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@mattaltman.bsky.social
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WGA screenwriter, martial artist. 8th Dan Black Belt in Hawaiian Kenpo, 3rd Dan Black Belt in Tae Kwan Do. D&D and TTRPG. No longer on strike… for now

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Is it good or bad that an agency that is technically involved in law enforcement is using ideas from the serial killer playbook?
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
"I’ve wanted Marc Elias to be wrong for seven years, or six years, for as long as he’s been coming on my show. I have wanted his warnings to be wrong, but every single one of them has been either affirmed or prescient."--Nicolle Wallace. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/its-...
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It’s not too late for states and Congress to stop Trump from subverting the midterms
With only nine months before the midterm elections, Trump is plotting to prevent Democrats from taking control of Congress.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
ICE Agents Reportedly Asking Minnesotans Where the Asians Are
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
lol
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
You know what they’re going to store in those warehouses? People
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Pay attention to this now. Trump is signaling his desire to rig the midterms.
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Trump’s FBI raid could lead to a takeover of elections in Georgia’s largest county
Trump wants control "over the voting in at least 15 places.” He could start in Fulton County, Georgia.
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Besame mucho means Kiss me a lot @ceu---azul.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
"Make America Great Again", AKA Destroy America For Tyrants (DAFT) as it turns out, they're not even american at all !!!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Wasn’t expecting the Epstein scandal to blow up the New York Times but sure, why not
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Akilla Cooper @akelacooper.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Jesus Christ. We should have heard about this shit back in 2015. Fuck every reporter who kept this quiet. And fuck the New York Times for focusing on Hillary Clinton's bullshit risotto emails instead of this when it was *right there*
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Akilla Cooper @akelacooper.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
We didn't have to live like this. We are here for *so* many reason, so many failures at so many levels, yet there were still pp who voted that pedophile--allegedly but come the fuck on--back into office. Now we can hang this over MAGA for the rest of their miserable lives.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/11/2025
Newsom: "It's not about rule of law anymore. It's rule of Don. He's choosing which court decisions he agrees with. He's quite literally running an extortion racket. He's doing it with some of the most powerful corporate leaders. What does everything have in common? Tariffs. They're about leverage"
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Walz: This is North Korea style stuff. And it's being done because this is a weak, thin skinned man who's failing as a president. All of the things he promised are not happening. It's a it's our most cherished freedom to point out very clearly, this is a terrible president
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Pay attention y’all. Sinclair is really trouble.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
www.wired.com/story/brenda...
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
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Extremist Groups Hated Charlie Kirk. They’re Using His Death to Radicalize Others
The Oath Keepers are apparently restarting, and extremist groups like the Proud Boys are calling for “state violence” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death.
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Richard Pace @rpace.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
The number of people fired or suspended for speaking the truth about Charlie Kirk must serve as a reminder none of the far right are free speech advocates, they just want no limits on what they say.
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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Far right influencers, the US government and national media all colluded with malice to cook a story that would target all trans people with violence before any facts were available that could contradict. You can’t call this tin foil hat thinking either b/c we all watched it happen in real time.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2025
Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Asked if he'd vote for Chuck Schumer to remain Democratic Leader, Graham Palmer replies: "No." "We need leaders that have vision and, frankly, the ability to fight. The things that I've seen recently don't show me a Democratic leadership that has that."
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
The #1 domestic terror threat in America is right-wing terrorism and white supremacist violence. They echo the conspiracies that have been mainstreamed by Trump, MAGA and right-wing media. No accountability. No scrutiny. They just keep doing it because it fuels their agenda and brings in $$$.
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JohnnyMangu @johnnybarbu.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
#ICE Agents Tear Down Cameras And Break Doors And Windows At Restaurant in Burbank Only criminals would need to do this. They know they're breaking the law, and they're destroying anything that can give evidence. #Nuremburg style trials can't come fast enough.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
People in Los Angeles have been protesting 24 hours for 2 weeks straight and no news outlet is covering it! 8/8/25
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David Stone @david-stone.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
WHEN HEATHER COX RICHARDSON SPEAKS, LISTEN Out of the gate, why is ICE offering enormous signing bonuses and paying-off student loans to get people to work for them? Because no one (but the worst of humanity) wants to work for them. A quick pick-me-up (10 mins): www.youtube.com/watch?v=263F...
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Forms of Resistance and Reasons to Believe It’s Working | Explainer
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Release from HHS: HHS will wind down its development of the mRNA vaccine development activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).
HHS Winds Down mRNA Vaccine Development Under BARDA

 

WASHINGTON, DC—AUGUST 5, 2025—The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), including the cancellation and de-scoping of various contracts and solicitations. The decision follows a comprehensive review of mRNA-related investments initiated during the COVID-19 public health emergency.

 

“We reviewed the science, listened to the experts, and acted,” said HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. “BARDA is terminating 22 mRNA vaccine development investments because the data show these vaccines fail to protect effectively against upper respiratory infections like COVID and flu. We’re shifting that funding toward safer, broader vaccine platforms that remain effective even as viruses mutate.”
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/08/2025
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
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Senate Democrats’ Abandonment of Adeel Mangi Made Emil Bove’s Confirmation Possible
Senate Democrats could have confirmed Biden nominee Adeel Mangi to the Third Circuit last year. They caved to a disgraceful right-wing smear campaign instead.
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Natty Moher @nattymoher.com · 25/07/2025
The bribes worked! deadline.com/2025/07/skyd...
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Skydance-Paramount Merger Clears FCC At Last, With Deal Set To Close And Changes Coming
The FCC finally signed off on the merger of Skydance Media and Paramount Global, a transaction that will reshape the media landscape.
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Vince D. Monroy @vincedmonroy.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Governor Gavin Newsom’s Press Office just called Trump “Swollen Ankles” and hit him hard on the flights he took with Jeffrey Epstein
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Waffle House Crisis Coordinator @lb2bg.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
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Vince D. Monroy @vincedmonroy.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Hakeem Jeffries: “Let’s be clear about the situation. Jeffrey Epstein was a friend of Trump. Why do we think President Joe Biden or President Barack Obama's names are being invoked? Because Donald Trump is running scared. What are they hiding from the American people? Release the files.”
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Vince D. Monroy @vincedmonroy.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
This has to be the weakest attempt to distract the American public from the Epstein files —
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Georgia DiPirro 📎 @georgiadipirro.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Just another random coincidence, surely... The man who introduced Trump to Melania Paolo Zampolli, served on the board of TerraMar Project, “nonprofit” founded by Ghislaine Maxwell… Zampolli now holds a U.S. diplomatic role under Trump. “U.S. Special Representative for Global Partnerships”
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Trump's cratering in polls continues. Crushing new Gallup numbers: Overall approval: 37% On immigration: 38% On economy: 37% On trade: 36: Federal budget: 29% Overall approval among independents: 29% news.gallup.com/poll/692879/...
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Independents Drive Trump's Approval to 37% Second-Term Low
President Donald Trump's job approval rating has fallen to 37%, the lowest of his second term as a result of a decrease among independents.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
If you’re feeling uneasy, it’s probably because we now know we live in a country built on the blackmail of a dead pedophile who is Too Big to Fail, so Congress has to go home for a couple of months to figure out how talk about it without defenestrating the president and collapsing the economy.
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Whatever money Putin has stashed around the world needs to be hunted down and given directly to Ukraine.
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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
this is what i’m saying unless you’re rich enough to pay for everything out of pocket forever, you’re working class a lot of the “wealthy” professions have more in common with a bus driver or a cashier or a schoolteacher than not
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
He’s going to try to brainwash his way out of this, deflecting from Epstein to Obama. Not this time. Nobody but the drunkest on the kool-aid are buying this one.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
The Republicans in the House stopping work to protect Trump from the Epstein scandal is the first time this Congress has stopped working to achieve an actual goal. Usually, they just do it because they are totally incompetent.
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
I love this so much.
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🧌🥛 🏨 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
lmao jesus what was the point of all that then
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 22/07/2025
Jon Stewart Reacts to Colbert's Cancellation & Trump's "Bawdy" Epstein Doodles youtu.be/TwOLo_U6bTw
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Jon Stewart Reacts to Colbert's Cancellation & Trump's "Bawdy" Epstein Doodles | The Daily Show
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/07/2025
The crazy thing about Donald Trump posting an AI video of Obama getting arrested is that Trump once had someone organize a party for him and invite a bunch of “young women” and it turned out Jeffrey Epstein was his only other guest.
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Matthew Segal @segalmr.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
I think the idea that “The President is simultaneously an institution beyond the reach of criminal law and also a private person who can file $10 billion defamation suits when he dislikes a news article” is not very sensible.
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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
hell yeah @williamfleitch.bsky.social
9. If you use Al to write something for you, it is meaningless and we'd all be better off if you had never said anything in the first place.

This is the thing: Writing is meaning. The reason we write things is to express some sort of meaning, to pass along important information, to convey a human emotion or sensation. It doesn't matter whether the writing is grammatically correct, or vividly expressed. It matters that it came from you. That is the point of writing. If you ask a Chatbot to write something for you, you are being fundamentally unhuman and foundationally dishonest. I am not going to bend on this one. If it requires an Al bot for you to express something to me, you and I are probably not actually friends.
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