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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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"The responsibility of the California writer is to regard our dear Didion as a sheer rock face to be respected but also avoided. One literary evocation of the Santa Anas is a description of nature; three is a sign of negligence." — @mattdpearce.com
The ecstasies of betrayal
Olivia Nuzzi, Ryan Lizza, and the literature of treachery.
mattdpearce.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Concerning the Chotiner is opening up new fronts
A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
November 25, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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November 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Matt Pearce from the top rope:

"The responsibility of the California writer is to regard our dear Didion as a sheer rock face to be respected but also avoided. One literary evocation of the Santa Anas is a description of nature; three is a sign of negligence."
November 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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im sorry Samizdat Google Doc is an excellent display name
November 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social shame theorem strengthens.
November 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Nuzzi vs. Lizza vs. the group chat
mattdpearce.substack.com/p/the-ecstas...
November 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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RIP Udo Kier, a true original
📽️

his one and only social media post:
November 24, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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This is the funniest planned economy ever
A person directly familiar with the conversations tells Semafor that Donald Trump has personally pressed Larry Ellison to revive Brett Ratner's "Rush Hour" franchise.
www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
Exclusive: How Trump is trying to remake American culture — starting with his favorite buddy-cop franchise
The president is offering some creative input on potential upcoming projects.
www.semafor.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
November 23, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I wrote about karmic rebalancing.

mattdpearce.substack.com/p/the-ecstas...
The ecstasies of betrayal
Olivia Nuzzi, Ryan Lizza, and the literature of treachery.
mattdpearce.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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if i've learned one thing from doing union stuff while also doing other forms of organizing, it's that you're better off with people you disagree with who are nevertheless trying to do the same thing as you than with people you agree with who aren't trying to do anything
November 13, 2024 at 1:52 PM
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November 22, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Good old Woz. Good for him.
November 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Marjorie Taylor Greene just announced she's leaving Congress
November 22, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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"What necessary perspectives do we lose, and what questions go unasked and unanswered, when Black journalists are among the first to be seen as disposable on a masthead?" www.refinery29.com/en-us/black-...
Where Have All The Black Journalists Gone?
In the wake of the Teen Vogue layoffs and the rollback of DEI initiatives in media, we have to ask: what necessary perspectives do we lose, and what questions go unasked and unanswered, when Black jou...
www.refinery29.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Now there’s a curiously phrased nondenial.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/s...
November 22, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Imagine keeping a banger like this in your diary and failing to share it with the world. A different age, really.
May 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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The last year has convinced me this applies to poasters as well
I really think at its heart philosophy is one giant battle, taking place over many eras and nations, between people who are basically pleasant bureaucrats and people who are sexy murder poets, and it’s both super important and super boring that the pleasant bureaucrats must win.
November 21, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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It's dizzying (in good way!) how many small and independent newsrooms are in Los Angeles. More spinning up as described in article.

Not sugar coating news economics here. Still, these upstarts are SO valuable to civic life and community!

Important we support them ALL when it comes to press rights.
“More of everything”: In Los Angeles, an “explosion” of new efforts aim to up the city’s local news game
A well-funded coalition building out neighborhood news, a new newsletter from an expanding for-profit site, and a nonprofit breaking through on social media are just a few examples of the latest bids ...
www.niemanlab.org
November 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Unfortunately that’s usually what I do when I go on podcasts.
Has JD Vance done anything as VP besides go on podcasts and complain?
November 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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America 2025.
November 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
November 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM