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matt vidal

@chukker.bsky.social
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Sociologist. Socialist. UCU Branch Rep. I write about capitalism, work, management, and class. Decent at bike polo. Local croquet champ www.mattvidal.com

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matt vidal @chukker.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
"Trump is creating a novel class of exiles with little hope of returning to either the United States or their country of origin while explicitly using these vulnerable populations as bargaining chips in a wider strategy of diplomatic and geopolitical deal making www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
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Opinion | Trump Is Building a Machine to Disappear People
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matt vidal @chukker.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
It's a genocide. It's been broadcast live for over a year www.ft.com/content/acb6...
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Doctors and health officials report wave of hunger deaths in Gaza
Health ministry says dozens have died this month as aid agencies warn that even their workers are suffering from malnutrition
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matt vidal @chukker.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
RIP Ozzy 🤘🖤🤘 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/a...
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Ozzy Osbourne, ‘Prince of Darkness’ Turned Reality TV Star, Dies at 76
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matt vidal @chukker.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Israeli Troops Kill Dozens Seeking Food Near Border, Gazan Officials Say www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/w...
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Israeli Troops Kill Dozens Seeking Food Near Border, Gazan Officials Say
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
16 million people are losing their healthcare and hospitals are already closing because of it but it’s a win because one of the bottom tier fast food restaurants is going to start selling the same Mexican Cokes that you can already get at literally every store

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MAHA is winning.

Steak 'n Shake
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Starting August 1, Steak n Shake will offer Coca-Cola with real cane sugar in glass bottles.
America deserves the best!
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends. But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month. See you soon, NYC.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
I am willing to give up everything I know about Trump and Epstein, on condition that I am readmitted to the Martha’s Vineyard social scene. by Alan Dershowitz
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matt vidal @chukker.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Royal Society suggested to Elon Musk he consider resigning science fellowship www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Royal Society suggested to Elon Musk he consider resigning science fellowship
Exclusive: Fellows called on academy to act over Tesla owner’s role in Trump administration’s attacks on research
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ACLU @aclu.org · 11/07/2025
The government is using $450 million of our tax dollars a year to fund an inhumane immigration detention facility called “Alligator Alcatraz.” Tell Congress: Demand access and shut it down.
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Shut Down "Alligator Alcatraz"
"Alligator Alcatraz" is an environmental and humanitarian disaster. The cruelty must end. Join me in telling Congress to demand access and block all federal funds until this compound is shut down.
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Tom O'Brien @fromalpha2omega.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
New episode just released with Prof. Paul S. Adler on his 1990 paper 'Marx, Machines, and Skill'. Enjoy! youtu.be/PMAMY8jEqaU
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Does Capitalism Deskill Workers?
YouTube video by From Alpha To Omega
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matt vidal @chukker.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
See ya!
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matt vidal @chukker.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
American Allies Want to Redraw the World’s Trade Map, Minus the U.S. Had enough Maga yet? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/w...
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American Allies Want to Redraw the World’s Trade Map, Minus the U.S.
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matt vidal @chukker.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Had enough Maga yet? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/c...
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Trump Is Gutting Weather Science and Reducing Disaster Response
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matt vidal @chukker.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Administration Takes Steps to Target 2 Officials Who Investigated Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/u...
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Administration Takes Steps to Target 2 Officials Who Investigated Trump
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matt vidal @chukker.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Trump Is Waging War on His Own Citizens www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/o...
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Opinion | Trump Is Waging War on His Own Citizens
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kathleengordon.bsky.social @kathleengordon.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
800 HUMAN BEINGS!!!! With families friends lovers jobs connections favorite books and pastimes spirits souls dreams. Try to wrap your head around that… just try!!
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
It might be time for me to retire.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 13/07/2025
From May 2024 to May 2025, 4 billion people (half of the world’s population) experienced at least one extra month of extreme heat due to climate change. And what is Trump’s response? He just fired the last remaining State Department employees who work on climate change.
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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Another day, another Israeli war crime. The genocide is ongoing and Western governments still choose to do nothing or even continue their support of the Israeli killing machine
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matt vidal @chukker.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Children fetching water killed in Israeli strike in Gaza www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Children fetching water killed in Israeli strike in Gaza, emergency officials say
The Israeli military has not yet commented on the strike, which witnesses said hit a crowd queuing to get water at a refugee camp.
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matt vidal @chukker.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Lol now he's the masculine energy guy
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Mike McCarthy @itsmccarthy.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Genocide
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matt vidal @chukker.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Nearly 800 killed at Gaza food hubs and aid convoy routes since end of May, UN says www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Nearly 800 killed at Gaza food hubs and aid convoy routes since end of May, UN says
UN human rights office says 615 of the deaths were in vicinity of sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
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matt vidal @chukker.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
As Trump Sows Tariff Confusion, Rules of Global Commerce Give Way to Chaos Had enough MAGA yet? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/w...
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As Trump Sows Tariff Confusion, Rules of Global Commerce Give Way to Chaos
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matt vidal @chukker.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
FEMA struggled to answer calls from survivors because of call center contracts that weren’t extended Had enough MAGA yet? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
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FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
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matt vidal @chukker.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
🫡 #Cohen #Montréal
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matt vidal @chukker.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
I ordered some suzette, I said “Could you please make that crepe” #Dylan #Montréal
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matt vidal @chukker.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Wolf is going all in on growth, no mention of distribution or climate change www.ft.com/content/8a49...
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The roots of the British malaise lie in a sick economy
Political responses to a bad situation tend towards either charlatanism or timidity
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matt vidal @chukker.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Israel is blocking deliveries of formula urgently needed as mothers are either dead or too malnourished to feed their babies www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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‘They’re skin and bones’: doctors in Gaza warn babies at risk of death from lack of formula
Doctors say Israel is blocking deliveries of formula urgently needed as mothers are either dead or too malnourished to feed their babies
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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
“The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought life and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.”
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"What to the Slave is The Fourth of July?": Annotated - JSTOR Daily
On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass gave a Fourth of July speech that became his most famous public oration.
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Jelmer Evers @jelmerevers.com · 04/07/2025
This is antisemitism
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matt vidal @chukker.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Hahahaha In a post on his Truth Social platform early on Tuesday, Trump said: “Elon may get more subsidy than any human being in history, by far, and, without subsidies, Elon would probably have to close up shop and head back to South Africa.” www.ft.com/content/2591...
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Donald Trump suggests Doge should review subsidies to Elon Musk’s companies
Rift deepens between the two men over US president’s flagship tax and spending bill
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matt vidal @chukker.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
"Since President Trump has taken office, H.H.S. has cut over $9.5 billion in grant funding that had been approved but not yet distributed to programs and researchers" www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | How to Wreck the Nation’s Health, by the Numbers
The administration's cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services are going to do irreparable harm to the nation’s health.
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matt vidal @chukker.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
"Not only does China already dominate global manufacturing of solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, E.V.s and many other clean energy industries, but with each passing month it is widening its technological lead" www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...
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G.O.P. Bill Has $1.1 Trillion in Health Cuts and 11.8 Million Losing Care, C.B.O. Says
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matt vidal @chukker.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Taking healthcare from 12 million people so the rich can have more tax cuts. Cruel and disgusting www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...
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G.O.P. Bill Has $1.1 Trillion in Health Cuts and 11.8 Million Losing Care, C.B.O. Says
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/06/2025
Mamdani: "I've already had to start get used to the fact that the president will talk about how I look, how I sound, where I'm from, ultimately bc he wants to distract from what I'm fighting for. I'm fighting for the the very working people he ran a campaign to empower that he has since betrayed."
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Heather Boushey @hboushey.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Did you know the 4 out of every 10 births are financed by Medicaid? Did you know that rises to almost 5 in 10 in nonmetro -- i.e., more rural -- areas? Yet, we have to kick them off Medicaid because millionaires and billionaires need another tax break. How shameful. www.kff.org/medicaid/sta...
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Births Financed by Medicaid by Metropolitan Status | KFF
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matt vidal @chukker.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Concerns Grow Over Dire Conditions in Immigrant Detention www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/u...
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Concerns Grow Over Dire Conditions in Immigrant Detention
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matt vidal @chukker.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
The set will not be available to rewatch on BBC iPlayer. Police said they were reviewing videos of comments made by Bob Vylan and Kneecap to decide whether any offences had been committed Free Palestine 🇵🇸 www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Government condemns Glastonbury chants aired live on BBC
Chants from rap duo Bob Vylan were streamed live and called for "death" to the Israeli military.
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matt vidal @chukker.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Thanks to Neil Young and BBC for agreeing to let us live stream Neil! He even gave a shout to us stream watchers before delivering a killer rendition of Cinnamon Girl
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matt vidal @chukker.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Bobby Vylan just called out Israel, UK, and US over Palestine and then led a Free Palestine chant 🇵🇸✊
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matt vidal @chukker.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Bob Vylan just let the crowd spontaneously bust into a very loud Free Palestine chant live on BBC 🇵🇸
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
How it started. How it’s going.
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Kraig Peck @kraigpeck.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Privileged and mentally ill Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F Kennedy Junior has sentenced millions of children to death. Why should we tolerate his deadly madness?
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 27/06/2025
How many times do we have to say it? Working families need health care MORE than billionaires and greedy CEOs need another tax break. Lawmakers should expand health care access, not gut it for millions of workers. The Senate must reject this budget bill. Lives are at stake.
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matt vidal @chukker.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
We know eliminating race-based treatment will reduce Black student enrolment, and they know it
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matt vidal @chukker.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Good god. When Trump & crew condemn "race-based treatment" their goal is to reduce the number of Black students at university. It's plain & simple racism www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...
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University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration
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matt vidal @chukker.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
"A vivid opening display of Mr. Trump’s willingness to tear down institutions as he saw fit, in defiance of Congress and the courts, with a speed that was hard for his opponents to comprehend, much less resist" www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...
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Missteps, Confusion and ‘Viral Waste’: The 14 Days That Doomed U.S.A.I.D.
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matt vidal @chukker.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
The reviewer goes all in on the Apple hype + apology: "Yes, there were nets outside factory dorms to prevent suicides; and wages remained low... But...The iPhone in China signified success, an individualistic, American-accented flavor"
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