Matt Kavanagh

Since I’m new here, I thought I’d repost myTwitter thread from 2018 on #HannahArendt and #Trumphasia: a topic that is unfortunately still relevant today. 1/

hm. lula succeeded by out-shouting the right and not begging for the press to do the lift for him and his supporters? wow, wonder who has been saying something like that in america for almost 20 years?

Just realizing that John C. Reilly is the Ernest Borgnine of his generation.

Same players, same playbook. We're up next.

The Cheesecake Factory “controversy” is nice because it’s a rerun of the exact kind of stupid shit we had to sit through every day of the Obama administration. Now Zoomers don’t have to feel left out of having their own Obama “controversy” to reference.

From Reddit

I have read dozens of outraged posts because the US special envoy Witkoff called Putin a "humanist." But no one is writing about the fact that the American negotiators are simply not doing their job. Let me explain.

A recent post by a Nobel Peace Prize winner.

If still debating whether Donald Trump or Elon Musk willfully crippled Ukraine's missile defense, helping to slay innocent civilians, you are a rube. If the U.S. President had no role, then an oligarch governs national security. If not, the U.S. President serves Russia. Both answers are mortifying.

imagine if a democratic candidate anywhere said something like this about a jewish candidate, would be a ten-alarm fire in every media outlet for days. but the literal president promoting this sort of insane bigotry against a muslim won't even merit a story

"The merging of tech and MAGA networks created a frenzy of open political corruption unlike anything in American history." @thewalrus.ca published The Nerd Reich's introduction, which charts tech fascism's rise to power under Trump/Thiel. paywall-free thewalrus.ca/billionaire-...

The Vancouver landlords Reddit page tonight:

"The right must be understood, but never blamed. The left can be blamed, but need not be understood" www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...

For the past two years, and long before that, Trans folx have been telling everyone that their rights are not up for negotiation, election or not. Democrats refused to listen. Be angry at the candidates who ignored them, not the people begging to have their human rights respected.

Dying laughing at NBC News asking Mike Rogers if a vote for him is a vote for Trump, and HE FAKED HIS MIC CUTTING OUT TO PRETEND HE COULDN’T HEAR THE QUESTION 🤣 These people are pathetic.

The Conservatives projected enough normalcy to the public. NDP voter enthusiasm collapsed. And David Eby made a decision that will be derided for decades. Here's my post-election column. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

In fairness (sorry), the film flatlined the second it expanded from 4 to 472 screens. It's not You Can See Everything; it's four hours, with good but not great reviews, about someone who's already in our faces 24/7. But I do think we should watch for how easy, or not, it becomes to stream or rent.

Ahem

The recent Starlink / Starshield incident in Ukraine has created a dangerous precedence for the US export industry, many haven't yet grasped. The sudden deactivation respectively curtailing of those systems without warning not only cost precious lives, but also equipment worth millions.

Google was really trying to hide its water use figures, to the degree that it got the council to try to keep its water use figures secret. The community finally got the actual numbers and found out Google was using 29 percent of the water in the community. www.wired.com/story/what-t...

Trump and Musk have given the best reason why not to buy American. Customers - governmental and private alike - around the globe will take note of this and act accordingly, and I wouldn't be surprised if this won't be limited to US military products only. Alternatives are now national security!

scott galloway and jessica tarlov held an event here in town yesterday where “don’t impeach or waste time on investigations because ‘28” was the consensus position of the panel. so yeah, this is something to anticipate.

Anyway damn everyone who over the last 10 years tried to gaslight us into believing that we were not seeing what we were obviously seeing.

FATHERLAND is an austere, compelling trip thru the ruined Germany of 1949. The real ruins are long gone. But in the late 40s, Hollywood directors like Billy Wilder went & shot major movies in them. Why? My latest @foreignpolicy.com h/t @beijingpalmer.bsky.social foreignpolicy.com/2026/10/23/f...

This thread is the truth about Twitter. When someone gets around to giving Elon the Citizen Kane treatment, the equivalent to Rosebud will be his inability to ever be the main character on Twitter. That’s all he ever wanted.

I think people intuitively understand that democratic candidates tossing trans kids to the wolves is not only morally repugnant but also politically ineffective, otherwise they wouldn't freak out every time someone said they weren't voting for a democrat who did this

The Vancouver landlords Reddit page tonight:

Still some open races, but the vote swing has been pretty systematic. Everyone fairs better, except the NDP. Hindsight is 20/20, but there were plenty of people seeing this coming ahead of time.

Pretty gross, but Eby made his bed. He was warned, and did it anyway.

In Michigan, Musk paid for calls targeting Muslims that painted Democrats as pro-Israel, and also paid for calls targeting Jews that painted Democrats as pro-Hamas.

A lot of Trumpism is the sheer joy of telling completely made-up, unapologetic lies to watch people who care about the truth squirm.

Buckle up, friends. This is going to be a thread. A thread of thanksgiving, my gratitude for the people of the city and the province I love. The people who stood united to defeat a dark and narrow vision of Alberta's future. The people who stood in defence of Canada. 🧵 #Alberta #Canada #yeg

Somebody should have told Eby that he can resign without calling an election.

Having not received enough punishment for the night, David Eby posts his congratulations to Lorne Doerkson on bluesky dot com

One of tonight's story is a lot of former B.C. Liberal organizers who thought the party had become too conspiratorial minded or focused on their most passionate supporters took control of the party, told online influencers to pound sand and support One B.C. if they so dared, and were vindicated

As we've learned in the recent history, losing and winning well cannot be taken for granted. It is good to see both leaders being gracious tonight in the transfer of power.