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Matt Herdman @mattherdman.bsky.social · 10h

We’re going to have so many merchants in the temple, more merchants in the temple than ever before

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Matt Herdman @mattherdman.bsky.social · 18h

Republicans, pretending they just noticed the swastika they hung as a decoration:

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Matt Herdman @mattherdman.bsky.social · 1d

no thank you
www.scientificamerican.com/article/open...

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Matt Herdman @mattherdman.bsky.social · 1d

…or zero suits 😉

Matt Herdman @mattherdman.bsky.social · 1d

The median Republican Gen Z staffer is horrifying

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Matt Herdman @mattherdman.bsky.social · 2d

My man I don’t know how you can even get hotter than this

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 2d

Possibly the funniest thing in here is Jones’ lawyers describing The Onion as his “ideological nemesis.”

Meet the Press @meetthepress.com · 2d

The conspiracy theorist had asked the justices to immediately intervene, warning that the ownership of his Infowars website could be transferred to the satirical news site The Onion.

Supreme Court turns away Alex Jones' attempt to block $1.5B defamation judgment

The conspiracy theorist had asked the justices to immediately intervene, warning that the ownership of his Infowars website could be transferred to the satirical news site The Onion.

nbcnews.to

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Matt Herdman @mattherdman.bsky.social · 2d

I've always said that East St Louis, Decatur, and Wicker Park share a community of interest together

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Matt Herdman @mattherdman.bsky.social · 2d

any meal can be a breakfast. the moment I realized chicken/rice/vegetable reheated well and tastes just as good at 7am was a great moment

Matt Herdman @mattherdman.bsky.social · 2d

@kmooney8181.bsky.social is this anything?

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Matt Herdman @mattherdman.bsky.social · 2d

Kiss of the Spider Woman: Turn Off The Dark

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Matt Herdman @mattherdman.bsky.social · 3d

Life cycle of reading a Bari Weiss article

"wow maybe woke did go too far"
"oh wow this seems really bad"
*reads several other articles on the subject from real news outlets*
"oh that's weird that the Free Press didn't mention a whole bunch of damning facts that hurt their case"

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Matt Herdman @mattherdman.bsky.social · 3d

stefani germanotta

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3d

Who doesn’t love their new trump taxes

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Matt Herdman @mattherdman.bsky.social · 3d

Psycho and Kate's Brother both should have been huge

Matt Herdman @mattherdman.bsky.social · 3d

Papers, Please (2013) and he enjoys it for entirely the wrong reason

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 4d

I am interested in what video games Bashar al-Assad is supposedly addicted to tbh.

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Matt Herdman @mattherdman.bsky.social · 3d

lumberjack twink! cute

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Matt Herdman @mattherdman.bsky.social · 3d

80/20 gay/bi is both extremely funny and also a fairly accurate description of me

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Matt Herdman @mattherdman.bsky.social · 3d

Post you from a different era

2008 was a very different era!

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Matt Herdman @mattherdman.bsky.social · 3d

It seems inevitable that the Pope, who is from Chicago, will eventually show up in person

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 4d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Matt Herdman @mattherdman.bsky.social · 5d

Pokimane, a nonpolitical streamer with 10m followers:
“I have been hearing a lot about the government shutting down. What does that mean exactly?…And I heard they don’t like wanna give health care to people or something. So they can give more money to Elon musk?”

Total Democratic messaging victory

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Matt Herdman @mattherdman.bsky.social · 5d

*calls himself a libertarian
*wants to ban Pride parades
*ideal society is one where married women don't have the right to vote
*is open to criminalizing adultery, penalized by stoning to death
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...

Opinion | He Believes America Should Be a Theocracy. He Says His Influence Is Growing.

www.nytimes.com

Matt Herdman @mattherdman.bsky.social · 5d

Trump and RFK want Americans to die of treatable diseases, so they can save money to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Matt Herdman @mattherdman.bsky.social · 5d

god I need a soprano or a griller #8, it's been months since I've been

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Matt Herdman @mattherdman.bsky.social · 5d

I don’t think National Tuxedo Day is a real holiday but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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