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Matthew Ismael Ruiz

@porican.bsky.social
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Matthew Ismael Ruiz @porican.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
went to twigs’ first U.S. show at Sway, she walked past me as she made her way to the stage and i almost fainted
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Matthew Ismael Ruiz @porican.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
what happened to jason is pretty common. chi ossé has introduced a bill to the city council that would create a “Freelancers Payment Fund” that would pay freelancers immediately, then recover the funds from the delinquent hiring parties. council.nyc.gov/chi-osse/202...
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Council Member Chi Ossé Introduces Bill to Establish City-Run Freelancers Payment Fund
New York City Council
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 27/06/2026
“andy™ why do u own so many blu-rays”
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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Last time the Knicks were NBA champions was the year the DOJ charged Fred & Donald Trump with housing discrimination based on race.
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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 25/05/2026
This is pretty much the only thing you need to know about any news story coming from Washington
@FarsNews_Agency social media post dated 5:21PM on 23 May 2026
§ Translated from Persian 
"It should be noted that American officials have acknowledged in multiple messages to Iran that Trump's tweets are primarily for promotional purposes and media consumption within the United States, and they have recommended that no attention be paid to these statements."
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Matthew Ismael Ruiz @porican.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
if you’re doing it right they are the same thing
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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Seeing a lot of people repost this — understandably, her work deserves to be recognized — but this is a salient detail The Pulitzers may be theoretically righting a previous wrong here, but it comes off somewhat disingenuous without acknowledging the history www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...
Brown's "Perversion of Justice" series won a prestigious George Polk award. The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz, the attorney and television personality who helped broker Epstein's original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown's work.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.
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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
A new strain of the Streisand Effect has been discovered...
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Atlantic writer sued by Kash Patel says she’s been ‘inundated’ with new sources
Sarah Fitzpatrick reiterates that she stands by ‘every single word’ of her story and says the people she spoke to were ‘frightened’ by the FBI director’s alleged conduct creating a national security v...
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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Today on Commotion, we had @stevenhyden.bsky.social + @porican.bsky.social on to talk about Geesegate:
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Do people really like Geese or is it just marketing?
YouTube video by Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud
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Patricia @powermacuser1.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Tesla paid $1 billion in taxes to China & $0 in federal income taxes to the US. At least 88 highly profitable corporations paid $0 federal income tax last year while bringing in $ billions. Disney, CVS, Palantir, Taco Bell & others are making massive profits, paying executives enormous ⬇️
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
You Do Not Hate Congress Enough
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Matthew Ismael Ruiz @porican.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
this guy has always been a steaming pile of shit and it’s a travesty that he owns the knicks
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...
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The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril
As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.
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Æðelwułf @iamdarkink.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
With printed media, you can just store it in a warehouse. When some company says "we never said that," you can go to the archives, fetch a newspaper, and that ends the argument. When the companies on their websites change stories, there is no archive outside the Internet Archive.
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Matthew Ismael Ruiz @porican.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
the only thing remarkable about this conversation is that this asshat receives free healthcare from his job where he worked diligently to deny people free healthcare. and it’s not mentioned once. thanks for ruining UF, asshole.
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Matthew Ismael Ruiz @porican.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
i’ve always loved the way artists have used the dj-kicks mix to tell stories. @pitchfork.com let me write about the latest one from sofia kourtesis pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
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Sofia Kourtesis: DJ-Kicks
Read Matthew Ismael Ruiz’s review of the album.
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Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Brown University is home to George Orwell's original manuscript of 1984. Most of it is marked up heavily in Orwell's hand-writing but this untouched page caught my eye.
A page from the book 1984
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I would like some of the folks who signed the Harper’s letter or spent years yammering about the threat to free speech posed by Oberlin undergrads protesting eugenicists to bring an ounce of that energy to the state censoring entire disciplines.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I’ve been a journalist for 27 years. I’ve reported major stories about mass surveillance, torture, war, the military-industrial complex, police black sites, etc. But this is the most important story I’ve ever had the horror/honor to work on. For it is a story about the current phase of a genocide.
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The Ghosts of Al-Shifa Hospital
Months into a supposed ceasefire in Gaza, doctors still have to smuggle in basic medical supplies—and treat new casualties of war.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
This horrific story gets worse when you find out how this young woman originally came to the US: as a 17-year-old on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane
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Matthew Ismael Ruiz @porican.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
derosa in the clubhouse texting the guy who kidnapped maduro to see if he’s free tomorrow night
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Watching Politico get told they're sanewashing shit by the guy they're sanewashing is just excellent. Media cooked. Getting dunked on by the people they're protecting. We are in the post-dignity era of the press.
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Matthew Ismael Ruiz @porican.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
pura manía fuckin rips
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Lyse @lyse.myatproto.social · 06/03/2026
“I have usernames older than you.”. Holy shit
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My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you.
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 05/03/2026
feels like a minute since i have pointed out that donald trump has pardoned more child sex offenders than every other president of the united states combined
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Molly Coleman @mollycoleman.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
They’re still lying to us. www.startribune.com/close-to-650...
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Close to 650 federal agents remain in Minnesota weeks after border czar announced end of operation
There are still more than quadruple the 150 agents Tom Homan said there would be in the state by the end of last week.
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Adam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.
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Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack
No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Yesterday the Texas Rangers erected a statue of a segregationist cop at Globe Life Field. A statue that was removed from public property in 2020 because of its racist history. @mlb.com has refused to comment. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
That statue, which was cast back in 1961, was modeled on 1950s Texas Rangers – as in the law enforcement Texas Rangers – Captain Jay Banks. Since it's unveiling 65 years ago it has spent most of its life at Love Field in Dallas. But then in 2020 it was removed and placed in storage. Why? Because Captain Jay Banks was a racist cop who made it his mission to stop schools from integrating.

This is an excerpt from the 2020 book, Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers by Doug Swanson, which describes' Banks' role in efforts to keep schools in Texas racially segregated in defiance of the United States Supreme Court's 1954 decision, Brown v. Board of Education:

Then there is the form and face of the statue itself. This dates to 1956, when the NAACP, backed with a court order, attempted to integrate the high school in Mansfield, about 30 miles southwest of Dallas. White residents erupted in fury, so Gov. Allan Shivers dispatched the Rangers. But unlike state police in other Southern racial hotspots, the Rangers in Mansfield did not escort black students past howling mobs of white supremacists. They had been sent instead to keep the black children out of a white school.The commanding Ranger on the scene was Sgt. E.J. “Jay” Banks. A wire service photo showed him casually leaning against a tree outside Mansfield High. To his left, above the school’s entrance, was a dummy in blackface, hanging from a noose. Nearby a white mob had assembled. Some carried signs that threatened death for anyone attempting to integrate the school. Banks saw no need to remove the effigy or disperse the mob. “They were just ‘salt of the earth’ citizens,” he later wrote. “They were concerned because they were convinced that someone was trying to interfere with their way of life.” Blacks were so intimidated that none attempted to enroll at Mansfield.
Several days later, Gov. Shivers ordered Banks and a few other Rangers to Northeast Texas, because African-Americans wished to take classes at all-white Texarkana Junior College, a public institution. Again the Rangers’ job was to stop black students from enrolling.
As at Mansfield, a mob of white men gathered outside the school. An 18-year-old woman and a 17-year-old boy, both black, arrived by cab and began to walk toward the college. The mob blocked their path. Some surrounded the 17-year-old and kicked him, while others threw gravel. The Rangers watched it happen and did nothing except threaten to arrest the two students.    
That wire service photo of Banks in front of the school with the Black person hung in effigy can be seen at the top of today's newsletter.The statue was removed from public view in 2020 in the wake of that book about the Rangers being published. This occurred at the same time that statues of Confederates, Klansmen, racists, and segregationists were removed all over the country following the murder of George Floyd. But now the Texas Rangers Baseball Club, knowing full well the history of the statue, its subject, and its removal, and knowing that multiple municipal institutions decided it was inappropriate for public display, is happy to put that statue up in a public concourse at a major league baseball stadium.

When I learned of this yesterday afternoon I contacted Major League Baseball and asked the following questions:

Is Major League Baseball aware of the history of the "One Riot, One Ranger" statue and its subject, Jay Banks?
Is Major League Baseball aware that Love Field and the City of Dallas removed the statue and put it in storage in 2020 after Banks' involvement in attempting to keep schools segregated in the 1950s came to light?
Does Major League Baseball condone one of its Clubs erecting a previously-removed statue of a staunch segregationist at its ballpark?; and
Does Major League Baseball have any comment regarding the discomfort that will be felt by Black fans when confronted with the statue of a segregationist at Globe Life Field? 
I did not receive a response. I'm going to assume that the league's silence on this means that it wholly condones the Rangers putting up the "One Riot, One Ranger" statue despite its sordid and extraordinarily well-reported history.
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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
blinks in Edward Snowden
While Anthropic says it pushed for a contract that specifically proscribes the practice, OpenAI appears to rely heavily on existing legal limits. It said its Pentagon agreement states that “for intelligence activities, any handling of private information will comply with the Fourth Amendment, the National Security Act of 1947 and the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act of 1978, Executive Order 12333, and applicable DoD directives requiring a defined foreign intelligence purpose.”
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 02/03/2026
An Intercept analysis finds that every single Board of Peace member state has been rebuked for human rights violations.
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Trump’s Orwellian Board of Peace Consists Entirely of Human Rights Abusers
An Intercept analysis finds that every single Board of Peace member state has been rebuked for human rights violations.
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 02/03/2026
Ongoing “lol” at every entity that cuts a lopsided deal with this guy rather than telling him to fuck off
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to bomb this elementary school full of kids because he thinks it makes him look cool. also his scheming viziers will be betting money on it for fun. good luck soldier
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Fun fact: the US has been at continual war since 1945 and *not a single one of these wars*, from the Korean War to Vietnam to Iraq to Iraq again, was ever declared war by Congress. The last time the US Congress declared war was 1942. 83 years ago.
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Roy, MBA, MFA @roydotexe.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 26/02/2026
the "just asking questions" to "legitimate questions about fairness in sports" to "the state doesn't have to consider us as real people" pipeline working exactly as designed.
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
It's just insane the degree to which the federal government has simply declared war on a U.S. state. A punitive war with no discernible objective other than to immiserate its people. bsky.app/profile/apne...
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 25/02/2026
"In January alone, more than a dozen lobbyists with firms representing Palantir bundled a combined $2.9 million for the DCCC, according to a newly filed FEC disclosure. The January haul from Palantir’s lobbying firms represents 38% of the DCCC’s total contributions for the month."
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DCCC Rakes in Millions From Palantir Lobbyists as Protests Target the Company’s ICE Surveillance Tools
A new FEC filing reveals the House Democrat campaign arm's latest Palantir lobbying firm fundraising haul.
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Matthew Ismael Ruiz @porican.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
deeply embarrassing
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Matthew Ismael Ruiz @porican.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
it really is as bad as it seems. are we meant to just accept this? “department of justice” how does anyone even say that with a straight face
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
A significant number of Americans think that being racist should be free speech but calling someone racist should not be.
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Absolutely unreal. Years and years of Defense spending increases and calls to cut every program outside of DoD and now they admit they cant even find ways to spend it all. Don't let anyone tell you universal Healthcare, rent relief and food aid is too costly.
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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The NY Times dutifully reporting that the Supreme Court sided with Trump only 42% of the time and with Biden 54% of the time sort of leaves out the necessary context that Biden was doing normal, completely legal presidential stuff, and Trump was doing insane crimes
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Underlying everything that's happening, even if the public isn't super aware of it, is that there aren't many journalists left. 75 percent fewer journalists now than 25 years ago, and newspapers, the bastion of American journalism, are in even worse shape. share.google/2KL2PkERkgnQ...
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New Report Reveals Alarming and Widespread Shortage of Local Journalists Across the U.S.
Groundbreaking Data from Muck Rack and Rebuild Local News Reveals One-Third of U.S. Counties Lack the Equivalent of a Full-time Local Journalist; Shortages as Significant in Suburban and Urban Areas a...
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The Department of Homeland Security is flooding social media platforms with subpoenas demanding they unmask the people behind anti-ICE accounts. This crackdown on speech shows EXACTLY why online age verification laws are so dangerous. Here's why: 🧵
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Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 17/02/2026
This stuff is the equivalent scandal to landlords exploiting grants for buy to let mortgages. Massive data brokers will lease the hardware back to the public at a profit having bought it all out with government subsidies and destroy everyday amenities in the process.
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