Matthew Sheffield

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🟦 Publisher, Flux
🟦 Host, Theory of Change podcast
🟦 Co-host, So This Just Happened and Doomscroll
🟦 Former right wing media executive

Posts about politics, religion, media, and technology with occasional memes

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The Republican party's bro subculture is totally unaware that the party they support wants to criminalize extramarital sex and to ban mature video games and pornography. Part of this ignorance is that the left doesn't talk about sex and dating much slate.com/life/2024/07...

America’s Biggest New Viral Star Has Been Co-opted by the Right. This Is an Absolute Tragedy.slate.com It’s a huge, huge problem that the Dems don’t know how to capitalize on this stuff.

Beyond the solar system nearly 47 years after it launched, Voyager 1 is still able to send back data, and still capable of remote repairs. Great space tech story: www.salon.com/2024/07/04/w...

What Voyager 1's near-death experience says about the future of space explorationwww.salon.com Scientists recently had to repair the Voyager probe from afar. How much longer can they keep it alive?

Totalitarianism is always absurd. It must be because sociopathy is weaponized insecurity. Rather than correct their stupidity, sociopaths want to force others to submit to it.

Taraji P. Henson did a huge public service calling out Project 2025. Earlier today, Kevin Roberts, chair of Project 2025, threatened violence: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be." It's Christofascism. Make no mistake.

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

A rare moment of legal sanity from 3 of the right-wing SCOTUS gods: They correctly ruled that government agencies cannot be sued for communicating w/social media companies about misinformation www.politico.com/news/2024/06...

Biden admin can’t be sued for pressuring social media companies to remove misinformation, Supreme Court ruleswww.politico.com Two red states and five social media users do not have legal standing to sue.

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Right-wing streamer Tim Pool recently had another white supremacist on his YouTube show, "The Culture War with Tim Pool." This time it was "Unite the Right" organizer Richard Spencer. angrywhitemen.org/2024/06/26/o...

On YouTube, Tim Pool Tries To Rehabilitate Richard Spencerangrywhitemen.org On June 21, 2024, right-wing streamer Tim Pool brought white supremacist Richard Spencer on his YouTube show, The Culture War with Tim Pool. Spencer’s appearance was part of a debate with And…

In an unbelievable act of corporate vandalism, Paramount completely erased the entire archives of MTV dot com, wiping out more than 30 years and hundreds of thousands of pages www.showbiz411.com/2024/06/25/p...

Paramount Erases Archives of MTV Website, Wipes Music, Culture History After 30 Plus Years - Showbiz411www.showbiz411.com MTV.com is gone. Kaput. Wiped off the face of the Earth. Parent company Paramount, formerly Viacom, has tossed twenty plus years of news archives. All that’s left is a placeholder site for reality sho...

A company is actually making consumer hardware with 386 chips. Did they get a truckload of old laptops from the dump? Who knows! Definitely a gift for the nerd who has everything liliputing.com/pocket-386-i...

Pocket 386 is a mini laptop for retro computing with support for DOS and Windows 95 - Liliputingliliputing.com Pocket 386 is a mini laptop for retro computing with support for DOS and Windows 95

In the latest “Doomscroll” episode, @olympianlisacurry.bsky.social and I discussed how the stock for Trump's Untruth Social has plummeted after his conviction and as investors get word that Trump and his insider cronies are going to massively dilute share value.

Truth Social stock value plummets as insiders prepare to hose MAGAplus.flux.community Plus: Louisiana Republicans pass law to put Ten Commandments posters in classrooms

After years of "The Simpsons" predicting everything, it looks like someone else predicted "The Simpsons." The ancient Egyptian woman Tadi Ist should've trademarked her life rights. Marge Simpson is clearly a rip-off of her look! www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/world...

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Thank you @matthew.flux.community for having me on your podcast to talk about the 2024 election and polling plus.flux.community/p/how-useful...

How useful are the Biden-Trump polls right now?plus.flux.community Change Research pollster Stephen Clermont discusses the presidential race and what can be learned from public opinion surveys months before an election

Donald Trump's fantasy of replacing taxes with tariffs would be a sop to his oligarch pals and also set inflation into hyperdrive washingtonmonthly.com/2024/06/20/t...

Trump’s Tax-by-Tariffs Plan Would Enrich the Wealthy, Cripple the Economy, and Send Inflation Soaring | Washington Monthlywashingtonmonthly.com Trump’s Tax-by-Tariffs Plan Would Enrich the Wealthy, Cripple the Economy, and Send Inflation Soaring. The latest crackpot idea from the presumptive Republican nominee would throw us back to the feder...

High-ranking Israeli admiral Daniel Hagari admits what Netanyahu critics have said for months; “Hamas is an idea. Anyone who thinks we can eliminate Hamas is wrong," www.nbcnews.com/news/world/i...

IDF spokesman says Hamas can't be defeated, clashing with Netanyahuwww.nbcnews.com The Israel Defense Forces' top spokesman said Wednesday that "Hamas is an idea" that cannot be eliminated and that saying it could was "throwing sand in the eye of the public."

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This should be obvious: If "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor" were foundational to American law, Trump would have been jailed a long, long, loooooong time ago. OTOH, Roman law spread throughout Europe centuries before Christianity was established as the official religion.

Far too many people believe that the English-American laws are based on the Bible. In reality, almost all European-American legal systems harken back to Roman law. The Twelve Tables are far more relevant to our law than the Ten Commandments. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_...

Twelve Tables - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

The first principle of reactionary morality is leader submission. All other principles matter far, far less. The majority of Republicans believe that a convicted felon should be allowed to be president. But they had the opposite view before Donald Trump was convicted in NYC.

Paul Pressler, a serial child rapist and one of the architects of the "conservative resurgence" in the Southern Baptist Convention that made it insane, has died. He was an evil person, in public and in private. May his name live in infamy forever. www.baptiststandard.com/news/baptist...

Paul Pressler, SBC legend accused of abuse, is dead at 94www.baptiststandard.com Paul Pressler, a retired Texas judge and one of the most influential evangelicals of the past 50 years, has died.

A huge part of the so-called "masculinity crisis" hyped by the right is really about queer men, particularly those who are bi, being afraid to live openly. This is an interesting piece from a guy who put "No Republicans" in his Grindr profile and saw that there are a lot of closeted queer men.

I Put “No Republicans” in My Grindr Profile. Men Started to Lose Their Minds.slate.com I thought being gay meant being socially progressive, open, and empathetic. My two-word vetting tool taught me the truth.

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The Supreme Court is doing everything it can to prevent Donald Trump from standing trial before the election.

The Supreme Court’s Blocking Strategyprospect.org America’s top legal authority is doing all it can to prevent Donald Trump from standing trial before the election.

As evidence of his dementia becomes overwhelming, Donald Trump is trying to lower expectations for his upcoming debate with Joe Biden. He lost their 2020 face-offs, and is now claiming he might "lose the debate on purpose." www.rawstory.com/trump-biden-...

'I'll lose the debate on purpose': Trump tries to lower expectations for Biden showdownwww.rawstory.com Former President Donald Trump claimed that he might intentionally lose the first presidential debate of 2024 in an effort to keep President Joe Biden on the Democratic ticket.During an interview that ...

There are now more partisan local websites than local newspapers. A milestone has been crossed. Overwhelmingly these are right wing fake news outlets, which means that right wing media is the mainstream media. America's information ecosystem is dangerously contaminated www.yahoo.com/news/phony-n...

Phony 'news' portals surpass US newspaper sites, researchers saywww.yahoo.com Partisan websites masquerading as media outlets now outnumber American newspaper sites, a research group that tracks misinformation said Tuesday, highlighting a local news crisis in a year of high-sta...

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🧵 The U.S. right is very different from conservative parties in other countries in that it never changes or adapts its policies to the public will. The ideas have been unchanged since they raged against the New Deal. Instead of adapting, the right rebrands. Unfortunately, they fool many people.

The ‘Intellectual Dark Web’ has become yet another failed right-wing rebrandplus.flux.community For nearly a century, Republicans have been pretending to be the ‘real liberals’

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This week's comic: Many white Americans fail to assimilate

Dick Van Dyke truly is a living legend. It's great to see that he's still working and doing amazingly well at 98 variety.com/2024/tv/awar...

Dick Van Dyke Makes History as Oldest Daytime Emmys Winner Ever, at 98variety.com Dick Van Dyke won the 2024 Daytime Emmy award for guest performer in a daytime drama series — via his spot on Peacock's "Days of Our Lives."

Deranged grifter Cornel West has hired Republican operatives to help him get on the ballot in Colorado as a third-party candidate www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Operatives with GOP ties are helping Cornel West get on the ballot in a key statewww.nbcnews.com Documents obtained by NBC News show operatives connected to a Colorado-based GOP firm helped the far-left presidential candidate in North Carolina.

Rudy Giuliani has been using a 9/11 victim charity fund to evade paying off his creditors. The guy isn't just a moronic liar, he's also a disgusting grifter dnyuz.com/2024/06/01/a...

A 9/11 Charity Provides a Financial Safety Net to a Giuliani Firmdnyuz.com Because of his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, Rudolph W. Giuliani has been indicted in two states and hit

Dinesh D'Souza is a dishonest moron whose entire career was a fabrication by smarter people. That's why it's so great to see that his totally false "2000 Mules" crockumentary has been fully retracted by its distributor. Please tell your GOP relatives this happened! www.mediaite.com/media/salem-...

Salem Apologizes, Retracts Dinesh D’Souza’s Debunked Election Fraud Movie ‘2000 Mules’www.mediaite.com Dinesh D'Souza's movie amplifying Donald Trump's debunked claims of election fraud in 2020 election was retracted by the film's producer.

I was today years old when I learned that marijuana is actually illegal in the Netherlands, thanks Nikki Minaj! www.thedailybeast.com/nicki-minaj-...

Nicki Minaj’s Concert Postponed After Her Arrest in Amsterdamwww.thedailybeast.com The “Anaconda” rapper denied possessing marijuana after a cop at a Netherlands airport claimed he found it in her luggage.

Salute to Kabosu, the Shiba Inu who inspired the doge meme deadline.com/2024/05/kabo...

Kabosu Dies: Beloved Shiba Inu Who Gained Fame As Doge Meme Was 18deadline.com Kabosu, the Shiba Inu dog whose beaming countenance launched the ubiquitous “doge” meme and became the face of the cryptocurrency Dogecoin, died peacefully Friday at home in Sakura, a city east of Tok...