Reposted by Matt VanderwerffJames Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Inject it into my veins. 181539214
Reposted by Matt VanderwerffDaniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 16/01/2026For giving, this is a very good resource for mutual aid orgs, personal fundraisers, and nonprofit/community org donations. www.standwithminnesota.com Besides that, the best thing you can do is prepare your own communities. If it can happen here or Lewiston, Maine, it can happen anywhere.standwithminnesota.comStand With MinnesotaA directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation 8454212
Reposted by Matt VanderwerffBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 23/09/2025To go along with that, we live in an era of low trust voters, and they're just going to keep voting out incumbents over and over because they're mad at "The System" and aren't traditional ideological actors. You can't heal America without making people trust the government more. 415316
Reposted by Matt VanderwerffSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 19/09/2025among the issues with people not having any knowledge of hybrid regimes in the global South is the fact that everyone assumes contemporary authoritarian governance looks like 20th century totalitarianism 18948137
Reposted by Matt VanderwerffOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/08/2025the city I live in is occupied by armed federal agents checking people's papers at random public transportation stops and people are still doing this 122455495
Matt Vanderwerff @mavander.bsky.social · 22/08/2025In DC today I watched masked secret police detain a brown-skinned man for simply walking on the sidewalk. No warrant. Refused to let him get his id. They shoved neighbors aside, threw him into an unmarked SUV, and vanished. Broad daylight. This is what our city is living with. 000
Reposted by Matt VanderwerffRocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 30/07/2025A Norwegian friend told me some months ago something to the effect of, look, American friend, you have never had to walk this dark path before. We have walked a very dark path ourselves. We understand. It will be very hard for you, but it is survivable. We are here when you are ready to rebuild. 315826
Reposted by Matt VanderwerffCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/07/2025“.. The news on Israel’s main TV channel had just finished a segment on how hunger in Gaza is portrayed around the world when the anchor looked up and said: ‘Maybe it’s finally time to acknowledge that this isn’t a public relations failure, but a moral one.’” www.bloomberg.com/news/article... 451571423
Reposted by Matt VanderwerffDanny Miller @danielmilleresq.bsky.social · 19/07/2025As dangerous as canceling Colbert was for our democracy, it made him infinitely more powerful. I mean, who exactly was watching him before now? Firing him was a signal that what he has to say is REALLY important. I don’t care if he just starts a TikTok, he’ll become one of the key voices in America. 531536326
Reposted by Matt VanderwerffKevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 12/07/2025“It took from the invention of the photovoltaic solar cell, in 1954, until 2022 for the world to install a terawatt of solar power; the second terawatt came just two years later, and the third will arrive either later this year or early next.” Moore’s Law eat your heart out. Jesus. 10751219
Reposted by Matt VanderwerffJames Martin, SJ @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country. 895123644005
Reposted by Matt Vanderwerffjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/06/2025i can’t express how much i stan rick steves 200107351151
Reposted by Matt Vanderwerfflindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social · 27/06/2025IDF soldiers spoke to Haaretz about the military directive to shoot Palestinians seeking food. The on-the-ground soldiers say they are murdering Gazans for no reason and that the Israeli govt and military are hiding behind the idea of a "threat" that doesn't exist." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/... 817196
Reposted by Matt VanderwerffBilly Binion @billybinion.bsky.social · 23/06/2025This is Rhogena Nicholas & Dennis Tuttle. Police shot & killed them—and their dog—during a no-knock raid on their home. A Texas officer claimed an informant had bought heroin there. The problem? That cop lied. The couple hadn’t sold heroin—and there was no informant. A thread. 17911332
Reposted by Matt VanderwerffThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/06/2025The Trump administration said on Monday that it would open up 58 million acres of back country in national forests to road construction and development, removing protections that had been in place for a quarter century. trib.al/VQXR96o 68195153
Matt Vanderwerff @mavander.bsky.social · 17/06/2025If we are to do this, we will need very different systems of evaluating and understanding impact 020
Reposted by Matt VanderwerffAndrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 13/06/2025A man with a green card said ICE agents arrested him in #Lynn, Mass then took him to a detention facility—but first made a detour to a cemetery, where they took him out of their vehicle and beat him. #mapoli #Massachusettsnbcboston.comWorker arrested by ICE in Lynn, later released, says agents beat him in cemeteryA Massachusetts man said he told immigration agents multiple times that he's a legal resident and that he was brought to a cemetery where they assaulted him. 16941702374
Reposted by Matt VanderwerffTed Cruz called the FBI on me @weareronin.bsky.social · 02/06/2025San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat 2112387319997
Reposted by Matt Vanderwerffryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 30/05/2025"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...prospect.orgGo, Elon, and Never Darken Our Doors AgainThe worst ultra-billionaire on Earth says he’s leaving government. Let’s hope he actually does it. 17558982960
Reposted by Matt VanderwerffMusicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 08/05/2025did they just pick the guy most easily able to yell at JD Vance 142176
Reposted by Matt VanderwerffRachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth.bsky.social · 09/04/2025?! 😳 www.vox.com/the-gray-are... 3339459
Reposted by Matt VanderwerffWaldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 18/03/2025Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.nytimes.comElon Musk’s Starlink Expands Across White House ComplexTrump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office. 576182518047
Reposted by Matt VanderwerffAndrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 12/03/2025The number of “I will never get rich but I will like what I’m doing and it’s meaningful work” jobs under attack right now is staggering. 13755129
Reposted by Matt VanderwerffJane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Evangelicalism is like if you told someone about Christianity and then they got hammered and told someone else. 519922
Reposted by Matt VanderwerffJose Marquez @josemarquez.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Sadly, it's pain. Literally, humans remember painful moments more clearly. The generations that survived the Great Depression, WWII are gone. Their fears have been replaced by today's follies. America's elite are so bored they chose this degeneracy. (Immigrants and refugees would never, but…) 7607
Reposted by Matt VanderwerffMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Does anyone have suggestions for a gentle de-radicalization along these lines? I wish I had more books, podcasts and YouTubers to send people drifting into the Rogan-verse 3361079106
Matt Vanderwerff @mavander.bsky.social · 13/02/2025We're really just gonna run back ethnic cleansing from the 20th century huh? Maybe it was a mistake to pretend kids didn't need to learn history ... 031
Reposted by Matt VanderwerffWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Our article 'A Crisis of Political Trust?' led by @viktorv.bsky.social is now out in @bjpols.bsky.social! We use >3,000 surveys in 143 countries between 1958 and 2019, finding that trust in representative institutions has generally been declining in recent decades. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 6308129
Reposted by Matt Vanderwerffonion person @junlper.beer · 12/02/2025the main driver of white gen-xers reactionary sentiment is that they’re unable to reckon with the reality that they’re aging out of the main demographic that capitalism is advertising to. it’s a big part of what this last election driven by “wokeness out of control” was about 1543928405
Reposted by Matt VanderwerffBen Mathis-Lilley @benmathislilley.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Netflix needs to release a sexy thriller series that slips some basic civic education into each episode 1464740369
Reposted by Matt VanderwerffRachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth.bsky.social · 08/01/2025my fiancé and I have been talking about a house we might want to live in one day. More space and comfort sounds obviously attractive, I like the idea too of hosting. But thinking about ideas in @dkthomp.bsky.social’s piece- a tradeoff to making homes *too* comfortable, sanctuary-like/ entertaining 071
Reposted by Matt VanderwerffClint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 27/12/2024I have always loved public libraries, but having young children has exponentially increased my gratitude and sense of indebtedness to them. Our local library is such a huge part of our lives. The books, the programming, the very intentionally curated kids’ section. It’s all such a gift. 434252332745
Reposted by Matt VanderwerffRoss Dahlke @rossdahlke.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Self-reported sharing intentions of low-quality news in surveys are predictive of actual sharing of low-quality news on X, finds @arechar.bsky.social @mmosleh.bsky.social @gordpennycook.bsky.social @dgrand.bsky.social doi.org/10.31234/osf... 13510
Reposted by Matt VanderwerffHaaretz.com @haaretzcom.bsky.social · 19/12/2024"People need to know what this war really looks like": Israeli soldiers who served in Gaza describe indiscriminate killing and the routine classification of civilian casualties as terrorists in conversations with Haaretzhaaretz.comIDF soldiers expose arbitrary killings and rampant lawlessness in Gaza's Netzarim corridor*** 32997499
Reposted by Matt VanderwerffThe Takoma Torch 🔥🐓 @takomatorch.bsky.social · 17/12/2024#TakoTuesday 2111
Reposted by Matt VanderwerffJonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 12/12/2024The failure of blue states to build enough housing or take steps to combat displacement is going to continue to lead to population loss that makes winning nationally even harder. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Blue States are Unaffordable. The Price Will be Political.Americans are fleeing unaffordable blue states — and they’re taking the electoral college with them. 40790195
Reposted by Matt VanderwerffStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 10/12/2024I have this half baked theory that we forgot how to age well and everything bad is downwind of that. We have ancient leadership refusing to make room for the next generation, middle aged tech bros getting Joker pilled by the prospect of their mortality, 30-somethings who think they’re still kids... 2152674
Matt Vanderwerff @mavander.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Interesting to see Paul Krugman's final article at the Times as basically a history of a decline in public trustnytimes.comOpinion | My Last Column: Finding Hope in an Age of ResentmentWhere have all the good vibes gone? 020
Matt Vanderwerff @mavander.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Annual December tradition for me is going thru my fav seed catalog and circling veggies I want to grow next year. 020
Reposted by Matt VanderwerffJames Miller (Millermena) @jamesmiller.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Syrian opposition sources report that they are working with the regime to hand over control of Damascus 18327
Reposted by Matt VanderwerffBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 06/12/2024"The more extreme their political posts, the less credible they and their research are perceived, and the lower the public’s willingness to engage with their content—particularly among respondents with opposing political views." 33012
Reposted by Matt VanderwerffAdam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 05/12/2024As Dems reelect a spritely 74-year-old Chuck Schumer as Senate Leader, this is a reminder that U.S. politicians are the oldest of any democracy, despite the U.S. having one of the youngest populations. 951995549
Reposted by Matt VanderwerffOwen Zidar @omzidar.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Pretty striking findings! www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/app/uploads/... 17344115
Reposted by Matt VanderwerffArmand Domalewski @armanddomalewski.bsky.social · 27/11/2024By putting tariffs on fossil fuel imports and allowing LNG exports, Trump will do more to raise the price of US carbon emissions than any environmentalist lawsuit against a pipeline ever did lol 513116
Reposted by Matt VanderwerffEzra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 26/11/2024www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/u... 512419