Matt Splat

Matt Splat

@mattskyblue.bsky.social

Fan of coffee, dogs, soccer, hockey, music, beer, and wine. Current desert dweller via points east, west, and northwest. Arsenal, Sounders FC, Kraken and Seahawks. Swiftie. Recovering Ironman. Special needs dad. LGBTQIA+/BIPOC ally. Now ya know.

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The White House Council of Economic Advisers claims illegal immigrants cost taxpayers $166,716 each. Cato's David J. Bier says those estimates aren't credible. They have actually reduced federal, state, and local deficits by $1.7 trillion over 30 years. https://ow.ly/ZPrG510160q

Arabs literally invented science and math, have created immense amounts of literature, and in fact have won each of the prizes mentioned multiple times, but do go off, RFK. Fucking morons.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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Insane. Actually insane. Let’s make his money this year a waste, shall we?

Mike Nellis@mikenellis.bsky.social

Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.

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What employers really want out of employees isn’t what most of them think it is, which is why most businesses fail. And then they blame the education system. Except they’re blaming it for the wrong thing. I try to explain: tinyurl.com/2wr2bm5c #jobs #teaching #employment #thinking #advertising

tinyurl.comUp in the Air: Some thoughts about education — Martin BihlWhat does the 1946 movie "The Best Years of Our Lives" have to do with the real value of education? Maybe nothing. Maybe everything.

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NEW: “In Texas, we fight fraud head-on,” Ken Paxton said last year. Yet records show his trust gave $600K to a convicted fraudster’s new company in 2020, which later wired the trust tens of thousands of dollars before and during his 2023 impeachment. with @texastribune.org

propublica.orgKen Paxton’s Trust Gave a $600,000 Infusion to a Convicted Fraudster’s CompanyThe blind trust’s investment in Wildcatter offers a new, unreported look at the attorney general’s financial ties with the very type of business executives whose prosecutions he typically celebrates.

Protects the guy that raped her own daughter AND kills kittens? I mean, yeah. Totally tracks.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

🚨 NEW: The mother featured in Vivek Ramaswamy’s $4 MILLION attack ad against Amy Acton was found “not credible” by a court in an animal neglect case involving newborn kittens left in a 120°F car. Two kittens died. The disturbing details Ramaswamy’s ad leaves out:

If we're about taking family advice now, this is your reminder that Andy Biggs' brothers published a letter strongly denouncing him. Same for ALL SIX of Paul Gosar's siblings. And Mary Trump regarding her uncle.

If Biden did this, the press...yeah whatever I am so tired why do we even bother. Please for the love of God kick this fucking awful meatbag to the curb in two weeks.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump forgets to salute while exiting Marine One then lumbers across the tarmac to his Qatari bribe jet. Natalie Harp is the first one up the stairs to join him on the plane.

They keep saying "it's not all cops" but every day there are more and more stories like this. Seems like the math may be catching up, no?

Oh look. It's that Socialism that they warned us about and farmers are gling to line up for it, while simultaneously bitching about it. Handouts are cool, I guess, so long as you are the one getting them and no one else is.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "I'm pleased to announce that the Department of Agriculture will be launching a new harvest fuel relief program providing our farmers with $8 billion in support to offset diesel costs during this harvest season. And Roger Marshall is the leader who fought for that to happen."

I'm not sure what is more amazing here; that they thought no one would figure out who this was or that he was so ill prepared and got schooled so hard.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

Matt Splat reposted

Trump’s attack on ICC is aimed at protecting the US, Israel and Russia from legal accountability. Meanwhile, US, Israeli and Russian disinformation and influence networks are undermining democracy & justice globally, from South America to Europe, Mexico, Canada, and beyond.

The cruelty is the point. Doing this on Indigenous People's day is NO coincidence. It is yet another priviegled Epstein class "fuck you" to everyone who isn't a white Christian Nationalist.

Arizona Right Watch@azrww.bsky.social

NEW: Tohono O'odham Nation leadership issued a release announcing that they’ve filed an emergency injunction after been informed by CBP that “it intends to remove thousands of Saguaros and other vegetation,” on sovereign tribal lands. The destruction is set to begin on Indigenous Peoples Day.

What's the phrase I am looking for? Hmmmm. Oh wait, I know! FUCK THAT.

NBC News@nbcnews.com

Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel calls on Democratic lawmakers to set aside plans to impeach President Trump if they win a majority in the House, pushing them instead to pass an ethics reform package.

Matt Splat reposted

A child in an Idaho faith-healing family died of a treatable condition. Then another died — and another, and another. Idaho’s child abuse laws contain such broad religious exemptions that authorities didn’t intervene — before or after the deaths.

propublica.orgFour Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing.An exemption in Idaho law shields faith-healing parents from criminal prosecution for conduct that otherwise would be charged as neglect. It also keeps police and social workers from stepping in to pr...

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As a transphobic male senator, there is nothing more important to me than protecting women's sports. Here's why it never occurred to me that Jack Smith, a man, would choose to attend a women's college basketball game. by Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO)

Can someone explain to me what the actual fuck this commercial is with fucking Trump walking down the hallway playing speeches of his own that says it's sponsored by our goddamn tax dollars???