Gray Matthews
@grayhiker.bsky.social
Radical contemplative, long artist, retired educator, grandfather, vigilant wonderer, living deliberately in deadening times
This is clear. Stop the Shove.
Please watch this.
The Senate killed a bill to ban state regulation of AI by a vote of 99-1 this spring. Now the industry - eager to stay unregulated - and Trump are scheming to shove the provision in the national defense bill.
You need to know this, so you can help stop it.
The Senate killed a bill to ban state regulation of AI by a vote of 99-1 this spring. Now the industry - eager to stay unregulated - and Trump are scheming to shove the provision in the national defense bill.
You need to know this, so you can help stop it.
November 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
This is clear. Stop the Shove.
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Having no budget, this makes me feel really good & a lil like Kevin Costner in Field of Dreams, "If you build it, they will come" 🤣 cuz despite almost every industry ignoring Indigenous communities and writing us off as too niche, I'm taking this as proof of a genuine interest in getting to know us.
It's a good day to say THANK YOU to everyone reading and sharing! It's only been 7 months since I started Red POP! News, no budget for advertising or boosted posts, still small audience on socials, but sweet baby jeeberz....we're being read in 63 countries! Thank you all so much cuz this is all YOU!
November 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Having no budget, this makes me feel really good & a lil like Kevin Costner in Field of Dreams, "If you build it, they will come" 🤣 cuz despite almost every industry ignoring Indigenous communities and writing us off as too niche, I'm taking this as proof of a genuine interest in getting to know us.
If you don’t know about Frances Perkins, find out.
Our entire country owes a mammoth debt to her.
She was an amazing person. Great depth in those eyes.
Our entire country owes a mammoth debt to her.
She was an amazing person. Great depth in those eyes.
In the days before Roosevelt, the oligarchs forced workplaces where substandard pay, unsafe working conditions and no benefits were the norm. We have to stop this administration.
November 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
If you don’t know about Frances Perkins, find out.
Our entire country owes a mammoth debt to her.
She was an amazing person. Great depth in those eyes.
Our entire country owes a mammoth debt to her.
She was an amazing person. Great depth in those eyes.
Medicine.
November 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Medicine.
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Great piece on Trump's 'Quiet, piggy' moment. This phrase could be the new shorthand way to explain how abusers silence their victims. Keep quiet or be punished cruelly.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/19/h...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/19/h...
Heidi Stevens: After Trump’s ‘Quiet, piggy’ moment, we’re done asking why survivors don’t come forward, right?
If we’re going to become a nation that truly protects children and women, we have to stop giving a pass to sexual abusers, writes Heidi Stevens.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Great piece on Trump's 'Quiet, piggy' moment. This phrase could be the new shorthand way to explain how abusers silence their victims. Keep quiet or be punished cruelly.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/19/h...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/19/h...
This is too good to pass up. Wow.
Every once in a while I go back and rewatch this performance, and every time I'm glad I did youtu.be/6SFNW5F8K9Y
Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne, more - "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" | 2004 Induction
YouTube video by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
This is too good to pass up. Wow.
Wow. That’s too good.
Every once in a while I go back and rewatch this performance, and every time I'm glad I did youtu.be/6SFNW5F8K9Y
Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne, more - "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" | 2004 Induction
YouTube video by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Wow. That’s too good.
I think we need to tap deeper senses of how we must live our lives if we want to: craft any guardrails/regulations for AI, stop riding around in circles on that Snowpiercer train, & get off this mad-merry-go-round that Simone Weil called the giddy race for power.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
From Steve Bannon to Elizabeth Warren, bipartisan backlash erupts over push to block states from regulating AI
Sharp critiques of efforts to limit state AI laws have MAGA populists and progressive advocates joining forces in an unexpected coalition.
www.nbcnews.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I think we need to tap deeper senses of how we must live our lives if we want to: craft any guardrails/regulations for AI, stop riding around in circles on that Snowpiercer train, & get off this mad-merry-go-round that Simone Weil called the giddy race for power.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
This is absolutely excellent. Critical-critical work! Tanksley’s work certainly strengthens the critique of end-times-fascism that Klein & Taylor have been working on. We must wake up to question and resist the deadening of our minds and our livingness. Watch…and think hard.
I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
This is absolutely excellent. Critical-critical work! Tanksley’s work certainly strengthens the critique of end-times-fascism that Klein & Taylor have been working on. We must wake up to question and resist the deadening of our minds and our livingness. Watch…and think hard.
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"The gathering felt not just like a funeral for a man, but for a time in Washington that is gone forever. Very few seem to miss it. Alas."
@timmiller.bsky.social on Dick Cheney's funeral in Morning Shots @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/brace-your...
@timmiller.bsky.social on Dick Cheney's funeral in Morning Shots @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/brace-your...
Brace Yourself for … Full. Blown. Panic.
The president is feeling cornered and lashing out. It will get ugly—and dangerous.
www.thebulwark.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
"The gathering felt not just like a funeral for a man, but for a time in Washington that is gone forever. Very few seem to miss it. Alas."
@timmiller.bsky.social on Dick Cheney's funeral in Morning Shots @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/brace-your...
@timmiller.bsky.social on Dick Cheney's funeral in Morning Shots @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/brace-your...
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“What’s most telling is Trump thinks it’s punishable by death for us to restate the law”
November 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
“What’s most telling is Trump thinks it’s punishable by death for us to restate the law”
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The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
“Quiet, Piggy.”
"We shouldn’t forget that the president of the United States uttered those words in this moment. At a time when women were fighting for justice, the man who cut himself out of the investigation into wrongdoing had that to say about a woman who was simply trying to do her job.” —JWV
"We shouldn’t forget that the president of the United States uttered those words in this moment. At a time when women were fighting for justice, the man who cut himself out of the investigation into wrongdoing had that to say about a woman who was simply trying to do her job.” —JWV
This little piggy has no intention of staying quiet. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
"Quiet Piggy!"
Subscribe to Civil Discourse and become part of a community that believes we have the power to save democracy, and that we don’t have to obey a president who wants us to give up our rights so he can b...
open.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
“Quiet, Piggy.”
"We shouldn’t forget that the president of the United States uttered those words in this moment. At a time when women were fighting for justice, the man who cut himself out of the investigation into wrongdoing had that to say about a woman who was simply trying to do her job.” —JWV
"We shouldn’t forget that the president of the United States uttered those words in this moment. At a time when women were fighting for justice, the man who cut himself out of the investigation into wrongdoing had that to say about a woman who was simply trying to do her job.” —JWV
"When either laws or customs degrade, when the body politic begins to drift toward corruption, the only recourse — if the people hope to preserve a republic — is to build new institutions and with them new ways of political life."
—Jamelle Bouie
—Jamelle Bouie
wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)
Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
"When either laws or customs degrade, when the body politic begins to drift toward corruption, the only recourse — if the people hope to preserve a republic — is to build new institutions and with them new ways of political life."
—Jamelle Bouie
—Jamelle Bouie
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Epstein survivor: "Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government still belongs to the American people or to those who prey on them."
November 18, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Epstein survivor: "Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government still belongs to the American people or to those who prey on them."
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The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
November 17, 2025 at 6:37 AM
The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
"We should aim for “ecological sovereignty” instead."
—Sabrina Fernandes
Best idea I have read in a long, long, long time.
—Sabrina Fernandes
Best idea I have read in a long, long, long time.
I've been working since 2022 to try to form the basis for an alternative reading of sovereignty fit for the polycrisis and promoting true, just and internationalist transitions. This view of popular ecological sovereignty is in a few articles, but I just reflected on it in the context of COP30 too:
Ecological sovereignty: from mutual annihilation to true planetary longevity?
When fossil fuel expansion is justified in the name of national sovereignty, you know states have lost touch with the climate reality.
the.ecocene.blog
November 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
"We should aim for “ecological sovereignty” instead."
—Sabrina Fernandes
Best idea I have read in a long, long, long time.
—Sabrina Fernandes
Best idea I have read in a long, long, long time.
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Absolute must read on the AI bailout-in-progress: apparently it's not enough that lifetimes of human ingenuity and creativity have been stolen and enclosed to create generative AI and balloon billionaire wealth - much more public looting is in store...
This week Open AI walked back a call for the govt to backstop financing for its trillion dollar investments in data centers. This was only the tip of the iceberg; a slow bailout for AI firms is already underway. Read more from @ambakak.bsky.social and I in @wsj.com: www.wsj.com/opinion/you-...
Opinion | You May Already Be Bailing Out the AI Business
Washington is treating the industry as if it’s too big to fail, even as the market sends lukewarm signals.
www.wsj.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Absolute must read on the AI bailout-in-progress: apparently it's not enough that lifetimes of human ingenuity and creativity have been stolen and enclosed to create generative AI and balloon billionaire wealth - much more public looting is in store...
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Hey Megyn Kelly,
14-year-old Eloise would like a word:
“If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good…
because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.”
Sound up! 🔥🔊
1/2
14-year-old Eloise would like a word:
“If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good…
because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.”
Sound up! 🔥🔊
1/2
November 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Hey Megyn Kelly,
14-year-old Eloise would like a word:
“If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good…
because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.”
Sound up! 🔥🔊
1/2
14-year-old Eloise would like a word:
“If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good…
because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.”
Sound up! 🔥🔊
1/2
“Cause our kind of love never seems to get old / it’s better than silver and gold."
—Neil Young
—Neil Young
youtu.be/H_m8zL-IIPY?...
Neil Young "Silver and Gold"
#SOD
#SongoftheDay
2025-0729
#MotherNatureSong
Day 29
#MusicChallenge
Neil Young "Silver and Gold"
#SOD
#SongoftheDay
2025-0729
#MotherNatureSong
Day 29
#MusicChallenge
Silver & Gold
YouTube video by Neil Young - Topic
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
“Cause our kind of love never seems to get old / it’s better than silver and gold."
—Neil Young
—Neil Young
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Spirit Plate is not just another cooking show centered on celebrity or competition. It’s centered on the ways food connects us to who we are and where we come from.
redpopnews.com/inside-spiri...
#redpopnews #spiritplate #pbsfood #pbs #indigisky
redpopnews.com/inside-spiri...
#redpopnews #spiritplate #pbsfood #pbs #indigisky
Inside Spirit Plate: Indigenous Cooking, Ceremony, and the Land That Connects Us
Spirit Plate is not just another cooking show centered on celebrity or competition. It's centered on the ways food connects us to who we are and where we come from. It's about the stories and relation...
redpopnews.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Spirit Plate is not just another cooking show centered on celebrity or competition. It’s centered on the ways food connects us to who we are and where we come from.
redpopnews.com/inside-spiri...
#redpopnews #spiritplate #pbsfood #pbs #indigisky
redpopnews.com/inside-spiri...
#redpopnews #spiritplate #pbsfood #pbs #indigisky
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In a few minutes, @milestaylor.bsky.social is launching Defiance.org. Come spend some time with us.
November 12, 2025 at 9:58 PM
In a few minutes, @milestaylor.bsky.social is launching Defiance.org. Come spend some time with us.
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81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 AM
81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.
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One aspect of this story is that POTUS + OLC can try to create a factual and legal alternate universe for the U.S. executive branch where this premeditated killing is somehow permissible.
But the rest of the world doesn’t have to live in that fantasy land.
But the rest of the world doesn’t have to live in that fantasy land.
November 11, 2025 at 11:55 PM
One aspect of this story is that POTUS + OLC can try to create a factual and legal alternate universe for the U.S. executive branch where this premeditated killing is somehow permissible.
But the rest of the world doesn’t have to live in that fantasy land.
But the rest of the world doesn’t have to live in that fantasy land.