matty
@mattio.bsky.social
I do data visualization and user-centered design of health information, civic tech, I ride bicycles, I think about chronic diseases, I make dumb jokes, and I try to stay off the internet.
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One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.
A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists.
That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
Congresswoman Uses Simple Math To Show How Broken ICE Is
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February 10, 2026 at 9:11 PM
One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.
I think ALL bi athletes should be given rifles
February 10, 2026 at 7:11 PM
I think ALL bi athletes should be given rifles
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this is precisely correct
February 9, 2026 at 2:24 PM
this is precisely correct
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the public health response to this has to be “close the camps and free them all” and nothing less
5/ “I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals…going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…”
From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days
From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days
February 9, 2026 at 2:07 PM
the public health response to this has to be “close the camps and free them all” and nothing less
I read a bunch of Adbusters as a teen and now I'm like clinically incapable of finding ads entertaining. There's a voice in my head that puts a stop to it. I know I'm a sourpuss but it feels fine.
February 9, 2026 at 12:40 AM
I read a bunch of Adbusters as a teen and now I'm like clinically incapable of finding ads entertaining. There's a voice in my head that puts a stop to it. I know I'm a sourpuss but it feels fine.
Brb, changing all my bios to "cool as fuck, but in a distinctly middle-aged way"
(like don't get me wrong I'm cool as fuck but in a distinctly middle-aged way)
February 8, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Brb, changing all my bios to "cool as fuck, but in a distinctly middle-aged way"
Best happy hour pizza spot in Minneapolis. Fond memories of a couple slices and a Surly Furious. Glad to hear they're doing right by their staff.
From FB regarding Pizza Luce in Minnesota.
I like it when I can do something to help people displaced by ICE and then after I do that thing I get to eat a pizza.
I like it when I can do something to help people displaced by ICE and then after I do that thing I get to eat a pizza.
February 3, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Best happy hour pizza spot in Minneapolis. Fond memories of a couple slices and a Surly Furious. Glad to hear they're doing right by their staff.
People fearmongered about having an arrest record during the 00's antiwar movement and it has negatively affected me in no way whatsoever.
People keep saying "Getting arrested is bad, actually" and while I'd certainly prefer not to be, the administration's entire strategy is built around the idea that I will live in fear of it, and shape my behavior to avoid it, and cry in shame if I am. That is how THEY CONTROL YOU.
January 31, 2026 at 3:07 PM
People fearmongered about having an arrest record during the 00's antiwar movement and it has negatively affected me in no way whatsoever.
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Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE:
Renee Good: $1,499,580
Alex Pretti: $1,289,249
Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423
Parady La: $45,848
Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991
Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640
Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538
Geraldo Lunas: $2,260
Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935
Renee Good: $1,499,580
Alex Pretti: $1,289,249
Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423
Parady La: $45,848
Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991
Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640
Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538
Geraldo Lunas: $2,260
Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935
January 26, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE:
Renee Good: $1,499,580
Alex Pretti: $1,289,249
Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423
Parady La: $45,848
Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991
Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640
Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538
Geraldo Lunas: $2,260
Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935
Renee Good: $1,499,580
Alex Pretti: $1,289,249
Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423
Parady La: $45,848
Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991
Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640
Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538
Geraldo Lunas: $2,260
Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935
i worry about my friends in the streets and i feel helpless from far away but i guess i can get prepared by building my local networks for when the time comes
January 25, 2026 at 1:12 PM
i worry about my friends in the streets and i feel helpless from far away but i guess i can get prepared by building my local networks for when the time comes
one of my pet peeves is headlines about what the video "appears" to show. "Video appears to contradict federal account of the shooting."
"appear" means to become visible! but it's language that downplays the fact that something is clearly observable!
"appear" means to become visible! but it's language that downplays the fact that something is clearly observable!
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 1:07 PM
one of my pet peeves is headlines about what the video "appears" to show. "Video appears to contradict federal account of the shooting."
"appear" means to become visible! but it's language that downplays the fact that something is clearly observable!
"appear" means to become visible! but it's language that downplays the fact that something is clearly observable!
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the unbearable psychic damage of being alive in America and having a conscience
January 24, 2026 at 6:31 PM
the unbearable psychic damage of being alive in America and having a conscience
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The amount of money that is currently going to fund immigration enforcement in the US is larger than the military budgets of every country in the world other than the US and China. We are witnessing a military assault on American cities by a wildly unpopular governing party.
January 24, 2026 at 6:06 PM
The amount of money that is currently going to fund immigration enforcement in the US is larger than the military budgets of every country in the world other than the US and China. We are witnessing a military assault on American cities by a wildly unpopular governing party.
would be dope if democrats and the media would stop calling ICE "law enforcement"
January 24, 2026 at 5:34 PM
would be dope if democrats and the media would stop calling ICE "law enforcement"
why do i watch the videos
i know why
but
why
i know why
but
why
January 24, 2026 at 4:34 PM
why do i watch the videos
i know why
but
why
i know why
but
why
re: everything happening in Minnesota - I have some people on IG who were acquaintances there, people whose politics I didn't know and couldn't really guess. Maybe they'd describe themselves as "nonpolitical" and I didn't know them from scenes or communities where certain leftish stuff is a given...
January 22, 2026 at 5:33 PM
re: everything happening in Minnesota - I have some people on IG who were acquaintances there, people whose politics I didn't know and couldn't really guess. Maybe they'd describe themselves as "nonpolitical" and I didn't know them from scenes or communities where certain leftish stuff is a given...
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I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.
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Moulton is running against Schumer.
Moulton: I have an idea for ICE funding: zero. That’s what ICE needs.
January 21, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Moulton is running against Schumer.
Sometimes I'm falling asleep and have an idea for a song, and I jot a few lines down in a note app and nothing comes of it
Other times I wake up and the whole thing has taken shape and before I know it I've got a real seed sprouting
Other times I wake up and the whole thing has taken shape and before I know it I've got a real seed sprouting
January 17, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Sometimes I'm falling asleep and have an idea for a song, and I jot a few lines down in a note app and nothing comes of it
Other times I wake up and the whole thing has taken shape and before I know it I've got a real seed sprouting
Other times I wake up and the whole thing has taken shape and before I know it I've got a real seed sprouting
Today a bureaucrat told me, "We removed that information from the website, but it's your responsibility to know it."
And I just had to be polite about it instead of being a human being.
And I just had to be polite about it instead of being a human being.
January 15, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Today a bureaucrat told me, "We removed that information from the website, but it's your responsibility to know it."
And I just had to be polite about it instead of being a human being.
And I just had to be polite about it instead of being a human being.
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our former mayor announced a cryptocurrency $NYC Coin to "fight anti-semitism", and literally a few hours later, he stole the between $2.5 mil to $3.5 mil in other crypto that was backing it.
Apparently Eric Adams already rug-pulled his own memecoin www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurr...
From the CryptoCurrency community on Reddit: Former NYC Mayor Eric Adams rugs his own memecoin just 30 minutes after launch and pockets over $2.5M
Explore this post and more from the CryptoCurrency community
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January 13, 2026 at 2:33 AM
our former mayor announced a cryptocurrency $NYC Coin to "fight anti-semitism", and literally a few hours later, he stole the between $2.5 mil to $3.5 mil in other crypto that was backing it.
i am finding the ICE videos very upsetting
January 12, 2026 at 4:39 PM
i am finding the ICE videos very upsetting
i know that crowd count estimates are hard to do, but i saw about 10 blocks of 5th avenue filled with protestors yesterday.
the nytimes reported this as "about 2,000 people."
let's interrogate this a little bit...
the nytimes reported this as "about 2,000 people."
let's interrogate this a little bit...
January 12, 2026 at 2:14 PM
i know that crowd count estimates are hard to do, but i saw about 10 blocks of 5th avenue filled with protestors yesterday.
the nytimes reported this as "about 2,000 people."
let's interrogate this a little bit...
the nytimes reported this as "about 2,000 people."
let's interrogate this a little bit...
man if the media covered No Kings / Abolish ICE the way they covered the Tea Party
January 11, 2026 at 10:58 PM
man if the media covered No Kings / Abolish ICE the way they covered the Tea Party