Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) Cartermtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Cuomo's campaign is a conspiracy against the voters of NYC, to trick well-meaning liberals into electing a corrupt conservative. Ackman and his allies worked with the media to oust Claudine Gay from Harvard, and they're doing the same thing for electing Cuomo (inevitability narrative) 8698166
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) Carterjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/05/2025virginia is practically the epicenter of trump's attacks on the federal government and if warner can't credibly perform opposition to the president then i think he's toast. the real question is whether there is a virginia democrat ambitious enough to throw caution to the wind and go after him. 842682292
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) Carterjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/05/2025warner is probably terrified of facing youngkin in a general (which, he shouldn't be) but i think he ought to be more worried about a primary challenge fueled by an absolutely furious virginia democratic electorate 1775570666
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) Carterdave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 04/05/2025cats are a lingering dagger in the heart of our human tendency to self-mythologize. a constant reminder that our way was not the only way. we didn't need to focus on toil. on legacy. we didn't need hierarchies. cats don't build societies. they haunt them. anyway, lol look at this silly goose. 492218164
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) Carterdave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 04/05/2025the walking dead certainly had its moments in the 36 years it was on the air, but tbh i have never been able to get past the fact that, in a series premised on the collapse of civilization and the reimagining of society, we always somehow kept going back to a guy making boring cop speeches in a barn 1422312
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) Carterdave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 01/05/2025don't see why everyone is so mad about this catGPT thing. like, you go on there, type in CAT or something, and they send you a cat to live with you. true, it doesn't generate new cats, it has to send you cats that already exist. but that seems okay! people are so dramatic. 2452245
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) CarterKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 29/04/2025I just think it's important to hammer home that the national climate assessment is congressionally mandated. Trump is killing a thing he has zero authority to kill. 323259
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) CarterBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Busta Rhymes we once again should have heeded your wisdom 6382751397
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) CarterMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 27/04/2025"Abolish ICE" and "defund the police" are both reasonable and correct on the merits but were absolutely neutered by centrists smearing them as radical activist overreach. 9988261913
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) CarterAnna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 21/04/2025lol the fact that this can apply to ANYONE LMAO 0355
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) CarterAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/04/202520,000 in ruby red Utah on their feet, in community, and ready to organize for a better world. A better world is possible. 15507657912389
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) Carterdave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 13/04/2025roughly every five years, harsh bangs come back. roughly every 8 years, moustaches come back. rarely, but sometimes, they coincide. we are in this moment. we have entered the singularity. 1123713
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) CarterRiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 10/04/2025the spice girls in famous works of art: thread 731621273
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) CarterMatt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 08/04/2025UPDATE: ICE is wildly unconcerned about where this man is and no one will tell me, his registered attorney. The universal answer so far is "let's wait and see where he ends up." This is deeply off. We would have more rights at this point if UPS had lost a pair of shoes I'd just bought from Zappos 145101614568
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) CarterBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 27/03/2025that Noem video reinforces my belief that there is a streak of sexualized sadism on the US right that goes back to lynching imagery but began in its most recent form with the enthusiasm for torture during the Bush years. 26480871332
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) CarterChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 19825602821198
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) CarterAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Timeline cleanse 🌞 18721106289982
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) CarterThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Virginia Governor @GlennYoungkin (R) hearing it from the people 65699152584
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) CarterAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back. This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008. Also bigger than the 2024 DNC. And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too). 331810585817791
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) CarterDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/03/2025"I don't care what the judges think" should be grounds for impeachment for any public official, but especially for key actors in the national security system. 23475671872
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) Carterdave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Chancleta is starting a podcast, but instead of blandly agreeing with far-right influencers he will pretend to want them to pet his belly and will then bite them 841448188
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) Carterjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/03/2025i find this notion that public spending is illegitimate bizarre as a matter of economics but totally legible as a statement of moral economy. and as per any strict system of morality, the punishment is part of the appeal. they are punishing the american people for believing in the public good. 39389021856
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) Carterjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/03/2025one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much 1148671039505
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) Carterdave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 11/03/2025you have failed to amuse Chancleta with your conversation, joke, and/or anecdote. there will be consequences. 853395164
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) Carterdave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 09/03/2025today's leaders are not meeting the moment. it is time for a change. it is time for Chancleta. 2007831478
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) CarterRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Or four months ago. 222026
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) Carterjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/03/2025i don’t think dems should attend the trump speech on tuesday. skip it! youtube.com/shorts/w2mTb...youtube.comdon’t goYouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie 3685558865
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) CarterSoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 02/03/2025You don't oppose those credibly accused of sexual violence because of "purity." It is an indicator about how a person wields power. 19734109
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) Carterjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/02/2025relatedly, why is the entire political press completely uninterested in the verifiable fact that JD Vance has close relationships with online nazis? 278220904156
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) Cartermolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 21/02/2025in the shadow of the rotunda, doctors, trans people, and hundreds of allies are locked out of a UVA board of visitors closed session to discuss the fate of trans care at UVA hospital 118525
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) CarterPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 18/02/2025democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard 439279444637
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) Carterjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/02/2025i will become a total shill for whichever politician decides to become the joe mccarthy of rooting out silicon valley ideology and influence 629376623787
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) CarterApoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 06/02/2025SCOOP: Cats that became infected with bird flu might have spread the virus to humans in the same household and vice versa, according to data that briefly appeared online in a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention but then abruptly vanished. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...nytimes.comCDC Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Transmission Between Cats and People (Gift Article)The data, which appeared fleetingly online on Wednesday, confirmed transmission in two households. Scientists called on the agency to release the full report. 16044012443
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) CarterPaul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 13/01/2025You can report price gouging landlords from anywhere! 4654811576
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) Cartercminga.bsky.social @cminga.bsky.social · 29/12/2024If you're looking for a great but terrifying podcast over the holiday lul I recommend "Weird Little Guys" podcast with @socialistdogmom.bsky.social and The Leaving Eden Podcast because it astounds me how many people don't have any idea of the malevolent authoritarian violence democracy is up against 51109
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) Carterjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/12/2024anyway, give me one of these fortunes and i’ll fund social housing development and a network of local and regional newspapers, and while qualified people run those projects, i’ll scour the world trying to build the largest and most comprehensive camera collection in existence 683034105
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) CarterKim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 22/12/2024🚨BOYCOTT STARBUCKS🚨 Union baristas are calling on EVERYONE to NOT buy from ANY Starbucks store between Dec. 20 -Dec. 24 while the workers are on strike! Here’s how to support: x.com/sbworkersuni... 76102154318
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) CarterGabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 21/12/2024The way that university officials have begun to treat “peaceful” and “disruptive” as antonyms, when they in fact are not antonyms, is the kind of violence to language that one expects of authoritarians 401824453
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) CarterAnil Dash @anildash.com · 18/12/2024Entire Venmo timeline in 2027 is just "paying off the local Maga warlord so I can get the cops to let my kid into gym class" 631426
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) CarterNicholas Payne @kipenyan.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Inbox zero is about seeing how many zeroes you can get on the end 121419
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) Carterjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/12/2024it’s all the purest distillation of the idea that society doesn’t actually exist. the only thing that exists is some amorphous “liberty” that entitles you to a life without obligations or responsibilities or anything that might impose a duty on you or a limit on your conduct 915251518
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) CarterJoshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 14/12/2024As a former evangelical, my family raged for years over Bill Gates' "plan" to microchip everyone. Can you guess their opinion on Elon Musk? 362506468
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) Cartermolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 14/12/2024if the complaints on reddit are any measure of reality, every package in america is sitting in a giant heap at the USPS facility in indianapolis. i've had a package marked as "moving through the network" for a week after it got routed to the midwest for no reason 🥲 3631418
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) Carter🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 14/12/2024we have more than a month before inauguration so it would be really cool if everyone — press, posters, everyone — would stop reacting to shit trump says as if he has unilateral, unchecked power 361408251
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) CarterTom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 14/12/2024This exact question already went to court and Trump already lost on it, ABC rolled over just to make a public demonstration that they won't tell the truth about Trump anymore 231375289
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) Carterdave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 04/12/2024what do you think, should i just let her in 2845518142
Reposted by Matthew (Matteo) CarterBrendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 05/12/2024The entirety of the Chinese literary tradition says no…but maybe? 👉👈 1032155