ghetto.
They’ve packed it with children, small businesses, and immaculate multi-generational homes.
They’ve “gentrified” it in all the right ways.
Twenty-five years ago, this place was a nasty meth ghetto.
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Watching a lot of the debating on X between the pro and anti-Israel right and it's really fascinating (in a very bad/sad way) to see the Jewish right and Zionist right in general face that they need to debate against Nazism becoming part of their party.
They missed that Nazis were always there.
They missed that Nazis were always there.
November 12, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Watching a lot of the debating on X between the pro and anti-Israel right and it's really fascinating (in a very bad/sad way) to see the Jewish right and Zionist right in general face that they need to debate against Nazism becoming part of their party.
They missed that Nazis were always there.
They missed that Nazis were always there.
This person raised a wonderful human being. This situation is a win for every party involved and it’s a great way to better a small segment of a community.
One of my kids used to work at a Major Grocery Store deli, and they all rang up hot foods as cold for SNAP recipients.
If you work in a deli and can do this without losing your job, please do so.
If you work in a deli and can do this without losing your job, please do so.
Most people don’t know that with SNAP you are banned from buying “foods that are hot at the point of sale”. So even if you have SNAP (which people don’t now) you can’t get cooked food. Which means you need to also actually have the resources to PREPARE a “healthy” meal.
November 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
This person raised a wonderful human being. This situation is a win for every party involved and it’s a great way to better a small segment of a community.
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menswear writer here 👋 camo will not hide you inside a gym
November 8, 2025 at 11:26 PM
menswear writer here 👋 camo will not hide you inside a gym
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This perfectly encapsulates how I feel living in the US. The republican party is an insane death cult, the democratic party is 3 corporations in a trench coat, and the "socialists" are just the completely normal left-wing capitalists you'd find in any of 2 dozen European nations.
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:18 AM
This perfectly encapsulates how I feel living in the US. The republican party is an insane death cult, the democratic party is 3 corporations in a trench coat, and the "socialists" are just the completely normal left-wing capitalists you'd find in any of 2 dozen European nations.
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10/10 take. No notes.
November 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
10/10 take. No notes.
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Of the more than 60 articles I've written, this is probably my favorite one: the biography of Bright Star, a Pawnee professional roller skater, known in the 19th century as "the fastest man on wheels"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Mu...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Mu...
Fred Murree - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 8, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Of the more than 60 articles I've written, this is probably my favorite one: the biography of Bright Star, a Pawnee professional roller skater, known in the 19th century as "the fastest man on wheels"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Mu...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Mu...
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Keep fighting to bring back the ACA credits Democrats!
November 6, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Keep fighting to bring back the ACA credits Democrats!
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“While there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” —Eugene V. Debs
November 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
“While there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” —Eugene V. Debs
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There are a lot of arguments for why Mamdani won. I, a pundit, believe it was the typeface.
www.curbed.com/article/zohr...
www.curbed.com/article/zohr...
Zohran Mamdani’s Campaign Logo Looked Nothing Like a Campaign Logo
The bodega-influenced visual language of an outsider campaign.
www.curbed.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:40 PM
There are a lot of arguments for why Mamdani won. I, a pundit, believe it was the typeface.
www.curbed.com/article/zohr...
www.curbed.com/article/zohr...
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Imagine being so dedicated to stealing people's healthcare that you let letters telling them that their premiums were about to spike by 100-500% go out 3 days before an election, while you were also trying to starve 40 million people to bully the other party into letting you steal the healthcare.
November 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Imagine being so dedicated to stealing people's healthcare that you let letters telling them that their premiums were about to spike by 100-500% go out 3 days before an election, while you were also trying to starve 40 million people to bully the other party into letting you steal the healthcare.
Fuck yes!
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Fuck yes!
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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 8:36 AM
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
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POST THE BEST CRASHOUTS PLLLLEASE 🙏🙏🙏🥰
November 5, 2025 at 2:11 AM
POST THE BEST CRASHOUTS PLLLLEASE 🙏🙏🙏🥰
Hahahahaha!!!!!
November 5, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Hahahahaha!!!!!
What the fuck!!!???
Evidently there was an Auschwitz-themed float in a Halloween parade in Pennsylvania.
The float was for a Catholic school, and to their credit the church immediately disavowed it.
Thing is, I don’t think high school kids did this entirely on their own. I’m guessing parents had to be involved.
The float was for a Catholic school, and to their credit the church immediately disavowed it.
Thing is, I don’t think high school kids did this entirely on their own. I’m guessing parents had to be involved.
November 1, 2025 at 9:44 PM
What the fuck!!!???