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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 16/09/2026

I still have it open in a tab to read but this headline/quote alone really seems to nail this same concept.

Screenshot of a post, the title of which is "White peoples humanity is "just humanity" but yours is "politics"

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 14/09/2026

Thank you, Macklemore. This right here 👇🏻

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:

لا شكر على واجب

"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.

That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 22/08/2026

Sure, Bluesky is an anti AI bubble. But have you considered that your "AI isn't going away" take has to address the idea that one, AI bros actually believe this shit, and two, AI tells them they're smart and should share this Insanity with everyone, not seek help.

Samuel Hammond tweet stating that since "AI are digital minds" opposing AI is "population controls."

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 19/08/2026

Sam Avraham nails the situation with the rise of antisemitism and how it’s being maliciously misattributed to “both sides” by multiple different groups for multiple different purposes. newsletter.mattdragon.com/archive/thin...

Protestors behind metal gates with a Gaza sign on it. Many are wearing keffiyehs and some are holding signs: Stop funding Genocide. Ceasefire in Gaza now. Never again for anyone.

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 29/07/2026

We’ve been told for years that our country, even the blue parts, is hostile to our Black neighbors, women, LGBTQIA+. It’s time to start listening. newsletter.mattdragon.com/archive/thin...

A historical marker in Charleston, SC noting the history of that space as a slave marketplace. It is centered in the photo, alongside a cobblestone lane on one side and parked cars and a solar powered compacting trash can on the other. The sign appears to stand in the middle between the past it retells and the present the reader stands in while reading it.

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 30/06/2026

Props to this lady, telling him to wrap this nonsense up. Gotta keep the show on time or the massive crowds won't make the last train home.

A woman in a white dress tells the dude debating a 10-year-old girl arguing witches are (were?) real

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 26/06/2026

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Screenshot from piece: Our country has a long history of people dying for demanding or daring to try to exercise their right to vote. Congressional Democrats clearly have no plan to stop ICE from committing whatever violence they choose, wherever they choose to inflict it.

So it will require the rest of us, the regular folks, to stand up, just as we have in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Minnesota. State and County Democratic Party Democratic Committees should be game planning with local officials, their members, and their communities. It’s not a question of if ICE and CBP will try to interfere on Election Day. It’s a question of whether communities can out-organize them.

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 23/06/2026

🧵But as Amanda Gorman said “the norms and notions of what just is, isn’t always justice” So what is justice, and what will you do to keep it from being “just is?” www.publicsq.org/news-poems-1... Photo credit: unsplash.com/photos/grand...

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 23/06/2026

🧵It’s not easy to bend the arc, not because it’s heavy, but because it’s slippery, coated in blood drawn by whiteness, tears shed in anguish, never joy www.publicsq.org/news-poems-1... Photo credit: unsplash.com/photos/grand...

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 06/06/2026

We must remain steadfast in continuing to pay attention to both, and advocate for both, as these are not separate crises, but are deeply and permanently linked. newsletter.mattdragon.com/archive/thin...

A protestor flies an upside down US flag across from a riot line of police officers near Delaney Hall. The sky is a light blue as the sun sets with a scattering of clouds. Behind the police line in the distance a number of emergency vehicle lights backlight the line of officers.

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 31/05/2026

Somehow there is no dispute that the conditions inside of Delaney Hall are inhumane, disgusting, and unnecessary. It’s outside the gates that the Democrats we’ve elected are lying to our faces. newsletter.mattdragon.com/archive/dela...

Sign taped to a store window:
Private Property
Absolutely No I.C.E. Allowed
ICE agents may NOT enter private areas without a judicial warrant
We do not consent to any searches without legal authority

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 29/05/2026

As #ICE escalates violence in #Newark, resharing my thoughts on how they could be used to influence the November #elections. #njpol #newjersey www.publicsq.org/latest-artic...

Protest sign:
CowardICE
PrejudICE
InjustICE
MalICE
Stop ICE and also F**K ICE

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 29/05/2026

As ICE escalates violence in Newark, resharing my thoughts on how they could be used to influence the November elections www.publicsq.org/latest-artic...

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 29/05/2026

Uh ... You just keep showing up. Where are you all coming from and what do you think I can provide you?

Alt text of multiple Bluesky notifications about dozens of new followers.

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 20/05/2026

LOL, Bill Spadea remains the all time NJ champion of lack of self awareness

QUOTE OF THE DAY: "He did this to himself. Tragic figure. So much promise, Gave it away for ego and hurt feelings. Time to move on. Lame duck. The GOP better figure it out soon." — Radio host and former 2025 GOP gubernatorial candidate Bill Spadea on the declining polls of President Donald Trump, who endorsed his rival Jack Ciattarelli.

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 19/05/2026

This tweet from Gottheimer after an attack on Muslims doesn't undo the violent rhetoric and hate he stokes on a weekly basis. Yet he gets platformed in the NY Times and the Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Atheist students who stood together against a genocide and for humanity got expelled. Vote them out.

@RepJoshG tweet: "There is no room for hate in America.

We are praying for the victims and families impacted by the horrific shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego. No one should ever fear for their safety while worshipping or gathering in their community.

We must stand united against Islamophobia. America is strongest when we protect every person's freedom to live and worship in peace."

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 16/05/2026

In lieu of flowers: Do the work. Continue the fight. Attend the protest. Believe women. Fire the racist cops. Hold power accountable. Share the words. Write the stories. www.publicsq.org/news-poems-1...

In a black and white photo, a single flower bent downwards toward the camera from a bouquet of flowers as if bowing its head.

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 15/05/2026

In lieu of flowers, actually fight for something, show up for each other. In lieu of flowers, give politicians ultimatums, donate to the folks actually doing the work, stop playing not to lose. www.publicsq.org/news-poems-1...

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 15/05/2026

They just closed your eyes. No need for any shroud. You were already in your swaddle blanket. In lieu of flowers, help replace the swaddle blanket we buried you in. www.publicsq.org/news-poems-1...

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 10/05/2026

Did they repurpose the bottom half of an MC Hammer statue?

MC Hammer wearing gold parachute pants and a black and gold jacket with his left foot on a folding chair and his left elbow resting on his knee.

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 01/05/2026

It's been an angry birthday month... Some real bangers in there though

Tidal top songs for April:
Open their wallets - Spose
A world without billionaires - Spose
Blood on the wheel - Everlast, WLPWR
Song for Alicia - Haley Heyndericks, Max Garcia Conover
Scooby - corook
Fucked up - Macklemore

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 30/04/2026

Oh it definitely is going to "hit different"

An ad for make up to wear red white and blue on your face for the World Cup. A smoking woman with red white and blue sparkle is below the wording "The World Cup hits different in the USA"

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 28/04/2026

🧵The real downside here is that new writers will have an even higher barrier to entry. Voices will be missed in the noise. Stories will go untold. #ai #writing #stories newsletter.mattdragon.com/archive/thin...

Cardboard protest sign: "What lessens one of us lessens all of us."
"What lessens" and "lessens" are written in black, "one of us," "all of us" are written in red.

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 27/04/2026

🧵But, Hathaway lost. Resoundingly rejected by voters from across the political spectrum. But I think it’s troubling that a subset of voters decided, largely from their personal position of privilege, ... newsletter.mattdragon.com/archive/thin...

Concrete wall with white letters stenciled: "we all live here"
On the top left side of the photo the trees are shading the wall and partially shading "we."

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 27/04/2026

Well, sir, there's nothing on earth Like a genuine, bona fide Electrified, six-car BALLROOM What'd I say? BALLROOM What's it called? BALLROOM That's right! BALLROOM What's it called? BALLROOM Once again BALLROOM But Main Street's still all cracked and broken Sorry, Mom, the mob has spoken BALLROOM

The end of the Monorail song in the Simpsons. The town has just finished a big musical number and the scammer Lyle Lanley is front and center.

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 26/04/2026

🧵Democrats have repeatedly lost elections where they ran as Diet Republican. And in the NJ 11 Special Election, the Republican tried to portray himself as Democrat Lite, and lost too. newsletter.mattdragon.com/archive/thin...

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 24/04/2026

🧵So because the Democratic candidate stated the nearly universally agreed upon rational and fact based analysis that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, a bunch of folks should vote for a Republican “just this one time.” newsletter.mattdragon.com/archive/thin...

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 22/04/2026

🧵“Republicans want to inspect children’s genitals. That’s weird, I just can’t support that while supporting equal rights for everyone. Next question.” newsletter.mattdragon.com/archive/thin...

Flyer says: "Palestinian Joy is Resistance" in black letters on white background. "Palestinian Joy" is in much larger letters. To the right of the words is a Palestinian flag hanging vertically with the green stripe on the left and the black stripe on the right. At the bottom it has tassels like a keffiyeh

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 22/04/2026

🧵Leave trans people the fuck alone - They’re just people. Stop obsessing about them. Stop worrying about if using someones pronouns will cost you an election. Stop allowing them to be centered and blamed, by just not participating in it. newsletter.mattdragon.com/archive/thin...

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 21/04/2026

🧵Shrink the Presidency, permanently and irrevocably - We aren’t supposed to have a unitary executive. In fact we fought a whole war and founded our country on the idea that it was a bad idea. newsletter.mattdragon.com/archive/thin...

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 20/04/2026

🧵We are not just off script, we are off galaxy. There is no plan. In the past few years we finally achieved the promise of the internet: Connecting the globe in a way that could unify humanity and let us truly see our planetary neighbors. newsletter.mattdragon.com/archive/thin...

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 20/04/2026

Someone will pick up this quote, shared as advice to writers, & say "Guess what? AI can do this first pass writing for you!" No, it can't! Writing is thinking. The reason your piece changes as you edit & rewrite is because you're figuring out what you want to say. Using AI means you're not thinking.

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All of my time and all of my attention. It’s the only way I know how to write, darn it. But I do have a trick that makes things easier for me. Since writing is very hard and rewriting is comparatively easy and rather fun, I always write my scripts all the way through as fast as I can, the first day, if possible, putting in crap jokes and pattern dialogue—“Homer, I don’t want you to do that.” “Then I won’t do it.” Then the next day, when I get up, the script’s been written. It’s lousy, but it’s a script. The hard part is done. It’s like a crappy little elf has snuck into my office and badly done all my work for me, and then left with a tip of his crappy hat. All I have to do from that point on is fix it. So I’ve taken a very hard job, writing, and turned it into an easy one, rewriting, overnight. I advise all writers to do their scripts and other writing this way. And be sure to send me a small royalty every time you do it.

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 19/04/2026

Whose joy is allowed, while the world burns? While the genocide continues? While the ethnic cleansing spreads to Lebanon? While we bomb Iran? While we build concentration camps? newsletter.mattdragon.com/archive/thin...

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 18/04/2026

It is, has been, and always will be a genocide. They are, have been, and always will be concentration camps. We are, have been, and always will be terrorists in other countries across the globe and historically (and now again under Trump), in our own cities. newsletter.mattdragon.com/archive/thin...

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 18/04/2026

🧵It’s not a question of if ICE and CBP will try to interfere on Election Day. It’s a question of whether communities can out-organize them. www.publicsq.org/latest-artic...

protest sign: It's time to DE-ICE America

A cardboard sign:
CowardICE
PrejudICE
InjustICE
MalICE!

STOP ICE
* and also, F**K ICE

The references to ICE are in light blue, the work STOP is the largest on the sign and is in red with black outline.

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 18/04/2026

🧵So it will require the rest of us, the regular folks, to stand up, just as we have in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Minnesota. State and County Democratic Party Democratic Committees should be game planning with local officials, their members, and their communities. www.publicsq.org/latest-artic...

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 18/04/2026

🧵Our country has a long history of people dying for demanding or daring to try to exercise their right to vote. Congressional Democrats clearly have no plan to stop ICE from committing whatever violence they choose, wherever they choose to inflict it. www.publicsq.org/latest-artic...

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 17/04/2026

"...your tongues will one day testify against you." Fucking 🔥

Screenshot of post by @omarsuleiman:
I'm receiving a number of press inquiries to defend myself against the "antisemite" smear. I'm not doing any of those.

Anyone who defends a state or its ideology that has enabled its soldiers to gleefully snipe dead thousands of Palestinian children or gang rape Palestinian prisoners to death ALL ON CAMERA should be on trial, not me or anyone who dares speak out. Those who defend this genocide and occupation are worse than the apologists of any monstrous regime or actor in history because these crimes have been filmed for the world to see, and are well documented by every human rights organization in the world. Call me what you want. My family and people's blood is on your hands, and your tongues will one day testify against you.

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 17/04/2026

🧵So what can we do? We must apply the lessons of Minnesota citizen ICE patrols to our voting infrastructure. We need regular citizens monitoring for ICE presence outside polling sites. Costumes, whistles, brass bands, the whole Minnesota treatment. www.publicsq.org/latest-artic...

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 16/04/2026

🧵If you have the means, donate to a group doing immigration support, or mutual aid, or helping the victims of our own country's genocidal and ethnic cleansing campaigns. One way or another, do something. We must bear witness. newsletter.mattdragon.com/archive/thin...

Screenshot from header of piece:
"We must bear witness"
Photo of "Gaza" spelled out on black rectangles with white letters and led lights. In front of the letters are a Ceasefire Now sign and a heart in white tea lights.

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 16/04/2026

🧵But if you are able, if you can attend a protest, or start a protest if you can’t find an existing one. Show up. newsletter.mattdragon.com/archive/thin...

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 16/04/2026

🧵Even worse, those state and local police officers were often called out for antagonizing protestors and escalating non-lethal but still very violent responses to the protestors, not just protecting ICE, but facilitating their work. www.publicsq.org/latest-artic...

protest sign: It's time to DE-ICE America

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 16/04/2026

🧵But what if those defeats were considered wins by the White House? A common theme across Los Angeles, Chicago, Minnesota, and Maine was that local and state police did nothing to prevent or prosecute blatant rights violations. www.publicsq.org/latest-artic...

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 16/04/2026

🧵But let's step back a moment. Many would describe community responses to ICE invasions and occupations of US cities as victories, & rightfully so: Kidnappings thwarted, immigrants supported by their neighbors, & large numbers of the occupiers ultimately pushed out. www.publicsq.org/latest-artic...

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