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Matthew LaPointe
@matthewlapointe.bsky.social
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Runner. Occasional triathlete. Sci-comms / web / marketing @jcvi.org. Views my own.
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Amazing. Per the dress code, these guys are out.
August 22, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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August 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Just so trashy.
NY Times headline: White House Will ‘Definitely’ Host a U.F.C. Fight on July 4, U.F.C. Head Says The event would take place on the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
August 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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From the @nytimes.com:
August 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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States-rights focused, small government at work for you folks.
Screen shot of Drudge Report home page. Pictured: National Guard in front of White House. Headlines read: TRUMP'S AMERICA FEDERALIZED POLICE DEPLOYING TROOPS ON DC STREETS MAYOR SLAMS NYC, LA, CHICAGO NEXT? WIDESPREAD DISCONTENT AMONG GUARDSMEN PENTAGON PLANS 'REACTION FORCE' FOR CIVIL UNREST
August 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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It's not "for" Epstein's crimes. It's for HER crimes.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Screenshot from article that reads: Maxwell, 63, is currently serving a 20-year sentence at a low-security prison in Tallahassee and is the only person serving time behind bars for Jeffrey Epstein's child sex crimes.
July 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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😂 #ultrasky
July 14, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Seen at No Kings Alexandria today
June 15, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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#NoKingsDay Alexandria, with my boys
June 14, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Great post by Zoë Rom on feeling validated as an athlete, regardless of ability level.

"It’s giving your sport, and yourself, the respect they deserve. No prerequisites. No finish line required. Just care."

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#running #trailrunning #ultrarunning #ultrasky
I used to downplay how much I cared about running. Not because I didn’t care, but because I did. A lot. Like, build-my-life-around-it care. Plan-my-weekend-long-run-first care. Spend-more-on-gels-than-groceries care. And caring too much felt dangerous, and extremely silly. How do you explain to your adult friends with mortgages, toddlers, and diversified investment portfolios that you’re trying, sincerely and earnestly, to be slightly above average at jogging through the woods in a hydration vest that smells like fermented gummy bears?
June 13, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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The analogy would work if one of the two children were genocidal and the other was simply trying to protect himself. So no, you don't just let the genocidal kid just have his way. Adults should intervene on behalf of the kid that just wants to live by supplying unlimited arms and more.
From the New York Times "The Morning" newsletter: Trump compared Russia and Ukraine to kids in a meeting with Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany. “Sometimes you see two young children fighting like crazy,” he said, adding, “You’re better off letting them fight for a while and then pulling them apart.”
June 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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@wsj.com: Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...
It came just in the nick of time for Mr. Walczak, sparing him from having to pay nearly $4.4 million in restitution and from reporting to prison for an 18-month sentence that had been handed down just 12 days earlier. A judge had justified the incarceration by declaring that there “is not a get-out-of-jail-free card” for the rich.
May 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Habba today: no one is above the law.
May 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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"They don't need to have 3 riding stuffed animals or 3 toy cars. They can have 2."
May 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Just a casual attack on judiciary.
May 4, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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"different spanks for different ranks"
Screenshot from the article: Carroll says, for troops, seeing leadership share attack plans in advance on Signal but so far suffer no consequences is toxic to morale. But that double standard is so common, he adds, that there's a phrase for it in the military: "different spanks for different ranks." Carroll points out examples from both political parties where senior officials' mishandling of classified information went mostly unpunished: Hillary Clinton, Sandy Berger, President Joe Biden; Richard Armitage, former Vice President Mike Pence, and of course Trump. But several current and former military prosecutors and defense attorneys agreed there is no precedent for a secretary of defense willfully divulging operational plans against a hostile military force in real time.
April 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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The administration is built around loyalty and loyalty alone. Not qualifications. Not competency. And not around the rule of law. Hegseth should be done and never should have held the post to begin with.
New York Times screenshot headline: Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat. The defense secretary sent sensitive information about strikes in Yemen to an encrypted group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said.
April 21, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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It ain't pretty, bud!

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Speaker Johnson doom scrolling Drudge.
April 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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I can't believe this is the guy ruining the world.
April 5, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Never forget what a fraud and liar he is.
Truth Social Post from from Trump on January 26, 2023: "IF I WERE PRESIDENT, THE RUSSIA/UKRAINE WAR WOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED, BUT EVEN NOW, IF PRESIDENT, I WOULD BE ABLE TO NEGOTIATE AN END TO THIS HORRIBLE AND RAPIDLY ESCALATING WAR WITHIN 24 HOURS. SUCH A TRAGIC WASTE OF HUMAN LIFE!!!"
April 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Except replace crashing markets with solemn duty.
Headline: Trump isn't attending dignified transfer of soldiers who died in Lithuania...Instead he'll be attending a LIV Golf dinner reception in Florida.
April 4, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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His color 👀
Oompa-Loompas-orange Trump at mic.
April 3, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Senator Cramer, what's the strike count? At what point do you decide to protect our country? Pete Hegseth is not fit for office.

Signal. Wife to meetings. Gmail.
“I think they should make sure it never happens again. I wish they’d tell us, ‘It will never happen again.’ It’s the first strike in the early stages of an administration,” said Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. “Don’t let it ever happen again.” “I don’t know how many strikes you get. In baseball, you get three. Maybe this is worth two,” he added. “If mistakes like this continue to happen, we’ll deal with them as it happens. My hope and my expectation is that it won’t.” Hegseth Signal transcript. Headline: Hegseth Brought his Wife to Sensitive Meetings with Foreign Officials Headline: Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials say
April 2, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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They are just stupid beyond belief.
April 1, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Great perspective from @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social on the Signal scandal. Pathetic. Clownish. Unforgivable.

It's not hyperbolic to say that this administration is a threat to U.S. and global security. They are not up to the task.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/o...
There is not an officer alive whose career would survive a security breach like that. It would normally result in instant consequences (relief from command, for example) followed by a comprehensive investigation and potential criminal charges.
March 25, 2025 at 12:18 AM