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Matthew Lansburgh

@matthewlansburgh.bsky.social
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Author of OUTSIDE IS THE OCEAN. Iowa Short Fiction Award. Finalist for Lambda Literary Award in Gay Fiction & Ferro-Grumley Award in LGBTQ Fiction. 🌈 🌈 🌈 Recipient of Fellowships to Bread Loaf, Sewanee, Yaddo & MacDowell. He/him.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
"Talkin' Bout a Revolution" (Tracy Chapman): An acoustic call to action that asserts the poor and marginalized will eventually rise up to demand their fair share of resources.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 07/06/2026
When does this guy sleep? He just smoked me in our 2k for 2-K run at Fort Tryon Park.
Photo from behind of a small child in a Jalen Brunson jersey running in the 2k for 2-K race at Fort Tryon Park.
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Isaac G. Bryan @ib2real.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.
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Joy Deva Baglio @joybaglio.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Headed to Baltimore! Find me on Thursday at Nevermore, our haunted Poe-themed reading at the Lord Baltimore Hotel, featuring these all-stars! (Whether you've RSVPed or not, COME EARLY to get a seat - every seat will be taken!) Doors open at 5:45pm. More details / RSVP: tinyurl.com/nszruurr
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Matthew Lansburgh @matthewlansburgh.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
How Big Brother is using the FTC and the FCC to silence critics and amplify his voice. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/o...
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Opinion | Legally Creative, Democratically Dangerous: Trump’s Plan to Twist the News
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20/02/2026
Breaking News: The Supreme Court struck down President Trump’s sweeping tariffs on imports from nearly every U.S. trading partner. nyti.ms/46kvngJ
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 20/01/2026
One year ago, President Trump took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he used the presidency to enrich himself, the @nytimes.com editorial board writes. This is how Trump has pocketed at least $1.4 billion
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Opinion | How Trump Has Used the Presidency to Make at Least $1.4 Billion
The president took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he’s focused his second term on enriching himself and his family.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Koh: Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more I.C.E. Agents that are going to be on the streets. That $30 billion would cover all the ACA subsidies for a year. It would eliminate all co-pays for prescription drugs for people from a year, and eliminate all medical debt.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Early this morning, our city still plunged into darkness, I set off to walk the Brooklyn Bridge. As the sun came up, we were joined by canvassers, labor leaders, elected officials, and working people — a movement to bring a new day to our city. Tomorrow, we win it together.
Zohran, Tish James and Brad Lander lead a procession of hundreds walking across the Brooklyn Bridge at dawn. Tish James, Brad Lander, Tony Simone and Rita Joseph wait for the march on the bridge. Zohran at a packed press conference outside city hall, Tish James and others raising their hands in the air.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
commie corridor pumpkins
5 pumpkins on a Brooklyn stoop. Each pumpkin is carved with a picture of Zohran Mamdani. In one he is a superhero, in one he is Santa, and in one he is the Statue of Liberty. The other two are standard glamour shots.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
POLLS ARE NOW OPEN. Find out where you early vote ⬇️ 🗳️ findmypollsite.vote.nyc
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Pema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
A fun byproduct of unitary executive theory—if the president controls everyone under him, he can demand they transfer hundreds of millions in tax dollars into his bank account
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
NEW: The Trump admin took steps on Wednesday to maximize the pain of the government shutdown, halting billions of dollars in green energy and infrastructure funds for Democratic-led states while readying a plan to lay off federal workers, perhaps in next day or two www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/u...
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White House Uses Shutdown to Maximize Pain and Punish Political Foes
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Sloan Ashton @ashton7sloan.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
UPDATE: Tyler Robinson is a WHITE male; not a trans individual, woman, or POC. Charlie Kirk incessantly dehumanized every group that wasn’t a White, Christian male, and yet his fate was decided by someone he would’ve revered. Think about that.
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Rebekah Jones @georebekah.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
The guy who they believe killed Charlie Kirk is a 22 year old white Christian guy from Utah named Tyler Robinson. Reports say he's Mormon. Will MAGA demand we round up all young white men? Will we have to make Mormonism illegal? Will the Christians be sent to camps?
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Robert Francis Kennedy Junior - MAHA (Parody) @rfk-junior.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Hey Folks, Future King of Healthcare here! The radical left recently leaked REAL footage of a date I went on! Frankly, I think I look fantastic, and I agree with everything said! Take a look! #RFKJR #MAHA #MakeAmericaHealthyAgain #MAGA #Trump #MakeAmericaGreatAgain
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sharonfisher68.bsky.social @sharonfisher68.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
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ACLU @aclu.org · 15/08/2025
The Trump administration can't circumvent constitutional protections by sending people away to ICE detention centers in remote places like the Florida Everglades wetlands. We'll see the administration in court.
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What You Need to Know About "Alligator Alcatraz"
A secretive, immigration detention camp in the Everglades is drawing national outrage for violating our constitutional rights, for its inhumane conditions, and significant environmental risks.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
"Instead of being worried about the fingers he was missing, 16 years old, he kept pointing to his mouth & telling me to feed him. He had no fingers left on his hands, that had been blown away." A US doctor talked to me from Gaza City about starvation. Shocking testimony. zeteo.com/p/bombs-go-o...
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Lori Ostlund @loriostlund.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Thank you to Evelyn Ch'ien at @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social for these insightful questions.
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Finding Voice to Give Voice: Q&A with Lori Ostlund – ZYZZYVA
The title of Lori Ostlund’s new story collection, Are You Happy? (272 pages; Astra House), suggests the quandary of whether Ostlund is interrogating the
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One Story @onestorymag.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Our Advanced Fiction Workshop with @matthewlansburgh.bsky.social returns this October! Applications close August 3rd. Learn more here: bit.ly/44EkiWb
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/05/2025
i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 12/05/2025
Instead of ripping away health care from millions of people, Republicans should crack down on waste in Medicare Advantage. Tactics like "upcoding"—when for-profit insurance companies exaggerate medical problems to pad their profits—cost taxpayers billions. That’s real waste.
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Democrats push GOP toward Medicare ‘upcoding’ instead of Medicaid cuts
Democratic lawmakers are asking GOP leadership to reject Medicaid cuts in favor of going after Medicare Advantage “upcoding” as a way of saving federal dollars and addressing waste, fra…
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Elena Kagan once refused to accept a gift basket of bagels and lox from Russ & Daughters.
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Tom Moore @thmoore.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Trump is so addicted to tacky opulence—and so in thrall to his ego—that he is willing to debase the presidency and the country by accepting this wildly inappropriately opulent bribe from Qatar’s royal family. You're the servant of the people, man. Not their king.
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Trump administration poised to accept 'palace in the sky' as a gift for Trump from Qatar: Sources
President Trump poised to accept "palace in the sky" as a gift from Qatar: Sources
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Matthew Lansburgh @matthewlansburgh.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
The brilliant @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/o...
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Opinion | Donald Trump, You’re No Franklin Roosevelt
Autocratic intent does not translate automatically into autocratic success.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
If anyone out there was undecided on whether Trump is operationalizing a precise, coordinated plan to destroy our democracy so he can rule until he dies, the move to shut down Act Blue, the primary way Democrats’ campaigns are funded, should be the final proof point.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Trump has set up a new club where CEOs, tech bros, and foreign oligarchs can pay $500,000 to join in order to get access to the Trump Cabinet who will all be there regularly. Just because the grift is all public doesn’t mean this isn’t the most corrupt White House in history.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
(Bloomberg) - Insiders including Meta Platforms Inc.’s Mark Zuckerberg, Oracle Corp.’s Safra Catz and JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s Jamie Dimon cashed out shares worth billions of dollars before President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements roiled markets. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The Social Security system is crashing, locking senior citizens out for long stretches nearly every day. And Trump's solution is to lay off 1000 more workers and slash the IT budget by 50%. Start asking if the purpose is to crash our economy and society. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Social Security website keeps crashing, as DOGE demands cuts to IT staff
The worsening problems come as Elon Musk’s DOGE team pushes for more cuts at the agency, including in the department that oversees the website.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
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Matthew Lansburgh @matthewlansburgh.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
#awp25 Today!
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Trump isn’t cutting waste and abuse. He’s cutting programs that help regular people - like Medicaid - to fund tax cuts for billionaires and corporations. He only closes agencies that were stopping his rich friends bilk consumers.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Trade deficit is up. Stock market is crashing. Gas prices are rising. Consumer confidence is down. Grocery costs are soaring. Trump is terrible at managing the economy. Why? Because all he cares about is the billionaires. Not us.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I wrote a short explainer for my Substack of the biggest (but strangely under the radar) corruption of the Trump White House: the Trump crypto coin. A conduit for secret, shameless bribery of the President. www.chrismurphyct.com/p/trumps-big...
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Trump’s Biggest Corruption is Flying Under the Radar
The scale of corruption in Trump’s White House has been stunning and unprecedented.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 07/03/2025
broke: the Gulf of Mexico woke: the Gulf of America bespoke: the Gulf of Exploding Starships
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@LaceyPerSista @laceypersista.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 06/03/2025
Lesotho ‘shocked and embarrassed’ by mockery in Trump’s Congress speech, says foreign minister
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Lesotho ‘shocked and embarrassed’ by mockery in Trump’s Congress speech, says foreign minister
Lejone Mpotjoane says behaviour is unexpected from head of state, after Trump claimed ‘nobody has ever heard of’ the country Lesotho was taken aback by US President Donald Trump’s mockery of the southern African nation, its foreign minister has said,…
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Horrific: One of the USAID programs Trump just terminated was set to deliver lifesaving treatment to hundreds of thousands of starving kids abroad. Much of it is now sitting in a Georgia warehouse. Rubio's promise to preserve urgent assistance was a lie. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1921...
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Musk’s Purges Suddenly Take a Horrific Turn—and Wreck an Ugly MAGA Lie
We can now be depressingly confident that their mass cuts are killing people.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
The corporations and billionaires who run them are taking over our government. Five major financial institutions were all under federal investigation for fraud. All five cases were just dropped by Trump and Musk. It's now legal to cheat consumers. www.npr.org/2025/02/27/n...
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The CFPB drops its lawsuit against Capital One, marking a major reversal
The consumer protection agency also dropped cases against four other companies including Rocket Homes.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
We make our argument everywhere. Everyday. In every forum. My column for Fox News explaining how Trump is betraying the working class voters who supported him by turning our government over to the billionaires and corporations. www.foxnews.com/opinion/dona...
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Donald Trump claimed he would help American workers. Now, he’s betraying them
Forget candidate Trump. He ran as a friend to the working man. President Donald Trump is a friend to Elon Musk and other billionaires who are implementing Project 2025.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The quickening pace of corruption - the brazen use of the White House to enrich himself and his friends - is stunning. Soon, before we know it, government will no longer serve us at all. It will just be a mechanism to enrich billionaires loyal to Trump.
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With Congress Pliant, an Emboldened Trump Pushes His Business Interests
Norms recognized for decades in Washington by both parties no longer appear to apply to the Trump White House, former prosecutors and ethics lawyers say.
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Richard Diebenkorn Coffee (1959)
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
American institutions—from the media to Congress—continue to underreact to the unraveling of our democracy. Overseas our media would not hesitate to call what we’re living through a full-blown autocratic coup. Here's my attempt at the story they should write: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-trump...
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Musk, Trump Establish New Era of Kleptocracy in America
A third dispatch comparing how the US media would cover this moment if it was happening overseas
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.
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