Matt Calcara
@mattcalcara.bsky.social
Lancer, Trojan, friend of Dorothy, tech project manager, fmr travel writer, ran for office once & likely never again, dog Dad to Zuvvy.
Not sure how many times I can, or need, to say it, but:
The Roberts Supreme Court is completely illegitimate, and crazily off the rails.
The Roberts Supreme Court is completely illegitimate, and crazily off the rails.
The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 23, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Not sure how many times I can, or need, to say it, but:
The Roberts Supreme Court is completely illegitimate, and crazily off the rails.
The Roberts Supreme Court is completely illegitimate, and crazily off the rails.
Oh man, Missouri is about to run its own Brownback experiment.
Trust me, neighbors, you DO NOT WANT THAT.
Trust me, neighbors, you DO NOT WANT THAT.
Missouri is already projected to lose $500 million this year by cutting the capital gains tax. We are set to another lose 2/3rds of our state revenue by cutting the income tax.
I honestly don’t know what will become of the state, but I think it’s going to be very bad.
Republicans can’t govern.
I honestly don’t know what will become of the state, but I think it’s going to be very bad.
Republicans can’t govern.
December 23, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Oh man, Missouri is about to run its own Brownback experiment.
Trust me, neighbors, you DO NOT WANT THAT.
Trust me, neighbors, you DO NOT WANT THAT.
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Turns out my college hot takes on Napster being rebellious freedom fighting were right. Time to smoke a bowl and listen to the Plain White Tees to celebrate.
logging onto limewire under dark of night to download 60 minutes
December 23, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Turns out my college hot takes on Napster being rebellious freedom fighting were right. Time to smoke a bowl and listen to the Plain White Tees to celebrate.
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Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...
Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret • Kansas Reflector
A handful of county-level officials who were involved in a small-town Kansas newspaper raid in 2023 will pay a cumulative $3 million to three journalists and a city councilor.
kansasreflector.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...
Russia wants to use Kessler Syndrome (where Earth orbits get so clogged with debris, satellites & space programs essentially can't function) as a weapon??
That seems dumb, even for them.
www-pbs-org.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.pbs....
That seems dumb, even for them.
www-pbs-org.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.pbs....
Intelligence agencies suspect Russia is developing anti-satellite weapon to target Starlink service
Starlink's services are used by Ukraine. Russia views the constellation as a threat. The intelligence findings say the destructive pellets could be small enough to evade detection.
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December 23, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Russia wants to use Kessler Syndrome (where Earth orbits get so clogged with debris, satellites & space programs essentially can't function) as a weapon??
That seems dumb, even for them.
www-pbs-org.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.pbs....
That seems dumb, even for them.
www-pbs-org.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.pbs....
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After what we're seeing at CBS, if today is not the perfect day for everyone to find some independent journalism & nonprofit newsrooms to support... what day could be better?
December 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
After what we're seeing at CBS, if today is not the perfect day for everyone to find some independent journalism & nonprofit newsrooms to support... what day could be better?
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Police in Many “Sanctuary Cities” Have Repeatedly Collaborated With ICE
Police face allegations of violating laws meant to protect immigrants from DC to Oregon to Colorado and beyond.
truthout.org/articles/pol...
Police face allegations of violating laws meant to protect immigrants from DC to Oregon to Colorado and beyond.
truthout.org/articles/pol...
Police in Many “Sanctuary Cities” Have Repeatedly Collaborated With ICE
Police face allegations of violating laws meant to protect immigrants from DC to Oregon to Colorado and beyond.
truthout.org
December 22, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Police in Many “Sanctuary Cities” Have Repeatedly Collaborated With ICE
Police face allegations of violating laws meant to protect immigrants from DC to Oregon to Colorado and beyond.
truthout.org/articles/pol...
Police face allegations of violating laws meant to protect immigrants from DC to Oregon to Colorado and beyond.
truthout.org/articles/pol...
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In case you need to hear it from someone who was raised Hindu: Usha is not a hostage, she is an accomplice. She is culpable. Fuck her and the fascists she colludes with. May she go down with all of them. As Zohran ably demonstrates, our communities do not aspire to whiteness & don’t seek to appease.
Vance's latest rant has set off another misguided round of "free Usha" rhetoric. This isn't just inaccurate--she's wholly a part of this fascist project--it's dangerous. We can no longer afford to imagine fascism as smaller than it is. Hindu fascism is vast, too. No religion is immune.
December 22, 2025 at 4:53 AM
In case you need to hear it from someone who was raised Hindu: Usha is not a hostage, she is an accomplice. She is culpable. Fuck her and the fascists she colludes with. May she go down with all of them. As Zohran ably demonstrates, our communities do not aspire to whiteness & don’t seek to appease.
Now I'm sitting here wondering how the market in sustainable myrrh is doing.
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Why the world is running out of frankincense
The precious, fragrant resin is the scent of the festive season and rising in popularity in the wellness industry – but its natural source is being decimated.
www.bbc.com
December 22, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Now I'm sitting here wondering how the market in sustainable myrrh is doing.
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
In response to mainlining & demonstrative racism of the GOP lately, I told my politics group chat today that I never expected to miss Nancy Pelosi kneeling with a kente cloth and yet here we are.
I got some 😂 in response.
I got some 😂 in response.
December 22, 2025 at 4:20 AM
In response to mainlining & demonstrative racism of the GOP lately, I told my politics group chat today that I never expected to miss Nancy Pelosi kneeling with a kente cloth and yet here we are.
I got some 😂 in response.
I got some 😂 in response.
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Elon Musk replied to me on X. Here’s what happened next :::
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Elon Musk Replied to Me on X. Here’s What Happened Next
Unleashed coordinated targeted harassment, platform level retaliation, and real life fear
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December 22, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Elon Musk replied to me on X. Here’s what happened next :::
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I am trying to imagine how Kansas City would react to something like this.
Given that the KCATA promptly trashed the bus benches @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social placed around the city, my guess is: probably not as well as Christchurch did.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Given that the KCATA promptly trashed the bus benches @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social placed around the city, my guess is: probably not as well as Christchurch did.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
‘Slightly haunted but manageable’: new signs cause confusion – and delight – in Christchurch
Six absurdist signs resembling official city council information boards have popped up across New Zealand’s second-largest city
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:19 AM
I am trying to imagine how Kansas City would react to something like this.
Given that the KCATA promptly trashed the bus benches @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social placed around the city, my guess is: probably not as well as Christchurch did.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Given that the KCATA promptly trashed the bus benches @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social placed around the city, my guess is: probably not as well as Christchurch did.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
And yet now, I very much feel the need to do so.
December 22, 2025 at 3:03 AM
And yet now, I very much feel the need to do so.
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
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December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Reminder, Kansas: we need to vote down the constitutional amendment in August that would change the Supreme Court to being elected.
The merit selection system works really well, there is zero need to change it.
The merit selection system works really well, there is zero need to change it.
The Kansas chief justice is going to retire in early 2026.
That'll give the Democratic governor an appointment—but major caveat that the 'merit system' significantly constrains the governor's choice in this state (for now), so don't expect a major upheaval.
kansasreflector.com/2025/12/19/k...
That'll give the Democratic governor an appointment—but major caveat that the 'merit system' significantly constrains the governor's choice in this state (for now), so don't expect a major upheaval.
kansasreflector.com/2025/12/19/k...
Kansas Supreme Court chief justice to retire by early February • Kansas Reflector
Kansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Marla Luckert will step down from her position at the start of the new year and retire within weeks, she announced Friday.
kansasreflector.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Reminder, Kansas: we need to vote down the constitutional amendment in August that would change the Supreme Court to being elected.
The merit selection system works really well, there is zero need to change it.
The merit selection system works really well, there is zero need to change it.
Need a last-minute holiday gift?
Check out the Guardian's banned books list for all types of titles, including some pretty surprising ones (someone tried to ban RL Stine's Goosebumps series for real!?)
www.theguardian.com/thefilter-us...
Check out the Guardian's banned books list for all types of titles, including some pretty surprising ones (someone tried to ban RL Stine's Goosebumps series for real!?)
www.theguardian.com/thefilter-us...
A mildly subversive gift guide: 10 banned books for curious and rebellious US readers
This holiday season, gift the defiant reader in your life a banned book by Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and others
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Need a last-minute holiday gift?
Check out the Guardian's banned books list for all types of titles, including some pretty surprising ones (someone tried to ban RL Stine's Goosebumps series for real!?)
www.theguardian.com/thefilter-us...
Check out the Guardian's banned books list for all types of titles, including some pretty surprising ones (someone tried to ban RL Stine's Goosebumps series for real!?)
www.theguardian.com/thefilter-us...
Fun fact: roughly one-third of suburban Johnson County, KS, households are renters.
ONE-THIRD.
So could local homeowners please stop treating renters like an unwanted alien species, please?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson...
ONE-THIRD.
So could local homeowners please stop treating renters like an unwanted alien species, please?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson...
Johnson County, Kansas - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 21, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Fun fact: roughly one-third of suburban Johnson County, KS, households are renters.
ONE-THIRD.
So could local homeowners please stop treating renters like an unwanted alien species, please?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson...
ONE-THIRD.
So could local homeowners please stop treating renters like an unwanted alien species, please?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson...
OMG. Read this. Especially if you are a woman.
Extremely especially if you are a woman anywhere near 40.
Extremely especially if you are a woman anywhere near 40.
www.blog.lifebranches.com/p/aging-out-...
Out of nowhere this piece hit my timeline and I feel cleansed.
Out of nowhere this piece hit my timeline and I feel cleansed.
Aging Out of Fucks: The Neuroscience of Why You Suddenly Can’t Pretend Anymore
Your brain's middle finger to people-pleasing
www.blog.lifebranches.com
December 21, 2025 at 2:52 AM
OMG. Read this. Especially if you are a woman.
Extremely especially if you are a woman anywhere near 40.
Extremely especially if you are a woman anywhere near 40.
The most consequential Supreme Court decision of the year is clearly Louisiana v. Callais.
And knowing this hugely racist, totally illegitimate Roberts Court is likely to take a buzzsaw to the Voting Rights Act makes me sick.
It will devastate democracy.
truthout.org/articles/gop...
And knowing this hugely racist, totally illegitimate Roberts Court is likely to take a buzzsaw to the Voting Rights Act makes me sick.
It will devastate democracy.
truthout.org/articles/gop...
GOP Could Gain Nearly 200 Statehouse Seats If SCOTUS Guts Voting Rights Act
The gains would largely be made in 10 Southern states with GOP-controlled legislatures, a new report finds.
truthout.org
December 21, 2025 at 2:32 AM
The most consequential Supreme Court decision of the year is clearly Louisiana v. Callais.
And knowing this hugely racist, totally illegitimate Roberts Court is likely to take a buzzsaw to the Voting Rights Act makes me sick.
It will devastate democracy.
truthout.org/articles/gop...
And knowing this hugely racist, totally illegitimate Roberts Court is likely to take a buzzsaw to the Voting Rights Act makes me sick.
It will devastate democracy.
truthout.org/articles/gop...
I am just going to engage in some wild, unfounded speculation as to why JoCo Election Commissioner Sherman, a competent & experienced public servant, btw, was forced out.
1) He was cool w/ballots printed in Spanish, SoS Schwab was not.
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1) He was cool w/ballots printed in Spanish, SoS Schwab was not.
🧵
December 20, 2025 at 3:45 AM
I am just going to engage in some wild, unfounded speculation as to why JoCo Election Commissioner Sherman, a competent & experienced public servant, btw, was forced out.
1) He was cool w/ballots printed in Spanish, SoS Schwab was not.
🧵
1) He was cool w/ballots printed in Spanish, SoS Schwab was not.
🧵
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It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced | Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn
It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced | Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn
We need to remake the US high court so Americans don’t suffer future decades of oligarchy-facilitating rule
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced | Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn