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Matt Thornton
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Pres of Armory Strategies - Democratic communications: crisis, strategy, PR, campaigns. Then: Comms for @electdemocrats.bsky.social, @housemajoritypac.bsky.social, @ab21.bsky.social, @whitehouse.senate.gov, @ZackSpaceOhio

https://armorystrategies.com/
Go home, 2025 - you're drunk.

"The men also plotted to recruit and hire homeless people from Washington, D.C., to overthrow Haiti's government on Gonave, according to prosecutors."

www.npr.org/2025/11/23/n...
Texas men indicted in plot to take over Haitian island and enslave women and children
Gavin Weisenburg, 21, and Tanner Thomas, 20, planned to take over Gonave Island and murder all men on the island, prosecutors alleged.
www.npr.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
This just sends a clear and dangerous message that lawless, sandwich-wielding ruffians are free to terrorize our cities with their delicious cold cuts.
November 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Decorating with words is the last straw.
New sign outside the Oval Office..
November 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I used to enjoy Friday nights. Now I dread them as I brace myself for the next indignity to our democracy.
JUST IN: Trump has commuted the sentence of former Congressman George SANTOS.
October 17, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I feel like, at this point, the press can just start incepting things into his head:

Q: Last week you said everyone will get an annual allotment of free Skittles.

TRUMP: What?

Q: Free Skittles for everyone. You know...taste the rainbow.

TRUMP: Ah, yes. Skittles are great. I'll put Bondi on that.
Q: Last week you said that NATO should consider expelling Spain

TRUMP: What?

Q: You said NATO should consider expelling Spain

TRUMP: What did he say?

VANCE: NATO should consider expelling Spain

TRUMP: Oh. Ahhh. I'm very unhappy with Spain
October 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
That. Let's do that.
Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "
October 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I'm sorry...what?
Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."
October 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Stop shooting people - including those you disagree with.
September 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Those who don't study history something something.
Oh my god
May 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
"The Thought Police would get him just the same. He had committed -- would have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper -- the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it."
April 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
April 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Reposted by Matt Thornton
Voters cannot stand how Trump is handling economy/tariffs, Exhibit 367.

This AP poll is pretty brutal. The economy used to always be DJT’s strong suit. Even post 1/6.

Now it’s his kryptonite.

apnews.com/article/trum...
March 31, 2025 at 6:47 PM
When you sell your soul at the crossroads, the devil eventually comes to collect.
🚨 Trump makes it official, withdrawing his nomination of Elise Stefanik for UN Ambassador. “Elise will stay in Congress.”
March 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I gotta say, I did not see "rejoin the British empire" coming.
March 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
What's the going rate for being Musk's patsy? I hope it's worth it.
Even declarations are made under penalty of perjury. Does Ms. Gleason have her own lawyer? Cause she should.
“Elon Musk does not work at USDS [DOGE]. I do not report to him, and he does not report to me.”

(Adding alt text)
March 15, 2025 at 12:35 AM
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Leavitt: Tariffs are a tax hike on foreign countries and a tax cut for the American people

Reporter: Have you ever paid a tariff? I have. They don’t get charged on foreign countries

Leavitt: I think it’s insulting that you are trying test my knowledge on economics
March 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Hey, DOGE! I found some waste you could cut.
March 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
We need @racismdog on here.

BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK
Lauren Boebert: “For [Al Green] to shake his pimp cane at President Trump was absolutely abhorrent.”
March 7, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Reposted by Matt Thornton
Some "Russian Warship" vibes here from a tiny fed'l agency.

via Brett Murphy:

The African Development Foundation (budget ~$40 million) is putting up a fight and denying DOGE + Pete Marocco — the State Dept official dismantling USAID — access to their building:
March 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Apparently the main DOJ building, FBI, HUD, HHS, GSA, VA, OPM, Red Cross, and downtown Judiciary Square buildings are no longer necessary in Trump's America. They're all for sale.

www.gsa.gov/real-estate/...
Non-core property list
Learn about our lease cost avoidance plan and its successes.
www.gsa.gov
March 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
"Comms is so easy. I don't need PR help. How hard can it be?"
February 25, 2025 at 3:29 AM
WTAF?
Shot: We must stop the politicization of the Justice Department once and for all

Chaser: "As President Trump's lawyers...."
February 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM
We had a good run.
February 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Hi, @jennylsq.bsky.social! So glad you have joined us. Maybe some Primus this week for the 35th anniversary of Frizzle Fry (Feb 7, 1990)? Too Many Puppies?
February 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM