Matt Barnes

Lost functionality on Twitter for calling Alexis Lalas an idiot. Lol

Hulk Hogan ratted out other wrestlers attempting to unionize to save his own position and paycheck above anyone else's & gladly accepted funding from Peter Thiel for his Gawker court case that paved frequently abused legal precedents for the rich to shut down any media outlets that embarrass them.

The fact that the President of the United States posts a fake video of a kneeling Barack Obama being handcuffed and we’re supposed to pretend it’s perfectly normal, everyday stuff shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

1. Too expensive, way too expensive, companies like Ticketmaster doing "Platinum" sales which is them literally scalping
2. Hard to get into and out of, uncomfortable, expensive
3. Festivals increasingly exploitative with different tiers
4. Massive festivals often poorly designed and executed

Say his name: Mahmoud Sleem. He was among 8 people killed today in an Israeli ceasefire violation, and was the 205th journalist killed in Gaza

@democrats.org ,are you paying attention? Real action, not your performative bullshit that you did at the national address

This is some lovely infographic design

Why did that fucking MAGA kid have to miss? Also, real weird that after two weeks we don't hear anything about him

Red Dawn led me to believe the Russian attack on the United States would be much more dramatic than a slow, methodical propaganda effort.

ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

i will become a total shill for whichever politician decides to become the joe mccarthy of rooting out silicon valley ideology and influence

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

again, this is the easiest political slam dunk in the world

find a veteran with a lifetime of public service who has been fired for no reason and bring him on television with you

do it again tomorrow with a different veteran, and again, and again

show the human cost

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

Excerpt from the front page of the New York Times, February 17, 1965. Highlighted headline: “President Urges Public to Press Medicare Action”

60 years ago today:

LBJ urges Americans to put pressure on Congress to pass Medicare, saying, “We are in sight of the promised land.”

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I remember when I started saying that state borders would be weaponized against those seeking abortions and got laughed out of the room. To everybody who doubted me: apology very much not accepted, make it up to me by fucking stepping up and fighting this shit with me

the idea that these tech guys are opposed to "government waste" is so completely fucking ridiculous. they feast on government waste. DOD budgets are a bloated mess. the pentagon has failed 7 straight audits. the big beneficiaries are tech companies providing defense services.

now is a great time to launch my shady and opaquely sourced meat pie business

RFK Jr. is going to kill children as HHS Secretary. Don't ever, ever let any member of the GOP who voted for him forget it.

Kermit the frog in an open pirate shirt, showing a pinup tattoo of Miss Piggy on his chest.

Kermit has a pinup tattoo of Miss Piggy on his chest. This is why "Muppet Treasure Island" is the greatest movie ever.

Top Dem on the House Intel Committee Jim Himes says in a statement that he understands that the White House “insisted” on the CIA transmitting the list in an unclassified email

The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.

Trevoh Chalobah makes instant impact as Chelsea spare Sánchez’s blushes Chelsea 3 Wolves 1: Defender delivers five-star display to condemn Wolves to third consecutive defeat — but not after another goalkeeping blunder from Robert Sánchez

Chelsea are lucky to have Trevoh Chalobah, really. He holds no grudges. He once again answered his club's call. Standout performer as Chelsea return to winning ways: #CFC
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Picture from my front porch of snow on the ground

Snow day. Like, the 6th time I've seen snow in my life.

Two disturbed guys rent trucks and commit public acts of violence to deliver explicit ideological messages: one gets the scare story about who radicalized him, the other gets a sympathetic, nonpolitical account of his trauma

Got locked out today after I left for a walk and the pest control person locked my door after they visited. Lesson learned.