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@matthewhm.bsky.social

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created November 14, 2024

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Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social)

Trump wrote that "if [the ruling that his tariffs order is unconstitutional] is allowed to stand, this Decision would literally destroy the United States of America. " He's literally blackmailing SCOTUS. It'll probably work.

4/9/2025, 8:55:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

Not educated white women

30/8/2025, 11:25:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

Boo-hoo. She's making millions and the USTA has made her the face of U.S. tennis. Stop crying.

29/8/2025, 3:44:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

No different than Iran's mullahs.

28/8/2025, 8:34:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social)

Just another MAGA piece of shit.

28/8/2025, 2:00:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

That's bullshit. Women are pissed about Bernie and assholes like Susan Sarandon.

24/8/2025, 7:37:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social)

"expanding executive authority" is a mild euphemism for dictatorship.

19/8/2025, 10:06:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

That's idiotic. The major causes of kidney disease are diabetes, obesity, smoking, alcohol use and other NON congenital issues. That's why family members are often candidates for live donation. Organ donation saves lives.

18/8/2025, 10:54:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

What kind of machines does he object to? The new fax-style ones? The old-school one? I don't even know what he's talking about.

18/8/2025, 10:50:01 PM | 3 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

Ok, fine. Then you don't get a life-saving organ when you need one. I saw a lot of black people getting dialysis when I was; tell them to restrict the supply of kidneys.

16/8/2025, 10:02:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social)

So Trump is essentially ending NATO.

16/8/2025, 4:13:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

This is bullshit. Transplantation saves thousands of lives, including mine.

16/8/2025, 12:29:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social)

Just two despots figuring out how to enrich each other.

15/8/2025, 11:52:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

Ridiculous. She's taking a spot from a young American woman, perhaps a young black woman who needs a chance to be the next Venus Williams.

13/8/2025, 4:40:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

What would they do if they saw an actual crime, shoot them?

13/8/2025, 2:31:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social)

Excellent analysis

13/8/2025, 2:28:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social)

Can someone explain what the National Guard will do if they see "crime?". Will they just shoot people?

12/8/2025, 10:36:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social)

So what is there to do when the President truly acts dictatorial? Is there a response on the individual level to this?

11/8/2025, 3:29:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

Which in turn, come from the prophets: Amos, Hosea, Ezra, etc.

11/8/2025, 3:24:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social)

Good short & sweet explanation of Trump's bullshit "trade deals."

10/8/2025, 3:11:02 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tuck The Frumpers (@realtuckfrumper.bsky.social) reposted

Cartoon: The Four Freedoms 2025 https://twp.ai/4ip0GT

2/8/2025, 1:41:17 PM | 24 11 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

I kinda agree. I think TNG tried so hard to be "cerebral" that it was somewhat dull.

1/8/2025, 12:15:48 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

He was my congressman. He scammed his constituents.

26/7/2025, 2:01:22 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social)

Countdown to Maxwell's Trump pardon starts....

25/7/2025, 5:43:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Deadly Headley (@deadlyheadley.bsky.social) reposted

God bless South Park

24/7/2025, 5:12:49 AM | 3465 789 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social)

I'm starting to think that Trump is using the "Epstein files" story as its own distraction from tragedies like this.

24/7/2025, 3:22:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social)

Sorry fuckhead, but you need to shut up now. Your fucked up life caused your father a ton of problems that helped Trump get elected. Go away now.

22/7/2025, 9:26:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social)

This is obvious as fuck: Trump will pardon Maxwell in exchange for her testimony that Trump had nothing to do with Epstein.

22/7/2025, 5:51:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

Screw that guy. Ran off to Florida from his hometown Long Island because the multi millionaire doesn't want to pay taxes.

22/7/2025, 11:17:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

So the Japanese, who face a major labor shortage, are now anti-immigrant? That makes sense.

21/7/2025, 3:19:52 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

I've recommended many times that we should get our own dedicated line. If no one's using it, then other non-executives are perfectly welcome to it, but we should have our own.

21/7/2025, 3:03:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) (@audubonballroom.bsky.social) reposted

WHAT I LEARN FROM GROUP PROJECTS. 6% The information 0% How to work with people 47% How to do entire projects on my own 47% How much I hate people
19/7/2025, 9:47:56 AM | 56 12 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social) reposted

Colbert will be all right, maybe even better off. The world's his oyster and I'm sure MSNBC and Netflix will come calling. He could stand up the biggest late night YouTube channel in days. But they are just torching the Late Show, an institution, solely to appease a dictator. And that fucking sucks.

18/7/2025, 12:26:42 AM | 17910 3380 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

Is "Gutfield" his original family name? My ancestor modified his Russian name a bit too.

8/7/2025, 9:36:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

Did anyone actually watch the movie? Kurt Russell is a buffoon-ish character. The real heroes are Dennis Dun (Wen Chi) and Victor Wong. (Egg) Plus all the Chinatown fighters behind them. Jeez.

7/7/2025, 5:41:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social)

Officials Feared Flood Risk to Youth Camps but Rejected Warning System Sadly, these grieving families will surely continue to vote for Abbot, Trump, etc.

7/7/2025, 4:28:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social)

Sacrificing children at the altar of lower taxes for the upper classes.

6/7/2025, 9:23:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

Separate out men and women please

3/7/2025, 2:11:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm sure these detainees will be treated far worse than Al Capone.

3/7/2025, 2:10:12 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

Ok. Good to hear.

23/6/2025, 11:48:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

"Urban development?" The CBE destroyed entire communities, such as Tremont. It caused the shit show that led to the "Bronx is burning" 1970s. Pretty heartless game....

23/6/2025, 1:50:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social)

"Obliterated" is "mission accomplished" to the Nth degree.

23/6/2025, 12:27:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social)

At least in 2003 the U.S. entered a stupid war based on faulty American intelligence. Now, we entered a war based on untrustworthy intelligence from a foreign country, led by a man desperate to maintain power at any cost.

22/6/2025, 2:46:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture πŸ’™β€οΈπŸ’™MiaπŸ’™β€οΈπŸ’™ (@mommamia.bsky.social) reposted

Nailed it.

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21/6/2025, 1:51:46 AM | 980 200 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

OK. Let's see which holidays make the cut.

20/6/2025, 1:24:03 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe Iran should buy this meme coins.

19/6/2025, 6:58:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

Big loss for Netanyahu. Without the U.S., Netanyahu really has no way to guarantee the destruction of Iran's nuclear capacity.

19/6/2025, 6:57:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

Let's be clear, the subtext of Carlson's anti-foreign intervention is "let's not the Jews drag us into another war." So in this case, the enemy of my enemy is still my enemy.

19/6/2025, 6:51:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

That sounds right.

18/6/2025, 6:23:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

www.foreignaffairs.com/iran/israels...

18/6/2025, 5:44:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) reposted

Always.

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17/6/2025, 8:30:04 PM | 24994 6785 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

That's what you got out of the monologue?

17/6/2025, 11:11:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social)

What's the endgame here?

17/6/2025, 10:38:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ryan Schwartz (@ryanschwartz.tv) reposted

when no one attends your shitty dictator parade

15/6/2025, 12:01:09 AM | 17985 3359 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social)

I've never bought the Israeli notion that an Iranian a-bomb was an "existential" threat. Ever heard of MADD? Secondly, this attack is about regime change, not just prevention, and that's illegal and immoral, no matter what. Didn't we learn about regime change in 2003?

13/6/2025, 7:49:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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13/6/2025, 3:06:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

There was a political movement that combined state control with entrepreneurship. It was called National Socialism

13/6/2025, 3:05:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social)

This is part of the negotiations: do what we say or Israel will bomb you

12/6/2025, 9:20:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

No way a white Senator gets pulled to the ground

12/6/2025, 8:01:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

Does Castro deserve to be on this list? He brought health care and education to a lot of poor Cubans. Not sure if he's the same level of authoritarian as Hitler, Mao, Stalin, etc.

12/6/2025, 6:41:35 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) reposted

It can happen here. It is happening here.

11/6/2025, 6:37:12 PM | 12783 5209 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

It's old man Witherspoon

12/6/2025, 2:49:26 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

I called you coy?

12/6/2025, 2:46:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm well aware of the value of immigrants, documented or otherwise. My point is that waving a Mexican flag only hurts their cause.

10/6/2025, 9:25:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

The American Right co-opted the American flag after 9/11, but they don't own it. The flag stands for the fights against totalitarianism, injustice, oppression, inequity, etc. We should all be waving the American flag; it's all of ours.

10/6/2025, 5:27:27 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

Right now it doesn't, but it should. That's the idea: immigrants should celebrate the flag for what it should represent.

10/6/2025, 4:57:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

Not sure I understand raising a Mexican flag. The American flag stands for due process, justice, etc. Raising a foreign flag plays right into the hands of those claiming that this is an invasion.

10/6/2025, 4:38:14 PM | 39 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social)

Blueprint for ending elections.

9/6/2025, 6:05:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

He looks like a Neanderthal. Plus, the constant mugging for the crowd is just gross already. Sinner is all class.

9/6/2025, 3:01:01 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

He does it all the time. It's so unappealing.

9/6/2025, 2:58:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

Thug

8/6/2025, 4:10:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

Looks like Greenblatt has gone all-in on the Trump train. Using antisemitism to bludgeon the "Left "

6/6/2025, 11:53:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

See, we can agree on stuff!

4/6/2025, 1:56:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social)

Just nasty, spiteful, weak people.

4/6/2025, 2:16:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ (@the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social) reposted

A Florida weatherman telling his viewers he can no longer be confident in his forecasts due to cuts to atmospheric science is the kind of resistance content I’m here for. Kudos, Sir.🌦️

3/6/2025, 10:00:32 PM | 13447 4884 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

I am American, first and foremost. My mother's ancestors fought in America's wars from the Revolution through Vietnam. My father's family came here from Russia for opportunity ad freedom, not Palestine. I am not Israeli, not only by ancestry but as a Reform Jew, they don't want me. 'Nuff said.

4/6/2025, 1:59:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social)

It's Netanyahu's Israel and this American Jew wants nothing to do with it.

3/6/2025, 8:40:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social)

We are heading back to the Middle Ages, when the Church declared what was "science" and what was heretical. I guess that whole Enlightenment thing had its day.

3/6/2025, 6:29:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social)

I am an ardent opponent of the death penalty. So if not the death penalty, murderers, particularly heinous ones, must face life in prison with no chance of parole, or else there's no deterrent.

2/6/2025, 2:38:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture NBC News (@nbcnews.com) reposted

Harvard president receives standing ovation during commencement.

29/5/2025, 11:40:02 PM | 33727 6889 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

These programs were created by Nixon & Reagan, respectively, those two stalwarts of civil rights.

30/5/2025, 3:31:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

She didn't "fight" or "lead" anyone. She was a 15th century motivational speaker who probably had severe mental illness.

30/5/2025, 3:19:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump pardoned three criminals today. Is that spectacle?

28/5/2025, 2:15:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social)

This senseless and horrible murder of two Israelis in Washington will allow Trump to attack and shutter any and all criticism of Israel and Netanyahu. Forget any nuance; he's going to wave the "antisemitism" flag over the carcass of the left.

22/5/2025, 1:59:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) reposted

If this person sat next to you on a bus or train and started ranting about Bruce Springsteen in this way, you would get up and move to a different seat. In the United States, we have him the nuclear codes.

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Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social)

Wow! Good for Episcopalians.

13/5/2025, 12:30:32 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

American brownshirts

9/5/2025, 10:09:05 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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youtu.be/EwZWCk1ytPU?...

9/5/2025, 10:08:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Doing Israel's bidding.

1/5/2025, 6:23:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

Sorry, but your history is wrong. The Electoral College was originally meant to prevent some demagogue like Trump. Only the rise of the party system caused it to go awry. Read the Federalist Papers. Plus, Washington turned down multiple attempts to give him more power.

1/5/2025, 6:19:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

Exactly what happened in his first term. All the money from tariffs went to farmers.

28/4/2025, 3:00:51 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

Why waste time going on Bill Maher? He's old news.

28/4/2025, 2:01:38 AM | 12 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social)

This is what Trump is about; enriching himself and vengeance.

28/4/2025, 1:56:29 AM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

It was a very informative story, but it's hard to be sympathetic when she clearly voted for Trump.

24/4/2025, 10:14:18 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

A nice Jewish guy who wanted people to be nice to each other and follow the rules

20/4/2025, 2:24:59 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

Very Christ-like

20/4/2025, 2:22:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social) reply parent

It's not, it's autocracy.

17/4/2025, 5:56:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ken Jennings (@kenjennings.bsky.social) reposted

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

7/4/2025, 12:18:42 AM | 79275 14111 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@matthewhm.bsky.social)

This is all about power: the world will come begging to Mar-a-lago for lower tariffs, giving Trump whatever he desires.

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