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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 17/11/2025

We can build a new social contract for the automated age—a Labor Bill of Rights that reclaims the meaning of work and the purpose of progress. That contract should rest on three pillars: profit sharing, a national transition fund, and public oversight, says @mattwatkinspolicy.bsky.social.

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The Future of Work Must Belong to Workers

A call for a new labor Bill of Rights in the age of automation.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy @chronphilanthropy.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

"Poverty can seem like an abstract concept in the philanthropic world — something to analyze rather than experience." phlnthrp.com/3LBtdlt

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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 26/10/2025

Unlike a liquidated bank, democracy can be rebuilt. The question is whether we will choose to rebuild it on foundations that can actually support what we claim to value, says @mattwatkinspolicy.bsky.social.

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The US Has Become a Democracy of Insufficient Funds

We achieved universal political rights at the exact historical moment when we dismantled the material conditions that make those rights real.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy @chronphilanthropy.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Opinion: What democracy's defenders gets wrong about "democracy" — a guide to words that put off average Americans and the language that will renew their faith and connect them to the billion-dollar fight to strengthen our country. phlnthrp.com/474WVYq

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Why Philanthropy’s Democracy Talk Turns People Off

Here are the words that leave average Americans cold — and the language that could connect them to the billion-dollar fight to strengthen the country.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy @chronphilanthropy.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Our September issue is live! Amid the chaos of 2025, nonprofits are reinventing themselves to survive. Some are looking to partnerships as a lifeline. This month's magazine details how charities are adapting and innovating. Dive into the issue: www.philanthropy.com/issue/current

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy @chronphilanthropy.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Sneak peek at the cover of the September issue! Amid the chaos of 2025, nonprofits are reinventing themselves to survive. Some are looking to partnerships as a lifeline. This month's magazine details how charities are adapting and innovating. The issue drops on Tuesday, September 9.

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Phil Aroneanu @philaroneanu.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

As Matt Watkins writes in @commondreams.org, the delay isn't just about @climateunited.bsky.social or federal contracts or even appeals courts. It's about the EPA gaslighting us about the crisis we're facing, and Trump Administration executive overreach. www.commondreams.org/opinion/cour...

Every day of delay bleeds value. A retrofit not installed means another summer of unbearable bills. A pump not delivered means another year of hauling water. A roof not secured means another tarp, another moldy wall, another child growing up in a house that never dries. A dollar spent today prevents five dollars in damage tomorrow. A dollar withheld compounds harm. The storm does not wait for petitions. The fire does not wait for oral arguments. The flood does not wait for a court’s sense of timing.

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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 03/09/2025

But history will record something else. The money was there. The need was there. The chance was there. And power chose not to use it. That is not oversight. That is abdication, writes @mattwatkinspolicy.bsky.social: www.commondreams.org/opinion/cour...

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By Keeping Climate Funds on Ice, the DC Circuit Is Complicit in Trump’s Overreach | Common Dreams

By refusing to act, the DC Circuit has turned oversight into obstruction, procedure into punishment, as it helps the executive hollow out Congress’ most basic power.

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Matt Watkins @mattwatkinspolicy.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

My latest article in @slate.com : The lesson from D.C. is clear — creeping authoritarianism isn’t stopped by warning the water’s rising. It’s stopped by fixing the leak, by making people so secure in their daily lives they never look to the strongman in the first place. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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The Most Urgent Lesson for Democrats to Take From Trump’s D.C. Deployment

Democrats keep making the same mistake—and they need to learn from it before Trump sends the National Guard into another city.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy @chronphilanthropy.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Opinion: Philanthropy has more than its share of trigger words. Thanks to polarization, the strategic plans of nonprofits and philanthropy routinely collapse over a single word or phrase like "equity" or "civility." phlnthrp.com/44yqK29 #TheCommons

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Philanthropy’s Trigger Words — and How to Make Your Message Clear

You say ‘equity.’ They hear ‘exclusion.’ Strategies for getting everyone on the same page.

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Matt Watkins @mattwatkinspolicy.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

trump just signed an executive order that rewards cities for criminalizing poverty. i wrote about it it for @commondreams.org www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum... on vagrancy laws, aesthetic politics, and the violence of being made invisible. read it. share it. let me know what you think.

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Why Trump Is Making Vagrancy Laws Great Again | Common Dreams

Trump's new executive order on homelessness is not a departure from policy failure. It is the logical continuation of a governance model that confuses erasure with resolution.

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Matt Watkins @mattwatkinspolicy.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

been writing a lot this year—mostly policy, politics, and nonprofit stuff, especially where it hits working-class and poor communities. started a substack to share more freely: 🔗 mattwatkinsessays.substack.com subscribe if you’re into it. share if you think someone else might be.

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Matt Watkins | Substack

I write about politics, culture, language, and power. Click to read Matt Watkins, a Substack publication. Launched 7 minutes ago.

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Matt Watkins @mattwatkinspolicy.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

My most recent article @commondreams.org "The truth is... We now live in a country where a young girl at summer camp must wonder if the river beside her bunk will rise in the night, where families face flood insurance premiums that exceed their mortgage payments..."

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What the Texas Floods Can Teach Us About Disaster Readiness in a Changing Climate | Common Dreams

What happened in Kerr County may not have been preventable. What happens next—and what happens in every county like it—absolutely is.

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Benjamin Gamson @benjamingamson.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

#BREAKING: Thomas Massie has switched his vote from a yes to a no. There are now five Republicans opposing the procedural vote.

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ACLU of Wisconsin @acluofwi.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

GOOD NEWS: In a victory for reproductive freedom, the Wisconsin Supreme Court issued a 4-3 ruling declaring the state's abortion ban to be unenforceable. Wisconsinites no longer have to fear the archaic 1849 ban could go back into effect. www.aclu-wi.org/en/press-rel...

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ACLU of Wisconsin Applauds State Supreme Court Decision Striking Down 1849 Abortion Ban

In a victory for reproductive freedom, the Wisconsin Supreme Court issued a 4-3 ruling declaring the 1849 abortion ban to be unenforceable.

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Matt Watkins @mattwatkinspolicy.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

My newest article in @slate.com. slate.com/news-and-pol... the Big Beautiful Bill is being framed as a mandate — but no one asked for mass Medicaid cuts, corporate tax breaks, and billions to ICE. #legislation #BigBeautifulBill #Policy #Trump #TaxCuts

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The “Big, Beautiful Bill” Is Not What America Asked For

Republicans did not have a mandate for this.

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Matt Watkins @mattwatkinspolicy.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

My most recent article explores Mamdani's grocery proposal. It's not nearly as radical or impractical as many claim.

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Matt Watkins @mattwatkinspolicy.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Let’s be clear: denying U.S.-born children citizenship under EO 14160 risks creating statelessness. Some argue, “They’re not technically stateless—they can just get citizenship from their parents’ country.” That’s legally narrow and deeply misleading.

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The United States Is About to Embark on a Terrifying Experiment in Mass Statelessness

This scenario, until recently, might have read like a dystopian projection. But after the court’s decision on Friday, it is no longer hypothetical.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

law professors have been unable to understand why people are actually concerned about this case. it’s not about nationwide injunctions per se, it’s about a court that waited until the issue hurt the GOP, and then intervened on behalf of one of the most egregious constitutional violations we’ve seen

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 28/06/2025

I am reading essays from liberal pundits and law professors explaining why this decision is very “narrow” and “technical,” and it’s honestly like they finished the majority opinion and thought, “Well this makes sense, surely there is no reason to question its premises or read any further”

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The Republican Justices Are Simply Doing What the Republican President Asks

The position of the Roberts Court is that presidents are sometimes allowed to break the law, but only if they are Republicans.

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Matt Watkins @mattwatkinspolicy.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

This article claims Trump v. CASA won’t set back the fight for birthright citizenship. Bullshit. Just because some are protected doesn’t mean it’s okay. Injustice anywhere still matters. You can debate doctrine all day. But who cares if the people hurt never make it to court?

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The Supreme Court Put Nationwide Injunctions to the Torch

That isn’t the disaster for birthright citizenship that some fear.

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Matt Watkins @mattwatkinspolicy.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true.” Hannah Arendt, Origins of Totalitarianism

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reality check 🤔😕😢 @realitycheck.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

The 22 states with preliminary injunctions: www.gtlaw-insidebusinessimmigration.com/supreme-cour...

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy @chronphilanthropy.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Opinion: Our language is packed with elite-sounding jargon. It is ineffective — and dangerous — amid today's heightened distrust of institutions and growing hostility to the sector, writes Matt Watkins for #TheCommons. phlnthrp.com/4l7Y9pH

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Word Jumble: When Nonprofits Talk Fancy, America Tunes Out

Our language is packed with elite-sounding jargon. It is ineffective — and dangerous — amid today’s heightened distrust of institutions and growing hostility to the sector.

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Matt Watkins @mattwatkinspolicy.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Protesters block ICE vans—media calls them unhinged. Students grieve Gaza—called hysterical. Moms demand gun reform—labeled emotional. In 2025, dissent is pathologized. Rage begets diagnosis. Grief becomes dysfunction. Authoritarianism doesn’t just punish protest. It reframes it as instability.

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Matt Watkins @mattwatkinspolicy.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

First post here. This week, I published a piece in Slate on the Supreme Court’s ruling—and what it could mean for birthright citizenship, legal identity, and the quiet creation of a stateless generation: slate.com/news-and-pol...

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The United States Is About to Embark on a Terrifying Experiment in Mass Statelessness

This scenario, until recently, might have read like a dystopian projection. But after the court’s decision on Friday, it is no longer hypothetical.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 27/06/2025

"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."

slate.com

The United States Is About to Embark on a Terrifying Experiment in Mass Statelessness

This scenario, until recently, might have read like a dystopian projection. But after the court’s decision on Friday, it is no longer hypothetical.

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