Matt ⎊

Matt ⎊

@mttd.bsky.social

Award-winning writer, designer & raconteur. Founder of Smoke & Felt. Always in Hardware Mode™️ Equal parts Karl Marx & Tony Stark ☭ | ⎊

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A.R. Moxon
@juliusgoat.bsky.social

I would argue they knew exactly what they were doing, which was deliberately sabotaging needed public works programs by offering snake oil they never had any intention of delivering.

Clive Thompson@clivethompson.bsky.social

A year long investigation into the Hyperloop found … “The truth was far simpler, far dumber, and far more prescient: Musk and his lieutenants truly had no idea what they were doing.” washingtonian.com/2026/02/12/h...

washingtonian.comHow Elon Musk’s Sci-Fi Hyperloop FailedBefore his misadventures in government efficiency, Musk promised to revolutionize commuting with a subway that would speed passengers between DC and Baltimore in a matter of minutes. The project was a...
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@mttd.bsky.social

Gotta hand it to Call of Duty - they really did the “going to war in the Middle East to defend a sex pest” storyline way before it was mainstream

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth would not rule out the possibility that American ground troops will be sent into Iran or articulate what the Trump administration’s exit strategy will be as the Pentagon wages a massive campaign to eliminate Tehran’s arsenal.

washingtonpost.comU.S. won’t rule out sending ground troops into IranThe Pentagon is bracing for more casualties as it wages a massive campaign to eliminate Tehran’s arsenal but acknowledged that U.S. forces cannot intercept all incoming fire.
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@mttd.bsky.social

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Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

The worker, identified as TJ Sabula in the Washington Post, said “I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity. And today I think I did that.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Justin Baragona
@justinbaragona.bsky.social

Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair." One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry@sophiesherry.bsky.social

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help. He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

chicago.suntimes.comNeighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Jared Yates Sexton
@jysexton.bsky.social

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

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Daniel J. Vecellio
@sciencedjv.bsky.social

Think about that 60-some-year-old South Korean senator who was literally climbing over walls to vote for impeachment as martial law was imposed in the country and then looking at…. Chuck Schumer.