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Patrick Matthews

@matthewsp.bsky.social
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Delawarean. Workforce management professional, quiz bowl enthusiast, and Microsoft Excel MVP. Philadelphia sports enjoyer. I left The Bad Place.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 5h
They 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...
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 7h
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12h
Jack 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.]
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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 8h
Incredible
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h
Incredible. 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.
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The appellants mount two main attacks on the district
court’s speech-related sanction. First, they argue that the court
lacked a sufficient basis to find that the lawsuit and the settlement
were collusive and that Messrs. Brito and Epstein acted in bad faith.
Second, they contend that the sanction is a broad and impermissible gag order which constitutes a prior restraint and violates the
First Amendment. We conclude that the appellants have not made
a strong showing that they will succeed on either of these grounds.The appellants did not submit or offer any evidence to explain their litigation conduct or demonstrate that the lawsuit and the settlement were not collusive. Given the record before us, the
appellants have not made a strong showing that the district court
committed clear error in its collusion and bad faith findings
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 9h
11th 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...
Before JORDAN, ROSENBAUM, and NEWSOM, Circuit Judges. BY THE COURT: The appellants, some of whom were the plaintiffs below, move for an order staying aspects of the district court’s post-judgment sanctions order pending appeal.  After review of the record and the parties’ briefing, we deny the motion.1
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 11h
It’s somehow more depressing that our constitutional order is being dismantled by people who demonstrably cannot find their own asses with both hands.
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Meredith 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/
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15h
Whether 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.
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 10h
Currently 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.
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 15h
NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.
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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 13h
“Fuck that. I’m Sherrod Brown and I approve this message.”
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Patrick Matthews @matthewsp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That certainly was a first half
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Patrick Matthews @matthewsp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Excellent 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
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
aight i had more to say about this ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/ketan...
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Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Getting Tired of the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket Abuses
The conservative supermajority keeps refusing to take the real-world harms of its work seriously.
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Patrick Matthews @matthewsp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Eli Manning/Philip Rivers erasure
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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I 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.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Because of course. Wonder what the GOP China hawks are doing these days. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
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Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says
President 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.
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Patrick Matthews @matthewsp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s just a pop song why can’t people just be normal about being familiar with it or not?
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I love how much everybody here bonds over Dallas choking
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Patrick Matthews @matthewsp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If 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.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Congratulations Phillies
We do this not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
we could solve the western water crisis overnight by simply charging alfalfa farmers market rates for water
Across the basin, alfalfa hay uses more than 5 million acre-feet of Colorado River water — that's 26% of all the water consumed in the basin. One acre-foot roughly equals the annual water use of two or three households.
In the Upper Basin, irrigated agriculture consumes 2.8 million acre-feet, or nearly half the water used by Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, the environment, reservoirs and water exports out of the basin. Cattle-feed crops, like alfalfa, consume 90% of all water used by Upper Basin agriculture.
That means alfalfa uses more water than cities, commercial users and industries across the entire basin:
Collectively, these users consume about 3.5 million acre-feet, or 18%, of the river's water. The Colorado River
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
if 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)
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Michael Wiebe @michaelwiebe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
When 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?
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I 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.com
EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Patrick Matthews @matthewsp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I hope USC loses the rest of their games by 50 points each time
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
When 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.
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Patrick Matthews @matthewsp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Never would have guessed before seeing this list that I have seen all of the top ten strikeout kings pitch
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Casey Drottar @caseydrottar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My 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.
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Patrick Matthews @matthewsp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Patrick Matthews @matthewsp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Pour one out for Stanislav Petrov. He may well have prevented hundreds of millions of deaths. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...
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Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia
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Patrick Matthews @matthewsp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The 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?
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/09/2026
Voyager Instruments xkcd.com/3302/
 3-panel comic. (1) [Person with shoulder-length hair gestures at diagrams on wall in front of table with three people.] PERSON 1: As the radioactive power source on *Voyager 1* weakens, we’ve been turning instruments off to conserve power. (2) PERSON 1: Only two instruments remain. Do we want to lose the plasma wave subsystem or the magnetometer? (3) PERSON 2 with ponytail: You know, if we just turned off Greg’s LED underlighting– PERSON 4 with short hair: Absolutely not. PERSON 3: Dammit, Greg. PERSON 4: I will *not* allow us to look uncool in front of aliens.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
JUST 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...
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David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The 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...
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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A 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.
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Robert Vaux @rvaux16.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Radley 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.
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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
sciencebasedmedicine.org
Dr. 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”.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 25/09/2026
If you give this administration a presumption of honesty, you are acting like a credulous sucker www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle
It 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.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026
Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI theonion.com/dog-cant-believe-guy-s…
Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Stephen 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...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. 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.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump 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.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026
Five 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
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Patrick Matthews @matthewsp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Evergreen skeet
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horror Ewacui @ewacat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
oh this is one of my favourite facts that always pisses people off, Shakespeare is modern English, you can tell because you can read it.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. 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 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
14/ 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.
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