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Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 1h

In my experience, we do. I’ve seen a lot of cops get fired and routinely prosecuted for a range of boneheaded things. I’ve even helped in the investigations - and this place isn’t exactly a bastion of progressive thinking.

Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 3h

Often a small clarification reveals a great difference. The very existence of the health insurance industry is the problem. It is the bloated and unnecessary block to real public healthcare.

Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 9h

Insurance ≠ Healthcare

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Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 5h

If I had done this as a local LEO, my termination would have been certain and my prosecution likely. You don’t get to just peg people with chemical rounds because you don’t like what they’re saying. This perceived entitlement to improper force must be stopped.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18d

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball

Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

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Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 20h

This administration is what you’d get if The Benny Hill Show were made by psychopaths.

LyndaGood @lyndagood.bsky.social · 20h

Herschel Walker as U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas because nothing says competence in diplomacy like a history of public blunders and questionable judgment. The Bahamas must be preparing for a masterclass in chaos pretending to be leadership.

Herschel Walker confirmed as U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas

The Senate on Tuesday confirmed former football star and Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker to serve as U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas.

www.cbsnews.com

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Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 23h

Fear. We have what you need and we’ll give it to you, but…

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Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 1d

Ken Paxton was already a non-serious politiclown but this cements his divorce from reality. The list of gun idolator right wing assassins is long. For the left, not so much.

Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 1d

they have lost their ever loving minds

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 1d

148 clinical trials have been impacted, with 138k patients due to be enrolled or already enrolled.

Once research stops, some won't pick up where they left off. Even when terminated funding was reinstated, things do not go back to normal.

There is so much waste happening.
🧪 archive.today/Rii7f

The damage done - Nature Medicine

When clinical trials are suddenly halted by US funding cuts, there are repercussions for investigators and patients, and they do not stop at borders.

www.nature.com

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Kepano Kolohe @alala55.bsky.social · 1d

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Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 1d

If someone beat the s**t out of Pam Bondi, she would just disappear.

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Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 1d

Reminds me of Wayne Thiebaud.

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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 2d

Microsoft Teams should be classed as a terrorist organisation.

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Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s the fundamental problem with Christian Nationalism. They can’t just do the right thing. They exploit aid by making it conditional on acceptance of their dogma. We’ll feed you but you must let us proselytize. Everything they do is about control. #AuntFester learned from her pill-hawking daddy.

Gov. Sanders unveils faith-based '10:33 Initiative' aiming to lift Arkansans from poverty | What we know

The 10:33 Initiative is a pilot program that aims to transition Arkansans "from crisis to career," through technology, community partnerships, & "faith."

www.thv11.com

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Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 1d

Monopolies help no one.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

Real estate investors bought one-third of all single-family residential homes sold in the second quarter of 2025.

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Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 2d

… Martha Mitchell.

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Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 2d

At this point, I would enthusiastically vote for the worst Democratic candidate over the best GOP candidate (actually this is true most of the time but especially now).

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Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe so.

Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 3d

Someone in the DOJ with access to the Epstein files has a conscience and enough love for this country to leak them. Where is this generation’s Deep Throat?

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 4d

I don't know where this revisionism has come from about the suffragettes - people saying "if the suffragettes were around today, they'd be considered terrorists."

The suffragettes were arrested and tortured, sexually assaulted and beaten by the state. They *were* considered terrorists!

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Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 3d

It’s not just this regime. The cult of Trump cronies is only the most visible part of an emerging neo-feudal order where wealth guarantees no limits, no consequences, and no conscience. The inequitable distribution of wealth is a harbinger of nation failure.

Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 4d

The regime is acting this way because there are no consequences so it is clear that consequences—the development of them, the advocacy for them, the imposition on bad behavior—are the answer to our crisis.