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Matt Mauch @mauchmauch.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Fast train to Lyon = fast-train envy.

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Matt Mauch @mauchmauch.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Turned a corner. Looked left. Whatdoyouknow.

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

This is so spot-on it’s scary.

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Matt Mauch @mauchmauch.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

I grew up in a dog family back when winters were real-ass WINTERS. None of our dogs needed coats save for the ones they grew on their goddamn own. Every dog gets a trophy. Oh—and stay off my lawn.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

The core far-right conspiracy theory about January 6 has for years been that law enforcement set the Proud Boys up. What do you know? It was exactly the opposite. Law enforcement was in fact trying to help them. As ever, take whatever the far right is saying, reverse it, and you have actual reality.

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An ex-Washington police officer is convicted of lying about leaks to the Proud Boys leader | CNN Politics

A retired police officer in the nation’s capital was convicted Monday of lying to authorities about leaking confidential information to the leader of the Proud Boys extremist group.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Do you know how much CEO pay has skyrocketed since 1978? 100%? 500%? Try 1,085% Meanwhile, the $7.25/hr fed. minimum wage hasn't budged in 15 years and the tipped min. wage has been $2.13/hr since 1991. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

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CEO Pay Has Risen 1,085% Since 1978, But for Workers? Just 24% | Common Dreams

CEOs at top US companies saw their pay skyrocket by 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay only increased by 24%

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

The Cuban, French and Russian revolutions were all started by the middle class. Because any dissenters from the Working Class got executed long before they could start a revolution.

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💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

You are about to see a feeding frenzy in the USA as anything and everything is sold off to the billionaires for almost nothing. When they are done there will be nothing left, and you will find out how truly evil Capitalism can be.

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Matt Mauch @mauchmauch.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Major downside of your lifelong fave team playing relevant games late in the season: Tom Brady gets assigned to work them. Never have wished more that Vikings v. Green Bay were on CBS.

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Matt Mauch @mauchmauch.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Waste of time? Time will tell.

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Matt Mauch @mauchmauch.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

A government of rich people is going to govern primarily in rich people’s interests until the not-rich depose them. We have a few years or if we’re lucky decades then before the not-rich making up the new gov’t become rich and the cycle begins again. It’s pretty fucking simple.

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Matt Mauch @mauchmauch.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

With these supposedly universal, ISO-approved symbols taking over for, y’know, words!, one needs two motherfucking Ph.Ds in iconography and five reference texts to wash and dry one’s goddamn clothes. And don’t get me started on these new headlights that borrow their candlepower from the sun.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

WATCH: “I believe they did that because what we’re doing is having an effect… They're being petty. But that's not going to stop us. Amazon warehouse in Queens, NY gushes water out onto the striking workers' picket line in below freezing temperatures. (H/T @btnewsroom.bsky.social )

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

This is quite a report about Rep. Kay Granger, whose last vote was six months, ago, found to be living in memory care. The Dallas Express seems to have nailed it, despite no official confirmation from the congresswoman or her staff. dallasexpress.com/tarrant/excl...

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EXCLUSIVE: Where is Congresswoman Kay Granger?

Amid the ongoing drama in D.C. with Congress debating on an interim spending bill a key question has arisen, "Where is Congresswoman Kay Granger?"

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Matt Mauch @mauchmauch.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Three new rules to make the NBA watchable: • Teams are allowed only 21 points via the three-point shot. After that, all shots beyond the arc count for an old-fashioned two points. • Teams can call only only one timeout in the last 5 min. • Fouls in the last 5 min. = 3 shots from the line for all

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Matt Mauch @mauchmauch.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

It feels like syllabi creation and final course grading has become a giant exercise in CYA. Litigation culture.

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Matt Mauch @mauchmauch.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Worst color commentator working the NFL is working this afternoon’s late game. I guess it’s football to a backing soundtrack provided by Jazz 88.5.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Finland gave every homeless person a house and within 6 months 85% had a job and were financially independent. Less crime, less hospital visits, less suffering and even including the cost of the house, LESS COST than the UK/USA method of abandoning them on the streets.

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Matt Mauch @mauchmauch.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Scrambled eggs are a good meal spoiled.

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Matt Mauch @mauchmauch.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Same old Timberwolves. Guess last year was the blip.

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Matt Mauch @mauchmauch.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

If you’re a big enough boy or girl to roll in an SUV, you’re damn well big enough to own AND USE a tool that clears the snow from the top of it. Didn’t your parents teach you fucking anything?

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

As I've been saying: Rise in RTO mandates is a sign that the labor market is softening. RTO is effectively a backdoor pay cut, which firms would not do unless they thought workers had less bargaining power (and/or are trying to reduce headcount) www.businessinsider.com/att-5-days-o...

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AT&T follows Amazon with a 5-days-in-office mandate

AT&T is requiring office employees to work on-site five days a week starting in January, effectively eliminating a recent hybrid option.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 19/12/2024

every single elected democrat should be posting like this

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Matt Mauch @mauchmauch.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

The Wall Street stuff everybody uses the measure “the economy” is simply a measure of greed, is that subjective, one-of-the-seven-deadlies converted into the quantitative. That’s what the business model does: makes the qualitative quantitative so that it may control it for the ends of profit.

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Mark Rankin @sugarbuzz.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Time to break out this meme

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Vanity Fair @vanityfair.com · 18/12/2024

"It's emblematic not only of the party’s gerontocracy but of its tendency to treat powerful positions as a kind of renumeration for loyalty, longevity, and legacy—often at the expense of the party’s best interests."

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AOC Snub Shows How Democrats Refuse to Learn Lessons of 2024

Seventy-four-year-old Gerry Connolly was picked to lead the House Oversight Committee over Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who embodies the kind of generational change that the party is sorely in need of.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

One of my favorite parts of Ministry for the Future was the abolition of the billionaires. Just to be that rich makes you an enemy of democracy. Wrote early this year:

Let me put it this way: if you made $10,000 a week – a princely sum by the standards of most people – you would have to work every week from the year of Jesus’s birth until this week to earn over a billion dollars. To earn as much as Elon Musk’s net worth at that rate – currently $180bn, according to Forbes – you’d have to work every week for more than a third of a million years – that is, since before Homo sapiens first emerged in Africa.

Being a billionaire is arguably a disqualification for participating in the affairs of ordinary people
Another way to put it is: one day last year, walking on San Francisco’s western edge, overlooking the Pacific Ocean, I saw whales spouting, and then I came home and rescued a bee buzzing at my window. The extremely disparate scale of these two wild creatures impressed me, and so I did the sums: a honeybee weighs about 0.11 grams and 4,000 bees weigh a pound; a grey whale weighs between 60,000 and 90,000 pounds, meaning that, even at the lower weight, it weighs about as much as a quarter of a billion bees. According to Oxfam, 81 billionaires hold more wealth than the poorest half of all humanity, meaning that in monetary terms 81 people are bigger than 4 billion people. So when it comes to wealth and impact, billionaires are whales and poor people are bees. Except that whales aren’t a menace to bees.

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Matt Mauch @mauchmauch.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

One of the easiest ways to turn a Gen Z member into an inert Blob-esque (they don’t know the reference) blob of unthinking material: Tell them you can’t Zoom or Face Time, but would be happy to talk on the phone.

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Lakota Man 🪶 @lakotaman.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Who here agrees? 🖐🏾

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Matt Mauch @mauchmauch.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I see the Dems kneecapped AOC and are planning on Kamala in 2028 to make things right. Me, I can’t hold my nose and assent anymore.

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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Everyone in this picture would be able to walk if the polio vaccine had existed in time for them.

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Matt Mauch @mauchmauch.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

It is universally accepted that physical differences among humans is a thing. We can’t all be pro athletes. Biology determines that. But our brains are biological things, too. Yet somehow we collectively retain the myth that all minds are capable of competing at the professional level.

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The Shocking Paper Predicting the End of Democracy

Human brains aren’t built for self-rule, says Shawn Rosenberg. That’s more evident than ever.

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Arif Hasan, but NFL🔨⚒️🛠️ @arif.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

yea and also i'm not really questioning any of these premises or conclusions

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Matt Mauch @mauchmauch.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Think I’m goin to legally change my name to “Anon.” With the period.

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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Yikes, .8-3” of sinking, 2016-2023.“Globally, similar subsidence within such a large area has never been reported…this could be a sign that rising sea levels [are] accelerating the erosion of the limestone on which South Florida is built.” www.miamiherald.com/news/local/e...

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Dozens of luxury condos, hotels in Miami sinking at ‘unexpected’ rates, new study reveals

First-ever observation of continuous subsidence shows as much as 70 percent of high-rises affected in some areas of Miami

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Campbell’s witty response to this homophobe makes me want to enjoy some of their delicious chicken noodle soup right now! 🍜 🏳️‍🌈

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Matt Mauch @mauchmauch.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

It’s time to fiddle, mofos. Rome writ large is burning and those with the gear to put it out are counting their ducats like Thurston Howell III and Lovey. Fiddle and dance, fiddle and dance till death do.

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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Anger at the failure of neoliberalism to deliver a decent standard of living for working class families has led many to seek simplistic solutions from Brexit to Trump. How long before people recognise the real problem is the capitalist system itself? Some thoughts: www.facebook.com/share/p/19bR...

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