Matthew Sachs

What she said. 💪🏻🔥❤️

Every policy issue everyone cares about is <entirely downstream> of fixing our deeply broken, fundamentally antidemocratic, non-functional-right-now legislative, judicial & electoral institutions. Trying to Do an Abundance of Popularism will not solve this, just like it didn't in 2008-16 or 2021-25.

The real serious mass movement would not be "No Kings" but "No Presidents" & focus on a set of constitutional amendments to turn us into a parliamentary democracy. But that's obviously not going to happen, so what we need is a set of ready-to-go institutional reforms to mimic that w/o amendments:

this is why the whole “oh, suffering creates great art” thing is bullshit

you know what’s conducive to art? a roof over your head and food on the table

you know what isn’t? stressing out over where the fuck the rent money is going to come from

At least one

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Mayor Wilson should sign letters of marque and reprisal for parking enforcement.

It's our shibboleth

Gonna load my group chats up with alf hog, just in case. Y'know. For freedom.

I am polishing my mocking staff and powering down the relent-o-matic...

Olympic Skater Will Skate To Minions After Internet Uproar Tomàs-Llorenç Guarino Sabaté’s Minions routine was nearly intercepted due to a copyright dispute

kotaku.com/tomas-lloren... has some more details.

I still would love to know what the specific rights issue was, but- this is so beneficial to the Minions IP that I would have been surprised if it hadn't been resolved. (If this was all a publicity stunt by someone, then- nicely done!)

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Chotiner shot that man right in the face with his own gun and he never heard the *click*.

Best gas masks “How did these people go out and get gas masks?” AG Bondi asked.

me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

Maybe he'll resign and retire to Minneapolis.

That's Navi! Miyamoto was a big fan of James Cameron's Avatar.

I am. But there are three things at play here regarding ICE collecting private data. Quick rundown on the issue, why you should be paying attention, and what I'm doing about it:

Don't let up. Please contact Reps, Senators and leaders in Congress. My Rep went from no position, this morning, to issuing a statement strongly against funding DHS and supporting impeachment of Noem. I sent him a note of thanks for taking a strong position.

extremely good advice, this is peak positive reinforcement time

A screenshot of WhatsApp: Ash: Sebastián, I have one very pressing question. Sebastián Di Martino: Let me know Ash: Are jaguar soft? Sebastián Di Martino: They are very soft (two hearts on the answer)

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.

Every serious DC political journalist should be constantly asking the 23 Republicans in Congress, along with the Speaker of the House & the Senate Majority Leader, when they are going to stop violating their oaths & end the lawless authoritarianism.

Focus. Please.

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in trying to understand what makes ICE and CBP so dangerous right now, it is tempting to imagine some new lack of training or experience or professionalism—and not grapple with the truth that a white nationalist movement has put more power and force behind their existing mission

This sure seems more like the tyranny the Constitution is supposed to protect against than forgiving student loans.