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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 25/08/2026

Damn. RIP Dolly. She was an amazing performer and an amazing person. She did more good in this world than probably any of us know. May the angels' arms welcome her. ❤️

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 11/08/2026

Dear Lord, there really ARE people who believed this (note the date) 👇 I doubt even Trump's cabinet members were this out of touch. In Bill's defense at least he had the courage to leave it up on Xitter. If Trump ever starts selling Kool Aid, Crazy Uncle Bob will be missing from Thanksgiving... 😏

Crazy predictions about the Iran war from MAGA media personality Bill Mitchell.

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 11/08/2026

Thank you Red! I'm also going to Rosanne Cash's Sunken Lands Songwriting Circle to benefit Johnny Cash's boyhood home historic site in Sep. - www.arkansas.com/experiences/... Looking forward to that too!

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Sunken Lands Songwriting Circle

An Unforgettable Evening of Songs and StoriesRosanne Cash Returns to Host the Sunken Lands Songwriting Circle

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 11/08/2026

Hello BSky fam! I hope you've been well. Life gets crazy sometimes and between the full time and starting a biz, I haven't had much free time. However, it's been a great summer so far. Locked in my YMSB tickets for October at Wildwood Springs Lodge in MO! Can't wait! 🪕 🎸 🎤 (no acoustic emoji lol)

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 13/06/2026

4/My favorite books are written by journalists and told in a "just the facts, ma'am" style that lets the reader draw their own inferences. Ya know, what journalists are supposed to do. Bottom line, this book is a great and topical read and you won't be disappointed. 💙📚

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 13/06/2026

3/One of the best uses of this book is for persuading folks waking up after decades of bullshit, realizing Trump might not be a populist savior after all. Conason ties it neatly together, from the Red Scare/war on gay gov officials of the 50's, straight through today, and the writing is superb. 💙📚

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 13/06/2026

2/In 2026, you're hard pressed to find a more relevant read. Tracing Trump's lineage back to MCarthy and Roy Cohn, Conason lays bare the swamp in gory detail. Swindling educated middle Americans, begun in earnest with the Goldwater campaign, is far from a new grift. If only ppl still read books! 💙📚

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 13/06/2026

1/Happy Saturday BSky fam! Been a while! I've been busy with work and family, I haven't had time for much of anything else. Back with a book, @joeconason.bsky.social's wonderful "The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism" - bookshop.org/p/books/the-... 💙 📚

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The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism

How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 10/04/2026

Thank you for the shout out!

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 02/04/2026

For the first time in a while, we can trot out this old chestnut (and almost mean it) - youtu.be/LasrD6SZkZk

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AMERICA F#K YEAH! MUSIC VIDEO Team America World Police THEME SONG

YouTube video by Jayla B

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 02/04/2026

Is anyone else freaking excited about #ARTEMISII? As someone who's about 50/50 (or maybe 30/70 - centerforaninformedamerica.com/moondoggie-1/) that we went to the moon before, a trip around in 2026 would go a long way with me. Sending positive vibes to the 'nauts on board for a safe mission! 🙏❤️✌️

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Wagging the Moondoggie: Part I

“It is commonly believed that man will fly directly from the earth to the moon, but to do this, we would require a vehicle of such gigantic proportions that it would prove an economic impossibility…

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 31/03/2026

Once more ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Tim Wilson (RIP) - youtu.be/4-xOtbr2bjE "Mama made a well-rounded outcast outta me..."

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Tim Wilson - Acid Country

YouTube video by Daniel Curtis

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 25/03/2026

Guys, you should check out @davekarpf.bsky.social and subscribe to his newsletter. That is all.

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 25/03/2026

8/In the most innocent explanation, courts, cops, and probation officers - local and Fed - were WAY too lenient with a sociopath who should have been locked back up any number of times b4 the murders. However, is that all this was? You decide.

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 25/03/2026

7/It's entirely possible - even most likely, imho - that a program of subversion, by the time it hit the streets, spiraled into a sprawling behemoth and they completely lost control, with late summer 1969 the culmination. Dig into the Church Committee hearings for proof that illegal ops were afoot.

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 25/03/2026

6/Or was it simply fear of the "other" - African Americans, college students who refused to go along, immigrants, etc.? We'll never know for sure, so I'll let you be the judge. Either way, there's strong evidence that Manson was plugged into someone, somewhere. Also remember, real life ain't TV.

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 25/03/2026

5/There's a whole other side to this decade you've never been told. Student protests at UC Berkeley started as far back as 1961, and by 65, the tide was turning against LBJ and the hubris-filled CIA/FBI stepped in to "crisis manage" the situation. Was there genuine fear of foreign influence?

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 25/03/2026

4/Dave McGowan's work on Laurel Canyon and the birth of the hippies dovetails nicely here - centerforaninformedamerica.com/inside-the-l... - and will blow away what you thought you knew about the free love icons who, coincidentally, mostly came from military intelligence parents. Odd, right? Mmhmm.

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Inside The LC: The Strange but Mostly True Story of Laurel Canyon and the Birth of the Hippie Generation: Part I

“There’s something happening here What it is ain’t exactly clear” Join me now, if you have the time, as we take a stroll down memory lane to a time nearly four-and-a-half decades ago –…

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 25/03/2026

3/By 1969, "former" military intelligence officers posing as hippies were embedded deeply into SF, most notably to foment discord among groups and turn the country against the liberal left (I've heard this somewhere before...🤔). Sharon Tate's own father, for instance, was high-ranking military.

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 25/03/2026

2/...it does lay waste to the Helter Skelter theory proposed by lead prosecutor/inveterate liar Vince Bugliosi. It also investigates the strange cast of characters around the scene, coincidentally the height of FBI's COINTELPRO and the CIA's CHAOS programs. And not just fake hippie military types.

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 25/03/2026

1/Hoo baby, fans of 60s history should check out "Chaos: Charles Manson, the Cia, and the Secret History of the Sixties" by Tom O'Neill - bookshop.org/p/books/chao.... No, it absolutely doesn't absolve Manson & Family of the murders, nor does it imply they were instigated by the CIA. But...

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Chaos: Charles Manson, the Cia, and the Secret History of the Sixties

Charles Manson, the Cia, and the Secret History of the Sixties

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 09/03/2026

Sheesh, talk about stepping on your own dick. If your first instinct is to defend "Birth of a Nation" as misunderstood, you've already exposed yourself as a fuckwit.

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 09/03/2026

Very beautiful piece from @davekarpf.bsky.social about the loss of his beloved dog, Sherlock. Agreed that anyone who's lost a pet can relate. Definitely worth the read.

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 06/03/2026

Shouting out some local Fredericktown, MO boys - Flat River Band, the Sitze boys. Their grandpa, MG, ran the barbershop. Here's them with the Oak Ridge Boys on a great collab - youtu.be/FTyEK8MPfFo. Anytime my home town isn't notable for kidnapping, murder, or poor education is a good day.

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Leaving Louisiana In The Broad Daylight / Flat River Band Featuring The Oak Ridge Boys

YouTube video by Flat River Band

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 21/02/2026

I had no idea there was a festival dedicated to Rod Serling, but it makes me very happy to learn it. If you've never watched TZ, the themes are as applicable today as they were then. True visionary.

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 21/02/2026

To any Vatican assassins who may be reading this post: I want to state, unequivocally, the Pope has yet to refute any of my reporting on the #Quiltnocracy. I think we ALL must ask ourselves why that is...

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 20/02/2026

+1 for Ghost! As a glutton for punishment, I've been self-hosting for years, but their hosted version is cheap and as controversy-free as any online platform can be in the 20s. Good luck with the switch and I'll follow along.

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 20/02/2026

Thank you Redhead! ❤️

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 20/02/2026

3/Despite it (or because of it) they all created better lives for their kids. Trish earned her Masters and worked at the community college level as an educator and admin. I don't say this to garner sympathy, but to let you know who she is. I thank you in advance! 🙏❤️

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 20/02/2026

2/My grandpa Joe was a WW2 vet who drank himself to death in his 30s, leaving behind 5 kids. My grandma, God rest her, picked up where he left off, working as a nurse in pre-welfare Missouri and drinking the rest of the time. I wouldn't raise dogs in some of the places my Mom lived as a child.

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 20/02/2026

1/Good morning BSky fam. Need to ask a favor. I need all the prayers and positive healing vibes y'all can muster for my aunt Trish who found out yesterday she has a pretty advanced ovarian cancer. Chemo, etc, but prognosis is not great. Trish, and all my Mom's siblings, came up from a rough start.

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 14/02/2026

3/One thing that miffes me - Mastercard crapping their logo all over the official video because they're sponsoring his tour (stadiums, btw). But it ain't 1970. We say "shit" casually in songs and the music industry is dying. At least it's not AI-generated. Agree or disagree? What do you guys think?

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 14/02/2026

2/But there's a lot of great songwriters. Flash in the pan? Maybe. But check this out - youtu.be/eIV330sRz34. That's a packed Fenway Park singing along with every word. Maybe it's just me and that's ok, but there's something about this guy's songwriting that resonates with me.

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Noah Kahan - Maine (Live From Fenway Park)

YouTube video by NoahKahanVEVO

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 14/02/2026

1/I don't say this lightly at all, but Noah Kahan has the potential to be up there with John Prine. "The Great Divide" is such a FANTASTIC song - youtu.be/wRzEvqbrn2c. Man, what a writer. My wife turned me on to "Stick Season" last year, and I enjoyed it, but this is something more.

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Noah Kahan - The Great Divide (Official Lyric Video)

YouTube video by NoahKahanVEVO

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 09/02/2026

Republicans: this what you voted for?

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 09/02/2026

Of course this idiot from Missouri has to be in the picture with a big ol' shit eatin'grin on his face, as we say down home.

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 09/02/2026

5/The 2nd uncoolest thing? Lip syncing. Kid Rock managed to do both in a single performance - www.youtube.com/live/nJszMT9... (embarrassingly he didn't even TRY during Bawitdaba). Tho he does now look like the meth heads in the trailer park next to my friend's house. The circle is complete? 😜

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TPUSA Presents: The ALL-AMERICAN HALFTIME SHOW

YouTube video by Turning Point USA

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 09/02/2026

4/I grew up on Kid Rock in the 90s and he had a certain swagger back then. My parents hated him, which was its own seal of approval. Back then, the absolute UN-coolest thing you could be was a sellout and a political shill. My how times have changed! No one can be cool forever, I suppose.

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 09/02/2026

3/Do I have a problem with any of these topics? Of course not, but don't go waving your "holier than thou" morals in my face when Kid "Balls In Your Mouth" Rock is your headliner (Rodgers and Hammerstein it ain't - genius.com/Kid-rock-bal...). Let's talk about Mr. Ritchie for a sec.

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Kid Rock – Balls in Your Mouth

The 11th track off of Kid Rock’s Second studio album, The Polyfuze method It samples “Howard Stern vs the FCC” (Balls in your mouth,) The bass line of “Good Ol Music” by Funkadelic

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 09/02/2026

2/Contrast that with the TPUSA (I know what "TP" means in my house 😂) show, "Faith, Family, Freedom" and Christian values, eh? "Dirt Road Anthem", a paean to drunk driving, Gabby Barrett's "I Hope", the "Louisville Slugger" of the 20s, and "Bawitdaba", an anthem to drug use and...mosh pits?

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 09/02/2026

1/Good morning fam! Sorry to be away for so long. Busy! Dug BB's perf at the Bowl, made me realize I should learn some Spanish. After Kendrick last year, I have to give the NFL some props for bravery. Even tho Bunny's got 1B+ views on a single YT vid (all in Spanish), it took guts to put this on rn.

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 01/02/2026

Awesome brother! Thank you! ⚡

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 30/01/2026

5/These things make a difference. In "The Emperor Has No Clothes", they're the townspeople. We have to make them see it, but once they do, things will start to change. It is what it is. Wake up the sleeping giant and we might have a chance.

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 30/01/2026

4/But here's the thing - once you lose them, they're GONE. It's like turning around an oil tanker. Their opinions are mist, impossible to grasp. And they absolutely decide our fate. If you want to reach someone? Reach them. Keep knitting and conscientious objecting. Keep talking without yelling.

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 30/01/2026

3/They don't protest, but they also don't go to Trump rallies. They've always been there, back to the Revolutionary War. They're the underwater part of the iceberg. Nixon's point? He felt he had their support, and he probably did for a while. Ditto Trump, as is clear from his actions.

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 30/01/2026

2/Imho, this is one of the most effective forms of resistance: quietly powerful, hugely influential. Pat Buchanan (of all fscking ppl) coined a phrase when he was Nixon's speechwriter: "the silent majority". The 90% who aren't rabidly pro-government or anti-government, who don't post on socials.

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 30/01/2026

1/I remember the early 00s and Iraq 2: The Sequel when the FBI spied on craftspeople, librarians, Quakers, and any other group that couldn't be "dirtied up". It's easy to make ppl fear the Black Panthers, not so when it's 60 year olds knitting antigovernment slogans. The playbook hasn't changed.

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 30/01/2026

Late 70s Dead is some of the best.

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 30/01/2026

Oooh! This looks pretty damn cool - www.jambase.com/article/litt.... And long overdue, imho! There's a story in one of the Dead books about Lowell George in the studio with the boys, walking round in overalls with a bag of coke in the hammer loop. Ah the 80s! What a time to be alive! 😬

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'Little Feat: The Documentary' Features Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne & Jeff Bridges Narration

The great untold story of legendary rock band Little Feat is the focus of a new official documentary set to premiere on February 21.

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