Matt Rodier

Matt Rodier

@matthewrodier.bsky.social

Photojournalist primarily focused on the impact of conflict on civilians and political movements.

267 Followers 277 Following 465 Posts Joined Mar 2025
8 hours ago

As someone who analyzed equity prices as a means of profession and survival at different points, wait till it drops to 300.

1 0 0 0
8 hours ago

I hate going to the hospital, have resisted it even when it was necessary, multiple times. Turns out me and would be South American dictators are quite different in many respects.

1 0 0 0
23 hours ago

***Correction*** the 800,000 people currently displaced in Lebanon are also from the suburbs of Beirut and from different parts of the city itself that have been hit.

0 1 0 0
5 days ago
Preview
Video Shows US Tomahawk Missile Strike Next to Girls’ School in Iran - bellingcat New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footag...

Bellingcat analysis makes a strong case that a US tomahawk hit that girl's school in Iran, contrary to U.S. government claims

www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

1,343 290 31 10
4 days ago

20% of the world’s oil.

2 0 0 0
4 days ago

I didn’t know that but it certainly makes a lot of sense.

3 0 1 0
4 days ago

Thank you. The responses were always generally seen as: hit near allies of attacking party, particularly energy facilities, mine Strait, do their best to crash world economy if necessary. It’s widely understood. I got particularly worried when I read “build on VZLA” as if Iran was a similar foe.

1 0 0 0
4 days ago

When I studied IR in undergrad in 2005 we thoroughly discussed Iran mining the Strait as a reaction to being attacked, so yeah agreed, I think the mil/int folks anticipated it.

34 0 1 0
6 days ago
Preview
AI error or not, Iran school bombing is a permanent stain on America’s soul | Will Bunch A debate on AI in warfare obscures the truth about an Iran school bombing. U.S. humans are to blame for this war crime.

They had names. They had beautiful faces. And they had the same dreams as your kids - crushed when American "precision" bombs slammed into their Minab elementary school, killing 175

Don't blame AI for this. Blame the sick humans who see war as a game

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...

5,623 1,988 125 83
6 days ago
Video thumbnail

New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children.

3,277 1,700 89 191
1 week ago
Preview
DOJ docs, FBI interview, raise new questions about Epstein's "suicide" Notes from an FBI interview indicate that prison guards discussed "cover-up"

New: Prison guards discussed cover-up in Epstein's death, inmate tells FBI. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

5,650 2,825 152 117
1 week ago
Detainee says guards bet on suicide
Like other detainees, Ramsingh said that between cleanings the rooms, restrooms and showers were often filthy and infested with insects. He said detainees stole others’ food because everyone was hungry due to the small and sometimes inedible meals, which led to fights, and the conditions took a toll on his mental health.

At one point he said he overheard a security guard talking about bets made among the staff over which detainee would be next to die by suicide. The guard said he had paid $500 into a pool, with the total pot riding on the outcome. The talk was particularly jarring, he said, because he had contemplated suicide himself.

This is a sign of the complete moral failure of our society. AP report. apnews.com/article/suic...

273 96 5 4
1 week ago
Preview
At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

9,307 6,066 607 1,538
1 week ago

The president wore a red tie and a baseball cap to a ceremony in honor of fallen soldiers.

2,804 687 343 58
1 week ago

This woman, US citizen living in Skokie, was detained at Ohare yesterday, taken to Broadview, then transferred to a detention facility in Wisconsin, now released. We know all this not because of DHS, who repeatedly denied that they even had her, but because her phone was pinging in those locations.

3,163 1,219 26 34
1 week ago

I see your point, but worry the unequal application lessens the strength of the system.

1 0 0 0
1 week ago

They’re right though. It is often enforced against nation states in the global south, particularly ones without nuclear weapons. This war is nonsense. Certainly agree with you on that part, but once you have enough warheads and effective delivery systems intl law is largely a theoretical exercise.

0 0 1 0
1 week ago

This is not accurate, as it has happened multiple times, most famously when Michael Burry wouldn’t redeem his hedge fund clients while waiting for subprime to bust.

0 0 0 0
1 week ago
Preview
DOJ releases Epstein files with accusations against Trump Over the course of four interviews in 2019, a woman told the FBI that Epstein and Trump sexually abused her in the 1980s.

“A DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credible—and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying.”

@jkbjournalist.bsky.social bringing it home
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

4,003 1,672 59 74
1 week ago
Preview
Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

10,025 5,279 629 635
1 week ago
Preview
Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protestor A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

2,491 1,411 91 340
1 week ago

“There is no thought process into what any of this means long term,” said one official. “It’s not coordinated regime change. It’s just ‘bomb them until they’re less of a threat.’”

Asked about the administration’s plan for Iran after the war, that official responded: “Whatever.”

182 73 6 8
1 week ago
US Issues License to Allow Some Russian Oil Sales to India

By Natalie Choy
03/05/2026 19:14:03 [BFW]
(Bloomberg) -- Treasury Dept’s Office of Foreign Assets Control says it is issuing a Russia-related general license to allow some Russian oil sales to India, according to a statement.

License related to Russia oil sale to India valid to April 4, 2026

🤔

4 2 1 0
1 week ago
Preview
Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump in Jan. 6 case gets life sentence for child sex crimes Andrew Paul Johnson, authorities said, tried to keep one of his victims mum by floating the promise of money he was expecting to receive from the Justice Department.

Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump in Jan. 6 case gets life sentence for child sex crimes

1,252 487 61 82
1 week ago
Post image

To strike 1,000 targets in 24 hours in Iran, the U.S. military leveraged the most advanced AI it’s ever used in warfare.

Anthropic’s Claude partnered with the military’s Maven Smart System, suggesting targets and issuing precise location coordinates. https://wapo.st/46BFe1T

483 226 703 862
1 week ago

Quicker than I thought: bsky.app/profile/wash...

0 0 0 0
1 week ago

PEPFAR, the program to stop hundreds of thousands of children and adults from dying of HIV/AIDS, was $6.5 billion a year.

3,044 1,120 2 20
1 week ago

the one who loved horses, the one who was a great goalkeeper, the one who kept a diary every day, the one who held her sister's hand when they walked to school, the one who read Harry Potter in English, the one who collected old coins, the one who drew rainbows for her grandmother ...

1,542 448 15 13
1 week ago
Video thumbnail

The White House just posted a video mixing real footage from the Iran strikes with a killstreak animation from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

x.com/WhiteHouse/s...

2,597 1,052 462 959
1 week ago

My overwhelming thoughts on this are less schadenfreude and more that if the dollar continues sliding right as domestic food production falters significantly that confluence of factors could produce some conditions generally unseen in developed nations outside of natural disaster zones.

4 1 0 0