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Matt Poloni

@mattpoloni.com
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Living in Raleigh, NC. Almost exclusively RPs. Fan of @nccourage.com, the Carolina Hurricanes, Doctor Who, The Good Place, Ted Lasso, dogs, cheese, and democracy. Working Families Party member: ourwfp.org/join/MP142

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
not the only reason but a brand of inevitability, FOMO, anxiety, and, ‘if you don’t see it it means you’re not smart enough’ has become the chief way silicon valley (led by venture capita) markets its products.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
When I see MAGA people complaining about the economy.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Realizing the extent to which this is true wildly changed my opinions about how to deal with Trumpism, since they're never going to be satisfied unless they're actively dominating everyone else. You can't give them some concessions and go back to the status quo: they're reactionary revolutionaries.
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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
systems thinking vs individualism "thinking"
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North Carolina Courage @nccourage.com · 06/09/2026
ANOTHER scoring record for Sanchez 👏
NWSL Single-Season Scoring Record for an American Player Ashley Sanchez
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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
OK everybody remember, this "debate me on racism" thing has been tried before and people actually did debate the racists and all it ended up doing was elevating racist messaging. Also, that message was sown on Twitter to be bait for journalists in 2016 so maybe don't fall for it this time around 🥰
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
No matter what metric you use, Republicans have been worse for the economy than Democrats for a century now. And yet they’ll *still* point to the latest mess they created as an argument to elect them again. And half the media will happily help carry their water for them.
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Matt Poloni @mattpoloni.com · 21/08/2026
And still underrated
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
"You got some MF who's made over $251B being a United States citizen that got here and stayed here illegally before he got his citizenship, sitting here lecturing us on who we should allow into the United States of America, and giving us a f**** Heil Hitler along the way" - Hunter Biden on Elon Musk
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Matt Poloni @mattpoloni.com · 01/08/2026
Those two are gonna be forces to be reckoned with for a long time
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/07/2026
Reminder that on his last day of his first term, Trump awarded a commendation to Dr Fauci "in recognition of his exceptional effort on Operation Warp Speed"
cap of White House page honoring Fauci
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
FYI there is no "real" reason why Rome "fell." Its power waned for the usual, mundane reasons: widening gap between rich and poor, inability to maintain infrastructure, incompetent leadership, pointless wars, endless persecution of marginalized groups who performed vital labor, etc.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
MAGA really said inspecting food and getting vaccinated is woke but giving nukes to the home country of the most of the 9/11 terrorists is America First. You all deserve a decade of explosive diarrhea.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
It turns out the kind of companies willing to layoff 10%-40% of their employees to save a buck with AI are also going shop around for the cheapest AI models instead of just giving those savings to frontier AI labs. Who would have guessed that?
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Kat Hartness @kathartness.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
@omgsidewalks

Unpopular opinion: The fact that they can quickly install data centers nationally means they could've been updating infrastructure which they claimed was too difficult and expensive.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Narrator voice: They did not rethink the dinner.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 26/07/2026
Anyone trying to divide the opposition to fascism three months before the midterms is helping the fascists.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows a bird saying, "Shall we plan our annual birt meeting? How's 7AM?"
The second panel shows two more birds, one saying "Yes!" and the other saying "Sounds good!"
The third panel shows two more birds, one saying "yep!" and the other saying "yup!"
The final panel shows an owl with an exhausted expression.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 25/07/2026
Megan's calling it like it is: These are regressive, oppressive attacks on women and girls.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Trump has to sit and listen as the WSJ gets an Epstein Files reporting award ✅ Buuuut then they all shake his hand? ❌ No better demonstration of why this WHCD event is gross and undermines the very journalism it claims to celebrate
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 25/07/2026
This is a perfect illustration of why I have no faith in US mainstream journalism to protect us from anything.🤷🏿‍♂️ This is their idea of holding some people accountable: going to their banquets and causing fleeting, awkward moments, seconds before accepting an award from them and shaking their hand.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
This is an unsurprising take for a policy wonk. Admitting that policy decisions like making it harder to get healthcare, going to war, making it easier to access guns or cutting support for lifesaving food & drugs directly kills people would essentially declare government bureaucrats murderers.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
i think this is really important point — if you take the arguments for capitalism at face value (you shouldnt but thats a whole other discussion) what we have right now is distinctly not that
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Again, what right wing Republicans and Democrats call "socialism" is the sort of regulated capitalism that was consensus for much of the 20th century. They pretend it's anti-market when really it's only anti-oligarchy
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Journalists must stop normalizing Trump. "Hitler was impossible to discourage, not because he ran an efficient machine but because he was immune to the normal human impediments to absolute power: shame..." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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The Forgotten History of Hitler’s Establishment Enablers
The Nazi leader didn’t seize power; he was given it.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
You want to know why too many people don't respect the media? It's because the media doesn't respect itself. We're all embarrassed for you. Have some fucking dignity.
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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
A little history: The original XP team invented story points to deal with a time-obsessed manager. They were estimating in what they called "ideal days"—days where you're doing your best work, focused entirely on the work, with no distractions, never getting tired, &c. 1/7
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
One good way to confirm that the president is, in fact, a narcissist is if a top military official is sacked for calling him a narcissist.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/07/2026
Been saying AOC should run in 2028 since I saw her speak at the DNC in 2024. Every argument against it has echos of the arguments against Obama running in 2008.
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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This is really important. Something I've been feeling but couldn't quite articulate. We really need to be crafting a story for what happens after Trump.
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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
One of my teacher friends often says that people confuse "few people are able to do x" with "x reveals who is good" and I think about that a lot
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
What utter bullshit! Fetterman accepted the largest possible donation under the law from Republican billionaire donor Harlan Crow who has a mansion stuffed with all sorts of Nazi memorabilia. He needs to shut the fuck up about Israel.
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Harlan Crow Maxed Out Campaign Donations to John Fetterman
The Republican megadonor had come under scrutiny for his ties to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, while the senator drew ire for supporting Israel.
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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Corporate profits soared last quarter to their highest levels since right before the Great Depression, reaching 14.4%. They keep raising prices to pad excess profits, leaving us all holding the bag. This is a systemwide coordinated effort that's crushing the working class.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 09/07/2026
Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in 25 days in the hospital. Yet he still has a job, still getting paid, and getting unlimited world class healthcare. The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, and against guaranteed paid leave, is now getting all three.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
It remains hilarious that his cult will still insist, to this day, that Donald Trump is an "expert deal maker."
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
If Other Jobs Were Like US Senator www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
It's time for your scheduled open-heart surgery. Unfortunately, no one has seen or heard from the surgeon in weeks, since the Incident. The nurse says that she spoke with him at length on a wide variety of important subjects and that he had never been more eloquent. "Will he be along shortly?" you ask.
"I hired him to perform a specific job, and I would like him to do that." The nurse is appalled by this disrespect for the doctors privacy. You lie there for several weeks, your chest flaps held open by clamps.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/07/2026
funny how the cutting edge of the far right is just regurgitated slaveholder agitprop from 1850.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
A lot of the people posting terrible takes about sexual violence victims know they’re wrong. It is an expression of solidarity with perpetrators, who tend to occupy higher positions of power, versus victims, who tend to be disempowered. Sometimes it is because they are perpetrators, too.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Democrats should just run ads that are montages of headlines of all the various Trump family theft of taxpayer money with this clip as the tag
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/07/2026
this is like the literal opposite of true. the most fruitful eras of the modern democratic party coincided with periods where the walls separating political radicals from the mainstream were way less solid
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Window into the mocking with which foreign media is treating the situation. The latest on the live of Le Monde, France’s paper of record: “We’re being told Trump wants to file an appeal with Infantino alleging that the Belgian team played soccer.”
“On nous dit dans l’oreillette que Donald Trump souhaite lancer un recours auprès de Gianni Infantino en accusant la sélection belge d’avoir joué au football ce mardi.”
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/07/2026
There’s never been anyone whose involvement more completely and immediately poisons vibes and destroys joy. No good thing survives contact.
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
This feels like a good time to note that, indeed, USWNT is the winningest team in international sports history (win percentage: 84) the18.com/en/soccer-en...
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Where Does The USWNT Rank Amongst The Winningest Teams Of All Time? | The18
The USWNT is quite good — that's what all our number crunching has led us to believe.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
“If they [Belgium] beat us, we’ll just say it was rigged just like the 2020 Election.” - Donald Trump — He loves to brag about his accomplishments in mendacity.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Gov. Beshear should demand proof of life. If his state has lost a senator, its people deserve to know and deserve a replacement. The seat doesn‘t belong to the Republican Party.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
They hate him because he’s wildly popular and, more important, because he’s doing a great job.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Ha ha I hate it here
From the New York Times:

It is a chaotic scene on the National Mall.
Several hundred people have refused to leave despite an order to evacuate because of severe inclement weather that is approaching. Some are even arguing with Secret Service agents. At one point, a crowd of people began running back toward the stage. An officer is sternly repeating the order over a bullhorn and the crowd is booing. Many have begun chanting "U.S.A., U.S.A." A federal law enforcement officer is trying to assure people that the event has not been canceled. Many are not convinced.
One man walking by blamed the situation on "liberals in the weather service," adding,
"I think this is baloney."
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North Carolina Courage @nccourage.com · 05/07/2026
Hero saves from Kailen and Maycee 🦸‍♀️🦸‍♀️
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 04/07/2026
250 years after the first No Kings Day, America is rejecting another mad king.
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