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Matt
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Political scientist here teaching until my supporting character movie career takes off.

I focus on state politics. In my spare time I talk about wrestling and media I enjoy.

#politcssky for posts with political content
#wrestlesky for wrestling content
Stranger Things season 5 spoilers without context
November 27, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Vecna is Luke’s father???

😱

#strangerthings
November 27, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Is this what the Post's Pulitzer Prize winning journalists do now?

Report on fringe Twitter accounts seems like quite the fall from grace.
very odd that the Post would write up someone’s speciation as if it’s news. What are we doing here
November 27, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I have many thoughts about the shooting in DC, but I have one for the West Virginia governor that said announced the deaths before backtracking.

That’s some fucking bullshit. He could 100% wait to say anything until family is notified.
November 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
America’s Mayor stands up for the workers
No contract, no coffee.

We don’t believe in sitting on the sidelines. Join our Transition co-chair @linamkhan.bsky.social , First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan & @sbworkersunited.org at the picket lines.
November 26, 2025 at 9:38 PM
my new airport wardrobe thanks to transportation secretary sean duffy
November 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Top tier minor plot in The West Wing was Jed Bartley learning about the Butterball Hotline

800-288-8372 to talk to someone

844-877-3456 to text your bird cooking questions
November 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Even if transfers can and do happen, that shouldn't allow for a presidential pardon if that's the idea (although she could get the Ghislaine Maxwell Prison Penthouse Treatment).
NEW: Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO), who is running for Gov in 2026, says Colorado should not turn over Tina Peters to the Trump administration.

Gov Jared Polis (D), who is term-limited, has not said if he will free Peters from state prison under pressure from Trump.
November 26, 2025 at 5:36 AM
In the least surprising news ever, Elon's Boring tunnel in Nashville has stopped construction.

They've not paid the contractors while also trying to poach employees.

Also, multiple unanswered OSHA filings.

Remember to thank Bill Lee!

nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/25/b...
Local contractor employees stop Music City Loop work - Nashville Banner
Willie Shane and his crew walk off the Music City Loop project, citing safety concerns and payment issues with The Boring Company.
nashvillebanner.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Reposted by Matt
Mike Quackenbush wearing a WWE shirt as he plugs his indie seminars is funny for so many reasons.
November 26, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Okay I was wondering why my post about sexual harasser Brett Ratner popped off for a bit today.

Didn't know his buddy Trump, who also got Amazon to give Ratner some of that $40 million for the Melania documentary, is more focused on a new Rush Hour than actual issues in the country.
Wait, Brett Ratner? The same Brett Ratner accused of sexual assault and/or harassment by Olivia Munn and Elliot Page?

That's the guy who Bezos wants to pay?

Trump's election really brought back all the fucking assholes didn't it.
So let me get this straight: one of the largest companies in the US, which is facing numerous labor and antitrust proceedings from the federal government, has written a check for $40 million to the incoming president's wife? Do I have that right?

www.the-independent.com/news/media/a...
November 25, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Four days ago, I had a slight sore throat. Three days ago, the sore throat got worse. Two days ago, I had a fever of over 100. By yesterday it mostly cleared up.

Thankful for the flu shot I got just a month ago.
November 25, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I really hate how much we as a society forgot how great masking worked a few years ago.

Hell, I still argue that food service workers need to wear masks.
Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Star Trek did it
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Reagan (the AIDS denial episode alone would be two hours long), Early television, Jimmy Carter, Hunter S. Thompson.

Personally, I would like to see a series on political parties in the US.
I figure Ken Burns has one, maybe two big documentary series in him before he fully retires. What do you think they should be? My votes include Football, Hip-Hop, World War 1, Reconstruction (though Skip Gates did this one well), Iraq/Afghanistan, 19th Century Expansionism.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Every time I see James Carville's 81 year old Cryptkeeper ass come out with something
a woman wearing a santa hat is holding a man 's hand and says `` stop trying to make fetch happen '' .
ALT: a woman wearing a santa hat is holding a man 's hand and says `` stop trying to make fetch happen '' .
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
THIS IS WHAT I NEEDED

#AEW #FullGear
November 23, 2025 at 5:26 AM
WE SWERVE WHEN WE DRIVE WE SWERVE WHEN WE DRIVE

#AEW #FullGear
a man in a red jacket stands in front of a aew tag team champion sign
ALT: a man in a red jacket stands in front of a aew tag team champion sign
media.tenor.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Bsky was QUICK with the graphic media label lmao
November 23, 2025 at 5:19 AM
SAMOA JOE WINS?!?!

#AEW #FullGear
November 23, 2025 at 5:19 AM
On any digital storefront like Switch or PS Store, or even streaming services, I should be able to block any game/movie/TV show I will never see or play.

The fact I have to scroll through some of this garbage annoys me.
November 22, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Send this to your crush today BARK BARK

#AEW #Wrestlesky
November 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I've been laughing at this for a solid 10 minutes.

"2 frames per decade" lmao

youtu.be/P7bxHNn46pw?...
WF- how to kill a piranha plant
YouTube video by bobmario511
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November 21, 2025 at 4:21 AM
What do you know. Those investments in WWE, Twitter, Mr. Beast, and comedians from a slush fund didn't have much if any return on investment.
November 20, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I would like a detailed explanation of how the money will help "stand against Trump."

Mark Kelly already gets $174,000 to do that job.
Coming around to the “we need to bring back shame” argument
November 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM