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Lia Matera

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Author liamatera.com 12 crime novels, 2 Edgar nominations; 14 stories, 1 Shamus winner, 1 Int'l Thriller Award nom Editor, anthology of stories by my betters ChatGPT says I died in 2022, making me...a ghost writer? Member CA Bar Sorry, I don't reply to DMs

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 7h
Hey, here's a random thought: maybe all of us who are Democrats and progressives should pause attacks on each other for the next three weeks and focus on beating Republicans. I promise our arguments will be so much more interesting in January after a blue tsunami.
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Lia Matera @liamatera.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Canada behaves very badly...We caught them in the act. They charged us a lot of tariffs that nobody knew about except me." Secret tariffs? Yesterday's crazy talk was Iran "taking out" LA or San Diego, high prices being a "small price to pay." It's way past time for the 25th Am youtu.be/209ee8dMoKQ
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Trump says he is in 'no rush' to resume Canada trade talks
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Lia Matera @liamatera.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What Trump calls the "Ohio Arena" is Butler-Vandalia Student Activity Center, Butler High School's gymnasium, which holds 4500 "filled to the brim." Today he's at the Pinnacle Bank Expo Center, which can hold up to 4,000. If Trump really thinks he can draw 50K why is he booking venues for under 5K?
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Beth Humphreys 🌺 @producrgrl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
👇👇👇 Vote EARLY & BLUE! Up & down the ballot! 🌊 #nokings
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Lia Matera @liamatera.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Every word of this 👏🔥 but I especially love "He's a ... strongly-worded letter in a suit." We need so much more than that right now.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hegseth also removed the olive branches, a traditional symbol of wishing peace, from the Department of Defense seal. This, in addition to changing the name to "The Department of War," shows the dangerous belligerency that comes from appointing a frat bro who values testosterone over statesmanship.
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Lia Matera @liamatera.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This was one of the best (and most terrifying) miniseries I have ever watched. I can’t recommend it highly enough.
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Lia Matera @liamatera.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
HL Mencken,1920: "As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more & more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great & glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, & the White House will be adorned by a downright moron" 100 yrs later…
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Lia Matera @liamatera.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
He's so gross, so vulgar, so inappropriate. I'm sick of cringing every single day at his latest immature vindictive threats. How can the audience laugh at his promise of unspecified brutish treatment of fellow Ohioans? How can any of them vote for such a classless boor? www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
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Trump says GOP will win and 'we're going to shove it up their ass'
President Donald Trump led a rally with Sen. Jon Husted, Vivek Ramaswamy and others Saturday in a Dayton suburb in hopes of energizing GOP voters.
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Lia Matera @liamatera.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It IS evil. Wildly unlawful & cruel may cover Reagan's "If it takes a bloodbath" order to viciously beat protestors. And some still wrongly think it's the worst we can say of George W's use of torture. But Trump has taken quantum jumps beyond even the most horrific brutality of his GOP predecessors
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Lia Matera @liamatera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It’s not enough this administration outdoes Nixon in corruption, violence against protesters, escalating pointless war to save face etc etc. Now it wants to absolve Nixon so we stop thinking it’s wrong & illegal to use a slush fund (minuscule compared to Trump’s) to bribe witnesses & cover up crimes
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Dave Whamond @davewhamond.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Uh, okay.
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Newshound411 @newshound411.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s corruption on steroids in plain sight. He doesn’t even try to hide that he’s looting US and cashing in on insider trading. He’s the most corrupt president in American history.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026
We’re making all Meidas+ news updates completely paywall-free through the midterm elections. Quality information shouldn’t be locked away right now. This may hurt our business, but some things are more important. Spread the word and join us: meidasplus.com
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The Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." ~ George Orwell #BrucePlante
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Lia Matera @liamatera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Scary that a VP would say “get the hell out of here. You don’t belong in America” to someone with roots going back generations. Esp scary given that last time GOP’s mantra was “love it or leave it,” it wasn’t having people kidnapped off the street & shipped to countries that use prison & slave labor
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Lia Matera @liamatera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Next on Trump’s DOJ agenda: reviewing whether U.S. prosecutors at Nuremberg Trials treated Donald Trump’s/Stephen Miller’s role models fairly
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Hellishchildren @hellishchildren.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Political cartoon by Jim Benton 
A casual party for adults, but everyone has extremely wide-open shocked unhappy expressions.
One man: I read this article and it said that, apparently, there was this time in US history when we didn't all stagger around in horrified disbelief.
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Lia Matera @liamatera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Infuriating Trump paid no price for this, thanks to an unqualified judge he appointed at 11th hour to grind justice to a halt, msm owned by Trump donors who forbade investigation & skewed coverage, a multi-billionaire lunatic with thumbs on the scales, and a GOP so drunk on power it embraced treason
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Lia Matera @liamatera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Blackburn’s suit is SO dumb. Her complaint claims investigation was “codenamed 'Arctic Frost,' which is a type of orange and was chosen to mock Trump's complexion…as the vehicle for Defendant Smith to exercise his unauthorized powers.” Except FBI opened ‘Arctic Frost’ BEFORE Garland appointed Smith.
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Lia Matera @liamatera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I watched this trailer and immediately put this in my nf queue. 👏🏼🎸
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Lia Matera @liamatera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Soooo cute! And the uncalled traveling at the end is very NBA.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Fuck that." "I'm Sherrod Brown and I approve of this message."
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Lia Matera @liamatera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They were ordered “to probe whether US intelligence and law enforcement officials, including former President Barack Obama's CIA Director John Brennan, were part of a years-long plot against Donald Trump.” I’m surprised they stuck with it this long. Don’t they have chemtrails to investigate? 🙄
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Rose Anne Prevec groundhoghill.ca
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Lia Matera @liamatera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
He doesn’t even have to bother pretending the law matters more than his foolish ideas & atrocious taste. His SCOTUS cronies (who are also his state dinner guests and recipients of lavish gifts from his donors) ruled he can ignore laws and paralyze or gut the institutions that enforce them.
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Lia Matera @liamatera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I can’t think of anything Trump’s done to benefit any but the rich and/or powerful. But it’d take hours to list ways he’s hurt the rest of us and ways he’s gutted institutions that help or protect us. And the harm to due process, 1st Am, separation of powers, climate, world standing is incalculable.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump's comments always age so well.
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Lia Matera @liamatera.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It’s surreal — the scope of it, the media silence on the biggest slush funds in U.S. history, the gov’t not doing (and/or hiding) bookkeeping that tracks millions and millions and millions of dollars Trump should not but apparently does control…
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Apple "detectives" wanted to identify a gnarly old tree growing on a remote plot of land in Maine. What they discovered was the key to a centuries-old apple mystery.
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How apple detectives solved the mystery of an ancient tree—and rewrote the history of fruit
And how they might have helped save the future of American apples
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Lia Matera @liamatera.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Photo memories tells me I took this pic 7 years ago. The bumpersticker was taped to my garage window, facing outward, till Trump lost the next election. Then, with great happiness and relief, I threw it away. I wish I'd kept it. I wish I didn't have to wish I'd kept it.
"IMPEACH" -- red bumpersticker with big white letters.
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Lia Matera @liamatera.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Supported for going full snowflake over innocuous chat re Charlie Kirk, students could enjoy the snitchy drama of getting people fired, degrees withheld. In state schools led by former GOP pols, "45 academics were fired or punished for Kirk-related speech incidents" www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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The Fallout of a Charlie Kirk Campus Scandal
Students and faculty across the country were punished for their actions in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder. A recent graduate of Texas Tech’s law school is still trying to clear her name.
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Lia Matera @liamatera.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is pathetic. What kind of despot-manqué pulls workers from their actual jobs to find new ways to flatter and aggrandize him — or worse, creates an environment where they must to scramble to do it.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Lia Matera @liamatera.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is sickening, unforgivable. How about a food bank instead of a gaudy arch with gold statues and armed snipers?
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Christ, these people are monsters. Just monsters. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Lia Matera @liamatera.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The level of corruption here! And it's far from the worst thing Todd Blanche has done and is still doing.
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AgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
When you're ticked off and a friend sends you something to make you feel better. 🐑🔊
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Lia Matera @liamatera.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
RIP P.C. Vey (October 23, 1955 – September 17, 2026), one of the greatest New Yorker cartoonists. This cartoon really hit home, for me:
A man at a desk stares dejectedly at a computer screen while a woman behind him says, "Maybe nobody goes to your website because it's about you."
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Lia Matera @liamatera.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Maybe not all jackalopes are myths & taxidermy scams.
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Lia Matera @liamatera.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Maybe this will make CNN and MSNOW less milquetoast? I'm afraid to hope, since so far, Trump's donor-owned media has responded to bullying by becoming more obsequious. But new polls show the public's caught on without them, and sitting on the truth is costing them viewers and $$.
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Lia Matera @liamatera.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Turns out musicians resent being told what they can/can't say, and fans resent being told which acts they can/can't see, by a pretend-offended billionaire Trump donor (whose wife is on the Board currently murdering the Kennedy Center because orange baby can't put his name on it).
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Lia Matera @liamatera.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Remember when people were convinced they could kill "chemtrails" by spraying vinegar toward them? I have a feeling RFK Jr's "fix" will be just as stupid but much more expensive and possibly deadly. youtu.be/YzkKXnRKSZo?...
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REUPLOAD: Lady Sprays Vinegar at the Sky to "Kill" Chemtrails!
YouTube video by Number_055
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
They just always seem like they have no idea which direction their legs are going to take them 😂 #emuzoomies
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"My department has also dispatched three of our finest schooners to explore the part of our maps that say 'here be dragons.' We vow to get to the bottom of this mystery."
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
And scene.
quote from 1984 where the party is always right.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Please share. It could save a life. Thank you. =======================
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Apparently it is of no concern to any Republicans that Trump and Bessent are taking in billions of dollars from plundered Venezuelan oil and nobody knows where the money is, where is has been going, if anyone is getting proceeds, with no accounting of any of it made available.
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Lia Matera @liamatera.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Yes, put it in mothballs till he's gone. He replaced the board with arts-illiterates & toadies, no wonder A-listers stopped performing there. Now he won't uncover JFK's name because his isn't there. His scrabble for stolen valor is disgusting (so is the AI slop he posts of self with famous generals)
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Lia Matera @liamatera.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Trump must know 40+ nations including Canada, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Australia, UK have mail-in voting. He calls it a "Nation Destroying SCAM" while urging red states to drastically cut polling places in Black districts--as TX, GA, AZ, MS did--hoping Dems won't stand in line all day to vote.
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