Matt Watkins

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Why Male Suicide Prevention Requires Policy, Not Just Awareness | Common Dreams ​On this Suicide Prevention Day, the question is whether we will stop treating male suicide as a seasonal headline and start treating it as a preventable epidemic.

Suicide is not inevitable. It rises when supports are stripped and stigma is reinforced, writes @mattwatkinspolicy.bsky.social: www.commondreams.org/opinion/male...

Our September issue is live! Amid the chaos of 2025, nonprofits are reinventing themselves to survive. Some are looking to partnerships as a lifeline. This month's magazine details how charities are adapting and innovating.

Dive into the issue: www.philanthropy.com/issue/current

Sneak peek at the cover of the September issue! Amid the chaos of 2025, nonprofits are reinventing themselves to survive. Some are looking to partnerships as a lifeline. This month's magazine details how charities are adapting and innovating. The issue drops on Tuesday, September 9.

Every day of delay bleeds value. A retrofit not installed means another summer of unbearable bills. A pump not delivered means another year of hauling water. A roof not secured means another tarp, another moldy wall, another child growing up in a house that never dries. A dollar spent today prevents five dollars in damage tomorrow. A dollar withheld compounds harm. The storm does not wait for petitions. The fire does not wait for oral arguments. The flood does not wait for a court’s sense of timing.

As Matt Watkins writes in @commondreams.org, the delay isn't just about @climateunited.bsky.social or federal contracts or even appeals courts. It's about the EPA gaslighting us about the crisis we're facing, and Trump Administration executive overreach.

www.commondreams.org/opinion/cour...

By Keeping Climate Funds on Ice, the DC Circuit Is Complicit in Trump’s Overreach | Common Dreams By refusing to act, the DC Circuit has turned oversight into obstruction, procedure into punishment, as it helps the executive hollow out Congress’ most basic power.

But history will record something else. The money was there. The need was there. The chance was there. And power chose not to use it. That is not oversight. That is abdication, writes @mattwatkinspolicy.bsky.social:
www.commondreams.org/opinion/cour...

My most recent article @slate.com

Trump Is Threatening to Send the Troops to Another Blue City. It’s Clear What This Is Really About. These deployments are political theater—but the stakes are still incredibly high.

This is not the work of government, but a choreography of fear. slate.trib.al/lBGZ5bB

This is the way.

Hey - I agree with you completely. My argument is that we have to learn to communicate outside our echo chambers.

I did my best to acknowledge that in the article - if that did not come across, that's on me. However, if you read it in good faith I think you'll find I do acknowledge that.

The Most Urgent Lesson for Democrats to Take From Trump’s D.C. Deployment Democrats keep making the same mistake—and they need to learn from it before Trump sends the National Guard into another city.

My latest article in @slate.com : The lesson from D.C. is clear — creeping authoritarianism isn’t stopped by warning the water’s rising. It’s stopped by fixing the leak, by making people so secure in their daily lives they never look to the strongman in the first place.

slate.com/news-and-pol...

Housing in America Has Always Been a Moral Test. We Keep Failing. There was a time—at least in the telling—when to be American meant to come home.

Quick overview of Trump executive order & how it lines with our housing policy history

The Not-So-Great Society: Disappearing the Poor in the Name of Order In January 1964, President Lyndon B.

Thoughts on #Trump inhumane executive order on #homelessness.

Philanthropy’s Trigger Words — and How to Make Your Message Clear You say ‘equity.’ They hear ‘exclusion.’ Strategies for getting everyone on the same page.

Opinion: Philanthropy has more than its share of trigger words. Thanks to polarization, the strategic plans of nonprofits and philanthropy routinely collapse over a single word or phrase like "equity" or "civility."
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Why Trump Is Making Vagrancy Laws Great Again | Common Dreams Trump's new executive order on homelessness is not a departure from policy failure. It is the logical continuation of a governance model that confuses erasure with resolution.

trump just signed an executive order that rewards cities for criminalizing poverty.

i wrote about it it for @commondreams.org
www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...

on vagrancy laws, aesthetic politics, and the violence of being made invisible.

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Matt Watkins | Substack I write about politics, culture, language, and power. Click to read Matt Watkins, a Substack publication. Launched 7 minutes ago.

been writing a lot this year—mostly policy, politics, and nonprofit stuff, especially where it hits working-class and poor communities.

started a substack to share more freely:
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