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Matt Luckett

@lucketthistory.bsky.social

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HUX MA Program Director at CSUDH and maker of various and sundry things. Also making fascism unfashionable. Mostly here for hockey news and shameless self-promotion. No DMs pls

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Matt Luckett @lucketthistory.bsky.social · 22d

Somewhere in the afterlife…

Charlie Kirk: “I was killed for saying the wrong thing to the wrong people, I guess.”

Emmett Till: “Tell me about it.”

Matt Luckett @lucketthistory.bsky.social · 8h

I hardly ever think about the fact that I have Von Willobrandt’s Disease. That is, until I cut the tip of my finger while tearing the foil off of a wine bottle and I bleed like a news headline for the next ten minutes

Matt Luckett @lucketthistory.bsky.social · 16h

If he ends up giving the Taliban an Air Force base here in Northern California I’m going to be very upset.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 23h

Okay if we give POTUS our nicest iceberg for free, will he build us a Training Base in Florida? We need a place to train jungle warfare operatives

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Matt Luckett @lucketthistory.bsky.social · 19h

People seem to confuse cognitive tests with intelligence tests, but there is no reason to take either if you are a functional human adult without some type of neurological and/or personality disorder.

Matt Luckett @lucketthistory.bsky.social · 19h

When you can’t beat them, buy them.

Matt Luckett @lucketthistory.bsky.social · 19h

Huh? I mean…. Why?!?!

I’m so confused right now.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23h

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

Matt Luckett @lucketthistory.bsky.social · 23h

I had to tell my daughter “no” at least seven times yesterday when she saw a giant 7-foot animatronic skeleton at Home Depot. But I just now realized I can cover it with glossy grey spray paint, put red LEDs in its eyes, and give it a prop rifle and suddenly I have a T-800 model Terminator

Matt Luckett @lucketthistory.bsky.social · 1d

Look everybody Bobby is doing a science

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

Matt Luckett @lucketthistory.bsky.social · 1d

This is exhibit A for Why I Hate Purity Tests. Who cares who she is and how she got here? And who cares if it’s only on two or three issues?

It’s like what Billy Beane says in Moneyball: when you get the answer you want, say “Thank You” and hang up

Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 1d

Her pivot could expose everything Washington wants buried...or prove the system still owns her. If Greene’s break is real...the GOP’s in trouble. If it’s not...America is. 🔥👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Matt Luckett @lucketthistory.bsky.social · 1d

I’m so fascinated by this… I want a VR headset that allows me to experience the world as Noem for a few minutes (but no more than that, my brain would melt)

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Noem claims Portland hid their war zone from her.

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Will🇺🇸📎✌️🌲 @econaturalist.bsky.social · 2d

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Matt Luckett @lucketthistory.bsky.social · 1d

I would definitely put a bird on that

Matt Luckett @lucketthistory.bsky.social · 2d

I’m excited about Halloween this year. It’s fun to dress up as things that don’t exist, like vampires, or Antifa

Matt Luckett @lucketthistory.bsky.social · 2d

I have a movie idea. It’s called Escape From Portland…

Plot: Snake Plissken misses his bus. He ends up spending two hours at an Arby’s waiting for the next one

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Matt Luckett @lucketthistory.bsky.social · 2d

I learned that when I was eight. No basic training needed, unless you count Boy Scouts

Matt Luckett @lucketthistory.bsky.social · 2d

I’m all for body positivity but I don’t think I’d be sending these guys to Omaha Beach

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 3d

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

Matt Luckett @lucketthistory.bsky.social · 2d

It’s like Waiting for Godot, but when Godot finally gets here I get whiskey drunk while playing Chumbawumba’s Tubthumping on repeat so loud that the police come, realize the song is for them too, and join me in sipping my special occasion scotch

Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 2d

Eric Swallwell (D-CA) says it’s coming to an end and House Republicans are privately breaking, that a “jailbreak” is brewing the moment the Epstein files hit the floor, and that Trump’s aura of fear is finally cracking.

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
#USDemocracy
#Pinks

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SWALWELL’S BOMBSHELL EPSTEIN TWEET: "The Epstein Files Are Coming And The GOP Are Getting Ready To Abandon Trump"

218 or chaos: Inside the House moment that could shatter Trump’s grip

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 2d

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks, New Yorker

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Matt Luckett @lucketthistory.bsky.social · 3d

Your honesty is refreshing. Would you be interested in high political office?

Matt Luckett @lucketthistory.bsky.social · 3d

If Trump invokes the Insurrection Act and the situation in Chicago devolves to the point where Texas Guard members start coming home in body bags, Newsom and Californians more broadly are going to have a real gut check moment. The whispers about CA secession might become a lot more audible overnight

Matt Luckett @lucketthistory.bsky.social · 3d

“What’s the bathroom code?”

“4-5-4-7”

“Yeah well it’s not working.”

“Exactly.”

Matt Luckett @lucketthistory.bsky.social · 3d

That’s awesome.

“What’s the bathroom code?”

“It’s 2-0-2-8”

Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 3d

Way to go, Chicago, more of this! Kristi Noem is upset that ICE agents in Chicago are being “denied entry” to restrooms and lunch spots.