Michael Mattin
@michaelmattin.bsky.social
Retired Physician, aspiring sailor, old time peacenik and outside agitator
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Something I can agree with him on.
October 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Something I can agree with him on.
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Take it from Mr. Art of the Deal, if there’s a shutdown, the president is to blame.
September 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Take it from Mr. Art of the Deal, if there’s a shutdown, the president is to blame.
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Reminder....
October 1, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Reminder....
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Macrons to submit scientific evidence to US court to prove Brigitte was not born a man
Macrons to submit scientific evidence to US court to prove Brigitte was not born a man
French president and wife allege rightwing influencer Candace Owens is using defamatory attacks against them to boost media profile
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, and his wife plan to present scientific evidence to a US court to prove that Brigitte Macron was not born a man, the lawyer representing them in a defamation suit has said.
The couple filed the suit in July against Candace Owens, a rightwing influencer, and her business, alleging continuing defamatory attacks against them in order to boost the profile of her media platform, gain more audience and make money. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 18, 2025 at 12:43 PM
?Her long form birth certificate
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Same thing with, "Is he dead yet?"
September 8, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Same thing with, "Is he dead yet?"
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People are not pissed at the same rate as our rights and Democracy are being dismantled.
August 8, 2025 at 7:39 PM
People are not pissed at the same rate as our rights and Democracy are being dismantled.
That Reality has a Liberal Bias problem
I became a better human being because of college. Being educated makes you see the real world, not the one you were raised in, cloaked in racism and bigotry.
This is why they are defunding education. They don't want you to see what they really are.
This is why they are defunding education. They don't want you to see what they really are.
July 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
That Reality has a Liberal Bias problem
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It is not exactly a revelation that the roots of repressive and vindictive laws run deep in America, especially in the South
Nazis studied our racist laws as a role model for their genocide
Nazis studied our racist laws as a role model for their genocide
So, the takeaway is that habitual offender laws did not emerge from the tough on crime era in the late 1900s, but instead from the eugenics movement in the early 1900s. The Howard Law Journal published my research on this last month.
May 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
It is not exactly a revelation that the roots of repressive and vindictive laws run deep in America, especially in the South
Nazis studied our racist laws as a role model for their genocide
Nazis studied our racist laws as a role model for their genocide
And of course the kleptocrat regime will oppose this because they aren't profiting from it
What we know about congestion pricing in New York City. (We looked up every data source we could think of.)
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Just About Everything That’s Changed Since Congestion Pricing Took Effect
Fewer cars. Faster travel. Less honking. And some questions we still can’t answer.
www.nytimes.com
May 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
And of course the kleptocrat regime will oppose this because they aren't profiting from it
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Voltaire: "The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor".
May 9, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Voltaire: "The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor".
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I love historians
And he died bc his doctor didn't believe in germs and was rooting around in the wound with dirty fingers. So timely.
May 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I love historians
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This is how the Civil Service was established - it took a president getting assassinated by a disgruntled office-seeker to make folks decide that maybe it's a bad idea for every single government job to be a political patronage appointment.
Well timed, Netflix. Well-timed indeed.
Well timed, Netflix. Well-timed indeed.
Learned last night that we’re getting a Netflix miniseries on the Garfield assassination with Michael Shannon as Garfield and Nick Offerman as Chester A. Arthur, and how are we not all talking about this? www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...
May 8, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This is how the Civil Service was established - it took a president getting assassinated by a disgruntled office-seeker to make folks decide that maybe it's a bad idea for every single government job to be a political patronage appointment.
Well timed, Netflix. Well-timed indeed.
Well timed, Netflix. Well-timed indeed.
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Meta blowing $30b/year on an unlaunchable Second Life Redux: efficient, innovative, organized.
USPS losing $6.5b/year on getting mail to every person in the country: inefficient, bloated, disaster.
USPS losing $6.5b/year on getting mail to every person in the country: inefficient, bloated, disaster.
May 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Meta blowing $30b/year on an unlaunchable Second Life Redux: efficient, innovative, organized.
USPS losing $6.5b/year on getting mail to every person in the country: inefficient, bloated, disaster.
USPS losing $6.5b/year on getting mail to every person in the country: inefficient, bloated, disaster.
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The big reveal is that this - what you’re seeing right now - is in fact *exactly* how businesses are run; chaotically and at the whims of sociopaths who think they know everything, actually know nothing, and run away with a golden parachute to leave others to clean up their mess.
People constantly claim that the appeal of Republicans is that they are ‘successful’ businesspeople who will “run the country like a business”, but in reality they’re so incompetent at even the most basic tasks that they can’t even prepare a legally-mandated budget request on time.
MURRAY: It was due last week. By law.
PATEL: I understand.
MURRAY: You're not gonna follow the law? ... And you have no timeline?
PATEL: No
MURRAY: Hmm. We're not having a budget hearing without a budget request. So where is it?
PATEL: I understand.
MURRAY: You're not gonna follow the law? ... And you have no timeline?
PATEL: No
MURRAY: Hmm. We're not having a budget hearing without a budget request. So where is it?
May 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The big reveal is that this - what you’re seeing right now - is in fact *exactly* how businesses are run; chaotically and at the whims of sociopaths who think they know everything, actually know nothing, and run away with a golden parachute to leave others to clean up their mess.
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Leave the gorillas alone.
They’re not the ones hoarding all the land, resources, energy, power, and money.
They’re not the ones hoarding all the land, resources, energy, power, and money.
May 6, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Leave the gorillas alone.
They’re not the ones hoarding all the land, resources, energy, power, and money.
They’re not the ones hoarding all the land, resources, energy, power, and money.
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Elon Musk is living proof that having all the money in the world doesn’t make you smart, cool, loved, liked, admired, talented, clever, witty, interesting, tough, coordinated, creative, artistic, compassionate, athletic, handsome, classy, kind, graceful, eloquent, nice, or funny.
May 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Elon Musk is living proof that having all the money in the world doesn’t make you smart, cool, loved, liked, admired, talented, clever, witty, interesting, tough, coordinated, creative, artistic, compassionate, athletic, handsome, classy, kind, graceful, eloquent, nice, or funny.
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The richest 0.1% of Americans control $22 trillion in wealth.
The bottom 50% control $3.8 trillion in wealth.
Read that back.
Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.
The bottom 50% control $3.8 trillion in wealth.
Read that back.
Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.
April 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The richest 0.1% of Americans control $22 trillion in wealth.
The bottom 50% control $3.8 trillion in wealth.
Read that back.
Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.
The bottom 50% control $3.8 trillion in wealth.
Read that back.
Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.