JamesMathews

JamesMathews

@jamesmathews.bsky.social

#ClimateCrisis #Anti-Fascist #Ukraine #BLM #LGBQT+ #NativeAmericans #Science, ex-Twitter, HR consultant/workplace investigator/PI, ex-DOD contractor, husband/father/grandfather, Air Force brat, NBA addict in Las Vegas via Los Angeles & Portland.

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The Kyiv Independent
@kyivindependent.com

The EU is working on how to stop Russia from laundering its reputation through international sporting events, but as it talks, Moscow creates new facts on the ground. It remains unknown when the measures will be announced. In the meantime, Russia's lobbying to return to sports continues unabated.

kyivindependent.comRussia's return to global sports gathers momentum as EU mulls response"Sports and culture must not become vehicles for whitewashing Russian aggression," the EU's top diplomat Kaja Kallas said on Oct. 13. But since then, Russia has advanced its sports agenda in at least ...

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Prof Bill McGuire
@profbillmcguire.bsky.social

Well, who'd have thought? "the [world's] richest 0.1%...... are heavily invested in disaster preparedness, recovery and reconstruction – a market that is projected to grow from $70bn to $92bn a year by 2029" Another win - win for the parasitic super-rich www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.comSuper-rich get ‘double dividend’ from causes and costs of climate crisis, report findsOxfam says investing by rich in disaster recovery widens inequality and gives incentive to delay climate action

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Adam Serwer
@adamserwer.bsky.social

Average Trump scandal: many people dead after uncontroversial government program illegally cut by doge for nonexistent savings Average mamdani scandal: he’s playing BASKETBALL with his FRIENDS

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Will Stancil
@whstancil.bsky.social

It's well-documented that the president maintained a years-long friendship with the world's most notorious child sex trafficker. It might strike you as odd there aren't direct allegations of Trump engaging in child sex trafficking.. except there are. There are SO MANY. They just never get reported!

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Ron Filipkowski
@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

From Zelenskyy. Patriot interceptors that could save innocent lives are sitting in European countries for weeks, which they paid for, unable to be transferred to Ukraine because Hegseth refuses to sign off.

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Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com

THREAD 1: The Nuclear Option. Using Presidential Power to Wipe Out EPA Toxics Rules For decades now, Clean Air Act has allowed the president to issue a so-called presidential exemption to at least temporarily suspect a rule intended to protect public health/air quality. I found this from 1973

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Adam Schwarz
@adamjschwarz.bsky.social

The achievement of Serbian students overthrowing Aleksandar Vučić can't be overstated. In 2024, they began protesting. In 2025, they transformed a protest movement into civil dissidence. In 2026, they became a political party — and two months later, crushed a corrupt state-entrenched authoritarian.

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ProPublica
@propublica.org

A trust owned by Texas AG Ken Paxton and his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, invested in a company led by a convicted fraudster. The firm and its affiliates later sent the trust 15 payments totaling $83K before and during the AG’s impeachment trial. w/ @texastribune.org

propublica.orgKen Paxton’s Trust Gave a $600,000 Infusion to a Convicted Fraudster’s CompanyThe blind trust’s investment in Wildcatter offers a new, unreported look at the attorney general’s financial ties with the very type of business executives whose prosecutions he typically celebrates.

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Sven-Erik Volberg
@volberg.bsky.social

#AfD According to leaked emails currently reported in German media, seven politicians from the far-right AfD party visited Syria to meet with Assad regime officials in a trip facilitated by Hezbollah and russian intelligence! www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deut...

handelsblatt.comDatenleck: AfD reiste wohl mithilfe der Hisbollah und Russland nach SyrienInterne E-Mails aus dem AfD-Datenleck zeigen, wie sieben AfD-Politiker mitten im Bürgerkrieg nach Syrien einreisten. Die Angelegenheit entzweite die Partei.

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jamelle
@jamellebouie.net

i feel like this evan barker person does not understand the joke obama is making, which rests on being familiar with the cheesecake factory and understanding that it is nice but not opulent.

Scott Lemieux@lemieuxlgm.bsky.social

"The party left me. I used to be a Democrat, but know that Obama has made fun of Trump for making the White House look like a dictator designed an over-the-top chain restaurant I favor starving African children and bringing measles back"

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Jan-Werner Mueller
@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social

Audi is part of Volkswagen. There’s a bit of a history there when it comes to boosting dictatorships.

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social

If you’re thinking of buying an Audi, don’t forget that an Audi executive appeared at a Trump rally this weekend to try to boost an American dictatorship. Make your car-buying decision accordingly.

apnews.comTrump announces at a Georgia campaign rally that Audi will build a new auto factory in the statePresident Donald Trump has announced that Audi will build a new auto factory in Georgia. The Republican president's announcement Saturday at a campaign rally comes as he tries to deliver on his promis...

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Eric Lipton NYT
@ericlipton.nytimes.com

To folks who follow me on Bluesky & appreciate the journalism I do. Can you please read the EPA story and post on social media platforms if you are so moved. This kind of work is important. But it only matters if people read it and engage with it. Here's the link. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

nytimes.comHow Trump Gave the Worst Polluters a Free Pass (Gift Article)The president temporarily waived clean-air rules for industrial facilities that spew cancer-causing gases. Then his appointees worked to gut the regulations altogether.
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Matthew Sheffield@matthew.flux.community

🧵 Matt Yglesias is one of the biggest reasons the Democratic Party leadership is so feckless, cowardly, and lazy. I'm not exaggerating. Yglesias is often a featured speaker at private Democratic Party events, despite almost always being wrong. Let's discuss...

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ProPublica@propublica.org

Here’s something you should know about minks: They have lungs and airways remarkably similar on a cellular level to those of people. They’ve spread flus and infected humans before with COVID-19. Right now, bird flu is spreading on a Utah farm filled with thousands of them… 🧵

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David Roberts
@volts.wtf

I really don't think most people appreciate how much damage air pollution does to our bodies & brains. Even in the last 10 years the science has progressed a ton & everything it has discovered is *grim*.

seattletimes.comA remarkable new picture is emerging of how the air around us could harm the brainResearchers discovered that some particles had penetrated deep into the brain, reaching the amygdala, a region that helps shape emotion and memory.

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Charlie Warzel
@cwarzel.bsky.social

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

theatlantic.comThe Man Who Saved the Internet YesterdayOndřej Surý was a relatively anonymous volunteer working on PHP security. Then the internet exploded.

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Zoe Tillman
@zoetillman.bsky.social

Deep dive: Nearly 200 people granted pardons or other clemency by President Trump for Jan. 6 riot prosecutions are suing so far for millions in US payouts. More than a quarter were convicted of assaulting or impeding police, court records show. (Gift link) buff.ly/xysKWb4

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Bobby Kogan
@bbkogan.bsky.social

We are seeing a hunger disaster unrolling before our eyes. Since Republicans passed the Big Beautiful Bill, 2 million kids have lost food assistance. These are by far the deepest SNAP cuts in history, and each month, we find out it’s even worse than we thought. The worst is yet to come.

Katie Bergh@katiebergh.bsky.social

In the wake of unprecedented cuts in last year's Republican reconciliation law, SNAP participation & spending have been falling — and the decline is much deeper than the Congressional Budget Office initially projected. www.cbpp.org/blog/congres...

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Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social

JD's shit talk comes off like a meek, mousy dude who at 42 and with Secret Service protection, finally feels secure enough to say stuff that would've gotten him beaten up for most of his life.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance: "This Democrat Party needs an ass kicking"

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Joanne Freeman
@jbf1755.bsky.social

Hegseth’s staff broke Eisenhower’s globe. The symbolism is too much to bear. (And of course, they ignored the TRAINED EXPERTS WHO HANDLE HISTORICAL ITEMS. Because EDUCATION? EXPERTISE? WHO NEEDS IT?….im going to get some coffee…)

Bill Kristol@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social

"Ordinarily, moving historical items within the building is a deliberate process overseen by curators. Hegseth’s staff dispatched its own team to relocate an Eisenhower globe. They dropped it...The resulting gash appears to be several inches wide." wapo.st/3WF2YQo

wapo.stHegseth wanted Eisenhower’s globe for his office. His staff broke it.Photos obtained by The Post show a gash in the World War II-era artifact that resulted from a botched relocation attempt inside the Pentagon.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)
@doctorvive.bsky.social

It's compete BS that BAAJA just affects energy development. Big tech wants to dismantle environmental guardrails against the construction of data centers, full stop. "Last month it emerged that Oracle had cited force majeure as it sought to deal with the fallout of permitting hurdles."