Michael Mathes

“It’s now or never”

Literally not a GOP governor

@bluewavesurfer.bsky.social Why are you calling me a resister? Just because I followed you?

This is him trying

I’m old enough to remember the 2012 election when Republicans saw “picking winners and losers” as the biggest issue of the campaign, a literal crime against humanity punishable by excommunication for life.
Today, not so much.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

“She never took a shower again”
— Jamie Lee Curtis, just now on #60minutes, about her mother Janet Leigh after she filmed the movie “Psycho”

I believe the true medical diagnosis was hulkemia…

“Is he alive or dead?
Has he thoughts within his head?
We'll just pass him there
why should we even care?”
— Black Sabbath
#ripozzy

Well that got pretty hairy.
Wordle 1,488 4/6

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James Carville, of “It’s Over. Kamala Will Win” fame, is again driving Democrats AWAY from the polls, promising on CNN that House Dem Spanberger will win the VA gov race, “And it’s not gonna be close.”
Does he even realize how people respond to remarks like this?
Why is he on TV?
So many questions

“Immigrants built this country. Never forget that.”
— Herschel to Glenn
Season 2, Episode 11
“The Walking Dead”

“No donors.”
Yeah I laughed too

As someone who has sucked an unknown alcoholic substance through a one-meter bamboo straw in the mountains of Vietnam in 1995-1999 — perhaps a few too many times — so am I…

Over the #kennedycenter right now.
#fireworks
#july4 #july4th
#4thofjuly
#Fourthofjuly
#happyfourth
#hbdamerica

The Carville that wrote an op-ed the week before the 2024 election to say it’s over, Harris will win? That guy???

jfc

Chants of “USA! USA!” On the US House floor as Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill narrowly passes with one vote to spare.
House quickly adjourns for holiday weekend.

Rep #AOC comes down the steps outside the US House and calls today, with vote on the OBBB, “one of the saddest days in modern American history.”
“It’s devastating,” she said of the bill’s effects.

I snapped pix of pro-Iran protesters Saturday outside the White House, chanting #handsoffiran. Four hours later Trump announced the US attacks on Iran nuclear facilities…

Well done

lol fair

Wondering if FIFA is gonna see this and move the World Cup out of the US…

I’ve had an #ebike for 2.5 months & 1,300 miles.
Some thoughts: e-bikes are gamechangers for over-40s. Do I work out as much as w/ regular bike? No, but I bike ALL THE TIME NOW. Huge benefit.
Sad fact: every ebiker over 35 is pedaling; EVERYONE under 25 is riding the throttle
#bikelife
#pedalon

The squeaking of the tanks amid this wild silence (other than the martial music) is positively ghastly…

Hmm. The Fox News reporters anchoring coverage of the #militaryparade in the streets of Washington are speaking openly about “the pride I feel” to have a commander in chief that supports the US Army.

Difficult week for troubled genius.
First, Sly Stone, the insanely talented funkmeister and musical pioneer.
And now Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys' surf rock poet whose sound textures laid the groundwork for so much in rock and pop.
Both died at 82. Both changed the world. RIP

Sly Stone: soul music's groundbreaking, elusive superstar by Michael MathesFunk master and iconic music innovator Sly Stone, whose songs drove a civil rights-inflected soul explosion in the 1960s, sparking influential albums but also a slide into drug addict...

I wrote recently about the otherworldly musical phenomenon and pioneer known as #SlyStone.
#funk #soul #rock
#dancetothemusic
#everydaypeople
#everybodyisastar
#RIP genius
www.rawstory.com/sly-stone/

"This is the hallmark of authoritarianism on the road to tyranny – and all Americans should be shocked and appalled by the President’s blatant disregard for our Constitutional system"
-- House ex-speaker Nancy @pelosi.house.gov on ICE ops in California and Trump's threat to arrest its governor

“It’s a feeling here of intentional chaos… This is not helpful.”
Brutal criticisms by LA Mayor Bass on @CNN of the various steps by federal agents and Trump, the “intimidation” and fear factors and their ripple effects through the city

FBI Director Kash Patel on X: "Hit a cop, you’re going to jail… doesn’t matter where you came from, how you got here, or what movement speaks to you. If the local police force won’t back our men and women on the thin blue line, we @FBI will." / X Hit a cop, you’re going to jail… doesn’t matter where you came from, how you got here, or what movement speaks to you. If the local police force won’t back our men and women on the thin blue line, we @FBI will.

So I guess mobile devices really HAVE turned our memories to shit…

x.com/fbidirectork...