Matthew Garrett
@matthewcarlgarrett.bsky.social
I’m writing this book: Reading Is Theft: Literature and the Culture of Property
Redd Kross in Hamden CT. Better late than never.
October 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Redd Kross in Hamden CT. Better late than never.
He lifted up his wing: David Byrne, Wallingford CT
October 8, 2025 at 4:13 AM
He lifted up his wing: David Byrne, Wallingford CT
This darkness giving for a spell: brilliant Bertha smoking through Hartford CT
October 2, 2025 at 1:05 PM
This darkness giving for a spell: brilliant Bertha smoking through Hartford CT
The fabulous Melvins. Space Ballroom in Hamden CT.
October 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
The fabulous Melvins. Space Ballroom in Hamden CT.
BREAKING: WE WON!!!
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Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.
Full ruling here:
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Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.
Full ruling here:
Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com
Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...
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September 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“a media environment that obscures a key driver of the climate crisis. Meat production alone is responsible for nearly 60% of the food sector’s climate emissions”
“a media environment that obscures a key driver of the climate crisis. Meat production alone is responsible for nearly 60% of the food sector’s climate emissions”
Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds
Sentient Media reveals less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as source of carbon emissions
www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“a media environment that obscures a key driver of the climate crisis. Meat production alone is responsible for nearly 60% of the food sector’s climate emissions”
“a media environment that obscures a key driver of the climate crisis. Meat production alone is responsible for nearly 60% of the food sector’s climate emissions”
Busy working on A Modest Defence of the Proceedings of the Rabble in All Ages
September 4, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Busy working on A Modest Defence of the Proceedings of the Rabble in All Ages
“Munition Makers” (1939) - David Smith, Medals for Dishonor: “From the imprint of past ages emerge shellholes and ancient coins marked by the merchants of death.”
August 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
“Munition Makers” (1939) - David Smith, Medals for Dishonor: “From the imprint of past ages emerge shellholes and ancient coins marked by the merchants of death.”
“however beaten down we all are – beaten and broken, as they say in one number – we are also all free to move at will within the system, like rats or insects crawling around in a rich man’s castle, spoiling it forever”
gina19e.substack.com/p/be-like-wa... I wrote a little essay about seeing the Mekons in Santa Cruz and here it is :)
Be like water
Mekons at Moe's Alley, July 29, 2025
gina19e.substack.com
August 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
“however beaten down we all are – beaten and broken, as they say in one number – we are also all free to move at will within the system, like rats or insects crawling around in a rich man’s castle, spoiling it forever”
Radioactive wasps
July 31, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Radioactive wasps
“If you track the numbers there are bad days and worse days but the daily killings at one of the only permitted food sources in Gaza are proceeding like this: 8, 13, 17, 25, 24, 80, 11, 44, 37, 31, 25, 26, 27.” — Selma Dabbagh, on the LRB Blog (18 Jul.)
July 21, 2025 at 5:46 PM
“If you track the numbers there are bad days and worse days but the daily killings at one of the only permitted food sources in Gaza are proceeding like this: 8, 13, 17, 25, 24, 80, 11, 44, 37, 31, 25, 26, 27.” — Selma Dabbagh, on the LRB Blog (18 Jul.)
The great gift of the Mekons, White Eagle Hall, Jersey City
July 19, 2025 at 4:43 AM
The great gift of the Mekons, White Eagle Hall, Jersey City
“Aid that is used to mask ongoing violence is not aid, it is in fact humanitarian cover for a military strategy of control and dispossession.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
One dead and 48 injured after Israeli soldiers open fire at Gaza food point
Witnesses tell of bursts of gunfire and helicopter flares after Israel-backed logistics group lost control of Gaza site
www.theguardian.com
May 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
“Aid that is used to mask ongoing violence is not aid, it is in fact humanitarian cover for a military strategy of control and dispossession.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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did you miss this 🔥 CT-State AAUP conference last month?
catch up with the videos of panels and keynotes from Hamilton Nolan, Bethany Letiecq, Rotua Lumbantobing, Russell Newman, Isaac Kamola, & Jason Wozniak!
ctsc-aaup.org/sp-2025-meet...
@aaup.bsky.social
catch up with the videos of panels and keynotes from Hamilton Nolan, Bethany Letiecq, Rotua Lumbantobing, Russell Newman, Isaac Kamola, & Jason Wozniak!
ctsc-aaup.org/sp-2025-meet...
@aaup.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
did you miss this 🔥 CT-State AAUP conference last month?
catch up with the videos of panels and keynotes from Hamilton Nolan, Bethany Letiecq, Rotua Lumbantobing, Russell Newman, Isaac Kamola, & Jason Wozniak!
ctsc-aaup.org/sp-2025-meet...
@aaup.bsky.social
catch up with the videos of panels and keynotes from Hamilton Nolan, Bethany Letiecq, Rotua Lumbantobing, Russell Newman, Isaac Kamola, & Jason Wozniak!
ctsc-aaup.org/sp-2025-meet...
@aaup.bsky.social
“Gaza is an anomaly, a laboratory in which we will discover how much nutritional stress a population can withstand before succumbing en masse.”
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
Alex de Waal | Starvation in Gaza
Twice already during this war, the people of Gaza have pulled back from the brink of categorical famine – both times...
www.lrb.co.uk
May 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
“Gaza is an anomaly, a laboratory in which we will discover how much nutritional stress a population can withstand before succumbing en masse.”
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
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Yesterday, the UN warned that 14,000 Palestinian babies in Gaza are at immediate risk of dying in the next 48 hours without desperately needed aid the Israeli government is blocking. 24 hours have passed with no action to end the suffocating siege on the people of Gaza.
May 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Yesterday, the UN warned that 14,000 Palestinian babies in Gaza are at immediate risk of dying in the next 48 hours without desperately needed aid the Israeli government is blocking. 24 hours have passed with no action to end the suffocating siege on the people of Gaza.
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The AAUP policy documents collected in the new edition of the Redbook are more important than ever at a time when higher education is under attack. Gregory F. Scholtz writes in Academe about the Redbook's history and purposes: www.aaup.org/article/ever...
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the AAUP Redbook But Were Afraid to Ask
Photo by AFT's Neal Thomassen The twelfth edition of the AAUP’s Policy Documents and Reports, a compendium of up-to-date versions of the Association policy documents deemed most useful to AAUP members...
www.aaup.org
May 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The AAUP policy documents collected in the new edition of the Redbook are more important than ever at a time when higher education is under attack. Gregory F. Scholtz writes in Academe about the Redbook's history and purposes: www.aaup.org/article/ever...
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Video of the woman being taken by ICE and the Worcester Police Dept helping them. From @billshaner.bsky.social
May 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Video of the woman being taken by ICE and the Worcester Police Dept helping them. From @billshaner.bsky.social
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massachusettsians: call the gov & contact your assembly members, irate about the commonwealth's non-existent response to ICE.
here's what i wrote mine recently. do i think they'd do this? not really. does it matter? not really. overton window, etc.
malegislature.gov/Search/FindM...
here's what i wrote mine recently. do i think they'd do this? not really. does it matter? not really. overton window, etc.
malegislature.gov/Search/FindM...
May 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
massachusettsians: call the gov & contact your assembly members, irate about the commonwealth's non-existent response to ICE.
here's what i wrote mine recently. do i think they'd do this? not really. does it matter? not really. overton window, etc.
malegislature.gov/Search/FindM...
here's what i wrote mine recently. do i think they'd do this? not really. does it matter? not really. overton window, etc.
malegislature.gov/Search/FindM...
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“Dr. Hayden’s tenure has been marked by a steadfast commitment to accessibility, modernization, and the democratization of knowledge. Her dismissal is not just an affront to her historic service but a direct attack on the independence of one of our most revered institutions”—Rep. DeLauro
President Donald Trump on Thursday fired Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress — the first woman and first African American to hold the position.
She was informed of the decision in a terse, two-sentence email.
She was informed of the decision in a terse, two-sentence email.
Trump fires Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden
Hayden, who was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2016, was the first woman and the first African American to hold the position.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 9, 2025 at 11:21 AM
“Dr. Hayden’s tenure has been marked by a steadfast commitment to accessibility, modernization, and the democratization of knowledge. Her dismissal is not just an affront to her historic service but a direct attack on the independence of one of our most revered institutions”—Rep. DeLauro
“An NYPD officer punched a protester in the face across a barricade as the protester chanted.”
www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...
www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...
NYPD officers respond with force to protesters picketing around Columbia after arrests at Butler Library
<i>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.</i>
www.columbiaspectator.com
May 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
“An NYPD officer punched a protester in the face across a barricade as the protester chanted.”
www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...
www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...
“In March, the Israeli government approved the creation of a special bureau to organize and promote the forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza to other countries.”
The Israeli war cabinet unanimously approved on Sunday the expansion of Israel’s war on Gaza, which reportedly include plans to reoccupy the strip indefinitely. mondoweiss.net/2025/05/isra...
Israel plans to reoccupy Gaza indefinitely. Here’s what that actually means.
The Israeli war cabinet unanimously approved on Sunday the expansion of Israel’s war on Gaza, which reportedly include plans to reoccupy the strip indefinitely.
mondoweiss.net
May 8, 2025 at 11:59 AM
“In March, the Israeli government approved the creation of a special bureau to organize and promote the forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza to other countries.”