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Matt Shipman (he/him)

@shiplives.bsky.social

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Writer. Comms person. Mostly sci/tech/health. Sometimes music/food/culture. Lifelong Eagles fan from the South. (We exist!) Let’s make the South better, y’all. Stuff I write for fun here: https://medium.com/@shiplives

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Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · Feb 18

Was recently thinking about a sort of hierarchy of needs that speaks to this moment.

1) Survive. Nothing happens without this.

2) Hope. Believe in a better future.

3) Plan. What can I do to help make that future a reality (even a small thing)?

4) Act. Put your plan in motion.

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Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 8h

Student journalism is some of the best journalism being done right now. You should read this story.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 8h

Here is the students' @idsnews.bsky.social report out of Indiana University, where the student media director was fired today. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IU fires student media director after he refused to censor the IDS

Indiana University directed the IDS to stop printing news.

www.idsnews.com

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Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 9h

Holy shit. NHANES is huge.

Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 9h

Ugh... This study has existed for decades, providing valuable health data for all sorts of topics and publications. This is just more awful news. 🛟😷 Sociology medsky

CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off

NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.

www.statnews.com

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Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 12h

Good grief, that’s awful.

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James Temple @jtemple.bsky.social · 12h

500 job cuts at the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab.

NASAWATCH @nasawatch.bsky.social · 1d

A message from JPL Director Dave Gallagher announces a JPL layoff of 500 people has been announced that is "not related to the current government shutdown". www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/jpl-wor...

JPL Workforce Update

A message from JPL Director Dave Gallagher

www.jpl.nasa.gov

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Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 12h

Oof.

404 Media @404media.co · 19h

An attorney in a New York Supreme Court commercial case got caught using AI in his filings, and then got caught using AI again in the brief where he had to explain why he used AI, according to court documents filed earlier this month.

🔗 www.404media.co/lawyer-using...

Lawyer Caught Using AI While Explaining to Court Why He Used AI

The attorney not only submitted AI-generated fake citations in a brief for his clients, but also included “multiple new AI-hallucinated citations and quotations” in the process of opposing a motion fo...

www.404media.co

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 15h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 15h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 18h

Oh no. D’Angelo is one of the greatest artists of my generation.

maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 18h

What a genius. The world is worse without him. variety.com/2025/music/n...

D’Angelo, Neo-Soul Pioneer and ‘Untitled (How Does It Feel)’ Singer, Dies at 51

Legendary R&B singer D'Angelo, who released three albums throughout his career, has died. He was 51.

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Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 1d

Football fandom threads, FTW.

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Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 1d

Scandalous!

Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 1d

My dad taught special education for more than 30 years. Seeing what’s happening at DOE right now is just heartbreaking. Special ed programs are underfunded already. Just…ugh. It’s awful.

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Education Department layoffs hit offices that oversee special education and civil rights enforcement

A new round of layoffs at the Education Department is depleting an agency that was already hit hard in the Trump administration’s previous mass firings, threatening new disruption to the nation’s stud...

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WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 2d

my 87yo Republican mother in law is taking it to the streets, for the first time in her life, with her friends at the retirement home on Saturday and that's why we will win

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Accidentally published placeholder lede.

Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

I'm today's main character

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 3d

I cleaned gutters today, folks.
So I can confirm that it is definitely the season for spooky tunes.

Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 11d

Happy Friday.

Listen to some spooky music.

open.spotify.com/playlist/2lS...

Ship's Halloween Playlist

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Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 3d

WTF? This dude is a sociopath.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 4d

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 4d

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 4d

Onion bagel (salt, garlic, poppyseed , or everything also okay - but onion is my favorite), toasted. Lox, red onion. That’s it.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

Like, I think our society has given way too much political power to guys whose worldview is reshaped by political invitations to dine with the King of England and have no idea about what is happening in American cities.

Mr. Benioff is close enough to Mr. Trump to have been invited last month to a state dinner that was hosted by King Charles for the president at Windsor Castle in England. Mr. Benioff said that he was incredibly honored to be seated directly across the table from Mr. Trump and spent the dinner telling him “how grateful I am for everything he’s doing,” he recounted.

Mr. Benioff, who also owns Time magazine, said he had not closely followed the news about the immigration raids, Mr. Trump’s call to gerrymander congressional districts before the midterm elections, the government shutdown or the Trump administration’s attacks on the media. He said Time, which named Mr. Trump its “Person of the Year” last year, had faced no pressure from the White House.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

These guys have gotten incredibly rich by fleecing the government with subpar tech that was designed for rentseeking rather than performance. A smart Dem agenda item would be to build internal tech capacity. The fact that it would punish these guys is just a silver lining.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 4d

Being a billionaire must really fuck with your mind. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 4d

In 2020, Trump put footage of vandalism and violence in Portland and elsewhere on repeat in his social media and campaign ads. This time, despite similar rhetoric about the city, he isn’t. And I bet you can guess why. www.pbump.net/o/the-presid...

The president’s pretend enemy

There is no crisis of unrest in Portland, Oregon. One way I know this to be true is that President Trump — who is insistent that Portland faces just such a crisis — doesn't offer any evidence of it. A...

www.pbump.net

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Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 4d

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha....

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/aaa...

“AAAGGGHHH!!!” A Memo from Animal, Your New Editor-in-Chief

“[Editor-in-chief of CBS News] Bari Weiss told network staffers in a morning editorial call that she wants to ‘win’ before delivering a rallying cr...

www.mcsweeneys.net

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 4d

Outrageous -- and apparently in blatant violation of yesterday's ruling protecting protesters and journalists from this kind of shit. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/w...

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 4d

Farm bankruptcies are back in the news, so it's time to pull this chart out again.

Hey look they kept rising during Trump's first term. Then they went way down under Biden.

Now they're up again? So weird. Thanks Farm Bureau for the graphic

Screenshot from Farm Bureau article on farm bankruptcies. It shows farm bankruptcies climbing steadily 2014-2020, falling by half in 2021, & continuing to fall through 2023.

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Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 4d

sigh

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 5d

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Syreeta McFadden @reetamac.bsky.social · 4d

This.

John Knefel @johnknefel.bsky.social · 4d

Giving the Nobel Peace Prize to someone who is begging Trump to start a war of choice with her Latin American country, but doing it with a little swipe at Trump -- that's the excellence I'd expect from a body that bestowed the same award on Kissinger

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