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Matt O’Donnell @mattodonnell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Man. There’s so much weight in that second quote. Jesus offered SO much compassion to sinners. It was kind of his thing. A church that only admonishes them is no church of Christ at all.

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Matt O’Donnell @mattodonnell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I generally agree with you! My only problem is…I love conversation. But the vast number of people I encounter daily who haven’t read a single thing about the stances they believe in because they thought their grandpa was the best man who ever lived and he thought XYZ seem to be multiplying.

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Matt O’Donnell @mattodonnell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It’s clear to me which people who claim to be Catholic read the doctors of the church. Or bother to read anything beyond their Sunday bulletin when they get home and turn on shitty right-wing news.

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Matt O’Donnell @mattodonnell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’m sure it’ll be like everywhere else with ads playing before an episode and then ad free for the duration.

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Matt O’Donnell @mattodonnell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That’s…….insufficient? Paying it back doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.

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Matt O’Donnell @mattodonnell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Not really. You can hand any meat sack the gavel and them not be the future of the party. Mike Johnson is the speaker, but he doesn’t have a long term epic in front of him as the poster child for the party. He is, at best, a button man for the guy who is.

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Matt O’Donnell @mattodonnell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

He’ll be the Speaker, but not the future of the party. That’s outrageous.

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Matt O’Donnell @mattodonnell.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Food halls in Nashville open and close routinely within 2 years, like every other non-corporate restaurant-adjacent business.

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Matt O’Donnell @mattodonnell.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Sad to think that a 62yo woman probably sounds like a step in the right direction in terms of de-aging Congress to some people.

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Matt O’Donnell @mattodonnell.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

It’s like a weird “rubber / glue” variation on Stockholm Syndrome.

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Matt O’Donnell @mattodonnell.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Obviously we’ll see what happens as the 26 and 28 elections unfold, but Caligula may as well have been the blueprint for limited executive power and why minds shaped by the enlightenment thought we needed that.

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Matt O’Donnell @mattodonnell.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

What a wonderful world this would be. Thanks for taking my call. 🤘🏼

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Matt O’Donnell @mattodonnell.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Sure! And I’m just musing here rather than making a stand, but I guess what I’m actually wondering is how any candidate could hit 270 with more parties involved. I suppose voters would have to give up on their guy/gal at some point and go with someone perceived to have a real chance.

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Matt O’Donnell @mattodonnell.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

In an alternate timeline, could 2016 have turned into Democrat (HRC) / GOP (Jeb?) / Social Democrat (Bernie) / Tea Party (Trump) / etc.? I’m sure you don’t want to litigate the electoral college, but does the two-party system seem to doom us to itself?

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Matt O’Donnell @mattodonnell.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Given that party seems practically inescapable, though, are you looking for less parties or more? I’ve been genuinely curious about you. I feel like to your point about party weakness, I can’t understand how politicians who don’t fit get wedged into our duo.

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Matt O’Donnell @mattodonnell.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I don’t think this is true if they can get lucky enough to have someone run who can actually articulate what they’re “for”. Sitting out is for people who are tired of “against” or self-inflicted atrophy.

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Matt O’Donnell @mattodonnell.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

When your followers are the ones who always think it’s the system fucking them instead of themselves…that’s how you idolize this guy.

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Matt O’Donnell @mattodonnell.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Yeah, he only thinks winning is building the system and then using it.

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Matt O’Donnell @mattodonnell.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Tommmmmmmmmm, you know that only like 2% read articles. They want that cheap hit from a character limit amuse bouche.

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Matt O’Donnell @mattodonnell.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I have often said that it’s incomprehensible that one of the most utterly gifted catechists of our time is also the most socially tone deaf. It drives me crazy. Like, will I be watching his new cathedrals documentary? Yes, absolutely. Will I listen to him about a war on the faith? Nope.

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Matt O’Donnell @mattodonnell.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I just read the free preview of your post. What is wild to me is that Barron doesn’t see that the most conservative Catholics also hate him for supporting Vatican 2. I own the Word on Fire collection of documents for the council. But he’s to the left of Latin Mass Catholics.

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Matt O’Donnell @mattodonnell.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

PLEASE don’t get me wrong as if I think “video game violence is the problem with kids these days!” I’m just thinking about how, not being particularly interested in GI Joe or Call of Duty myself, one feels like a much stronger pull than the other.

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Matt O’Donnell @mattodonnell.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

An interesting query to volley: I’m a few years too young for the height of GI Joe, so it passed me. Do you think that it is as strong of military propaganda as video games like Counter Strike or Call of Duty towards the way menfolk want to go play soldier?

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Matt O’Donnell @mattodonnell.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

This is how conservatives and other naysayers have tried to talk down reasonable affirmative action for decades. It feels comfortable and easy for them.

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Matt O’Donnell @mattodonnell.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

They also just had major officials telling us where to get off.

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Matt O’Donnell @mattodonnell.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Somebody tryin’ to keep his jorb.

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Matt O’Donnell @mattodonnell.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

What’s crazy is that there are people not willing to reckon with the fact that we have a ways to go and he’s not going to get better all of a sudden.

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Matt O’Donnell @mattodonnell.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I’ve contended recently that, if the legislative branch worked properly, then like 80% of the presidency could be handled by an AI model. (So why make it SOOOOO hard?) This idea is in line with that. I love the ABS.

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Matt O’Donnell @mattodonnell.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I heard on a not shitposting podcast today that aids are showing him videos of shit blowing up in Iran daily and that he’s not at all aware how badly it’s going.

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Like it really cannot be overstated that one of the difficulties with identifying bad AI-generated writing is that a lot of non-AI writing is also bad!

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Matt O’Donnell @mattodonnell.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

*whispers* This guy doesn’t know anything about history…

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Matt O’Donnell @mattodonnell.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Genuine curiosity: how do you define that metric beyond numbers? I think that no matter what statistically happens in MN in the near to nearly-long term, the personal haunting trauma in the community will continue to buzz. Perception isn’t reality, but it is truth.

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Matt O’Donnell @mattodonnell.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I was thinking just yesterday how politicians and other people in the public eye are so fucking impossible to relate to because they’ve been mind-soldered to only speak in legally vague language that won’t get them sued, arrested, or hung.

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Matt O’Donnell @mattodonnell.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Mike Johnson: “We admit that we have Israel’s dick so far up our holes that if they do something, we face the consequences for them.”

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Matt O’Donnell @mattodonnell.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

So far, I’m really into it! Bummed we only get 3 episodes of Cox, though.

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Matt O’Donnell @mattodonnell.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

The ball cap press conference yesterday fucking blew.

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Matt O’Donnell @mattodonnell.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I would watch the 30 For 30 doc first (or immediately after the movie). I, Tonya is a sensationalized comedy. It’s a BRILLIANT film, but more like a fever dream.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 25/01/2026

He wasn't going to a protest. There was no planned protest. It was people in a neighborhood witnessing & recording public actions by secret police. Gun-at-protest is a lie & distraction.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

It was an extrajudicial execution. Anyone who defends this is defending a police state.

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Matt O’Donnell @mattodonnell.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I always like to point out that if this were true, so many of my friends would be getting these payments. We haven’t seen a penny.

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Matt O’Donnell @mattodonnell.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Someone should start a nightly YouTube show that’s a response/correction to the CBS News. @meidastouch.com?????

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Matt O’Donnell @mattodonnell.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Everyone in Minnesota needs to invest in metal trash can lids. If you find out ICE is in the area raiding, go outside and bang the lids on the ground so everyone can hear. Old school neighborhood alert.

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Matt O’Donnell @mattodonnell.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I really hate it when they don’t call the position by its proper name, Taoiseach.

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