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@matthewspira.bsky.social

#TeamBlue. Middle-aged dude. Combat veteran & single father. Eclectic career. Poet. Conversations. #UCSB. RT ≠ Endorsement.

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Latest posts by matthewspira.bsky.social on Bluesky

Women are in university far more than men. Women are in key industries at the Junior ranks far more than men. It's just a matter of time. We are in a transitional period.

04.01.2025 01:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Maybe someday, women in America will have as many rights as guns do.

19.11.2024 17:08 — 👍 56637    🔁 8363    💬 2510    📌 424

I suspect this is a really complicated question. There's probably an insane level of exploitation but the same time how else are you going to get the reach that you get through their platform?

04.01.2025 01:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

When I look at investing in companies, if you have any level of dependency on Amazon, its a negative. I would love to have people post what percent of sales in fees from Amazon and Walmart they are experiencing
And other issues.

The numbers I have seen are INSANE AND UNSUSTAINABLE.

03.01.2025 23:39 — 👍 17976    🔁 2779    💬 1196    📌 125

Because, of coursem

03.01.2025 14:51 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Left Twitter a couple of months ago. Mental health markedly improved.

01.01.2025 20:50 — 👍 28105    🔁 1441    💬 939    📌 139

Shedding the first tear of 2025 for good luck 🤞

01.01.2025 05:29 — 👍 70    🔁 3    💬 4    📌 0
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Wow, I never knew he said this.

Jimmy Carter was ahead of his time—a man of unmatched kindness and integrity. Truly, he was too good for us.

31.12.2024 04:21 — 👍 37006    🔁 8358    💬 958    📌 387

In accepting his Nobel prize in 2002, Jimmy Carter said: "The most serious and universal problem is the growing chasm between the richest and the poorest people on Earth." His words are truer now than they were then.

30.12.2024 09:35 — 👍 97    🔁 26    💬 1    📌 0

My daughter is figuring this out. She could go to a very good school for free tuition. If she goes out of state, it will either be with significant loans or a very good aid package.

28.12.2024 17:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Should we continue to encourage kids to go to college ? Or push them to take up a trade ?

I believe in college. Learning how to learn, IMO, is a critical life skill. Being exposed to people of different backgrounds, makes yiu wiser

Qualifier- it should be a school you can afford.

28.12.2024 16:39 — 👍 34766    🔁 3550    💬 6370    📌 692

I've seen Trump's former ambassador Denmark saying that little Denmark cannot defend Greenland and I'm like well isn't Denmark also part of an alliance that includes the United States already that is more than capable of defending Greenland collectively?

28.12.2024 10:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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PETE HEGSETH ATTORNEY TIM PARLATORE: He didn't do any of these things that he's been accused of.

PAMELA BROWN: But he's also admitted he's a changed man from several years ago. How does that square? If you're saying he didn't do any of it, but he's a changed man.

27.12.2024 16:58 — 👍 4117    🔁 593    💬 310    📌 67
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The press is ignoring the real Liz Cheney scandal It's not about her at all.

New in PN: The press is ignoring the real Liz Cheney scandal

"These stories don't communicate the fact that Cheney didn’t commit an actual crime and this is all meritless. The Times plays up Trump’s strongman image, as if he’s the buff antagonist in a movie. This gives Trump exactly what he wants."

27.12.2024 14:25 — 👍 4750    🔁 1237    💬 141    📌 48

100% agree.

26.12.2024 13:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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26.12.2024 03:31 — 👍 13561    🔁 2258    💬 158    📌 40
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A story in two parts.

26.12.2024 03:51 — 👍 15855    🔁 2413    💬 1873    📌 443
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25.12.2024 22:59 — 👍 13109    🔁 1981    💬 559    📌 476
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All the folks who have been screaming about World War III for the past four years are suddenly very eager to get into wars with the entire world.

24.12.2024 17:23 — 👍 10235    🔁 2455    💬 806    📌 195

To be filed under #oops.

24.12.2024 13:21 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You HAD to put that out there didn’t you. He was saving that for next week.

23.12.2024 12:47 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Donald Trump says it is an “absolute necessity” for the United States to annex Greenland.

“For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity.”

23.12.2024 03:35 — 👍 4386    🔁 1084    💬 1535    📌 541
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'Resents the idea': CNN analyst sees Trump bristle as Democratic attack strategy hits home The Democratic Party has finally hit on an attack tactic which has found its target with Trump, a CNN analyst reported Monday.“The gambit, a welcome opening for a party that struggled to fashion a con...

“The gambit, a welcome opening for a party that struggled to fashion a convincing message in the election and that has been flailing ever since, seems to have worked," wrote Stephen Collinson.

23.12.2024 12:28 — 👍 62    🔁 25    💬 6    📌 3

Honestly the whole Panama flap, Trump is honest to god scared to death to actually use the military. So no worries Panama.

He’s honest to god, scared to death.

He’s such a small, weak, whiney, sissy

22.12.2024 22:40 — 👍 13370    🔁 1845    💬 771    📌 104

If saying President Musk gets under Donald Trump's skin, then I will continue to say President Musk.

23.12.2024 01:11 — 👍 4696    🔁 621    💬 173    📌 35

Why don't we demand control of the Suez canal while we're at it?

23.12.2024 11:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Interestingly, I have lost 60,000 followers on Twitter since Election Day - presumably, mostly, from people deactivating their accounts and heading over here - but over here on Bluesky I have picked up 400,000 new followers since Election Day.

22.12.2024 21:40 — 👍 28886    🔁 1979    💬 1110    📌 76

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