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Matt Mauch

@mauchmauch.bsky.social
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You mean don’t yet have A NORTHERN SPRING, WE’RE THE FLOWNOVER, WE COME FROM FLYOVERLAND, BIRD~BRAIN, IF YOU’RE LUCKY IS A THEORY OF MINE, or PRAYER BOOK on your shelves yet? Poetry and CNF, reader and writer and teacher of. Cool-ass memoir in the works.

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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 · 29/12/2024
Sunset.
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Matt Mauch @mauchmauch.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
My takes on the most underrated and most overlooked Vikings players both made it into this Mark Craig piece in the Star Tribune. Skol!
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Who is the most underrated Vikings player of the 2024 season?
The Minnesota Star Tribune spent the week asking Vikings players and fans, “Who is the most underrated Viking and why?” Eighty-three people gave 33 different answers.
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Matt Mauch @mauchmauch.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
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Matt Mauch @mauchmauch.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
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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.
cnn.com
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.
commondreams.org
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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Matt Mauch @mauchmauch.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Cleo.
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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!
Gold Banner on Red Background:

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!
Nobody Asked For It; Everyone Hates It
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Terminally Online Leftist 🥂 @terminallyol.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
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Matt Mauch @mauchmauch.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Kickstart My Heart, yo.
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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
At least I won’t be forced to listen to another Worst Color Commentator Working the NFL game to the soundtrack of Jazz 88.5. I’ll be able to turn on KFAN. Which will be surrealish with the delay.
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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
A death reminiscent of the deaths of Putin foes.
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Viz @letranger0852.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
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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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Matt Mauch @mauchmauch.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
They used to do this with firearms. Progress?
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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...
dallasexpress.com
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
A 7 percent.
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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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Matt Mauch @mauchmauch.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Who’s number one in third down QBR? I’m hoping he wears 14, most recently in its winter whiteout form.
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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
Did you mean to say “US”?
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Matt Mauch @mauchmauch.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
I do this a lot late at night when nobody is in the roads and headlights in the dark shine not.
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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
What motherfucking bullshit. Who’s got a pitchfork? I have a street. Let’s organize.
nytimes.com
Opinion | Remote Work Is Increasingly for The Rich
Remote work is increasingly a privilege enjoyed by the most affluent Americans.
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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...
businessinsider.com
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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Matt Mauch @mauchmauch.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I wish you were right, but this is a cult and cult members shift when the cult leader says to.
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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."
vanityfair.com
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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Matt Mauch @mauchmauch.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Moi, aussi.
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Matt Mauch @mauchmauch.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Perhaps the party you are in is not the party for you. Word is they are banking on Kamala 2028. An unfulfilled need for that third strike, I guess.
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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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