Matt Cameron
@mattcameron.bsky.social
Fighting ICE since 2006, cohosting @openargs.bsky.social since 2024, playing your piano since 1987. Read my journal at http://deportnation.com
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Matt Cameron
@mattcameron.bsky.social
· Jul 2
PRARIELAND GODDAMN
"What kind of people are not against fascism?"
deportnation.substack.com
I can't stop thinking about Prairieland.
is anyone else still rocking this absolute monster of a post-hardcore masterpiece from one of the worst-named bands of all time 26 years later? strong recommend if you haven't slept much and are need a soundtrack for suing some of the worst people on earth
open.spotify.com/album/0Pv5bd...
open.spotify.com/album/0Pv5bd...
Relationship Of Command - Album by At the Drive-In | Spotify
At the Drive-In · album · 2000 · 13 songs
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October 8, 2026 at 2:32 PM
is anyone else still rocking this absolute monster of a post-hardcore masterpiece from one of the worst-named bands of all time 26 years later? strong recommend if you haven't slept much and are need a soundtrack for suing some of the worst people on earth
open.spotify.com/album/0Pv5bd...
open.spotify.com/album/0Pv5bd...
Hardly anyone deserves to be scammed out of more than a quarter million dollars. Very nearly no one. Everyone but this guy specifically really
“Deters wrote that he has paid Guilfoyle $300k over the years and had ‘not received one favor.’”
He allegedly added, ‘I am not naive or a sucker. I need results.’”
Also Deters:
He allegedly added, ‘I am not naive or a sucker. I need results.’”
Also Deters:
'No one can stop me': Lawyer tells bar he isn’t really suspended, and it can't block his paralegal work
A Kentucky lawyer who says he is working as a paralegal at the law firm carrying his name claims to be retired, rather than suspended, which means that the Kentucky Bar Association has no authority to hold him in contempt for allegedly practicing law.
www.abajournal.com
October 8, 2026 at 3:15 AM
Hardly anyone deserves to be scammed out of more than a quarter million dollars. Very nearly no one. Everyone but this guy specifically really
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I had a little bit of difficulty writing this because the question "should a higher court overrule a lower court's administrative stay in a way that lets the appellee kill the appellant while the lower court is still reading the briefs" felt like a silly question. And yet.
"If the Court will not treat capital cases with the care they deserve, the American people should ensure that it can no longer stop other courts from doing so."
Congress Should Strip the Supreme Court of Its Power to Greenlight Blocked Executions
If the Court will not treat cases like Christa Pike’s with the care they deserve, the American people should ensure that it can no longer stop other courts from doing so.
ballsandstrikes.org
October 7, 2026 at 3:06 PM
I had a little bit of difficulty writing this because the question "should a higher court overrule a lower court's administrative stay in a way that lets the appellee kill the appellant while the lower court is still reading the briefs" felt like a silly question. And yet.
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RIP Margaret Hamilton, the brilliant computer scientist whose contributions to software for the Apollo Guidance Computer were absolutely crucial to the Apollo Moon landings. She also helped shape the discipline of computer engineering while at MIT's Instrumentation Lab: news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
October 7, 2026 at 11:24 PM
RIP Margaret Hamilton, the brilliant computer scientist whose contributions to software for the Apollo Guidance Computer were absolutely crucial to the Apollo Moon landings. She also helped shape the discipline of computer engineering while at MIT's Instrumentation Lab: news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
There's a whole bit on today's @openargs.bsky.social in which I complain about how annoyed I am with myself for being sexually attracted to hatemonger Douglas Murray, which is both objectively funny and perhaps the most embarrassing way I could have publicly come out as a Kinsey 2 at the age of 46 🙃
October 7, 2026 at 12:22 PM
There's a whole bit on today's @openargs.bsky.social in which I complain about how annoyed I am with myself for being sexually attracted to hatemonger Douglas Murray, which is both objectively funny and perhaps the most embarrassing way I could have publicly come out as a Kinsey 2 at the age of 46 🙃
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I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.
October 6, 2026 at 1:39 PM
I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.
This my new top candidate for a post which I would never believe could possibly be true if I could send it back in time to myself to read in 2016. It's a sick joke. They have managed to turn a refugee resettlement system which should be a matter of national pride into a parody of itself
BREAKING: For the first time in 10 months, the U.S. admitted a refugee who is not a white South African.
In September, the U.S. admitted 3,386 white South Africans and two Afghans (in D.C.)
In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 16,287 white South Africans, five Afghans, and nobody else.
In September, the U.S. admitted 3,386 white South Africans and two Afghans (in D.C.)
In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 16,287 white South Africans, five Afghans, and nobody else.
October 6, 2026 at 3:54 AM
This my new top candidate for a post which I would never believe could possibly be true if I could send it back in time to myself to read in 2016. It's a sick joke. They have managed to turn a refugee resettlement system which should be a matter of national pride into a parody of itself
The American Association of University Professors has racked up plenty of confirmed Trump policy kills this term--hoping this is another! I was expecting this suit months ago, but the infamous "adjustment memo" I wrote about back in May is a nebulous beast
deportnation.substack.com/p/did-dhs-ju...
deportnation.substack.com/p/did-dhs-ju...
October 6, 2026 at 12:05 AM
The American Association of University Professors has racked up plenty of confirmed Trump policy kills this term--hoping this is another! I was expecting this suit months ago, but the infamous "adjustment memo" I wrote about back in May is a nebulous beast
deportnation.substack.com/p/did-dhs-ju...
deportnation.substack.com/p/did-dhs-ju...
This story raises one of so many things that I wish every American knew about US immigration enforcement: continued detention of someone arrested on an old removal order* even after it is reopened and no longer valid is the rule--not the exception
*whether or not they ever knew about it
*whether or not they ever knew about it
A judge rescinded Aminata Seck’s deportation order, yet this #HBCU honor student remains detained. She needs medical care. Release her. Detaining Aminata Seck serves no public-safety purpose. @urbanviewradio.bsky.social @undocblack.bsky.social
wtop.com/national/202...
wtop.com/national/202...
Women’s basketball player from Senegal has deportation order rescinded after arrest by ICE – WTOP News
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky State University women’s basketball player from Senegal, who was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement , has been gr
wtop.com
October 2, 2026 at 3:08 PM
This story raises one of so many things that I wish every American knew about US immigration enforcement: continued detention of someone arrested on an old removal order* even after it is reopened and no longer valid is the rule--not the exception
*whether or not they ever knew about it
*whether or not they ever knew about it
look we've all done drugs but also done the nuclear, that's what 5-HTP is for
Trump on Iran: "They were nuclear and drug. They were doing drugs but they were doing the nuclear. But these drug factories slash nuclear factories were hit so hard."
October 2, 2026 at 2:26 AM
look we've all done drugs but also done the nuclear, that's what 5-HTP is for
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2 years later, here’s what the Trump campaign’s promise of mass deportation looks like on the ground: prioritizing young people who filed for asylum as children 10 years ago who now speak perfect English and are at the forefront of American cancer research.
Ask me how I know
Ask me how I know
JD Vance says mass deportations should 'start with 1 million,' defends 'thought experiment' giving parents extra votes
GOP vice presidential candidate JD Vance spoke with ABC News' Jonathan Karl about a wide variety of topics including immigration and his views on childless Americans.
abcnews.com
October 2, 2026 at 12:59 AM
2 years later, here’s what the Trump campaign’s promise of mass deportation looks like on the ground: prioritizing young people who filed for asylum as children 10 years ago who now speak perfect English and are at the forefront of American cancer research.
Ask me how I know
Ask me how I know
There are probably still a million former OA listeners out there who don't know how much better this show is than it ever was before the single most dramatic series of events in American podcasting briefly ruined it, and to you I say: welcome to the Cameron Reformation era
Tomorrow on OA:
*Extremely Alanis Morrissette voice*
YOO YOO YOO
YOO OUGHTA KNOW
*Extremely Alanis Morrissette voice*
YOO YOO YOO
YOO OUGHTA KNOW
September 30, 2026 at 2:54 AM
There are probably still a million former OA listeners out there who don't know how much better this show is than it ever was before the single most dramatic series of events in American podcasting briefly ruined it, and to you I say: welcome to the Cameron Reformation era
the Hawks/Hawkeyes thing is really funny, but the fact that the brains of a sitting U.S. Senator *and his entire staff* are so thoroughly cooked that they thought this nonsense meant anything at all is going to make me go doomer if I think about it too much
September 30, 2026 at 1:37 AM
the Hawks/Hawkeyes thing is really funny, but the fact that the brains of a sitting U.S. Senator *and his entire staff* are so thoroughly cooked that they thought this nonsense meant anything at all is going to make me go doomer if I think about it too much
unironically hoping that historians ironically label the second Trump term "the Era of Super Intelligence" for the rest of time
United States President Donald Trump issues executive order instructing federal government agencies to "use the terms 'Super Intelligence' and 'SI' in place of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' and will not acknowledge the usage of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' in any applicable setting."
Inaugurating The Era Of Super Intelligence
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Every child deserves a safe and nurturing home where they ...
www.whitehouse.gov
September 30, 2026 at 12:57 AM
unironically hoping that historians ironically label the second Trump term "the Era of Super Intelligence" for the rest of time
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Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.
September 28, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.
if you live in Boston and claim to have never heard "Choosin' Texas" I have immediately learned something about you: you haven't used a ridesharing app more than a couple of times in the past year
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
What Some Folks Really Mean When They Claim to Have Never Heard 'Choosin' Texas'
Claiming to have never heard Ella Langley's record-setting country song 'Choosin' Texas' is similar to saying, 'I listen to anything but country.'
www.rollingstone.com
September 27, 2026 at 4:19 PM
if you live in Boston and claim to have never heard "Choosin' Texas" I have immediately learned something about you: you haven't used a ridesharing app more than a couple of times in the past year
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
my man went so rogue that he wrote everything out as a chapter in the single most influential document of the MAGA movement a full year before the election before sliding comfortably into exactly the position he was lobbying for after it
Congress funded the CDC's Alzheimer's work, the sickle cell and epilepsy data programs and a rape prevention unit, and Vought simply will not release the money. Grassley told him to his face he lacks the authority. The pocket rescission alone took 4.9 billion.
Republicans furious as Trump’s budget director goes 'rogue'
The director of the Office of Management and Budget is infuriating Republican lawmakers by "going rogue" on what appropriations were approved by the House and Senate.
www.alternet.org
September 27, 2026 at 6:36 AM
my man went so rogue that he wrote everything out as a chapter in the single most influential document of the MAGA movement a full year before the election before sliding comfortably into exactly the position he was lobbying for after it
I know the conventional wisdom is to drop acid out in nature on a perfect sunny day, but so long as you've got your set and setting right there is something to be said for tripping through a heavy nor'easter
September 27, 2026 at 4:56 AM
I know the conventional wisdom is to drop acid out in nature on a perfect sunny day, but so long as you've got your set and setting right there is something to be said for tripping through a heavy nor'easter
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So irresponsible of him to do this at a time when we’ve demonized / criminalized the most effective class of rx pain management to such an extent that people with chronic pain are left to either suffer or figure out their own solutions. Botanical kratom fills that gap for many ppl.
September 24, 2026 at 10:55 PM
So irresponsible of him to do this at a time when we’ve demonized / criminalized the most effective class of rx pain management to such an extent that people with chronic pain are left to either suffer or figure out their own solutions. Botanical kratom fills that gap for many ppl.
This John Oliver piece is remarkably reductive--and regressive--for someone who is otherwise fairly reliable on the stuff that matters. Reducing botanical kratom to a dangerous "gas station drug" because 7OH exists is 1:1 like criminalizing marijuana because K2 & other synthetic THC products exist
Gas Station Drugs: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
www.youtube.com
September 24, 2026 at 10:47 PM
This John Oliver piece is remarkably reductive--and regressive--for someone who is otherwise fairly reliable on the stuff that matters. Reducing botanical kratom to a dangerous "gas station drug" because 7OH exists is 1:1 like criminalizing marijuana because K2 & other synthetic THC products exist
1/ THAT TIME I ACCIDENTALLY WROTE A BOOK
3 years ago I accidentally combined too much MDMA w/a full dose of Wellbutrin and kicked off a 2-week burst of manic creativity like nothing I have ever experienced in my life. I adore the manuscript which came out of this, as does everyone who has read it
3 years ago I accidentally combined too much MDMA w/a full dose of Wellbutrin and kicked off a 2-week burst of manic creativity like nothing I have ever experienced in my life. I adore the manuscript which came out of this, as does everyone who has read it
September 23, 2026 at 2:10 AM
1/ THAT TIME I ACCIDENTALLY WROTE A BOOK
3 years ago I accidentally combined too much MDMA w/a full dose of Wellbutrin and kicked off a 2-week burst of manic creativity like nothing I have ever experienced in my life. I adore the manuscript which came out of this, as does everyone who has read it
3 years ago I accidentally combined too much MDMA w/a full dose of Wellbutrin and kicked off a 2-week burst of manic creativity like nothing I have ever experienced in my life. I adore the manuscript which came out of this, as does everyone who has read it
What's the one after late-stage capitalism
September 23, 2026 at 1:55 AM
What's the one after late-stage capitalism
TIL that the plains of Megiddo--the place I was raised to believe the world would end in the slaughter of the armies of Iran, Russia, etc after an attempted invasion of the reformed Jewish homeland--are a UN World Heritage site and I am done for the night
www.holylandtourstravel.com/christian-ho...
www.holylandtourstravel.com/christian-ho...
Megiddo Israel & Armageddon Biblical Prophecy | Christian Holy Land Tours
Discover Megiddo in Israel, the Biblical site of Armageddon mentioned in Revelation. Explore Christian Holy Land tours featuring Megiddo, Jerusalem, Galilee, Biblical prophecy, and ancient Israel arch...
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September 23, 2026 at 1:29 AM
TIL that the plains of Megiddo--the place I was raised to believe the world would end in the slaughter of the armies of Iran, Russia, etc after an attempted invasion of the reformed Jewish homeland--are a UN World Heritage site and I am done for the night
www.holylandtourstravel.com/christian-ho...
www.holylandtourstravel.com/christian-ho...
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As someone who went through it, I promise you, it was an occupation. Looked and felt like we were being overtaken. I’m still triggered as are SO many of us. I am changed from it, it was absolute terror.
September 17, 2026 at 10:12 PM
As someone who went through it, I promise you, it was an occupation. Looked and felt like we were being overtaken. I’m still triggered as are SO many of us. I am changed from it, it was absolute terror.