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Matt Wood

@astromattwood.bsky.social
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Astronomer, guitar & bass player, DIYer, traveler. Love your neighbor. Be kind. Abolish ICE. My AI company is named "Tulips". Views my own.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 1h
This 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
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CNN @cnn.com · 9h
Danish 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.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 8h
Exactly 💯
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 11h
Holy 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/apps
getartcraft.com
Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools
Image 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.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 23h
Agency-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.com
Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
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Katie 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/)
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Lethal Neutrinos
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 06/10/2026
ICE has detained more than 500 U.S. citizens.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The 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...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
White 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?
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Daryl Hannah @dhlovelife.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
grounds for immediate removal
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The 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.
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A Democratic Senate Should Adopt Secret Impeachment Ballots on a Priority Basis
Such a change, requiring no constitutional amendment, would free senators to vote their judgment instead of their fears
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
James 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...
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Abby @yabbya.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I 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...
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Carl Sagan: The Greatest Of Human Inventions
YouTube video by Saganism
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 02/10/2026
Donald 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.
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No Kings
For 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...
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The 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.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The same things American kids need
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
New 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.com
Fox 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.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
1. 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
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Aaron 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.social
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Diesel Don is tanking the GOP
Record high prices are one of Trump’s defining political failures.
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hinojosa would be the most consequential D upset of this century
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 03/10/2026
18 U.S.C. §597
@realDonaldTrump

If Republicans win the House of Representatives and the Senate in the 2026 Midterm Elections, I’m going to give all Adult Citizens in the United States of America, $5,000. Thank you for your attention to this matter, and I look forward to signing those checks! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I 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.
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National 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.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Incarcerated 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.
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Cannonball Adderall @echoloop.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
He’s 100% wearing a walking assist device to support him, particularly on his right side.
The Ascentiz H Ultra walking assist deviceThe Honda walking assist device
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The 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
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Matt Wood @astromattwood.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I bought this a while back. The writing is lucid, compelling, and well-researched. I highly recommend!
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lionesses keep the male lions in check out in the wild. I’d love to see women doing similar things here in society.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 01/10/2026
The link in the post below is super cool
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
His vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You'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)
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Fall of Constantinople and the Making of a Myth www.medievalists.net/2026/09/the-...
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The Fall of Constantinople and the Making of a Myth - Medievalists.net
How the fall of Constantinople in 1453 shaped trauma, myth, Orthodox memory, and the end of the Byzantine Empire.
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Any 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.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is so good, how have I never seen this
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/09/2026
GOAT OR BIRD????
This is even better than the
"what color is this dress" dress.
Goat?
or Bird?
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This 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...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As 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.
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????
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Matt Wood @astromattwood.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith for Attorney General.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
> @variety.com variety.com/2026/digital...
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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com · 29/09/2026
We should elect @ginafortexas.bsky.social.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack 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."
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Matt Wood @astromattwood.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Well said.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When 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.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"i'm james talarico and i approve this message"
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 28/09/2026
i 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?
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Jasmine Crockett Excludes Talarico in New List of Endorsements
Crockett had committed to focusing on “down-ballot” candidates in Texas instead of joining Talarico on the campaign trail.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20/11/2024
What happened here with Don Jr at the SpaceX launch today
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mike 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.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
a president planning military operations based entirely on election cycles is actually a giant scandal
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is the trailer that all the major platforms refuse to run as a paid ad:
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/09/2026
RAJU: 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
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