Matt Rothstein @mattrothstein.bsky.social · 52mme and my four droogs went to the milk bar to write some bloogs 020
Reposted by Matt RothsteinAaron C. Davis @byaaroncdavis.bsky.social · 2hNEW: 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. 818253
Reposted by Matt RothsteinPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 6hHe’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 81837
Reposted by Matt RothsteinMaggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 08/10/2026NEW: 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.comInfluencers Are Promoting Cheap Dupes of Meta AI Glasses that Don't Have the "Annoying Blinking Light" When They RecordCreators are promoting cheaper dupes for Meta smart glasses. Often, the lack of any recording light is central to their pitch. 918584
Reposted by Matt RothsteinAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22hI 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... 8246031711
Reposted by Matt RothsteinUnusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 08/10/2026BREAKING: Inflation on many everyday items was entirely due to tariffs, NY Fed has said per CNBC 1436797
Matt Rothstein @mattrothstein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Hey, quick q was this helpful?? Am I helpful??? 030
Matt Rothstein @mattrothstein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026From God's mouth to @ryanpequin.bsky.social 's ears, and then chiles got in there somewhere 070
Reposted by Matt RothsteinJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026It'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. 35249171214
Matt Rothstein @mattrothstein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Whatever 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 110
Reposted by Matt RothsteinCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026the 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 8139931007
Reposted by Matt Rothsteinsoleil ho @soleilho.com · 07/10/2026new 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.orgAfter Manny Yekutiel’s Campaign Implodes, Who Holds S.F. Leaders Accountable?After fumbling accusations of sexual assault, S.F. politicians deserve a reckoning. 15930
Matt Rothstein @mattrothstein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026If someone's writing is pandering to right-wing sensibilities, it's a fair bet that they're supported by those interests 060
Matt Rothstein @mattrothstein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026in ze end, ze screens were ze last barrier against revolution 000
Reposted by Matt RothsteinCarl 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... 1181540682
Matt Rothstein @mattrothstein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026That'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 010
Matt Rothstein @mattrothstein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026We finally found central jersey and it's in Lamar's ankle 000
Reposted by Matt RothsteinTim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026While 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:wired.comYou Probably Aren’t Going to Get the PlagueThe 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. 5224
Matt Rothstein @mattrothstein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026If it makes you cough it's a really dicey idea post-op - stick to those tinctures and edibles for a couple weeks 110
Reposted by Matt RothsteinHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026This product should not exist.nytimes.comWhy My Conversations with OpenAI’s ‘ChatGPT for Teens’ Made Me Very WorriedA 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. 9377115
Reposted by Matt RothsteinProPublica @propublica.org · 07/10/2026In 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)propublica.orgAt “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... 561061610
Reposted by Matt RothsteinAlex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Why isn't this on every TV screen and not the fairy tale of killer robots 372085577
Reposted by Matt RothsteinNPR @npr.org · 07/10/2026Researchers 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/4zauALan.prOver 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwideResearchers 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. 6519911196
Reposted by Matt Rothsteinryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 07/10/2026a “banana republic” is precisely when the political system is dominated by overweening corporate interests 351574262
Reposted by Matt RothsteinPete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This 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. 14925283
Reposted by Matt RothsteinCourtney 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. 121492359
Matt Rothstein @mattrothstein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026He definitely has by far the most normal brain, at least when it comes to not making news for being weird 000
Reposted by Matt RothsteinDoctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026we 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. 392755673
Reposted by Matt RothsteinAsad Margins @catsashimi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Simone 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." 310826
Reposted by Matt RothsteinCharles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The federal government is lying to you. And we have the receipts. projects.propublica.org/american-cit... 8562228
Reposted by Matt RothsteinAI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Fun 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?? 120273
Reposted by Matt RothsteinCrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 05/10/2026Turning 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. 6251104
Reposted by Matt RothsteinKaren K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I 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. 25857217
Reposted by Matt RothsteinProPublica @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.propublica.orgThe Federal Agency That’s Supposed to Protect Consumers Just Made Another Business-Friendly MoveDebt 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... 3384179
Reposted by Matt RothsteinKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Goddamn, this point by @anandwrites.bsky.social really needed saying. 843124814
Reposted by Matt RothsteinMaddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 05/10/2026one 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 252079500
Reposted by Matt RothsteinTruthout @truthout.org · 05/10/2026Many 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. 1155
Matt Rothstein @mattrothstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Slapping a "the team will be back" bumper at the end of Chernobyl 050
Reposted by Matt RothsteinFrankenbert Graveyardko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026i am increasingly of the belief that this type of shit is at least as corrosive to democratic society as out-and-out fascism is 1246464
Reposted by Matt Rothstein🌬️Doctrix Snow • NYC/FMTY @mistresssnowphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026annie 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. 213655
Reposted by Matt RothsteinLex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 05/10/2026it 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 CSAtheguardian.comAccept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam AltmanBoss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver 292083812
Reposted by Matt RothsteinSenator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 05/10/2026Or 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... 23548113
Reposted by Matt RothsteinElizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026never the wrong time for this classic 56120093571
Reposted by Matt RothsteinTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026If 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. ⬇️ 2218991696
Reposted by Matt RothsteinDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026The 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.comDennis 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. 441674495
Reposted by Matt RothsteinNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The 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. 110311