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Matt Wood

@mattfieldwood.bsky.social
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VP of Policy at @freepress.bsky.social. Opinions on the rest are mine, all mine!

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5h
They’re all crooks. Some are just dumber than others.
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Exclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex Account
Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.
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Committee for the First Amendment @1acommittee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Meanwhile: "Skydance Bumps Pay, Extends Contracts For Top Execs; New Bonuses For WBD Brass" deadline.com/2026/10/skyd...
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Skydance Extends Employment Contracts With Pay Bumps For CEO, Top Execs
Skydance extended and expanded employment agreements for key corporate executives including David Ellison, and WBD revealed merger-related bonuses.
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Committee for the First Amendment @1acommittee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And so it begins, with thanks to CA electeds who caved to the oligarchs. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social @robbonta.bsky.social @xavierbecerra.bsky.social @mayor.lacity.gov So afraid of threatened job loss they backed 100% guaranteed job loss. 🥀
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Matt Wood @mattfieldwood.bsky.social · 12h
I can say, with 80 billion percent certainty, that I will never watch a single film or show that David Ellison and his dystopian robots have A/B/C/D/E/F/G/H/I/J/K/L/M/N/O/P/Q/R/S/T tested with 20 different shitty AI versions. What an abomination.
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Free Press @freepress.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Changing this limit requires congressional action, but Carr doesn't care. He'll do whatever it takes to clear the way for Trump-aligned billionaires to swallow up stations wherever and whenever they please."- Free Press' @mattfieldwood.bsky.social via @arstechnica.com
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Cable lobby to sue Trump FCC over repeal of national TV ownership cap
Cable industry to sue, says FCC can't repeal TV ownership limit set by Congress.
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 07/10/2026
New lawsuits and reporting underscore that the GOP rallying cry that ending Roe would “send abortion back to the states" came with a huge hidden asterisk—that posture was temporary. It’s only a matter of time until Trump’s nominees make it even harder to get an abortion nationwide. Me in @ms.now
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Opinion | Todd Blanche’s marching orders on abortion restrictions couldn’t be clearer
Republicans’ claim that overturning Roe v. Wade would “send abortion back to the states” came with a hidden asterisk.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 06/10/2026
New: As Trump's meme coin dangled a gala dinner with the president for its top buyers, the wallet holding the creators' tokens moved ~$70M of $TRUMP to an account where it can be sold. @jeffstein.bsky.social for @washingtonsun.com
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Trump’s Meme Coin Firm Wants You to Buy. Insiders Are Preparing to Sell.
Trump personally made more than $600 million from his meme coin last year.
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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 04/10/2026
If you need to teach a class on AI slop, you can get very far with these tags and the paper below which includes slopolicies (policy responses to slop). • www.404media.co/tag/ai-slop/ • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_slop
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Heather Franklin @heatherfranklin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’m on sabbatical hiding in the woods, but this is what I imagine every single person who fought to stop this merger has been saying today.
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CJ The West Wing: I Did!
Alt: CJ from The West Wing saying “I could’ve told you that was going to happen. Hang on. No, wait, I did!
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Jessica J. González @jgo4justice.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And here's the job loss announcement on day 1 of the shitty Paramount/Warner Bros. merger. Fear not. The billionaires will slash a bunch of jobs for their own selfish aims, but they'll do it "respectfully." This is what Newsom et al. folded to. Billionaire capture. variety.com/2026/film/ne...
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Skydance CEOs Acknowledge Layoffs Will Be Coming After Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger: Read the Full Memo
Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery have officially merged into Skydance Corp. And the top leaders have notified the new company's staffers that layoffs are in the offing.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Not that anyone needs a reminder but this man has the nuclear codes. Far too many people will just shrug this off or find some way to justify it. But Trump is unwell, incoherent, and a danger to us all.
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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💫✨🌟Mare🌟✨💫 @utexas-96.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Asking for a friend
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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randy39.bsky.social @randy39.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger
The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We murdered four more people in a boat today
U.S. southern Command: On October 4, under the direction of #SOUTHCOM, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal, kinetic strike on a go-fast vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean. Confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel's active involvement in narco-trafficking. The operation killed four narco-terrorists. @DeptofWar
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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💙Matthew U.💙 @match74.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There is no moral equivalence between bullies and the bullied, between tyranny and democracy, or between brutality and decency. No individual can be free in a society devoid of justice. There can be no liberty where brutality reigns.
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Jim Robert @mollygrub.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This guy has been doing everything he possibly can every day to use his position of SecDef to tamper with the midterms, from speaking at Republican campaign rallies, to giving partisan political speeches to troops, to this. Do all federal employees get a day off to vote?
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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Frankensteinian trust of Paramount, Warner Bros., CBS, Turner, and Discovery will be called...Skydance. I'm glad the pieces are retaining their individual identities so they can dissembled when staggering debt collapses this exercise in corporate hubris. whbl.com/2026/10/02/d... #FilmSky
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David Ellison says combined Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery will be named Skydance
Oct 2 (Reuters) - Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison said on Friday that the combined company would be ​named Skydance, once its merger ‌with Warner Bros Discovery closes next week. The name was cho...
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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 02/10/2026
Disastrous decisions right off the bat. Fuck Skydance. Warner Bros. is cooking these days under these two, who genuinely like movies and love making them. This is a great indicator that this merger is going to ruin EVERYTHING.
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David Howe @monolithfiji.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If this is legal, it needs to be made illegal. There is clearly something broken when clear monopolies are allowed to flourish. The fact that this is inherently a right-wing operation is beside the point, NO company should have this much power over media. This is going to be a bloodbath for workers
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Evil Con Fettie @spacebeer.net · 02/10/2026
I don’t even have a joke about this. It’s just soul crushing news for any artist who was looking to go into TV animation, really. Fuck you Newsom
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caffeine anxiety ego death @mxdshipwreck.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When they say AVENGERS DOOMSDAY is the "darkest movie ever made" they mean in terms of lighting. you're not gonna see a fucking thing
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Michael Edwards @medwardsva.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"The darkest movie ever made" PG-13
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I mean i love capeshit as much as the next emotionally stunted man in his 50s but “one of the darkest movies ever made”? it’s hardly Come and See, is it?
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 02/10/2026
"In disclosures buried in securities filings, [Meta] warns that billions in tax savings are vulnerable to being overturned by the I.R.S., in large part because of “uncertainties with our research tax credits.”" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So Americans pay more taxes in order to get AI centers in their backyards. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Meta is lying to the IRS in order to claim billions in tax breaks. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump has trashed the economy, destroyed America’s international standing, and suffered a humiliation at the hands of Iran. But a woman I’ve never heard of before sent her kid to the wrong school in a city I don’t live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is the 59th death in ICE detention since Trump took office.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 01/10/2026
Christa Pike was tortured by the state of Tennessee yesterday. This is now the second horrific botched execution by Tennessee in less than six months.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is the definition of cruel and unusual punishment. The state of Tennessee botched an execution and tried to hide the gory consequences as witnesses twice watched a woman survival the supposedly “lethal” injection. The death penalty is a crime against humanity.
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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 01/10/2026
One thing I admire about my friends on the left is a desire to compromise and talk through disagreement. But it does leave this side open to bad-faith manipulation from actors who try to use self-interested calls to dialogue as a way to sand off their own rough edges. It takes two to dialogue.
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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 01/10/2026
The A1 example of this is to contrast ‘16 and ‘20. Lots of liberal handwringing and calls to understand the other side after Trump I ( speaks to a value many on the left have) but after Biden won in ‘20 the other side tried to overthrow the government and the left was asked to understand that too. 😂
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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 01/10/2026
We are at part of the cycle where Republicans are about to lose badly, and so they pivot to talking about the rhetoric temperature as if there is no pathology to it. Every dang time, hacking a real desire for dialogue but asking nothing meaningful of the most vicious voices in the right.
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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 01/10/2026
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I love living in a country where a politician can sign a law banning the health care I need to live and be greeted as a hero of comity and good sense
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The other thing that Gov. Cox “expanded” is the Utah Supreme Court, adding two seats after his political party lost a big redistricting case.
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 01/10/2026
Oh so an immensely powerful man isn’t allowed to enjoy carefree vacations, just because some of his neighbors notice that he has presided over a rollback of their rights and the destruction of the constitutional order? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him. (Gift Article)
After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Shoot this into my veins.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
John Roberts' friend and defender is quoted in the piece, saying they shouldn't be shaming Roberts for the wreckage and ruin he's brought to this country because of "civility." The bullies always cry "civility" when the victims push back in the slightest.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Chuck Grassley also did not share the texts with Democratic senators before the hearing, breaking protocol.
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Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Republicans came to Tuesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing determined to prove that former special counsel Jack Smith had abused his power, lied under oath, and perhaps committed perjury. Instead, they briefly proved that Hawks and Hawkeyes are two different basketball teams." .
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Schmitt for Brains
Republicans came to Tuesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing determined to prove that former special counsel Jack Smith had abused his power, lied under oath, and perhaps committed perjury.
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Ann @lifeinthepnw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Dear Eric Schmitt: Other places where Jack Smith was not on February 3 — Skateboarding with Tony Hawk Watching a Howard Hawks film Visiting Ethan Hawke Jamming with Hamish Hawk At a Seattle Seahawks game At a Chicago Blackhawks game Birdwatching Cooper’s hawks …but now he’s watching you like a hawk
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