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Charles Mathewes

@ctmathewes.bsky.social
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I teach religion & ethics @ UVa I'm mostly here to find books & articles I don't yet know about Sometimes also interested in opinions, but not as often as many of you seem to believe

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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Merle Eisenberg @merleeisenberg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
New thread on various aspects of university budgets at top 50 research universities. It is all available online via HERD (ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/high...). There is a time lag to collected data, but such as it is. One budget fact per day until I get bored.
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Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) Survey 2024 | NCSES | NSF
Higher Education Research and Development Survey
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In which I take issue with the notion that colleges place too high a value on writing. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/im-a-colle...
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I’m a College Professor. Writing is Pretty Damn Important.
It’s hardly the only thing -- but it’s a very important thing!
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A good case from @dickpolman.bsky.social that this man’s selfish short-sightedness set us on path to where we are today. Excruciating insights on the wreckage of a legacy. dickpolman.substack.com/p/ralph-nade...
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Ralph Nader is still a pariah. He deserves to be.
Tilting the ‘00 race to Bush was his original sin. We’re still suffering the consequences.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Official monthly data is in, and US solar power generation hit a new record high, up 21% compared to this time last year!
a graph of US monthly solar generation
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Most TV is just this now.
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Fast Casual TBogg+ @tbogg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Eric Schmitt before his whole world collapsed…
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Basketball Shot Fail
ALT: Basketball Shot Fail
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Aaron is not underrating this. It's cinema. The sly smirk when Schmitt thinks he's gotten Smith to perjure himself. The hasty vanishing of the sign. Klobuchar getting Kennedy to hold it up. Schmitt getting LOUD and ANGRY when Klobuchar points out he mixed up the Hawks and Hawkeyes.
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Bessent has now transformed himself into the Baghdad Bob of bonds.” paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-beclow...
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The Beclowning of Scott Bessent
Another Trump enabler pays the price
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One obvious point about the Republican rats desperately deserting the sinking Trump ship: They're still rats.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/09/2026
What’s Rustling In That Leaf Pile?
What’s Rustling In That Leaf Pile?
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Eduardo Porter @eduardoelreportero.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The backlash against AI and its data centers is built on a profound discomfort. It's fueled by a brooding distrust of a political system that allowed a clutch of weird, sci-fi addled plutocrats to pursue a civilization-threatening project behind people’s backs. www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
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Democracy blindsides Silicon Valley’s power players looking to transform the world with AI
‘The push against datacenters speaks to the frustration of people who don’t feel they are making the choices in their lives’
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Iowa has had a Republican governor for the last 16 years. He could have retired at any time after he turned 77.
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Charles Mathewes @ctmathewes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Really great movie
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Charles Mathewes @ctmathewes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Finished Neagley S.1 last night. It's a good show! I love Reacher, but Neagley is very much worth your while too, esp if you like shows about people who talk through their problems, and share their vulnerabilities unprompted by stress or pressure.
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Mecklenburg County Democratic Committee of Virginia @mcdcva.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hey @cvilledems.bsky.social We too are sick and tired of Rep. John McGuire here in VA-05. It's time for Tom!
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QueenCityJamz @queencityjamz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yeah man, that's how it worked forever. Your job didn't get to dominate your life and suck free labor off of you 24/7.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The old line that analytic philosophy is answering questions that come naturally to toddlers via methods that come naturally to lawyers remains undefeated.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026
lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
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Charles Mathewes @ctmathewes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Give it up for Gen X, handshakes all around my peeps
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Charles Mathewes @ctmathewes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Dammit but it's true
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
this is a genuinely crazy story
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Schuyler VanValkenburg @scvanvalkenburg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Had a great conversation with some of my colleagues at St. Paul's Faith & Public Policy Dinner and Panel last week. It was a wide ranging conversation about service, our backgrounds, our world views and more. Really enjoyed it!
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 22/09/2026
Sen. John Curtis (R-Utah) is calling for the Senate to investigate the business dealings and relationships of presidential family members, including a report that a Russian oligarch helped pay for the wedding after-party of Donald Trump Jr. wapo.st/4hfSI7R
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Republican Sen. John Curtis calls for investigation of Donald Trump Jr.
The Utah senator is asking the Judiciary Committee to probe business dealings of presidential family members, also including Hunter Biden.
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Charles Mathewes @ctmathewes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
These people are our elected representatives, and they are the kind of people that reality TV is made about.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19/09/2026
The Campaign for North Africa, a staggeringly complicated World War II board game, has baffled players for decades. Now two guys in England are giving it a serious go.
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Can Two Friends Complete a Game No One Has Ever Finished?
The Campaign for North Africa, a staggeringly complicated World War II board game, has stymied players for decades. Now two guys in England are giving it a serious go.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Happy birthday Daniel Lanois 🎂 📷 Lynn Goldsmith, 1988 Lanois has won seven Grammy Awards as a producer, including three for Album of the Year. Bob Dylan, Time Out Of Mind, 1998 album.link/y/OLAK5uy_ld...
Lanois poses in a black jacket & leather hat
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Phil Yabut @philliefan99.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The sun shines at sunrise on the Lincoln Memorial statue for a short time around the equinoxes. #dc #cwshare @capitalweather.com
Sunshine inside the Lincoln Memorial
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
whole conversation here: conversationswithbillkristol.org/conversation...
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How Big a Wave?/w David Axelrod
How big a wave in the 2026 midterms?
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Dr. Annie Andrews @drannieandrews.com · 17/09/2026
I'm running for him.
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Shana @shanamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good.
The future pope at a party with a caption “they don’t know I’m the future pope”
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Sarah Jones @sarahjones.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
huge if true
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Charles Mathewes @ctmathewes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is a good review www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/b...
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Why the Rich and Powerful Have Become So Fatalistic (Gift Article)
In “End Times Fascism,” Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor argue that apocalyptic ideology has taken hold over American elites.
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Charles Mathewes @ctmathewes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This could be bad, very bad
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 16/09/2026
NEW: Impeach them. ALL of them. www.thebulwark.com/p/impeach-th...
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Impeach Them. All of Them.
Hegseth is only the beginning.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“A series of impeachments would destabilize the Trump administration…This works best if Trump himself is not impeached. Democrats can claim they’re merely going after government corruption by underlings, not fighting the will of the great and good American people.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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Impeach Them. All of Them.
Hegseth is only the beginning.
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This isn't my lane, but the Ms. Rachel/majority view seems to be "not funding Israel's wars would make American Jews safer." You could respond by saying this is defeatist/letting the terrorists win/whatever. But instead the response is "every war critic HATES JEWS" and come on, nobody buys that.
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OSV News @osvnews.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Online antisemitic attacks against Jewish biblical scholar likely coordinated by known actors, say experts
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Online antisemitic attacks against Jewish biblical scholar likely coordinated by known actors, say experts
Many online antisemitic attacks against Amy-Jill Levine of the Catholic Biblical Association, appear to be part of ongoing anti-Israel, anti-Jewish campaigns.
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Charles Mathewes @ctmathewes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
He is absolutely right, a great essay, especially to share with students
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David Watkins @djw172.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Very bizarre notion of what voting means. It's a big country filled with all manner of scumbags and idiots, and you usually just get two viable options. If we all treated a vote for candidate X as an abandonment of any values not exemplified by X, no one would ever vote.
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I can't stand this kind of "I'm not saying I want the Republican to win, I'm just saying I want the Democrat to lose" evasive non-sequitur, but it's also a dispositive tell that the person making the argument knows perfectly well that they're advocating an indefensible position
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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 17/06/2026
Retractionwatch coverage of this article retractionwatch.com/2026/06/16/t... @grinschglsandra.bsky.social @malte.the100.ci @jamiecummins.bsky.social
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Journal investigating paper on cognitive impact of generative AI
A paper about the effects of generative AI use on confidence in work tasks is under investigation after critics raised questions about the study design, data analysis and ethics approval for the re…
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The cover-up is always worse than the crime? Harvard's latest filing says that Gino manipulated a file to cover-up fabrication, hid the laptop used to do it during the discovery process, and did more [redacted] destruction of evidence after being compelled by the court to share the laptop.
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I just bought a subscription to the @washingtonsun.bsky.social. I'm thrilled that so many excellent former WaPo reporters landed there, and I'm very much looking forward to both their national and local DC coverage. washingtonsun.com
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The Washington Sun • WashingtonSun.com
The Washington Sun covers politics and policy and the people who shape life in Washington — not just at the White House and in Congress, but at the Wilson Building, at Northwest Stadium and in the nei...
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 09/09/2026
INSIDE YOU THERE ARE TWO OUTLOOKS
NEITHER ARE WORKING
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Trump's actual 9/11 experience was expressing giddiness about owning the suddenly tallest building left standing in lower Manhattan
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Donald Trump on 9 /11 bragging that his building is now tallest in NYC
YouTube video by Mike Lux
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Charles Mathewes @ctmathewes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Gary Busey deep undercover at 3M
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Charles Mathewes @ctmathewes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
There are grownups at Western Michigan University, we should all be more like them. www.cbssports.com/college-foot...
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Acceptance over outrage: Inside how Western Michigan leaders dealt with controversial loss to Michigan
Western Michigan leadership accepted the Big Ten replay ruling that led to Michigan's walk-off touchdown, choosing to move forward rather than fight a controversial finish
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Capital Weather @capitalweather.com · 05/09/2026
DC reached 90+ the first four days of September, for the first time since 2015. But our seventh heat wave is over. Are the 90s also done? Latest thoughts on that: www.capitalweather.com/dcs-seventh-...
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DC’s seventh heat wave is over. Are the 90s also done?
After four days of 90s to start September, DC is now at 49 days at or above 90. Another round of near-90 heat may arrive before the season ends.
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