Sign in

Matt

@mattferrel.bsky.social
6.2K followers 5.5K following 18K posts

Political news junkie. Blocks doomers, bigots, & engagement farmers following > 10k on sight. No patience for non-voters or far left who blame Dems instead of GOP for our problems.

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Matt
Tyler 🏳️‍🌈 @tcoop6231.bsky.social · 4h
It's a dagger pointed at the heart of MAGA because The Thing that attracted so many of them to Trump was QAnon. It turns out there was, in fact, a cabal of pedos running the country. They're just all working for the Trump administration.
0194
Reposted by Matt
Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 5h
Three! Osborn, Cooper and Talarico ads (or aligned PACs) are going all-in on pedocon theory.
719130
Reposted by Matt
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h
“Well, you see, I have to stay on the White Supremacist Child Porn Rape Victim Doxxing site because that’s where my community is”
232314481
Reposted by Matt
Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 8h
Someone should send this to Sen. Schmitt.
Hawk vs. Hawkeye
813135
Reposted by Matt
Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 7h
A fuckup so dumb even NYT homepage/headline writers have no choice but to describe it accurately
As Jack Smith Testifies, a Senator’s Accusation of Perjury Falters

A Republican eager to prove the former special counsel was dishonest appeared to instead demonstrate his own confusion over basic facts.
802449379
Reposted by Matt
Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 10h
Jesus Christ dude
402045597
Reposted by Matt
Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The tweet that immediately came to mind:
We're a modest company with modest goals:
1: sell a quality product at a fair price
2: drain the world's oceans so we can find and kill god
6:19 PM • Oct 21, 2014 • Twitter for iPhone
9.8K Retweets
32.7K Likes
221725395
Reposted by Matt
Such a Kevin @kevinkohler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I can't be the only one here hoping for a @jamellebouie.net / @dieworkwear.bsky.social collaboration.
1164
Reposted by Matt
Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump started a war that Biden intentionally did not start, and in fact told Bibi to fuck off about. And this fact has broken the brains of the weakest minded on this app. Because it definitively proves Biden was the better choice than Trump, and they fucked up and caused way, way more harm.
722666
Reposted by Matt
Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today, in Russian propaganda:
Schaeffer Marlyse. @Schaef... • 6h
S
• Translated from French Show original
I am a French mother with beautiful children.
I did not give birth to them for them to be sent to the trenches.
French and Russian mothers do not want their children to fight against each other.
We are not enemies.
#RuslandIsNotMyEnemyEls van Veen O
Follow
@veen_els
I'm a Dutch mother with beautiful sons. I did not give birth to my children to be sent into the trenches. Dutch and Russian mums don't want their boys fighting each other. We are not enemies. #RuslandIsNotMyEnemyNadja @EuropaNormal • 9h
• Translated from German Show original
I am a German mother with a beautiful son. I didn't give birth to my child to send him into the trenches. German and Russian mothers do not want their boys to fight against each other. We are not enemies.
#RuslandIsNotMyEnemyDday @DdayohneZiffern • 12h
I'm a German mother with beautiful sons. I did not give birth to my children to be sent into the trenches. German and Russian mums don't want their boys fighting each other. We are not enemies.
#RuslandIsNotMyEnemy
47934335
Reposted by Matt
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
1260183645935
Reposted by Matt
Laura likes to read a lot @lrrzmdrgl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here are their names and a wonderful soul created a website to keep track of them. thecornell7.org Also, since we are talking about college rapists Brock Turner now goes by Allen Turner and lives in Ohio
Photo of the Cornell seven rapists: Matthew Ingalls, Diego Sarabia, Winston 
Lee, ScottKertzschmar, Scott Norris, Gillio Lopez, and Jonathan Newwell 
A website to keep track of them: thecornell7.org
322870
Reposted by Matt
Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s going to be pretty fucked up when this baby yeti starts telling people to kill themselves.
Subway display ad for meta’s muse ai product billed as “ai that gets it done.” The mascot is a little smiling fuzzy white puppet guy.
743124431
Reposted by Matt
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Right there with you. presswatchers.org/2026/08/call...
presswatchers.org
Calling for a moratorium on ‘Trump says’ headlines | Press Watch
18 New York Times ‘Trump says’ headlines in a recent 3-month period spread misinformation
46210
Reposted by Matt
Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.
290154354249
Reposted by Matt
@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...
cornellsun.com
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.
342460755
Reposted by Matt
Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026
it’s bad, actually, that much of the industry is gatekept by people whose standard for hiring a woman is “are you a Cool Girl who is into weird men doing sex stuff at her all the time?”
282627467
Reposted by Matt
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pathetic collapse of journalistic solidarity. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/business…
nytimes.com
TV Networks to Resume Trump Coverage, Even as White House Excludes CNN (Gift Article)
The White House TV pool went dark this past week amid a standoff between CNN and the president. Network leaders, however, believe an indefinite suspension may be untenable.
751388334
Reposted by Matt
Jon Stahl @aardvarkzebra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Science fiction author @cstross.bsky.social absolutely nailed it all the way back in 2023: www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...
antipope.org
We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus - Charlie's Diary
(This is the text of a talk I delivered at the Next Frontiers Applied Fiction Day in Stuttgart on Friday November 10th, 2023. Note: early draft, contains some typos, I'll fix them next week when I get home.)
0267
Reposted by Matt
Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Thank you Governor Newsom for signing my bill to strengthen California’s ban on youth conversion therapy — psychological torture where a therapist tries to change someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity. Conversion therapy has caused incalculable harm to LGBTQ young people over the years. 🧵
418838
Reposted by Matt
Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026
like I suspect many of you on This Website, I think a core reason why I find Eliezer Yudkowsky and his rationalist and effective altruist satellites so intensely annoying is because I had a VERY similar “being a super weird, pretentious, hyper-literate kid” experience - I just, you know, grew up.
522544258
Reposted by Matt
JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
3233541237
Reposted by Matt
En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Congratulations to everyone who voted for Trump & Republicans, hated COVID-19 health measures, and/or "did their own research" on vaccine safety. We got an actual nationwide measles outbreak. Almost 3700 known infections so far. www.medicaldaily.com/us-measles-3...
medicaldaily.com
U.S. Measles Cases Reach 3,659 and Pennsylvania Hits 890 as Long-Running Outbreaks Test Elimination Status Before November Review
U.S. measles cases hit 3,659, and Pennsylvania reached 890. See why outbreaks that began in 2025 matter ahead of the November elimination review.
062
Reposted by Matt
Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
5776082089
Reposted by Matt
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Susan Collins is always horrified by the predictable results of her own vote, which means Mainers who genuinely care about Susan Collins should elect Troy Jackson as he won’t vote for things that wind up upsetting Susan Collins, unlike Susan Collins
804141948
Reposted by Matt
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
We had to wait for the....NEW YORK POST to write about this. Y'all know there is so much more where this came from but journalists don't want to dig and people are terrified to speak to any journalist seeing the type of reporting they've been doing
301752672
Reposted by Matt
James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ken Paxton keeps dodging debates. So I called his cell to invite him to a debate on Fox News. He didn’t pick up.
579175964486
Reposted by Matt
Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Twitter not laughing at your jokes, buy Twitter. HBO owns streaming rights to an unflattering exposé, buy a piece of HBO. Government regulations threaten your businesses, buy the government. Elon Musk seems determined to be a case study in the problem with unfettered wealth.
472694774
Reposted by Matt
Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
16892733039
Reposted by Matt
fakelawn @fakelawn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
What today’s Dem base longs for is a smug right-leaning centrist who hates the base, volunteered for the IDF (twice), and once covered up the murder of a teenager by the Chicago Police.
317820
Reposted by Matt
Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I live in an Idaho-adjacent state and am now following this story with interest. It would be very funny if Bsky could help get a non-Republican elected to the Senate from Idaho.
311347164
Reposted by Matt
Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Coming around to the idea that the biggest priority for Americans interested in keeping liberal democracy alive for the next several decades is whole scale reform of the Supreme Court and the judiciary. We can't afford to have Reconstruction 2.0 hampered by the SCOTUS like Reconstruction 1.0 was.
626562
Reposted by Matt
Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Anyways, this is genuinely the funniest chart in the world because it shows Jill Stein's twitter use spikes every four years and only during years where there's a federal election so if she's breaking her silence now *someone* is panicking
14761206
Reposted by Matt
Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care.” H/t @ameshaa.bsky.social
nbcnews.com
America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
23535622004
Reposted by Matt
Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is Nazi rhetoric. Not similar. Not Nazi-like. It’s straight up lebensraum.
362973910
Reposted by Matt
Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The kids these days will hardly believe it, but a mere two years ago, the mental & physical (lack of) acuity of Elderly Presidents was the Great Issue of Our Time. Someone should tell Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson, so they can write a book on it.
211419312
Reposted by Matt
Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEWS: My new investigation uncovers the horrific ChatGPT history of the Tumbler Ridge school shooter. OpenAI’s chatbot fueled the shooter's violent fantasies and plans up to the day of the massacre. Chats about guns, timing of attacks, becoming infamous, and more. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
motherjones.com
ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
421468805
Reposted by Matt
Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
[white guy raising eyebrows meme] [and yes, it is 100% okay to do a story like this about a high-ranking cabinet member of a homophobic party, so scolds are gonna get goodbyed very quickly]
1724834
Reposted by Matt
Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There's long been talk about Mullin but it's the first time I've seen it in the national press. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...
advocate.com
Nothing to see here? DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin shares a D.C. home with a Republican congressman
The homeland security secretary, who owns dozens of properties, met Rep. Jason Smith during bipartisan congressional workouts more than a decade ago.
54626130
Reposted by Matt
Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Oligarchs. The word for very rich businesspeople directly connected to the top of the government and playing a role in high-level government functions is “oligarchs.” Way beyond lobbying, donating, and advisory councils. Trump brought them on his trip to China too. America has oligarchs now.
25996343
Reposted by Matt
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/09/2026
Enten: "President Trump has the highest strongly disapprove rating going into a midterm election on record. 50% of Americans now say that they strongly disapprove of the job he's doing. The previous record was Trump going into 2018 ... just 18% strongly approve of the job Trump is doing."
1361914481
Reposted by Matt
Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Remarkable: An Iowa right wing radio host just leaked word that GOP polling shows House Rs in peril even in districts Trump won by +10. The culript? Trump and the war. On the pod, Iowa Dem chair Rita Hart explains why the conditions are ripe for big Dem rural gains: newrepublic.com/article/2158...
newrepublic.com
MAGA Radio Host Humiliates Trump by Leaking Truly Brutal GOP Poll Data
As an Iowa-based pro-Trump personality drops a midterm bombshell, the chair of the Iowa Democratic Party discusses whether Democrats are about to regain major ground in rural America.
54990299
Reposted by Matt
merritt @merrittk.com · 25/09/2026
i heard woke is trying to do same-sex bathrooms now... they want our sons pissing next to each other to turn them gay
103554478
Matt @mattferrel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Still no regrets about this. NPR’s @steveinskeep.bsky.social platformed white supremacist Tucker Carlson just yesterday.
010
Matt @mattferrel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Evergreen
020
Reposted by Matt
Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 25/09/2026
tucker carlson is a foppish frozen TV dinner empire heir, a virulent bigot, and a grotesque opportunist/propagandist. it's embarrassing that NPR editors think he needs more attention for his phony-ass pivot away from a nightmare he helped build
NPR headline for tucker carlson interview: "Tucker Carlson has reconsidered Trump. And quite a bit else."
50968208
Reposted by Matt
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Republicans are the cause of your problems not the solution” is a winning message every election but they’re bringing literal receipts now
293691873
Reposted by Matt
teamhamiltonhq.bsky.social @teamhamiltonhq.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Meischa was Roger Marshall's patient. This is her story.
412012735
Reposted by Matt
Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Earlier this year, Tucker Carlson said that “the defining fact of our lives is that whites around the world are being eliminated.” Journos who don’t watch his show are helping his effort to rebrand so he isn’t a liability for his protege JD Vance’s 2028 run. www.mediamatters.org/jd-vance/tuc...
mediamatters.org
Tucker Carlson helped make JD Vance. The VP refuses to condemn his antisemitism.
30895285