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Matt Erickson @thematterickson.bsky.social · 8h

We weren’t in on it directly but Iowa football was cheaper to do as a national buy than a local one in Cedar Rapids for one of the recent U.S. Senate races.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 8h

Arguably the biggest democracy referendum next month: Virginia is one of only three states where the state constitution says people should lose their right to vote FOR THEIR ENTIRE LIFE if they are convicted of any felony. This measure would allow anyone to vote after prison.

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“It’s Time”: Virginians Will Decide Whether to Repeal Jim Crow-Era Lifetime Ban on Voting - Bolts

Voters will decide this year whether to end Virginia’s uniquely harsh felony disenfranchisement rules. They'll also vote on abortion, gay marriage, and redistricting.

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 9h

Fukuyama: the way to avoid this trap is for everyone to read my book, which is titled ironically (world follows basically exactly what he says) Everyone: haha your book title was wrong

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 11h

Can you imagine being a Northerner at the start of the civil war. All the fancy lad West Point military guys are Southerners. Your president is a backwoods yokel one term congressman and your generals are some guys we found at a 7-Eleven. It's over for our ass...unless all those guys are geniuses

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Matt Erickson @thematterickson.bsky.social · 9h

Cornyn beat a candidate of mine years ago and I’ve hated him ever since but I have to admit he really is the most standard-issue Republican ever issued. Just zero things an actual GOP primary voter should object to about him, except they’re now all completely bananas.

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Hyde T. Voltyge @hydevoltyge.bsky.social · 10h

A nice one but I love the Karl Rove Ohio meltdown in 2012 dearly

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Matt Erickson @thematterickson.bsky.social · 11h

TIL that most of the time when I have attempted to think of Robert Wagner I have thought of Robert Urich

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 14h

He’ll be 77 years old and has no particular ideological or factional lane beyond being a generic Republican. What he has is his dumb Foghorn Leghorn shtick and a need for attention. It’s a YOLO presidential candidacy. An end-of-career politician who has nothing to lose so why not. Many such cases.

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Matt Erickson @thematterickson.bsky.social · 14h

No but I am confident he personally has a burner account on SB Nation’s White Sox site.

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Matt Erickson @thematterickson.bsky.social · 14h

But but but it’s a Warren Buffet idea (it presumably is not a Warren Buffet idea)

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Matt Erickson @thematterickson.bsky.social · 14h

Jesse David Fox conceded about the current iteration of Good Ones: we have cameras and care about the angles. It’s TV.

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Matt Erickson @thematterickson.bsky.social · 15h

They turned old Tonight Shows into podcasts and i heard Carson do a joke premised on the notion that the Six Million Dollar Man was real.

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Citizen K | Long Live The King 👑 @citizenkryptik.bsky.social · 19h

One of the worst headwinds that the Dems continually have to fight against is folks refusing to believe that the GOP is as bad as the GOP themselves say they'll be, nor that Dems will actually ever be anywhere as good as they promise to be. Media-fed frames of 'GOP good, Dem bad' soaked into it all

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 19h

Like I truly don’t understand how you could have been anywhere in the vicinity of Springfield Ohio even before the election and thought that he’d only go after “criminals.” Trump, Vance, and CO werent subtle in the slightest. I can only really conclude this was a lie the median voter told themselves

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Matt Erickson @thematterickson.bsky.social · 17h

Not much to be done about the lying, unfortunately, except to help fund the best-testing responses www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0bO...

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CGC Obsessed 30s 16x9 AZ 06

YouTube video by Common Ground Coalition PAC

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Matt Erickson @thematterickson.bsky.social · 17h

The GOP theory of victory is that football audiences are especially persuadable and are worth it even when the cost-benefit ratios don’t obviously pencil out. Also local rates for games can go up to the point where national buys are obviously cheaper.

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 18h

In light of that Atlantic article going around featuring the traumatized truck driver who hit Pierre Damas Bel, I'll re-up what I wrote a month ago. craigcalcaterra.com/blog/there-i...

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Blood on J.D. Vance’s hands

A young Haitian man walked in front of a truck. His blood is on J.D. Vance’s hands

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Matt Erickson @thematterickson.bsky.social · 17h

For the audiobook of their memoir, the Beastie Boys had various celebrities record chapters. Rachel Maddow, of all people, giddily takes on the chapter with story of the feud with 3rd Bass, and reads the string of insults at the end of "Sons of 3rd Bass," and it is good. app.box.com/s/b0spfy08ip...

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Rachel Maddow reads a diss track.wav | Powered by Box

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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 20h

I am confident I could set up a whole ass remote work office in the back corner shelving of At Home and get away with it for three months minimum

Point of view photo of Cagles feet stretched out where she's sitting on a mostly empty warehouse shelf with patio furniture pillows on it

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Listening to the racist podcast about the “Indian Question” and wow mediocre 2026 white guys jealous of an Indian with a tech job is very much the new mediocre Central Valley white guys in 1941 jealous of Japanese with a thriving farm.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 22h

Playbook | President Trump is privately demanding that Republicans prove their loyalty by going on TV and insisting that, no matter what was said in the Senate hearing, Jack Smith did attend an Atlanta Hawks game on February 3, 2024.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 23h

There are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at @pogo.org, Dan Friedman at @motherjones.com, and me, who have previously reported every other aspect of this story, including that the sale prices were very high.

Kristi Noem's Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She
Left
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 04/10/2026

The Trump administration has moved to cripple Title IX protections against sexual assault and harassment on the same day New York prosecutors reopened the investigation into heinous allegations of a fraternity gang rape at Cornell University. trib.al/KbxIxZV

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Trump Weakens Title IX Rules Amid Cornell Gang Rape Investigation

The Education Department has just weakened protections for sexual assault victims in schools.

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Melissa Combs @melissacombs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Republicans have controlled Utah since 1985. If they were going to improve lives of constituents they’d have done it by now. Vote blue for positive change.

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Matt Erickson @thematterickson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don’t disagree with this but also I was trying to get a message to Sweetgreen that I was giving them up as a customer because they went to a MAHA even and their text bot cut me off when I used the word “fascist.”

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/10/2026

You can't get anyone in political media to say it plainly, but GOP strategy for several decades now has been built around the fact that its core goals/policies are *wildly unpopular*. Everything depends on a) polluting the information environment, b) cementing unfair structural advantages, & c) $$$.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Renee Nicole Good's family has now filed TWO lawsuits, alleging a conspiracy between Greg Bovino, Stephen Miller, & others to deprive people of their rights & killing Renee in furtherance of that conspiracy. Why discovery will bring accountability for Renee’s murder: youtu.be/2kU7_-Yt-Ig?...

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Trump HIT With TWO NEW LAWSUITS Over DEADLY ICE SHOOTING!!

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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The former Secretary of State, who took Kim Jong Un uncritically at his word, who got irate that Mary Louise Kelly could find Ukraine on a map and he couldn’t, is getting a teaching fellowship at an Ivy League school. Hm.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...

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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA faculty

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

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Matt Erickson @thematterickson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is so weird since amidst all the other stuff has brand has been normie Democrat for like two decades. He released an anti-Bush song in the run-up to the 2004 election, at a time when that might actually have cost him support.

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Constant Screaming @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's a safety-net paradox. Blue State/Purple-State Rs have never actually felt the true pain of unfettered Republican rule like red-state republicans bc the Dems soften the impact. They feel safe voting R bc the Dems they hate make it safe for them to do so w/o suffering the consequences.

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Matt Erickson @thematterickson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is an excellent point. For a decade+ the tone of the national coverage has been "things might get bad out there, someday," as certain services in red states long ago fell to zero.

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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And the NYT has Reinhan on speed dial to criticize Mamdani for made-up shit. His party runs on bigotry like America runs on Dunkin, but Reihan gets quoted to criticize Zohran for not doing enough to combat homophobia and anti-semitism in Muslim communities

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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I wonder if they can find a racist way to say Indians owning a large plurality of motels in the US is a national policy problem to be rectified. Sounds crazy. Except theyre nuts about South Asian IT workers and they’re already going after Sikh truck drivers! All they know is racism.

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Matt Erickson @thematterickson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I used one (1) porn term in a fully private email in 2012 to a business colleague who did not complain and I still feel like I am over my lifetime quota.

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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 02/10/2026

Joy King - Everybody Loves To Hear A Yodel [United States, Country, Yodeling] (1967) A fun private press country tune with some killer yodeling! redd.it/ygwmpy youtu.be/4J3q07idZU4

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Joy King - Everybody Loves To Hear A Yodel [United States, Country, Yodeling] (1967) A fun private press country tune with some killer yodeling!

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Utah Alliance Coalition @utahallianceco.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Prepare for the Ballot Amendment B, sprinkled with sugary ballot candy, will strip Utahns of the right to initiate citizen initiatives in almost all cases. Vote NO on Amendment B and spread the word to vote NO.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.

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Matt Erickson @thematterickson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They had DeNiro say it in Cape Fear and I’ve been stuck with it in my head ever since.

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