Matthew Sheffield

@mattsheffield
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🟦 Editing @discoverflux
🟦 Writer, web developer, and former political pollster
🟦 Host, Theory of Change podcast 

🟦 Words in Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Daily Beast, and elsewhere
🟦 Posts about politics, science, religion, media, and technology with occasional memes


New book: "What Republicans Know"
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All valid epistemologies are similar, while each faulty epistemology is incorrect in its own way.

#philosophy

It's so unfortunate that many Democrats do not understand the difference between helping the party be more effective at advocating for itself versus nihilist leftism that doesn't believe voting ever works.

There's a massive difference between demanding that Democrats reach out to the public and actually pay for advocacy media and "all parties are the same" BS.

Dobbs v. Jackson was just the beginning of the reactionary assault on women

Reproductive rights journalist Susan Rinkunas joins "Theory of Change" to discuss the right's sprawling effort to eliminate birth control, abortion pills, and women’s rights as a whole https://plus.flux.community/p/dobbs-v-jackson-was-just-the-beginning

Dobbs v. Jackson was just the beginning of the reactionary assault on women

Susan Rinkunas discusses the sprawling effort to eliminate birth control, abortion pills, and women’s rights as a whole

Flux

CBS should launch a new sitcom called "Everybody Hates Bari."

Democrats and independents don't want blatantly pro-Republican bias. Republicans want vein-popping ragebait.

This was doomed from the start, and anyone outside the elite Republican bubble knew it.

https://www.status.news/p/cbs-news-ratings-decline-bari-weiss

Weiss’ Ratings Wipeout

Six months into Bari Weiss’ overhaul of CBS News, new ratings data obtained by Status shows its flagship programs are shedding viewers at an alarming rate, collapsing to historic lows and accelerating the network’s decline.

Status

The doctrinaire libertarianism of Jeffrey Epstein is vital to understanding his influence.

Libertarians have broadly infected almost all left institutions around the world, and they're a huge reason why the US Democrats are so feckless. https://america2.news/part-three-what-was-epsteins-edge-agenda/

Part Three: What was Epstein's “Edge” agenda?

Was Jeffrey Epstein part of Russia's broader war on the West? In this multi-part series we examine his obsession with nuclear scientists, eugenics, transhumanism, and influence. What we found will likely surprise you.

America 2.0

Hey America, your President just spent $1 billion of your money in order to NOT get more energy from offshore wind.

TotalEnergies accepts $1B offshore wind buyout, pivots to oil and gas in US 😠 https://www.utilitydive.com/news/trump-administration-plans-buyout-offshore-wind-leases/814944/

Trump administration plans $1B buyout for offshore wind leases: NYT

TotalEnergies purchased the Carolina Long Bay and Attentive Energy leases for a total of $955 million in 2022. The Trump administration wants to offer the company $928 million to give them up.

Utility Dive
Cats: You scratch my back, I'll.

“If you still don’t understand why
@WIRED
covers politics,” [Katie Drummond] said in an interview, “you are either willfully ignorant or a complete idiot.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/business/media/wired-editor-katie-drummond-tech-politics.html?unlocked_article_code=1.T1A.GMVv.j9yZWenm4j9T&smid=url-share

#nytimes #giftlink 🎁
#techNews #wired

Wired’s New Editor Doesn’t Care if the Tech Bros Are Mad

Katie Drummond has transformed the publication into a bright spot for CondĂŠ Nast with aggressive political reporting.

The New York Times

Trump has lifted sanctions on Iranian oil, so he is literally paying Iran not to surrender. This on top of also doing the same with Iran's ally, Russia.

The USA is now directly funding two of the three nations Trump claims to most oppose, right after Trump lifted import restrictions on China.

All of the senior military brass warned not to attack Iran, which is why Trump turned to the Fox TV cabinet instead.

And of course, Rupert Murdoch never met a war he didn't like.

As Trump's illegal attack on Iran goes sideways, Democrats must fight further war funding

The case for Democrats opposing budgetary support for more mayhem in the Middle East (and very possibly beyond) is overwhelming https://plus.flux.community/p/as-trumps-illegal-attack-on-iran

As Trump's illegal attack on Iran goes sideways, Democrats must fight further war funding

The case for Democrats opposing budgetary support for more mayhem in the Middle East (and very possibly beyond) is overwhelming

Flux