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@matt12l.bsky.social
Assistant Ketchup Sommelier - center fielder 1908 Chicago Brown Sox’s - third chair kazoo of the Whoville municipal brass band
Motto: “We all need more equality and less bullsh!t”
Motto: “We all need more equality and less bullsh!t”
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Especially in Minnesota.
Would wager serious money:
not one election doomer has ever served
as an election judge
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not one election doomer has ever served
as an election judge
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February 6, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Especially in Minnesota.
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I've noticed this, too. I have lots of gay and lesbian friends who served in the military, had big traditional weddings, settled down with two kids and a house and now volunteer on the PTA.
Meanwhile Republican op-ed columnists are like "what if Jeffrey Epstein wasn't so bad after all"
Meanwhile Republican op-ed columnists are like "what if Jeffrey Epstein wasn't so bad after all"
odd feature of our time in how many liberals and progressive are bog standard monogamous family types--Serwer, Bouie, Hayes, AOC, etc--and how many Traditional Family Values conservatives are fuckin drugged up perverts
February 6, 2026 at 4:06 PM
I've noticed this, too. I have lots of gay and lesbian friends who served in the military, had big traditional weddings, settled down with two kids and a house and now volunteer on the PTA.
Meanwhile Republican op-ed columnists are like "what if Jeffrey Epstein wasn't so bad after all"
Meanwhile Republican op-ed columnists are like "what if Jeffrey Epstein wasn't so bad after all"
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FWIW this is more or less how white conservatives destroyed multiracial democracy after emancipation. That & paramilitary violence, but of course they would never... oh yeah they're doing that too.
Here's @rickhasen.bsky.social detailing the scenario in which Trump uses search warrant to seize ballot boxes in a contested 2026 locale. This is more worrisome than ICE at the polls. Hasen also suggests ways to act against this now.
It's harrowing stuff:
newrepublic.com/article/2062...
It's harrowing stuff:
newrepublic.com/article/2062...
February 6, 2026 at 3:43 PM
FWIW this is more or less how white conservatives destroyed multiracial democracy after emancipation. That & paramilitary violence, but of course they would never... oh yeah they're doing that too.
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Oh noooooooo!!!!
Tricia McLaughlin's addiction to slandering those that CBP assaults just got Marimar Martinez' shooters personal texts released!!!!
Tricia McLaughlin's addiction to slandering those that CBP assaults just got Marimar Martinez' shooters personal texts released!!!!
Judge Alexakis says Martinez has shown "good cause" for the release of Exum's text messages.
February 6, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Oh noooooooo!!!!
Tricia McLaughlin's addiction to slandering those that CBP assaults just got Marimar Martinez' shooters personal texts released!!!!
Tricia McLaughlin's addiction to slandering those that CBP assaults just got Marimar Martinez' shooters personal texts released!!!!
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We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History of American Politics, 1865-2026
FWIW this is more or less how white conservatives destroyed multiracial democracy after emancipation. That & paramilitary violence, but of course they would never... oh yeah they're doing that too.
Here's @rickhasen.bsky.social detailing the scenario in which Trump uses search warrant to seize ballot boxes in a contested 2026 locale. This is more worrisome than ICE at the polls. Hasen also suggests ways to act against this now.
It's harrowing stuff:
newrepublic.com/article/2062...
It's harrowing stuff:
newrepublic.com/article/2062...
February 6, 2026 at 3:46 PM
We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History of American Politics, 1865-2026
I think dipping a slice of cake in batter and deep frying it sounds like a totally rad idea...
We never used the term "cake batter" when I was a kid, we said "cake mix." When I first heard cake batter, in my early 20s, I assumed someone took a slice of cake, dipped it in batter and deep fried it. As I'm Scottish I don't think this is completely unreasonable.
February 6, 2026 at 3:53 PM
I think dipping a slice of cake in batter and deep frying it sounds like a totally rad idea...
Very punny
I should have known better than to flush my wooden shoes down the toilet. Now it's clogged.
February 6, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Very punny
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Some proposed Winter Olympics reforms:
1. Luge, bobsleigh, and skeleton should be consolidated under "Sledding," which is what they are.
2. Pond hockey should be a separate sport.
3. Snowboarding should have separate "High" and "Not High" divisions.
1. Luge, bobsleigh, and skeleton should be consolidated under "Sledding," which is what they are.
2. Pond hockey should be a separate sport.
3. Snowboarding should have separate "High" and "Not High" divisions.
February 6, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Some proposed Winter Olympics reforms:
1. Luge, bobsleigh, and skeleton should be consolidated under "Sledding," which is what they are.
2. Pond hockey should be a separate sport.
3. Snowboarding should have separate "High" and "Not High" divisions.
1. Luge, bobsleigh, and skeleton should be consolidated under "Sledding," which is what they are.
2. Pond hockey should be a separate sport.
3. Snowboarding should have separate "High" and "Not High" divisions.
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Gujarati
People
Typing
was how I heard it
People
Typing
was how I heard it
February 6, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Gujarati
People
Typing
was how I heard it
People
Typing
was how I heard it
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Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines
During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.
futurism.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
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I paid $25 for a 3-mile taxi ride to the laundromat! I feel like I've been taken to the cleaners...
February 6, 2026 at 11:31 AM
I paid $25 for a 3-mile taxi ride to the laundromat! I feel like I've been taken to the cleaners...
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People, man. They need to get it together or we're all doomed.
February 6, 2026 at 11:42 AM
People, man. They need to get it together or we're all doomed.
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Unions gave you the weekend; the broligarchs would take your dreams
To optimize the *one space* where our cognition is out of control, from this perspective, is nothing but a perversion of *the* fundamental human non-activity, and i *hate* this to the bone. Leave my sleep alone, optimizers!
February 6, 2026 at 11:46 AM
Unions gave you the weekend; the broligarchs would take your dreams
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Correction: 100% are personally affected by the housing crisis; 71% don’t realise they are
New polling on Ireland's housing crisis:
- 81% want the government to build more social housing "even if there are local objections"
- 64% disagree government is making progress on housing
- 67% would vote for a constitutional right to housing
- 29% are personally affected by the housing crisis
- 81% want the government to build more social housing "even if there are local objections"
- 64% disagree government is making progress on housing
- 67% would vote for a constitutional right to housing
- 29% are personally affected by the housing crisis
Appetite for radical change grows as voters’ patience wears thin over housing crisis
Half of all voters say country’s problems are getting worse instead of better
www.irishtimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Correction: 100% are personally affected by the housing crisis; 71% don’t realise they are
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AI has taken my job. I'm that guy in the office who you used to ask how to word an email when you needed it to be particularly succinct, whatever the subject matter, I was there for you. There are thousands of us. Fuck you AI.
February 6, 2026 at 12:22 PM
AI has taken my job. I'm that guy in the office who you used to ask how to word an email when you needed it to be particularly succinct, whatever the subject matter, I was there for you. There are thousands of us. Fuck you AI.
They are building a GULAG archipelago run by private contractors. Like the "KZ" of Nazi Europe, its us without any kind of public scrutiny or oversight, but also public knowledge of who goes there and rumors about what happens inside.
It can happen here - in Pa. coal country
I went to tiny Tremont, Pa. to see how a former Big Lots warehouse for cheap goods would become an island in a U.S. gulag archipelago, warehousing 7,500 human beings from ICE raids
My special report on an American nightmare www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
I went to tiny Tremont, Pa. to see how a former Big Lots warehouse for cheap goods would become an island in a U.S. gulag archipelago, warehousing 7,500 human beings from ICE raids
My special report on an American nightmare www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
From Big Lots to warehousing humans: ICE plan sparks fear in Schuylkill County | Will Bunch
A massive warehouse in Tremont, Pa., that once moved cheap goods will now detain migrants in a $119 million ICE deal.
www.inquirer.com
February 6, 2026 at 2:34 PM
They are building a GULAG archipelago run by private contractors. Like the "KZ" of Nazi Europe, its us without any kind of public scrutiny or oversight, but also public knowledge of who goes there and rumors about what happens inside.
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Brave immigration officers kicking a puppy. They are definitely torturing people in detention.
TRIGGER WARNING, because here is a US Marshal from Trump‘s Gestapo Force in Memphis kicking a puppy today in the Whitehaven neighborhood and breaking its rib. They were serving a warrant and I guess BIG MAN got scared of the schnauzer.
(I didn’t take the video, the dog’s person did)
(I didn’t take the video, the dog’s person did)
February 6, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Brave immigration officers kicking a puppy. They are definitely torturing people in detention.
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Does her comms team just repost their X content unaltered here?
It's X-cooked comms and I can't imagine bringing it here like this except to troll or as a ten-second afterthought.
Embarrassing.
It's X-cooked comms and I can't imagine bringing it here like this except to troll or as a ten-second afterthought.
Embarrassing.
I met with the Board of the Minnesota State Association of Narcotics Investigators to discuss how we can better protect Minnesotans. We must ensure law enforcement has the resources they need to take on the dangerous drugs like meth and fentanyl.
February 6, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Does her comms team just repost their X content unaltered here?
It's X-cooked comms and I can't imagine bringing it here like this except to troll or as a ten-second afterthought.
Embarrassing.
It's X-cooked comms and I can't imagine bringing it here like this except to troll or as a ten-second afterthought.
Embarrassing.
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The president of the US posing memes of one of his predecessors and his wife being apes feels like a thing the news should be covering but anyway here's another debate about whether DEI is bad
February 6, 2026 at 12:57 PM
The president of the US posing memes of one of his predecessors and his wife being apes feels like a thing the news should be covering but anyway here's another debate about whether DEI is bad
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Well, they’re fucking deporting him now. So what are you going to do about it, Senator?
over the next 3 years, be ready for seeing a lot of coverage of Republican lawmakers, business leaders, university leaders who did absolutely nothing to stall Trump (on the contrary) — about how *actually* they were wringing their hands all along. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...
February 6, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Well, they’re fucking deporting him now. So what are you going to do about it, Senator?
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"many people have been here for 12, 14, 16, 18 months without a final court decision"
These are very much concentration camps. Anyone who says otherwise is either committed to fooling themselves, or to fooling you
These are very much concentration camps. Anyone who says otherwise is either committed to fooling themselves, or to fooling you
free them all
February 6, 2026 at 1:00 PM
"many people have been here for 12, 14, 16, 18 months without a final court decision"
These are very much concentration camps. Anyone who says otherwise is either committed to fooling themselves, or to fooling you
These are very much concentration camps. Anyone who says otherwise is either committed to fooling themselves, or to fooling you
Sounds like he was a moderately effective officer. It also sounds like he will have a lengthy hospital stay and months of PT before he will be in action again.
1/ The attempted assassination of Lt Gen Vladimir Alekseyev in Moscow this morning has outraged Russian warbloggers, who regard him as a hero of Russia. They have highlighted his key role and contributions to the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. ⬇️
February 6, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Sounds like he was a moderately effective officer. It also sounds like he will have a lengthy hospital stay and months of PT before he will be in action again.