Matt Wood

Well, you live long enough to appear on TV with hardcore MAGA folks who are openly advocating for Saudi Arabia to invest/buy up more of America and making excuses for tyrant MBS, and you, the sole Muslim, is advocating for human rights, journalism, and decency.

We are in the 7th circle of hell.

Even though I was grossly overdressed for the occasion, I had a good time catching up with Sen. Jon Tester in the CAP lobby the other day to talk all things Citizens United and what Montana's doing to defeat it.

@americanprogress.bsky.social
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Attendees at last night’s White House dinner honoring MBS were all doing business with him and Saudi Arabia.

Under Trump, the only normative rule is to gain as much power and money as possible.

Power and wealth are honored, even if the honoree has greenlit a brutal murder.

You have to follow the link to Twitter to see Vindman's actual statement. He calls on Trump to release the transcript of his call with MBS after Khashoggi murder. But he makes pretty clear that Trump gave MBS a big high five after he ordered JK sawed into parts. x.com/RepVindman/s...

Forbes headline Nov. 18, 2025: "Serious $1 Trillion Crypto Price Crash Warning Sparks Panic As Bitcoin Drop Suddenly Accelerates"

BBC headline from Nov. 18, 2025: "Google boss says trillion-dollar AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'"

Financial Times headline from Nov. 18, 2025: "Fund managers warn AI investment boom has gone too far"

Guardian headline from Nov. 18, 2025: Crypto market sheds more than $1tn in six weeks amid fears of tech bubble

starting to think that repeatedly sinking trillions into Silicon Valley's new favorite toy while tech companies spend millions to kill any meaningful regulation is actually not going to end well

Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

Trump in response to an Epstein question: "ABC, your company, your crappy company is one of the perpetrators. I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and so wrong. And we have a great commissioner, a chairman, who should take a look at that."

This, very much this.

Reporter: Is it appropriate for your family to do business with Saudi Arabia while you’re president? The us intelligence concluded you orchestrated the murder of a journalist…

Trump: Who are you with?

Reporter: ABC News

This whole scene is grotesque.

Bravo to the ABC News report for bravely asking those questions.

CNN: Trump in Epstein files
NBC: Trump in Epstein files
ABC: Trump in Epstein files
FOX:

Trump just called an ABC reporter "insubordinate" and said "I think the license should be taken away from ABC."
Insubordinate? The press doesn't work for you, asshole.

🚨 Kudos to Mary Bruce from ABC News for having the guts to ask the porcine POTUS about his family profiteering from his presidency & asking Saudi crown prince about orchestrating the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. 👏

Trump dismisses US intelligence that Saudi prince was likely aware of 2018 killing of journalist President Donald Trump is dismissing U.S. intelligence findings that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman likely had some culpability in the the 2018 killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khas...

US intelligence determined that MBS approved the killing by Saudi agents of a US-based journalist inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, according to findings declassified in 2021 at the start of the Biden administration. Trump officials had refused to release the report.
apnews.com/article/trum...

Anthropic pays Microsoft to pay Nvidia so Nvidia and Microsoft can both pay Anthropic back.

The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.

If you're familiar with the Andrew Tate story, then you know that the link between Trump, Paul Ingrassia and the Tate Brothers is Richard "Ric" Grenell, who is currently his interim advisor for the JFK Center. Grenell has spent an exhaustive amount of time in Romania lobbying for charge dismissal.

Epstein isn't the only sex trafficker with alleged ties to Trump The Trump administration reportedly intervened in a federal investigation of accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan, who are both right-wing influencers who have promoted ...

The Trump administration used the federal government to help Andrew Tate—an accused sex trafficker who brags about abusing women—get his devices back and ease travel restrictions.

Tell us again how “law and order” works?

Trump's censorship czar Brendan Carr often says his decisions to go the "hard way" against broadcasters that don't appease Trump are motivated by their "unique obligation to operate in the public interest."

But a vast majority of the actual public disagrees. 🧵

www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Another Carr Wreck How the current FCC chairman is ignoring the truth about free speech

..."Carr knows his main mission is to serve Donald Trump’s ego," writes @mattfieldwood.bsky.social.

"So he’s trying to recast broadcasters’ duty to serve the public interest into an unconstitutional shield for the fragile president’s feelings, making the FCC into the satire cops in the process."

In 2028 I will vote for whoever will send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

After the Bucks County sheriff election, one immigrant rights organizer told me: “I know ICE will still be here, but at least in our community we get some sense of peace. People haven’t wanted to go church, to concerts, to public events, because everybody is thinking they’re going to be taken.”

So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.

Got it.

But but but.... how will we beat China then???

Peter Thiel dumps top AI stock, stirring bubble fears A quiet selloff raises fresh questions about AI’s surge.

Softbank sold all it's Nvidia stock (www.cnbc.com/2025/11/11/s...)

Michael Burry of The Big Short fame's stock portfolio is now ONLY short positions in Nvidia & Palantir (www.ft.com/content/7fe1...)

Peter Thiel sold all his Nvidia stock (& 76% of his Tesla, but that's just deliciously petty) (👇🏾)

Thiel has uninvested all his nvidia and most of his tesla shares lol. Softbank completely out of nvidia. Burry going short on both Nvidia AND Thiel's Palantir. This might be the worst holiday season Americans will ever have in living memory, save maybe 2020.

The AI bubble may be about to bust.

Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.

We all need to say this very clearly:

NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!

Expropriate their asses instead.

They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.

They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

Trump defends Tucker Carlson as Nick Fuentes interview divides MAGA world Trump's comments put him at odds with other Republicans like Ted Cruz.

"America First, American Only" white nationalist isolationism is the future of MAGA.

Also, Trump has again refused to condemn neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes.

This is who they are, folks.

www.axios.com/2025/11/17/t...

The LAME DUCK Trump Presidency

Weakened by the Epstein scandal, the poor economy, and terrible poll numbers, MAGA is beginning to turn on its former King and Daddy Donald Trump, who will become more dangerous and desperate.

With @daniellemoodie.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

This is How MAGA's House of Cards Will Crumble

The Epstein scandal and the terrible economy have ignited a growing civil war within MAGA that will only increase the fissures and further isolate Donald Trump and his weak Presidency.

open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...