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Matt

@jmatthew.bsky.social
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Northwestern and Kellogg Alum, Python, Models for Insurance and Reinsurance. Also Destiny. He/Him/Warlock. Chicago

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Click through for all 6 drawings by national treasure Ann Telnaes.
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Matt @jmatthew.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why have the hearing, don't they already have a 6-3 opinion in favor of the oil companies done? or I supposed 5-3
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Matt @jmatthew.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
That does feel like a win
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Matt @jmatthew.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Felt like the score could have been more. The rushing game was amazing.
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Matt @jmatthew.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
But there are no doors on the loft club…..
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Matt @jmatthew.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Maybe it’s just a one off thing for the grand opening and we will get them back for ball state
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Matt @jmatthew.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Excel really needs to be able read parquet
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Matt @jmatthew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Loved Person of Interest
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The outrage over the Cornell gang rape case is having impact:https://abcnews.com/US/district-attorney-reopens-case-alleged-cornell-university-gang/story?id=136806149
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District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'
Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Matt @jmatthew.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Kafka?
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Matt @jmatthew.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Let’s go cats
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Matt @jmatthew.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ll take that!
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
She's bragging about starving children
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
so youre in favor of trans kids playing high school sports? “i find it absolutely disgusting and weird how obsessed you are with children’s genitals. but yes, i believe children should be allowed to play high school sports, a thing that has been happening for decades without issue or controversy”
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
andrew what do you think about trans kids playing high school sports? “i actually dont think about childrens genitals, what a bizarre question”
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Matt @jmatthew.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
It could have been worse
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I'm going to KEEP talking about how Senator Rick Scott, the RICHEST man in all of Congress, DEFRAUDED Medicare & is trying to CUT Social Security. Will you join me?🤚
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I have a piece in the Atlantic about SCOTUS’s ballroom order - and how the Court has a very wrongheaded and destructive account of the separation of powers www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
“The court is totally wrong on separation of powers”
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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Fellow Texans—this is such an important election. I urge you to confirm your status. It takes 30 seconds.
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Matt @jmatthew.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My first thought was exactly this, I'll take it.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/08/2026
we simply didn’t have to do this vaccination was working we solved this problem it was over with we did not have to do this
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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
He’s got that box thing making the back of his suit jacket stick out again. Maybe some enterprising journalist could ask what’s going on with that? Is it a tactical diaper or something else?
A picture of Trump standing with something making the back of his suit jacket stick out
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 24/08/2026
Solar panels are near 1000 times more efficient than corn at capturing the solar energy that falls on a given land area. Electric cars waste only 15-20% of the chemical energy in the battery; 80-85% of the battery energy goes to moving the vehicle down the road. leahy.substack.com/p/how-solar-...
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How Solar Could Free Up 29.8 Million Acres of Prime US Farmland
Corn is a Shitty Solar Panel: 160x more energy from an acre of solar than an acre of corn ethanol
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Sam Ulmschneider @samulmschneider.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Normally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.
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The pundits have completely lost the plot
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Matt @jmatthew.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I read the title as grift article instead of gift article, which tracks
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Matt @jmatthew.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Apparently enough to be triggering to some people, but it is really good
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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/08/2026
the intentional abdication by Congress of nearly all of its constitutional responsibilities is at the core of most of our problems as a nation
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The GOP is desperately trying to rewrite history, but just a reminder that Donald Trump was president during the lockdowns, and he awarded Fauci a presidential commendation for his work on COVID. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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RevDJEsq @revdjesq.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Investors are catching on that Musk is a fraud, who has gotten rich by bilking the government for contracts and riding on the coattails of other inventors. His white supremacy and Cybertruck nightmare is killing $TSLA, and $SPCX has no path to profitability.
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Matt @jmatthew.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Let’s go!
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
"It's worth dwelling on the significance of this finding. In studying how to improve other lines, planners wouldn’t even consider replicating what works on the NEC, the nation's one really successful passenger train line. That's a shanda." -- www.planetizen.com/features/138...
planetizen.com
Why are America's trains so slow?
A brief historical inquiry.
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
This this this this THIS!
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RevDJEsq @revdjesq.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
More of this, please.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Close to a year ago, I flagged that the White House had classified IUDs, birth control pills & hormonal implants as "abortifacient birth control." The news was buried six paragraphs into a NYT story—and wasn't mentioned in the headline or social promo jessica.substack.com/p/trump-birt...
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The Trump Administration Says IUDs and the Pill Are Abortions
9.12.25
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 14/07/2026
I wrote something longer analyzing the Heritage report, please read: bsky.app/profile/kate...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/07/2026
New in PN: Mitch McConnell's legacy of destruction "Almost everything about how the modern GOP operates — its aversion to solving problems, its destruction of norms that used to allow the institution to operate, its embrace of chaos and dysfunction — can be at least partly attributed to McConnell."
publicnotice.co
Mitch McConnell's legacy of destruction
He may have found Trump distasteful, but no one did more to protect him.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/07/2026
really think that if democrats hold any chamber of congress next year that a condition of passing a budget is the removal of russ vought, who has a genuinely tyrannical vision of presidential power and is a focal point of the lawlessness of the trump administration
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
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Matt @jmatthew.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Ok so this hits a bit close to home
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Matt @jmatthew.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Same, I’m sad they won’t get to keep building that world.
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Nerd Girl Says @rachaelconrad.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
If you’re living in Maine and not sure what the next move is, supporting Andrea LaFlamme is a good one. If you live outside of Maine and know people here, help spread the word!
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RevDJEsq @revdjesq.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Yes. This. A thousand times.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Dear Folarin Balogun, If asked about it, say: “I always want to play, always want to do my best for my team. I have no say in any administrative decision, and don’t know how that works. If they say I can play, I play. If they say I can’t, I cheer on my teammates wishing I could play. That’s it.”
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
my plan as the leader of an american adversary is simple: ship millions of pregnant women to america to give birth. we will then have the child return and spend the next 18 years creating an anti-american super soldier. our plan ends with the child returning to the us to vote for zohran mamdani
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adamatomic @adamatomic.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
games have been huge success. thats why we're firing every one who makes games. also we are going to make it so players can no longer buy games
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Matt @jmatthew.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I took my daughters to it and we enjoyed it.
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Matt @jmatthew.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Same.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
even worse! actually 5-4. My God.
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