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andymatic.bsky.social @andymatic.bsky.social · 8d

FOLSOM REPORT-OUT: Spill it, sister: How was the weekend? What events did you go to? How was the crowd? How was the music? Would you go again?

Comments/discuss at andymatic.substack.com/p/folsom-202...

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Folsom 2025 Report Out: How'd it go?

No life choices this week, moisturize, and take your DoxyPEP.

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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 9d

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

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andymatic.bsky.social @andymatic.bsky.social · 12d

Final updates to #folsomstreetfair party guide is out at
andymatic.com/folsom

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Folsom Street Fair Party Guide 2025

tl;dr/summary: Folsom is a big gay leather prom. See you there.

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andymatic.bsky.social @andymatic.bsky.social · 16d

Almost-final grid for #FolsomStreetFair - the latest always at andymatic.com/folsom

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andymatic.bsky.social @andymatic.bsky.social · 24d

Fresh updates to he #FolsomStreetFair party guide is are and out andymatic.com/folsom

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andymatic.bsky.social @andymatic.bsky.social · Aug 10

First edition of the #FolsomStreetFair party guide is up and out. andymatic.com/folsom

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andymatic.bsky.social @andymatic.bsky.social · Jul 25

#UpYourAlley #DoreAlley 2025 Party Guide

Final grid posted. Have a safe/horny weekend!

andymatic.com/dore

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andymatic.bsky.social @andymatic.bsky.social · Jul 21

#DoreAlley #UpYourAlley Weekend Party Guide updated!

The latest always at andymatic.com/dore

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andymatic.bsky.social @andymatic.bsky.social · Jul 2

I was remiss yesterday in not wishing HAPPY DEMI NEW YEAR TO ALL WHO OBSERVE: Every July 1st, my old work BFF Ginevra and I celebrate Demi New Year. Reboot, reload, refresh, and try to make the second half something great.

*Just realized I should use photos from The Substance for this.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · Jun 30

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · Jul 1

We now have a concentration camp in Florida.

Stop pretending any of this is normal.

If you claim to be a good person and you're not outwardly opposing this regime, you're not a good person.

Be human.

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andymatic.bsky.social @andymatic.bsky.social · Jul 1

I know we all hate on the Atlantic. Should I subscribe to Jacobin or New Republic? Someone on Reddit mentioned Nautilus?

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · Jun 29

Yeah, and this is a defect built deep inside the left-wing conception of Trump's America, which is that MAGA's fascist and bigoted politics must be some kind of disguise for an agenda of self-enrichment and economic exploitation. But it isn't: for these people, hurting others is its own reward.

Allison F @ablington.bsky.social · Jun 29

i wish people would just say “the bigots also want people to suffer” instead of “people are trying to make you bigots so that you won’t notice people are suffering which you surely care about”

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · Jun 29

Guys, I'm going to say something controversial here. "Trump's racism is trying to distract from our working-class agenda" is bad when Mamdani does it, too.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Jun 26

Have they, Andrew? Have they really

But this huge increase in funding was no longer primarily about gay, lesbian and transgender civil rights, because almost all had already been won. It was instead about a new and radical gender revolution. Focused on ending what activists saw as the oppression of the sex binary, which some critical gender and queer theorists associated with “white supremacy,” they aimed to dissolve natural distinctions between men and women in society, to replace biological sex with “gender identity” in the law and culture, and to redefine homosexuality, in the process, not as a neutral fact of the human condition but as a liberating ideological “queerness” meant to subvert and “queer” language, culture and society in myriad different ways.

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · Jun 22

Pretty sure America just went to war because nobody liked Donald Trump's military parade.

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Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com · Jun 5

We chose the right day to launch the share button

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Jun 5

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · Jun 5

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · Apr 28

Ben Smith lifts up a corner of the plush comforter under which our would-be overlords have been huffing each other's farts for the past few years as they collectively dream their way back to the cutting-edge ideas of the late 19th century www.semafor.com/article/04/2...

The group chats that changed America

A loose private network on Signal and WhatsApp helped usher in the new alliance between Silicon Valley and Donald Trump’s new right.

www.semafor.com

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God @thegodpodcast.com · Apr 26

You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · Apr 20

Turns out people want their dems to fight for their values and protect due process

Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · Apr 20

Sunday morning April 20, 2025

Fox News Sunday — Van Hollen

NBC's Meet the Press — Van Hollen

CNN's State of the Union — Van Hollen

CBS’ Face the Nation — Van Hollen

ABC’s This Week — Van Hollen

@vanhollen.senate.gov
#AbregoGarcia #RuleOfLaw

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · Apr 20

“You can’t say people are our most important product and then treat them like shit.” - Jim Sinegal, co-founder of Costco

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Apr 20

Back on their bullshit I see
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/m...

How the War Over Trans Athletes Tore a Volleyball Team Apart
Blaire Fleming was a little-known college player. Then she suddenly became a symbol of injustice — to both sides of the controversy.

$But at the moment, such a system — one that recognizes the inherent tension between fairness and inclusion, that acknowledges both the benefits of participation and the zero-sum nature of competition — is no longer a possibility. In its place, we have a fractious, seemingly irresolvable culture war, with neither side willing to extend the benefit of the doubt, much less any grace, to the other. Supporters of a ban consider trans athletes to be cheaters and possibly perverts. Supporters of inclusion view those who hesitate or have questions as bigots. The notion that someone they disagree with might be acting in good faith is inconceivable.$

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andymatic.bsky.social @andymatic.bsky.social · Apr 20

Okay get me Beshear saying shit like this and I got some hope.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Apr 20

i’m getting van hollen pilled

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · Apr 20

Q: "How do you respond to Governor Newsom?"

Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · Apr 18

The Bush administration disappeared people too, sent them to a different gulag at Gitmo and other black sites, kidnapped people off the street of Milan, tortured them, in the name of "a different kind of war."
We didn't come close to holding them accountable.
We're seeing the cost of that now.

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