Matt
@mr3402.bsky.social
SWFC, Mets, Jets, Caps, Terps, Saints and adopted Evertonian. Most of which derogatory. Never Bunt.
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Yes, god help we risk a floundering government that feels like no one is in charge.
February 8, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Yes, god help we risk a floundering government that feels like no one is in charge.
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This was from October and boy does it feel like the stakes have increased since then. Looking forward to this.
Thoughts on Bad Bunny performing at the Super Bowl and why it matters
February 8, 2026 at 4:26 PM
This was from October and boy does it feel like the stakes have increased since then. Looking forward to this.
There's been a lot that's happened since the conference championships which somehow only happened less than 2 weeks ago
I probably shouldn’t say this out loud bc so many of you follow me for football reasons but I keep forgetting the Super Bowl is happening tomorrow
February 8, 2026 at 12:59 AM
There's been a lot that's happened since the conference championships which somehow only happened less than 2 weeks ago
I'm honestly in awe of McAfee's open admission that he is a fucking idiot and a rube, down to the fact he isn't aware he's admitting it
"We’ve been told this place is a sh*thole.” - Pat McAfee
“We’ve been told that for a long time." - A.J. Hawk.
“This place has been gorgeous. It has been incredible." - McAfee
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“We’ve been told that for a long time." - A.J. Hawk.
“This place has been gorgeous. It has been incredible." - McAfee
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Pat McAfee blown away to learn San Francisco is not what he's been told
The NFL world descended on the Bay Area this week as the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks prepare to battle in Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara’s Levi’s Stadium.
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February 7, 2026 at 6:58 PM
I'm honestly in awe of McAfee's open admission that he is a fucking idiot and a rube, down to the fact he isn't aware he's admitting it
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Not to go all Anti-Free Speech, but the guy who started this argument publicly was back on Question Time last week, and a prominent supporter of it has a decent chance of winning a by election. Those two facts are connected.
It is terribly sad that the former PM feels the need to say this in the face of low life blowhards.
We cannot allow this to even be a question.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We cannot allow this to even be a question.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘I’m British, English and British Asian’, says Rishi Sunak in riposte to racially charged debate over identity
Podcaster claimed former prime minister not English because he is ‘brown-skinned Hindu’
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Not to go all Anti-Free Speech, but the guy who started this argument publicly was back on Question Time last week, and a prominent supporter of it has a decent chance of winning a by election. Those two facts are connected.
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A player in massive trade rumors owning part of a prediction market where people can bet on whether he gets traded is a MASSIVE conflict of interest.
This is so far beyond players doing sportsbook ads.
This is so far beyond players doing sportsbook ads.
February 6, 2026 at 10:22 PM
A player in massive trade rumors owning part of a prediction market where people can bet on whether he gets traded is a MASSIVE conflict of interest.
This is so far beyond players doing sportsbook ads.
This is so far beyond players doing sportsbook ads.
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Everytime I can remember a PM changing in the middle of a parliamentary term people have tried to make a claim like this and it has arguably only actually happened the one time the PM in question literally started booting MPs out of his party when he didn't even have a majority.
Could someone explain to these people that this is not how it works, even more so when you have a 160 seat majority, and only Reform voting headbangers seriously believe it does?
February 6, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Everytime I can remember a PM changing in the middle of a parliamentary term people have tried to make a claim like this and it has arguably only actually happened the one time the PM in question literally started booting MPs out of his party when he didn't even have a majority.
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You do occasionally realise how Yvette managed to lose to both Corbyn and 2015 Andy Burnham.
Home Secretary confirms that the UK government did not formally trigger the break clause in the asylum seeker relocation treaty with Rwanda until Dec 2025. (Rwanda says that delay means the UK owes £100m in payments due under the treaty).
February 6, 2026 at 3:28 PM
You do occasionally realise how Yvette managed to lose to both Corbyn and 2015 Andy Burnham.
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YOU KNEW HE HAD EPSTEIN LINKS WHEN YOU APPOINTED HIM.
February 6, 2026 at 2:07 PM
YOU KNEW HE HAD EPSTEIN LINKS WHEN YOU APPOINTED HIM.
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Yet this is a government with three years left to run and an enormous Commons majority. For all the problems, there is an enormous opportunity there for someone with the political nous to take it and use it.
Starmer's reported condition - incredibly unpopular, shorn of authority, probably un-reelectable and yet will stagger on for want of an alternative - is just the new normal of how Britain is governed. It was also true for two-thirds of May's premiership, half of Johnson's and all of Sunak's.
February 6, 2026 at 11:52 AM
Yet this is a government with three years left to run and an enormous Commons majority. For all the problems, there is an enormous opportunity there for someone with the political nous to take it and use it.
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We've reached the "Maurice Glasman showed better judgement than the PM" stage of this crisis. Not sure there's any way back from that...
EXC:
I can reveal the contents of a memo by Labour peer Lord Maurice Glasman in January 2025 warning Number 10 it was making a mistake to hire Mandelson - sent to Starmer’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney.
www.ft.com/content/584a...
I can reveal the contents of a memo by Labour peer Lord Maurice Glasman in January 2025 warning Number 10 it was making a mistake to hire Mandelson - sent to Starmer’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney.
www.ft.com/content/584a...
Keir Starmer apologises to victims of Jeffrey Epstein
UK prime minister faces criticism from Labour MPs but insists he is not about to quit
www.ft.com
February 5, 2026 at 3:53 PM
We've reached the "Maurice Glasman showed better judgement than the PM" stage of this crisis. Not sure there's any way back from that...
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If some random MP's can meme Al Carns to leader on the basis, essentially, he was in the military we can meme Yuan Yang leadership from Bluesky on the basis of her dog.
February 5, 2026 at 10:05 AM
If some random MP's can meme Al Carns to leader on the basis, essentially, he was in the military we can meme Yuan Yang leadership from Bluesky on the basis of her dog.
I'm not sure this would be encouraging me, someone who has only ever voted Labour (and votes in every possible election), to vote Labour if I lived in Gorton and Denton.
Keir Starmer attacks the racism of Reform and Matt Goodwin but then adds that "Britain has also been let down by a mindset on the left of politics that is too slow to defend core British values"
February 5, 2026 at 12:02 PM
I'm not sure this would be encouraging me, someone who has only ever voted Labour (and votes in every possible election), to vote Labour if I lived in Gorton and Denton.
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The thing is Mandelson is by far the worst example but it is astonishing to see the return of Dougie Alexander and Jacqui Smith, two utter wastes of space from the New Labour administration, and the looming presence of Yvette Cooper presented as "reassuring" and not "intellectually bankrupt."
this is vicious and correct www.economist.com/britain/2026...
February 5, 2026 at 10:58 AM
The thing is Mandelson is by far the worst example but it is astonishing to see the return of Dougie Alexander and Jacqui Smith, two utter wastes of space from the New Labour administration, and the looming presence of Yvette Cooper presented as "reassuring" and not "intellectually bankrupt."
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Starmer may bin McSweeney at some point but it won't save him. Getting rid of the dastardly adviser is always a step on the road to the end not a route off it.
February 4, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Starmer may bin McSweeney at some point but it won't save him. Getting rid of the dastardly adviser is always a step on the road to the end not a route off it.
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It's genuinely fascinating how despite Starmer's hatred of Boris Johnson, Boris is easily the PM he's most wound up resembling
February 4, 2026 at 12:31 PM
It's genuinely fascinating how despite Starmer's hatred of Boris Johnson, Boris is easily the PM he's most wound up resembling
Honestly amazing that this is a post about appointing someone in 2025.
Labour figures concerned about this exchange:
Badenoch: “Did the official security vetting he received mention Mandelson’s ongoing relationship with Jeffrey Epstein?"
Starmer: “Yes it did. As a result, various questions were put to him.
I want to make sure this house sees the full documentation."
Badenoch: “Did the official security vetting he received mention Mandelson’s ongoing relationship with Jeffrey Epstein?"
Starmer: “Yes it did. As a result, various questions were put to him.
I want to make sure this house sees the full documentation."
February 4, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Honestly amazing that this is a post about appointing someone in 2025.
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It's a finely balanced decision. On the one hand, you have the architect of a strategy that is not working, who could not do this job in opposition *the first time*, and buy the PM breathing space. On the other, moving it would involve admitting that some of the PM's old legal buddies were right.
Is the extraordinary Mandelson scandal the final nail in the coffin that is McSweeney’s time in No10? Labour MPs tells our Tom the PLP “direction of travel” is towards Starmer’s CoS having to go. Even some PM loyalists think Starmer may have to remove his close ally to shore up his own position.
The growing Mandelson scandal has resulted in renewed pressure on the position of Keir Starmer's chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, who was instrumental in the decision to bring him into government, reports PolHome's Tom Scotson
February 4, 2026 at 11:03 AM
It's a finely balanced decision. On the one hand, you have the architect of a strategy that is not working, who could not do this job in opposition *the first time*, and buy the PM breathing space. On the other, moving it would involve admitting that some of the PM's old legal buddies were right.
If any of the top 4 seeds make the semi finals will play 1 game in 6 weeks. If they're not in their conference championship game, 1 game in 7 weeks. This is genuinely insane
The CFP announces dates and bowl games for the Quarterfinal and Semifinal games for the next 2 seasons. These games will all continue to be hosted by the bowls. National championships will be Las Vegas and New Orleans.
February 3, 2026 at 7:14 PM
If any of the top 4 seeds make the semi finals will play 1 game in 6 weeks. If they're not in their conference championship game, 1 game in 7 weeks. This is genuinely insane
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Gordon knows: Mandelson is a traitor who needs locking up!
Gordon Brown writes to Met to back case for investigation into Mandelson's 'inexcusable and unpatriotic' leaking - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
February 3, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Gordon knows: Mandelson is a traitor who needs locking up!
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if you asked someone who still tweets a million times a day about minor corbyn era betrayals to speculate on what peter mandelson was up to during the GFC they probably wouldn’t even go as direct as “he just forwarded all gordon brown’s emails to a billionaire banker (also a pedo sex-trafficker)”
February 2, 2026 at 2:55 PM
if you asked someone who still tweets a million times a day about minor corbyn era betrayals to speculate on what peter mandelson was up to during the GFC they probably wouldn’t even go as direct as “he just forwarded all gordon brown’s emails to a billionaire banker (also a pedo sex-trafficker)”
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Scottish Labour outflanking Ann Widdecombe to the right on trans rights.
EXCLUSIVE: Anas Sarwar has promised to ban trans prisoners from female jails if Scottish Labour wins the Holyrood election.
On the eve of a key court case, he says would ensure prisons are single-sex "within days" of becoming FM.
On the eve of a key court case, he says would ensure prisons are single-sex "within days" of becoming FM.
Trans prisoners to be banned from female jails if Scottish Labour wins election - Daily Record
EXCLUSIVE: The Scottish Labour leader said prisons must be 'single-sex spaces" in the wake of the Isla Bryson scandal.
www.dailyrecord.co.uk
February 2, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Scottish Labour outflanking Ann Widdecombe to the right on trans rights.
I love how this paragraph was written because it buries the lede of 'lexi is fucking mad' so far that it's impossible to see
John, there just aren't people coming on boats to Manchester! If they are they're coming up the ship canal from Rucorn, and frankly, fair enough.
February 2, 2026 at 9:40 AM
I love how this paragraph was written because it buries the lede of 'lexi is fucking mad' so far that it's impossible to see
Well, this is wonderful news
🚨 EXCL: Everton reach agreement in principle with Chelsea to sign Tyrique George. Deal for 19yo #CFC forward loan + buy option, pending #EFC ratification. England U21 int’l granted permission to travel for medical before completing switch 🚨 @theathleticfc.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/athletic/653...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/653...
Everton reach agreement in principle with Chelsea for Tyrique George loan
The 19-year-old has made only 11 appearances this term after a move to Fulham broke down last summer, four of those coming in the league.
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Well, this is wonderful news
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Let’s try this one in foreign correspondent voice:
State Security Forces Arrest Journalist Who Covered Protests Against Regime Official
State Security Forces Arrest Journalist Who Covered Protests Against Regime Official
Don was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles.
January 30, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Let’s try this one in foreign correspondent voice:
State Security Forces Arrest Journalist Who Covered Protests Against Regime Official
State Security Forces Arrest Journalist Who Covered Protests Against Regime Official