Brian Matthews
@bonobobri.bsky.social
Gen Xer in my "Fuck It 50s". Left leaning Pragmatist. Snarky. Skeptic. Introvert. Ally. Anti-Fascist. Old School Punk. Music Geek. Nerd. Chaotic Good. More
"Woke" than some, less than others. 🚫 DMs, unless you're a celebrity or I know you! ⚛️ 🤓 ☮️ 🖖
"Woke" than some, less than others. 🚫 DMs, unless you're a celebrity or I know you! ⚛️ 🤓 ☮️ 🖖
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LIVE: AOC, BERNIE, and MAMDANI lead MASSIVE NYC RALLY!!!!
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LIVE: AOC, BERNIE, and MAMDANI lead MASSIVE NYC RALLY!!!!
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October 27, 2025 at 2:43 AM
LIVE: AOC, BERNIE, and MAMDANI lead MASSIVE NYC RALLY!!!!
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Columbus bragged in letters about raping 9-year-old girls & selling them into slavery.
So of course, Trump is using him to replace Indigenous Peoples' Day,
calling Columbus the "first American hero."
Maybe he can rename it, Trump-Epstein-Columbus Day. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
So of course, Trump is using him to replace Indigenous Peoples' Day,
calling Columbus the "first American hero."
Maybe he can rename it, Trump-Epstein-Columbus Day. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
October 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Columbus bragged in letters about raping 9-year-old girls & selling them into slavery.
So of course, Trump is using him to replace Indigenous Peoples' Day,
calling Columbus the "first American hero."
Maybe he can rename it, Trump-Epstein-Columbus Day. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
So of course, Trump is using him to replace Indigenous Peoples' Day,
calling Columbus the "first American hero."
Maybe he can rename it, Trump-Epstein-Columbus Day. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
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Missing this guy today
September 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Missing this guy today
Yay Toledo!
When you see your library’s gear on The Paper. (great show, btw!)
September 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Yay Toledo!
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🚨 TONIGHT @ 8:30pm ET🚨 RSVP to join the Teach-In: Gaza and the Democratic Party: What’s Next for Organizing Against Genocide? bit.ly/gazaanddemoc...
🚨And on Thursday @ 8pm ET🚨 RSVP to join the Teach-In: How 9/11 Changed The World bit.ly/911andtheworld
Submit your own questions LIVE for Q&A!
🚨And on Thursday @ 8pm ET🚨 RSVP to join the Teach-In: How 9/11 Changed The World bit.ly/911andtheworld
Submit your own questions LIVE for Q&A!
September 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
🚨 TONIGHT @ 8:30pm ET🚨 RSVP to join the Teach-In: Gaza and the Democratic Party: What’s Next for Organizing Against Genocide? bit.ly/gazaanddemoc...
🚨And on Thursday @ 8pm ET🚨 RSVP to join the Teach-In: How 9/11 Changed The World bit.ly/911andtheworld
Submit your own questions LIVE for Q&A!
🚨And on Thursday @ 8pm ET🚨 RSVP to join the Teach-In: How 9/11 Changed The World bit.ly/911andtheworld
Submit your own questions LIVE for Q&A!
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Believe it or not, there are still a few fall programs with spots available! Visit toledolibrary.org and browse the full program calendar to find your next opportunity to expand your horizons, help your student succeed, or your child learn to read.
September 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Believe it or not, there are still a few fall programs with spots available! Visit toledolibrary.org and browse the full program calendar to find your next opportunity to expand your horizons, help your student succeed, or your child learn to read.
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Tonight at 7 PM We have a conversation with Jake Via the new full time organizer for the American Humanist Association. We find out what an organizer does, the best part of his job, and how to draw younger people into organized Humanism. https://toledoradio.org
September 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Tonight at 7 PM We have a conversation with Jake Via the new full time organizer for the American Humanist Association. We find out what an organizer does, the best part of his job, and how to draw younger people into organized Humanism. https://toledoradio.org
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Over and over, the Trump-Vance administration is tearing down rules that protect ordinary people from mistreatment by corporations. Now it's happening in the airline sector.
September 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Over and over, the Trump-Vance administration is tearing down rules that protect ordinary people from mistreatment by corporations. Now it's happening in the airline sector.
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Donate to help keep these billboards running as Trump threatens his fascist playbook.
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Chicago Is The Next Front Line Against Fascism
Chip in to billboards calling on Chicagoans to be ready — and reminding Trump’s enforcers that resistance will greet them at every corner.
secure.actblue.com
September 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Donate to help keep these billboards running as Trump threatens his fascist playbook.
secure.actblue.com/donate/pccc_...
secure.actblue.com/donate/pccc_...
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Dear Everyone in the Earth’s Eastern Hemisphere:
If you can see the Moon at all, you are witnessing a total lunar eclipse over the next few hours. The Full Moon is passing into and out of Earth’s conical shadow in space. This event is long and boring and resembles the Moon going through phases.
If you can see the Moon at all, you are witnessing a total lunar eclipse over the next few hours. The Full Moon is passing into and out of Earth’s conical shadow in space. This event is long and boring and resembles the Moon going through phases.
September 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Dear Everyone in the Earth’s Eastern Hemisphere:
If you can see the Moon at all, you are witnessing a total lunar eclipse over the next few hours. The Full Moon is passing into and out of Earth’s conical shadow in space. This event is long and boring and resembles the Moon going through phases.
If you can see the Moon at all, you are witnessing a total lunar eclipse over the next few hours. The Full Moon is passing into and out of Earth’s conical shadow in space. This event is long and boring and resembles the Moon going through phases.
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RIP to Flipper's Bruce Loose music.apple.com/us/album/alb...
Album - Generic Flipper by Flipper on Apple Music
Album · 1982 · 9 Songs
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September 7, 2025 at 5:59 PM
RIP to Flipper's Bruce Loose music.apple.com/us/album/alb...
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Resistance Calendar. Updated 9/2/25.
Blackout The System: BlackoutTheSystem.com
Boycotts: ThePeoplesUnionUSA.com
Quackograms to encourage reps to impeach RFK Jr.: StandUpForScience.net/quack-o-grams
No Kings 2: NoKings.org
General Strike: GeneralStrikeUS.com
Blackout The System: BlackoutTheSystem.com
Boycotts: ThePeoplesUnionUSA.com
Quackograms to encourage reps to impeach RFK Jr.: StandUpForScience.net/quack-o-grams
No Kings 2: NoKings.org
General Strike: GeneralStrikeUS.com
September 2, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Resistance Calendar. Updated 9/2/25.
Blackout The System: BlackoutTheSystem.com
Boycotts: ThePeoplesUnionUSA.com
Quackograms to encourage reps to impeach RFK Jr.: StandUpForScience.net/quack-o-grams
No Kings 2: NoKings.org
General Strike: GeneralStrikeUS.com
Blackout The System: BlackoutTheSystem.com
Boycotts: ThePeoplesUnionUSA.com
Quackograms to encourage reps to impeach RFK Jr.: StandUpForScience.net/quack-o-grams
No Kings 2: NoKings.org
General Strike: GeneralStrikeUS.com
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The date is set for the next big protest. Saturday, October 18th. NoKings.org
Comment your events.
Comment your events.
September 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The date is set for the next big protest. Saturday, October 18th. NoKings.org
Comment your events.
Comment your events.
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South Park returns with savage mockery of Trump, Vance and Kristi Noem
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South Park returns with savage mockery of Trump, Vance and Kristi Noem
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August 15, 2025 at 10:25 PM
South Park returns with savage mockery of Trump, Vance and Kristi Noem
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CW: Sexual assault
In multiple states, men have impersonated ICE agents to kidnap and assault women.
This is one of many reasons we shouldn't have a masked, unaccountable secret police force roaming the streets. Our elected officials can and must act now: www.bluestatedefiance.org/no-secret-po...
In multiple states, men have impersonated ICE agents to kidnap and assault women.
This is one of many reasons we shouldn't have a masked, unaccountable secret police force roaming the streets. Our elected officials can and must act now: www.bluestatedefiance.org/no-secret-po...
August 13, 2025 at 12:18 AM
CW: Sexual assault
In multiple states, men have impersonated ICE agents to kidnap and assault women.
This is one of many reasons we shouldn't have a masked, unaccountable secret police force roaming the streets. Our elected officials can and must act now: www.bluestatedefiance.org/no-secret-po...
In multiple states, men have impersonated ICE agents to kidnap and assault women.
This is one of many reasons we shouldn't have a masked, unaccountable secret police force roaming the streets. Our elected officials can and must act now: www.bluestatedefiance.org/no-secret-po...
My first two Celebrity Crushes! lol
Remembering my friend Olivia Newton-John today. She was a truly beautiful soul. This is from her very first US TV special in 1976 - "A Special Olivia Newton-John" 💖
August 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
My first two Celebrity Crushes! lol
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Astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of NASA's Apollo 13 mission, has died at 97
August 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of NASA's Apollo 13 mission, has died at 97
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Your local NPR station needs you more than ever. You can make a monthly contribution here: www.npr.org/donations/su...
August 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Your local NPR station needs you more than ever. You can make a monthly contribution here: www.npr.org/donations/su...
Glad to see there's something good happening in my hometown!
Main library leaders announced plans to reopen its cafe, and the new operators might look familiar.
Toledo Library selects EatWell Cafe as replacement for SAME Cafe, new operators share vision
It’s a local non-profit organization that uses a participation-based system, allowing customers to pay what they can or volunteer in exchange for a meal.
www.13abc.com
August 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Glad to see there's something good happening in my hometown!
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"Bluesky is dying"
Oh yeah? Then explain why this GIF always does numbers.
Oh yeah? Then explain why this GIF always does numbers.
two men are standing next to each other holding guns in a field .
ALT: two men are standing next to each other holding guns in a field .
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August 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM
"Bluesky is dying"
Oh yeah? Then explain why this GIF always does numbers.
Oh yeah? Then explain why this GIF always does numbers.
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The Trump administration is ramping up a massive hiring spree at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, offering up to $50,000 signing bonuses, waiving age limits and invoking wartime-style imagery in a bid to lure thousands of new officers.
Trump offers $50,000 bonuses to hire thousands for ICE push
(Bloomberg) — The Trump administration is ramping up a massive hiring spree at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, offering up to $50,000 signing bonuses, waiving age limits and invoking war…
trib.al
August 8, 2025 at 12:02 AM
The Trump administration is ramping up a massive hiring spree at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, offering up to $50,000 signing bonuses, waiving age limits and invoking wartime-style imagery in a bid to lure thousands of new officers.
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Research shows mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives during the COVID-19 pandemic.
abcnews.go.com/Health/wireS...
abcnews.go.com/Health/wireS...
What to know about mRNA vaccines
Research shows mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives during the COVID-19 pandemic
abcnews.go.com
August 7, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Research shows mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives during the COVID-19 pandemic.
abcnews.go.com/Health/wireS...
abcnews.go.com/Health/wireS...
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The stories we tell matter. I know this not from watching but from memory. I was just a child, held behind barbed wire in a U.S. internment camp, when an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima—killing members of my family.
August 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The stories we tell matter. I know this not from watching but from memory. I was just a child, held behind barbed wire in a U.S. internment camp, when an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima—killing members of my family.
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Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good.
I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
August 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good.
I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
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Stephen Colbert is going SCORCHED EARTH right now. To RFK Jr: “Fuck you, you roid-addled nepo carnie! Fuck you, you roadkill-munching Luddite human slim jim!”
August 7, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Stephen Colbert is going SCORCHED EARTH right now. To RFK Jr: “Fuck you, you roid-addled nepo carnie! Fuck you, you roadkill-munching Luddite human slim jim!”