Matthew Phelan

? Bad stuff keeps happening even though South Park is making fun of it!!!

X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover

A previous study revealed that Bluesky hosted more posts linked to work published in 2025 for the first time in March – declaring “the days of X’s dominance are over”
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/xs-domi...

I'm pretty sure talking about conversion rates is one of those things that makes normals think media people have been body snatched.

Trump signs order increasing Brazil tariff to 50 percent President Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order raising tariffs on imports from Brazil to 50 percent, escalating his fight with the largest South American economy. The order Trump signed dec…

Trump does shit every day that should get him impeached. But illegally punishing an entire country — and any Americans who use products or do businesses with anyone in Brazil — because it’s prosecuting its former president for attempting a violent coup is among the worst things he has done.

A dedicated search has uncovered that this rare 1928 law has never before been used on The West Wing or within the script of any other Aaron Sorkin project.

It’s not a big deal in the grand scheme of occupational hazards, but I hate it. It’s so rarely someone where it makes sense.

I’m whining into the void—but there’s this certain kind of person who reacts belatedly to a reporter leaving a handful of polite voicemails and text/LinkedIn messages as if you’re six TV news crews parked on their front lawn setting up satellite feeds. It’s the damnedest thing; always a shock to me.

A fifth of California homes are investor-owned as state’s affordability crisis deepens – report New figures show that the Golden state’s rate of investor-owned homes is 19%, with mountain regions up to 83%

You know how the Abundance Guys only talk about zoning laws and pretend corporate power has nothing to do with the affordable housing crisis in places like California?

Here’s how you know they’re trying to trick you into not seeing the whole problem.

Adult video producers will tell you that it is just incredibly hard to find enough sane and uncreepy people for things like Jubilee’s “Surrounded” series.

That’s why many scenes like this one wind up feeling so grimy and off-putting.

They should put the “Inside Epstein’s Cell” segment of 60 Minutes back(?) on Paramount+, @paramountpictures.bsky.social, just my two cents.

I called everyone in Jeffrey Epstein's little black book. What I learned about rich people, conspiracy, Ghislaine, stand-up comedy, and evil from 2,000 phone calls.

Now seems the time to repost this big story we did a few years ago... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump would have to get Coca-Cola to start putting the cocaine back in their recipe for people to forget about Epstein for even two hours.

Hell, yeah.

Sadly, the Wegmans checkout did not have Time Travel Mad Socialists or Time Travel Mad Anticolonial Revolutionary Vanguards or any of the other better options that would go back to the crux of the problem.

A zany cartoon cover of the children’s activity book “Time Travel Mad Libs.”

Trying to get back to mid-2023 and course correct America like…

just keep trying

A Scion of Democratic Politics Defeats the Upstarts in an Arizona Primary

The left-most candidate – who was endorsed by AOC, Bernie and the Working Families Party – won the congressional primary, and the NYT is spinning it as a loss for Mamdani’s politics. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/u...

screnshot of CNN interview with Rahm Emmanuel. You can scan a QR code "for Full interview with Rahm Emanuel"

They're calling it the least scanned QR code of all time

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

This weekend we’re doing an urgent appeal as the families of the giving circle have evacuated with nowhere to go—or are facing this soon.

This goal is ambitious because our hope has to be radical. The point is to try. It makes a difference.

Anything helps. 580/2500: chuffed.org/project/hope...

the Nick Adams appointment once again proves that knowledge of obscure twitter weirdos turned out to be really useful real world information

Like the dude in Stephen King’s The Dead Zone, I just got an awful premonition that Trump is going to start saying “Mohran Zamdani,” to rapturous #MAGA cheers and gales of embittered laughter.

Truth be told, Trump would love an actual Salem-style witch hunt.

r/advice: So, I truly hate living here in The Zone of Interest and wish I could both extricate myself from complicity in the Zone, while also simultaneously finding a way to feed, clothe and shelter myself as I work to dismantle the Zone. Has anyone done this successfully? What did you do?

This and vacation pics of Clarence Thomas with Harlan Crow’s Nazi memorabilia will be good exhibits in impeachment hearings (if we live that long).

That's some effect, that Streisand Effect

By today’s standards, the mayor from Jaws looks like a good politician.

An opinion writer is not allowed to criticize the paper on social media for using a Nazi source but the reporter who worked with the Nazi source was free to leave a long social media trail being buddy-buddy with the Nazi in public

Did the NYT cite an anonymous social media race realism influencer as an "academic"? At... which academic institution?