Reposted by Patrick MatthewsMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 5hThey can, & should, also defund the Supreme Court itself, until such point as the Wizard in Robes decide to start following the laws & Constitution again: bsky.app/profile/mcop... 1033283
Reposted by Patrick MatthewsArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 7hCircus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social 12190801995
Reposted by Patrick Matthewsemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12hJack Smith: Donald Trump preyed on party loyalty and fear. One of the reasons he [failed] is bc Republicans stood up. I personally find it hard to understand how our investigation could be viewed as partisan when our strongest witnesses were Republicans. [Names Rusty Bowers and Mike Pence.] 151898587
Reposted by Patrick MatthewsAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9hIncredible. The 11th Circuit, in a 3-0 opinion (two Obama appointees and one Trump 1.0 appointee), agrees that Trump and his lawyers have failed to rebut the judge's finding that the entire IRS settlement was collusive, highlighting that no other explanation for their conduct was even offered. 151308418
Reposted by Patrick MatthewsGabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 9h11th Cir. rejects Trump administration's attempt to block an order holding that Trump's IRS lawsuit and purported settlement were in bad faith, resulting in sanctions for Trump's lawyers and an ethics referral for AG Blanche. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 117156
Reposted by Patrick MatthewsJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 11hIt’s somehow more depressing that our constitutional order is being dismantled by people who demonstrably cannot find their own asses with both hands. 16734159
Reposted by Patrick MatthewsMeredith Rose @mrose.ink · 10h...and, importantly, eliminating the Office of Technology Assessment, or OTA. What was the OTA? It was a small office, housed entirely within Congress, whose entire job was understanding complex technology issues and writing reports to explain them to legislators. 3/ 18914
Reposted by Patrick MatthewsNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15hWhether it’s Benjamin Netanyahu empowering Hamas, presiding over a massive intelligence failure that let them kill 1,200 Israelis on October 7th, and then killing 74,000 Palestinians in response or Zohran Mamdani pointing out that he did this, both men have fueled their bitter feud. 231475270
Reposted by Patrick MatthewsGabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 10hCurrently listening to this OA, and it continues to irritate me how much judges find themselves carefully pretending that there isn't an underlying problem with this government failing to operate in good faith. They just don't want to say it. 48714
Reposted by Patrick MatthewsSherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 15hNEW AD: Listen to this sh*t. 30973532244
Reposted by Patrick MatthewsCraig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 13h“Fuck that. I’m Sherrod Brown and I approve this message.” 17012
Patrick Matthews @matthewsp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Excellent choice having a mariachi band do the anthem for MNF. I applaud the originality of the choice, and I hope it (metaphorically) caused some right wingers’ heads to explode 280
Reposted by Patrick MatthewsBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026aight i had more to say about this ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/ketan...ballsandstrikes.orgKetanji Brown Jackson Is Getting Tired of the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket AbusesThe conservative supermajority keeps refusing to take the real-world harms of its work seriously. 518146
Reposted by Patrick MatthewsPé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I don't know who needs to hear this, but a country with a masked national police force which partners with countless local police forces to yank people off the street, disappear them into a detention gulag, and render them to overseas prisons without due process is not actually a safe country. 15916
Reposted by Patrick MatthewsBrian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Because of course. Wonder what the GOP China hawks are doing these days. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...nytimes.comTrump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador SaysPresident Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the ambassador to China. The White House later said the U.S. had no plans for such a sale. 109735
Patrick Matthews @matthewsp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It’s just a pop song why can’t people just be normal about being familiar with it or not? 071
Reposted by Patrick MatthewsAdam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I love how much everybody here bonds over Dallas choking 101008
Patrick Matthews @matthewsp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If you’d told me before the game that the game would be won on a 66 yard FG as time expired, I’d have assumed that it would be the Cowboys and Aubrey. What a satisfying ending. 040
Reposted by Patrick MatthewsAdam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Congratulations Phillies 038644
Reposted by Patrick MatthewsSam @samd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026we could solve the western water crisis overnight by simply charging alfalfa farmers market rates for water 21999180
Reposted by Patrick MatthewsMike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 27/09/2026if we stopped growing alfalfa in deserts to feed cows in saudi arabia basically all of the west's water problems would be solved without anything else having to change (And denver is on the wrong side of the continental divide for that discussion) 20607100
Reposted by Patrick MatthewsMichael Wiebe @michaelwiebe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026When a bungalow is upzoned for apartments, we capture the land value uplift to fund public amenities. But when a bungalow is zoned single-family and the land value increases 10x over 20 years, the landowner reaps a windfall profit when they sell to a mansion developer. Why? 2283
Reposted by Patrick Matthews@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...cornellsun.comEDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We WillThe Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies. 342447746
Patrick Matthews @matthewsp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I hope USC loses the rest of their games by 50 points each time 100
Reposted by Patrick MatthewsBrad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 26/09/2026When we win the majority, we’ll hold hearings to hold ICE, DHS, Miller, and the rest accountable for these crimes. For now, we’ll keep showing up to court-watch, to connect kids to lawyers, to support litigation, to object. 25708141
Patrick Matthews @matthewsp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Never would have guessed before seeing this list that I have seen all of the top ten strikeout kings pitch 050
Reposted by Patrick MatthewsCasey Drottar @caseydrottar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026My goodness, what an incredible moment. After Justin Verlander secured the final out of his career, Tigers manager A.J. Hinch came out of the dugout...to summon Verlander's daughter out to embrace her dad on the mound. 642334456
Patrick Matthews @matthewsp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Pour one out for Stanislav Petrov. He may well have prevented hundreds of millions of deaths. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...en.wikipedia.orgStanislav Petrov - Wikipedia 160
Patrick Matthews @matthewsp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The CDC used to be one of the federal government’s crown jewels. I’m not saying Trump is an agent of a foreign adversary, but if he were, what would he be doing differently? 3142
Reposted by Patrick MatthewsRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/09/2026Voyager Instruments xkcd.com/3302/ 253046427
Reposted by Patrick MatthewsKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026JUST IN: A federal judge (Trump-appointed Stephanie Gallagher) has held the Trump administration in contempt for deporting a man to El Salvador in violation of three court orders. She's ordering the government to return him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 632910952
Reposted by Patrick MatthewsDavid Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The U.S. government contacted Quebec government, in an attempt to bypass Canada in trade talks. Quebec said no. Ingérence: Washington a approché Québec directement sur les tarifs douaniers pour court-circuiter Ottawa dans la guerre commerciale | TVA Nouvelles www.tvanouvelles.ca/2026/09/25/w...tvanouvelles.ca 15829
Reposted by Patrick MatthewsAndi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A woman was drugged, raped, and sexually trafficked to members of a fraternity. Two of the men involved were expelled. Five were given the opportunity to mitigate suspension by *writing an essay.* The dozens of other men who knew this was happening and said nothing? You already know the answer.cornellsun.comEDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We WillThe Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies. 12431291279
Reposted by Patrick MatthewsRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.wsj.comExclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health OfficeThe cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026. 27574873127
Reposted by Patrick MatthewsJonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 24/09/2026sciencebasedmedicine.orgDr. Jay Bhattacharya on Measles: “I Think I’ve Done My Best.”As football coach Bill Parcells famously said, “you are what your record says you are”. 516572
Reposted by Patrick MatthewsAaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 25/09/2026If you give this administration a presumption of honesty, you are acting like a credulous sucker www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...nytimes.comFrom 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada FizzleIt was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare. 0204
Reposted by Patrick MatthewsThe Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI theonion.com/dog-cant-believe-guy-s… 314174723298
Reposted by Patrick MatthewsGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Stephen Miller’s Office of Remigration was deliberately named to announce to the world that white nationalism is now the basis for US immigration policy. If Dems win power, they should defund it. They should also defund third-country deportations. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2157... 852149699
Reposted by Patrick MatthewsAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong. 21188013840
Reposted by Patrick MatthewsNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Trump attacked Venezuela and Iran. He launched a murder campaign in the Caribbean. He demanded territory from Greenland and threatens the sovereignty of Canada. In his first term, he escalated with Iran, among other things. Yeah, calling that “isolationist” is absurd. But I guess it sounds better. 1013128
Reposted by Patrick MatthewsDrew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng 12652541583
Reposted by Patrick Matthewshorror Ewacui @ewacat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026oh this is one of my favourite facts that always pisses people off, Shakespeare is modern English, you can tell because you can read it. 437983
Reposted by Patrick MatthewsProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵 410113386022
Reposted by Patrick MatthewsProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/202614/ He eviscerated the specialized FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption investigations, some of which were involved in Trump-related cases. And the government stopped talking to an informant who had offered a road map to corruption in Congress. 81226211