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Matt Waters @mwwaters.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Seeing this about some court case, out of context, is really a crazy metaphor/example.

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

3 minutes of Tim Curry holding back laughter while filming scenes for Red Alert 3

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Matt Waters @mwwaters.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I’m fine with all three of these things, but not in the sense they are.

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Matt Waters @mwwaters.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The parallel for 2024’s inflation anger was IMO the 1946 midterm. Suddenly new bargaining power got enough people angry vs. those who got the new power. And Trump gave unqualified promises that he would return it to 2019. And in addition to not “fixing,“ he made it worse.

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It's The Weekend 😌 @craigweekend.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

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Matt Waters @mwwaters.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

As with the Newsom mischaracterization debate, it matters what the truth in fact is and not to rely on falsehoods in some “directionally correct” way. There aren’t enough homes where people wish to live. Whatever the politics, giving false solutions is not how I want to morally operate.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

This sure seems more like the tyranny the Constitution is supposed to protect against than forgiving student loans.

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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

When we were investigating our case in Alabama, some workers told us that ICE agents were moving into the new developments they were raiding. And that one of the other new homeowners called ICE on the guys who just built his house as they worked on other houses down the block. Vile shit.

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Matt Waters @mwwaters.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I have a different take. While Meta is bad, in the end this wouldn’t be possible without non-KYC crypto (or bearer gift cards). Every non-KYC financial asset should be banned.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Are we doing "The ACA Sucks" Discourse again? I'm going to guess most people hating on it from the left have never received a hospital bill the size of book; I put the apple there for scale. That's the $1.3 million bill my kid incurred in his first ~94 days. Why does that make me respect the ACA?

A giant stack of papers, about 1/2 the size of an apple, on a counter.

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Matt Waters @mwwaters.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Without the people to run it, the plan is to impound any money appropriated to this fund. Say appropriations passed in a “clean CR.” There’s no reason ACA subsidies can’t be impounded either under Vought logic. Either make them go nuclear or get them to unimpound and unlayoff everyone.

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Big Cases Bot @bigcases.bots.law · 05/10/2025

New filing: "Oregon v. Trump (national guard deployment)" Doc #56: OPINION & ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER: Plaintiffs' Motion for Temporary Restraining Order, ECF 6, is GRANTED. Defendants are… [full entry below 👇] Download PDF | View Full Case #CL71481149

The entry's text: OPINION & ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER: Plaintiffs' Motion for Temporary Restraining Order, ECF 6, is GRANTED. Defendants are hereby enjoined from implementing Defendants' September 28, 2025, Memorandum ordering the federalization and deployment of Oregon National Guard service members. The Temporary Restraining Order expires by its own terms on October 18, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. Plaintiffs are ORDERED to post a nominal bond of $100 within 48 hours. The bond shall be filed in the Clerk's Office and deposited into the registry of the Court. Defendants' Request to Stay or Administratively Stay the Temporary Restraining Order, see Defendants' Opposition to Plaintiffs' Motion for Temporary Restraining Order, ECF 35 at 41, is DENIED. The Court Clerk will contact the parties to schedule a telephone hearing on October 17, 2025, to address whether this Temporary Restraining Order should be extended for another 14 days. Any motion for a Preliminary Injunction shall be filed no later than October 17, 2025; Defendants' opposition shall be due no later than October 23, 2025, and Plaintiffs' reply shall be due on October 27, 2025. A combined hearing on the preliminary injunction motion and a trial on the merits under Rule 65(a)(2) is set for October 29, 2025, before the Honorable Judge Karin J. Immergut, in Courtroom 13A, beginning at 9:00 a.m. See attached Opinion & Order and Temporary Restraining Order. Signed on 10/4/2025 at 3:40 p.m. pdt by Judge Karin J. Immergut. (Attachments: # 1 Attachment) (jy) (Entered: 10/04/2025)

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Matt Waters @mwwaters.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

The headline appears quite misleading. His exact words were “In commenting on Obergefell, I am not suggesting that the decision in that case should be overruled.” That and the follow-on quote about Dobbs don’t actually deny that Alito wants to overrule Obergefell.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

They don’t have the power to do what they’re threatening on a grand scale. But they want us to think they do.

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Steve McPherson @steventurous.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Melissa Hortman practiced politics the right way.

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Matt Waters @mwwaters.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” - Hannah Arendt

Lash finding and then I finding the guy.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Yes, do this. "You cannot arrest someone because they are Hispanic" is worth fighting for. It's worth shutting down the government for. And it's worth attracting attention to.

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Matt Waters @mwwaters.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Ramsey and MAHA have immense parallels. They blame all unequal outcomes on controllable moral qualities. They also both have an endgame in absurdity, as evidence and logic shows the effect of luck.

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You Might Know Jack O’Lantern @lessweirdjack.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

FSU getting banned by Twitter because they done killed DeBoer

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Matt Waters @mwwaters.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

There should be a law against assets that are digital bearer token based. The biggest of these is crypto, which has bankrupted banks through scams. But digital gift cards are also cumulatively big. At least they should have low limits per card.

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Matt Waters @mwwaters.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Putting this in terms of “experts said” is simply the 1984 quote: “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” The 14th says what it says. O’Donnell was born on US soil under US jurisdiction. That’s it. End of story.

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Matt Waters @mwwaters.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Kidnapping for ransom has long been a thin, but digital bearer assets really appear to supercharge it. Same with scams. Before crypto only had relatively small amounts transferred without a KYCed chain, through gift cards. Now the amount of electronic transfers outside KYC is essentially unlimited.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

"Did Trump just defy a court order?" YES, motherfuckers. Why in the fuck is that so hard for people to say? The judge told him to stop doing something, he did it anyway, IN DEFIANCE OF THE JUDGES RULINGS! WHY ARE PEOPLE COMMITTED TO ADDRESSING FASCISM IN THE PASSIVE VOICE????

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Matt Waters @mwwaters.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

It definitely seems like a law passed by Congress abridging freedom of speech.

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Matt Waters @mwwaters.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

“Child support” significantly hides the ball here. National Directory of New Hires has income and tax information on EVERY person, child or without, with a W-2 in any of the 50 states. Elon has in mind that a lot of people earn $200k but collect SNAP or Medicaid.

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Matt Waters @mwwaters.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

“In addition, an officer or employee convicted of willfully and knowingly violating the law shall be fined not more than $5,000, imprisoned for not more than 2 years, or both.” 31 USC 1350

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Matt Waters @mwwaters.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I keep saying how a 2nd avenue subway station is as long as the Empire State Building is tall. Or in other words, why is most blue state governance built around “you can’t have nice things.”?

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Matt Waters @mwwaters.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I don’t know if it will matter, but Bondi should be disbarred if USMS are ordered to enforce court orders. If USMS won’t enforce writs of garnishment or attachment for lawlessness today, then same will go for habeas.

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Matt Waters @mwwaters.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

This isn’t incorrect, but its logic would preclude courts enforcing orders against *any* executive employee. Bureau of Prisons is also part of the Executive branch. So what are habeas orders going to do? How would money judgment for US gov contract or tort be enforced? @gtconway.bsky.social

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Matt Waters @mwwaters.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Besides lawlessness being bad, an accurate polling should ask whether they support deporting law-abiding immigrants, stripping citizenship and voting rights of native-born Americans, possibly firing a third of FBI, pardoning cop assaulters and defunding research of cancer.

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Matt Waters @mwwaters.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Going to see so much “What have the Romans ever done for us?”

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Matt Waters @mwwaters.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

There’s some point here how Musk lacks consideration for others, both legally and as a moral matter.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

This is an argument for civil disobedience, not against it.

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Matt Waters @mwwaters.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Don’t do this. The laws passed by Congress are the law. The Constitution is the law. Most of the actions break the law.

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Matt Waters @mwwaters.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Well, it’s not going to be like Trump I. He did impeachable things, but firing Comey and impounding Ukraine aid was kind of esoteric stuff. This time, we’re looking at most people having noticeably worse experiences with government.

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Big Cases Bot @bigcases.bots.law · 23/01/2025

New filing: "Washington v. Trump (birthright EO IV)" Doc #43: TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER by U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour. (KMP) (Entered: 01/23/2025) Download PDF | View Full Case #CL69561931

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Ti @tir2.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

dunno how much has been translated to English, but the Brazilian philosopher Safatle wrote a lot about how Cynicism is one of the major factors in our day and age that cause "speaking truth to power" to not work. our time is one of "atheist priests" who see sincerity as a weakness.

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Matt Waters @mwwaters.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

The replies are basically the absolute worst face of liberalism in America, both in terms of bad policy and utter elitism over a state with 42% voting for Harris.

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Matt Waters @mwwaters.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I’m thinking about how PCE weighting by consumption changes real wages vs child-rearing capacity. PCE inflation consistently has housing/health care above average and everything else below. The former increases more with children than the latter.

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Matt Waters @mwwaters.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Lump of Labor or Broken Window Fallacy. Most obviously, immigrants themselves buy stuff with their wages. But even if they kept all their wages in a bank, the effect on demand on American made goods would be offset by the Fed with lower rates. At 0%, we can do fiscal policy until demand recovers.

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Matt Waters @mwwaters.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

They look at the second estate’s exemption from taxation with jealousy and no view about what then happened to the second estate.

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Matt Waters @mwwaters.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Replace Bulldozers at his construction sites with spoons.

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