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Matt
@mattferrel.bsky.social
4.7K followers 4.8K following 12K posts
Political news junkie. Blocks doomers, bigots, & engagement farmers following > 10k on sight. No patience for non-voters or far left who blame Dems instead of GOP for our problems.
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Matt @mattferrel.bsky.social · Oct 21
Pinned post for moderation lists, cool feeds, other useful stuff
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Natalie Wynn @contrapoints.bsky.social · 1d
Any form of media that involves an angry man telling an audience what to be angry about for several hours a day is probably not good for the human brain
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The Enigma of Amandagara Fault @amandalafrenais.com · 3d
"why is nobody talking abou--" EVERYONE is talkin about it BRO. You just never stick around to listen to ANYONE ELSE, you're just here to TALK

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 7h
Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)
Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations
A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...
www.propublica.org
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 7h
www.wweek.com/culture/2025...
Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest. There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day. What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid. It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 7h
it really has been amazing how much one person in a frog suit destroyed their fantasy visuals over the past week. this wouldn't work everywhere but Portland, you are doing amazing sweetie
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 7h
www.wweek.com/culture/2025...
Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest. There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day. What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid. It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.
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Henry Carnell @hencarnell.bsky.social · 6h
"What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid."
wweek.com
Willamette Week @wweek.com · 7h
Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”
An Interview With the Portland Chicken
Rachel Saslow
www.wweek.com
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 8h
Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.
Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.
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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 6h
After Pritzker and Newsom threatened to leave the NGA, the Republican Chair breaks with Trump. Pressure works. Keep it up!
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Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 14h
“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...
Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago
www.nytimes.com
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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 11h
This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..
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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 6h
Mark Bray and Yesenia Barragan, and the family, have safely embarked on their trip to Spain after being questioned by DHS.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 5h
The fact that their ticket was mysteriously canceled the day before and then they were questioned by DHS is both one of the greatest political scandals and crises of my lifetime and just another fucking Thursday in 2025.
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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 6h
Mark Bray and Yesenia Barragan, and the family, have safely embarked on their trip to Spain after being questioned by DHS.
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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 4h
What? The former lawyer for Andrew Tate who also would tweet out glowing praise for Andrew Tate... is reported to have done an extremely creepy thing regarding a woman?

How surprising.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 6h
Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the office investigating Jack Smith, has recently been investigated for harassing a colleague, Politico reports.

“Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him..”
= POLITICO By DANIEL LIPPMAN 10/09/2025 08:22 PM EDT f In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn't have a hotel room. Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 4h
Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.
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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 5h
SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news
Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says
It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.
heatmap.news
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Sara B @sarabjustone.bsky.social · 4h
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 1d
Frog and Toad looked into a mirror.

“We look brave,” said Frog.

“Yes, but are we?” asked Toad.
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 4h
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
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Matt @mattferrel.bsky.social · 12h
Everything is horserace coverage
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Matt @mattferrel.bsky.social · 12h
What, and I cannot stress this enough, the fuck?
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Matt @mattferrel.bsky.social · 12h
Many are saying

Many are seeing
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Matt @mattferrel.bsky.social · 12h
Not to be rude, but are you in that range?
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Matt @mattferrel.bsky.social · 12h
Thank goodness someone is figuring out a workaround
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h
The Rutgers TPUSA chapter — whose characterization of a historian there as a “outspoken, well-known antifa member” led to death threats and moving his family to Europe — think *other* people are being “blatantly defamatory.”

Not them, though. They’re doing politics the right way.
Rutgers TPUSA officers slam petition to shut down chapter, ‘Blatantly defamatory’
Alexander Di Filippo accuses Turning Point USA of inciting violence against Antifa handbook author Mark Bray.
www.foxnews.com
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CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 13h
This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 12h
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Kayt Sukel @kaytsukel.bsky.social · 15h
To “make” the proof. Jesus.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h
RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."
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Matt @mattferrel.bsky.social · 13h
I remember a former acquaintance who would comment in 2015-2016 on any Facebook post that talked about Trump’s obvious racism with denial and demands for proof. Didn’t take me long to conclude that she was both dumb and racist
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