Matt Dargay @mattdargay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I'd long suspected my (now retired) hometown priest, an actual Father Joe, was a lib, then I ran into him at a No Kings protest carrying an anti-ICE sign lol 010
Matt Dargay @mattdargay.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Just saw a godawful Tom Barrett ad, featuring his wife and kids (!!!), in which they all talk about how he's always turning off the lights, buying store brands, etc. It comes off as "I'M learning how to do more with less, and so should you, you peasants. You have no excuse." 110
Matt Dargay @mattdargay.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Wishing a happy Earth, Wind, and Fire Day to all who celebrate. 010
Reposted by Matt DargayDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 16/09/2026This almost always consists of conservatives saying "people no longer trust your institution" after spending decades doing everything they can to destroy trust in the institution. True of the press, true of academia, true of public health. 746690
Reposted by Matt DargayDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/09/2026Convincing young people that America is poor & no one can afford anything & everyone is living paycheck to paycheck & their economic future is doomed ... IS NOT GOING TO LEAD TO MORE PROGRESSIVE POLICY. People who feel anxious & under threat do not respond with openness & generosity! Look it up! 551664270
Matt Dargay @mattdargay.bsky.social · 02/09/2026As someone who was in undergrad from 2015-2019 (never had Zoom school) and grad school from 2021-2022 (pre-ChatGPT), I sleep well knowing I won't be pushed out of the workforce as I age bc by the 2050s I'll be part of the vanishing minority of workers who can actually read and write 000
Matt Dargay @mattdargay.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Man was not meant to watch moving images. Plato understood this 2500 years ago 020
Reposted by Matt DargayDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/08/2026I know you're not allowed to say this during the current debate, but the reason the left dominates academics, art, comedy, and music is that the right has stupid, discredited ideas, they're not funny, and dull resentment does not make for good art. No grand conspiracy required. 205101672136
Matt Dargay @mattdargay.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Yeah no this is indistinguishable from an op designed to make AES and his supporters look bad. 010
Matt Dargay @mattdargay.bsky.social · 01/08/2026The Midwesterner (racist right-wing Michigan outlet) is simply not ready for the number of white boys saying inshallah for Abdul this fall 020
Reposted by Matt Dargayjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/07/2026interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country” 18190222606
Reposted by Matt DargayDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 20/07/2026There is no ideology so righteous that it justifies deliberately & intentionally spreading incorrect facts. The left can not compete on *feelings* -- the right will always win that fight. The left's only hope is reason + results. You are not helping anything by demonizing people who say true things. 8907
Matt Dargay @mattdargay.bsky.social · 17/07/2026El-Sayed's theory of the electorate ("Voters love economic populism and despise perceived corruption") leaves things to be desired, but it runs circles around Stevens' ("It is 1992") which is one reason why I'm more bullish about him as a general election candidate 000
Reposted by Matt DargayAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/07/2026the food safety stuff is another reminder that a large, huge, gigantic part of being a republican is going “lmao why are we spending money to prevent horrifying disasters from happening if they never happen 🤪” 10796302465
Reposted by Matt DargayZack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 08/07/2026The Platner mess has exposed a very specific sub-tendency on the American socialist left: urbanites whose politics are defined by their hatred of their liberal neighbors, and channel that distaste into a condescending fetishization of rural/working-class male identity 1791048175
Matt Dargay @mattdargay.bsky.social · 09/07/2026It's also the same attack Hillary Clinton and John McCain used against another well-spoken Midwestern guy with a non-Anglo name. Wonder what he's been up to? 000
Matt Dargay @mattdargay.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Happy 4th everyone. Despite these dark times for our republic, I still believe in the promise of America. I have to. 020
Reposted by Matt DargayBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 02/07/2026If you want to make the world a better place, you (yes, you!) are going to need to sacrifice a little sometimes. You’re going to need to pay taxes, you’re going to need to turn the A/C down you’re going to need to be a little less comfortable sometimes. Anyone telling you otherwise is lying to you. 41003163
Matt Dargay @mattdargay.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Eric Adams, giving a press conference on the beach: "New Yorkers are like sharks. We're aggressive. We circle our prey and go in the for the kill. But this fella's days of stalking Rockaway are over: I've directed New York's finest to send him straight to Rikers" 010
Reposted by Matt DargayPhil Christman @philipchristman.bsky.social · 01/07/2026I‘ve really changed my opinion about those “in this house etc” signs —sometimes somebody else actually needs to see that virtue signal —every bit of public “fuck Trump” rhetoric is a seed of something good 2332
Reposted by Matt Dargayjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026here is what i think: we're not consumers or spectators, we are participants with agency. you should not hope that democrats will do anything. you must work to force them to do the right thing. the odds are long, but we are far from the first americans to face long odds. we will win. 11563241501
Matt Dargay @mattdargay.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Meanwhile the Lions, Tigers, and Wings all cursed themselves within the last year by cozying up to MAGA 🙃 000
Reposted by Matt DargayDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/06/2026Self-proclaimed centrists, as a class, seem far more preoccupied, not to say obsessed, with the flawed attempts to do good on their left than they are with the open, naked, ugly determination to do evil on their right. I would just like them to grapple with that fact, a little bit, for once. 19424100
Reposted by Matt Dargaydr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 14/06/2026seeing the posts about visitors discovering that you can walk around most of our cities and just be yourself in a multicultural setting, discovering tailgating, starting impromptu block parties, my muslim mayor, etc. etc. it's corny to say it but that's our secret sauce. and it means something 435327687
Matt Dargay @mattdargay.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Was literally just talking to a family friend who works in AI, who told me that Michigan exempting data center projects from sales/use taxes had no influence over recent hyperscaler projects in the state 120
Matt Dargay @mattdargay.bsky.social · 23/05/2026150 years ago, they recognized that reactionary conservatism is the real "luxury belief" 010
Reposted by Matt DargayOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11/03/2025turns out when you legitimate a taste for bigotry people gravitate to the parties that serve it as an entree rather than as a garnish 3745601138
Reposted by Matt DargayBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Billionaires must be targeted with tax policy and antitrust policy not because it helps everyone else (though it does) but because their political power must be limited so they can't wreck the world the way they're currently doing 7570041750
Reposted by Matt DargayGlonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Raising taxes to pay for expanded and improved government services is literally the opposite of austerity politics. Anti-tax leftism has got to be strangled in the crib before it destroys what scant hope we have of ever implementing a social democratic system in America. 943572505
Matt Dargay @mattdargay.bsky.social · 16/05/2026The key to understanding Polis during Trump 2 is that he himself is one of the Groupchat Billionaires who radicalized each other into destroying the rule of law 110
Matt Dargay @mattdargay.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Whenever the tvs at my gym do a segment on gas prices, I do my patriotic duty of conspicuously shaking my head and sighing 🫡🇺🇲 120
Matt Dargay @mattdargay.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Sometimes I pause and remember that the literal dumbest person on earth, relative to the wealth and opportunities they were born into, is the president. 100
Reposted by Matt DargayJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 11/05/2026“For the good of society, your son will work in the trades. Oh, my son? My son will be a titan of politics and industry. For the good of society, your daughter will be a tradwife. Oh, my daughter? My daughter will host a lucrative rightwing podcast.” 1434642996
Matt Dargay @mattdargay.bsky.social · 07/05/2026One day I'll actually sit down and write something about how yuppies need to stop self-hating and advocate for ourselves/ our values in order to save the country 041
Reposted by Matt Dargayjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/05/2026relentless poll chasing + contempt for your political base + a total absence of principle or vision = political disaster www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Democrats Should Pay Attention to Keir Starmer’s Fall 9551841000
Matt Dargay @mattdargay.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Also has to do with the extent to which competitive elections in the US are so insanely polarized and optimized. These elections are decided by the voters who pay the least attention to politics compared to the overall electorate. So pols dumb down their rhetoric to try to reach them. 021
Matt Dargay @mattdargay.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Imo people would be a lot less freaked out about data centers if ai company ceos' initial public messaging about them was something besides "THIS TECHNOLOGY WILL DESTROY YOUR JOB AND MIGHT END HUMAN LIFE ITSELF, COMING WHETHER YOU WANT IT OR NOT; YOU'RE WELCOME" 110
Reposted by Matt DargayWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 28/04/2026One of the ways in which everything is going wrong is that that mediating institution used to be ‘president of your rotary club’ and now it’s ‘charismatic person saying insane things online’ 201152115
Matt Dargay @mattdargay.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Pisses me off so much. As the MI Senate majority whip, McMorrow was instrumental to repealing right-to-work and passing tons of other pro-labor policies 073
