Matthew Teller

Matthew Teller

@matthewteller.com

Author: FINDING ALADDIN, out Nov 2026 • DAYBREAK IN GAZA • NINE QUARTERS OF JERUSALEM • QUITE ALONE • https://linktr.ee/matthewteller • He/him

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George Takei
@georgetakei.bsky.social

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

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Nanjala
@nanjala.bsky.social

No more workshops on democracy in Africa led by Europeans and North Americans - I want to learn from Brazilians.

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Rose Schmits
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Yissss

Rose Schmits@roseschmits.bsky.social

I know absolutely nothing about Lula except that i saw someone share a clip on insta of him in celebration kissing a trans woman politician on the cheek and oh my god is that a radical act for a politician in 2026 so lets fucking go

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Musa Okwonga
@okwonga.bsky.social

Some more context: a black trans woman, congresswoman Erika Hilton, is a key reason why Brazil is reducing its working week from 6 days to 5; and she currently lives under 24-hour protection at a top secret address. english.elpais.com/internationa...

english.elpais.comErika Hilton, lawmaker: ‘There could be a coup in Brazil. This time within the law, not like that horror show’A trans woman who is the top female vote-getter in the country talks to EL PAÍS about the left’s sprint to get Lula re-elected at the runoff vote this Sunday
Jo Wolff@jowolff.bsky.social

Incredible gender difference in voting intention in Brazil.

Matthew Teller
@matthewteller.com

Not that you’d know from this whitewash, but this is a cheerful travel article encouraging readers to visit Palestinian territory in the West Bank that is illegally occupied by Israel, and all these tourism entrepreneurs and cafe owners are settlers who are living and working there illegally

The Jerusalem Post@thejerusalempost.bsky.social

As the Dead Sea steadily recedes, evaporating at a bittersweet rate of 1.2 to 1.5 meters a year, the surrounding community is doing something entirely unexpected. They are growing. www.jpost.com/travel/artic...

jpost.comIsrael's northern Dead Sea is awakening with great food, art | The Jerusalem PostThe northern Dead Sea is a place of profound contrasts: a harsh military past melting into a welcoming tourist future; an ecological crisis met with fierce agricultural innovation.
Matthew Teller
@matthewteller.com

Now we cross live to the eastern Jordanian desert for some 2000-year-old breaking news just in

Safaitic@safaitic.bsky.social

#New on #OCIANA - 2000 years ago, a high-status woman named Gobb died. Over fifty people, including her father, came to a tall hill to build her a commemorative structure called a ṯiyyat and inscribe their love for her. Explore the site here: ociana.osu.edu/sites/990

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot
@leguinbot.bsky.social

They have no gods. They work magic, and think they are gods themselves. But they are not. And when they die, they become dust and bone, and their ghosts whine on the wind a little while till the wind blows them away. They do not have immortal souls.

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Yair Wallach
@yairwallach.bsky.social

Two Palestinian gunmen attack IDF West Bank checkpoint, shot dead. Expect a massive escalation of IDF +settler violence against Palestinians this weekend. This is the government's last chance to blow things up before the elections. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-oct...

timesofisrael.com5 injured, 2 critically, in West Bank shooting; IDF believes gunmen planned larger attack on civiliansShooters killed on the scene by troops * Footage shows prolonged gun battle as troops extract wounded: ‘Take cover by the ambulance’ * Netanyahu, security chiefs order preparations for full West Bank ...

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Wesley Morgan
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This long Der Spiegel piece interviewing 10 IDF Gaza veterans does a remarkable job describing in detail from a first-person perspective the looseness of ROE, especially during the opening stages of the war, both for air strike cells and ground forces. But I don't see an English translation, so...

spiegel.de(S+) Gazakrieg: Zehn israelische Soldaten über Rachegefühle, Schießbefehle und »Kollateralschäden«Mehr als 70.000 Tote, noch mehr Verletzte, endlose Zerstörung: Hier berichten zehn israelische Soldaten über Rachegefühle, Schießbefehle und »Kollateralschäden«.
Matthew Teller
@matthewteller.com

An outrage. Israeli forces in the West Bank have arrested the publisher and founding CEO of Profile Books, Andrew Franklin, along with a large group of international visitors supporting the olive harvest. They are currently detained and en route to an interrogation centre for possible deportation.

Matthew Teller
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Friend of mine is currently on his 26th bout of Covid. Banging head like bad flu. Last time he had to have a toe amputated, suffered heart tremors and lost clarity of vision. He’s vaccinated up the wazoo & has been studied for years by baffled specialists. Reinfection is not a good idea. Wear a mask

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Yair Wallach
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Perhaps. I doubt it. My scenario is that it discredits the Greens as a credible challenge to Labour, and hence removes pressure from Labour to move left on Palestine. The only upside is that Miliband seems to be invested in sanctions on settlements regardless of political manoeuvring.

Rodney Marques@rodneymarques.bsky.social

The policy adopted at conference has stimulated continued mainstream discussion about what form a post genocide Zionist state can take, where a weaker policy wouldn't have. The leadership need to continue/start explaining the policy (alongside their disagreements with it) rather than condemning it.

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elia ayoub
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Found this incredible project at the Green Party conference: Stitch their Names Hundreds of women stitching the names of the tens of thousands of Palestinians murdered by Israel. Red are women, Black are men, Green are kids. www.stitchtheirnamestogether.com

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Lyndsey Stonebridge
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I would like women to have whatever colour hair they'd like. I would also like accurate data on: 50+ female unemployment rates; number of 65+ single women on/below poverty line; percentage of 50+ women unpaid carers; impact of austerity on all the above. And for that data to be headline news.

The Guardian@theguardian.com

More celebrities are embracing grey hair. For other women, it can come at a cost

theguardian.comMore celebrities are embracing grey hair. For other women, it can come at a costOlivia Colman and Lisa Bonet are among the stars going silver – but workplace ageism means many women still fear ditching the dye

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Sarah E. Bond
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I love this thread. 🐾

Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her)@moudhy.bsky.social

Since we all really FELT that ancient pooch who wouldn’t drop the ball, I figured I may as well tell you a bit about dogs in ancient Mesopotamia. They leave traces everywhere, from bricks to burials to proverbs. Here’s a 4,000-year-old paw print of a pooch on a brick from ancient Ur

Matthew Teller
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These deeply foolish people will kill us all if we let them

Matt Ford@mford.bsky.social

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

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Rebecca Ruth Gould
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In memory of Refaat Alareer on what would have been his 47th birthday. My last email exchanged with Refaat on 12 Oct 2023, less than 2 months before he was martyred in a targeted Israeli strike. I had hoped to work with him on a project on free speech and academic freedom in Palestine & beyond.

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Prof Sunny Singh
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Replying to @profsunnysingh.bsky.social

Sunny Singh: “Jhalak Prize 'is more necessary than ever before. Explicit racism is on the rise again while quiet but clear exclusions of racially minoritised writers and publishing professionals has again been normalised.”

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Nathan K. Hensley
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We’ve lived through the nearly complete systematic unwinding of the postwar public university, which for all its faults, was premised on the idea that not only aristocrats could be intellectuals, & that having non-aristocratic intellectuals was better for knowledge & therefore better for everyone

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SpinningHugo
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They are, as they were in 2024 1. Europe. Move towards the Sm and CU 2. Planning reform. Build those pylons. Dig those reservoirs. The energy generation and storage needs are acute, as is housing. 3. Tax reform. Why is nothing being done? Is it a treasury thing? Is it just too hard?

Matthew Teller
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Right/centre-right conservative middle-class Times readers are the actual barbarians at the gate thank you for coming to my ted talk

Peter Whitewood@pwhitewood.bsky.social

The Times supports the Russell Group idea of letting the ‘best’ universities charge more, a proposal for running institutions into the ground if they haven’t benefitted from accumulated prestige. And ‘best’ according to what? Teaching quality would produce a different list than assumed here.

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Yair Wallach
@yairwallach.bsky.social

There are so many things wrong in this article, let me focus on two: on the perverse logic argument against sanctions, and on the betrayal of Israel's human rights and anti-occupation activists. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.comThis Israeli election could be the country’s last – this week I saw that for myself | Jonathan FreedlandSpend time on the ground and you see how high the stakes are for next month’s contest – for Israelis and Palestinians alike, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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Public Books
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“Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the crime of crimes that obligates states to intervene, has taken the lives of large numbers of Palestinian scholars.” A new archive honors the lives of the scholars, researchers, and teachers murdered in the Gaza genocide. www.publicbooks.org/remember-the...

publicbooks.orgRemember Them: Palestine Scholars Murdered in the Gaza Genocide - Public Books“In Palestine, some 87,000 students have suffered a near total disruption of their studies for the duration of the genocide, and more than 1200 have been killed. Upwards of 200 academic staff have…
Matthew Teller
@matthewteller.com

Why are there any other journalists from any other news media still at the White House as if nothing’s happened?

The Associated Press@apnews.com

BREAKING: MS NOW says it has been denied White House access after President Trump said he was barring some media outlets.

bit.lyMS NOW says its journalists were denied access to the White House groundsMS NOW says its journalists were denied access to the White House grounds Saturday morning. This comes a day after President Donald Trump announced he would ban the network and other outlets from the complex.