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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 30m

An unseasonably warm but otherwise lovely evening in the beautiful metropolis of Chicago, Illinois.

A photograph of cars on the street on Worth Avenue in Chicago with brick buildings on each side and behind them a lightly cloudy sky with a hint of sunset at the end of it.

Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 1h

If dealings between me and my brother are any indication he’ll still be (playfully) rubbing it in his face decades later. Little brother victories are hard fought and rightly cherished.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 1h

Returning to DC and I see that "show me the man and I'll show you the crime" remains in effect.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 8h

Re Ilhan Omar Worth your time: Oct 1992 letter from Republican US Attorney on an investigatory step before election: "[I]t amounts to prosecutorial misconduct and violates the most basic fundamental rule of Department of Justice policy. I cannot be a party to such actions."

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 4h

No matter how much money you throw at elections there are a finite amount of highly competent, or even functionally competent, political operatives in any party. When you’re fighting for states that historically have not been competitive it becomes an issue of labor and opportunity cost.

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 4h

I have seen no evidence, for instance, that he ever voiced a strong objection to Philadelphia police bombing an apartment building in 1985 or any other case of state violence where the deceased wasn’t a straight white “Christian.” I think it’s foolish to assume that’s by coincidence.

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 4h

There is so much overlap. I cover extremism in America, as part of my work. There are people who are legitimately just anti-government, but plenty more who know what terms to avoid to not appear bigoted on the record. I think it’s naive to portray McVeigh as simply opposed to state violence.

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The misharacterization of McVeigh as some frustrated loner, devoid of a specific political ideology, is fundamental to how we got to where we are today. He was selling the Turner Diaries to people at gun shows. His politics were clear.

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I felt super awakard about it and deleted the post, but glad you heard.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 09/10/2026

last night eyewitnesses saw Oscar Belgal — the man shot by ICE with his 5 year old in the car — discharged from the hospital into ICE custody, with feds speeding off as NYPD cleared the roads for them of protesters. his attorneys don't know where he is; he's seemingly been taken out of NY state.

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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 09/10/2026

"Allowing Russia to sell petroleum products is an investment in a war that must be ended, not prolonged," says Zelensky, commenting on Trump's diesel deal with Putin. x.com/ZelenskyyUa/...

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

NEW: The ICE agent seen wearing a hi-vis vest and waving around an AR-style rifle at the scene of the shooting in New York was a supervisor named Brenden Cuni, who has a history of alleged violence and lying in court. @dmehro.bsky.social, @awinston.bsky.social, and @regret.bsky.social report:

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ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests

Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

People get mad at you when you say this but 2nd Ave Deli is better than Katz’s, which is both a valuable cultural institution and a tourist trap.

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Went to pick up some books and ran into this band playing in Logan Square for about twenty people. They’re called Slow Pulp and I’m a new fan. From the small amount I’ve heard they’re like a mix between Mazzy Star, Morphine, and Phoenix.

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is correct. I think those cities have better food but I’ve been to Portland a few times and it has a downright unreasonable amount of great food options relative to its size.

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I also think this is much easier (and far less risky) if you’re highly confident in the benevolence of the goal. It’d be nice to see someone say “we are giving you healthcare. We don’t care what you think about that. Cancer won’t bankrupt people now.” Start at the necessities and just do it.

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Couldn’t agree more. It’d be nice to see pols set out to accomplish a worthy goal without stopping every two feet to look over their shoulder and determine if it’s retained popularity. You’ve been elected, govern.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Flew to Ghana one time in the last row of a flight and the lady next to me had an infant that screamed the entire 7 hours. She was super nice, goin to show her parents their first grandkid, either way there was nothing to do but try and make the kid laugh. What are you gonna do? They can’t speak.

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There’s a chance I’d support the death penalty if the criminal justice system didn’t routinely get things so wrong. When you study criminal law you find cases where it seems absolutely called for but so many more where they let a person out 30 years later, having definitively proven them innocent.

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The article states that the breach affected 2.8 million living people and there are 1.3 million people currently serving. So, unless I’m misunderstanding this, it seems the hackers obtained records on most of, if not the entire, U.S. military.

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nah, I like the eccentrics. Kerouac’s mad ones and whatnot.

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I always knew you were cooler than me but this is next level. I love that film.

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I was offered the same thing after a credit bureau was breached. Freeze your credit. It’s kinda annoying bc you need to pull it down before anyone runs your credit for anything but it’s the best fraud prevention you can get.

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I might get flack for the simplicity of this but I’m a big fan of Al Pacino in The Devil’s advocate, and not as a choreographer of misdeeds who speaks every language, but as a choice, a road you could go down.

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I learned from the Jesuits that formal education should be a humbling experience, bc when you’re young you think you know about a thing and then you meet a guy who tells you that he’s been studying that thing for 45 years, gave up most worldly pleasures to read about it more.

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A good friend of mine found out I had never seen this and was really excited when she played it for me a few weeks ago. I could see how some stylistic choices the director made could be off putting for some, but I really enjoyed it.

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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I want her to be my Grandma, even if it involves her savagely ripping my life choices apart at Thanksgiving and telling me my clothes look “shabby, at best.” This woman’s viciousness is an art form.

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

should be day 2 stories if Maine/national media pick up on fact Collins' lobbyist husband, Tom Daffron, worked closely - for years - with Scott Reed, a key player in the corruption scandal @andrewperez.bsky.social & @martinpengelly.bsky.social wrote about that in June zeteo.com/p/susan-coll...

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Susan Collins’s Husband Worked for the Lobbyist Running Her Super PAC

The Maine senator's husband apparently consulted last year for the lobbyist leading Pine Tree Results PAC, documents show.

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Every time I see these stories I have the same thought: internal polling results must be absolutely brutal.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New: hackers say they have personal data on all FBI employees and spouses. I got a sample of 5,000 alleged employees, including name, physical address, phone number, and in some cases spouses. Could be a massive national security and counterintelligence risk www.404media.co/we-hacked-th...

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‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees

A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This seems like a pretty big deal: donors made illegal contributions to Susan Collins and then were awarded lucrative contracts after her office intervened with the Navy. An FBI investigation was dropped under Trump. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

To skirt campaign finance laws and conceal the source of the funds, Navatek planned to funnel the donation through a shell company. The CEO wanted assurance that Collins would know where
the money came from. Reed confirmed that she would, the executive said - and that Navatek would get its government contracts.
After the Corner Bakery meeting, Navatek's CEO, Martin Kao, sent an initial $150,000 to the Collins super PAC using the shell company. Two months later, he told Navatek executives that Collins committed to getting the company $32 million in naval contracts, according to an internal company email reviewed by ProPublica.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/09/2026

It’s people - not AI systems - who are choosing to murder civilians with small drones at ever escalating rates around the world, as I recently wrote about with Yale’s Nathaniel Raymond for @foreignpolicy.com:

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Civilians Need Better Protections in the Drone Age

Hunting noncombatants from the sky is growing disturbingly common.

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You could also make the case that he’s as much an FDR Democrat as he is a democratic socialist, but that’s also not as exciting for people to talk about.

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

U.S. diplomats for the last 25 years: these military actions are about security and geopolitics, not religion Pete Hegseth: we are God’s warriors, chosen to fight on his behalf

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Trump administration's lawless killing spree at sea continues with a lethal strike on four more supposed "narco-terrorists" in the Caribbean. Very real killing in a make-believe war. Outside of war the general term for premeditated killing is murder.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/09/2026

Innocent civilians are being murdered with dirt-cheap and essentially impossible to ban tiny flying robots at shocking numbers globally (read our piece below). We have REAL, CURRENT cyberpunk horrors to deal with right now, and we don’t need to waste our time on hypothetical AI basilisks.

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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This week on WarTalk: @geraldcbrown.bsky.social joins the show to talk the PLA’s 2027 goals, purges, nuclear deterrence, and military doctrine vs reality! open.spotify.com/episode/79qA...

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WarTalk: PLA, 2027, Nukes, and the Pivot to Asia Pirouette

ChinaTalk · Episode

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I did this recently bc I heard the announcement wrong and was mortified. I went to get back in line and the lady told me to just go, and I could feel the (deserved) judgment of the crowd.

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Are there any drone experts on here (specifically up on UA theater of operations) that I could have a brief private conversation with? Was thinking @faineg.com but they seem super busy as of late so any recs would be greatly appreciated. Questions I have are not for a story.

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Your word on such a topic is certainly worth a follow from me.

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It didn't matter if CBP officer Luis Uribe's victims were sex workers, a prosecutor told jurors this week. It's possible for a sex worker to be raped, he told them. "Sex workers," he said, "can be credible." The jury agreed. From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/0...

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Customs officer guilty of using gun, badge to sexually assault women in Chicago suburbs

Jurors concluded that U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer Luis Uribe sexually assaulted four sex workers in 2022, convicting him of a series of crimes that could put him in prison for the rest ...

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

spoke to Lina Khan today about the AI madness and what the hell we should be doing to hold these companies accountable (in a way that takes their power seriously but doesn't buy into every narrative) full pod coming in the AM!

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Super random but Ron White and I both have a good friend in common. Never met him but heard nothing but good things about the guy, salt of the earth sweet person was the exact description I got.

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