Matthew Federman

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TV/Screenwriter. Co-Creator/EP of Blood and Treasure. Wrote on Limitless, Warehouse 13, Jericho, other stuff. No longer on strike but still hydrating.

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I'm not a millennial but I am very much this:

"He is also weighing whether to call for a constitutional amendment to eliminate broad immunity for presidents and other constitutional officeholders..." DO IT! Make them vote against it! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswww.washingtonpost.com The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.

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Some nice copy here …apparently California now has batteries roughly equivalent to 5 Diablo Canyons (in capacity, not run time…)

"No rolling blackouts or grid emergencies as California continues on path to a carbon free grid. Several strategies, including upgrades to vulnerable parts of the grid at play here, but key enabler is more clean energy, especially solar, and above all, battery storage..." 😀

California Grid Breezes Through Heat Wave due to Renewables, Batteriesthinc.blog No rolling blackouts or grid emergencies as California continues on path to a carbon free grid. Several strategies, including upgrades to vulnerable parts of the grid at play here, but key enabler …

The best kind of twist is one that hits you hard in the moment but in retrospect was inevitable. The final sentence here is a great example of the form.

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This has been an ongoing labor of love for the local Philly bookstore scene, and I hope you’ll come on out. www.phillyvoice.com/philly-books...

Philly Bookstore Crawl offers free books, discounts and author eventswww.phillyvoice.com More than 30 independent book shops in the city and suburbs are participating on Saturday, Aug. 24.

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If someone told you, "Many of America's top reporters spend a lot of their day in a chat room run by a 'great replacement' believing white supremacist and where many posters are Nazis" you'd be alarmed. That's basically the situation now.

I’ve said this a million times, but I’m genuinely frightened about what Musk’s fascist propaganda network is doing to do to our politics. I really wish someone, anyone, would come up with a collective strategy to get journalists, organizers and elected officials off the platform.

Worth remembering that the hypocrisy from the Right re: political violence is a feature, not a bug.

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absolutely brilliant. the cataloging of violent imagery from the right is incredible. i mean, we all know this, but it’s striking to see it in one paragraph.

Well I'm given to understand that today & for a VERY limited time, our nation's political violence party is shocked—shocked!—to learn that we currently live in a world of normalized political violence, and would like very much to know who is to blame. Full Essay: www.the-reframe.com/gambling-in-...

Gambling In Casablancawww.the-reframe.com Being blamed for a world of political violence by the people who force us to live in it, and are now shocked-shocked!—by it. Navigating the daily trauma of living in a bully's paradise.

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For those who didn’t know, Daily Beast now has a right wing EIC and owners. Enjoy the death of progressive news reporting in America!

Your first look at the now Right Wing Daily Beast, everyone!

Hard to imagine how gun violence continues to plague us. gizmodo.com/oklahoma-ala...

Bullet Vending Machines Are Spreading Throughout the Countrygizmodo.com Supermarkets in multiple states are now selling firearm ammunition right out of a dispenser.

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Political violence always benefits authoritarians because liberals will always condemn it and authoritarians, regardless of whether they are perpetrators or victims, will always use it to claim more power.

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Teddy Roosevelt was shot while giving a speech 3 weeks before the 1912 election, was so fucking tough that he *stayed to finish the speech* and then lost to Woodrow Wilson 435 electoral votes to 88

George Wallace was literally put in a wheelchair by his attempted assassination and he still lost

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Popping on to say: A lot of rumors are about to fly about this rally. Trump's team is 100% going to try and take advantage of this situation. So will malicious foreign actors/bots/etc. Please don't auto share. Check your sources, and vet their wording/sourcing carefully.

Feels like he's waiting until 11:59 on the Doomsday Clock to take the gloves off but at least it's finally happening. www.mediaite.com/biden/trump-...

‘Trump Raped Her’: Biden Goes All Out Against Former President, Cites Sexual Assault Judgmentwww.mediaite.com President Joe Biden delivered one of the more forceful addresses of his campaign on Friday amid serious concerns members of his own party have about his candidacy.

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Scholars often ask me what they can do, and this is a tangible thing. State and local media are, in particular, hungry for opinion pieces from experts. Lots of people targeting that media is more effective than lots of people trying to land that one NYT op-ed

Junior Scholars: Project 2025 is now breaking through to public consciousness. The more people learn about it, the more they hate it. Now is a great time to search that website, go to the section of your expertise, and write an oped. Keep the drip of bad news for them coming, all the way to Nov.

I’m voting for the policies, not the person.

A new analysis finds that Project 2025 would dramatically raise taxes for low- and middle-income families. The plan would also enable tax cheats — just as the IRS finally cracked down. www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Project 2025’s dystopian approach to taxeswww.mediamatters.org Project 2025 is an extreme right-wing initiative organized by The Heritage Foundation to provide policy and personnel to the next Republican presidential administration. An analysis of Project 2025’s ...

Trump isn't a political genius or master of anything, he's an opportunistic infection that thrives when the host is weak. I hope everyone can come together to support whoever the nominee is because right now our collective body is a very special ER episode that someone wins an Emmy for.

Next time someone brags about how early they get up in response to how late you do, feel free to send them this. www.theguardian.com/science/arti...

Night owls’ cognitive function ‘superior’ to early risers, study suggestswww.theguardian.com Research on 26,000 people found those who stay up late scored better on intelligence, reasoning and memory tests

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This is why you need a union, folks. $3 million in forced work. deadline.com/2024/07/cbs-...

CBS & WGA West Settle Arbitration Claim Over Work Done After Writers Room Shut-Downsdeadline.com The WGA told members Wednesday that it has settled a claim with CBS regarding work done by its members after writers rooms were closed on a trio of series.

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Here's the latest episode of my iHeartRadio/Cool Zone Media show Better Offline - part 1 of 2 part series about how Jack Welch of GE directly inspired the tech industry's low-R&D, layoff-heavy growth-at-all-costs Rot Economy. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

‎Better Offline: The Shareholder Supremacy on Apple Podcastspodcasts.apple.com ‎Show Better Offline, Ep The Shareholder Supremacy - Jul 9, 2024

Cheney only shows decency on topics that personally affects his family (ie, supporting LBGT rights because of one daughter and speaking out against Trump because the other is being threatened). It's his Unitary Executive Theory BS that helped get us here. Nevertheless, Welcometothepartypal.gif

The great thing about Project 2025 is they took everything we have been warning about for years and put it under a catchy name so finally people are taking it seriously. The power of branding.

Can't be overstated how bad sustained attention is for almost everything these guys say and do. It's a movement that thrives on disengagement from, and cynicism about, politics.

Former president Donald Trump sought Friday to distance himself from a conservative think tank’s plan, known as Project 2025, for the next Republican presidency, as Democrats work to make it a political vulnerability for Trump in the November election.

Trump tries to distance himself from Project 2025, a conservative group’s plan for GOP presidencywww.washingtonpost.com Trump claimed Friday he knew “nothing” about the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a right-wing policy blueprint spearheaded by former Trump administration officials.

It’s so depressing watching all the same arguments play out this time around that we had in 2016. You’d think lessons would have been learned but not so much.

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And remember, the Christian Right only took up abortion as a topic after they lost school segregation for good when the IRS went after Bob Jones’ U status, & needed a new issue to rally the troops. 1/x all our issues are intertwined. 🧵

The United States has always been a democracy for some and a brutal authoritarian regime for others, and the effort to expand it to democracy for all has led to a 70+ year backlash culminating in SCOTUS claiming that kings are totes cool and also judges are the ones to coronate them

When young people say "What's the point of voting?" you can point out that it's what gets you political power--not sitting out of the process. Unfortunately, young people only tend to understand this once they are no longer young voters. apple.news/A9Ecg4Ac0QXO...

The Other Age Issue: Old Voters Are Gaining Power Around Worldapple.news In U.S., U.K. and France, retirees push candidates to preserve costly pensions and other benefits; ‘If you’re young, you have less influence’

People who cite exhaustion with politics as the reason for their disengagement need to understand how much more exhausting it’ll be if people who want to take away their rights win.

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Hey remember when I said it was a mistake to continue posting on a platform this guy owns and validating its existence? Vichy Twiter is a Nazi run propaganda engine.

Cannot imagine what it's like to be an American History or Social Studies teacher right now, just ripping up old lesson plans and tests and shrugging at your students about how anything works at the moment.