Matt Doyle (he/they)

Community organizer, novelist, freelance writer & LARP designer. Looking for an agent. Queer as heck, genderchaotic, he/they.

[Matt Doyle (he/they) @MattDoyleSmit]

I currently have 2-3 openings in an every-Wednesday game of D&D 5e whose characters are pirates on the high seas. We run on Discord from 6-9 PM CST, for $25 a session. Game is queer-friendly & accessible to neurodiverse players. No books, dice, or prior expertise needed.

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

“A federal agent fired shots through the driver’s side window”.

Sound familiar?

That’s exactly how Renee Nicole Good was killed.

This 23 year old lost his life and ICE’s involvement was covered up for a year.

They’re killing people and hiding the evidence.

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

‘Til the day I die, I will never understand how this wasn’t the end of it, right from the very beginning.

[Matt Doyle (he/they) @MattDoyleSmit]

@Pontifex Your Holiness, please reach put directly to Marco Rubio and the Vice President, and encourage them to open their hearts to reasoned diplomacy.

[Matt Doyle (he/they) @MattDoyleSmit]

Worth comment, but not at all surprising.

[James Pitt @Sahelanth]

Remarkable: Border Patrol officers commit crimes at a higher rate than undocumented immigrants do.
https://t.co/sLJNX2U7ky

(details in image alt text. credit @vermontgmg)

[Matt Doyle (he/they) @MattDoyleSmit]

@hradzka That's not what it looks like from Minnesota.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

BREAKING: A witness who was just 5 feet from Alex Pretti filed an affidavit depicting what she saw.

She says he didn’t touch any of the officers and didn’t appear to be resisting. He was merely helping a woman who had been pepper-sprayed.

She’s is terrified that ICE is looking for her, saying they are lying and she doesn’t know what they will do to her if they find her.

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

The Border Patrol’s killing of Alex Pretti in Minnesota sends a message that “masked federal agents can murder you in cold blood, simply because an American citizen exercising their Second Amendment rights scares them,” @Tyler_A_Harper argues: https://t.co/gfr25e5Ajt

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

Now, all that said, I will confess: I sometimes do something that looks a lot like "shopping very carefully," and when I do, I derive enormous satisfaction from it (but I am always careful not to mistake my tiny victories for political action).

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[Pablo Manríquez @PabloReports]

BREAKING: Over 100 priests arrested in Minneapolis for protesting ICE in Minnesota where today it's -21 degrees outside MSP Airport.

The clergy gathered in prayerful solidarity to demand airlines — especially @Delta and Signature Aviation — cease contracting deportation flights to DHS.

So far, over 2,000 deportations have gone through MSP, per organizers.

[Stan Lee @TheRealStanLee]

As we remember Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. today, here are some wise words from a 1968 "Stan's Soapbox" column.

#mlkday #martinlutherkingjr #civilrights #stanlee #stanleeuniverse

[Nicole Foy @nicoleMfoy]

“Imagine the chaos”

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

ICE IS STILL HOLDING 3 GUYS FROM MY TRIBE.

THE OGLALA LAKOTA NATION.

YES, ICE IS GOING AFTER NATIVE AMERICANS NOW.

[WarMonitor @TheWarMonitor]

ICE holding people like hostages while demanding concessions in exchange is being described by critics as ransom.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

President Trump’s unilateral military action to attack another country and seize Maduro — no matter how terrible a dictator he is — is unconstitutional and threatens to drag the U.S. into further conflicts in the region. What does it mean that the U.S. will ‘run’ Venezuela, and what will Trump do next around the world? The American people voted for lower costs, not for Trump’s dangerous military adventurism overseas that won’t make the American people safer.

[Matt Doyle (he/they) @MattDoyleSmit]

I'm less worried about Maduro than I am about the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs lying to congressional oversight. Venezuela isn't the only country the US military took over - who's running the shop domestically?

[Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo]

I loathe the Maduro regime passionately and think Venezuelans would be better off without him but this attack is unprovoked, unconstitutional, and unwise.

[Randy Bryce @IronStache]

Posting pictures of prisoners of war is against the Geneva Convention.

At least he’s consistent.

[Mrs humphrey Bogart @Cocolasvegass]

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in U.S. courts. So the position now seems to be that U.S. courts can prosecute foreign presidents, but not hold the U.S. president accountable for crimes.