Reposted by Matt GreenfieldMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 27/09/2026please read 23550144
Reposted by Matt GreenfieldMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The cases dropped included white collar crime, drugs and terrorism, 23,000 of them, all during the first six months of Trump’s second term. Instead the DOJ focused on immigration cases.propublica.orgTrump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to ImmigrationUnder Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of Presi... 13282158
Reposted by Matt GreenfieldNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026If Democrats continue to focus on elite issues like the price of diesel fuel instead of on kitchen table issues like chem trails and racial purity, they're going to get walloped in November. 11853114
Reposted by Matt GreenfieldMichael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY 257143936829
Reposted by Matt GreenfieldHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026A CNN investigation reveals Russia likely provided crucial satellite information about U.S. bases, giving Tehran a major advantage in the war. And not a word from Senile Satan. 57182653594
Reposted by Matt GreenfieldRachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The crowd to open the GOP midterm convention … 📸 Liz Landers 2551953503
Reposted by Matt GreenfieldNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026DealBook | Tesla shares drop on news that Tesla has actually released a new product. 947756
Matt Greenfield @mattgreenfield.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I can attest that the FDA is killing innovation with needless requirements that don’t make us safer. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/o...nytimes.comOpinion | The Search for New Cures Is BrokenIt is too hard for medical researchers to launch clinical trials. 093
Reposted by Matt GreenfieldNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Democratic leaders to meet with Trump family to seek common conflicts of interest. 17998129
Reposted by Matt GreenfieldNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Analysis | When voters take to the polls in November, Republican candidates will be weighed down by President Trump. Democratic candidates will be weighed down by Wisconsin primary runner-up Francesca Hong. 942941
Reposted by Matt GreenfieldTea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Democrats support democratic South Korea Trump and MAGA support communist North Korea. Explain to me exactly who are the real “communists?” 1302925978
Matt Greenfield @mattgreenfield.bsky.social · 17/08/2026It is a bit sad that this professor is only now discovering the importance of the professor’s authentic enthusiasm for a work. This is one reason why so many students are disengaged. They wqnt equipment for living. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/o...nytimes.comOpinion | To Save Higher Ed, Professors Need to Get a Little WeirdTeachers need to model the passion they want to see. 021
Reposted by Matt GreenfieldNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 11/08/2026This is good. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-f...mcsweeneys.netA Field Guide to Legacy Media Pundits in the United StatesThe Family Values Pundit (Divorcio moralisticus) HABITAT: New York Times bestseller list and a weekly column. DISTINCTIVE CALL: “As a man with a deeply unhap... 15357116
Matt Greenfield @mattgreenfield.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Dang. Look at how small UK political donations are compared to the corruption extravaganza we have going on in the US. 010
Matt Greenfield @mattgreenfield.bsky.social · 11/08/2026x.com/ponderingdur...x.comRawson 🙏 (@PonderingDurian) on XTop 5 long form reads this week: 1. @RibbitCapital Investor Letter on Power. Link: https://t.co/t2x1N3psP3 2. "Drug Discover Has No Magic Wands" by @DaphneKoller Link: https://t.co/8hrcYGPsOM 3.... 000
Reposted by Matt GreenfieldScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Stopping the war crimes prosecutions of Netanyahu and Putin has emerged as a top-three priority for the State Department under Marco Rubio. No coherent explanation is offered for this campaign. 1112575
Reposted by Matt GreenfieldAtrios @eschatonblog.com · 25/07/2026ABUNDANCE! Except the abundance people don’t actually give a shit about this stuff 1462376
Reposted by Matt Greenfieldjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/07/2026not really surprised to learn that terminal stupidity and racism is the reason i can’t walk into a CVS and just buy a toothbrush without flagging down the one person who might be in the store dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...dannykatch.substack.comWe used to be able to buy things in this countryLocking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy 28459491011
Reposted by Matt GreenfieldBudd @n7eoj.bsky.social · 08/07/2026It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days. 344213755866
Reposted by Matt GreenfieldNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Is Graham Platner’s alleged inability to hear “no” a personal failing, or a symptom of how late-stage capitalism has hardened the hearts of our economically anxious oyster-farming veterans? by Matt Stoller 1068974
Reposted by Matt GreenfieldMichelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 29/06/2026This shit should be illegal. The NY Post specifically is a propaganda rag. 1205180973735
Reposted by Matt GreenfieldKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/06/2026And make no mistake, when the Klan was ranting about unassimilable immigrants in the 1920s, they were very much talking about Italians whom they attacked as Catholic pawns of the pope, as a "criminal race" whose members were all tied to the mafia, and as a non-white threat to white women. 10747961275
Reposted by Matt GreenfieldElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 06/06/2026One stat that should be a headline one for Dems is that deportations and arrests are job-killers. We talked about a study on today’s Slate Money that found that for every arrest, 6 Americans lose jobs and 4 undocumented immigrants do. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/u...nytimes.comAs Trump Pushes Deportations, a Skyrocketing Caseload Strains Immigration Courts 15723268
Reposted by Matt Greenfieldlucasmundus @lucasmundus.bsky.social · 19/05/2026The Fourteenth Amendment, written in the blood of the Civil War, says in Section 4 that this is blatantly illegal: “[N]either the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States.” 709188757506
Reposted by Matt GreenfieldStephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 13/05/2026SCOTUS in 2022: Five months before Election Day is too late for Louisiana to redraw its GOP House map that harms Black voters. It must wait until 2024. SCOTUS in 2026: Louisiana may cancel its imminent primary—where >40,000 already voted—to enact basically the same old map that harms Black voters 561109483
Reposted by Matt GreenfieldKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/05/2026When white supremacists described the first black politicians winning elections in the South during Reconstruction, they too called it a "reign of terror" that innocent white people had to suffer under. Black leaders! Elected to federal office! Can you imagine the indignity?! 9828181143
Reposted by Matt GreenfieldNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 14/05/2026As a principled libertarian, I mostly ignore it when Trump sics the FBI on his critics, threatens broadcasting licenses, and celebrates the murders of protesters. But when a few kids at NYU criticize Jon Haidt, well, that's where I draw the line. 1454074
Matt Greenfield @mattgreenfield.bsky.social · 14/05/2026 Note to other billionaires: do not call out these two women. Attacking them is as imprudent as agreeing to be interviewed by Isaac Chotiner. 051
Reposted by Matt GreenfieldAri Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters 20460452412
Reposted by Matt GreenfieldSkeletired @skeletired.bsky.social · 08/05/2026A Kamala Harris presidency would have been relatively boring and you wouldn't be awake scrolling right now. 3525878824
Reposted by Matt GreenfieldᗩᘔᒪEᑎᗪ @azlend.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Here's a proposal. If we replaced all the crops being used for ethanol production with solar farms it would give us 3 X the total energy usage the US currently has. So doing the whole thing at once is a bit much. So how about 5% a year. Replace 5% of the crops with solar farms. 41568193
Reposted by Matt GreenfieldDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 01/07/2025A new paper in The Lancet, one of the world’s foremost peer reviewed medical journals, estimates that USAID prevented 91 million deaths across 133 countries over 20 years. The paper estimates that Elon Musk’s DOGE funding cuts to USAID will lead to 14 million deaths by 2030 (4.5 million children).thelancet.comEvaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysisUSAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a... 22804533
Reposted by Matt GreenfieldM Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Justice Elena Kagan Isn't Mincing Words, About The Voting Rights Act........ 386114964568
Reposted by Matt GreenfieldEric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Congress is given the power to enforce the 15th Amendment’s ban on racial discrimination in voting through “appropriate legislation.” Today 6 Justices took that power away from Congress based purely on their desire to help the GOP. Everything else is beside the point. SCOTUS is not a court of law. 9382124
Reposted by Matt GreenfieldIngrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 03/04/2026Pretending that CVS is an immersive experience about extending carceral logics to toothpaste 1553586
Reposted by Matt GreenfieldMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21/04/2026In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces. 249 years later, we have this idiot. 1490230808005
Reposted by Matt GreenfieldAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Oh sorry, so religion and politics should be separate? Is that what you're saying? bsky.app/profile/atru... 35274711420
Reposted by Matt GreenfieldNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 12/04/2026TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, CBS, and CNN all have Trump-aligned owners. Here’s why US media has a liberal bias problem. 161663352
Reposted by Matt GreenfieldNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Is it too early to call Péter Magyar's prime ministership a disappointing failure? 28106199
Reposted by Matt GreenfieldCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Not once in this story does @politico.com mention that US factories employ ~89,000 fewer employees than a year ago. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/04... 27966932694
Reposted by Matt GreenfieldNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Opinion | As a principled online leftist, I am outraged by Trump and Netanyahu's campaign of violence in the Middle East. I demand that Kamala Harris hold a book signing so I can publicly protest this atrocity. 1344678
Reposted by Matt GreenfieldNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 09/04/2026I converted to Catholicism last week. Here’s why it’s necessary for the United States to invade Vatican City and install its own pope. 715018819