Matthew Sachs
@mattsachs.bsky.social
Infrequent music maker, occasional dreamer of dreams
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Senators--Thune--come to the defense of your colleague and your institution. Now would be a good time.
🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration escalated its effort to punish a sitting U.S. senator for protected political speech Monday, formally converting the Pentagon’s review of Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) into an official Command Investigation under military law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump Admin Intensifies Military Probe Against Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, Launches Command Investigation
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Senators--Thune--come to the defense of your colleague and your institution. Now would be a good time.
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This level of OpSec is referred to as The Full Hegseth
December 16, 2025 at 12:23 AM
This level of OpSec is referred to as The Full Hegseth
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MAGA influencers: you won’t see any Trumpers dancing on Rob Reiner’s grave!
Trump: [puts on dancing shoes, grabs hat and cane]
Trump: [puts on dancing shoes, grabs hat and cane]
December 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
MAGA influencers: you won’t see any Trumpers dancing on Rob Reiner’s grave!
Trump: [puts on dancing shoes, grabs hat and cane]
Trump: [puts on dancing shoes, grabs hat and cane]
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the phrase "acoustic bike" implies the existence of acoustic bike amplifiers and given everything else we know about the company we have to assume that Yamaha makes one
"Acoustic bike" is when you put a playing card in the frame so the spokes sound like a motorbike.
December 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
the phrase "acoustic bike" implies the existence of acoustic bike amplifiers and given everything else we know about the company we have to assume that Yamaha makes one
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"Why You Can't Upzone My Neighborhood"
January 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
"Why You Can't Upzone My Neighborhood"
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someone tell the California ACLU who is disproportionately more likely to be killed in traffic accidents including those involving people under the influence
The California ACLU is staunchly opposed to the ignition interlock device program and is a big reason that it has not been expanded. Despite the fact that California heavily subsidizes the cost for low-income drunk drivers, the ACLU says that the program is a form of "racialized wealth extraction."
December 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
someone tell the California ACLU who is disproportionately more likely to be killed in traffic accidents including those involving people under the influence
See this is why I'm never going to go extinct.
December 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
See this is why I'm never going to go extinct.
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We have to listen to bigoted handwringing about how we have to abandon trans people and marginalized communities and immigrants while the clearest election winning message is right there.
"Do the rich have too much political power?"
Yes: 80%
No: 8%
YouGov / Dec 8, 2025
Yes: 80%
No: 8%
YouGov / Dec 8, 2025
December 9, 2025 at 10:26 PM
We have to listen to bigoted handwringing about how we have to abandon trans people and marginalized communities and immigrants while the clearest election winning message is right there.
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Broke: quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial agencies can be independent multi-member commissions
Woke: Congress can make every executive department a multi-member commission
Bespoke: the presidency itself should be replaced with a multi-member commission
Woke: Congress can make every executive department a multi-member commission
Bespoke: the presidency itself should be replaced with a multi-member commission
The conservative justices have their talking point -- what if Congress turned every department into a multimember commission -- and it is totally absurd considering that has never happened under the existing law.
December 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Broke: quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial agencies can be independent multi-member commissions
Woke: Congress can make every executive department a multi-member commission
Bespoke: the presidency itself should be replaced with a multi-member commission
Woke: Congress can make every executive department a multi-member commission
Bespoke: the presidency itself should be replaced with a multi-member commission
"I hope this email finds you well."
How this email finds me:
How this email finds me:
December 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
"I hope this email finds you well."
How this email finds me:
How this email finds me:
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🇺🇸 trifectas get shot at doing something
Obama chose policy (ACA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
Biden chose policy (ARP/IRA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
The platform must be institutional reform next time. Right from the start, as @dhnexon.bsky.social said
Obama chose policy (ACA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
Biden chose policy (ARP/IRA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
The platform must be
If we want to actually be a representative democracy, then the platform needs to be institutional reform. All the Popularism and all the policies follow from that, not the other way around.
- DC/PR/USVI statehood
- Enlarging the House
- MMDs
- New VRA
- Totally revamping SCOTUS: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
- Automatic universal voter registration
- Rewriting the "national emergency" laws: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
- Subordinating the Senate: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Etc.
- Enlarging the House
- MMDs
- New VRA
- Totally revamping SCOTUS: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
- Automatic universal voter registration
- Rewriting
- Subordinating the Senate: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Etc.
December 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
🇺🇸 trifectas get shot at doing something
Obama chose policy (ACA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
Biden chose policy (ARP/IRA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
The platform must be institutional reform next time. Right from the start, as @dhnexon.bsky.social said
Obama chose policy (ACA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
Biden chose policy (ARP/IRA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
The platform must be
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We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
December 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
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My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
December 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
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"I was shooting the remains of the boat, the people just got in the way." Again, worth noting that this was exactly the defense that U-852's captain used in his post-WW2 war crimes trial for the Peleus Incident. He was found guilty and shot.
Won't the whole SOF community be relieved when doing water survival training that properly packed cocaine acts as a flotation device. Bradley "I was shooting the remains of the boat, the people just got in the way."
A true seal special
December 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
"I was shooting the remains of the boat, the people just got in the way." Again, worth noting that this was exactly the defense that U-852's captain used in his post-WW2 war crimes trial for the Peleus Incident. He was found guilty and shot.
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"Democratic voters have to force their candidates to embrace real, aggressive Supreme Court reform. That means not only coming up with a plan (including, most likely, term limits and court expansion) but being unrestrained in how they talk about these six villains who are destroying our democracy."
Democrats Need to Treat the Supreme Court Like the Villain It Is
The Court is out of control, and we'll never see reform unless we build the case for it. Starting now.
paulwaldman.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
"Democratic voters have to force their candidates to embrace real, aggressive Supreme Court reform. That means not only coming up with a plan (including, most likely, term limits and court expansion) but being unrestrained in how they talk about these six villains who are destroying our democracy."
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I don’t want to hear any Congressional Dems say they are waiting for Republicans to act. I want Dems to immediately file impeachment articles against Hegseth. And Congress should be able to fire the admiral with a simple majority vote.
🚨🚨🚨This collapses the one 'argument' Hegseth had against it being a war crime:
"The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat .. DID NOT APPEAR TO HAVE RADIO OR OTHER COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES, the top military official overseeing the strike told lawmakers."
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"The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat .. DID NOT APPEAR TO HAVE RADIO OR OTHER COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES, the top military official overseeing the strike told lawmakers."
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Exclusive: Survivors clinging to capsized boat didn’t radio for backup, admiral overseeing double-tap strike tells lawmakers | CNN Politics
The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat in a secondary strike against a suspected drug vessel in early September did not appear to have radio or other communications device...
www.cnn.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I don’t want to hear any Congressional Dems say they are waiting for Republicans to act. I want Dems to immediately file impeachment articles against Hegseth. And Congress should be able to fire the admiral with a simple majority vote.
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This fetid landmark, this historical stain on humanity is primarily due to the stunningly reckless obliteration of America's foreign assistance agency earlier this year.
Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.
Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.
For First Time in Decades, Child Deaths Will Rise This Year
Almost a quarter of a million more children around the world are projected to die in 2025 than in 2024.
www.wsj.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This fetid landmark, this historical stain on humanity is primarily due to the stunningly reckless obliteration of America's foreign assistance agency earlier this year.
Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.
Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.
It takes a real hero to save the world from @melissamarrwriting.bsky.social ! #punctuation
December 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
It takes a real hero to save the world from @melissamarrwriting.bsky.social ! #punctuation
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Every Congressperson who does not file impeachment articles ASAP, or even just start talking about it, owns everything that happens to the people Trump targets. Their complicity and enablement of his abuse takes the protection of America away from them.
Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
December 3, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Every Congressperson who does not file impeachment articles ASAP, or even just start talking about it, owns everything that happens to the people Trump targets. Their complicity and enablement of his abuse takes the protection of America away from them.
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we could have good things, too, you know
December 2, 2025 at 6:47 AM
we could have good things, too, you know
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it is not like. a weird mistake! the minimum viable amount of fat for a critter is not zero, and the optimal level of fat is not the minimum viable level.
December 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
it is not like. a weird mistake! the minimum viable amount of fat for a critter is not zero, and the optimal level of fat is not the minimum viable level.
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I was at city event getting resident feedback on some planning thing. The sort of thing where people put colored dots on things. All anyone wanted to do was complain about how all the new buildings going up have flat roofs, and flat roofs are ugly, and how can we stop this.
NEW PAPER w/ @cselmendorf.bsky.social & @jkalla.bsky.social:
An under-appreciated reason why voters oppose dense new housing, especially in less-dense neighborhoods: they think it looks ugly and want to prevent that, even in other neighborhoods.
Some of what we think is NIMBYism might not be!
An under-appreciated reason why voters oppose dense new housing, especially in less-dense neighborhoods: they think it looks ugly and want to prevent that, even in other neighborhoods.
Some of what we think is NIMBYism might not be!
November 26, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I was at city event getting resident feedback on some planning thing. The sort of thing where people put colored dots on things. All anyone wanted to do was complain about how all the new buildings going up have flat roofs, and flat roofs are ugly, and how can we stop this.