Matt Puckett

"What’s the best concert you’ve ever been to? Curtis Mayfield at the Wingate Concert Series. At that concert there was a rainstorm and the lights fell on Curtis Mayfield and they actually paralyzed him at that concert. He died a few years ago, but it was an amazing concert before that happened. Just so unfortunate."

Every time Eric Adams is in the news, I think about this response he gave to the question of what the best concert he ever attended was.

this is why voters think we’re stupid 😔

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

this name is 100% because ppl suggested that pumping the culture full of dehumanizing hate speech might have the consequence of leading to violence, and these guys (like always) turned around to scream “nuh uh that’s YOUUUUUUUU”

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

this is a parable

Eric Adams surrounded by members of the Sephardic Lebanese Congregation. He is wearing a blue velvet jacket that is embroidered with gold Magen David’s and other Jewish seeming patterns, including multiple menorahs. Everyone else is just in button down shirts or normal suits. He is not blending in.

You guys do yourself a favor and look at what Eric Adams wore to Rosh Hashanah services at the Sephardic Lebanese Congregation

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Everyone knows the purest conviction is entirely unstudied

ah yes, we’re all still looking for the people responsible for creating a culture of violence, where could they be

part of what this analysis misses is the balance of on- and off-line life. many of my lefty peers have changed their balance so that online discourse is more supportive, while their IRL lives are more directly confrontational and engaged. evaluating “the left” purely via internet misses so much!

Ignorance Isn’t the Absence of Knowledge; It Is the Presence of Maximum Comfort “We are going to have to live here with one another, believing what we believe, disagreeing in the ways we disagree… To recognize that does not mea...

"We don’t need an abundance of information. We need the courage—indeed, the audacity—to know absolutely nothing at all."

We're supposed to pretend that we are part of a system, paying in to it, working for it, that stopped paying the supposed benefits to necessitate the system
Also culturally, spiritually, materially we get the punishment for this system's failure from the people who have reaped its final rewards

this your “it’s not the book of revelationS” isn’t it

what language implied her blaming him for the loss??

At Broadview ICE facility, federal agents hurl tear gas and pepper spray at protesters blocking vans Federal agents hurled tear gas and pepper spray into a crowd of about 100 protesters who attempted to block vans from entering and exiting a U.S. Immigration and Customs holding facility in Broadvi…

At Broadview ICE facility, federal agents hurl tear gas and pepper spray at protesters blocking vans www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/19/t...

sigh

I see Mark is still out here portraying a pacifist faith as something that needs “defenders,” very cool of him

Dems ready to shut down the government yet??

it’ll never not break my heart to see Christian Nationalism as the group most likely to call for violence to make things right. it’s like they’re still in the garden, screaming at Jesus for healing the guard’s severed ear.

Phil Williams sharing some data…

getting pretty sick of living in a never-ending hotdog suit meme

i often wonder whether the right-wing impulse to swat away or rewrite facts and data is deliberate strategy for gaining power or more of a subconscious defense against the psychological damage one might incur when forced to confront the impacts of rhetoric and policies

We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet

Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer scratched bullets with a Helldivers combo and a furry sex meme The suspected shooter left a hodgepodge of extremely online taunts.

Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer scratched bullets with a Helldivers combo and a furry sex meme

Whitewashing his sins inadvertently plays into the idea that the value of life is dependent on ideological agreement—the very idea at the heart of this whole rise in political violence.

Let CK’s legacy speak for itself. Mourn another murder and take a stand for life. These are not at odds.

Part of the problem w sanitizing CK’s legacy is that it deprives us of the chance to articulate a critical moral point: the sacredness of a life persists *despite* their bad actions.

He advocated for a lot of evil, but he was a human being whose life—like all of ours—inherently deserves dignity.

Lord, have mercy.

watching Hegseth in action feels like if we got a full prequel on pre-conversion Saul. heck, it’s not provable in scripture as we have it, but it’s not difficult to imagine Saul turning to some of the very same verses to steel himself before cutting down early Christians in the name of their own God