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Patrick Matthews

@matthewsp.bsky.social

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Delawarean. Workforce management professional, quiz bowl enthusiast, and Microsoft Excel MVP. Philadelphia sports enjoyer. I left The Bad Place.

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Patrick Matthews @matthewsp.bsky.social · Oct 3

Alternate headline: “Armed Gang Suppresses Details of Initiation Rituals”

CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · Oct 3

California judge rules that a report on police in Vallejo bending their badges to mark fatal shootings can remain secret. The judge also closed the hearing to public and press and locked the door to the courtroom. openvallejo.org/2024/10/02/f...

From a locked courtroom, judge rules Vallejo badge bending report will remain secret

A Solano County Superior Court judge on Wednesday blocked the full release of an investigative report into Vallejo police badge bending in a hearing closed to the public and press.

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Patrick Matthews @matthewsp.bsky.social · 2h

I’m not saying he’s unworthy of love or compassion. I’m saying he acted like a dirtbag. Those are not mutually exclusive things.

Patrick Matthews @matthewsp.bsky.social · 3h

Hunter:
1) Traded on his dad's name in a mildly corrupt fashion
2) Got his dad to pull strings to get him into a JAG program, which he then washed out of in spectacular fashion
3) Cheated on his taxes
4) Behaved extremely irresponsibly with his firearms

I stand by what I said.

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Patrick Matthews @matthewsp.bsky.social · 5h

But ashamed of being horny

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Kathleen Clark @kathleenclark.bsky.social · 16h

Whenever you hear someone invoke the unitary executive, remember the image below.

This was an inevitable result of the unitary executive theory:
Empowering a president to tyrannically destroy institutions that ensured our government reflects the rule of law rather than his personal whim.

Photograph showing ruins of the East Wing of the White House, with nearly the entire building destroyed.

(Photo obtained by Law Dork.)

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Patrick Matthews @matthewsp.bsky.social · 7h

Hunter is a dirtbag but he was right about the PSA gang

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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 17h

“Once my colleague pulled out his camera, the agent put away the gun," Huynh told the Sun-Times Tuesday night. "[But] if they can do this in broad daylight to an elected official, and point a gun at someone, imagine what’s happening behind closed doors.”

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Pema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 22h

A fun byproduct of unitary executive theory—if the president controls everyone under him, he can demand they transfer hundreds of millions in tax dollars into his bank account

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X

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Patrick Matthews @matthewsp.bsky.social · 7h

I’m beginning to think that Pod Save America and their entire crew should be launched into the sun

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Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 7h

The thing about delivering “authentic” political candidates to meet public demand for that quality: actual authenticity comes with not insignificant risk, because most people are weirdos in some regard, and you just have to hope the weirdness, once it surfaces, isn’t a dealbreaker.

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 19h

We have no idea what happened here but the idea that ICE can create dangerous situations for cops and immigrants or use deadly force to make stops for CIVIL offenses is absurd! Legally these offenses are less serious than many traffic offenses or other nonviolent crimes.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 17h

"Groceries have never been more expensive. We really thought this was something Trump might be able to help us with. But the high cost of food is worth it so a transgender teen in Idaho can’t use the school locker room."

At Least We Owned the Libs

Sure, it was a huge bummer that they cut funding for fixing the streets in our town. We enjoyed going places. But, overall, it’s worth it for the t...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17h

Our analysis, which shows that more women nearly bled to death during miscarriage after Texas banned abortion, adds to a growing body of reporting revealing that maternal outcomes have gotten worse under bans.

(Published July)
By @andreasuozzo.com, Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presser

Miscarriage Is Increasingly Dangerous for Women in Texas, Our Analysis Shows. Here’s How We Did It.

Using seven years of hospital discharge data, we found that the number of blood transfusions during emergency room visits for first-trimester miscarriage shot up by 54% since Texas banned abortion.

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Patrick Matthews @matthewsp.bsky.social · 17h

Yikes. I do expect better from a US Senator, though

Patrick Matthews @matthewsp.bsky.social · 20h

Did anyone ask Sanders how many tours someone has to do to be able to casually dismiss sexual assault?

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Patrick Matthews @matthewsp.bsky.social · 20h

NY Times using the exonerative voice to relieve the ICE agent of any agency or responsibility for shooting a US Marshal.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21h

Breaking News: A U.S. marshal and a man targeted by immigration authorities were injured by gunfire during a traffic stop in Los Angeles, officials said.