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Matt Golden 🏳️‍🌈

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Editor, writer, creative roustabout. Lover of horror. He/him. 🏳️‍🌈 Always try to be nice, but never fail to be kind. SW-7327-6931-1118 https://linktr.ee/emgolden

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Matt Golden 🏳️‍🌈 @emgolden.bsky.social · Dec 12

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Name: Matt
Pronouns: He/him
Location: AL
Interests: Horror (particularly ghost stories, specifically “pleasing terrors”), writing, movies, TV, video games, reading, video editing, The X-Files, Doctor Who, Lorcana

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Matt Golden 🏳️‍🌈 @emgolden.bsky.social · 4h

Our nation is dying by fascism, Gavin.

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Gavin Newsom Signs Bill That Restricts Loudness Of Commercials On Streaming Services

California's governor signed the legislation that had no opposition.

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Matt Golden 🏳️‍🌈 @emgolden.bsky.social · 4h

I keep thinking back to when I was young and idealistic right out of high school in 2000. I would never have fathomed that a quarter-century later, statements like "Hitler was a piece of shit" or "Fascism is bad, actually" would somehow become broadly politically contentious.

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Goth Country Buffet @shadowham.bsky.social · 4h

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Matt Golden 🏳️‍🌈 @emgolden.bsky.social · 5h

I don’t know how you listen to the President of the United States of America say “We took the freedom of speech away” and not demand an immediate end to the whole fucking ballgame.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 7h

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 9d

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 9d

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians not directly taking part in hostilities, even if they are believed to be smuggling drugs."

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Matt Golden 🏳️‍🌈 @emgolden.bsky.social · 11h

Then let us become Death, destroyer of slop.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Matt Golden 🏳️‍🌈 @emgolden.bsky.social · 18h

I just realized that the concept of an innate name means that conservatives operate on fae rules.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "The judge also would not refer to the defendant by his biological name -- referred to him by the pronouns."

Matt Golden 🏳️‍🌈 @emgolden.bsky.social · 19h

Our conservatives similarly denigrate cultural studies here on this side of the pond, and I’m 100% convinced it’s part of a concerted effort to create a populace with greater media illiteracy, which enables regimes like the Trump administration.

The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 23h

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English
The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Matt Golden 🏳️‍🌈 @emgolden.bsky.social · 23h

Always has been, why stop now?

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

In a press release, Texas Attorney General calls "transgenderism" a "corrupted ideology" that is "a cancer on our culture."

This is openly genocidal rhetoric about trans people from a sitting AG.

A press release dated October 7, 2025, with the headline: “Attorney General Ken Paxton Launches Undercover Operations to Infiltrate and Uproot Leftist Terror Cells in Texas After Increased Political Violence.” The statement claims rising left-wing violence, referencing the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and outlines Paxton’s directive for undercover investigations. A highlighted quote from Paxton reads: “Leftist political terrorism is a clear and present danger. Corrupted ideologies like transgenderism and Antifa are a cancer on our culture and have unleashed their deranged and drugged-up foot soldiers on the American people.” The text further accuses the radical Left of fostering political violence, referencing incidents involving Antifa-like groups and a supposed assassin tied to transgender movements. It also notes that President Trump designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, with Paxton vowing sweeping investigations into radical leftist groups.

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James Van Fleevil Dead @horrorfilms101.bsky.social · 1d

One of the best climaxes of any horror flick.

Goregirl @goregirlsdungeon.bsky.social · 1d

Dead of Night (1945, Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer)

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🎃return of the Obra Deeny🎃(they/them) @geraldinepiche.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry I went on your media tab and liked all your pics this is how I flirt

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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 1d

Pam Bondi is simply no match - intellectually or ethically - for Adam Schiff.

Watch this must-see clip as he dissects and exposes her pathetic performance today.

When she realizes how badly he is rolling her, she tries to interrupt. But it’s to no avail. She knows that he has her dead to rights.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 1d

You can see Bondi doing some long-term thinking there in the final five seconds

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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Matt Golden 🏳️‍🌈 @emgolden.bsky.social · 1d

This are the most I ever did, congratulations.

Cup O' Coffey @ammathor.bsky.social · 1d

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Matt Golden 🏳️‍🌈 @emgolden.bsky.social · 1d

“The judge would not refer to the defendant by his biological name,” said Pamela Jo Bondi to Rafael Edward Cruz.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "The judge also would not refer to the defendant by his biological name -- referred to him by the pronouns."

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 2d

reminder that you can be the gentlest, kindest person--you can dedicate your life to protecting the planet!--and still keep a little list of people you fucking hate. it's okay to be angry! anger is a symptom of giving a shit!

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3d

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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Matt Golden 🏳️‍🌈 @emgolden.bsky.social · 1d

“Ghis-laine?”

Old Ben Kenobi saying “Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.”

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Jack Turban MD @turban.bsky.social · 2d

The Guardian: Lawyers trying to get the Supreme Court to overturn conversion therapy bans deceived the court about the research they cited, according to the researchers themselves.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Christian group ‘deceived’ supreme court about LGBTQ+ research, cited scholars say

Exclusive: Experts say Alliance Defending Freedom, arguing to revive conversion therapy, ‘profoundly misrepresented’ their work in case threatening trans and queer youth

www.theguardian.com

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Susan of Hell @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 1d

If you have a trans kid, as a parent the one thing you want more than anything else in the world is to ease their pain. I was glad when my son transitioned because he became a much happier person. Any parent who tries to inflict pain on their child must be stopped. It’s that simple.

Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 1d

These Supreme Court oral arguments on conversion therapy are going to be painful. No matter what is said, know that trying to force someone to be what they're not is psychological torture with measurable negative consequences, and anyone trying to defend such efforts is a bigoted monster.

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Matt Golden 🏳️‍🌈 @emgolden.bsky.social · 2d

Be yourself. Realize right now that the rules are made up and the points don’t matter. Do what you want and be who you are and don’t ask permission. It’s like unlocking the source code to the universe.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 5d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Matt Golden 🏳️‍🌈 @emgolden.bsky.social · 2d

why do we say godmother and godfather when we could instead call them sparents

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Matt Golden 🏳️‍🌈 @emgolden.bsky.social · 3d

So, ah, question for all those 2nd Amendment die-hards: Whatcha hoarding all those guns for if not for protecting the common folk against lawless government goons literally kidnapping people off the street? I thought you argue that’s the Founding Fathers’ whole reason to have unlimited 2A freedom.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4d

The body slam seems to be the ICE preferred initial interaction.

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