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Matt Pearce
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May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. Opinions are my own (but they are correct)

https://mattdpearce.substack.com
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In conclusion, the news is a land of contrasts
January 9, 2026 at 4:19 PM
gotta hear both sides with respect to shooting poets in the head
New CBS News anchor Tony Dokoupil closing the broadcast from MN last night.
January 9, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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Think about the mindset, and the expectation of immunity, of someone who texts this to friends.
January 9, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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May we all walk in this world with the moral courage of Jafar Panahi
variety.com/2026/film/gl...
January 9, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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NEW: Data released by ICE shows that virtually the entire growth of detention in the last few months has been among people with no criminal record at all - no prior convictions (no matter how minor) and no pending criminal charges.
January 9, 2026 at 12:55 AM
January 8, 2026 at 9:19 PM
I love when my productivity increases 5% while my pay goes down slightly.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
January 8, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says they've been informed by the FBI that US DOJ has said FBI will solely lead the investigation into Renee Nicole Good's killing by a federal officer. State investigators no longer have access to "case materials, scene evidence/investigative interviews"
January 8, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
January 6, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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The newspaper of record of my entire childhood would literally rather die than pay its unionized workers the wages and benefits that the actual Supreme Court of the United States of America decided were owed to them.
NEW: Publishers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announce they are shutting down the newspaper on May 3, 2026.

Hours ago, the Supreme Court of the US declined to extend a stay on a court order for the paper to pay its journalists following the end of a 3-year strike.
January 7, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Virginia Woolf did, in fact, have a room of one’s own — and her own pack of delicious Lucky Strikes.
reading moby-dick and getting brainwashed by Big Spermaceti
January 7, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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reading moby-dick and getting brainwashed by Big Spermaceti
January 7, 2026 at 12:55 AM
At long last, we are purging chauvinist Sparta propaganda from our beautiful agoras.
From an email to one of our faculty members....

Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
January 6, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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I assume not understanding what this is about is a sign that I’m using this site the appropriate amount
that's a lot of power users gone because of dogpiling. christ
January 6, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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The phone is for making posts like "the ass is the father of the legs" whereas the computer is for posts that include words like "inexorably"
January 6, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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We are looking at uncharted territory here where the acting Archivist of the United States is poised to become the acting head of a foreign government.
January 5, 2026 at 6:27 PM
The Verso store books write themselves at this point.
Stephen Miller: "What the president said is true. The United States of America is running Venezuela ... by definition we are in charge because we have the US military stationed outside the country. We set the terms and conditions ... for them to do commerce, they need our permission."
January 6, 2026 at 1:13 AM
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DOUBLE CHECKED THIS ONE: Trump DOJ sides with journalists' union & against @pittsburghPG in #SCOTUS fight over health care benefits. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
PG Publishing opp
www.documentcloud.org
January 5, 2026 at 10:13 PM
I wrote about a budding idea to replace meetings with AI.

mattdpearce.substack.com/p/what-if-ev...
What if everybody argued at the same time?
AI's flawed experiment in deliberative democracy.
mattdpearce.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 10:06 PM
I don’t understand the appeal of making prediction market wagers. Is it my goal in life to transfer part of my wealth to inside traders?
January 5, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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We are proud to announce the formation of the Chemical & Engineering News Guild. We represent staffers across the editorial and operations teams at C&EN. 1/6
January 5, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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Wrote about an obvious and yet profoundly underappreciated aspect of the AI boom: its total narrative capture by Elon Musk's X nymag.com/intelligence...
January 5, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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spiritually feasting upon some unearthly reminiscence
January 5, 2026 at 5:47 AM
In the words of George W. Bush, that was some weird shit.
January 3, 2026 at 5:53 PM