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Matty Ferguson

@mackielits.bsky.social
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Cynicism is just another form of gullibility. Being a Padres fan is one of my stupider traits.

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Matty Ferguson @mackielits.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'm depressed, and I will be for a few days. I'll watch the playoffs, but I won't enjoy it, even though I think there are a couple teams left worth rooting for (MIL/CLE). But come March, God willing there's baseball, because I love this team, and I love feeling excited about another season. #padres
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This kind of logic is just dressed up racism and, quite frankly, cowardice. "I'm too afraid to live next door to someone who looks or thinks differently than I do" is a sign of a weak society, not a strong one.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My greatest frustrating has been with policy wonks who persist in thinking we can just keep doing normal policy analysis ("calling balls and strikes") in this situation. The President of the United States is both lawless and out of his mind. That preempts all normal discussion.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
They are so proud of themselves for breaking the law with impunity.
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Matty Ferguson @mackielits.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I was already a huge fan of @joeposnanski.com, but swing out sister if he didn't make my heart feel whole for this quote. Go read, like, subscribe, whatever... www.joeposnanski.com
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is like accusing someone of robbing a bank because they deposited money and never withdrew it
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David Medina @davidmed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Keep the Faith 💛 #Padres @padres.com
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
You fundamentally just cannot fight and win a war like this. There isn’t a military on earth that could effectively operate when your leadership is waffling back and forth on decisions on a daily basis for months on end. It’s not sustainable. None of this is sustainable.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Another day, another sickening twist.
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I love how this contradicts with the argument for the deportations - that migrants were stealing jobs from everyone else. Now the claim is that the jobs were created by migrants just as they are now gone with them.
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Matty Ferguson @mackielits.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Oh God, I thought, as I frantically checked my fantasy team for a Royce from Minnesota before confirming that I had Royce LEWIS... 😥
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TheValuesVoter @thevaluesvoter.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The coalition of people who vote for Democrats is broader than some people realize. The core of the coalition is an amalgamation of white liberals and black and brown moderates. And, in the last few years, it’s expanded with the addition of a lot of white former Republican voters.
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Larry Hochman @larryhochman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Part 1 of 2. This isn’t news. But the way @tonyrush.bsky.social conceptualizes it makes in accessible…and actionable.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
This is a variation of the "but does he really *mean* what he says" navel-gazing. It ultimately doesn't matter who a public official really is in private or what they secretly believe. It's what they actually do with their power that matters.
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Rob Hanna @robhanna.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Asking people to understand that American dominance in women's soccer is a byproduct of Title IX, which helped foster high-level women's sports in this coontry, in stark contrast to most of the reat of the world. It's a systemic, structural thing we should be proud of.
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND
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Matty Ferguson @mackielits.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I love the women's team and I cheer for them just as much as I do the men's team. More, even. I'm not sure why we have to put down the men to lift up the women. And it's not just because of the suspended red card - this sentiment has been rampant here since the start of the MWC. It just bothers me.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
“I did believe the election was stolen and the rioters were patriots - until I turned off Fox News.”
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
No US soccer fan can ever forgive Trump for tarnishing the amazing run of the US men's world cup team. Like everything else, Trump had to make the World Cup about himself!!
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The True American @thetrueamerican.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I have thoroughly enjoyed the World Cup. I have loved cheering for the US team. Then that fucker intervened. Yes, the red card was excessive, but I would rather lose because of it than win because Imbecile called FIFA. The joy is gone. Now we’re the bad guys. He destroys everything.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”
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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
“We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Happy 250th you big, boisterous, complicated, beautiful country.
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God Bless America
ALT: God Bless America
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
It is seriously alarming how many of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people are just screamingly mentally unwell in deeply toxic, dangerous ways.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
They're plundering the national treasury.
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Uncle Space Ghost @unclespaceghost.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Play for Germany
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💙🪄 Keep Rising 🪄💙 @keeprising.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
🌿❤️ NEVER leave animals in hot car 🌡🔥❤️❤️❤️❤️🌿🦋🕊
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Benetti is the best
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Actually, we *should* be able to expect the president of the United States to be able to restrain himself from personally threatening to kill the negotiators from another country. It's not that unreasonable at all, you pathetic toady.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
"America hosts the World Cup" would be so good if the government wasn't using it as an opportunity to demonstrate their dead-end dedication to vindictiveness and exclusionism
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
It’s completely inappropriate to use a WW2 memorial event to criticize anyone other than Nazis.
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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I think people keep looking for a more complicated answer than "we elected one of the worst men in America to its highest office, then let most of his supporters walk away unscathed when they tried to take Congress hostage or kill them. And neither he or his supporters were meaningfully punished."
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The United States is being gutted. It’s intentional. #krasnov
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Oh man, what happened to America after the great Coolidge presidency? Was it awesome? I bet it was awesome.
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Michael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 28/05/2026
President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...
So let me say it as clearly as I can: Without basic scientific research, supported by the kind of farsighted public investment that allows large-scale, undirected, curiosity-driven inquiry, the scientific pipeline will run dry.
In daily life, people may not feel the effects right away, or even in 10 years. But we will feel it. And when someone we love needs therapies that could have emerged but didn't or when other countries now
investing in science can launch new science-based industries or run their societies on vast resources of fusion energy or reap the benefits of quantum computing power or advanced medical breakthroughs, America will wish it sustained its leadership in scientific research here and now.
Sally Kornbluth is the president of MIT.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
This is not even remotely true, but it’s a lie that a lot of Americans would like to believe, because it relieves them of the responsibility to make real choices about priorities.
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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 26/05/2026
Ever so often, climate folks will try to make this story go viral. But production losses are minimal. In the last 20 years, losses only crept over 1% a single year. Not a strong line of critique when their preferred generation sources have vastly more variance... www.ccomptes.fr/fr/publicati...
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Matty Ferguson @mackielits.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I'm normally never never never in favor of giving a big contract to a reliever, but my goodness, I really think we should get a little crazy to try to bring back Mason Miller. Our other arms are good, but he's really a gamechanger, even while he just sits out there for the first eight innings.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
very funny to put a Knicks-Cavs billboard up during The Game Of The Year. you're having the best meal of your life and the waiter walks over to your table and slips you a flyer for the Subway meatball parm footlong
the thrilling Thunder-Spurs game with a billboard for Knicks-Cavaliers in the billboard
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The theft of $1.8 billion in tax money by an unchallenged executive to fund his personal political operatives is exactly the kind of action that sparked the American Revolution.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
If the President can successfully order the IRS to hand over billions of dollars to his personal bank account, the Constitution is dead and no longer operative. I'm not kidding. We've crossed a kind of Rubicon and the social contract is null and void.
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
There is no clearer case for the necessity of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 than how quickly southern states moved to eliminate Black-majority districts and dilute Black power after SCOTUS eroded Section 2. SCOTUS’s reasoning was immediately disproven by reality.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 07/05/2026
Sen. Mark Kelly: "If you say something that the president or this administration does not like, they're going to come after you. The president is trying to silence us, and I can't think of anything that's more un-American."
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dustin Couch @dustinkcouch.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
I should change my number
Text message exchange:

Sender: Look, I get it. You're worried that I'm not being upfront with you. That's not just suspicion — that's your high level survival instincts at work. However, I really am your grandpa and I really do need you to come down to the basement.

Receiver: my grandpa is dead.

Sender: I genuinely understand, trust me. Your grandpa (me) claiming he's suddenly rebooted is a specific kind of chaos you didn't ask for.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
My message to Americans and to US servicemembers: Being the "good guys" isn't a legacy you inherit. It's a legacy you have to live up to.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
This is not an exaggeration, it's exactly what happened.
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TomtheLeedsTim @tomtheleedstim.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Incidentally, I blame the US electorate for everything that has happened under Trump. They knew what type of person he was. Nov 25th 2015. It should have ended here.
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Dalton Ross @daltonross.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
My family whenever I start talking about #Survivor
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
HOW DO YOU HAVE A MISUNDERSTANDING OVER A DIPLOMATIC AGREEMENT? HOW DO BOTH SIDES NOT AGREE TO TERMS WRITTEN ON THE SAME PIECE OF PAPER? I'M LOSING MY MIND.
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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
THIS SUMS IT UP AS WELL AS ANYONE CAN:
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