Matthew Best
@matthewbest.bsky.social
Journalist, sometimes. In Ukraine, living the air raid life.
Omg anybody can pee in a toilet! What's next? Gender free toilets that don't use AI to scan your genitals to know if you're legally allowed to unleash 17 fl. oz. of piss in JD Vance's Pissmerica?
February 4, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Omg anybody can pee in a toilet! What's next? Gender free toilets that don't use AI to scan your genitals to know if you're legally allowed to unleash 17 fl. oz. of piss in JD Vance's Pissmerica?
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As someone who has written extensively about moral panics regarding sex offenders (I once published an article about the criminal "war on sex offenders"), what is in the Epstein files and the reaction to it is absolutely not a moral panic. These are very real crimes and among the worst imaginable.
Free Press bravely fighting the Woke War on Pedophilia
February 4, 2026 at 7:37 PM
As someone who has written extensively about moral panics regarding sex offenders (I once published an article about the criminal "war on sex offenders"), what is in the Epstein files and the reaction to it is absolutely not a moral panic. These are very real crimes and among the worst imaginable.
February 3, 2026 at 8:04 PM
It's funny because this is where you can tell techbros rode in on competent engineers. The architecture of the radiator would be completely insane. The fact that the radiator is physically coupled to the solar would be a problem & the size of the radiator would mean there is no dark side.
It's been nearly two decades since I was in a physics class, but I thought cooling is harder in space? Because there's a vacuum / nowhere for the heat to be transferred?
February 3, 2026 at 10:00 AM
It's funny because this is where you can tell techbros rode in on competent engineers. The architecture of the radiator would be completely insane. The fact that the radiator is physically coupled to the solar would be a problem & the size of the radiator would mean there is no dark side.
People are suggesting this is some outrageous lie because of the whole, "folks are doing a RHPS interaction".
But I can easily picture people yelling "slut" and "asshole" at the screen.
But I can easily picture people yelling "slut" and "asshole" at the screen.
Kayleigh: My mom went to see Melania. She said the theater was packed, it was standing room only. People were cheering through it, they were excited. It was interactive—people interplaying with the film. She said it was just electric.
February 3, 2026 at 6:33 AM
People are suggesting this is some outrageous lie because of the whole, "folks are doing a RHPS interaction".
But I can easily picture people yelling "slut" and "asshole" at the screen.
But I can easily picture people yelling "slut" and "asshole" at the screen.
We've all had a laugh at how stupid these fucks are not knowing Helen of Troy was born from an egg her human mother laid in the 'historic' setting but I wish one of them would bitch that the Odyssey is an orally preserved poem and a movie is totally inappropriate.
Forgive me, Jesus, because I genuinely deeply enjoy how perpetually unhappy and desolate these losers are.
February 3, 2026 at 6:01 AM
We've all had a laugh at how stupid these fucks are not knowing Helen of Troy was born from an egg her human mother laid in the 'historic' setting but I wish one of them would bitch that the Odyssey is an orally preserved poem and a movie is totally inappropriate.
Unbelievable that Epstein's living room actually looks more tasteful and reserved than the oval office.
Top photo: Jeffrey Epstein’s living room. Suddenly, it all makes sense.
February 1, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Unbelievable that Epstein's living room actually looks more tasteful and reserved than the oval office.
It's the disease of the intellectually bankrupt, to not understand that a cause can also be an effect.
Yes, fascists and fascist-aspirants take poorly to resistance. That is causal.
The more important causal relationship is what caused the resistance. To wit: the fascists and fascist-aspirants.
Yes, fascists and fascist-aspirants take poorly to resistance. That is causal.
The more important causal relationship is what caused the resistance. To wit: the fascists and fascist-aspirants.
Reasonable Centrist type writes me with this sentence: “But the proximate cause of all of this mayhem is the hostility being exercised against federal agents in the streets”
Reader, it was not a productive correspondence.
Reader, it was not a productive correspondence.
January 27, 2026 at 11:20 AM
It's the disease of the intellectually bankrupt, to not understand that a cause can also be an effect.
Yes, fascists and fascist-aspirants take poorly to resistance. That is causal.
The more important causal relationship is what caused the resistance. To wit: the fascists and fascist-aspirants.
Yes, fascists and fascist-aspirants take poorly to resistance. That is causal.
The more important causal relationship is what caused the resistance. To wit: the fascists and fascist-aspirants.
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Holy fuck that Twitter username and handle is the equivalent of those North Korean generals.
Commander Op At Large. Only thing that'll ever make him large in any way. Fucking loser.
Commander Op At Large. Only thing that'll ever make him large in any way. Fucking loser.
Honored that in his last days of fame and fortune at CBP the disgraced Gregory Bovino chose to attack, among others, me.
January 27, 2026 at 7:35 AM
Holy fuck that Twitter username and handle is the equivalent of those North Korean generals.
Commander Op At Large. Only thing that'll ever make him large in any way. Fucking loser.
Commander Op At Large. Only thing that'll ever make him large in any way. Fucking loser.
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the pitch for Trump was "this insult comic rapist is a piece of shit but at least we're getting rid of the smirking pieties and pretexts" and JD Vance is like "did someone say smirking pieties and pretexts"
Trump is such a transparent asshole but there’s something so evil about how JD Vance hides incredibly callous politics behind that nauseating “well now good sir” faux civility.
January 26, 2026 at 4:36 PM
the pitch for Trump was "this insult comic rapist is a piece of shit but at least we're getting rid of the smirking pieties and pretexts" and JD Vance is like "did someone say smirking pieties and pretexts"
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Trump is such a transparent asshole but there’s something so evil about how JD Vance hides incredibly callous politics behind that nauseating “well now good sir” faux civility.
January 26, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Trump is such a transparent asshole but there’s something so evil about how JD Vance hides incredibly callous politics behind that nauseating “well now good sir” faux civility.
1. What the fuck; but
2. Good job giving every judge but the most unhinged every excuse in the world to back a lawsuit from the state whether it's against ICE or trying to federalize the guard.
2. Good job giving every judge but the most unhinged every excuse in the world to back a lawsuit from the state whether it's against ICE or trying to federalize the guard.
Here’s the letter from Pam
bondi to blackmail Minnesota
Bondi says turn over your voter rolls and we’ll recall ICE
This was NEVER about Immigration Enforcement
This bitch needs to be removed
bondi to blackmail Minnesota
Bondi says turn over your voter rolls and we’ll recall ICE
This was NEVER about Immigration Enforcement
This bitch needs to be removed
January 26, 2026 at 4:10 PM
1. What the fuck; but
2. Good job giving every judge but the most unhinged every excuse in the world to back a lawsuit from the state whether it's against ICE or trying to federalize the guard.
2. Good job giving every judge but the most unhinged every excuse in the world to back a lawsuit from the state whether it's against ICE or trying to federalize the guard.
It is always this. I've long had no shyness about being raised by a vile human being, and I will say this about their psychology:
The biggest threat to them is when others embody the values they pretend to hold to hide who they are.
The biggest threat to them is when others embody the values they pretend to hold to hide who they are.
Pretti stepped up for a woman who’d been assaulted. He exercised his rights in the face of actual tyranny, not from a podcast booth. He seemed moral and decent. His valor reminds pus stains like Patel, Berry, & Watters that their macho shtick is sad and hollow. *Of course* they celebrate his murder.
January 26, 2026 at 3:27 PM
It is always this. I've long had no shyness about being raised by a vile human being, and I will say this about their psychology:
The biggest threat to them is when others embody the values they pretend to hold to hide who they are.
The biggest threat to them is when others embody the values they pretend to hold to hide who they are.
It's a curse having DNA from Roman times? What a fucking loser. I'd love to see this conquistador ride into Minneapolis and get his ass kicked by a blue-haired they/them-using protester who can tolerate freezing weather.
Fucking tool.
Fucking tool.
The VCs bros have convinced themselves they are on some moral crusade. They will be behind the scenes trying to cling to power in the midterms and beyond.
Side note, they are also the biggest bunch of dorks
Side note, they are also the biggest bunch of dorks
January 26, 2026 at 2:04 PM
It's a curse having DNA from Roman times? What a fucking loser. I'd love to see this conquistador ride into Minneapolis and get his ass kicked by a blue-haired they/them-using protester who can tolerate freezing weather.
Fucking tool.
Fucking tool.
Doing their duty defending the people of the state. Hopefully this stays the exact fucking opposite of Ohio 1970.
Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.
January 26, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Doing their duty defending the people of the state. Hopefully this stays the exact fucking opposite of Ohio 1970.
Then they aren't rights.
And that's not what he was doing.
They always try to sideload their shit like this with double pronged arguments
And that's not what he was doing.
They always try to sideload their shit like this with double pronged arguments
Bovino: "We respect Second Amendment rights, but those rights don't count when you riot and assault, delay, obstruct, and impede law enforcement officers"
January 25, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Then they aren't rights.
And that's not what he was doing.
They always try to sideload their shit like this with double pronged arguments
And that's not what he was doing.
They always try to sideload their shit like this with double pronged arguments
Let's give the scum Donbas as a reward. That'll show 'em.
😢 This was the atmosphere in the Kyiv subway tonight
📸 Yan Dobronosov
📸 Yan Dobronosov
January 24, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Let's give the scum Donbas as a reward. That'll show 'em.
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ICE used a warrantless forced entry to arrest a US citizen with no criminal record. Rather than acknowledge error, they smeared the family, saying they were harboring sex offenders and critics were defending sex offenders.
Turns out that one of their targets was already in jail. ICE never checked.
Turns out that one of their targets was already in jail. ICE never checked.
January 23, 2026 at 2:42 PM
ICE used a warrantless forced entry to arrest a US citizen with no criminal record. Rather than acknowledge error, they smeared the family, saying they were harboring sex offenders and critics were defending sex offenders.
Turns out that one of their targets was already in jail. ICE never checked.
Turns out that one of their targets was already in jail. ICE never checked.
It looks like Zelenskyy is yukking it up at Madame Tussauds.
someone spackled up Trump's disfigured left hand before his meeting with Zelenskyy (also note the otherworldly color of his face)
January 23, 2026 at 5:17 PM
It looks like Zelenskyy is yukking it up at Madame Tussauds.
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I honestly wonder how much of this is deeply psychological for Vance, the inability to reconcile that people can love their neighbors so much when his own mother abandoned him.
Vance in MN: "It's really cold outside. We in the Trump administration want to deport criminal aliens who are sex offenders. It takes a certain level of committed to sex offender criminal aliens to stand outside in -40 temperatures and attack the vice president, but they're committed to the bit."
January 23, 2026 at 3:02 PM
I honestly wonder how much of this is deeply psychological for Vance, the inability to reconcile that people can love their neighbors so much when his own mother abandoned him.
It's free never to say things like this. It costs you absolutely nothing not to pump the fucking Austro-Hungarian Empire.
I mean the fucking Austro-Hungarian Empire?
That's not even campism.
There's no camp.
That's putting up a tarp with a stick in your backyard and eating frozen hotdogs.
I mean the fucking Austro-Hungarian Empire?
That's not even campism.
There's no camp.
That's putting up a tarp with a stick in your backyard and eating frozen hotdogs.
OK you know what? Maybe this discourse is good because it's causing a bunch of awful folks to have hilarious crashouts.
January 23, 2026 at 9:15 AM
It's free never to say things like this. It costs you absolutely nothing not to pump the fucking Austro-Hungarian Empire.
I mean the fucking Austro-Hungarian Empire?
That's not even campism.
There's no camp.
That's putting up a tarp with a stick in your backyard and eating frozen hotdogs.
I mean the fucking Austro-Hungarian Empire?
That's not even campism.
There's no camp.
That's putting up a tarp with a stick in your backyard and eating frozen hotdogs.
"I uninvited you from my party because you didn't show up" is a power move in the same way soiling yourself for the clear benefit of others is.
President Donald Trump said that his new Board of Peace was withdrawing Canada’s invitation to join it.
Trump Says Board of Peace Withdrawing Invite to Canada’s Carney
President Donald Trump said that his new Board of Peace was withdrawing Canada’s invitation to join, days after Prime Minister Mark Carney issued a withering speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos warning against coercive tactics by the world’s great powers.
bloom.bg
January 23, 2026 at 8:52 AM
"I uninvited you from my party because you didn't show up" is a power move in the same way soiling yourself for the clear benefit of others is.
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UK - 457
Canada - 159
France - 90
Germany - 62
Italy - 53
Poland - 44
Denmark - 42
Trumps that have served - 0
Canada - 159
France - 90
Germany - 62
Italy - 53
Poland - 44
Denmark - 42
Trumps that have served - 0
Trump on NATO: "I've always said, will they be there if we ever needed them? That's really the ultimate test. I'm not sure of that. We've never needed them. They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan and this or that. And they did. They stayed a little back, off the front lines."
January 22, 2026 at 3:13 PM
UK - 457
Canada - 159
France - 90
Germany - 62
Italy - 53
Poland - 44
Denmark - 42
Trumps that have served - 0
Canada - 159
France - 90
Germany - 62
Italy - 53
Poland - 44
Denmark - 42
Trumps that have served - 0
MLK Jr., famously unmotivated by religion and uncritical of racist white Christians.
Matt Taibbi criticizes the ICE protests in Minneapolis, and says Martin Luther King Jr. would not have approved of them.
Taibbi claims MLK would not support "guilt because of racial identity" or "bringing religion into it".
Taibbi claims MLK would not support "guilt because of racial identity" or "bringing religion into it".
January 22, 2026 at 4:43 AM
MLK Jr., famously unmotivated by religion and uncritical of racist white Christians.