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Matthew Haugen

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building a just and sustainable world • writing TERRAIN, a newsletter about the politics of our ecological crises • former professional poker player

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Steve Silberman's avatar Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social
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This is one of the most dystopian signs I've ever seen. Republicans are quickly turning this country into an unrecognizable freakshow.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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i have largely stopped arguing about this on social media because it isn’t fruitful, but this finding gets to why you should be skeptical of theories that try to sideline or excise race from an explanation of the white rural turn toward reactionary politics news.cornell.edu/stories/2024...

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Matthew Haugen's avatar Matthew Haugen @mjhaugen.bsky.social
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It's time for a federal ban on gas-powered lawn equipment

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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these people hate children and want them to suffer. they target trans kids because they think can get away with it but they’ll destroy any child’s life if they believe it will serve some greater good www.yahoo.com/news/mom-tra...

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Matthew Haugen's avatar Matthew Haugen @mjhaugen.bsky.social
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"Chicago teachers’ demands are ambitious. They include a 2035 goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions districtwide. The contract proposal calls for solar panels, heat pumps and composting programs at 50 schools and a moratorium on new gas heaters." www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb's avatar Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social
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Gambling is causing an occupational health and safety crisis for athletic workers and the leagues they work for and sports media complex are entirely responsible because, as always, in capitalism value comes first and the worker might as well be dead at the end of the day.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò's avatar Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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"...how do we keep this stuff resilient when industry is incentivized to extract profit over reinvestment and grid hardening? If we believe energy is a human right, do we keep people's utility costs low and universal when shareholders are more important?"

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Miles Grant's avatar Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social
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I have read plenty of articles about how The Kids Today don’t play outside anymore, but would like to read one about how the olds today want to sic the cops on them the moment they step outside

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Osita Nwanevu's avatar Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.bsky.social
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"The White House commends Israel for the operation, US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said in a statement."

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"Why do we allow [RTOs and ISOs] to exist? We need to get rid of them and create something far more strategic that does large-scale, coordinated planning that thinks about where we should be putting renewables and what we should be winding down." @jbozuwa.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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J. Mijin Cha's avatar J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social
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I’m extremely wary of this wave of uncritically cheering deregulation. “Permitting reform” “regulatory stranglehold” etc. What are the proposed changes and who will bear the impact? Who is in support? I’m not opposed to reform, but this narrative that the regulatory state is on par with Big Oil? No.

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Michael Tae Sweeney's avatar Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw.bsky.social
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your regular reminder that Judicial Review is not anywhere written in the Constitution but "participants in an insurrection are automatically barred from holding office" is.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò's avatar Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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this point is often brought up to (deservedly) dunk on the Democratic party. but IMO what this actually points to is the political autonomy and increasing lawlessness of policing and police forces in this country - the solution to which is probably not billions more dollars

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Peter's avatar Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social
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there’s a powerful set of educated but out-of-touch liberals who still don’t quite grasp (1) how far the conservative base has drifted into radicalism and (2) how close most “educated” conservatives are to that base

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isaac's avatar isaac @sevier.io
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It's very easy to spot folks who will use climate language but have zero interest in the actual political project of ending climate change "for everyone" when they belittle and exclude people fighting for those same goals in the present.

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Matt Novak's avatar Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social
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“Civil defense crews say they cannot reach people under the rubble right now because of how heavy the bombardment has been in some of these middle areas. They are receiving calls from families trapped under the rubble still alive.”

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Peter's avatar Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social
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i think the spread of news and images from gaza has led to the younger generation seeing less moral distance between, i.e., non-state terrorism and state violence. it's not that they're all embracing hamas - they are seeing mass state violence with a moral clarity that political elites don't

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Matthew Haugen's avatar Matthew Haugen @mjhaugen.bsky.social
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It seems to be picking up a bit

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Timothy Burke's avatar Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us
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Same spot, 62 years ago, screaming at James Meredith:

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maura quint's avatar maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social
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seems really cool that as a Jew I am now an anti-semite if a white nationalist christian fundamentalist says I am

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Jared Margulies's avatar Jared Margulies @jaredmargulies.bsky.social
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@mjhaugen.bsky.social is such a good interviewer! Wonderful to have the space for this kind of long-form response to an excellent set of questions about my book.

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Osita Nwanevu's avatar Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.bsky.social
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The very real way American society has gone soft is an inability to tolerate levels of tension generations past would have laughed at. A country as diverse & (putatively) free as we are will be fractious. If you say things like 'trying Trump will rip us apart' you shouldn't be in charge of anything.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò's avatar Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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losing my mind over the constant shifting from evaluating causes to evaluating people fighting for them. If someone proved every single ceasefire protestor was an anti-Semite that cheats on their exams, romantic partners, and taxes, what would we learn about whether or not to support IDF bombs?

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Michael Tae Sweeney's avatar Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw.bsky.social
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A lot of people look at the implacable and irrational unpersuadability of antivaxxers and kinda conclude "ah there's nothing we can do except let them win" instead of the correct conclusion that we need to force them to get their kids vaccinated against their parents' will

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Prisonculture's avatar Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social
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It frustrates me to no end when people point to public opinion as the reason we have various political outcomes. It's ridiculous. But folks will say 'well the public wants militarized borders' as an explanation for why politicians want to enact draconian immigration policies.

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Ketan Joshi's avatar Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co
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Do I have this right

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ryan cooper's avatar ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com
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Republicans are *so mad* about this. every single budget negotiation they try to take another bite out of the IRS's tax cheat fund

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Michael Tae Sweeney's avatar Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw.bsky.social
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The Constitutional Crisis is already here. You've been living in it since (at least) the 2000 recount. It cannot be averted, and thus reset US government to the midcentury bipartisan consensus, but it can be won or lost.

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Matthew Haugen's avatar Matthew Haugen @mjhaugen.bsky.social
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“We want to rebuild, and in some cases, build anew, public sector capacity...we’re seeing in all these areas that it’s clear the private sector just cannot meet these human needs.” heatmap.news/politics/wha...

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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it is unfortunate that americans learn about jim crow as the product of prejudice and not as a nearly 75-year-long reversal of democratic fortune in which a very large number of americans lived under violent authoritarian rule

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Matthew Haugen's avatar Matthew Haugen @mjhaugen.bsky.social
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Bluesky is doing pretty well with the news

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