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Matthew Wilson

@mttwls.bsky.social
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Baltimore. Orioles (FIRE ELIAS!). Social democracy. Episcopal Church. Trees. Birds. Clouds. Cats. Coffee. Literature. Music. Wonder. Yep, that's about it.

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 14h
NASA released onboard video of Artemis II's reentry through Earth's atmosphere. Top speed: about 25,000 mph. Original post
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 4h
Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson is this year's winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. When asked how she would celebrate, Carson said she's going out for a walk in the woods to avoid the phone and, as she put it, "hear the quiet."
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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 8h
"Whenever might overtakes right, it undermines stability, trust and peaceful co-existence." #NaviPillay #NobelPrize #Peace
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Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
👀 227 N. Charles St. is now back in the Masonic family. The Grand Lodge of Maryland AF&AM purchased its former longtime home yesterday. 🎩
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
📍 𝐁𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄, 𝐌𝐃: Immigration officials “failed at every single turn” to comply with a court order aimed to limit overcrowding at a Baltimore holding facility, and further violations could lead to contempt proceedings, a federal judge ruled. #AbuseofPowerWatch
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‘Spectacular failure’: Baltimore ICE facility violated overcrowding order, judge finds
Immigration officials at a Baltimore holding facility have "failed at every single turn" to comply with a court order aimed to limit overcrowding, a federal judge said.
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Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I had to use the phrase "Super Intelligence" in some talking points today. I feel dirty.
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Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It seems pretty ding dang obvious to me that in a K-shaped economy, averages and even medians obscure more than they reveal about lived reality for most people. So the continued reliance on that data to explain away widespread economic pain is very 🤔
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Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Can't resist though. Even if I know it's not going to end well for me, I'm going in with the skritches.
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Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Her reasoning is that Trump went too far and someone needs to help him dial it back. So she's not quite to Evelyn Normielib territory yet, but I'll take it.
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Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My mom volunteered unprompted the other day that she's voting D for congressional elections this year (she's in VA-01, and she likes Mark Warner too). I believe this is the first time she's voted D since the '80s. Lots f people like her around, I'd imagine.
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Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My one and only backyard plant, truly an Autumn Joy.
An Autumn Joy Sedum blooming pink, against a backdrop of grey concrete. Already the pink is starting to fade to rust at the edges, as all things are wont to do.
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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Democrats are starting to clarify that Republicans are unpatriotic. They are also helping people realize Republicans are bad Christians, failed husbands and fathers, losers, weaklings, cowards. This is an embarrassing brand that degrades anyone associated with it. These ads only prove it further.
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Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I might be ready for the sequel to that one, if you're taking requests.
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Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yay mine is still on there!
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Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Starting today, this is a Brewers/Rays/Guardians/Braves fan account. In previous years, my temporary fandom has been the kiss of death for teams. However, this year will be different. Only good things can happen this year, I'm sure of it.
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Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My one and only real contribution to the effort was to vote for an amendment to the state constitution that would allow a gerrymander to get the last R in the Maryland congressional delegation. Fine, but not as satisfying as, yeah, helping punch out Paxton.
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Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Voted. Just wish I was helping to vote out a Republican or two. The pain of being a blue dot in a blue city in a blue state. 😀
A mail-in ballot being deposited in a drop box.
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Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Welcome back, Lower Rio Grande Valley. We missed you.
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Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Music is anchored to specific contexts and memories and emotions too. When I feel a certain way, I want to listen to Daydream Nation, not some crap that synthesizes that album and a bunch of others in that same general tonal space.
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Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Maybe you can tag along with Will. You can be the Easel Guy!
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Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Will, posting on Bluesky isn't enough to convince America that The Vibes are wrong and that well, actually, things are going rather swimmingly according to the data. You should go door to door, meeting people where they are. Bring charts. And an easel. Show them how wrong they are. Then report back.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I give up. I’m moving into a cave.
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Musk managed to get it up this time, but it sputtered, and then fell back down prematurely
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Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yeah, I lived in Santa Fe for about four years, and I know El Norte is a little different, and neither southern nor northern NM Mexican food is Tex-Mex or the Mexican food around here. The owners are from ABQ, and have family roots in southern NM, as I recall.
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Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Have you ever been to Anita's Restaurant in Fairfax County? Pretty decent Nuevo Mexicano food, especially for this side of the country.
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Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Never watched it! Maybe I should.
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Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
FWIW, my top 10 TV series of the century. I may have a type. I may also be very lame.
1. Community 2. Scrubs 3. 30 Rock 4. Arrested Development 5. The Good Place 6. Modern Family 7. Brooklyn 99 8. Parks and Rec 9. The Office 20. Cougartown
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Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
And now to enjoy a diphenhydramine sulfate nap.
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Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I was sneezing so bad at work that they sent me home. Allergies suck. 🤧
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 24/09/2026
This is a SMALL version of the largest JWST image released so far—of IC 348, a star-forming region about 1,000 lightyears away. Open up the image and marvel in the incredible beauty even in our galactic neighbourhood. This is what it looks like when stars are born.
From the source: "A star-forming region. It is blanketed in thick clouds of gas and dust, millions of kilometres across, that form swirling patterns. Bright stars are scattered throughout the clouds, with the densest cluster situated in the centre of the scene. Each is crowned with six long points created by the optics of the telescope’s mirrors. In the upper right, a couple of hidden stars blast out long, glowing jets of material."
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Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's astonishing that Denny has been there all those years. What a career. What a baseball legend.
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Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The last time I was with my dad, driving him back from the oncologist's office to the rehab center, where he had just agreed to hospice care, we listened silently to Denny call a game via XM.
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Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I grew up listening to Denny (and Fred White) on the radio, back when few games were televised. One of my favorite memories of childhood is sitting on the screened-in porch listening to them call a game as dusk fell and the lightning bugs came out. So peaceful, so perfect.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 24/09/2026
’tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish’d.
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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm from Johnson City, Kansas, about 100 miles southwest of Dodge City. This is horrific. The only light in this situation is seeing so many people not okay with it.
Aaron Estabrook.


Dodge City is my hometown. What's happening there today is hard to watch.

ICE is conducting what residents describe as a multiday operation across Southwest Kansas, including Dodge City, Garden City and Liberal. The Liberal, KS Vice Mayor reportedly watched as many as 60 of her neighbors were detained and taken away on buses today. Educators in Dodge City are worried about students returning home from school to find their parents gone.

Think about what that means for a child they ask.

Residents report large white buses staged in these communities and ICE agents stationed at meatpacking plants during shift changes, spreading panic through an industry already under stress. Unmarked vehicles recklessly cutting across the cities, pinning cars on main routes and back alleys.

Peaceful protesters have gathered along Wyatt Earp Boulevard near El Capitan, with people also gathering at the fairgrounds in Garden City this evening.

There are deeply troubling reports and images of agents breaking car windowsThere are deeply troubling reports and images of agents breaking car windows while babies were inside in car seats. Families are also sharing videos they say show ICE detaining someone born and raised in Garden City. Those accounts need independent verification and answers. We still don't have a confirmed regional count, and I cannot verify suggestions that hundreds were detained today.

But the accounts coming from these communities describe parents, grandparents, neighbors, friends and employees being taken away. Calling an operation a crackdown on "the most dangerous criminals” does not establish that everyone swept up in it fits that description.

Of course, some people are pleased to see this day come. I am not. Federal agents tearing families apart in our state inspires nothing in me but grief for those involved, especially the kids.

And who benefits from the damage left behind?

Removing workers and frightening entire communities risks making agricultural labor harder to find, disrupting meat production and putting more pressure on food prices. Small businesses lose customers. Families lose income. Schools are left helping children cope with fear andare left helping children cope with fear and uncertainty. Local governments lose too. Immigrants pay taxes; sales, property, income.

For my entire life, immigration has been part of Southwest Kansas. Immigrant families have worked in our packing plants, helped sustain our farms, opened businesses, raised children and made these communities their home. They are part of the place I grew up. I loved being neighbors with them and growing up with their children.

I want to know how many people were taken, why they were detained and what is happening to their children. These communities deserve answers, and every person detained deserves due process and humane treatment.

I grew up understanding that people came to Southwest Kansas to work hard and build a life. Watching families who did exactly that being torn apart feels foreign to everything I have known about home. This is beyond politics. It's human decency. I pray that no tragic event occurs and human dignity is honored by all involved.
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U.S. Mail Not For Sale @usmailnotforsale.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Letter Carrier Josh Gueniot was delivering mail in Essex Junction, VT, recently when he heard a woman yelling. The Postal Service employee saw the customer on the floor of her screened-in porch, where she had fallen 24 hours earlier and couldn’t move.
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The customer was trapped for 24 hours – USPS Employee News
Letter Carrier Josh Gueniot was delivering mail in Essex Junction, VT, recently when he heard a woman yelling.
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Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Can you say more about this?
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rochkubatko.bsky.social @rochkubatko.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
7:20 p.m. approximate start time for #orioles and #bluejays
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Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I look around at the vacant rowhomes on my block and yearn for transplants. From Honduras, Indiana, Montgomery County, wherever.
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Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Cats are the best. They form tight bonds with their humans, sleep a lot, don't need to be walked when it's raining outside.
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Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
But I'm not rooting for the Brewers this series!
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Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
When the O's season is over, I'm going to be rooting hard for the Brewers. Love the way they play the game, and they're the rebuttal to the argument that small market teams can't compete in today's MLB.
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Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Ready for the weekend.
All my batteries are fully charged, yet we all know that's a temporary state of being. Soon enough I will once again trudge through the sloughs of despond, batteries drained. Happy Friday.
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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 16/09/2026
The political upset in Delaware last night is clear proof that voters have had enough of corporate Democrats who bow to billionaires like Elon Musk. Here’s what happened:
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Tony (Soft on Crime) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Public schools are universalist programs for all children in the city. Charter & private schools are by nature organized against such a program. It's why the right goes to bat so hard for assorted "choice" models. Libs supporting such policies are no less reactionary
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NPR @npr.org · 16/09/2026
Dillard's work was characterized by spare prose and a deep connection to nature. She is best known for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, An American Childhood, The Maytrees and The Writing Life. n.pr/46M19TT
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Annie Dillard, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, dies at 81
Dillard's work was characterized by spare prose and a deep connection to nature. She is best known for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, An American Childhood, The Maytrees and The Writing Life.
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Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Um, I have questions.
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Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I do the same thing, and I'm always a little shocked in a good way when I see the projected FERS monthly payout.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 04/09/2026
That small black circle is the planet Mercury, seen crossing the face of the Sun by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on 9 May 2016.
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Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Okay, done with this game. What a cursed team.
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