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Matt Curtis

@mattcurtisnyc.bsky.social
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Here for harm reduction and public health.. Ex-government, community organizer, Eastern-Europhile, lapsed New Yorker, nowadays based in Amsterdam.

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Matt Curtis @mattcurtisnyc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I have sympathy for kids having this feeling but zero for the administrators who facilitate the mostly white (let’s be real…) fraternities on campuses. What are they for? They’re factories of date rape and AIDS jokes (dating myself, but) and white corporate networking www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/n...
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A Campus Reckoning: ‘Cornell Is Now Known for This’
Accusations of sexual assault at a fraternity party have tarnished the self-image of a fiercely proud Ivy League institution. Can the university ever be the same?
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Data center construction has migrated to places of low resistance: poor, often Black areas where corrupt deals are commonplace and the harms to residents invisible. Lowndes County, Alabama, in the heart of the Black Belt, is one of those places. 🧵 prospect.org/2026/10/01/d...
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‘I Know I Couldn’t Live Here’: Standing Up to a Data Center in Alabama’s Black Belt - The American Prospect
Faced with little transparency about a mammoth facility, Lowndes County fights back.
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Matt Curtis @mattcurtisnyc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
What??? Never seen this photo and it’s so cool it feels hard to believe in our currently shitty times.
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Bénédicte C @benecal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A Year of RFK Jr. Lies: New Analysis Tracks Patterns of Deception @defendpublichealth.bsky.social has 12 lessons about RFK Jr’s pattern of lies and propaganda. Download the PDF and learn what is behind his veil of falsehoods! 1/n www.defendpublichealth.org/press-releas...
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A Year of RFK Jr. Lies: New Analysis Tracks Patterns of Deception | Defend Public Health
Just over one year ago, Defend Public Health began publicly tracking HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s deceptions, distortions and disinformation in a weekly website feature, the RFK Jr. Whopper o...
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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
Map showing Lower Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
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Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Meanwhile.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
It was inevitable that reactionary centrists would turn against harm reduction and call for a return to mass incarceration
theatlantic.com
The Cities That Said Yes to Drugs
Policies that gave addicts clean needles and places to use drugs were intended to reduce harm. They created a “zombie apocalypse.”
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🎃trash🎃 (haunted) @dollarpbr.gay · 31/07/2026
continues to validate my theory that if the average cis person had to live one (1) day as a trans person they’d become the unabomber
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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
"No matter how bad it got, at least I never idolized a billionaire" Poster spotted in Melbourne
"No matter how bad it got, at least I never idolized a billionaire"
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Doom is a disservice to the struggle and it dishonors the dead like Renee Good and Alex Pretti who gave their lives to protest this Administration and its act.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Everyone coming on my feed and explaining to me that all is lost, I note what I have noted before, that there are no Negro Spirituals entitled, “Welp, I Guess It All Sucks and I Am Giving Up.”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/07/2026
one of my favorite lenses for looking at american history is “country shaped by successive generations of people experiencing religious psychosis”
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Matt Curtis @mattcurtisnyc.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
As someone who appreciates a well organized drug-infested sex den AND loves reading AND never wants to miss an opportunity for Tom Waits to drop some narration into my daily life, this is magic.
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Matt Curtis @mattcurtisnyc.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I continue to love Brad Lander, who I got to work with years ago as an organizer in NYC. A good man with committed principles who can’t be knocked over by this kind of questioning. The kind of person we ought to have in Congress.
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G @monkeyes2.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes.” Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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Defend Public Health @defendpublichealth.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
“I urge those in the global public health and medical communities who share concerns about the new proposed rule to submit comments individually (either with your affiliation or anonymously) or as organisations, by July 13, 2026.” Dr. Nancy Krieger @thelancet.com
thelancet.com
Act now: oppose a new threat to US federally funded work
The global medical and public health community needs to be aware of a dire threat—and of the opportunities to challenge it—posed by a new rule proposed on May 29, 2026, by the second Trump administrat...
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Defend Public Health @defendpublichealth.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
@gregggonsalves.bsky.social on the OMB funding rules: "It is a massive power play to bring all of us to heel on the road to authoritarianism."
thenation.com
Russell Vought’s Latest Plan to Gut the Government Should Terrify You
A proposed new rule changing the way the federal government hands out money could be absolutely devastating for every single person in this country.
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Matt Curtis @mattcurtisnyc.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Honestly a pretty solid poll of political views (and for me, accurate). britmonkey.com/2020s-politi...
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
While it's obvious the next Democratic president should pardon these individuals on day one, the judge who handed down the sentences should also be subjected to a federal investigation to determine if he abused his power and whether it warrants prosecution and potential imprisonment.
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International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC) @idpc.net · 26/06/2026
Today, #SupportDontPunish Day brings together 1000s to challenge the stigma, punishment, & violence shaping #DrugPolicy. International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC) stands with those demanding life-protecting, rights-affirming & caring approaches.💚 Join us! supportdontpunish.org/join
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 21/06/2026
"The Americans can't get the slime out of their capital's monument pool and will arrest you for touching it," sounds like the sort of lie they'd tell us in the Soviet Union so we'd stop bitching about bread lines.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/06/2026
I've spent the last two months putting together this exhaustive analysis of the New York Times coverage of trans people. It covers 3,242 articles over 12 years. In 2022, the NYT shifted towards a hostile stance towards trans people in their framing. www.thedissident.news/exclusive-ho...
thedissident.news
Exclusive: How The New York Times Changed Its Coverage of Trans People
An exhaustive analysis of over 3,242 articles by the New York Times covering transgender issues from 2014-2026 revealed a stark shift towards hostile framing in 2022. In January 2015, the New York Ti...
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Matt Curtis @mattcurtisnyc.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
What the fascists are planning to destroy here is what young public-health-nerd me (and many, many others) discovered as dreamy, amazing, and compelling. Curious, rigorous, adventurous, constantly creative in its expression of care for people. The Trump plan is mass death. Revenge is the word now.
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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
This is a murder
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Fascism's a fever you break with shit like what happened in New York last night. Create more excuses to feel things like that together.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 11/06/2026
Emi Koyama was most likely the first writer and activist to spin my sex work politics toward an analysis of racism, colonialism, and later disability justice. A tremendous loss, who left behind so much good work to continue. Grateful we got to share some spaces. Rest in power 🦋
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
people will make any excuse to stay and there isn’t a single good one left.
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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I've spent months speaking to current & retired Black service members about being part of the military in this political moment. What I found were officers and soldiers despondent at the resurgence of racism, yet often insistent that they were fighting for what this country could be, not what it is.
theatlantic.com
The Betrayal of Black Patriots
They devoted their lives to serving the United States. Now the nation’s top military leader is sending the message that they’re not welcome.
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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I really enjoy EB White's take on New York and New Yorkers.
An excerpt from EB White's Here is New York
There are roughly three New Yorks there is first the New York of the man or woman who was born here who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence is natural and inevitable second there is the New York of the commuter the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night third there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last the city of final destination the city that is a goal it is this third city that accounts for New York's high-strung disposition it's poetical deportment it's a dedication to the arts and it's incomparable achievements commuters give the city its title restlessness natives give it solidity and continuity but the settlers give it passion and whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors or a boy arriving from the corn belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart it makes no difference each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love each absorbs New York with fresh eyes of an adventurer each generates heat and light to dwarf the consolidated Edison company
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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
"What the Wounds Tell" just won this year’s European Press Prize. "Doctors in Gaza observed a disturbing pattern: children with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest, a sign that they had been deliberately targeted." www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...
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Gunshot wounds in Palestinian children indicate targeted fire
Doctors in Gaza observed a disturbing pattern: children with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest, a sign that they had been deliberately targeted. This emerges from research by de Volkskrant, ...
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Matt Curtis @mattcurtisnyc.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
On the 45th anniversary of the discovery of HIV, I spotted some Nan Goldin prints at the Stedelijk Museum. Always appreciate her.
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Matt Curtis @mattcurtisnyc.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
RIP Marjane Satrapi
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Marjane Satrapi, Author of ‘Persepolis,’ Dies at 56
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Here are the CDC positions they are saying are in the excepted service as policy roles — including "Epidemiologist," "Research Epidemiologist," and "Health Scientist."
Within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
Positions of "Human Resources Specialist" under position
description number E23455;
Positions of "Research Biologist" under position description
number R20025;
Positions of "Budget Analyst"
under position description number
E25006;
Positions of "Epidemiologist" under position description number
E23018;
Positions of "Health Scientist" under position description
numbers E20800, E23043, E23030, $23533, E22355, S21169, S21177, $21186, S23036, E21400, E21235, Z21004, Z23002, E24185, E23333,
and E24841;
Positions of "Supervisory Health Scientist" under position
description numbers E23477, E24003, E14003, E23220, E23777, E23216, E22235, S05016, E22284, E17059, E21289, E19106, E24847, E23315, E23153, E24187, E24868, E11026, E23205, E05001, E24028, and E24186;
Positions of "Research and Innovations Officer" under position
description number R22013;
Positions of "Research Epidemiologist" under position description
number E21230;
Positions of "Supervisory Research Health Scientist" under
position description number E23492;Positions of "Senior Policy Analyst" under position description
number S21115;
Positions of "Public Health Advisor" under position description
numbers E22228, E16054, E22306, E15815, E23007, E22258, E23149, S04041, E23611, S23288, $22276, E23416, S22108, and E22086;
Positions of "Public Health Analyst" under position description
numbers E16055, E23219, E23119, E23221, S17025, E06013, E23036, E10004, E15003, S19017, S20807, E17009, S17031, E22469, E23047, E17045, $22073, and $22334;
Positions of "Supervisory Public Health Analyst" under position
description numbers $23524, E22368, E24130, and E23330;
Positions of "Health Communications Specialist" under position
description number S23148;
Positions of "IT Communications & Policy Officer" under position
description number E23347;
Positions of "Supervisory Resource Management Specialist" under
position description number E24023;
Positions of "Supervisory Public Health Advisor" under position
description number E23328;
Positions of "Associate Director for Communications" under
position description number E22272;
Positions of "Fiscal Planning and Evaluation Officer" under
position description number E19539;
Positions of "Health Policy and Issues Management Officer" under
position description numbers E19097 and E11019;Positions of "Management and Operations Specialist" under
position description number E23452;
Positions of "Policy and Planning Officer" under position
description numbers E20179 and E17064;
Positions of "Strategy and Innovation Officer" under position
description number E20032;
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”
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Julie Novkov @jnovkov.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
This amazing image really captures the Tennessee fight and it's all over the internet. I am reposting it to encourage people to credit photographer Nicole Hester and the Tennessean.
Rep. Justin Pearson D- Memphis attempts to attend a Senate Committee meeting and is denied entry by the Sergeant at Arms on the second day of special session concerning redistricting at Cordell Hull State Office Building in Nashville on Wednesday, May 6, 2026.
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Triple the rate. 3 times more likely to have grants suspended. “Compared to the all NIH-funded investigators in 2024, investigators who received targeted terminations were more likely to self-identify as… Black/African American (n = 86, 11.9% vs 4.0%)”
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I think we have gotten away from understanding that the Constitution offers more “political spaces” that just elections or cases. Amendments are a democratic moment that are not elections. We are trying to stuff everything that works to make a democracy into two forms: elections or cases.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
1/People always ask me: when the Supreme Court creates bad law what do you do? Well, we can start with amending the Constitution. Between 1909 and 1920, we amended the Constitution, 4 times. We have not amended the Constitution since 1971. We might want to figure out some new amendments.
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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
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CDC won’t publish report showing covid shots cut likelihood of hospital visits
The report, which had cleared the agency’s scientific-review process, had been delayed. It now won’t be published at all, people familiar with the decision told The Post.
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Lisa Maier @lisamaier.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
More than 70% of displaced Palestinian households in the occupied West Bank identified threats to women & children — particularly sexualised violence — as the decisive reason for leaving their communities. Israel uses sexual violence as a weapon to force Palestinians from their homes bit.ly/4cL01m2
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Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank, report says
Experts say attacks, also carried out by settlers, are leading girls to quit school and enter early marriages
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The Onion @theonion.com · 20/04/2026
www.theonion.info
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed. We must get rid of Palantir altogether. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...
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Because we get asked a lot. by @PalantirTech(Palantir) | Twitter Thread Reader
Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affir...
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 15/04/2026
Despicable fucking government.
After placing her in handcuffs, she said, two of those four agents at the airport drove Batra to ICE's field office in Harlingen in an unmarked van. She had been there many times over the years to renew her work permit and to help attorneys with translation. Office staff recognized her as she was being processed. Agents posed for photos with her handcuffed, which they said for
"social media," according to the habeas filing.
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Matt Curtis @mattcurtisnyc.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
This thread describes some of the pure lunacy involved in destroying USAID and its catastrophic consequences. We should all be sharpening our knives for the day we can get revenge on the perpetrators.
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Matt Curtis @mattcurtisnyc.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Excellent thread on Magyar’s approach to organizing leading to yesterday’s victory.
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