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Black Matt, Thought Criminal

@polyglottos.bsky.social

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I am a software dev, law school bound, polyglot, gamer, and Magic: The Gathering rules nerd. We should abolish the Senate, unlimit the House, and discard the 2 party system. My views are my own. Furthermore, white nationalism must be destroyed.

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Black Matt, Thought Criminal @polyglottos.bsky.social · Feb 5

Read banned books.

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Black Matt, Thought Criminal @polyglottos.bsky.social · 5m

I wonder how modern languages will look in 2000 years since we now have global communications, and fewer "vulgar" flavors that are not mutually intelligible than in previous eras.

Then again, looking at the Internet's contribution to English... Lol have fun studying Classical English, future nerds!

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12h

ICE officers reportedly shot a 25-year-old named Carlos Jimenez.

He was shot after getting out of his car to tell the agents, who had pulled over a vehicle, that children would soon be gathering in that spot for the school bus.

Report: ICE shot a US citizen trying to help kids

According to his lawyer, immigration officers shot Carlos Jimenez after he warned them that children would soon gather for the bus where they had pulled over a vehicle.

www.motherjones.com

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 53m

Just heard Andrew Cuomo on MSNBC saying his plan to address housing costs is to build more housing. Of course the question is: why didn't he do that when he served as Governor of NY for three terms?!

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 5h

We're going to see a lot of centrists and liberals eulogise Cheney as the positive face of decent conservatism and I want to be entirely clear when I say fuck every single one of these people.

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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.bsky.social · 3h

Woke up today to the news

Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake from the SNL short “dick in a box”

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Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 1h

Earlier this year, I met a Croatian journalist who was in the US doing a piece on America’s politics and I asked her what surprised her. And she said, “What you all call the far left is just being normal.”

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 5h

Dick Cheney Was Doing War Crimes in Exactly the Right Way, by Ezra Klein.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2h

Another thing (and so they should consider leaving me alone) is that this “we need to forgive people for what they said in the past to grow the party” owes a significant discursive debt to the MeToo backlash that has unilaterally sold the idea that “woke feminism” went too far.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 12h

I continue to wonder when Americans will decide enough is enough. As Frederick Douglass reminds us:

“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”

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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 3h

The problem with most of Yglesias’s advice for Democrats is that Republicans do the opposite and win all the time. So it’s either bad advice or evidence of an asymmetric playing field, which he never addresses.

Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 4h

My working hypothesis is that the reason Matt Yglesias was booed off of Bluesky isn’t because Bluesky is too leftist or too toxic.

It’s because he sucks.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 2h

every single conservative commentator complaining about the rise of nick fuentes is responsible for the rise of nick fuentes

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

🚨🚨🚨SILVER ALERT for the SHREVEPORT AREA🚨🚨🚨

My brother Mike (pictured below) has been wandering the streets for days now. He keeps trying to hold pretend press conferences but then insists he doesn't know anything about anything. It's very sad!

If you have seen him, please let our family know!

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olive consumer's ambulatory skeleton @machete.gay · 1h

Just to step in and be a real asshole here, Zohran Mamdani is why you don't need the Graham Platners of the world.

I can, with a little effort, find a compelling, affable, and competent prospective candidate in any sizeable DSA.

I do not need a guy who wipes back to front just because he's white.

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 3h

we ended up where we are now for a number of reasons, but one was that Dick Cheney realized he could go on camera, lie about saying things he’d previously said on camera, and TV interviewers would just sputter

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 3h

Next time, let’s try a Speaker who isn’t eager for the rapture.

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Black Matt, Thought Criminal @polyglottos.bsky.social · 1h

Some Black folks on here try to avoid "being Black" as deliberate part of their personality, as if doing so will make the white bigots they're trying to impress not see their skin. There are a lot of you out there and it's kinda sad.

Own it, man. Just be Black. It's okay; it's wonderful, even.

Black Matt, Thought Criminal @polyglottos.bsky.social · 1h

All the MAGAs and Dems working in lockstep to sink Mamdani needs to be the end of the beginning. Yes, I said that right; Mamdani obviously represents something the old political class on both sides hates. If he wins, he only proves his ideology can be successful in America.

Run. That. Shit.

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Dr Aunt Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 13h

Pretty sobering when you realize how different things would be in our country (and beyond) right now if we actually took interpersonal violence and sexual abuse and assault seriously in our society. Seriously as in real reforms in policy, law, and culture, not hand-wringing that does nothing.

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Stonekettle @stonekettle.bsky.social · 3h

Well, hell. Looks like I'm going to need to drink more coffee. Dick Cheney died and I'm going to need a full bladder for the funeral.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 2h

Laura Loomer is now officially part of the Pentagon press corps.

We live in Idiocracy.

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Doghouse Reilly @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1h

Similar to the Nazi group chat semi-apology responses, I think it is remarkable that the “Groyper” war is being framed pretty exclusively in terms of antisemitism, while the racism is unremarkable for them.

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Black Matt, Thought Criminal @polyglottos.bsky.social · 1h

All part of trying to rehabilitate Bush for some reason.

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 3h

i really hate the notion that has taken hold that bush is not responsible for the shit bush did as president. yes, cheney was his advisor and wingman and his soul is soaked with the blood of iraqis and americans, but at the end of the day bush was the decider.

Black Matt, Thought Criminal @polyglottos.bsky.social · 1h

And they'll only have asked 200 people. Then they'll assert it as some major national poll.

I just don't agree with the polling, and even if I were to buy in to the polling, it makes us look dense af.

I know Dems are underwater, but being further under than Trump just doesn't make sense to me lol.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2h

Happy Zohran Day to all who celebrate!!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

yeah why might it be harder for someone to break 50% in a three-way race versus a two-way race. obviously it has something to do with ideology.

Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 10h

The Better Things Aren't Possible Wing has declared Spanberger is The Future Of The Democratic Party with this transparently stupid line fed to one of their press familiars

If polls hold, Spanberger is looking more

likely to clear 50% in her more swingy state than Mamdani is in a city so Democratic that only 6 of 51 city council members are Republicans.

Dems nationally say that matters a lot for thinking what comes next.

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