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Matthew Triponey

@matthewtriponey.bsky.social
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Publish my book! My mom loved it! I post like I'm famous. My opinions are not my employer's, but they should be. he/him

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Matthew Triponey @matthewtriponey.bsky.social · 5h
A surreal, difficult thing about living in the U.S. right now that really needs more discussion in the public sphere: The increasingly common experience of a coworker/neighbor/whatever telling you, "Have you ever heard of [Podcast About How The Government Should Kill/Imprison You]? I'm a big fan."
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Micah @rincewind.run · 9h
"irreparable harm" is donald trump getting his feelings hurt over being told no and not people being deported to countries they have no ties to with no resources and no support system
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h
And once again, real harms imposed on real people must be set aside until after real damage is done in order to privilege the unproven right of Trump to impose those harms
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 9h
The cleansing of the blood of the nation must continue, as it says in the constitution bsky.app/profile/stev...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 8h
strongly agreed. fines and criminal penalties should not merely communicate a finger wag but actually change the strategic situation of a would-be white collar criminal
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 15h
It is true that a Dem Congress will not be able to do any effective legislating under the Trump regime. But that’s a given. What Congress can do is investigations that drive stories into the media. Every day should have headlines about Trump stealing from us, about Trump harming us.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12h
One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...
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Matthew Triponey @matthewtriponey.bsky.social · 10h
If you're a Dropout subscriber and you haven't seen this movie you need to fix that ASAP.
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 23h
People are also upset about non-economic things that get expressed in economic terms, like the fact that everything seems wildly out of control and we have a maniac in charge of the country
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Matthew Triponey @matthewtriponey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
By The Associated Press IMPERIAL CAPITAL (AP) — The Emperor today unveiled what he called a beautiful new outfit, but some pants experts are saying it was actually his naked ass.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hard to imagine what that would be like
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Going to work now feels like doing homework after the teacher quit and told the class that education is fake. Everyone just coasting on inertia and hoping there's still a point to all this
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sure, the 2024 election was one too, but 2026 might be the clearest intelligence test ever presented to the American electorate. Taken at face value, he's saying he stole hundreds of billions from the gov't, hid it somewhere Congress can't reach, and he pinky swears he will give you a piece. Really.
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Matthew Triponey @matthewtriponey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you'd told me as I walked out of The Rise of Skywalker that the next three Star Wars directors would be Jon Favreau, Shawn Levy, and Jon Watts, I would've been like: "Yeah, figures."
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Politics and Health 🗳️ 🩺 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So fuc*ing infuriating and sad. The CDC used to be the crown jewel of the world's scientific firmament. Other countries came to us for help fighting deadly diseases. Its disease detectives learned what caused illness and helped change practices to prevent them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
a president planning military operations based entirely on election cycles is actually a giant scandal
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.
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ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?
Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 25/09/2026
i want nathan fielder to do undecided voter focus groups
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 24/09/2026
Yes. I think the consensus among US elite pundits and senior politicians that the way to protect liberal democracy is *not* to punish elite figures who violate its rules is wrong. A norm starting at least with the Watergate pardon. The opposite is true. You need to enforce the law and Constitution.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive.
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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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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/09/2026
We call this a concentration camp, your honor.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
More generally, I think it’s underappreciated how much stupidity is chosen. If you have a set of indefensible beliefs that make you feel good and mark you as a member of a community, it’s both tempting and easy to induce just enough localized stupidity to allow yourself to hang onto them.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What is the downside for Republicans in ignoring the law? The courts don’t actually do anything. The Democrats don’t do anything. The mainstream media acts like THE FUCKING LAW is just a differing opinion. No downside at all.
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Matthew Triponey @matthewtriponey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
there is no smugger bastard in the world than a critic logging a highly anticipated movie on letterboxd even though they're not allowed to tell us if it's any good yet
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Humoring conservatives & acting like they make good points over the last 30 years brought us here. You never have to listen to them for the rest of our lives. It's time to treat career arsonists with the contempt they've earned instead of imagining a fake world where they're reasonable interlocutors
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
There's plenty of corruption, crimes against humanity, and downright evil shit to focus on, but every so often it strikes me how thoroughly we USians have been exposed and disgraced on the world stage. A country who can elect such a man—twice!—is not a worthy country. We need radical reformation.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
racists are really fucking stupid, you have to be stupid to be racist and one reason you dont elect racists is because that stupidity will show up in other areas for example, they will start wars with iran and kick people off healthcare for never filing claims. stupid shit like that
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Matthew Triponey @matthewtriponey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The thing that's uniquely enraging about Gavin Newsom is that he's not a garden-variety Dem coward — he's a Republican. It's not that he's refusing to join the fight; it's that he keeps eagerly joining it for the other team.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Tough competition of course, but the Trump admin deciding that white South Africans are the only group of people on earth currently worthy of refugee status has to be the most overtly racist thing any administration has done in decades
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 10/09/2026
BREAKING: In August, *every single one* of the 2,646 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 12,901 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
When people tell you who they are believe them
2018 Crowder: Don't call us Fascists!
2026 Crowder: We're fascists
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
related to this is how black and other nonwhite observers are treated as unreliable, biased and unable to discern whether something is “true” racism.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/09/2026
“to the victor go the spoils” is basically the whole thing the UN was designed to prevent
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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Matthew Triponey @matthewtriponey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A thought that just struck me about the new Resident Evil is that Zach Cregger probably has the sensibility to make a really good Evil Dead movie. Can do fun and extreme blood/gore/general bleakness at the same time (current Evil Deads really only understand the second part of that equation).
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
A lot of us have had to take a lot of shit on Bluesky for the crime of being 100% right about guys too early
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If executive branch creates a system so that people under government control can be located and then just stops listing some people in that system — despite their still being under government control — that should be a five-alarm fire for the other branches, the states, and the public.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
JD Vance: we invade countries, overthrow their governments, and we do it to steal things.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Fucking brownshirts
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
according to the article, it took hours after the personal intervention of the mayor for his family to even get basic information about him. that information included that he had been transferred to ICE custody hours after being shot. no amnesty
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Brian Tallerico @briantallerico.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I keep telling my friends who aren’t online much that it can’t be Newsom in 28 and they don’t know what I’m talking about because they just see him as a big voice from a big state for now. It CAN’T be Newsom.
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A free society cannot allow the government to disappear people in order to cutoff access to legal remedies.
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
every trans person in America is basically praying to whatever deity will accept them that the democrats don’t turn into Labour and decide to take turns with republicans throwing us into wood chippers. trans women have like a 30% unemployment rate. everybody fuckin’ Chill Out toward us a little
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Matthew Triponey @matthewtriponey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Resident Evil is my favorite "with an audience" experience in a while. Was playing everyone like a fiddle. Really good stuff.
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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
the republicans are wide open on several fronts, historically unpopular president, unpopular war, record high gas. any dem throwing trans people under the bus at this moment is doing it because they want to. not like they need to, do they. even if it worked as a vote winner, which it doesn't
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.
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The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

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maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
From 2021 to 2025, Stephen Miller was making $567K/year as head of his America First "think tank." He owns $100K-$250K in Palantir stock alone. His estimated net worth: ~$2 million. The immigrants he's deporting to third-party countries to be tortured and disappeared don't get an attorney at all.
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