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Matt Rothstein

@mattrothstein.bsky.social
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Reporter and writer and copy editor based in Philadelphia actively seeking freelance work

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Matt Rothstein @mattrothstein.bsky.social · 52m
me and my four droogs went to the milk bar to write some bloogs
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Aaron C. Davis @byaaroncdavis.bsky.social · 2h
NEW: A private equity executive took a top Pentagon job last year. Then a consulting firm he’d kept ties to starting winning major defense contracts - including a no-bid, quarter-billion dollar deal to advise his office.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 6h
He’s going to look great when he’s disheveled, shackled at the ankles and wrists, standing in front of a tribunal like the criminal bully and thug he is
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: TikTok creators seeking affiliate kickbacks are promoting cheap Meta AI Glasses dupes by claiming that the knockoffs don't feature "annoying" indicator lights that signal when wearers are filming. “I’m recording you right now and you probably can’t even tell..." futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
Influencers Are Promoting Cheap Dupes of Meta AI Glasses that Don't Have the "Annoying Blinking Light" When They Record
Creators are promoting cheaper dupes for Meta smart glasses. Often, the lack of any recording light is central to their pitch.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22h
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
BREAKING: Inflation on many everyday items was entirely due to tariffs, NY Fed has said per CNBC
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Matt Rothstein @mattrothstein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hey, quick q was this helpful?? Am I helpful???
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Matt Rothstein @mattrothstein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
From God's mouth to @ryanpequin.bsky.social 's ears, and then chiles got in there somewhere
Ryan pequin's classic three word phrase comic about God telling David to eat a kiwi like an apple
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026
It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.
X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.
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Matt Rothstein @mattrothstein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Whatever you gotta do to keep your shoulders more square so your head is still straight up and not tucked against your right shoulder, do that. That's as nerdy as I can get lol
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning
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soleil ho @soleilho.com · 07/10/2026
new from me: on how institutions enable rape culture. and the outrageousness of an elected official dismissing sex assault allegations against a political ally because the people involved are gay men www.coyotemedia.org/after-manny-...
coyotemedia.org
After Manny Yekutiel’s Campaign Implodes, Who Holds S.F. Leaders Accountable?
After fumbling accusations of sexual assault, S.F. politicians deserve a reckoning.
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Matt Rothstein @mattrothstein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If someone's writing is pandering to right-wing sensibilities, it's a fair bet that they're supported by those interests
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Matt Rothstein @mattrothstein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
in ze end, ze screens were ze last barrier against revolution
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Matt Rothstein @mattrothstein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is as much a caper as a heist
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Jack from 30 Rock saying “that’s Republican, we count those”
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
(Politico) - ABC programs are already tempering their election coverage ahead of the midterms to avoid angering President Donald Trump, a lawyer for the broadcast company told a federal judge on Tuesday .. @politico.com $DIS www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Matt Rothstein @mattrothstein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
That's good - any surgery in your trunk really wants stability, so for me coughing and sneezing were moments where I really had to pay attention to, like, my pelvic floor to prevent stressing my abs
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Matt Rothstein @mattrothstein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We finally found central jersey and it's in Lamar's ankle
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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
While I have you, more good news! You’re almost certainly not going to get plague, and if you do, you’ll go on antibiotics, as @emilymullin.bsky.social reports:
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You Probably Aren’t Going to Get the Plague
The death of a lab worker in Russia has authorities looking at whether plague played a role. Even if it did, though, the odds of it spreading are very low.
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Matt Rothstein @mattrothstein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If it makes you cough it's a really dicey idea post-op - stick to those tinctures and edibles for a couple weeks
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
This product should not exist.
nytimes.com
Why My Conversations with OpenAI’s ‘ChatGPT for Teens’ Made Me Very Worried
A new mode includes a study tool, but it still does a user’s homework. And a children’s safety nonprofit says the chatbot flunked its tests.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/10/2026
In Wisconsin alone, there were 39 private schools where every student used tuition vouchers during the most recent school year. Together, these schools educated 7,923 children and took in roughly $87 million from the voucher program. (Published August)
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At “Quasi-Public” Private Schools, 100% of Students Get Tuition Vouchers. There’s Almost No Accountability.
Private schools — even those that are heavily dependent on taxpayer funding — often operate without the scrutiny public schools are subject to. Following the money at one Milwaukee private school reve...
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Why isn't this on every TV screen and not the fairy tale of killer robots
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NPR @npr.org · 07/10/2026
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. n.pr/4zauALa
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Over 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwide
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 07/10/2026
a “banana republic” is precisely when the political system is dominated by overweening corporate interests
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is incredibly important. I feel deeply that curbing sexual violence will come from raising social expectations of men, not from ‘educating’ them. I fear this is an unpopular view, because people are afraid to face up to the scale of the issue.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 07/10/2026
"We don't want to turn into a banana republic, so we won't try to rein in corporations" is the kind of thing you say if you don't know what makes a banana republic a banana republic, and instead want to be a banana republic where the bananas are data centers.
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Matt Rothstein @mattrothstein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
He definitely has by far the most normal brain, at least when it comes to not making news for being weird
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Matt Rothstein @mattrothstein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just booped ya a tenner. Be safe
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Matt Rothstein @mattrothstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Moriel Hukawara
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.
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Asad Margins @catsashimi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Simone Weil hit on something similar: "Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating."
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The federal government is lying to you. And we have the receipts. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Fun fact: New York City is rolling out pilots to product test AI on high school students, and NO STUDENT WE TALK TO knows anything about it - it's almost like the model also depends on students not finding out. If this is so great, why the cloak of secrecy??
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 05/10/2026
Turning Point USA media are embedded with Border Patrol to cover the eviction of the camp defending the final old-growth trees where Trump aims to build a border wall desecrating the landscape. TPUSA are state-sponsored fascist propaganda. Exactly the same as state media in any other autocracy.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I understand that paywalls are annoying, but the grim reality for everything right now, is if you want something to exist, you have to put money towards it. Every creative person is having their life's work hoovered up by AI companies. Layoffs never end. Private equity keeps making things worse.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/10/2026
“THIS IS THE TEXTBOOK DEFINITION ON LOANSHARKING,” wrote one consumer about a tribal loan company. A federal database used to publicly display such complaints, and they’ve helped inform several ProPublica stories. Now the narratives aren’t public.
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The Federal Agency That’s Supposed to Protect Consumers Just Made Another Business-Friendly Move
Debt collection. Credit reporting. Payday loans. Consumer complaints to a federal database used to help reveal issues and bring accountability. Then the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau stopped pu...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Goddamn, this point by @anandwrites.bsky.social really needed saying.
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Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 05/10/2026
one thing you learn from making a lot of things is that the nitty gritty details, the millions of tiny invisible decisions, ARE the art. The "higher level ideas" are not nearly as important or interesting
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Truthout @truthout.org · 05/10/2026
Many Cubans believe that the success of the new economic measures will significantly depend on the Trump administration. “The empire goes after banks that do business with Cuba, sanctions investors, and prohibits the use of the dollar in transactions with our island,” Grisel Eulalia Reyes León said.
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Matt Rothstein @mattrothstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Slapping a "the team will be back" bumper at the end of Chernobyl
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Frankenbert Graveyardko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
i am increasingly of the belief that this type of shit is at least as corrosive to democratic society as out-and-out fascism is
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🌬️Doctrix Snow • NYC/FMTY @mistresssnowphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
annie only uploaded the first hour of her deposition bc a judge has blocked her from sharing the following 7 hours. you’ll hear if you listen that the clip cuts out the *moment* they start discussing her sexual abuse allegations.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 05/10/2026
it is interesting that I can't find any mainstream media coverage of Altman's sister Annie going viral on social media over the weekend for uploading footage of the first hour of her deposition in her lawsuit against him (one of two) in which she is alleging years of CSA
theguardian.com
Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman
Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 05/10/2026
Or we could hold you accountable for the harm you cause.   Just because the Trump admin won't lift a finger doesn't mean big AI should get away with putting profits over people. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check! And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
The press will do stories on Republican sex creeps, but it will never, ever point out -- much less make an ongoing narrative out of -- the fact that the GOP has been *ridden* with sex creeps for decades. You have to be blind not to see the pattern.
nytimes.com
Dennis Hastert, Powerful Politician Disgraced by Child Sexual Abuse, Dies (Gift Article)
The longest-serving Republican speaker of the House admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys decades earlier. He was 84.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The quick pivot to solutions means that schools are trying to shape the narrative. A lot of these proposals come directly from them—or the people they have always tapped on the shoulder to make it look like they take sexual violence more seriously than they do.
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