Michael Matthew

My sister works for a company that deals with imports for automotive suppliers. Her job right now is to go through each receipt and double check the tariffs being charged by the federal govt. She booked over $350k in overcharges last year. And that was before the SCOTUS ruling

Judge Rules Columbia's Expulsions of Pro-Palestine Protesters Were Illegal The judge tossed out Columbia’s disciplinary actions against 22 students accused of occupying Hamilton Hall in 2024.

A New York judge has tossed out Columbia University's unprecedentedly harsh discipline against students accused of occupying Hamilton Hall during the 2024 Gaza protests, calling it arbitrary and capricious:

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Women With High-Risk Pregnancies Have Limited Options Under Abortion Bans Our reporting has found that abortion bans generally don’t include exceptions that cover health concerns pregnant women with chronic conditions can face — or if they do, doctors aren’t using them.

Tierra Walker knew that abortion was illegal in Texas, but she thought that hospitals could make an exception for patients like her, whose health was clearly on the line.

At 20 weeks pregnant, she died of preeclampsia.

(Published Jan. 2026)

i genuinely think that we are going to look back on the open net both with awe and regret

This statement by Marco Rubio is a thing of beauty. No notes. It can be taken exactly as is and dropped into Orwell's 1984. I believe the correct Homeric adjective for military reasoning like this is "Hell-kissed."

Get thee to the Smithsonian, war crime-speak.

Raytheon Executive: I know you’re skeptical about buying American again. But hear me out. The MIM-104 Patriot is the only surface to air missile system with a proven track record of success against the US Air Force.

Danish Defense Minister: Continue.

guessing we’re tapping the strategic petroleum reserve again even though it’s down ~50% from pre-Russian invasion levels and oil is $70 a barrel. guys it’s supposed to be for emergencies not whenever you get scared your foreign policy is unpopular

This is eugenics

I have a whole file of these stories that I point to whenever someone responds to allegations of domestic abuse/violence with "If it was so serious, why didn't she call the cops?"

What a USS 345 million judgment means for Greenpeace Gaby Flores 28 Feb 2026 • 3 min read • O 0 Comments • f A US court has just sided with fossil fuel pipeline giant Energy Transfer and ordered Greenpeace International and Greenpeace entities in the US to pay US$ 345 million.

I cannot stop thinking about the $345 billion judgement against Greenpeace.

We have to, essentially, phase out fossil fuels, yet for participating in a years-long fight to block one measly little pipeline, if they can't overturn this on appeal, Greenpeace will be destroyed.

How is this even real?

YouTube video by siai Bob Dylan - With God on Our Side (Lyric Video)

If God's on our side, he'll stop the next war. youtu.be/V0lFNwlLpd4?...

Exclusive | Trump Administration to Drop Defense of Law Firm Sanctions The Justice Dept. plans to abandon its defense of the president’s executive orders that targeted Jenner & Block, WilmerHale, Perkins Coie, and Susman Godfrey.

If you are a client of a firm that folded in this fight, you should know that not only were they morally wrong, but they were also strategically dumb www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

This is what the destruction of the mass consumer society looks like. By the end of WWII, federal policies enabled the impossible: a market economy that most Americans could enjoy. Wages rose, abundance was born. 50 years of destructive policies have undone it.

if the US government logs these trees at the rate / quantity they're proposing, we'll lose one of the last old-growth forests. there's no coming back from that. if you have five minutes to leave a comment pushing back against the BLM, please do; there's a guide to that below.

jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill X.com Over the past ~24 hours, we have heard via witnesses that the number of U.S. personnel injured in Iranian attacks in Kuwait is much higher than has been acknowledged. CENTCOM has not responded to our requests for comment. 12:02 PM • 3/2/26 • 576K Views

⚠️ Jeremy Scahill:

“Over the past ~24 hours, we have heard via witnesses that the number of U.S. personnel injured in Iranian attacks in Kuwait is much higher than has been acknowledged. CENTCOM has not responded to our requests for comment.”

The same administration that removed historical testaments to Jackie Robinson and the Navajo Code Talkers has no problem with this new banner.

We have entered a dangerous new period of censorship and propaganda.

US moving pregnant immigrant girls to Texas to avoid providing abortions, critics say Ex-official calls transfer of unaccompanied girls as young as 13, many pregnant due to rape, a human rights violation

“White added that ‘making the decision for these girls whether they will give birth to their rapist’s baby’ is ‘an extraordinary human rights problem.’

‘Everyone attempts to write their politics on the bodies of these children,’ he said.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Such a disastrous approach & frustrating situation. Students can ‘learn’ to do coding (& by extension stats models), but have little substantive background knowledge of what is going on, & other colleagues absolving themselves from teaching for reasons I’m sure we could correctly guess.

The only thing Americans seem to actually care about.

not like there's anything important in saudi that the iranians might wanna flatten bsky.app/profile/sky....

so we're just,,,, out of interceptors yea?

also folks may not be aware but your options for doing a land invasion of Iran are:

- Iraq
- Pakistan
- Afghanistan and Turkmenistan...if you can get there
- Azerbaijan, Armenia (technically) or Turkey...if you want to fight through the mountains right off the bat

there is no Kuwait next door

I don’t know how to use chatgpt etc but I imagine it’s going to a website and typing “oh no what groceries do I buy please tell me false god for I am so weak I cannot go on” as your brain atrophies and leaks out of your ears from disuse and the machine is like “buy eggs milk bread and a horse”

I know a pre-social media and mass surveillance world. My foundation of "real" and "not real" is fundamentally different than a 22 year old now and light years from a 12 year old who I meet in a decade whose experience with genAI will be unavoidable in media and increasingly education.

Again, I have to ask: what do people in power think the UK actually *makes*? Because we don't build stuff any more. You and your predecessors deliberately shifted us towards being a service economy a generation ago. All we have going for us is our art, music, educational establishments...

Quote from Washington Times editorial board "[Radical liberals] don't realize that, when they express contempt for the man who holds the country's highest office, they reveal their contempt for the Americans who put him there."

Uh no...we definitely realize it.

Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course? The human subconscious is such an interesting thing. No matter how much you think you’ve got it figured out, it’ll always spit out the most random stuff. Take me, for example. After coming home from a...

Commentary: Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?

Global News’ Ben Mulroney Shared a Video of Airstrikes. The Footage is Actually from a Video Game. The host of Global News’ West Block gets lost in a misinformation-driven fog of war as American and Israeli forces strike Iran

NEW FROM ME:

While US and Israeli forces launched strikes against Iran this weekend, Global News' The West Block host Ben Mulroney reposted video of fighter jets that had been miscaptioned as American F-15s attacking Iran

I double-checked. Ben was actually sharing footage from a video game

time for every sycophant to stick their face in poison ivy so they too can display the healthiest rash in history

How Police Have Undermined the Promise of Body Cameras Hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars have been spent on what was sold as a revolution in transparency and accountability. Instead, police departments routinely refuse to release footage — even whe...

Here's story we did, laying it out:

Derek Chauvin had a body-cam not only when he killed George Floyd, but also when he knelt on necks of others, including a 14-year-old. The boy's mother begged, "“Please, please do not kill my son!”

Supervisors ignored it all

www.propublica.org/article/how-...