Reposted by Matt WoodSoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 1hThis is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW 232241829
Reposted by Matt WoodCNN @cnn.com · 9hDanish artist Jens Galschiøt unveiled a sculpture depicting a naked US President Donald Trump surrounded by golf equipment. It was unveiled on the grounds of the European Parliament building in Strasbourg. 42782289
Reposted by Matt WoodJames O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 11hHoly shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/appsgetartcraft.comCrafting Apps: open-source creative toolsImage editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use. 16236391049
Reposted by Matt WoodDan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 23hAgency-wide, NSF made far fewer new grants (~6,200, down from an average of ~11,000) and underspent its buget by 1.4 billion. See previous coverage:nature.comExclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decadesThe US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project. 114449
Reposted by Matt WoodKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/10/2026(In case you're worried, any neutrinos managing to interact within your body will still do essentially nothing. You'd have to go to a LOT of trouble to be harmed in any way by neutrinos. But @xkcd.com has a nice explanation here if you want to know what that would look like. what-if.xkcd.com/73/)what-if.xkcd.comLethal Neutrinos 923720
Reposted by Matt WoodPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 06/10/2026ICE has detained more than 500 U.S. citizens.projects.propublica.orgMore Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublicaThe government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati... 331055546
Reposted by Matt WoodKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask? 8436561429
Reposted by Matt WoodDaryl Hannah @dhlovelife.bsky.social · 06/10/2026grounds for immediate removal 2115543
Reposted by Matt WoodAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The Constitution allows it. South Korea has proven it works. If you want to make impeachment viable—and so much else is pointless if you don't—then it can be done by a simple majority adopting a simple rules change: vote on the verdict by secret ballot.theunpopulist.netA Democratic Senate Should Adopt Secret Impeachment Ballots on a Priority BasisSuch a change, requiring no constitutional amendment, would free senators to vote their judgment instead of their fears 221458387
Reposted by Matt WoodRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 05/10/2026James Watson was only notable as a racist, homophobe, misogynist, fatphobic bigot, and close friend of Jeffrey Epstein well after his incarceration for child sex crimes and registration as a child sex offender www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2... 8402118
Reposted by Matt WoodAbby @yabbya.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I saw this and thought of EWSY because, now that it's out in the world (and I'm so SO glad it is), it's like a shortcut to finding people you vibe with, the positive side of "the web". It's good connections all the way down. Thanks Tom. youtube.com/shorts/yVT7D...youtube.comCarl Sagan: The Greatest Of Human InventionsYouTube video by Saganism 032
Reposted by Matt WoodIndivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 02/10/2026Donald Trump might believe he’s going to overcome his historic unpopularity by sabotaging the midterms. On October 17, millions of Americans are taking to the streets again to make it clear that’s not happening. Please join us for the next No Kings Day.nokings.orgNo KingsFor more than a year, millions of people have come together to send a clear message: in America, we have no kings. Power doesn't belong to billionaires, strongmen, or politicians who think they're abo... 18813331
Reposted by Matt WoodHeather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The white evangelical movement split in the 1970s so those who hated civil rights, especially for women, could boost right-wing Republicans. Talarico is reclaiming the movement for the others, and it is a very different thing indeed. Jimmy Carter v. Jerry Falwell. 801646575
Reposted by Matt WoodWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The same things American kids need 010721
Reposted by Matt WoodGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026New Fox poll shows Trump coalition collapsing in Texas. GOP is sinking money into Iowa and Kansas. The horrors of Late-Stage Trumpism are creating space for a new anti-corruption, anti-cruelty politics to emerge. On the pod, @aselrod.bsky.social is brilliant on this: newrepublic.com/article/2161...newrepublic.comFox Drops Brutal Poll on Trump as Leaks Reveal MAGA Panic: “Wake Up!”As the Trump-GOP position worsens, political theorist explains why Trump-MAGA’s corrupt and depraved misrule has created space for a new, values-based liberal-Democratic politics to emerge. 50839212
Reposted by Matt WoodAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/20261. She's president's human binky & controls his social media 2. Foreign govts use her a conduit for Trump 3. She's lied about much of her background 4. She wouldn't or couldn't get security clearance (see 3) 5. She has an obsession w/ Trump giving their relationship a vaguely inappropriate dynamic 23962981222
Reposted by Matt WoodAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/10/2026"White, farm-state, pickup truck driving men — those same macho MAGAs who supposedly approach Trump with 'tears in their eyes' to praise their savior are now crying over the eye-popping digital readouts following their tank fill-ups" — @schaller67.bsky.socialpublicnotice.coDiesel Don is tanking the GOPRecord high prices are one of Trump’s defining political failures. 981627376
Reposted by Matt Woodthe abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Hinojosa would be the most consequential D upset of this century 922827
Reposted by Matt WoodDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.nytimes.comNational Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants. 201835908
Reposted by Matt WoodSarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Incarcerated women report rampant sexual abuse by guards and the guards retaliate by spraying them with chemical agents and sending them to the hospital as a warning. Rape culture and brazen misogyny from the highest institution to the lowest. 4653296
Reposted by Matt WoodCannonball Adderall @echoloop.bsky.social · 24/08/2026He’s 100% wearing a walking assist device to support him, particularly on his right side. 26864205
Reposted by Matt WoodAngie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here/2 4768391110
Matt Wood @astromattwood.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I bought this a while back. The writing is lucid, compelling, and well-researched. I highly recommend! 2248
Reposted by Matt WoodThe Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Lionesses keep the male lions in check out in the wild. I’d love to see women doing similar things here in society. 34855081506
Reposted by Matt WoodHelen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 01/10/2026The link in the post below is super cool 312132
Reposted by Matt WoodKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026His vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist 25950861107
Reposted by Matt Woodc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026You've seen fireworks that look like jellyfish, but what about a jellyfish that looks like fireworks? The E/V Nautilus filmed this rare Halitrephes maasi jellyfish glowing like a firework at a depth of 4,019 feet (1,225 meters) off the coast of Baja California, Mexico. (📷: Ocean Exploration Trust) 8648581476
Reposted by Matt WoodJennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The Fall of Constantinople and the Making of a Myth www.medievalists.net/2026/09/the-...medievalists.netThe Fall of Constantinople and the Making of a Myth - Medievalists.netHow the fall of Constantinople in 1453 shaped trauma, myth, Orthodox memory, and the end of the Byzantine Empire. 053
Reposted by Matt WoodMatthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Any Democrat running for President who wants to win the nomination and then the general election absolutely must commit to prosecuting Trump, Hegseth, Patel, and all corrupt members of Administration. They must be held accountable. 29534122
Reposted by Matt WoodAmanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is so good, how have I never seen this 6339
Reposted by Matt WoodAnne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 5030921087
Reposted by Matt WoodJosh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION????? 1454911465
Reposted by Matt WoodCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026> @variety.com variety.com/2026/digital... 1243057834
Reposted by Matt WoodJason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com · 29/09/2026We should elect @ginafortexas.bsky.social. 141
Reposted by Matt WoodAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort." 694279279544
Reposted by Matt WoodKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants. 20752451428
Reposted by Matt Woodmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"i'm james talarico and i approve this message" 161568206
Reposted by Matt Woodelias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 28/09/2026i just cannot fathom how this is not self-destructive even if you hated talarico. if he loses youre going to get blame and if he wins youre going to get no credit. it's just dumb?washingtonsun.comJasmine Crockett Excludes Talarico in New List of EndorsementsCrockett had committed to focusing on “down-ballot” candidates in Texas instead of joining Talarico on the campaign trail. 9598
Reposted by Matt WoodMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20/11/2024What happened here with Don Jr at the SpaceX launch today 4887292598043
Reposted by Matt WoodAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics. 319164544669
Reposted by Matt WoodAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 26/09/2026a president planning military operations based entirely on election cycles is actually a giant scandal 412449578
Reposted by Matt WoodMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This is the trailer that all the major platforms refuse to run as a paid ad: 141214589
Reposted by Matt WoodAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/09/2026RAJU: So you're not planning to help Paxton fundraise at all? CORNYN: Correct R: Why? C: This is the way majority parties become minority parties -- by nominating candidates that are less than appealing to a general electorate R: Does he deserve to be a senator? C: I'll let voters decide that 2474880929