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Matt McGovern
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I post a lot about climate and clean energy, and Wisconsin sports. Marathon runner, husband, dad, Village Trustee and attorney. Pro-democracy. Let’s build safer streets, more homes and a greener Shorewood. Personal account.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 9h
Sens. Schumer, Merkley, Murray, and Peters are calling for the resignation of OMB Director Russell Vought.

"By impounding billions of dollars … and aggressively pursuing the illegal use of pocket rescissions, Vought has done everything in his power to gut the federal government piece by piece."
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2h
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.
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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d
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MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training. FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.
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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 3h
Thank you!
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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 5h
“'They've done that without the big roster, without the big budget, without the free-agent signings, without the trade deadline stuff. So respect this team,' Murphy said . . .

'This is baseball. This is hard to do. We're the only small market team doing this,'" www.jsonline.com/story/sports...
It will take months, maybe years, to appreciate what just happened in Milwaukee | Nickel
Craig Counsell has faced the Brewers numerous times before, but never with everything on the line like in Game 5.
www.jsonline.com
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 8h
👀 they are really struggling with that $50,000 question.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h
STEPHANOPOULOS: Did Tom Homan give the $50,000 back?

VANCE: He did not take a bribe. It's a ridiculous smear

STEPHANOPOULOS: You didn't answer the question

VANCE: Did he accept $50,000? I'm sure that in the course of Homan's life, he's been paid more than $50k for services.

(So, no, he didn't)
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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 9h
Trump canceled what would have been the biggest solar project in North America last week:
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 11h
Temperatures were warmer than 5°C above the 1981-2010 average in September 2025 across northern Canada and into the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. The southern route of the Northwest Passage was ice-free and open for transit this past melt season.

Data freely available from doi.org/10.24381/cds...
Regional map of the Canadian Arctic showing September 2025 temperature anomalies. Most areas are warmer than average northeast of Hudson Bay. Anomalies are calculated to a 1981-2010 baseline with red being warmer than average, and blue being colder than average.
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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 10h
It kind of looks that way: Are Democrats About to Blow It in Maine? open.substack.com/pub/messageb...
Are Democrats About to Blow It in Maine?
By backing Janet Mills over a grassroots outsider, party leaders may be repeating the same mistakes from 2024
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d
The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.
Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says
The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
www.usatoday.com
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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 1d
In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.
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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 21h
Wow I love this team! #ThisIsMyCrew
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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 21h
Turang with the shot to center field! The perfect time to break out of a slump
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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 22h
Seriously! So stressed out right now
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Microplastics Spookmelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 22h
today in "predicted by 30 Rock"
Edie Falco on 30 Rock: I MISSED THE VOTE ON A BILL TO LEGALIZE RECREATIONAL WHALE TORTURE.
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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 22h
Miz is just lights out right now #ThisIsMyCrew
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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 23h
Yeah Vaughn! One of the best trades for us in years. #ThisIsMyCrew
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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 1d
I just love watching William Contreras play. One of my all time favorite Brewers. #ThisIsMyCrew
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d
Nixon’s crimes look like harmless high school pranks compared to the now-daily unprecedented illegal & unconstitutional crimes being committed daily by this president & his staff
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d
Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News. A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.
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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 1d
Off to a good start for Megill and the Brewers! #ThisIsMyCrew
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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 1d
"In 2024, an estimated 1.73 million vehicles were repossessed, according to data from Cox Automotive reported by WSJ. For those keeping score at home, that's the highest total since 2009, and 2009 was a very bad year for the global economy."

www.jalopnik.com/1992684/reco...
Record Numbers Of Americans Are Falling Behind On Their Auto Loans - Jalopnik
Struggling to meet your monthly car payments? You're not alone.
www.jalopnik.com
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d
We will need Nuremberg-like trials
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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d
ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d
“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument
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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 1d
Lots of No Kings events coming up in Wisconsin on October 18. Find one near you!
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Andreas 🇨🇦 Fella 💙 @andreasor.bsky.social · 1d
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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 1d
Wow, who could it be?
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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 1d
BREAKING: Look at this.

A new crypto account was opened yesterday morning.

30 minutes BEFORE Trump's announcement of 100% tariffs on China, it added a huge multi-million dollar levered Bitcoin short position, per YF.

The market dumped.

The trader made +$192 million in two hours.

Unusual.
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