Paul Matzko
@paulmatzko.bsky.social
Historian, author of The Radio Right (Oxford 2020), day job: tech & abundance at the Institute for Humane Studies.
"Little did I expect that more than half the cost of building a hardware company would come from regulatory bottlenecks."
Over-Regulation is Doubling the Cost by Peter Reinhardt
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November 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
"Little did I expect that more than half the cost of building a hardware company would come from regulatory bottlenecks."
Larry Summers' emails with Jeffrey Epstein demonstrate how completely wrong he was about gendered limitations in achievement.
For example, he literally turns his back on a bright female mentee when she rejects his advances. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8DchGFA/
For example, he literally turns his back on a bright female mentee when she rejects his advances. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8DchGFA/
As Summers once argued women lack the temperament and aptitude for elite science jobs, newly-released private messages reveal him fixating on a young, female student he mentored and consulting Jeffrey...
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November 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Larry Summers' emails with Jeffrey Epstein demonstrate how completely wrong he was about gendered limitations in achievement.
For example, he literally turns his back on a bright female mentee when she rejects his advances. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8DchGFA/
For example, he literally turns his back on a bright female mentee when she rejects his advances. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8DchGFA/
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They’re all just looting the treasury now
November 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
They’re all just looting the treasury now
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The America First solution to the housing crunch isn’t a 50-year mortgage. It’s 100+ million deportations.
I wrote about the nativist dream of an idyllic, white, Christian America for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/dont-build-h...
I wrote about the nativist dream of an idyllic, white, Christian America for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/dont-build-h...
Don’t Build Housing, Just Deport People: The Nativist Right Recoils at Trump’s 50-Year Mortgage Proposal
The backlash against Trump's proposal reveals the characteristics of his base's reactionary housing politics.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The America First solution to the housing crunch isn’t a 50-year mortgage. It’s 100+ million deportations.
I wrote about the nativist dream of an idyllic, white, Christian America for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/dont-build-h...
I wrote about the nativist dream of an idyllic, white, Christian America for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/dont-build-h...
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
You've probably heard that Kash Patel used an FBI jet to fly to his girlfriend's country music concert. But the fact that he then took the jet to visit a dude ranch in Texas called the "Boondoggle Ranch" -- I kid you not -- is so on the nose that I demand a rewrite of this overly improbable script.
November 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
You've probably heard that Kash Patel used an FBI jet to fly to his girlfriend's country music concert. But the fact that he then took the jet to visit a dude ranch in Texas called the "Boondoggle Ranch" -- I kid you not -- is so on the nose that I demand a rewrite of this overly improbable script.
Funny watching all the industrial policy stans acting like the dog that caught the car as Trump flings around subsidies for cronies, wields tariffs like it's 1825, and takes equity shares to quasi-nationalize companies, and then being like, "Well, I didn't mean for it to work THAT way!"
November 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Funny watching all the industrial policy stans acting like the dog that caught the car as Trump flings around subsidies for cronies, wields tariffs like it's 1825, and takes equity shares to quasi-nationalize companies, and then being like, "Well, I didn't mean for it to work THAT way!"
"Whitestown," indeed.
Still thinking about this story. Imagine how cooked your brain has to be on Fox News -- how terrified you have to be, every day in your isolated suburban castle -- to start *shooting* when you see brown people at your door, before the door is even open. We're such a nation of terrified cowards.
Cleaning worker who mistakenly went to wrong home fatally shot: Police
The shooting victim died from a gunshot wound to the head, the coroner's office said.
abcnews.go.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM
"Whitestown," indeed.
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a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
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I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
October 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
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I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
October 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this
Every death from kidney disease is a policy failure.
If we allowed people to sell their spare kidneys, people like Nick Mangold wouldn't have to die while waiting for a donor replacement.
By treating kidneys like blood instead of like plasma, we cause thousands of unnecessary deaths per year.
If we allowed people to sell their spare kidneys, people like Nick Mangold wouldn't have to die while waiting for a donor replacement.
By treating kidneys like blood instead of like plasma, we cause thousands of unnecessary deaths per year.
October 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Every death from kidney disease is a policy failure.
If we allowed people to sell their spare kidneys, people like Nick Mangold wouldn't have to die while waiting for a donor replacement.
By treating kidneys like blood instead of like plasma, we cause thousands of unnecessary deaths per year.
If we allowed people to sell their spare kidneys, people like Nick Mangold wouldn't have to die while waiting for a donor replacement.
By treating kidneys like blood instead of like plasma, we cause thousands of unnecessary deaths per year.
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Gallego: "It's murder. It's very simple. If this president feels they are doing something illegally, then he should be using the Coast Guard. If this is an act of war, then you use our military and then you come and talk to us first. But this is murder ... it's disgusting."
October 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Gallego: "It's murder. It's very simple. If this president feels they are doing something illegally, then he should be using the Coast Guard. If this is an act of war, then you use our military and then you come and talk to us first. But this is murder ... it's disgusting."
As I wrote in 2020, "Having the equivalent of a dozen paramilitary divisions in the immediate vicinity of the US capital might be a bad idea for the future of our democracy." www.cato.org/blog/portlan...
ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
October 21, 2025 at 11:08 PM
As I wrote in 2020, "Having the equivalent of a dozen paramilitary divisions in the immediate vicinity of the US capital might be a bad idea for the future of our democracy." www.cato.org/blog/portlan...
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“ICE uses bureaucracy and location transfers to isolate their detainees from both their families and their lawyers, limiting their ability to get out of their predicaments” and prove the government erred. [Emma Janssen, American Prospect]
How ICE Hides Detainees From Their Lawyers - The American Prospect
CHICAGO – On September 12, attorney Kevin Herrera walked up to Chicagoland’s main Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Broadview, Illinois, passed a crowd of protesters who ...
prospect.org
October 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM
“ICE uses bureaucracy and location transfers to isolate their detainees from both their families and their lawyers, limiting their ability to get out of their predicaments” and prove the government erred. [Emma Janssen, American Prospect]
What's truly unprecedented about the Trump administration's sweeping abuses of executive power is how out in the open it is. Other presidents have abused many of these powers, sometimes even as extensively, but never so baldly.
Keystone Kash Warns Trump Revenge Arrests Are Tip of the Iceberg
The FBI director’s warning came moments after Trump told him to investigate his enemies for “political crime.”
www.thedailybeast.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
What's truly unprecedented about the Trump administration's sweeping abuses of executive power is how out in the open it is. Other presidents have abused many of these powers, sometimes even as extensively, but never so baldly.
In honor of Joel Mokyr, who just won the Nobel prize in Economics, I'm reminded of when I interviewed him for a podcast and was utterly charmed at the example he gave while marveling at the underappreciated marvels of innovation: "the Eufy!" (vacuum robot)
www.libertarianism.org
October 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
In honor of Joel Mokyr, who just won the Nobel prize in Economics, I'm reminded of when I interviewed him for a podcast and was utterly charmed at the example he gave while marveling at the underappreciated marvels of innovation: "the Eufy!" (vacuum robot)
Mike Johnson leaning into his Paul von Hindenburg role.
Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "
October 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Mike Johnson leaning into his Paul von Hindenburg role.
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These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.
October 8, 2025 at 2:22 AM
These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.
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ICE says I cause assaults on ICE by reciting facts about ICE’s recent shooting but refuses to link to the thread. Only posting a picture. ICE lies and ICE hides. You can read the facts for yourselves
October 4, 2025 at 12:00 AM
ICE says I cause assaults on ICE by reciting facts about ICE’s recent shooting but refuses to link to the thread. Only posting a picture. ICE lies and ICE hides. You can read the facts for yourselves
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That's the definition of fascism from Robert Paxton, one of the preeminent historians of the subject, from his book ANATOMY OF FASCISM which came out more than two decades ago.
October 1, 2025 at 12:25 AM
That's the definition of fascism from Robert Paxton, one of the preeminent historians of the subject, from his book ANATOMY OF FASCISM which came out more than two decades ago.
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NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka.
I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws.
Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”
I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws.
Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”
September 30, 2025 at 2:05 AM
NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka.
I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws.
Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”
I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws.
Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”
My review of Molly Worthen's "Spellbound" is up on Christianity Today.
"She offers a compelling corrective to the blander species of religious history produced for a churchly audience, which has a habit of sanitizing the past...
"She offers a compelling corrective to the blander species of religious history produced for a churchly audience, which has a habit of sanitizing the past...
The Liturgy of American Charisma - Christianity Today
Historian Molly Worthen studies dynamic leaders, eager followers, and their shared efforts to “consecrate a new reality.”
www.christianitytoday.com
September 27, 2025 at 6:20 AM
My review of Molly Worthen's "Spellbound" is up on Christianity Today.
"She offers a compelling corrective to the blander species of religious history produced for a churchly audience, which has a habit of sanitizing the past...
"She offers a compelling corrective to the blander species of religious history produced for a churchly audience, which has a habit of sanitizing the past...
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I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
September 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)