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Matthew Federman

@matthewfederman.bsky.social

TV/Screenwriter. Co-Creator/EP of Blood and Treasure. Wrote on Limitless, Warehouse 13, Jericho, other stuff. Post about writing, the industry, neurodiversity (PDA Autism) and other stuff at my website: www.matthewfederman.com

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mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 3d ago

It's absolutely insane we've somehow let the Covid recriminations debate become like "why didn't we reopen in person schools before there was a vaccine" and not "why did none of the trump guys go to jail for stealing PPE from New York hospitals in March 2020"

Congressman Greg Landsman@repgreglandsman.bsky.social · 3d ago

They’ve added trillions in new spending. None of that has gone to Social Security or Medicaid. They will now say both are broke and must be cut. America needs new leadership.👇🏼

PBS News@pbsnews.org · 3d ago

Americans’ Social Security benefits will have to be cut by roughly a quarter in six years due to depleted funds, according to a June report from the Social Security Board of Trustees. That’s months sooner than the group had estimated in 2025. https://to.pbs.org/4f39DL0

Kirk Rudell@rudell.bsky.social · 3d ago

Shouldn’t be shocked at any lie RFK Jr tells, but he whined to Dana Bash that businesses were shut down during the pandemic “with no just compensation.” There was an almost trillion dollar PPP loan program, and his organization got millions from it, none of it paid back, to make payroll.

WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE .. Why is my loan information here? Loan Amount $521,012 Amount Forgiven $523,907 Includes any accrued interest Where applicants said the money will go Payroll $521,009 Utilities $1 Mortgage Interest $o Health Care $0 Rent $o Refinance EIDL $0 Debt Interest $0 Location New York, NY Urban Industry Environment, Conservation and Wildlife Organizations Date Approved Jan. 22, 2021 (Second Round) Lender HSBC Bank USA, National Association Jobs Reported 28 Business Type CorporationLOS ANGELES WATERKEEPER Why is my loan information here? Loan Amount $130,260 Amount Forgiven $131,434 Includes any accrued interest Where applicants said the money will go Payroll $130,260 Utilities $0 Mortgage Interest $0 Health Care $0 Rent $0 Refinance EIDL $0 Debt Interest $0 Location Santa Monica, CA Urban Industry Offices of Lawyers Date Approved April 10, 2020 (First Round) Lender Beneficial State Bank Jobs Reported 9Recipient WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC Location NEW YORK, NY Loan Status Forgiven as of April 1, 2021 Loan Amount $498,174 Date Approved April 27, 2020 Recipient LOS ANGELES WATERKEEPER Location Santa Monica, CA Loan Status Forgiven as of July 14, 2021 Loan Amount $130,260 Date Approved Feb. 12, 2021ProPublica: Search Every Company Approved for Federal Loans Search for PPP loan applications by organization, lender, zip code and business type. Waterkeeper Search For example: trucking, hospice, television, Kasowitz Benson Torres, 90210, Sole Proprietorship 16 loans found If you're looking for an exact term, try adding quotes, e.g., "farm market" Recipient OAHU WATERKEEPER Location HONOLULU, HI Loan Status Forgiven as of June 15, 2021 Loan Amount $14,300 Date Approved April 6, 2020
Matthew Federman@matthewfederman.bsky.social · 4d ago

Amazing, they tried to quietly dispose of this dirty diaper in the Friday night news dump and Gramps digs through the garbage to pull it back out and wave it around.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

Trump: “I disagree 100% with Jeanine Pirro on the Reflecting Pool. I don’t know what she was thinking? To me, it was a pure case of VANDALISM, that included the grass, which had a big 86 47 emblazoned …There may have been some contractor difficulty, but major damage was caused by VANDALS!”

Trump: “I disagree 100% with Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, on the Reflecting Pool. I don’t know what she was thinking? To me, it was a pure case of VANDALISM, that included the grass, which had a big 86 47 emblazoned in giant letters on it, and other elements of the surrounding area. There may have been some contractor difficulty, but the major damage was caused by VANDALS! President DJT”
Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 6d ago

Let’s be clear here, when scientists say mistakes were made at the start of the pandemic, we DO NOT mean that we did too much. We mean not socially distancing quickly enough, not making tests widely available, and not acknowledging COVID is airborne and distributing N95 masks to everyone.

Eric J. Robbins@ericjrobbins.bsky.social · 6d ago

A physician I know would spend their entire day in 2020 tending to people dying from COVID, then go home and have their parents tell them to their face that it was a hoax. When the doctor would try to share what they were seeing, they were dismissed and told they're just confused.

Shematologist, MD@shematologist.medsky.social · 6d ago

Back in 2020, as a pediatric hematologist married to a physician, we signed up to volunteer in a field hospital for patients with COVID. We wrote our wills and worried about getting our kids sick. I posted about terrifying outcomes in kids and received death threats. Fauci is a goddamn hero.

Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social · last wk.

forest service plans $10m worth of work to create fire breaks in superior national forest in minnesota. trump allows his top donor -- a self-proclaimed expert on everything -- to ixnay that funding because... reasons! superior national forest now on fire. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

‘We were shovel-ready’: A Minnesota forest hit by DOGE cuts is now ablaze

Officials said losing out on the ability to do vital prevention work at a perilous time for the region hindered them from being as prepared as they could have been.

washingtonpost.com

Matthew Federman@matthewfederman.bsky.social · 2w ago

So many revivals have this uncanny quality about them but King of the Hill really felt like the show just fast forwarded a bunch of years and picked up from there.

Drew McWeeny@drewmcweeny.com · 2w ago

I think there's a case to be made that KING OF THE HILL is the platonic ideal of what a revival TV show should be. It moves all of the characters forward, but they are still recognizably the characters we love. Very, very smart and enjoyable. Adult Bobby Hill fucking rules.

Asha Rangappa@asharangappa.bsky.social · 2w ago

This story is indeed insane. They literally *discounted his correct answers* (on questions about the Constitution) so that a Trump supporting girl who wants to go to Hillsdale College could win $25K and be televised meeting Trump. So. Gross.

Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2w ago

This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2w ago

Mark Zuckerberg's assistant at Meta, Josh Felker, who was responsible for Meta's "digital experiences for kids," was arrested after admitting he tried to sext a 13-year-old during an undercover sting. nypost.com/2026/07/20/u...

Exclusive | Meta worker who developed ‘digital experiences for kids’ admits to trying to sext child in undercover NYC sting

He admitted he had been grooming and sexting someone he thought was a 13-year-old girl during a sting by vigilante group Predator Poachers Long Island.

nypost.com

Jessica Kant@jessdkant.bsky.social · 2w ago

A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

LindaFly@lindafly.bsky.social · 2w ago

Canadian plane dropping water on the Los Angeles forest fire. Neighbors helping neighbors. Thank you so much Canada, we are sorry our current leader is an idiot.

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Matthew Federman@matthewfederman.bsky.social · 3w ago

Trying to explain to my kid how paranoid we were about nuclear war when I was growing up and my best example was we had a song about somebody releasing 99 red balloons into the air and accidentally setting off World War III and it was a hit in two languages.

public health guy@publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 3w ago

this is why we need to legally mandate the disclosure of this information. that we don't is a truly bipartisan congressional failure going back many years, fueled by industry cash.

paris martineau@paris.nyc · 3w ago

The way this recall has been handled so far is absolutely bizarre. Instead of listing brand names, Taylor Farm used internal abbreviations for all the products impacted I was able to get Walmart and Sysco to confirm their products were impacted, but the lack of details is a nightmare for consumers

The recall notices posted by Taylor Farms and the FDA are notably sparse on the essential details consumers need to easily identify affected products. The recall notice does not list the full brand names of the implicated products, and instead lists only what appears to be the abbreviations used internally by Taylor Farms to identify brands. Walmart’s Marketside house brand, for instance, was listed as “MKTSD” and Sysco, the U.S.’s largest food distributor, was listed as “SY.” Both companies confirmed that their products were part of the recall after being contacted by Consumer Reports. CR is working to confirm the identities of the six additional brands whose names are abbreviated in the recall notice. Taylor Farms did not immediately respond to CR’s questions about the identity of these brands. Given the lack of details, CR’s food safety experts advise consumers in the 27 states where Taylor Farms’ products were distributed to discard all iceberg lettuce out of an abundance of caution.