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Matt Levin

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Opinions are my own // Comms Strategist - ACLU of Texas. Florida Man.

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
So relieved to be handed a concrete reason to hate that Ed Sheeran guy. Backfilling my hatred of the Ed Sheeran
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
After new polling shows Democrats in all six of the first 2028 primary states overwhelmingly in support of sanctioning & cutting weapons to Israel, Hakeem Jeffries elevates one of the most pro-Israel Democrats in Congress to lead the Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee:
Moskowitz personal account tweet:

Thank you to 
@RepJeffries
 and 
@RepGregoryMeeks
 for this important responsibility to help lead Democrats policy in the Middle East and North Africa on the Foreign Affairs Committee.

Quoting of his official House account:
I’m honored to be named Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa.

At a moment of enormous change across the region, I’ll work to strengthen America’s relationships with Israel and our Gulf allies, expand regional peace, advance American diplomacy, and ensure our foreign policy is grounded in strength, security, and reality. I’m ready to get to work.
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ACLU of Texas @aclutx.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
BREAKING: We're suing Texas A&M over the university system’s unconstitutional censorship policy. Administrators are canceling or restricting courses that discuss race, gender, and sexual orientation. Public universities are meant for sharing knowledge — not banning it.
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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
So many people focused on Bari Weiss asking to make protesters look more violent and glossing over Pelley admitting they’d already dug deep for the most violent protester footage they could find. His interview is more of an indictment of corporate media than many want to admit.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
you do not have to hand it to tucker carlson or marjorie taylor greene or alex jones or megyn kelly. they're all rats who see trump as a sinking ship and they're getting ready to jump in preparation for their next act. you do not have to fall for it.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Can't tell you how many members of Congress who *at best* had nothing to say when I asked about the Minab girls school attack. There is a profanely cold detachment inside Capitol Hill, a mode completely unrecognizable to common human decency I wish I could properly convey to you.
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I guess boycotting Harry Potter feels pretty trivial to me, because I'm an adult. if someone told me I shouldn't eat Gerber's baby food, I'd be like, that is no problem. I'm way ahead of you
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Claims of 40 dead after an Israeli airstrike on a elementary girl’s school in Iran www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
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daviss @daviss.org · 07/01/2026
NOW: Crowd continues to grow in Minneapolis at a vigil where a federal agent shot and killed Renee Good this morning. “SAY HER NAME!” “RENEE GOOD!”
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas. www.nola.com/news/educati...
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 11/09/2025
Wild how political alliance with Zionism sweeps all sorts of wild statements about Jews under the table
Kirk said that Jewish people control “not just the colleges; it’s the nonprofits, it’s the movies, it’s Hollywood, it’s all of it.” Kirk also said ”the number one funding mechanism of radical, open border, neoliberal, quasi-Marxist policies, cultural institutions, and nonprofits" is “Jewish donors.” Claims that wealthy Jewish people and donors control major institutions and Hollywood are common antisemitic tropes. [Salem Media Group, The Charlie Kirk Show, 10/26/23; The Washington Post, 10/17/22; The Times of Israel, 11/17/22]
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
being totally comfortable speaking this way to millions of people is one of many signals that we're in an extremely dark place
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
One of the many bitter pills to swallow is that there will be not one single consequence for Jerry Seinfeld basically complimenting the KKK and equating them to the phrase Free Palestine. There will be little, if any, media pushback. It’s terrible.
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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
A South Texas DA once paid for his mistresses’s abortion — then charged a woman who had one with murder even though it wasn’t against the law at the time, according to new court filings in a wild case testing the limits of prosecutorial immunity www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
houstonchronicle.com
Texas DA who charged abortion patient with murder accused of once paying for one
Three years after Texas prosecutors charged a woman with murder for inducing her own abortion, the local district attorney is accused of paying for an abortion while having an affair decades ago.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
"I can't believe The New York Times did this" Trans kids? Claudine Gay? Gaza? At some point we have to stop being surprised. The right sees the Times as a vehicle for laundering its conspiracy theories and injecting it into elite America and the Times is very happy to oblige them.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
alright time to primary hakeem jeffries
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.
NYT headline: How the Transgender Rights Movement Bet on the Supreme Court and Lost
Here's the inside story of the case that could set the movement back a generation.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
not sure there's a more embarrassing profession than ICE agent. Oh, you dress like a soldier to abduct sous chefs and throw flashbangs at protesters? Get a real job you loser
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Patrick Daugherty @rotopat.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Love all the technology making our lives better
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.
Wilmer only found out his son had been detained after receiving a phone call on March 15 from his nephew, Luis, who lives with them. That morning was their last time together; they had gone around the corner to do their laundry. Later that day, Wilmer said that his son met with a friend to get help with some errands at the American Red Cross. He learned this from Luis, who looked at the situation from inside the apartment: when his son was on his way back, just steps from his home when ICE agents stopped him. “The officers grabbed him and two other boys right at the entrance to our building. One said, ‘No, he’s not the one,’ like they were looking for someone else. But the other said, ‘Take him anyway.'”

That moment marked the beginning of Wilmer’s search for answers — answers he’s still waiting for.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
What a summary of the anti-trans movement: March 23rd: female fencer competes in mixed-gender event, beating several male competitors, finishing 8th March 30th: same fencer films herself telling trans competitor “I am refusing to fence you, because I am a woman and you are a man,” collects $5000
The Fencingtracker.com page for Stephanie Turner, who competed in a mixed gender foil event on 3/23 and finished 8th of 32 competitors The video shows Turner taking her position on the fencing strip-blade ready, uniform on— only for her to toss her mask aside and take a knee. Sullivan approached her, thinking she might be injured, and asked if Turner was okay.
"No," Turner recalls telling Sullivan. "I am refusing to fence you, because I am a woman and you are a man."
The video of Turner and Sullivan went viral after it was posted to Twitter on April 2 by the Independent Council on Women's Sports
(ICONS), a far-right organization which aligns itself with known hate groups such as the Alliance Defending Freedom. It is not immediately clear how ICONS first acquired the video, but it catapulted Turner into the national anti-trans media ecosystem.
Less than a week after the post, the XX-XY Athletics Fund-the non-profit arm of an anti-trans clothing brand by the same name— dubbed Turner a "Courage Wins Champion," awarding her $5,000 and mentorship through a
"leadership program."
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
90 percent. They sent innocent people to a gulag so Trump could look like a tough guy. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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About 90% of Migrants Deported to El Salvador Had No US Criminal Record
Trump administration officials have described the men deported to El Salvador prisons last month as “the worst of the worst,” suggesting they were gang members involved in murder, rape and kidnapping.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 26/03/2025
I don't care what side of the Israel-Palestine conflict your sympathies lie on, snatching up people with a valid student visa for the crime of writing an OpEd is naked fascism and if you don't oppose this you are a threat to this country's most basic values
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
I think it has more to do with you might get locked up for absolutely no reason at all and then flown to El Salvador to die in prison even though a judge said you should be released
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ACLU @aclu.org · 09/03/2025
Ripping a student from their home, challenging their immigration status, and detaining them solely based on political viewpoint will chill student speech and advocacy across campuses nationwide. Political speech should never be a basis of punishment or lead to deportation.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
i wrote about ANORA for hell world 🕺🪩
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Matt Levin @mattlevin.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Good morning, Houston?
Snow in Houston
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