Matt
@mikalatos.com
Award-winning author and screenwriter living in Portland, OR. My first graphic novel comes out from Random House/Waterbrook in April 2025! TV shows in development with my writing partner Hugh Howey at AMC and Sony.
Yeah, what kind of democratic socialist shops w/ a brand that (checks notes) owns their supply chain, reduces their carbon footprint, & teaches workers how to handcraft quality goods for a fair wage. Why isn't she wearing $40 pleather boots glued together by slaves who sleep on the factory floor?
Thor Benson@thorbenson.bsky.social · 8mo agoNew York Post looks normal
Psst. Hey, come closer. No, closer. I have a New Year’s secret for you. It’s this: If you care about people you don’t even know, and try to live your life that way, you are absolutely beautiful no matter what you look like.
Oops. Deleting that. How disappointing. I was a big fan of his go-kart racing, I didn’t know anything about his history of kidnapping princesses.
The National Memorial For Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, is the nation's first comprehensive memorial dedicated to the legacy of Black Americans who were enslaved, terrorized by lynching, humiliated by racial segregation, and presumed guilty and dangerous.
this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
Great Moments in Immigration Enforcement "I asked them if they had a judicial warrant. They said they didn't need one. I said yes you do." Employees then captured video of agents leaving and turning the wrong way on a one way street. youtu.be/C9t9HE9vmX0?...
South Minneapolis restaurant says ICE entered without warrant, staff push back
ICE's presence is keeping many on edge, including one Minneapolis restaurant, which says it had its first ICE encounter since opening more than a decade ago.
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ICE arrested this man, Luis, in my community on Thanksgiving morning. As his partner walked away they laughed and called "Happy Thanksgiving" after her. open.substack.com/pub/thesesto...
ICE arrested him on Thanksgiving morning
Then made jokes about it in front of his partner
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As CBP forces began disappearing residents in the greater New Orleans area, the New Orleans City Council launched an online portal for residents to report civil & human rights abuses by ICE & CBP paramilitary units occupying the city during the Trump regime’s anti-migrant occupation. #USDemocracy
New Orleans launches portal to report human rights abuses by Trump paramilitary units
The New Orleans City Council Dec. 3 launched an online portal for residents to report civil and human rights abuses by ICE and CBP paramilitary units occupying the city during
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it finally happened -- a good student of mine vanished from class about six weeks ago. this student reappeared today and explained that they had been in ICE detention in another state during that time. ICE needs to end. ICE needs to end. ICE needs to end.
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars. She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
"There is no statute of limitations on murder."
ElieNYC@elienyc.bsky.social · 8mo agoIf we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER. My latest in @thenation.com
ICE raids are cruel, inhumane, and do nothing to serve public safety. My responsibility is to be the mayor to each and every person that calls this city their home. That includes millions of immigrants— of which I am one.
"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9mo agoIt didn’t even take 6 hours.
This headline is going around and the thing that is really bothering me is that buying a single item and then using it and NOT collecting more items is literally the opposite of hoarding.
NEW: Earlier this month, I spent the day with the Luhmanns — a family rooted in theologically conservative Christianity. In the morning, the homeschooled teenage sons tracked ICE. In the afternoon, the mother aided an immigrant mother whose partner was deported. religionnews.com/2025/11/25/h...
How one conservative Christian family is pushing back against ICE
A coalition of activists, everyday citizens and people of faith — including theologically conservative Christians — who have pooled resources and learned new technologies to mount an effort they say i...
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Wanna know how bad the Arizona legislator's petition forgeries were? Here's the examples from the Austin Smith indictment. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 9mo agoAmazing story, state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...
Stupendous journalism by a consortium of independent newsrooms (incl @blockclubchi.bsky.social @southsideweekly.bsky.social @thetriibe.com) chronicling nearly 50 times federal agents wantonly gassed people—mostly protestors—across Chicagoland, & the harm it causes southsideweekly.com/feds-tear-ga...
Feds Used Chemical Agents Dozens of Times in Chicago
An investigation by reporters from six newsrooms found that agents used chemical irritants nearly 50 times during Operation Midway Blitz.
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potential bad news for people who value...water (I'm using 'potential' bc it is still a *proposed rule for now, and you have time submit comments and/or speak at upcoming public meetings and make your opposition known www.epa.gov/wotus/public...) ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
How the Supreme Court Helped Trump Deliver More Pollution In Your Drinking Water
A proposed rule change from Trump’s EPA would strip federal protections from 85 percent of the nation’s wetlands.
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My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
Over 20,000 students stayed home from school Monday in Charlotte amid ICE raids, representing 15% of enrollment The district is nearly one-third Hispanic, per WBTV www.wbtv.com/2025/11/18/n...
Nearly 21,000 Charlotte-Mecklenburg students absent from school on Monday, officials say
Officials did not make it clear if the absences were connected to the on-going immigration operation in the city.
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Just read a long article that started with "I'm not anti-semitic or racist" and ended with a bunch of racist and anti-semitic "observations."
This is the trailer for the latest show my sister @susanconnolly.bsky.social has worked on. The first episode of The Iris Affair will premiere on Sky / Now TV on Thurs 16Oct. youtu.be/Ck1P_Lcuxv0 (Ahhhhhh!)
The Iris Affair | Official Trailer | Sky
YouTube video by Sky TV
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UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview. “They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”
Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · 9mo ago“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
Sometimes America is so beautiful it just makes you want to cry. From beauty.
hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue. we’ll all subscribe en masse
Sean Dunn, aka DC Sandwich Guy, speaks outside court after his not guilty verdict: “I am so happy that justice prevails in spite of everything…. “That night I believe I was protecting the rights of immigrants… Every life matters, no matter where you came from, no matter how you got here…”
