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Matt Waterbear

@stopmotionsolo.bsky.social
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Was a journalist. Not anymore. Just here thinking about stuff.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 26/08/2026
Father of sailor aboard US aircraft carrier freed from immigration detention reut.rs/4xsy8by
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Father of sailor aboard US aircraft carrier freed from immigration detention
A Nicaraguan immigrant ​taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol agents while his son, a U.S. Navy sailor, ‌was deployed at sea aboard an aircraft carrier during the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, was freed from detention, his family said on Tuesday.
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Matt Waterbear @stopmotionsolo.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
There is more conversation about whether we should have #UniversalHealthcare in the US than there is about how #MedicareForAll would be implemented. If we discuss how to implement it effectively, no one would say we shouldn't have it.
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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Prison guards: - Watched a woman experiencing psychosis gouge out her own eyeballs. - Ignored a man’s beeping insulin pump for more than 24 hours before he died. - Left a man sitting in his own feces not eating for weeks, he lost 60 lbs before he died. All in San Diego County, last ~5 years.
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Matt Waterbear @stopmotionsolo.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
I keep seeing people on social media complain about the policies of the Trump administration but never did anything to keep him out of power, and it seems, still wont ever. It's boring.
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Matt Waterbear @stopmotionsolo.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
The more time I spend on social media the more it seems to me like it's a platform for people across the political spectrum to complain. The only people who actually follow through on the complaint with a vote though, is the right wing.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 24/07/2025
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We don’t need cane sugar in Coke.  We need universal healthcare.
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Matt Waterbear @stopmotionsolo.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Reading reports of people being detained by ICE at immigration hearings and of the concentration camp in the Florida everglades: We are in the middle of what will be called an ethnic cleansing of Latinos from the US.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 13/07/2025
Breaking news: Federal immigration officers may deport immigrants with as little as six hours’ notice to countries other than their own, even without assurances that the arrivals will be safe from persecution or torture, a top official said.
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ICE memo outlines plan to deport migrants to countries where they are not citizens
The dramatic shift in policy could result in thousands of immigrants being deported to places where they lack family ties or even a common language.
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Matt Waterbear @stopmotionsolo.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
The agencies that DOGE cut could have been just restarted and staffed again after 4 years by the next president. It would set us back but it could be done. The OBBB will take an act of congress to reverse. The left will need to take congress back and then pass a bill.
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Matt Waterbear @stopmotionsolo.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Just now realizing how much goodwill and trust had been developed between the #DemocraticParty and the #Muslim community which #Biden shattered by giving unconditional support to Israel. Now #Mamdani is right there and could help rebuild the lost trust but he's too leftist.
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Matt Waterbear @stopmotionsolo.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Only would a Muslim in the US get called anti-semitic even though he said he wants to increase funding to prevent hate crimes by like 800%.
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Matt Waterbear @stopmotionsolo.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Funny how Christian #Zionism gets a pass from general anti-semitism when it calls for using Israel to go to war with its neighbors as a way to bring the second coming of Christ who then: Kills all the Jews for not believing in him.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 28/06/2025
Venice protests target Bezos over mounting grievances reut.rs/44jCwvT
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Venice protests target Bezos over mounting grievances
Mass tourism, impossibly high rents, worker exploitation, inequality and elitism: Venice protests in recent days against Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez's high-profile wedding have highlighted growing global grievances.
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Matt Waterbear @stopmotionsolo.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
It's remarkable how many people are just going along with the definition of a non-english word they have been told by corporate media. Infidada just means "uprising." The Tahrir Square occupation to take out Mubarak in Egypt was non-violent and sources like Al-Jazeera called it an "intifada."
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
DIDN'T TAKE LONG: One group suing over Trump's birthright citizenship order has refiled its lawsuit as a class action, noting that the court left open this option for nationwide relief. They're asking a Maryland judge for an emergency restraining order. www.politico.com/live-updates...
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Matt Waterbear @stopmotionsolo.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Cuomo is going to run on an independent ticket to try and a have a do-over for NYC mayor. The ticket should be succinctly called "You should be rich, but aren't."
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Matt Waterbear @stopmotionsolo.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Cuomo not dropping out is exhibiting of one thing: the rich always get a do-over in US democracy. The poor and working classes never do.
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Matt Waterbear @stopmotionsolo.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
They need to make a comic book character with that name. About a politician who fights for the poor and working classes. Kids could learn civics from reading it.
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Matt Waterbear @stopmotionsolo.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
A question for every more moderate Dem living in #NYC come November: Is it still #BlueNoMatterWho? Does that only apply to progressives when the milquetoast candidate wins?
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Matt Waterbear @stopmotionsolo.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Compare #Cuomo's response to the bombing of Iran and #Mamdani's. One sounds like the mayor of a city, the other sounds like a politician and a lawyer observing things casually. #NYCMayor
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Matt Waterbear @stopmotionsolo.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
If #Mamdani ISN'T the Dem Nom and he doesn't run on the Workikg Families Party ticket in the general in Nov. The voter turnout will drop severely between the #primary and the general. #nycelection #nycmayor
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Matt Waterbear @stopmotionsolo.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
It's unfortunate there won't be a #fightingoligarchy tour spot in NYC. That could swing the election away from Cuomo. @sanders.senate.gov @aoc.bsky.social
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18/06/2025
Breaking news: The State Department is requiring that all student visa applicants make their social media accounts public to be scrutinized for hostility toward the U.S., according to a cable obtained by The Post.
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State Dept. restarts student visa interviews with tougher social media rules
Foreign nationals who seek visas to study in the United States will have to make social media posts public to be scrutinized for hostility toward the U.S.
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Matt Waterbear @stopmotionsolo.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
#NYC is gonna lose all it's liberal cred if Cuomo wins the Dem nom. And it's looking like he will...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Just weeks ago, people on the left and the right were telling me there was a ‘rift’ between Trump and Netanyahu. Turns out the rift was between Trump and parts of his own MAGA base including Tucker Carlson. Raise your hand if you knew Trump would always pick Israel over MAGA?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
AOC says she’s joining Republican Rep. Massie in prohibiting 🇺🇸 involvement in Israel’s war with Iran
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Matt Waterbear @stopmotionsolo.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
The Slug is saying everyone should evacuate Tehran. I never thought I'd be in a position where I was hoping Rand Paul would coral a bunch of Republicans together. Here I am though, hoping he blocks an aide package to Israel.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 17/06/2025
Fired CDC scientists respond: “Despite recent suggestions to the contrary, the public trust ACIP. 99 of every 100 children have received at least some vaccines by 2 years of age. This does not suggest the population is so distrustful it warrants dismantling the vaccine recommendation process.”
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
NEW: Data broker sites were allegedly used by the Minnesota shooting suspect, authorities claim, highlighting the danger of an industry that freely sells your personal information. @lhn.bsky.social reports www.wired.com/story/minnes...
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Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Used Data Broker Sites to Find Targets' Addresses
The Minnesota shooter allegedly researched several “people search” sites in an attempt to target his victims, highlighting the potential dangers of widely available personal data.
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Matt Waterbear @stopmotionsolo.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
If you ever wondered how the parties in #parliamentary systems work look at how ranked-choice voting, and cross-endorsing is working in #NYC. Cuomo and Ramos; Mamdani and Lander.
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Matt Waterbear @stopmotionsolo.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Today at the #nokings march.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
How is this not a war crime? How this not a green light for Iran to target Israeli or U.S. civilian scientists in return?
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
It is actually nuts that even when the NYC political establishment was presented with a broad field of talented candidates w/ many ideas, in a time of generational change & anti-corruption, they STILL chose to line up behind scandal-ridden Andrew Cuomo. It’s cowardice.
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CNN @cnn.com · 13/06/2025
JUST IN: Federal appeals court pauses ruling that required President Trump to return control of members of California’s National Guard to the state cnn.it/4e0OD5m
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Appeals court pauses ruling requiring Trump to return control of California National Guard to state | CNN Politics
A federal appeals court late Thursday paused a ruling that required President Donald Trump to return control of members of California’s National Guard to the state.
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Reports coming in that people managed to break out and escape horrific ICE prison in #NewJersey. "About 50 inmates at Delaney Hall, the ICE detention facility in Newark, banded together and pushed down the wall of a dormitory room..." www.nj.com/essex/2025/0...
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ICE detainees tear down a wall in uprising at N.J. detention facility, lawyer says
Delaney Hall is the facility where Newark Ras Baraka was arrested in May.
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Matt Waterbear @stopmotionsolo.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Just saw an ABC News update on X that Texas Gov Abbot is calling the National Guard to keep "peace and order." I'm sure I haven't missed anything so it looks like the Texas governor just wants to get in on the spectacle.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
BREAKING: Israeli Forces Board Gaza Aid Flotilla and Detain 12 Crew Members Zeteo contributor Greta Thunberg was on board the ship.
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BREAKING: Israeli Forces Board Gaza Aid Flotilla and Detain 12 Crew Members
Zeteo contributor Greta Thunberg was on board the ship.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!
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Politico @politico.com · 05/06/2025
NYC mayoral candidate Adrienne Adams said her biggest regret was “believing that Eric Adams would be a good mayor for all New Yorkers." ow.ly/nwHK50W4xMf
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Reuters @reuters.com · 05/06/2025
US Senate panel seeks to cut unspent US climate, clean energy funds reut.rs/4n59LvN
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US Senate panel seeks to cut unspent US climate, clean energy funds
All unspent funds that were appropriated for climate and clean energy programs under former U.S. President Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act would be cut under a proposal by the Senate environment committee submitted on Wednesday.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/06/2025
Hey NYC Mayoral candidates: COVID is still around causing chronic illness and death. It’s ridiculous to brag about how you handled COVID (especially since NY handled COVID poorly at the start of the pandemic), if you have no plans to address the ongoing harm that COVID continues to cause.
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Matt Waterbear @stopmotionsolo.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
If the #Greta's boat to #Gaza there gets there, drops off the aid, and then leaves without issue, it would be amazing, hilarious, and embarassing. It may also lead to more boats doing the same thing with heavy media presence. Fyi, the media presence is for the safety of the crew, not the publicity.
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Matt Waterbear @stopmotionsolo.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Oh wow, look the Russia-Ukraine war is evolving and Trump can't seem to prevent it. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Trump speaks with Putin about Ukraine and Iran
Putin told him that he will have to respond to Ukraine's recent drone attacks, Trump said in a social media post.
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Health Care Voices @healthcarevoices.org · 04/06/2025
Luke became the face of Georgia's #Medicaid work requirement program. Yet even he’s fed up with it, after losing coverage twice due to red tape.
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He Became the Face of Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement. Now He’s Fed Up With It.
A 54-year-old mechanic called Pathways to Coverage a “great program” at the governor’s press conference. But after getting kicked off the health insurance program for low-income Georgians twice, bureaucratic red tape has him at his wit’s end.
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Matt Waterbear @stopmotionsolo.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
#Greta, and Liam Cunningham are about to make a laughing stock of the globe.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 04/06/2025
Greta Thunberg Speaks from Aid Ship Heading to Gaza Despite Israeli Threats: It's My Moral Obligation
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Greta Thunberg Speaks from Aid Ship Heading to Gaza Despite Israeli Threats: “My Moral Obligation”
As Gaza faces over three months of Israeli blockade, a group of 12 activists is sailing to Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid. The Madleen ship was launched by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and initially...
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🇨🇦 The Rudy Schwartz Project 🇨🇦 @waldo-corndog.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
A Canadian doctor was invited to a U.S. congressional hearing to discuss single payer health insurance. It didn't go well for the Republicans, since she knew that most of their questions were framed with lies and half truths. #Canada #HealthCare
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Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) gets schooled asking Canadian doctor Danielle Martin about wait time misconceptions due to the Canadian single payer healthcare system
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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
NEW: The Washington Post obtained the reduction in force plan that Kari Lake sent to Congress. If these layoffs are carried out in the coming weeks, only *80 people* will work at U.S. Agency for Global Media, which houses Voice of America — down from 1,300 in March.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Trump's HHS is pulling more than $700 million it had committed to Moderna to help develop a bird flu vaccine. www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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US cancels more than $700 million funding for Moderna bird flu vaccine
The Trump administration has canceled a contract awarded to Moderna for the late-stage development of its bird flu vaccine for humans, as well as the right to purchase shots, the drugmaker announced on Wednesday.
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