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Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 11h

As a criminologist I understand there are people who cannot be returned to society under any circumstances. That said, I can’t think of a way killing people - even horrible ones - makes us better. My partner, Det. Kevin Collins, was murdered. My seat is right down front. Where the blood & tears are.

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Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This entire tragic mess is the logical end of a system where privileged people (especially in elite academics) are allowed to avoid consequences for monstrous acts. Privilege to get in. Privilege upon leaving. This is just how it works in America. Privilege protects privilege.

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Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Most of the dopers I helped put in prison waited for trial longer than 60 days. Monster.

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Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As a criminologist let me clarify: People who are out of status or here illegally are much less likely to commit a crime of violence than native born citizens. Rick Scott’s next breath is anathema to democracy.

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Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It makes sense if you don’t think about it.

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Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What’s the old saying? The only common denominator in all your failed relationships is you.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026

UN Ambassador Mike Waltz: "If you didn't see the president's speech, it's now Super Intelligence. I think he's absolutely right."

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Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

All of this misses a larger point that a society depending on exploitative capitalism to fund what’s best about us, will always be beholden to what’s worst about us.

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Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Should the Dems win in November, we need to reclaim all the lost symbols from MAGA Cult.

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Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Everyone needs to understand that Trump knows he lost the election. The reality isn’t the point. The chaos is the point, the whole point. If you’ve ever dealt closely with an actual psychopath, you already know this. It’s not about truth or justice or fairness or even winning. It’s about grievance.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

THIS 👇 HERE.......

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Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Not to diminish the horror and injustice this post describes, but the “and not one of them has been jailed” clause could refer to either group. If language is your weapon, wield it carefully.

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Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

1/2 So the director of Historic Arkansas Museum in Little Rock has announced her retirement - largely because the pukes at State Parks want to turn the oldest building in the city, the Hinderliter Grog Shop into a bar. Yes, it was a tavern originally in the mid 19th century, but it is a fragile…

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Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In preparing a lecture about the Maoist Revolution in Nepal, I came upon an odd parallel with US politics. Like Maoists, MAGA see themselves as a kind of everyman, peasant revolt against urban elites; paradoxically, MAGA also see themselves as Chiang Kai-shek, fighting against the Communists.

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Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

There you go trying to force your radical physics ideology on all of us.

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Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A long time ago I had a successful landscape architecture practice. One of the main reasons I stopped doing that was having to deal with perpetually put out idle rich folks like this hatchet-faced scowl.

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Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is the kind of a guy who would stick his pecker in a light socket and then do it again “just to make sure.”

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Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If you are a contingent faculty member at a US university and you suffer from a stress, anxiety or depressive disorder, please send me a DM or leave a comment. I feel the time has come to force universities to do the right thing. Please share this post.

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Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Psychopaths do nothing where they can’t be the center of attention. That’s the whole explanation - for everything Trump.

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Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Here’s some crack headline writing.

Shooting at Pine Bluff Apartment Pool Leaves One Dead Suspect in Custody.

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Data centres should pay ten times the consumer rate for energy. They should subsidise us, and not the other way around.

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Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is something higher education fails to understand. We have some of the most impotent and negligent unions imaginable. Contingent faculty are among the lowest paid and most vulnerable workers in the country. It’s immoral and preventable.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

See this chart? Workers’ share of the nation’s income is at the lowest it’s been since records began in 1947. Corporate profits’ share, on the other hand, is the highest it’s been since 1950. This is why we must build back worker power.

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Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

First and foremost, this isn’t really about guns or safety. It’s about protecting the cowboy “good guy with a gun” ethos that is as flawed as it is dangerous. Second, ARs and other similar semiautomatic rifles are terrible home defense weapons. A shotgun or pistol is much more practical.

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Sheriffs say semiautomatic weapon bans endanger law-abiding citizens

Sheriffs' groups argue restrictions on ownership of semiautomatic rifles not only violate the Second Amendment, but also encourage criminal activity.

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Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We need a federal law requiring all data centers be 100% carbon and water neutral on site with no credit trading. They’re also very loud.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Rev Dr SC Williams "Mark Driscoll doesn't read the Bible"

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RB @rbisrb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Same As It Ever Was...

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Holly 🇺🇸🦅 @msdesignerlady.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It's been reported the U.S. is paying other governments to accept immigrants, it can't "legally" deport. The U.S. detention centers are privatized for profit business. ICE is a deportation trade for human trafficking and no-one is talking about this. Vote accordingly. #AbolishICE #SheShed

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Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

You can’t say this about the people he enables, but watching Musk literally guillotined might be instructive to other oligarchs. I’m staunchly against capital punishment, but I’ve read a bit of history.

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Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

But they won’t. They will ride the moral high ground right back to the 1950s. We need a class of new Dems with little filter and a lot of independence from lobbyists. Harshly worded letters got us here.

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kamimagic @kamimagic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Sen. Mark Kelly is here spitting facts! #ProudBlue 📹: nowthisimpact

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

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Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

While horrible, these totals don’t include the thousands of federal workers all across the spectrum who have been driven out. Moreover, in states like my home, Arkansas, where the GOP has a death grip on power, similar ideological purges are taking place across state agencies.

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Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

As a vegetarian, I feel something similar with regard to the whole beef debacle. Too many things we regard as necessities are just unexamined choices.

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