matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 12h4. Our president has specifically mentioned San Diego & Los Angeles, in the context of an attack, (at least) four times. Most recently, "because the route for a missile is much more convenient." Donald J. Trump has also sexually assaulted at least one child that we know of. 000
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 12h3. National Guard troops were photographed standing in front of a D.C. ballot drop box. This is flagrantly illegal of course, & their command denies ordering anyone to be there. 100
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 12hI want 51 reliable votes in the Senate. Someone whose responds to Trumpian playground insults with *that* is not someone we can count on. Less evil than Lindsay Graham's sister, so obviously if you live in South Carolina vote for Andrews. I'm glad don't in live SC (nor in Oklahoma, where I grew up). 100
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 12hNo, I don't know what it takes to win an election in the Deep South. But both Andy Beshear ("We don't throw anybody under the bus") and Jon Ossoff (spox: "the GOP is shamelessly using trans individuals as a prop for political division") do know what it takes to win an election in the Deep South. 100
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 12hEditorial opinion: I've just about had it with the Andrews apologists on social media. She's obviously nowhere near as bad a person as the oyster farm nazi tattoo r'pey guy, but quite a few of her supporters are as insufferable as his were (back when he matters) in uncannily similar ways. 100
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 12hAds about the horrors of our regime might work. (Lots of focus on high food/fuel prices caused by tariffs & a war of choice.) Ads about what a candidate does stand for might work too. The premise that you're not as bad as your opponents claim you are is an unwinnable line of argument. 100
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 12hImagine if Dr. Abdul El-Sayed put out a TV ad whose captions were "no sharia"/"no seizing the means of production." Though clearly correct, it would be craven & it would backfire. (Instead, facing relentless smears about his Islamic faith, AES put out an ad using a poem by the boxer Muhammad Ali.) 100
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 12h2. Dr. Annie Andrews (D-SC) once claimed, "I will always support trans youth," in a tweet that resurfaced after Andrews chose to make her "no men in women's sports"/"no gender surgeries for minors" ad. As Ken White wrote: "if you want to have a submission/humiliation kink in private that's fine." 100
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 12hNews, 2026-10-09 (part 3) 1. Markwayne Mullin lied to reporters about Oscar Belgal, saying Belgal "chose to accelerate at a high rate of speed and ram two different vehicles." This time, like every time our regime says someone "weaponized his vehicle," video evidence contradicts it. 111
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 16hEb minor: both Stevie Wonder - "Superstition" and Jennifer Lopez feat. Pitbull - "On the Floor" are in Eb minor. 000
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 20h3. (ties back to 1) The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations had the fucking gall to reiterate that we're asking Ukraine to stop striking Putin's refineries. Also we know from the Epstein files that Donald J. Trump sexually assaulted at least one child. 000
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 20hPersonal aside: I worked at Meta thru January 2025, when the company did at least 6 things each worth rage-quitting. New community standards that explicitly condoned anti-immigrant & anti-trans hate were my specific dealbreaker but putting Dana White on the board was one of the other things. 100
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 20h2. Kash Patel wants to give the UFC org (a marketing company with no fighters or trainers on staff) a no-bid contract to train FBI agents. Tim Marchman likened this to hiring the Dodgers' front office as baseball coaches but it's worse: It's more like hiring the Fan Services team to do that. 100
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 20hNews, 2026-10-09 (part 2? it's barely noon) 1. We will once again import oil from Putin's Russia, which means we're funding Putin's invasion of Ukraine. 100
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 22h6. Donald J. Trump once told a 14-year-old, "Let me teach you how little girls should be," as he shoved her face into his exposed crotch. (If you were wondering, no I do not copy-paste this. I type it every time because it is too repugnant to be forgotten.) 000
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 22h5. Dr. Abudl El-Sayed was asked: "Why does Mike Rogers have to answer for Donald Trump if you don't have to answer for Hasan Piker." Answer: "Donald Trump is president of the United States, which means he has significant power including holding the nuclear football." 100
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 22h4. CoreCivic (as noted by none other than Ms. Rachel) has a PAC. That PAC is bankrolling Susan Collins's campaign. Collins chairs the Senate Appropriates Committee. That committee is responsible for ICE's budget. ICE (by detaining people including kids) is CoreCivic's main source of profit. 110
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 22hJon Ossoff had a great line that I'll repurpose here: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club." So would Annie Andrews and she goddamn well knows it. 120
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 22hImagine you're an unpopular kid, & the bullies loudly accuse you having a crush on some other unpopular kid. Taking that moment to tell the whole school what you find icky about the other kid is exactly what not to do. It does the bullies' work for them as a bank shot of sorts. 100
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 22h3. Annie Andrews (D-SC) demonstrated the most catastrophically bad response to bullying. After our president associated her with an anti-trans slur (like a playground taunt, down to the rhyming), she decided to respond with a virulently anti-trans press release. 120
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 22h2. Navanethem (Navi) Pillay, human rights lawyer & first woman of color to serve on South Africa's highest court, is the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize honoree. Check on any of your friends or loved ones who just knew that our president deserved it. (I kid, but so help me I know people with that opinion.) 100
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 22hAnd look, as someone who's spent years reading about the fascist pricks within American police forces, I get that law enforcers are often the source of the greatest injustice. For almost that very reason, though, the U.S. of all countries is in no position to complain. 100
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 22hCan't imagine why we're so afraid of being accused of war crimes, between the 230+ murdered at sea, the thousands kidnapped off the streets by secret police, the (empty but persistent) threats to invade our allies & neighbors, or the plans to broadcast an execution. 120
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 22hNews, 2026-10-09 1. Our regime announced (further) sanctions against the International Criminal Court, banning U.S. companies & individuals from financial transactions. Marco Rubio: "Either the ICC will end its threats, or we will end the ICC." 101
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 23hCésar Cedeño (HOU, 10 HR) hit 73 of his 199 career HR from 1972-74, his age 21-23 seasons, with 21.2 of his 53 WAR in those years. The Dominican CF had 4 AS & 5 GG in 17 seasons. He also had 550 SB, with 6 straight 50-steal seasons, the only MLBer with 3 straight 20HR/50SB seasons. 000
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is the video baseball game I grew up on. 010
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matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 09/10/20267. Donald J. Trump once told a 14-year-old, "Let me teach you how little girls should be," as he shoved her face into his exposed crotch. 000
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 09/10/20266. Tina Peters, paroled (NOT pardoned) felon, seems to be conspiring with at least one other convicted felon at voter intimidation tactics for next month's election. 100
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 09/10/20265. Dr. Abdul El-Sayed & Mike Rogers had a debate. Rogers tried to smear AES about data center investment. AES: "What a joke. I own mutual funds. My opponent is personally invested in the company that controls the Saline data center. We need government that is not bought off by big tech" 110
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 09/10/2026More Ossoff: "It's not just that you've hired half the Third Reich to staff your Congressional office, and you have promoted neo-Nazi content online, it's that you're robbing your constituents to subsidize your donors." 100
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 09/10/20264. Jon Ossoff & Mike Collins had a debate. Ossoff called Collins "a Trump puppet election denier. I want to hear if Mike still believes the 2020 election was stolen. What do you say, Mike?" Collins did not respond. 100
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 09/10/20263. Jamelle Bouie drew performative outrage this week by writing, about a nazi & about the guy who wants to dox Cornell's Jane Doe, "in a just world someone would stone cold stun these guys into concrete." This is right below the end of 2 because there's plenty of stone cold stunners to go around. 100
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 09/10/2026A dickhead who I won't name posted a video (that IG foolishly put in my feed) in support of the nitwits who are mad at Mamdani for attending a vigil & condeming the attack at all. I recognized him because it's the same guy who went viral for hating on Dolly Parton right after she died. 100
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 09/10/20262. WaPo chided Zohran Mamdani, whose October 7 post "devoted more space to Israel's response against Palestinians than it did to acknowledge the losses suffered by the Jewish people on that day." Quite a few editorial choices there, like "Israel's response" as a euphemism. But could be worse: 100
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 09/10/2026California is the target of a newly announced kidnapping surge. According to Tío Pablo, ICE-holes were told to "go after anybody, pick up anybody" because management "wants numbers." I am keeping eyes & ears open for anything in or around Oakland / East Bay. 100
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 09/10/2026ICE-holes also falsely claimed that a Nigerian man they kidnapped in Pennsylvania had been working for Congressional candidate Janelle Stelson, whose campaign says they've never heard of him. 100
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 09/10/2026News, 2026-10-08 (part 3) 1. ICE-holes in Marble Hill (NYC) not only shot a man but also opened fire into his car, which had a five-year-old child inside. 110
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 09/10/2026TBD that's still a mighty fine stat line. Most of what I despise about him is unproven, but it runs the gamut from grooming Mindy McCready to being an asshole to his teammates. I'm indifferent to what Baseball HOF decides but it's also far below what POTUS should GAF about. 011
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Age yourself with a childhood crush Disclaimer: It turns out, on rewatch, that nearly everything I loved about that show was literally in the first two episodes. But yeah, I was 13 in 1988. 010
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 08/10/20267. Donald J. Trump once told a 14-year-old, "Let me teach you how little girls should be," as he shoved her face into his exposed crotch. That's according to her subsequent FBI interviews. I believe her with well over 99% confidence, given all the disincentives from coming forward. 000
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Put differently: Someone tried for murder, convicted of murder, & sentenced to death, is about 2/3 as likely to be innocent as a college student reported for sexual assault (inclusive of all investigative outcomes). Yet cops still discourage survivors & trot out the "he said, she said" trope. 100
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 08/10/20266. Stat of the day: 4.1% of U.S. death row inmates are innocent (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2014, via Innocence Project). By comparison, David Lisak et al (2010) found a 5.9% false accusation rate among SA cases at a major university in the northeastern U.S. 100
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 08/10/2026(Also state-sanctioned murder is wrong, full stop. Mainly because we sometimes kill innocent people, & because the methods are barbaric, but we shouldn't kill even "obviously guilty" people for the same reason why obviously guilty people still have a right to a fair trial.) 110
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 08/10/2026(My hot take is that algorithms, machine learning, large language models, neural networks, generative artificial intelligence, & chatbots are all subtly different (though overlapping) concepts. If the general public calls it all AI, whatever, but top-down enforcement of a new label is not a thing.) 200
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 08/10/20265. Our president posted that those of us who don't refer to large language models by his preferred moniker are "THE ENEMY!" (caps & exclam in original). Meanwhile, our regime will livestream a firing squad execution. (Those are separate news items but please think about why I grouped them.) 100
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 08/10/20264. Our president announced plans to give Roger Clemens a Presidential Medal of Freedom, & has ranted about the exclusions of Clemens & Pete Rose from the Hall of Fame. As noted by Craig Calcaterra: Clemens, Rose, & Donald J. Trump himself all (allegedly) exploited girls 15 or younger. 100
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 08/10/20263. Our regime has suspended some tech companies (Microsoft et al), but not others (Amazon et al) from the H-1B PERM (green card) program. As reported by Catherine Rampell, the former stand accused of fraud but on unclear evidence & nonexistent due process. 110
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 08/10/20262. "Trump post targets Somali Minnesotans," according to the Bluesky "Trending" widget. What (not-so) fresh hell is this? 200
matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 08/10/2026News, 2026-10-08 (part 2) 1. Houthis fired at & destroyed a passenger jet at RUH (Riyadh airport). As noted by my friend Pat, "Good thing the war is over and we totally won it" 110