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mattmccoin.bsky.social
Education advocate. Data chaser. Political hobbyist. Okie gone Tarheel. Influences: John Prine, Frosty Troy, & Woody Guthrie. Sarcastic yet sanguine
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Elon Musk is one weird dude.

The governor of Maine has it down. You don’t have ti be afraid of these people. The only thing to fear is fear itself.

I liked it when America’s leaders liked America more than they did Russia.

Only in Oklahoma can gubernatorial candidates tout “accomplishments” of failed one party rule for well over a decade. It’s quite something that the state goes back to drink from a dirty well every election cycle.

When they cut public education they cut opportunity for working families.

They’ve been screwing over working folks in the private sector for years. Federal employees who voted for Trump are now somehow shocked they’re getting screwed over. The elite disdain working folks. That’s the modern American story.

You don’t need an enabling act, when you can ignore court orders. History doesn’t repeat itself, it rhymes.

Let’s go Jalen!

Go Birds.

Doge is a national security threat.

2025: Book #6 ✅ Up Next: Mississippi Blood by Greg Iles #booksky

In post-reality America where words don’t matter, Trump could have blamed lettuce for the tragic deaths of 67 souls, but it does nothing to change the fact that they’re dead and it was under his watch.

I’ve flown into DCA on an American Airlines CRJ many times. This is heart wrenching. Praying there are survivors.

Didn’t take Hegseth long to have to deal with his first crisis. Not a good look for a military helicopter to collide with a passenger plane in DC.

2025: Book 5 ✅ Up next: The Maidens by Alex Michaelides.

"Some humans ain't human, some people ain't kind"-John Prine

First week first term: ban a whole religion from entering the country. First week second term: ban old folks from getting their health care. Clowns can be cruel too.

You can’t fix stupid or heartless.

With all these folks on the far right talking about masculine energy and going on about masculine this & masculine that. Notice they never include virtuousness in their list of masculine traits. They know nothing of being a real man.

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

All these clowns doing the nazi salute on Tik-ToK saying “my heart goes out to you” should follow @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social. They should see the daily posts of the faces and the lives that murderous nazi thugs took from the earth.

2025: Book 4 ✅ Up next: The Wealth of Shadows by Graham Moore

We don’t do straight arm salutes in America. I don’t care if you’re a South African migrant oligarch or otherwise. It’s never cool.

Nothing screams corporatocracy quite like banning a guy from your platform after he tried to overturn a presidential election and four years later forcing his content on your users.

If George Washington had grifted with crypto, he would have made more money. Just sayin.

Thanks to Trump and the tech bros, the nation won’t be able to see Bernie in Mittens 2.0. Travesty I tell you.

Forget Mt. McKinley and the Gulf of America, how about a baker’s dozen eggs for a cheaper price?

If they could get 60 votes in the Senate, you know the ‘Enabling Act’ would headed to Trump’s desk.

My thoughts on getting through the next four years in the words of John Prine. “Blow up your TV, throw away your paper Go to the country, build you a home Plant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches Try and find Jesus on your own”-Spanish Pipedream

2025: Book 3 ✅ Up Next: Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby.

I do not miss Twitter & I do not miss cable news.

Jesus isn’t a Christian Nationalist. His kingdom is not of this world.

It’s only a matter of time before working folks wake up and realize they’re paying the private school tuition for rich folks in gated communities. Don’t care how red of a state it is, there’s bound to be a backlash at some point.

January 6th wasn’t a fictional show on a streaming service. We’ve come to a point in America where if we don’t experience something in the first hand, it’s not real. We disassociate ourselves from reality. That may ultimately be our undoing.