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Matt Fitzwater

@mattfitzwater.bsky.social

Palette cleanser for your feed 🙏

Yo La Tengo - "You Can Have It All"

YouTube video by 90sBandsOnTV

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February 3, 2026 at 3:44 AM

Matt Fitzwater

@mattfitzwater.bsky.social

Woah!!

Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 3d

Extry, Extry!
variety.com/2026/tv/news...

‘Mystery Science Theater 3000’: Rifftrax, Shout! Studios Team for New Episodes of Cult Classic Series (EXCLUSIVE)

RiffTrax and Shout! Studios have teamed to produce four new episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 with Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy

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February 2, 2026 at 8:58 PM

Matt Fitzwater

@mattfitzwater.bsky.social

This one feels like it was filmed in purgatory and it's one of my all-time melancholy favorites.

Peter Avellino @peterapeel.bsky.social · 4d

Opening day of THE MISFITS, 2/1/61 mrpeelsardineliqueur.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-next-thing-that-happens.html

February 1, 2026 at 6:06 PM

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Dave Itzkoff

@ditzkoff.bsky.social

what a whirlwind of a performer. RIP, Catherine O'Hara

January 30, 2026 at 6:51 PM

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Peter Avellino

@peterapeel.bsky.social

RIP Catherine O’Hara.

January 30, 2026 at 6:38 PM

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Brianna Ashby

@briannaduggan.bsky.social

One of the funniest people to ever walk this earth. This is bullshit.

January 30, 2026 at 6:38 PM

Matt Fitzwater

@mattfitzwater.bsky.social

Was just thinking about this part in the making of LOVE STREAMS where John Cassavetes is arguing why Socrates was a jerk.

I'm almost not Crazy - the making of Love Streams by John Cassavetes

YouTube video by Jimmy Hilli

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January 29, 2026 at 12:45 AM

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Jeff Rueter

@jeffrueter.bsky.social

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed.

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM

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MeidasTouch

@meidastouch.com

Read every word.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12d

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

January 25, 2026 at 1:30 AM

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Mark Harris

@markharris.bsky.social

I hope Democratic senators and congressmen understand, out of pure lizard-brain self-interest if moral decency happens to be unavailable, what is at stake for them if they don't handle this the right way. This is a true "If not now, when?" moment.

January 24, 2026 at 10:00 PM

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Zito

@zeets.bsky.social

The newest video shows very clearly that they attacked him for coming to an aid of a woman that the agents pushed, and then executed him while he was immobilized. Everything the government has said, like with Good, has been a complete lie.

January 24, 2026 at 7:09 PM

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G Elliott Morris

@gelliottmorris.com

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

January 24, 2026 at 6:26 PM

Matt Fitzwater

@mattfitzwater.bsky.social

Yes!

January 21, 2026 at 1:04 PM

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Revy

@catgirlfingies.quest

David Lynch saying
You're all together on this planet trying to live a life,

you know, a good life.

Why would you torture people?

January 11, 2026 at 11:50 PM

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Victor LaValle

@victorlavalle.bsky.social

January 9, 2026 at 1:50 PM

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Ken Jennings

@kenjennings.bsky.social

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

January 7, 2026 at 8:26 PM

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Andy Diggle

@andydiggle.bsky.social

30 Rock "What a week" meme:
"What a year, huh?"
"Lemon, it's January 3rd."

January 3, 2026 at 1:26 PM

Matt Fitzwater

@mattfitzwater.bsky.social

Early 00s nostalgia filtered through auditory maple syrup as far as I'm concerned.

Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag | Paste Studios, NYC (2019)

YouTube video by Paste Magazine

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January 2, 2026 at 6:06 AM

Matt Fitzwater

@mattfitzwater.bsky.social

Manifest a Chad Vader Anniversary Special!

#chadvader #blamesociety #starwars

Donate to Help Us Create a Chad Vader Anniversary Special, organized by Aaron Yonda

20 years ago, in a grocery store not that far away, there was a day shift … Aaron Yonda needs your support for Help Us Create a Chad Vader Anniversary Special

www.gofundme.com

January 2, 2026 at 12:10 AM

Matt Fitzwater

@mattfitzwater.bsky.social

Happy New Year! May the Statue of Liberty, invigorated with positively charged slime, break the shells of negatively charged slime over all institutions in 2026.
#ghostbusters2 #statueofliberty