I love taking the train between San Diego and Los Angeles since it's such a gorgeous view but there's just no way it'll still exist on the same track a generation from now.
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Matt Wood
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VP of Policy at @freepress.bsky.social. Opinions on the rest are mine, all mine!
@paleofuture.bsky.socialReposted by @mattfieldwood.bsky.social@paleofuture.bsky.socialReposted by @mattfieldwood.bsky.socialI keep trying to think of any historical example where a given technology's PROMOTERS AND TRUE BELIEVERS were like 'we are absolutely going to ruin your fucking life so be prepared like it's the end of the world'
@whodat35.bsky.socialReposted by @mattfieldwood.bsky.socialTrump’s Hail-Mary diesel plan is robbing Peter to pay Paull. Plan offers little relief, farmers and tuckers say…
@wellborn.netReposted by @mattfieldwood.bsky.socialETTD Fox Business reports at least eight trucking and freight companies filed for Chapter 11 last month as diesel hits nearly $6.30 a gallon after Fuckface's Iran war. His fix is letting trucks burn red-dyed diesel. Farmers voted for this, and they're paying for it at the pump.
@whodat35.bsky.socialReposted by @mattfieldwood.bsky.socialFox News reveals Trump crisis caused wave of bankruptcies
“His latest attempt at mitigating the crisis came in the form of an executive order that temporarily allows the use of red-dyed diesel, which is normally restricted for use on roads and highways.” www.alternet.org/trump-fox-di...
@democracyforward.orgReposted by @mattfieldwood.bsky.socialWe're asking a court to stop the development of an intrusive, harmful 250-foot arch proposed in Arlington County across from the Lincoln Memorial. This vanity project — dressed as a military complex — unlawfully bypassed environmental review and would severely impact the county and its residents.
@democracyforward.orgReposted by @mattfieldwood.bsky.socialUPDATE: We’re expanding our case challenging the Trump-Vance admin’s plans for armed agents at polling places. This expansion includes adding Hennepin County, MN, as a plaintiff and making a new claim under the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits intimidation, threats and coercion related to voting.
@mattfieldwood.bsky.socialHere's the podcast I did with @sportshotchris.bsky.social and @karlbode.com earlier this week, where we were UNBUFFERED as the title sugests, but where @freepress.bsky.social and I were also un-tagged in this initial post. 😄
@mattfieldwood.bsky.socialWhy amplify them here then?
@freepress.bsky.socialReposted by @mattfieldwood.bsky.social"The result [of repealing the national TV ownership cap] would be just one or two dominant broadcasters in every market, deep job cuts for journalists, and an influx of bargain-basement content disguised as local news." - @mattfieldwood.bsky.social via @arstechnica.com
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@rbreich.bsky.socialReposted by @mattfieldwood.bsky.socialIn Trump's second term, Bezos has received... -Huge new tax cuts for himself and Amazon -Millions of dollars in new Blue Origin federal contracts -A slap-on-the wrist FTC settlement for Amazon -A gutted NLRB led by a union-busting lawyer No wonder he's been such a Trump sycophant.
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@mayor.nyc.govReposted by @mattfieldwood.bsky.socialI am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
@jeffcannata.bsky.socialReposted by @mattfieldwood.bsky.socialThank god I don’t have to interact with my kid and can spend more time trying to steal people’s creativity to put them out of work!
@emptywheel.bsky.socialReposted by @mattfieldwood.bsky.socialHere's what Trump judge Gary Brown said in a filing ON MONDAY about Brenan Cuni, who almost shot a kid in NYC.
![After the Court required a further submission to explain this incongruity,
respondents submitted an affidavit from Brenden Cuni, a Supervisory Detention and
Deportation Officer with ICE, who was responsible for conducting the background
searches. DE 20-7. Cuni was notified “some time before 5:50 PM” that “Petitioner was detained.” Id. ¶3. He searched five separate federal databases, all of which “yielded
negative results.” Id. ¶5 (emphasis added). Cuni then “issued and signed the I-200,
Warrant of Arrest, and checked off the boxes relating to ‘biometric confirmation of the
subject’s identity and a records check of federal databases . . . .’” Id. Of course, since the
records checks were negative, it was undeniably false, though represented as true in the
warrant, that “biometric confirmation [and] records check of federal databases
affirmatively indicate” that the petitioner lacked immigration status. DE 7-1. Cuni
explains that ICE then processed the petitioner, and in so doing, entered his data into
those various databases. After processing (and after the warrant was signed and
executed), Cuni ordered another officer to run “a second records check of the electronic
federal databases, which then yielded positive results . . . because Petitioner’s information
was now part of the system.” DE 20-7 ¶7 (emphasis added).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreidqylhmhwshnfs3a5dq2g3wiulejbwwwgoia34tsntiszybms4j6m)
@ronfilipkowski.bsky.socialReposted by @mattfieldwood.bsky.socialHe makes a good point.
@paleofuture.bsky.socialReposted by @mattfieldwood.bsky.socialThis would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.
wapo.stTrump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policyThe purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.
@zamosta.bsky.socialReposted by @mattfieldwood.bsky.socialLast year, Amazon ended its WFH policy and required employees return to the office five days a week.
forbes.comBillionaire Jeff Bezos Says AI Could Enable 3-Day Workweeks For AmericansIn an interview with Fox News, the Amazon founder said he disagreed with the assessment that AI will lead to large-scale job losses.
@nohomers.bsky.socialReposted by @mattfieldwood.bsky.socialI wonder who will be buying stuff from Amazon when no one has any money