Reposted by Matt HaleTW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026this is fantastic and I learned something new 563222436
Reposted by Matt HaleDave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Just further enshrining the canonical conservative belief that being called racist is worse than being racist. 502652465
Reposted by Matt HaleRev. Maynard, Ph.D. @maniacalindustries.com · 27/08/2026Major industrial figures and compromised politicians keep talking about birth rate declines like, holy fuck, this is the worst thing ever. But is it though? #climatechange #anticonsumption #economics 011
Reposted by Matt HaleBrandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 26/08/2026One of the biggest white-to-Black crossover monster hits of my youth. My people fucked with this song, heavy. 6486
Reposted by Matt HaleElizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 18/08/2026the wrong people keep dying www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...rollingstone.comFrank Beard, ZZ Top's Hard-Shuffling Drummer, Dead at 77Frank Beard, ZZ Top's hard-shuffling drummer who performed with the group for more than 55 years, has died at age 77. 2679
Reposted by Matt HaleMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026If roughing up a girlfriend and locking her in a room was a virile, authentic a rejection of “smoothgroined” “HR lady” politics, but a rape is too far, then what’s at stake is not a principled rejection of violence against women but a cynical assessment of how much violence a man can get away with. 7066461683
Reposted by Matt Halelowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 06/07/2026i'm johnny knoxville welcome to concacaf 7865127
Reposted by Matt HaleChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 18/06/2026The guys in front of the La Cienega Home Depot would have hot mopped and tiled the reflecting pool in 3 days and you'd never have to touch it again 12950110
Reposted by Matt HaleStereogum @stereogum.com · 07/06/2026Gov Ball had to cancel some sets last night due to weather, but Blood Orange has been rescheduled for today 😎 [📹: TikTok - lilys.interests] 171
Reposted by Matt HaleQuantian @quantian.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Many people have a vested interest in pretending otherwise, but the US research university is globally dominant to an almost unbelievable degree. The typical state university is a football team stapled to a R&D lab with a budget bigger than the entire nation of Belgium. 464334944
Reposted by Matt HaleMekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 07/05/2026You don't care because it doesn't affect you, and because you don't care enough about other people.🤷🏿♂️ The fact that there are perfectly good Dem candidates that didn't do this, is not a concern for you. You would only care if you have to experience 1/10th of what I have experienced most of my life. 0306
Reposted by Matt HaleJerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 29/04/2026apparently some people stop eating past a certain point in the evening. while they're still awake?? i don't get it 4961844
Reposted by Matt Halesarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 15/04/2026are the vance type adult converts even catholic lol. or are they just really into brocade and hating women 3878875
Reposted by Matt HalePopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Shingles vaccines make the astronauts’ bodies radiate light. Thank you for asking. 4035268414
Reposted by Matt HaleElizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 27/03/2026unfortunately about 75 percent of the time when someone sends me a "video essay" my knee jerk reaction is "should have been a blog post" 61637
Reposted by Matt HaleMcCruella🏳️⚧️🎃 @mckaylaf.bsky.social · 26/03/2026As always, Josh Marshall has the best analysis of this mess. In a just world, he would be the editor of the NYT or the WP. He and his team do fantastic invaluable work and deserve your support. 522742
Matt Hale @mhale0.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Jason, bravo to you and Myke. This episode of Upgrade was the most fun I’ve had listening to a podcast in a while. Thank you! 000
Reposted by Matt HaleJoshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 05/03/2026love a statement in this year of our lord 2026 that could have been made to the Roman Senate 12908158
Reposted by Matt HaleJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/03/2026Additionally what so many of the "No one's talking on Bluesky" people are actually saying is "I am lost and confused when there's not an algorithm to shove content into my eyeballs with no effort on my part" 521661219
Reposted by Matt HaleDarryn M. Briggs @darryn-briggs.bsky.social · 04/03/2026There is a schism in the Democratic party that is deep, wide and based on race. This survival of this country likely depends on it being recognized & reconciled before it's too late. When Black voters no longer desire to save this country from itself, it's a wrap. 1326177
Reposted by Matt HaleJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Today we at @TPM are kicking off our Annual Membership Drive. If you're a TPM Reader and not a Member please consider signing up today. If yr already a member, please retweet this post and this link. For something even more helpful continue in this thread ... talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/i-nee...talkingpointsmemo.comI Need Three Minutes Of Your Time TodayTwice a year we ask for your help keeping TPM alive and... 4178118
Reposted by Matt HaleEbony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 04/03/2026If he wins in Nov, Black voters will be ignored in 2028 in favor of the Mamdani coalition (and I do like the guy). If he loses, Black voters will be blamed for low turnout and apathy. Rep. Crockett will be blamed for not converting all her voters. Black Texans are being set up and we all see it 🤷🏾♀️ 216027
Reposted by Matt HaleEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 26/01/2026There is just not that much liquid capital that can be raised for one company in the space of three years. TARP was $400bn! $300 billion is a shit ton of money, and the GPUs in question in some cases have negative 100% gross margins. Everybody takes a bath! bsky.app/profile/what... 430218
Matt Hale @mhale0.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Do you think maybe he saw that Gerard Butler movie? Is what this is about?! 000
Reposted by Matt HaleEbony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 18/01/2026You know, many of us said the post 9/11 War on Terror measures were Orwellian bullshit at the time, from DHS to ICE. The Patriot Act was chilling as well. Some of us objected vociferously. Perhaps we didn't have the mics or the power, but we remember 2001-2005 as a terrible time in this country. 431361326
Reposted by Matt HaleBennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 11/01/2026It is interesting to me how much billionaires have started talking like they are a satire of capitalism created by a college Marxist. Like openly and publicly proclaiming their control and power 19323
Reposted by Matt HaleKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Always read Jim Fallows fallows.substack.com/p/blind-into...fallows.substack.com‘Blind Into Caracas’Less than 24 hours in, members of the Trump team are celebrating victory. None of them seem to have wondered what happens a day, a month, a decade from now. 34666181
Reposted by Matt HaleElizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 31/12/2025listening to "down payment blues" again. powerage is easily the best ac/dc album and it's not close. the scumbag guitar tone alone... www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFyG...youtube.comDown Payment BluesYouTube video by AC/DC - Topic 10697
Reposted by Matt HaleThe Onion @theonion.com · 29/12/2025Tech Billionaires Threaten To Flee California Over Proposed Vest Tax theonion.com/tech-billionaires-thre… 463756437
Reposted by Matt HaleAngri Bundel @anibundel.com · 19/12/2025Charlotte loves watching the holiday lights. 0779
Reposted by Matt Haledrewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 12/12/2025the reason you can tell "Artificial Intelligence" is fraudulent is that if you tried to tell an average adult that you believed a statistical average of reddit posts and pirated books from libgen could combine to make a brain, they would laugh at you 141066
Reposted by Matt HaleCorey Atad @coreyatad.com · 04/12/2025it's how we end up talking about Sinners and Nope like they're naturally aligned, instead of talking about how Nope, Barbie, Oppenheimer, and Sinners together mark the dawn of a new age of existentialist blockbusters 41353154
Matt Hale @mhale0.bsky.social · 20/11/2025(Re)ntroduce yourself with the last five concerts you saw Craig Finn/Patterson Hood Spiritualized The Hold Steady Grandaddy Plague Vendor 030
Reposted by Matt HaleJohn Ismay @johnismay.bsky.social · 19/10/2025An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...nytimes.comArtillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say 46146641573
Reposted by Matt HalePhilip Bump @pbump.com · 17/10/2025I've been mulling over this point for a while and decided, with No Kings ][ looming, it was worth writing up. www.pbump.net/o/sincerity-...pbump.netSincerity is not the problemAs is inevitably the case after an election — and is especially the case after an election with an unexpected result — allies of the losing presidential candidate in 2024 looked for people to blame. O... 05812
Reposted by Matt HaleAnil Dash @anildash.com · 16/10/2025The inimitable @natashalyonne.bsky.social’s Time 100 speech was incredible, demonstrating not just her extraordinary fluency about the intersection of content consent and AI, but her fearlessness in calling out the rise of authoritarianism, and the importance of being cool. youtu.be/RUu9OvDQ76Myoutu.beNatasha Lyonne Asks AI Leaders: "Whatever Happened to Being Cool?"YouTube video by TIME 09121
Reposted by Matt HalePhilip Bump @pbump.com · 04/10/2025AI, brought to you by the people who brought you “you liked a video about a swan so here are 45,261 straight swan videos” and “you searched for and bought a couch so your ads are for couches until 2032.” 1236148
Reposted by Matt HaleKen Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 03/10/2025One Battle After Another goes hard. 33119266
Reposted by Matt HaleTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 27/09/2025I agree! So assert your rights as a citizen of a functioning democracy. Engage. Participate. Speak up. Vote. Donate. Volunteer. And stop huddling behind a keyboard and mythologizing a failed real estate developer as Mussolini, Hitler, or Pol Pot. People who believe in democracy are the majority. 2337368
Matt Hale @mhale0.bsky.social · 21/09/2025An article about pizza from a time when it was still exotic. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...theatlantic.comPizza“In a world of ready-made food, packaged to be tossed together by amateurs, pizza stands apart—one dish, at least, which calls for time and skill.” 030
Reposted by Matt HaleRichard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 11/09/2025It’s like watching a black hole form. 3872966
