Matthew Bradley
@machination.org
NY->NM->DC. Dad, product-minded technologist & mgr, photog. Veteran of DC machinations. I care about climate, civil liberties, pluralism. Previously: Indymedia/WPFW/FSRN/Accuracy, WPNI, Nader, AARP, Grassroots.com, Edelman, Polaris/NHTRC/NHTH, DBT.
Let's just say I'm pausing my de-googling.
December 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Let's just say I'm pausing my de-googling.
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Are we doing The People’s History of Tatooine again?
December 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Are we doing The People’s History of Tatooine again?
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The weird thing about Trump Nationalism is it doesn’t require any actual nationalism: Trumpers are symbolists. They want their flag, their baseball , their apple pie; they don’t actually require a belief in Democracy or that all men are created equal. They don’t want freedom of religion, nor voting.
December 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The weird thing about Trump Nationalism is it doesn’t require any actual nationalism: Trumpers are symbolists. They want their flag, their baseball , their apple pie; they don’t actually require a belief in Democracy or that all men are created equal. They don’t want freedom of religion, nor voting.
Reading all the NIPs with my own eyes and brain. Old school context for human prompt engineering.
December 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Reading all the NIPs with my own eyes and brain. Old school context for human prompt engineering.
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when I wrote this panel last week, I didn't *literally* expect him to say that questioning his health is tantamount to treason, but I didn't *not* expect it
December 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
when I wrote this panel last week, I didn't *literally* expect him to say that questioning his health is tantamount to treason, but I didn't *not* expect it
I'm listening to the Supreme Court and those arguing before it debate the color and size of the cups in the shell game of campaign finance the most hilarious claim is that there is no quid pro quo bribery.
December 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I'm listening to the Supreme Court and those arguing before it debate the color and size of the cups in the shell game of campaign finance the most hilarious claim is that there is no quid pro quo bribery.
Still felt good, but when you look back on an interview and remember the obvious (like almost too obvious) thing you didn't say, and could have. I was trying to solve a problem, not recite all the artifacts of work known to man… ooof.
December 6, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Still felt good, but when you look back on an interview and remember the obvious (like almost too obvious) thing you didn't say, and could have. I was trying to solve a problem, not recite all the artifacts of work known to man… ooof.
It feels so good to get the e-waste monkey off my back. At least for now.
December 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
It feels so good to get the e-waste monkey off my back. At least for now.
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Elias, one of the immigrants in this case, was detained by ICE on his way to his dialysis treatment.
It was one of countless warrantless ICE arrests we've seen in DC.
While detained, Elias was denied the care he needed and his health worsened. He died last week — just days before this ruling.
It was one of countless warrantless ICE arrests we've seen in DC.
While detained, Elias was denied the care he needed and his health worsened. He died last week — just days before this ruling.
Federal judge limits warrantless immigration arrests in D.C.
U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell granted a preliminary injunction sought by plaintiffs who were arrested without administrative warrants in August amid President Donald Trump’s law enforcement surg...
www.washingtonpost.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Elias, one of the immigrants in this case, was detained by ICE on his way to his dialysis treatment.
It was one of countless warrantless ICE arrests we've seen in DC.
While detained, Elias was denied the care he needed and his health worsened. He died last week — just days before this ruling.
It was one of countless warrantless ICE arrests we've seen in DC.
While detained, Elias was denied the care he needed and his health worsened. He died last week — just days before this ruling.
David Byrne's "Everybody Laughs" is regularly reprised by myself and The Childe.
December 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
David Byrne's "Everybody Laughs" is regularly reprised by myself and The Childe.
Guided access on iOS is a great thing to enable before handing iPhone over to The Childe. I was far more familiar with MDM-driven ways to lock a device to an app (probably relying on same API). This prevents 'em marking as read notifications w/messages that might then get missed for hours—or days.
December 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Guided access on iOS is a great thing to enable before handing iPhone over to The Childe. I was far more familiar with MDM-driven ways to lock a device to an app (probably relying on same API). This prevents 'em marking as read notifications w/messages that might then get missed for hours—or days.
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The madness.
www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...
www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...
December 2, 2025 at 12:40 PM
The madness.
www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...
www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...
There's really nothing to add, is there?
December 1, 2025 at 2:07 AM
There's really nothing to add, is there?
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Rabbiatu is a nurse who worked during COVID, had been in the U.S. 30 years. A judge ordered that she could not be sent back to Sierra Leone for her safety, for fear of torture (!). So our evil regime sent her to Ghana (in shackles), and Ghana dragged her back to Sierra Leone.
🧵This 58-year-old nurse from Maryland is seen being violently dragged along the ground by officials in Ghana.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Woman deported from Maryland shown on video being dragged in Ghana
Rabbiatu Kuyateh was detained this summer at her annual ICE check-in, her son said. She moved to the D.C. area 30 years ago as she fled civil war in Sierra Leone.
www.nbcnews.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Rabbiatu is a nurse who worked during COVID, had been in the U.S. 30 years. A judge ordered that she could not be sent back to Sierra Leone for her safety, for fear of torture (!). So our evil regime sent her to Ghana (in shackles), and Ghana dragged her back to Sierra Leone.
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Remigration is ethnic cleansing, which is a crime against humanity and a form of genocide.
That is what the regime is signaling. That is what it is wants.
That is what the regime is signaling. That is what it is wants.
They're not even bothering to disguise their real aims any longer.
November 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Remigration is ethnic cleansing, which is a crime against humanity and a form of genocide.
That is what the regime is signaling. That is what it is wants.
That is what the regime is signaling. That is what it is wants.
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
The holiday movie season has started. My list begins with The Ice Storm and ends with The Ice Harvest.
November 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The holiday movie season has started. My list begins with The Ice Storm and ends with The Ice Harvest.
I don't think I've ever seen a floor-to-ceiling Metro car ad for the official White House christmas ornament before.
November 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I don't think I've ever seen a floor-to-ceiling Metro car ad for the official White House christmas ornament before.
The thing about building software that passes the Turing Test is that we fail it.
Things that aren't people shouldn't talk to people as if they're people, it's a simple rule. We're too stupid.
November 25, 2025 at 6:31 AM
The thing about building software that passes the Turing Test is that we fail it.
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What a horrible habit, reading the news: https://machination.org/2025/11/21/what-a-horrible-habit-reading.html
November 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a horrible habit, reading the news: https://machination.org/2025/11/21/what-a-horrible-habit-reading.html
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So yesterday Trump was holding hands with MBS, and today he's demanding the execution of two Senators and four Representatives.
Seems like something rubbed off
Seems like something rubbed off
November 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
So yesterday Trump was holding hands with MBS, and today he's demanding the execution of two Senators and four Representatives.
Seems like something rubbed off
Seems like something rubbed off
Listening to the Republican's witness, Dr. Blaze, attack the concepts of risk pools and solidarity and not really attack profiteering besides moaning about it by implication in this morning's opening testimony before the Sen. Finance committee led by Sens. Crapo and @wyden.senate.gov
November 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Listening to the Republican's witness, Dr. Blaze, attack the concepts of risk pools and solidarity and not really attack profiteering besides moaning about it by implication in this morning's opening testimony before the Sen. Finance committee led by Sens. Crapo and @wyden.senate.gov