Matt Edens @scruffycities.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Next visit to Lancaster, I look forward to riding the Amish Light Rail. 110
Reposted by Matt Edensjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them 973716438
Matt Edens @scruffycities.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Up here in Frederick, we hate downtown hotels and the cranes that build them: 020
Reposted by Matt EdensJeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 01/10/2026New York City has recorded the fewest murders through September since before 1960, Baltimore since 1962, Philadelphia and Detroit since 1964, Oakland since 1967, and New Orleans since 1969. 37729
Reposted by Matt EdensMichael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Most TV is just this now. 17271921974
Reposted by Matt EdensSam @samd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026gotta say there’s something almost poetic about Trump incentivizing less fuel efficient vehicles as the Iran war keeps pushing up the price of gas 311070216
Matt Edens @scruffycities.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Cookeville...because nobody can find Gainesboro. 000
Reposted by Matt EdensMike English @mocomikee.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Regular reminder that the most progressive place in the world cannot protect people who can’t afford to live in it, and I do not care about your “neighborhood character” as much as I care about that, and it is not close 36517
Matt Edens @scruffycities.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something I loved from my childhood. Something that could never, ever possibly destroy us..." 020
Matt Edens @scruffycities.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Always good to remember that Chuck lives in a town of 15,000 that's more than two hours away from any city over 100K. 010
Matt Edens @scruffycities.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Well, that'll certainly make it easier to cross... 011
Matt Edens @scruffycities.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"If you need a good place to live, come check out my ’hood. It’s quirky, but it could use a few more creative types to get it jumping. But no developers—those guys just ruin it for the rest of us..." theonion.com/sometimes-i-...theonion.comSometimes I Feel Like I'm The Only One Trying To Gentrify This NeighborhoodWhen I moved into this neighborhood, I fell in love right away. Not with the actual neighborhood, but with its potential: It’s affordable, there are nice row houses all around just waiting to be fille... 040
Matt Edens @scruffycities.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Many of their elementary school peers, of course, ended up in private school. 0130
Matt Edens @scruffycities.bsky.social · 20/09/2026And when the moved on to the middle school that included lots of Black and hispanic students from a couple other center-city schools the response changed "and how's that going?" - said with a note of concern. 1220
Matt Edens @scruffycities.bsky.social · 20/09/2026When we told people where our kids went in elementary school - the public school zoned for the gentrified downtown and the old money neighborhood next to it, people would ask "is that a private school?" 1160
Reposted by Matt Edens"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Decades and decades of a national policy and zeitgeist that amounts to 'nobody needs to care about social studies' and we're now in an unwinnable war with a foreign country whose culture and leadership we did not understand based around geography we ignored. 🤷♂️ 271026184
Matt Edens @scruffycities.bsky.social · 19/09/2026static.klipy.comBayonets GettysburgALT: Bayonets Gettysburg 1202
Matt Edens @scruffycities.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Among the right-wing real estate grifts looking to cash in on the blue state "refugees" moving to my home state of Tennessee, this one - feels like pure vaporware: a "true conservative" Cracker Barrel knockoff on a which, according to TDOT, sees an average of 146 cars per day. rockwellsgas.comrockwellsgas.comRockwellsRockwells 000
Matt Edens @scruffycities.bsky.social · 19/09/2026 Lawsuits if it accidentally destroys the world.? Lawsuits? 151
Matt Edens @scruffycities.bsky.social · 18/09/2026<Pennsylvania has entered the chat> www.eia.gov/state/seds/d...eia.govU.S. Energy Information Administration - EIA - Independent Statistics and AnalysisUnited States - SEDS - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 010
Matt Edens @scruffycities.bsky.social · 18/09/2026en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_im...en.wikipedia.orgFree imperial city - Wikipedia 040
Matt Edens @scruffycities.bsky.social · 18/09/2026And he "won" the Seven Days at the cost of twice McClellan's losses in killed and wounded: 020
Matt Edens @scruffycities.bsky.social · 18/09/2026And Lee "won" the Seven Days at the cost of twice McClellan's losses in killed and wounded: 020
Matt Edens @scruffycities.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The southern Pyrrhus - his "greatest victory" resulted in roughly the same number of killed and wounded as his opponent's army - which was twice his size: 220
Matt Edens @scruffycities.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Two crazy things takeaways from this article: the Baltimore Sun's daily print circulation is down to 11,800 and the newspaper in The Villages - the giant retirement community in Florida - has the ninth highest circulation of any daily in the country. pressgazette.co.uk/north-americ...pressgazette.co.ukUS newspaper circulations 2026: Villages Daily Sun is only one of 50 biggest print titles to see annual growthJust one of the 50 largest audited newspapers in the US grew its average daily print circulation year on year to March 2026. 000
Matt Edens @scruffycities.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Can only imagine their take on Jumonville Glen. 000
Matt Edens @scruffycities.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Basically the plot of Colossus: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossu...en.wikipedia.orgColossus (novel) - Wikipedia 030
Matt Edens @scruffycities.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It’s like the scene in Broadcast News when Albert Brooks finally got to anchor. 000
Matt Edens @scruffycities.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Dude's originally from Nebraska, though - surprised he hasn't written a hazy, up-by-the-bootstraps memoir about it. 010
Matt Edens @scruffycities.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Schmitz is apparently from a small town in Nebraska. Wonder how he got into Princeton? 000
Reposted by Matt EdensHamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Ironically a good argument for DEI is “it would help the NYT find someone other than a Princeton grad, suit wearing right wing magazine editor dweeb to write about rural America” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/o... 617925
Matt Edens @scruffycities.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Ain't no red lights in Celina. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRgT...youtube.comTrae Crowder Talks About Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town” - STANDUP CLIPYouTube video by Trae Crowder (Liberal Redneck) 160
Matt Edens @scruffycities.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Aren’t the New Founding guys are real estate grifters? 121
Matt Edens @scruffycities.bsky.social · 12/09/2026What, they didn't preserve them as a museum? www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAXt...youtube.comPortlandia - Lucky Seven Punk HouseYouTube video by TrueScandinavia 020
Reposted by Matt EdensThor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The only person I don't want to participate in sports is me 21118
Matt Edens @scruffycities.bsky.social · 11/09/2026"Tennessee is mostly rural – and most of the legislators represent rural voters " Yet 70% of the state's population lives in the Nashville, Memphis, Knoxville, Chattanooga and Tri-Cities metro areas: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...en.wikipedia.orgList of metropolitan areas of Tennessee - Wikipedia 1182
Matt Edens @scruffycities.bsky.social · 09/09/2026If it weren't for the divorce/remarriage scandal he probably would have beat Goldwater in the '64 primary. 000
Reposted by Matt EdensAlex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The operative word in "Protect our women!" is not "women" but "our". 141497420
