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Matthew Jacob

@mjacobpgh.bsky.social
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📍Pittsburgh based. Full-time public servant. Part-time author/photographer. @pghsteps on Instagram.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
one of the ways the media shows which side they prefer, is which politicians they quote uncharitably out-of-context and which they clean up for even when what they actually say and do is offensive (the Biden story ran on the front page less than a week before the 24 election)
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
folks, i can't tell you how many times i've rewatched this ad *that republicans are paying people to see*
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
remarkable piece of journalism. really worth reading.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t.
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Matthew Jacob @mjacobpgh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just very bleak to have an entire political movement that reflexively defends rapists
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is the 59th death in ICE detention since Trump took office.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine.
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How it started/how it’s going
Trevor Lee
@VoteTrevorLee
Thanks @nickshirleyy for hoodie.
We're cleaning up the fraud in UtahBREAKING: Utah state Rep. Trevor Lee has been charged with mortgage and communications fraud ksl.com/article/
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Matthew Jacob @mjacobpgh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The president and most of his administration are routinely claiming that AI opposition is a Chinese psyop. We don’t have to hand it to Republicans because one of them that no one has heard of said something skeptical of AI.
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Matthew Jacob @mjacobpgh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
How many of the major tech CEOs are liberal?
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"House Republicans will continue to hold Hunter Biden’s feet to the fire until we have his testimony...no one – not even the president’s son – is above the law.” - Tom Emmer, 1.17.24 "Don Jr is a private citizen and businessman so this unwarranted attack will go nowhere," Tom Emmer, 9.23.26
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Matthew Jacob @mjacobpgh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Pop-pop’s brain isn’t working again
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026
i mean, just look at how the populists talked about the railroad barons and others like them. "The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes, unprecedented in the history of the world, while their possessors despise the republic and endanger liberty."
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
you can learn a lot about America by remembering that this man lived through the coronavirus
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21/09/2026
ICE shot a DoorDash delivery guy.
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Attorney: Austin man shot by ICE agent was making DoorDash delivery
A Venezuelan man shot by an ICE agent in Austin was making a DoorDash delivery, his attorney said. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was later released from the hospital into ICE custody.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A billionaire dictator who'll lose everything if the opposition replaces him on Jan. 20, 2029 is stockpiling killer drones and high-powered rifles on towering monuments and ballroom roofs I'm sure it's nothing to worry about
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Matthew Jacob @mjacobpgh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Definitely no security implications with the head of the FBI using a chatbot to make decisions (and also he’s full of shit about it actually doing anything useful)
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
remembering again when Jake Tapper loudly stuck up for Fox News when the Obama administration moved their chair in the briefing room to the second row
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Mike Johnson never has had any moral center. He has no love for any part of the Bible that doesn't include stoning. And Herrera is the R trying to replace the guy who cheated on his wife with a staffer he drove to suicide. This is who the GOP is.
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
As I was standing by this gas pump filling up my truck with six dollar gas I couldn’t help but think that this was a small price to pay so that every child wanting to play sports in elementary school has to submit to mandatory genital inspections
My jeep with a gas pump in her fuel filler $94.59 at 5.999/gal
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 11/09/2026
Here’s how the New York Times describes this moment in their coverage:
At one point Mr. Trump asked attendees to raise their right hands and pledge to him that he would vote with their family and friends.
Dutifully, they did.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 09/09/2026
never forget except for donald trump, he can forget
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Matthew Jacob @mjacobpgh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Lying about being at 9/11 isn’t a news story but people not wanting Mamdani at the commemoration because he’s Muslim is a story treated as a good fair argument. Got it.
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Matthew Jacob @mjacobpgh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Funded by the world’s richest man who publicly engages in race science on a daily basis. This receives a collective shrug from the media.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
How many front page stories about Biden's mental status ran after the debate? One or more every day for a week. I stopped counting after that, but I'm sure there were more until he pulled out. Then a few more after that for good measure.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Fortnite players doing better journalism than the New York Times
Nick Shirley was just asked on 
@ConnorEatsPants
's stream what you get from Blue + Yellow, and he said Orange.
He was asked how to spell "discipline" and "colonel" and gave up.
He was asked when World War II was and said 1935.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/09/2026
Trump continues to disperse disaster recovery funds based on how states vote, which for any other president or public official, in any other time, in any other country, in any other context would be a morally horrific scandal that would dominate headlines for months.
subscriber.politicopro.com
POLITICO Pro: Trump rejects disaster appeals by four Democratic governors
New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Rhode Island will have to pay the entire cost of recovery from a major February snowstorm.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/09/2026
Trump says 18 Americans dying fighting Iran is “small potatoes”
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Honestly, the audacity of saying this while trying to purge the country of Haitians based on a lie he knowingly told is demonic.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
No starker example of the media having different rules for each political party. If the press treated Elon Musk like Hasan Piker, every Republican in America would be forced to answer questions about why their party's biggest donor espouses anti-semitic race science.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The media gave more coverage to a totally fake, invented idea that the federal government was withholding aid to Hurricane Helene victims in 2024 than to Trump actually doing it in 2025/26. Why did the fake story get more coverage than the real one?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026
I would like ask JD Vance about Pierre Damas Bel.
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"They're eating the cats. They're eating the dogs."
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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 31/08/2026
This is murder. They are murdering this man by denying him treatment.
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Matthew Jacob @mjacobpgh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This is truly psychotic to frame these statements as in any way controversial.
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This is appalling. These Haitians were here legally under the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program. The Trump regime spread racist lies, ended the program, declared them illegal and rounded them up in chains for deportation. Now DHS is proudly posting videos of Black Haitians in chains.
Trump’s Department of Homeland Security posted a video of Black Haitians in chains after ending the TPS program
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Matthew Jacob @mjacobpgh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
It really is amazing to see Republican politicians just say “all the tangible things we claimed to care about aren’t really relevant; we just want to be bigots”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/08/2026
perfect synopsis of modern Republicanism
Darline Graham: I tripped up on one question last night, regarding Taiwan. I don't speak politician. I was just honest. Of course, Taiwan is our friend. But I think people in South Carolina are more worried about boys in girls sports.
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Matthew Jacob @mjacobpgh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Bluesky: the official app of starting a post with “Democrats need to”
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Matthew Jacob @mjacobpgh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Can’t wait to read about it in your tell all book to be released after Trump leaves office in 2037
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 10/08/2026
curious how I haven't see a paint blistering media freakout about Trump STARVING THE TROOPS anywhere close to comparable as when Biden ripped off the bandaid in Afghanistan www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
independent.co.uk
Exhaustion, low morale plague USS Lincoln crew outside Iran, family members say
‘Apparently, the ship’s doctor or therapist said they need to hit port soon or people are going to start, you know, losing their minds,’ says Bonnie York, whose stepson serves on the carrier
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/08/2026
Pete Hegseth wipes his nose, then runs his hand through his hair
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Matthew Jacob @mjacobpgh.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Horrible
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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
It's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
These third country deportations are among the most evil acts of the Trump administration. They're trying to extrajudicially punish people for seeking asylum, up to and including with death.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
MAGA masculinity means declining to publicly criticize the man your daughter has accused of physical abuse, because doing so might prompt a senile 80-year-old man to write mean things about you.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
So many sneering elitist journalists with snarky posts over the past months that the Reflecting Pool story was trivial. It was so trivial that the DC US Attny presented false evidence to a grand jury to indict an innocent man to please the President while they both lied about it.
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Veerender Singh Jubbal @veerenderjubbal.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Sam Altman
@sama •7h
cool use case of chatgpt work i heard last night:
connect your family calendars and explain your kids' interests.
every morning for the drive to school, have it make a podcast that talks about one kid's soccer game that afternoon, one kid's upcoming birthday, some news, etc.
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What if you just talked to your children
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