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Matt Thackston

@mrthackston.bsky.social
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Husband, father, dog owner, product manager. Nashville politics, product management and hilarious jokes.

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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Young MC is 59 years old. Half of Milli Vanilli is dead, and the one left didn't sing on the original albums. No original member in the Commodores since 1989. Vanilla Ice's last hit was about ninja turtles. C + C trademark is owned by Freedom Williams, most original band is gone. What a joke.
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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
He is absolutely letting them rig the system.
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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Can a mentalist trick a geriatric narcissist with full blown dementia? In the edge of my seat.
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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
They clearly know Trump is going to die soon, right? This is a setup article for Vance to hastily retreat when he has to take office.
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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
No book has taught me more about our true origins than this one.
A picture of the cover of The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
This is because they say the dumbest shit imaginable, and it's hilarious in so many contexts. Democratic Presidents don't do this. I tell my wife that I have to put food on my family all the time.
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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Can we trick him into somehow taking apart this ludicrously biased supreme court now? Because they aren't biased enough?
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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Some of y’all are going to come for me over this, but the correct answer is Mulholland Drive.
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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
If someone told you I was “broadly ethical,” would that reassure you? Or would it make you exponentially more suspicious of me?
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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
There’s a project manager somewhere drinking doubles and checking their phone every 3 minutes.
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Sean Parker @seanforfive.com · 28/01/2026
At this point we have statements from IBEW, SEIU, and the TN AFL-CIO confirming that the rumors of union avoidance in recovery efforts are FALSE. People are justifiably pissed. Misleading them will not help us recover.
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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Why is this number going up? It was down to 105k this morning, and it was just at 117k before I took this screenshot. Why are we going in the wrong direction?
Photo from the NES website, showing 109,666 customers without power.
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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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Suspect Guilty GIF
ALT: Suspect Guilty GIF
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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
To be fair, this does seem like something “brain fog sufferers” would fall for.
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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
He’s running.
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier
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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Thank god Chuck Schumer isn’t alive to see this.
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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
We have a bottle of this if you’d like to try it. I can say unequivocally that we will never bring it close to our lips again.
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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
🧑‍🍳💋 10/10, no notes.
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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Mark is being intentionally obtuse. Which healthcare systems? Medicare Who tells the doctors how much they are paid? Medicare Who pays the bills at high end hospitals? Medicare/supplemental insurance. Who tells patients if they can get care? Everyone gets care. That’s the whole fucking point.
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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
He’s not wrong. The structural problem with the ACA is that Republicans stripped out the public option and allowed for vertical integration in healthcare. So, no large public pool of insured to negotiate lower rates, and insurance companies can own everything from the hospital to the pharmacy.
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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
I've been enjoying @michaelianblack.bsky.social's writings for a while now, you should subscribe. This is a perfect explanation of what it feels like to live in America, especially in this moment. The "American Dream" does still happen, but it's a lucky shot in the dark, not something earned.
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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Did it, though?
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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Good thread. I have a 13 year old now, and it’s nearly impossible to explain to her how different our childhoods were. Questions like, “what did you do if you didn’t know something?” are a real rabbit hole, even though the final answer is “we just kept on not knowing it.”
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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
As the spouse of the executive director, I can tell you that Hello In There couldn’t be more excited about @mayormeganbarry.bsky.social joining their board! I’m excited to see what they accomplish.
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whitney pastorek @whittlz.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Folks in Nashville: they are snatching people up from the corner shop where the kids get ice cream in the summer. Ready to buy a whistle yet?
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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Cuban is currently flooding his feed with some truly bizarre takes on universal healthcare. I understand not trusting our current govt to run a lawnmower, much less healthcare, but the rest of this is garbage.
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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Hank Green knows what's up.
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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Looking for some good news, this is the best I could do.
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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
I’m not sure how to interpret tonight’s results in any other way than to say that winning a race in TN is impossible. Most unpopular President in my lifetime and we still can’t get within five points of a victory. Very depressing night, y‘all.
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Ann Powers @annkpowers.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
1 million per cent agree. Same with record stores. And thrifting.
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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Haha, no
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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
It also makes you wonder what these executives do, exactly. Clearly not much of value. If you want to replace workers with AI, start at the top. Save millions of dollars and preserve the jobs of regular people, all with no discernible drop in quality or competence.
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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Y’all, they are fuckin’ terrified.
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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
The Thanksgiving Day parade: where else can you see a C-list country singer perform a generic country song on a Green Giant float with a bunch of kids dancing around him?
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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
This is the saddest, most hilarious shit I think I’ve ever seen. He was basically Chris Farley doing that Paul McCartney interview.
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two men in suits and ties are sitting next to each other in chairs and talking .
Alt: Chris Farley interviewing Paul McCartney, screaming awesome for no real reason.
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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Cannot believe I had to work with this boot licking loser. Don't vote for this guy. Don't let your friends or family vote for him. Show them this groveling for the support of a narcissistic wannabe tyrant and ask them if they'd trust this guy to vote to help his constituents if Trump said otherwise.
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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Vote totals and distributions as of yesterday. Very interested to see how these change after today, looks like Nashville is showing up this afternoon. I don't know how to interpret any of this, but I do like seeing big percentages for Davidson County.
Two graphs showing the total votes by county and the percentages per county in the TN-7 congressional race, as of 11/25. Totals as follows: 

County	SUM of Total	% of vote
Davidson County	17979	24.07%
Montgomery County	17585	23.54%
Williamson County	12994	17.40%
Robertson County	5980	8.01%
Cheatham County	5559	7.44%
Dickson County	4916	6.58%
Humphreys County	1972	2.64%
Hickman County	1898	2.54%
Stewart County	1442	1.93%
Wayne County	1004	1.34%
Decatur County	983	1.32%
Benton County	924	1.24%
Houston County	839	1.12%
Perry County	619	0.83%
Grand Total	74694	100.00%
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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Is there a place to see number of total votes cast in the TN-7 race, broken out by county? I feel like @whittlz.bsky.social might know this, if it exists.
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whitney pastorek @whittlz.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Polls don’t vote. Knock a door, call some folks, pots and pans!!!!!!
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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Scraping the bottom of the endorsement barrel here, maybe he could get John Rich to do a video too. Also, not since Bill Lee have we seen a less charismatic political candidate. Absolute wet blanket Van Epps.
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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Y'all, this race is going to come down to who shows up at the polls. Trump carried this district by 22 points, and @aftynbehn.bsky.social is within 2 points in this poll! If you live in 7, GO VOTE! Today is the last day of early voting, or you can vote on December 2nd.
A bar chart showing the results of a poll regarding the TN 7th district special election for the house. Van Epps is at 48%, Behn is at 46%, with a margin of error of 3.9%. 2% for other, 5% undecided.
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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
We’re gonna burn down the planet so that Elon can build a “sick burns”machine. The future is exactly what I expected, so cool and great
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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Isn’t this worse? Dispersing these people across the government in positions of leadership where they can do even more damage and become harder to remove in the future?
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kelly…kitty? @kellykitty.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Kamala Harris & Justin Jones choosing not to even use Aftyn’s name… really something. And also utterly unsurprising. This is why so many of us hate the Dems, fyi. No such thing as solidarity, only self-interest & status quo.
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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
It is astounding how much of Trump‘s rhetoric is just repackaged Kenny Powers lines. “These are questions about me personally as a superstar. You got this moment in time here with an American icon and you’re gonna waste it asking a question about the fucking mile?” youtu.be/BPKUhXkP7tY?...
youtu.be
East Bound and Down: PE class Q&A session
YouTube video by ragekz
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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
It also guaranteed an influx of relatively young, healthy members for the insurance companies, a huge boon for them. Important to remember this was a Republican plan before Obama adopted it. It was designed to further entrench our terrible healthcare system.
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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Listen to this boot licking loser! Wish I could vote for @aftynbehn.bsky.social, but if you live in 7, go early vote and keep this vile human out of Washington.
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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Hey, 15 is not “barely legal.” It is illegal, and immoral, and vile. Megyn Kelly is a fucking ghoul like the rest of them. Also, is the argument here that if they were just a little older, it would be ok to rape them? Enjoy dying on that hill.
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Matt Thackston @mrthackston.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
It’s Season of the Witch IRL
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a person with a pumpkin on their head is watching a pumpkin on a television
Alt: a person with a pumpkin mask on their head is watching a pumpkin on a television. From the movie Halloween: Season of the Witch
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