Reposted by Matty WilderI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026The idea that marginalized people are “allowed” exist in public and political life at the charity of hegemonic majorities is omnipresent in our political culture. 123965
Matty Wilder @mattyster.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Same here! It was my first movie in the theater and I cried. I also remember being freaked out by the full-length Thriller video—I think I was about 5 when it premiered 040
Reposted by Matty WilderTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The philanthropic world is really struggling with this whole illiberalism thing. They’ve published a lot of stories in this vein. I cant help thinking insider Dem conversations have a similar tone. www.philanthropy.com/opinion/why-...philanthropy.comWhy doesn't Elon Musk care about his philanthropic legacy?Elon Musk's foundation fails to meet IRS minimums. Here's why the world's richest man should invest in philanthropic legacy. 9887
Reposted by Matty WilderPaul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this. 354163194191
Matty Wilder @mattyster.bsky.social · 03/09/2026"Canceling the exhibition will not make the pain go away — or prevent someone else from causing more of it."nytimes.comOpinion | Cancel the Met Gala InsteadThe Met shouldn’t have canceled the Galliano exhibition. 011
Matty Wilder @mattyster.bsky.social · 26/08/2026"Anyone can tell a story, but it takes a pure heart to make it mean something. 'Little Bird' opens with a lament for the unstoppable passage of time: Beauty is a rare perfume Precious, yet doesn’t last long Youth is but a playful breeze That blows our way once then moves on"newyorker.comWhat Dolly Parton BuiltFrom the daily newsletter: the musician, who died today, at the age of eighty, leaves behind a legacy of enormous warmth and tenderness. 000
Reposted by Matty Wilderderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Enjoyed this touching NYT tribute to Dolly Parton. What a great talent, generous heart, and heroic life. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/a...nytimes.comDolly Parton, Country Music Superstar Whose Songs Spoke to Millions, Dies at 80 (Gift Article)Known for her outsize persona, appearance and talent, she rose from rural poverty to become a top-selling singer, songwriter and entrepreneur. 323480495
Reposted by Matty WilderMike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 04/08/2026“I can’t give anyone a view into my heart and mind but I can split some meaningless platitudes that say nothing about my views”. All we can do is judge people by their actions, and we can look at what’s happened at CBS News to see clearly that Ellison is full of shit. 78622
Matty Wilder @mattyster.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Now I’m trying to remember whether I waved at the end of our Zoom yesterday. If it’s a group I definitely wave, but maybe not always when it’s one on one? Half-monster 110
Matty Wilder @mattyster.bsky.social · 14/07/2026“…That’s part of the reason Marx hasn’t received as much national attention as his eccentric biography might warrant. It scarcely counts as news when Republicans nominate a con man who claims to have God on his side while fetishizing violence.”nytimes.comOpinion | The Ridiculous Rise of Victor MarxOnce started, the process of voter radicalization isn’t easy to modulate. 000
Matty Wilder @mattyster.bsky.social · 12/06/2026“Furthermore, the SpaceX IPO now in progress makes it clearer than ever that Musk’s greatest skill isn’t developing futuristic products. It’s his mastery of financial shell games and his ability to leverage insider influence, especially his influence with the Trump administration.” 020
Matty Wilder @mattyster.bsky.social · 03/06/2026“A Project 2029 that has nothing to say about either the Senate filibuster, or an ideologically captured Supreme Court, or extreme partisan gerrymandering — among other concerns — is not a Project 2029 worth the time or effort.” 000
Reposted by Matty WilderLinda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 26/05/2026A Pope is a Pope and will always believe many things I do not believe, but that does not change how absolutely bang-on correct and beautifully articulated this is. 51079253
Matty Wilder @mattyster.bsky.social · 23/05/2026“…and a mission that the colleges that share this legacy still strive to realize. A college organized around the formation of a person rather than the mere delivery of a credential is not an idea from a distant past. It is a proposition whose moment is now.” 2/2 000
Matty Wilder @mattyster.bsky.social · 23/05/2026“What remains scarce and is becoming even scarcer is the capacity to identify a question worth asking, to sit with a problem that has no correct answer, to form an identity that is more than the sum of its parts. That is precisely what Hampshire, at its best, tried to do…” 1/2insidehighered.comWhat Hampshire Closing Means for Progressive Ed (opinion)Hampshire’s closure speaks squarely to questions of what college is for. 100
Reposted by Matty WilderNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15/05/2026I'm pretty sure that doing acts of war to try to fix the problems created entirely by your previous acts of war count as acts of war. 1418937
Reposted by Matty WilderJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 14/05/2026The past decade has had a silver lining: Chuck evolving from Jordanesque business class self-interest to a moral leader on behalf of LGBT people and immigrants 1617
Reposted by Matty WilderSoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 14/05/2026"The oligarchs want a permanent ruling class. The extremists want a permanent underclass to grind a boot into. The deal between them is straightforward enough: the oligarchs get captured courts and permanent tax cuts, the extremists get their hierarchy of human worth written back into the law" 202781958
Matty Wilder @mattyster.bsky.social · 27/04/2026“I wanted to say that there’s no reason for the media to take the bait of falling back on tired, pox-on-both-your-houses Beltway cynicism,” Raskin told me. “Rather, the media should understand that the survival of the free press is at stake right now, along with the rest of the Bill of Rights.” 020
Reposted by Matty WilderAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 26/04/2026It would be nice if an act of political violence could still result in simple, uncomplicated condemnation rather than happening with the elephant in the room that the sitting president of the United States has repeatedly and eagerly tried to get his political opponents murdered. 201790347
Reposted by Matty WilderAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Republicans loved gerrymandering as long as their opponents were committed to fair maps. Now that Dems are responding in kind, conservatives aren’t having as much fun. But the only thing worse than constitutional hardball is unilateral constitutional hardball. (🎁) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...theatlantic.comThe Virginia Gerrymander Disenfranchises RepublicansRepublicans seem to have expected that Democrats would continue to follow rules they had long since enthusiastically abandoned. 271079225
Reposted by Matty WilderDoug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Early 2000s, I was working in an office and we had a local jazz station on as background noise. They played a hip-hop-inflected remix of a Herb Alpert song and it was the coolest thing I'd ever heard. I called the station to ask the name. (But now I can't remember the song and Google is no help. 🤷♂️) 4102
Matty Wilder @mattyster.bsky.social · 06/03/2026"I hope I can return to what I said at the beginning: I would love to be able to be useful & help kids to think. Not what to think, but how to think, to make decisions for themselves, to not be surrounded by the opinions of others, to not follow the crowd. To think well. We could use more of that." 000
Matty Wilder @mattyster.bsky.social · 06/03/2026So, will music help us, will it save us as a society? “Of course it’s meant to make us better,” Alpert states without hesitation. “Music has so much power that only good things can come from it." 1/2english.elpais.comGustavo Dudamel receives $1 million award from musician Herb Alpert: ‘We can change the world, but it starts with educating young people’At age 90, the California artist creates a new prize with a large financial endowment whose first recipient is his admired colleague, the director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic 100
Matty Wilder @mattyster.bsky.social · 24/02/2026“You’re probably thinking, there’s no way people actually do this. It’s hard to get an accurate sense of how many people actually hit themselves in the face with a hammer, but it’s not zero.” 000
Reposted by Matty WilderMichelangelo Signorile @msignorile.bsky.social · 11/02/2026I think they should just put it back every day--put a new one up each day--and let them take it down every night. Will show how completely obsessed they are. Also, just ring the park, on city property with a hundred massive flags. equality.house.gov/media-center...equality.house.govMamdani, Schumer & NYC Council demand National Park Service return Pride flag to Stonewall National MonumentRep. Mark Takano of California, chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus, said the move reflects a broader political agenda. “Removing Pride flags from a place that is so deeply connected to our fig... 614938
Matty Wilder @mattyster.bsky.social · 06/02/2026“Fashion without narrative, context, or emotion is just clothes. And Mrs. Trump manages to flatline an entire industry. When she enters a room, she does not brighten it; she dims it. She is a fashion asphyxiant.”thecut.comMelania Won’t Be Remembered for What She WoreThe First Lady’s documentary reveals how she uses her image to deflect from her complicity. 000
Reposted by Matty WilderNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 06/02/2026ICE at every polling place? Not nearly enough goons. Refuse to seat winners? No mechanism and would crash markets. Lie about the vote, falsely claim fraud? Very safe bet. Seize ballot boxes in certain locations? Worryingly plausible, as @rickhasen.bsky.social and @gregsargent.bsky.social explain. 27432163
Matty Wilder @mattyster.bsky.social · 28/01/2026“Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.” Moving and important piece by @adamserwer.bsky.social 000
Matty Wilder @mattyster.bsky.social · 28/01/2026“Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority.” 100
Matty Wilder @mattyster.bsky.social · 28/01/2026“The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave.”theatlantic.comMinnesota Proved MAGA WrongThe pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions. 120
Reposted by Matty WilderAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/01/2026We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason 318248165969
Matty Wilder @mattyster.bsky.social · 21/01/2026“His debilitating solipsism is a threat to the stability of the entire world. A functional Congress would impeach and remove him. But the Republican majority is in a codependent relationship with the president, unable to separate his identity from that of their party.”nytimes.comOpinion | Trump’s Norway Letter Proves This Isn’t Sustainable 000
Matty Wilder @mattyster.bsky.social · 18/01/2026“If we can endure this crisis, there will be a time of reflection and reform. It happened after the Civil War. It happened during the civil rights movement. It happened after Watergate. And when the time for reform comes again, it must focus on the abolition of the prerogative state.” 000
Matty Wilder @mattyster.bsky.social · 18/01/2026“Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows.” 000
Reposted by Matty WilderNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 08/01/2026The Difference Between Renee Good and Ashli Babbitt Is Fascism What a title. Really illustrates the point. 313042
Matty Wilder @mattyster.bsky.social · 05/01/2026“In ways large and small, the United States has seen serious democratic backsliding. But while the Trump regime’s desire for authoritarian dominance is bottomless, its capacity is not.” 111
Matty Wilder @mattyster.bsky.social · 05/01/2026“The menu will include new versions of rotating dishes from both Bar Amá and Bäco Mercat. Le Dräq marks the return of the bäco, what was once L.A.’s most talked about sandwich.” 000
Matty Wilder @mattyster.bsky.social · 05/01/2026I’ll take any bit of good news I can find these days “Josef Centeno has transformed his downtown restaurant Bar Amá into Le Dräq, a new place that combines a version of Bar Amá and Bäco Mercat, the restaurant he closed during the pandemic.”latimes.comCommentary: One of L.A.'s most influential restaurants is reborn in downtown L.A.One of L.A.'s best restaurants is back, and it's home to a killer new burger. 100
Reposted by Matty WilderGremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 26/12/2025A beautiful essay by @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social: Birth Pangs www.newyorker.com/culture/2025...newyorker.comWhat Kind of New World Is Being Born?A Christmas essay. 1286
Matty Wilder @mattyster.bsky.social · 26/12/2025“He’s still a supremely dangerous [figure], especially as he comes to feel increasingly cornered and aggrieved... But it’s become, over the past year, easier to imagine the moment when his mystique finally evaporates, when few want to defend him anymore or admit that they ever did.”nytimes.comOpinion | Trump Is Getting Weaker, and the Resistance Is Getting Stronger 000
Reposted by Matty WilderAnnie M Leonard @anniemleonard.bsky.social · 26/12/2025“According to historians and political scientists who study protest: very. From emancipation to women’s suffrage, from civil rights to Black Lives Matter, mass movement has shaped the arc of American history.” @justprotest.bsky.socialtheguardian.comHow effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: veryFrom emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history 28694248
Reposted by Matty WilderDoug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 26/12/2025The Trump Country Diner trope has returned 45822101
Matty Wilder @mattyster.bsky.social · 24/12/2025“Shopping was once a feast of possibilities and has instead become a test of patience.”nytimes.comOpinion | Why Is Shopping an Abyss of Blah? 000
Reposted by Matty WilderOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/12/2025CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this. 451279598135
Reposted by Matty WilderNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 21/12/2025Speaker Mike Johnson Campaigns for Democrats in Upcoming Midterms 924036
Reposted by Matty WilderNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Jared Kushner’s firm means Saudi Arabia’s in too. So America managed to transfer control of TikTok USA from foreign billionaires in east Asia to foreign billionaires in west Asia, and from Chinese ruling party-connected oligarchs to US ruling party-connected oligarchs. Congrats? 1016576
