Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
Ah the vision of strength: barely featured in a photo, sitting in a golf cart in the periphery of someone who appears fit and alert.
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Ah the vision of strength: barely featured in a photo, sitting in a golf cart in the periphery of someone who appears fit and alert.
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
Clearly the poor guy just ingested too much food dye.
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
Trusting... People who spend their lives and careers to study and verify what is fact... Or trusting... A talking discarded leather wallet that someone shit in? God why is this such a hard choice to make.
Lupita Nihongo (@otsumamiboy.bsky.social) reposted
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
The sun only just rose for the first time ever once the tarrifs started. You can't prove that the sun was rising before that.
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes he says it with literally everything he wants to do and does. Everything would be and is hell on earth unless it's specifically what he wants in that moment. What it actually is doesn't matter and what he's felt about it previously or tomorrow also does not matter.
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
Regardless if there's an accident or not
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
In her defense it's seatbelt manufacturers fault for not telling her she shouldnt wear it as a choker and it's clearly cutting off blood flow to her brain.
Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew.bsky.social) reposted
rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
It's legitimately hard to visually tell apart the different women in the trump admin. He has a certain taste in employees I can't quite put my finger on...
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
More like smeagol, "wokesy hobbitses stealing my precious fluffies. It's mine! They can't have its!"
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump is senile but he's MEAN. They don't want him to call them names.
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
In what world does this even need a fact check. They're going to be talking about this one particular shooting for fucking decades while ignoring the 20 others that happen every week by cis white men.
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
Got a love the 'journalism' style of: "this is what happened because that's how I remember it and I won't look into it and I hope neither will you"
Thomas Zimmer (@thomaszimmer.bsky.social) reposted
It’s a little bit funny that so many people with influential platforms remain committed to the idea that Trumpism, as a political project, is mysterious and hard to pin down – while Trump himself constantly goes “Gotta protect the white real Americans from the black and brown hordes.”
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
Meanwhile Cuomos busy meeting billionaire donors, still has no plan or even care to make a plan for the city, and likely has his staff working solely on pathetic nonsensical attack ads while adding nothing of worth to the city. .. and tbh that feels normal which is fucking sad.
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
Not only that but it's just a cool low cost event to get people involved in that actual city and meet their neighbors. Just overall positive vibes. Why does this feel so alien for a potential mayor to do.
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
I love the logical leaps from the stereotyping of conservatives hating green energy and loving fossil fuel. "Together we'll fill every backyard swimming pool in America with petroleum!"
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
Their whole platform is literally crazy people yelling at our kids. I guess they mostly have homes tho is the main difference?
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
No no, giving handouts to corporate entities is so ingrained in what he considers his job to be that he's even sincerely pushing that we give them to corporate corpses as well
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
Can't wait til he starts signing things with a 5 foot marker to make trump jealous
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
wtf does 'genuine' mean in this context.
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
t minus 30 minutes until Jacqui Heinrich is fired or quietly moved to reporting on local thrift stores for the rest of her career.
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
Even if you disagree with policy, that's what it's for and to attack people who live in them legally is fucking insanity. Run on the platform of making things better or offering alternative solutions if you want but they can't even be bothered to do something sane like that.
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
Us, as rich people, will get poorer people on our side by attacking people who live in rent stabilized apartments! Surely this is work!
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
Phew thank God we saved her from any creeps in the restroom!
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
Wow finally some economic relief! I can buy my gold plated eggs at a decent price
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
He looks like Howie mandell never got famous and ran an auto shop for 30 years after dropping out of community college
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
or impact on the city outside of personal gain. He doesn't give a shit about means testing either way, he has some consultant telling him it's a slam dunk rebuttal because he doesn't actually have a single relevant proposed policy even though this is his second campaign for the same position.
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
Man wouldn't it be nice if there were room for actually good faith political debates to test policy openly in a public forum? Instead we get these bizarre attempts at an attack on mamdani that continues to show that Cuomo has zero interest in actually having a specific policy
Streetsblog NYC (@nyc.streetsblog.org) reposted
Pedestrians beat the bus in this annual race — but maybe for the last time?
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
Ah yes people who need affordable housing want to be tested constantly on their worthiness as decided by Cuomo (who appears to be trying to appeal to midwesterners who have no idea what the cost of living in NYC actually is... Or maybe Cuomo literally just doesn't know because he doesn't live here)
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
It's been a while since I've seen the movies to be fair but I felt that way about most of the main cast. Quinto was absolutely a standout tho.
Chuck Noblet (@chucknoblet.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
"generate a map of the USA with each state named"
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
Why would mamdani allow this to happen?
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
This is so fucking exhausting. They can't answer a single softball question without sounding like a 6 year old going 'i know you are but what am I?"
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
Wow what a completely untapped market, new books!
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
But the 'centrists' and supporters don't understand this. They think the apt comparisons to actual dictators and tyrants are some kind of bizarre extremist hyperbole because they're fully steeped in the koolaid. They need the kid gloves comparisons to fathom that trump made a forgivable boo boo.
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
Not just cheapens the world but stunts your own growth and ability as a human being and makes anything you do actually create on your own much worse
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
For real, when is Nintendo going to finally make cartridges taste good.
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah but only if some people get rich in the process otherwise what's the point
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. 100+ degrees is breezy beach weather.
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
Or maybe... Everyone should get paid properly? Nah that's silly let's pit random groups of underpaid people against each other and ignore ceos being paid the equivalent of the gdp of small countries.
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
And they'll say that right up until it expires and even after as if there was nothing they could do but they really thought hard about it.
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
Not surprising considering they just decided to ignore sarcone being removed as interim atty by having him vacate the position and become the 'assistant' of that now vacant position, thus continuing to do the same job that he isn't supposed to do www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/n...
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
The funny thing is these dudes would probably call the guys that are more in line with the majority of women's taste 'gay'. in the mean time they're busy fawning over these men's bodies.
Cate Eland (@romancingnope.bsky.social) reposted
This is from an MSNBC article about how "Democrats have no idea of the cesspool they’re playing in, or what they’re normalizing" w/r/t releasing the Epstein files, which I'm not linking because it doesn't deserve the clicks. Let's talk about this theory, though.
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
How is this considered reporting? Legitimate question. Please answer CNN, help me see the vision here.
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
I imagine there's some case of avoiding an assured mutual destruction regarding the decision to not implicate anyone. It's not like anyone in govt was tripping over themselves for them to be released before he was in office.
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
Agree it does feel like a switch pro... But also... I guess that's fine? A little late but still much needed. Would have liked a little more unique identity and not just a carbon copy ui and desgn. But also I get that they're probably scared to death of making a Wii U type follow up
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
I see this is where the doge children have been reassigned after musks exit
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
Fetterman is, to be fair, an expert on not being a Democrat.
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
It's unfortunate that he's likely jerking off to this in the car. Dude loves this shit.
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
Jesus christ is that people smiling? When was the last time that happened?
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
Other countries: no one made it clear or even knows who to contact or even what the demands are supposed to be.
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
Expose that the Democrats were actually doing something? NGL that WOULD be shocking.
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
I know a good amt of people who's jobs are now basically devolved to edit and correct AI slop from the younger employees who don't know how to do anything else but use it.
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
You're being very generous by calling what's available for 500 a month a health plan. Also very much depends on what portion your employer actually covers.
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
They're actually claiming that they wouldn't have reported on it at all had mamdani ignored it. As if that's how any news story reporting has ever worked.
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
We should probably ask mamdani his take on this maybe like 60 times and then just ignore everything he says and claim he loves it while ignoring that trump said it.
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
It's almost like they actively want GOP to fuck over people so the voters come crawling back without them actually having to do anything proactive themselves.
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
After all, what are billionaires but the everyman
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
We spent the final year of Obamas presidency pretending the GOP ignoring their constitutional duty to at least acknowledge Obama's SC pick was anywhere near ok. We've been eating shit for it since. Our legacy of continuing to reach across the aisle after they repeatedly shit in our hands.
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
BuT i Am DiFfErEnT
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
2025: take a selfie in the abyss tiktok challenge
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
I hate that I sometimes can't immediately tell what's an Onion headline and what's a NYT headlines these days
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
To be fair, that's closer than probably 90% of Americans would guess. The sad part is those who'd guess worse would likely think it's impressive that he knew what century it took place.
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
A lower court struck down social media age verification... You don't have to be on twitter for longer than a few minutes to understand how those two rulings make zero sense existing together.
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
Wow and people thought jan 6ers were crazy, look at these maniacs!
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
So basically only anarchy is good. So long as you never significantly interact with anyone ever.
Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) reposted
Pedro Pascal defended calling out JK Rowling as a "heinous loser" and said that "bullies make me fucking sick" and that he wants to "protect the people I love." variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
Mamdani has local ads and sidewalk chalk messages, Cuomo has billionaire endorsements and airplanes. Kinda gives you a sense of who's representing what.
Jesse Hawken (@jessehawken.bsky.social) reposted
Noteworthy, I think, that the Democratic establishment are putting much more effort into stopping Mamdani than stopping Trump
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
Best not to engage
Brandon T. Snider (@brandontsnider.bsky.social) reposted
VOTE EARLY! It's sooooooo easy.
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
I see the GOP talking points newsletter has made the rotations.
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
Care to share which law you're referring to?
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
We already follow its demands without asking questions. Just slip in a few "Worship it"s and we're toast.
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
Ok but would we even be protesting if we knew we could make Ice Cream with just ONE INGREDIENT???
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
NPR, please.
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
Do they mean America? Cuz, kinda yeah.
Patroni Foxtrot (@patronifoxtrot.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
this one went wild for the game boy lol
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
It's easier to drain a river than to google search. (The sad part is that somehow Google is insistent on making this is actually becoming closer to the truth.)
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
How many steps away are we from NYT headlines just being 'trump admin says words about thing.'
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
I was filming an after party for a basketball hall of fame event. I was standing too much in people's way as they entered...Charles Barkley walked in and pretty much body checked me. I'm 99% sure he didn't do it on purpose or notice and I got a somewhat interesting story out of it.
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
"some people there annoy me so instead I'll go swim in a toxic lake full of syringes while loudly complaining about slight annoyances" current political atmosphere in a nutshell
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
Well that's certainly one way to characterize what happened.
Peter Sterne (@petersterne.com) reposted
NEW POLL from Data for Progress, conducted May 30-June 4: www.filesforprogress.org/datasets/202... Andrew Cuomo - 37% Zohran Mamdani - 31% Undecided - 8% Adrienne Adams - 6% Brad Lander - 6% Scott Stringer - 5% With RCV: Cuomo - 51% Mamdani - 49%
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
Considering he purposefully sent the national guard and then Marines to escalate what was a handful of relatively minor home Depot parking lot protests ... I guess he's technically not wrong.
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
You may be the first person to do this.
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
I would reply to this but for that I would have to read a blue sky post. I'm very smart and know no one does that.
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
I mean, to be fair it'd be an improvement. (To be incredibly clear because micro blogging social media doesn't allow for strangers to have subtlety, I'm not exactly being sarcastic but cheekily commenting on the sorry state of our political reality. I'm not for this. Good day.)
Matt Torres (@matttorres.bsky.social) reply parent
Until the camera cut I truly thought that was a tobacco pipe in her mouth and it was amazing.