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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The NYT’s eagerness to un-ring the progressive bell smells kinda desperate. How the Polls Got it So Wrong in Wisconsin www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/u...
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Why Were Polls So Wrong in the Wisconsin Governor’s Race? (Gift Article)
Francesca Hong, the democratic socialist running in Wisconsin’s Democratic primary for governor, had a double-digit lead in polls as recently as last week. Then she lost. What happened?
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Why did this man run in 2024? 😖 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Hunter Biden talks about how his father’s cancer has spread and is causing him pain
Joe Biden’s prostate cancer is reportedly ‘debilitating’, even as ex-president continues to speak out on public issues
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Think he’ll be on the tarmac when the coffins start arriving from the Middle East?
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
His whole schtick gives Tom of Finland. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/u...
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Hegseth Plans to Screen All Troops, Including Women, for Low Testosterone (Gift Article)
Pete Hegseth, as defense secretary, has sought to cultivate an image as a manosphere-friendly leader.
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Narcissism? THERE’S a shocker! 😳 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/o...
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Opinion | The Secret Reason Bosses Want Everyone Back in the Office, Every Day of the Week
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Solidarity forever! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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‘Bigger and better than ever’: how Durham Pride beat Reform’s funding axe with help from the miners
Solidarity between LGBTQ+ people and unions has saved an event denied ‘a single penny’ of council money
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
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ICE Recruitment Tweets Are So Racist That Cops Feared They Could Incite Neo-Nazi Violence
Social media posts by the Department of Homeland Security recruiting for ICE contained so many white supremacist themes that they could endanger the public, Colorado law enforcement officials warned, ...
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Deeeeelicious! As Hungary Gets a New Leader, the ‘Trauma’ Sinks In for Orban Loyalists www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/w...
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As Hungary Gets a New Leader, the ‘Trauma’ Sinks In for Orban Loyalists
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Julia McCoy @JuliaEMcCoy
We are sending our kids to school to memorize facts that Al can retrieve in
0.3 seconds.
We're grading them on essays that Al writes better than their teachers.
Will Bredderman @WillBredderman
Worst of all, gym classes are making them run miles an Uber could cover in less than a minute.
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
The most cogent Trump quote … ever? *This* close to catching a clue. 😖😖😖 “The problem with the strait is this: Let’s say we do a great job. We say we got 99% [of their missiles]. 1% is unacceptable, because 1% is a missile going into the hull of a ship that cost a billion dollars.“
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US has destroyed only a third of Iran’s missiles, intelligence suggests
Reuters report contradicts Trump’s claims that Tehran’s arsenal has been largely wiped out Middle East crisis
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Why does the one guy to quit the Trump administration over the war have to be an “Elders of Zion”-scale Jew hater? 🙄🙄🙄
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Weird … Why try to franchise a 1975 product in 2026?
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‘How could this be anything other than funny?!’ Behind the scenes of Saturday Night Live UK
SNL is a US comedy institution – can a British version rise to the challenge of finding the funny in our comparatively beige politicians every week? We speak to the team hand-picked to do just that
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Not really breaking any news here.
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
“It’s surreal,” said Azim, a 39-year-old in Karaj, a city west of Tehran. “Imagine your country is being attacked, but because of how disconnected people feel from the government, they react like that.” I can imagine it. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/w...
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‘It’s Surreal’: Iranians in Disbelief After Supreme Leader Is Killed
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Confused: Are the missing Epstein files in Iran?
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Nazis gonna Nazi. Bovino Is Said to Have Mocked Prosecutor’s Jewish Faith on Call With Lawyers www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...
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Bovino Is Said to Have Mocked Prosecutor’s Jewish Faith on Call With Lawyers
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Jacob Hellberg est un autre shanda far di goyim. 🤢 www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/art...
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Jacob Helberg, l’homme de Donald Trump qui a l’oreille de l’extrême droite française
De Sarah Knafo à Marine Le Pen, celles et ceux qui, en France, souhaitent approcher Donald Trump savent que Jacob Helberg est l’homme à qui parler. Le Franco-américain, jeune sous-secrétaire d’Etat au...
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Looks like he finally pushed the Epstein Files off the front page. 😐
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
What’s his name?
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
This soothed my spirit. More of these, please!
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
My sympathy is limited. 😐 Trump Invited White South Africans to America. One Ended Up in Detention. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/u...
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Trump Invited White South Africans to America. One Ended Up in Detention.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
We’d like to share a remembrance for Betty Reid Soskin, the oldest serving National Park Service ranger in the country, who has passed away. Her life and work helped preserve history, expand whose stories are told, and inspire generations to come.
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
My enthusiasm for the Clintons began to cool in 1992, when then-Governor Bill Clinton took time off the campaign trail to attend the execution of an intellectually impaired guy. (I never bought that corny Third Way hype, either.) 😐
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
This sure seems doomed from the start … www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Your Party members vote to make name permanent at tense first conference
Liverpool gathering lays bare bitter divisions within new party founded by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
“They”?? GTFO, NYT. 🙄
NYT head and deck:

Trump and Mamdani Are Meeting for the First Time. Will They Play Nice?


Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, will go to the White House on Friday. The stakes are high for the city.
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Weird threat … I don’t think any of those adversaries are really active in Democratic politics! (Will anybody be surprised if Bill Clinton turns out to be *more* of a creeper?) 🤔 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Bondi announces investigation into Epstein ties to Trump’s Democratic adversaries
Move diverges from July memo negating need for further inquiries, and comes amid intense Trump campaign to block files
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Trump dismisses mounting questions over Epstein links, then threatens Democratic foes with justice department investigation – live
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
“[W]hat you get is a piece making the various more or less bovine noises of studious grey-lady impartiality, with the labor of anything resembling “appraisal” surgically excised.” *chef’s kiss* lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Suitable for framing!
NY Post cover:

On your Marx, get set, Zo! 
Socialist Mandani wins race for mayor 

THE RED APPLE
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
TL;DR To succeed, Mayor Mamdani should abandon all his goals and govern more like Cuomo or Bloomberg. 🍑🤡🤡🤡 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...
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Opinion | How Mayor Mamdani Can Write New York’s Next Chapter
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Oh, ffs. 🙄🙄🙄
NY Times headline and deck: 

For Dick Cheney, a Journey From Champion of War to Voice of Resistance

Dick Cheney was to many the embodiment of the unpopular and bloody Iraq war. But his late-in-life anti-Trumpism changed his image for some longtime critics.
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
… Cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you’re born, You’re never gonna see no exododus! 😞
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Two dopey ideas I hope to hear less of: 1. Zohran Mamdani’s goals for NYC are impossible. 2. He’ll fail completely if he doesn’t manage to implement 100% absolutely everything on his list. MAGA set big goals and are achieving many of them. How about we non-fascists try that? (Omitting the evil.)
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
What if the Dems were to seize back control of executive and legislative branches in 2028? (SCOTUS will be MAGA for a generation.) I fear the extent of their pushback would be moves like improving the plumbing in the concentration camps and bodycams for ICE.
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
This is a nice little counterpoint to all the right-wing insurgencies pretty much everywhere else! 😬 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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Centrist D66 party will win most seats in Dutch election, exit poll suggests
Result would pave the way for the Netherlands’ first out gay prime minister and end far-right populist Geert Wilders’ time in power
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
If you put a Zionist frame on the Trump administrations acts against immigrants and POC in general, you arrive at the question, “Does the U.S. have the right to exist as a white Christian state?” And your response to that IMO should inform your response to Israel.
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Remember when @lizzobeeating.bsky.social played James Madison’s Crystal flute and Republicans lost their minds? What happened to all that historical agita? 🤔
Destruction of WH East Wing
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
All those people who got upset about the removal of Confederate monuments seem kinda quiet about the destruction of the East Wing! 😳
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
RE No Kings demonstrations: To paraphrase Chris Rock, I haven't seen white people this mad since they cancelled M*A*S*H! So far, all the photos I’m finding from places like Atlanta and Baltimore are super-Caucasian … Is it a question of coverage or a real thing?
Many white people say “No Kings!” at a demonstration in Grand Rapids.
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Politico @politico.com · 14/10/2025
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat. Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Perfect headline! 😇 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned
Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Is there any organized knowledge-sharing afoot about effective tactics to subvert and thwart the invasions of US cities? I’d love to learn about innovative practices that can scale.
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God @thegodshow.com · 06/10/2025
Please watch her final words to us all. They are beautiful and have given me a grounding sort of hope. Maybe they’ll help you too.
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Bless Dr. Jane Goodall’s Final Message To Humanity
In which she tells us who she'd launch into space.
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Stand-up bends the knee for MBS. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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US comedians defend decision to play in Saudi Arabia: ‘They’re paying me enough to look the other way’
Usual supporters of free speech are under fire for signing on to Riyadh festival despite the government’s human rights abuses
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Comedian Tim Dillon said on his podcast last month that he signed up for financial reasons. … He told his detractors to ‘get over it, ‘ adding, ‘So what if they have slaves, they're paying me enough to look the other way.’ “
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
“Darker and weirder” should be this regime’s slogan. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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Trump’s UN speech makes it clear: the world can no longer look to the US for strong leadership
US president’s speech made a mockery of UN values and highlights the need for strong anti-Trumpian alliances
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Holy smokes! “Exurban reactionary swinger” totally nails it! 🍍
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Right? Even if I could stomach any position he took, he was a podcaster who argued with college kids. 🙄🙄🙄
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
RE claims that these aren’t First Amendment issues because corporations are doing the censoring and censuring: Threats from the administration are the definition of government censorship.
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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Gift article: I’m so glad I ditched WaPo. (I really need to do the same with the NYT.) 🤢 Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...
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Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting
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