Matthew Dowd
@matthewjdowd.bsky.social
Father, friend, believe love conquers hate, and truth wins over prevarication.
i fully abide by nfl passer rating and not qbr. qbr has too often turned up measurements that are just incomprehensible and espn has never fully explained how it works and is calculated. on passer rating: Sanders is lowest in the NFL. Gabriel has a significantly higher passer rating.
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
i fully abide by nfl passer rating and not qbr. qbr has too often turned up measurements that are just incomprehensible and espn has never fully explained how it works and is calculated. on passer rating: Sanders is lowest in the NFL. Gabriel has a significantly higher passer rating.
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ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
happy bday Dutch writer Connie Palmen, b.1955.
“Memory is literary by nature. It takes factual events and gives them a metaphorical charge, lending what really happened a symbolic weight, persistently in search of the security of a story.”
“Memory is literary by nature. It takes factual events and gives them a metaphorical charge, lending what really happened a symbolic weight, persistently in search of the security of a story.”
November 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
happy bday Dutch writer Connie Palmen, b.1955.
“Memory is literary by nature. It takes factual events and gives them a metaphorical charge, lending what really happened a symbolic weight, persistently in search of the security of a story.”
“Memory is literary by nature. It takes factual events and gives them a metaphorical charge, lending what really happened a symbolic weight, persistently in search of the security of a story.”
happy bday Spanish writer Lope de Vega, b.1562.
"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."
"With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy".
"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."
"With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy".
November 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
happy bday Spanish writer Lope de Vega, b.1562.
"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."
"With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy".
"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."
"With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy".
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November 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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"plants and animals, most remote in the scale of nature, are bound together by a web of complex relations"
November 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
"plants and animals, most remote in the scale of nature, are bound together by a web of complex relations"
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Saw this history moment in email this morning and was wondering if you would post about it… the first thing that came to mind was the Scopes Monkey trial and wondering how the judges would react today… 🐒 🙈🙉🙊
November 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Saw this history moment in email this morning and was wondering if you would post about it… the first thing that came to mind was the Scopes Monkey trial and wondering how the judges would react today… 🐒 🙈🙉🙊
happy bday Portuguese Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza, b.1632.
“If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.”
“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”
“If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.”
“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”
November 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
happy bday Portuguese Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza, b.1632.
“If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.”
“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”
“If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.”
“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”
on this day in 1859 Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was first published.
"Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed."
"Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed."
November 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
on this day in 1859 Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was first published.
"Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed."
"Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed."
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Good morning Matthew. What a day we had here yesterday!
November 23, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Good morning Matthew. What a day we had here yesterday!
happy bday Romanian-born writer Paul Celan, b.1920.
“Don't sign your name
between worlds,
surmount
the manifold of meanings,
trust the tearstain,
learn to live.”
"In the mirror it's Sunday,
in dream there is room for sleeping,
our mouths speak the truth."
“Don't sign your name
between worlds,
surmount
the manifold of meanings,
trust the tearstain,
learn to live.”
"In the mirror it's Sunday,
in dream there is room for sleeping,
our mouths speak the truth."
November 23, 2025 at 10:19 AM
happy bday Romanian-born writer Paul Celan, b.1920.
“Don't sign your name
between worlds,
surmount
the manifold of meanings,
trust the tearstain,
learn to live.”
"In the mirror it's Sunday,
in dream there is room for sleeping,
our mouths speak the truth."
“Don't sign your name
between worlds,
surmount
the manifold of meanings,
trust the tearstain,
learn to live.”
"In the mirror it's Sunday,
in dream there is room for sleeping,
our mouths speak the truth."
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"Know that joy is rarer,
more difficult,
and more beautiful
than sadness.
Once you make this
all-important discovery,
you must embrace
joy
as a moral obligation."
- Andre Gide
#joy
more difficult,
and more beautiful
than sadness.
Once you make this
all-important discovery,
you must embrace
joy
as a moral obligation."
- Andre Gide
#joy
happy bday French writer André Gide, b.1869.
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
“The color of truth is grey.”
“There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.”
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
“The color of truth is grey.”
“There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.”
November 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"Know that joy is rarer,
more difficult,
and more beautiful
than sadness.
Once you make this
all-important discovery,
you must embrace
joy
as a moral obligation."
- Andre Gide
#joy
more difficult,
and more beautiful
than sadness.
Once you make this
all-important discovery,
you must embrace
joy
as a moral obligation."
- Andre Gide
#joy
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The Fruits of the Earth is one of the most beautiful prose poems ever written
November 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
The Fruits of the Earth is one of the most beautiful prose poems ever written
RIP Irish artist Norah McGuinness, died today 1980.
November 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
RIP Irish artist Norah McGuinness, died today 1980.
happy bday French writer André Gide, b.1869.
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
“The color of truth is grey.”
“There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.”
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
“The color of truth is grey.”
“There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.”
November 22, 2025 at 1:09 PM
happy bday French writer André Gide, b.1869.
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
“The color of truth is grey.”
“There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.”
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
“The color of truth is grey.”
“There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.”
happy bday Norwegian writer Olav Duun b.1876.
"The mountains, they stand where they stand, they know where they belong."
"The mountains, they stand where they stand, they know where they belong."
November 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
happy bday Norwegian writer Olav Duun b.1876.
"The mountains, they stand where they stand, they know where they belong."
"The mountains, they stand where they stand, they know where they belong."
happy bday French philosopher/writer Voltaire, b.1694.
“Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
“Love truth, but pardon error.”
“Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
“Love truth, but pardon error.”
November 21, 2025 at 12:10 PM
happy bday French philosopher/writer Voltaire, b.1694.
“Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
“Love truth, but pardon error.”
“Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
“Love truth, but pardon error.”
Not only is what Trump and GOP doing with ICE morally reprehensible and against our constitution, it is also politically stupid. Every day Americans see ICE in the news is another day they see Trump and GOP uninterested in the main issues they care about.
November 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Not only is what Trump and GOP doing with ICE morally reprehensible and against our constitution, it is also politically stupid. Every day Americans see ICE in the news is another day they see Trump and GOP uninterested in the main issues they care about.
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My thoughts exactly!
CNN: What if there are more names connected to the Democratic Party that come out in the files?
CHRIS MURPHY: So what?
CHRIS MURPHY: So what?
November 20, 2025 at 1:32 PM
My thoughts exactly!
today is World Children's Day, celebrated on this day to "commemorate the issuance of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child by the UN in 1959. This years theme: "Listen to children, stand up for the rights of every child, every day."
November 20, 2025 at 1:23 PM
today is World Children's Day, celebrated on this day to "commemorate the issuance of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child by the UN in 1959. This years theme: "Listen to children, stand up for the rights of every child, every day."
happy bday Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf, b.1858, first woman to win Nobel Prize in Lit.
"If dead things love, if earth and water distinguish friends from enemies, I should like to possess their love. I should like the green earth not to feel my step as a heavy burden....
"If dead things love, if earth and water distinguish friends from enemies, I should like to possess their love. I should like the green earth not to feel my step as a heavy burden....
November 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM
happy bday Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf, b.1858, first woman to win Nobel Prize in Lit.
"If dead things love, if earth and water distinguish friends from enemies, I should like to possess their love. I should like the green earth not to feel my step as a heavy burden....
"If dead things love, if earth and water distinguish friends from enemies, I should like to possess their love. I should like the green earth not to feel my step as a heavy burden....
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"Those posies might have a
peony, a freesia, a tulip —
an eye snack
and nostril snack,
I could not get enough of
giving you coronation bundles,
handing them
and almost bowing, tongue-tied with
respectful adoring,
with gobbling
the sight of you the sound,
the bouquets saying mother..."
Sharon Olds
peony, a freesia, a tulip —
an eye snack
and nostril snack,
I could not get enough of
giving you coronation bundles,
handing them
and almost bowing, tongue-tied with
respectful adoring,
with gobbling
the sight of you the sound,
the bouquets saying mother..."
Sharon Olds
happy bday poet Sharon Olds, b.1942, San Francisco.
“I am doing something I learned early to do, I am
paying attention to small beauties,
whatever I have-as if it were our duty
to find things to love, to bind ourselves to this world.”
“I am doing something I learned early to do, I am
paying attention to small beauties,
whatever I have-as if it were our duty
to find things to love, to bind ourselves to this world.”
November 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"Those posies might have a
peony, a freesia, a tulip —
an eye snack
and nostril snack,
I could not get enough of
giving you coronation bundles,
handing them
and almost bowing, tongue-tied with
respectful adoring,
with gobbling
the sight of you the sound,
the bouquets saying mother..."
Sharon Olds
peony, a freesia, a tulip —
an eye snack
and nostril snack,
I could not get enough of
giving you coronation bundles,
handing them
and almost bowing, tongue-tied with
respectful adoring,
with gobbling
the sight of you the sound,
the bouquets saying mother..."
Sharon Olds
Why did not a single male reporter who were standing next to the president and the female reporter he called "piggy" say a word to the president about this and call him out then and there? Those who keep quiet in these moments are part of the problem.
November 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Why did not a single male reporter who were standing next to the president and the female reporter he called "piggy" say a word to the president about this and call him out then and there? Those who keep quiet in these moments are part of the problem.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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“…paying attention to small beauties…”
A good plan for many mornings ☀️
A good plan for many mornings ☀️
happy bday poet Sharon Olds, b.1942, San Francisco.
“I am doing something I learned early to do, I am
paying attention to small beauties,
whatever I have-as if it were our duty
to find things to love, to bind ourselves to this world.”
“I am doing something I learned early to do, I am
paying attention to small beauties,
whatever I have-as if it were our duty
to find things to love, to bind ourselves to this world.”
November 19, 2025 at 1:12 PM
“…paying attention to small beauties…”
A good plan for many mornings ☀️
A good plan for many mornings ☀️