Matt McVeigh
@mattmcv.bsky.social
Runner, traveller of the world and general all round good guy (or something). LGB with the T. Hate Brexit. Not travelling to the US until 2029 (earliest).
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This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.
January 28, 2026 at 3:12 AM
This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
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If you feel "hamstrung" by human rights laws and by health and safety laws - you are the person those laws were designed to protect us against. You need to be obstructed by those laws.
Also, she's lying.
Also, she's lying.
Suella Braverman, "There is a very strong case to increase the powers of any immigration enforcement officers that we deploy"
"At the moment they're hamstrung by human rights laws, by health and safety laws, by all sorts of needless and obstructive bureaucracy"
"At the moment they're hamstrung by human rights laws, by health and safety laws, by all sorts of needless and obstructive bureaucracy"
January 27, 2026 at 9:28 PM
If you feel "hamstrung" by human rights laws and by health and safety laws - you are the person those laws were designed to protect us against. You need to be obstructed by those laws.
Also, she's lying.
Also, she's lying.
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Liz Truss's real legacy
January 27, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Liz Truss's real legacy
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As others are also noting, this is almost obscene in its wild inadequacy to the moment.
You're the former POTUS. Get to MSP, with your buddies George & Bill, & call for the fascism to end, ICE leaders to go to jail, & for Trump to be immediately impeached & removed. And then do it every day after.
You're the former POTUS. Get to MSP, with your buddies George & Bill, & call for the fascism to end, ICE leaders to go to jail, & for Trump to be immediately impeached & removed. And then do it every day after.
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
January 25, 2026 at 7:52 PM
As others are also noting, this is almost obscene in its wild inadequacy to the moment.
You're the former POTUS. Get to MSP, with your buddies George & Bill, & call for the fascism to end, ICE leaders to go to jail, & for Trump to be immediately impeached & removed. And then do it every day after.
You're the former POTUS. Get to MSP, with your buddies George & Bill, & call for the fascism to end, ICE leaders to go to jail, & for Trump to be immediately impeached & removed. And then do it every day after.
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Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
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Remember that Trump himself makes deals with China all the time. For reasons beyond understanding, he’s approved selling China advanced chips for AI it can’t make itself.
The US government’s now in partnership with China to run TikTok.
Do I say, not as I do, says the mad world king.
The US government’s now in partnership with China to run TikTok.
Do I say, not as I do, says the mad world king.
Trump makes Carney's allusion to Soviet Czechoslovakia even more applicable. Carney used the Havel quote to illustrate living in a lie as a self-protection strategy. This shows the Trump admin trying to convert its allies into vassals of the Soviet satellite type-- if you stray, we'll attack you.
January 24, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Remember that Trump himself makes deals with China all the time. For reasons beyond understanding, he’s approved selling China advanced chips for AI it can’t make itself.
The US government’s now in partnership with China to run TikTok.
Do I say, not as I do, says the mad world king.
The US government’s now in partnership with China to run TikTok.
Do I say, not as I do, says the mad world king.
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If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
January 24, 2026 at 8:29 PM
If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
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It is a horrible thing but one of the *points* of non-violence is that state violence in response causes outrage to spread.
January 24, 2026 at 7:34 PM
It is a horrible thing but one of the *points* of non-violence is that state violence in response causes outrage to spread.
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Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
January 24, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
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NUKEMAP is apparently making guest appearances on the London metro, to the surprise of many (including me — but I explicitly make it clear people can use its imagery for whatever without asking me!)
Sympa la version londonienne des p'tits poèmes du métro
January 24, 2026 at 5:44 PM
NUKEMAP is apparently making guest appearances on the London metro, to the surprise of many (including me — but I explicitly make it clear people can use its imagery for whatever without asking me!)
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I look forward to the establishment of a Wiesenthal Center-like organization dedicated to identifying and hunting former DHS agents so that they may be held accountable.
January 24, 2026 at 3:54 AM
I look forward to the establishment of a Wiesenthal Center-like organization dedicated to identifying and hunting former DHS agents so that they may be held accountable.
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I love Stephen. The face of a doomed WW1 officer and the wardrobe of John Travolta. #thetraitors
January 23, 2026 at 9:33 PM
I love Stephen. The face of a doomed WW1 officer and the wardrobe of John Travolta. #thetraitors
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they're going to be like 'surely this elderly white church lady will be on our side' and Evelyn Normielib will once again be our greatest sleeper agent.
January 22, 2026 at 10:15 PM
they're going to be like 'surely this elderly white church lady will be on our side' and Evelyn Normielib will once again be our greatest sleeper agent.
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Trump's "Board of Peace" a criminal ploy to steal Palestinian land was declined by all 1st world nations. The US' new list of partners are: Belarus, Morocco, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Hungary, Armenia, Egypt, Kosovo, Pakistan, Paraguay, Albania, Uzbekistan, Bahrain, Qatar, Indonesia.
January 22, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Trump's "Board of Peace" a criminal ploy to steal Palestinian land was declined by all 1st world nations. The US' new list of partners are: Belarus, Morocco, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Hungary, Armenia, Egypt, Kosovo, Pakistan, Paraguay, Albania, Uzbekistan, Bahrain, Qatar, Indonesia.
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Netherlands should join and offer to host the first meeting at the exclusive, famous, gilded and very luxurious palace called "The Hague".
So far the "Board of Peace" is Trump, Orban, Lukaschenko and Netanyahu.
Which if you wrote in a satire would be considered too outlandish and sent back.
Which if you wrote in a satire would be considered too outlandish and sent back.
January 21, 2026 at 7:26 AM
Netherlands should join and offer to host the first meeting at the exclusive, famous, gilded and very luxurious palace called "The Hague".
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This is a truly horrifying account of increasingly likely collapse of essential natural systems which would bring mass food shortages, price rises & global disorder. Commissioned from UK intelligence chiefs but scandalously suppressed by Govt, & sneaked out now while attention is elsewhere 👇
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
January 20, 2026 at 9:48 PM
This is a truly horrifying account of increasingly likely collapse of essential natural systems which would bring mass food shortages, price rises & global disorder. Commissioned from UK intelligence chiefs but scandalously suppressed by Govt, & sneaked out now while attention is elsewhere 👇
This is superb, Starmer should take heed - "when we only negotiate bilaterally with a hegemon, we negotiate from weakness. We accept what is offered. We compete with each other to be the most accommodating. This is not sovereignty. It is the performance of sovereignty while accepting subordination."
Mark Carney's speech really is terrific: full text is here and very much worth your time.
The Carney doctrine
Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech
paulwells.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 10:26 PM
This is superb, Starmer should take heed - "when we only negotiate bilaterally with a hegemon, we negotiate from weakness. We accept what is offered. We compete with each other to be the most accommodating. This is not sovereignty. It is the performance of sovereignty while accepting subordination."
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This is why solidarity is everything. If you vote for the bigot to persecute the people you’re bigoted against, don’t be surprised if he comes for you
Incredible quote here from a Somali small business owner in Minneapolis who voted for Trump. minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/19/a...
January 20, 2026 at 9:24 PM
This is why solidarity is everything. If you vote for the bigot to persecute the people you’re bigoted against, don’t be surprised if he comes for you
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“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
January 20, 2026 at 5:45 PM
“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
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While never mentioning the T-word (Trump), Emmanuel Macron today attacked “bullies” who were trying to impose the “law of the strongest” and to “weaken Europe”. /1
January 20, 2026 at 1:50 PM
While never mentioning the T-word (Trump), Emmanuel Macron today attacked “bullies” who were trying to impose the “law of the strongest” and to “weaken Europe”. /1
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Every Republican member of Congress should be forced to read this out loud in public.
January 19, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Every Republican member of Congress should be forced to read this out loud in public.
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The Norwegian government is staying fairly quiet for now, but as a sign of the shifting vibe here the former head of Norway’s armed forces has come out and called the US a “neo-fascist banana republic” and a “hostile great power without norms”. www.dn.no/politikk/tid...
Tidligere forsvarssjef om Trumps USA: – Neo-fascistisk bananrepublikk (+)
Tidligere forsvarssjef Sverre Diesen mener USA er blitt «en normløs og fiendtlig innstilt stormakt», og advarer samtidig mot å feste vår lit til Europa. Harald Sunde mener det haster med en plan B.
www.dn.no
January 19, 2026 at 8:56 PM
The Norwegian government is staying fairly quiet for now, but as a sign of the shifting vibe here the former head of Norway’s armed forces has come out and called the US a “neo-fascist banana republic” and a “hostile great power without norms”. www.dn.no/politikk/tid...