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Matt McGovern
@mattmcgovern.bsky.social
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I post a lot about climate and clean energy, and Wisconsin sports. Marathon runner, husband, dad, Village Trustee and attorney. Pro-democracy. Let’s build safer streets, more homes and a greener Shorewood. Personal account.
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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 1h
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...
Opinion | The Constitution Doesn’t Belong to Trump or the Supreme Court
www.nytimes.com
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Jordan Fischer @jordanonrecord.bsky.social · 1h
BREAKING: Following OMB Director Russ Vought's tweet today announcing RIFs, AFGE has filed an emergency motion seeking a TRO. They argue the RIFs violate the Antideficiency Act by requiring unlawful work during a government shutdown.

Link: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 1h
Public servants deserve better, like keeping their jobs serving the American people.
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bikepedantic @bikepedantic.bsky.social · 1h
Even after the NIH disaster, they’re still letting building security do some of their layoffs (firsthand account from a buddy at USPTO on Oct 1)
Text: They are riffing people in our lobby. If your badge doesn't work, security hands you a RIF packet. Response: Fuck
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 4h
A five-point-five billion Trump golf course in Qatar, and Qatar gets an air base in Idaho.
New Trump Golf Course, $5.5 Billion Beachside Project Announced for Qatar
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 4h
@akelalacy.bsky.social, @radleybalko.bsky.social, and @nickturse.bsky.social discussed Trump's rhetoric and rationale to justify extrajudicial killings abroad — and possibly at home.
License to Kill: Trump’s Extrajudicial Executions
Akela Lacy, Radley Balko, and Nick Turse on the administration’s rhetoric and rationale to justify extrajudicial killings abroad — and possibly at home.
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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 3h
That’s how you get promoted when Kristi Noem is the boss.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h
EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h
Fed Governor Christopher Waller: "Job growth has probably been negative the last few months. it doesn't look like it's doing much better. I don't hear anybody with big hiring plans."
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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 15h
More illegal sabotage by Trump today.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 15h
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 · 16h
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
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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 1d
Zohran won't be the first democratic socialist to govern a big US city

In 1936, even Time Magazine admitted that after two decades of Socialist mayors, "Milwaukee has become perhaps the best-governed city in the U.S."

Its cover on Mayor Daniel Hoan was captioned: "He gave Karl Marx all the credit"
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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 15h
Ethanol subsidies & mandates are the worst. We waste half the breadbasket of america growing a sweaty monoculture of corn with extremely low labor input and few value-added opportunities, completely hollowing out what should be a thriving agricultural region.
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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 22h
Over 40% of corn grown in Indiana is used to make ethanol that cars burn. One acre of corn yields about 16,500 vehicle-miles per year of ethanol, which sounds high until you realize that one acre of solar yields about 2,700,000 vehicle-miles per year: 16,000% more driving for a given plot of land.
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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 16h
Welp
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 16h
We're spending $20B to bail out Argentina, but they cut USAID down to the bone, causing deaths around the world. The entire budget of USAID, the whole agency, was $21B last year. Shameful.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17h
The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. bailed out Argentina.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.
The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, Treasury Secretary confirms
The US Treasury has finalized a $20 billion financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country's central bank.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 16h
Great outs by Ashby! Wow I’m so stressed out #ThisIsMyCrew
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 21h
Prosecute Lindsey for lying to the court then.
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Joel Siegel @joelsiegel.bsky.social · 21h
Oopsie
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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 21h
State bar associations are going to have to move fast and aggressively to disbar attorneys dismantling the rule of law for Trump.
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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 23h
Opinion | Trump can win the Nobel Prize by withdrawing troops from Chicago
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CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 1d
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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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 1d
No more fundraising texts?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Trump: "We'll be making cuts that will be permanent. And we're only going to cut Democrat programs. I hate to tell you."
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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 1d
You can tell the judge spends more time watching Fox News than studying the Constitution because he thinks it's Trump's military instead of our military.
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Axios @axios.com · 1d
NEW: An appeals court appeared skeptical of Oregon's bid to block Trump's National Guard orders
Oregon bid to block Trump's National Guard orders hits skeptical appeals court
"What I'm struggling with is, the president gets to direct his resources as he deems fit," a judge said.
www.axios.com
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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 1d
Still no grid emergency in the Midwest despite Trump’s so- called emergency order to keep an old coal-fired power plant open in Michigan. It cost us $29 million in the first five weeks of the order. #energysky
MISO screenshot showing normal grid conditions
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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 1d
Rutgers Professor @mark-bray.bsky.social, who studies & writes about Antifascism,Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

By the time he & his family reached the gate, their tickets were cancelled.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n... flagrantly & appallingly lawless. Hope he & his family are ok.
Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats
www.nytimes.com
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d
Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.
BREAKING: Trump Admin 'Seriously' Considering Using the Insurrection Act, Reports NBC
President Trump is "seriously" considering invoking the Insurrection Act in order to more easily deploy National Guard troops to major cities as part of crime crackdown, NBC reported on Wednesday
www.mediaite.com
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d
Yet another incident that would’ve gotten any other president immediately impeached that is only the 127th worst thing Trump has done in 2025.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 1d
As I observed in my Substack Round Up this past week, the endgame of the military strikes against drug cartels in international waters is to lay the groundwork to use lethal military force against Americans at home. Pay attention open.substack.com/pub/asharang...
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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 1d
The 2027 Chevy Bolt is $8,000 less than the 2017 model year, with more range and three times the charging speed. There is no gas-powered car today that is cheaper and better than it was 10 years ago.
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