Matthew Kordes

Voted early today and drove my mother to turn her by-mail ballot in because we can't even trust the post office this year. Suck it GOP and all of the walls you have tried to put in the way of democracy.

Contrary to JD Vance’s opinion on Vivek’s shitty ad: character matters. No character, no value. That’s held true my entire career. I look for honesty and integrity from everyone professionally first. I demand even more of government leadership. Vivek has no character. Neither does JD.

Dangle that 5000$ carrot again, surely he means it this time

In a tacit, yet firm, rebuke of Trump's passion for the key executive agenda of renaming the world's waterways, our congress is instead focused on passing nonbinding resolutions condemning democratic socialist policies, such as medicare or social security.

It's only August and the political commercials in Ohio are already making me scream with all the made up bullshit and posturing.

Sometimes when you skip lunch for work you just have to fill the void properly.

Gas in Ohio was $4.49/gallon this morning I saw. Budgets out there in blue collar land have to be utterly smashed to bits.

Some days, you just need an Aviation

One of the dumbest things about the box cutter reflecting pool narrative is that if you cause it to peel up by making a few slits in it, all it would prove is that the liner never bonded to a fucking thing and therefore wasn’t going to last anyways. It’s shitty work or… shitty work.

Back in my day “cease fires” included a cessation of firing. Guess that’s why I drink Old Fashioneds.

The only thing appropriate about a 250$ bill with Trump's face on it is that being the highest denomination and therefore the physically lightest way to move large amounts of cash... it would instantly replace the 100$ bill as the favored currency to use in criminal activities.

There are worse ways to spend an evening than pitting two Malbecs against each other with friends.

Trump wants to do what he always does: say one thing, while he does another. In Iran he has a counter party that will always call his bullshit because they have no interest in him in any fashion. I don’t think he knows what the fuck to do with this type of adversary.

When a shoe company, Allbirds, pivots to AI... I gotta say that's the strongest evidence of a bubble about to pop that I've seen so far.

Happy Easter. May those of you with kids spoil them with jelly bean, chocolate and candy memories that last a lifetime. May all of us embrace our friends & families over one more good meal. Just counter balancing a little for the train wreck post from the orange clown.

On top of the slowdown in grantmaking I wrote about last week - this is another deeply worrisome trend for scientists, physicians, patients, families, and basically anyone who wants new treatments and new tools to promote health. 🆘🧪🥼 open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

They’re gonna put the marines on Kharg to control the oil facilities I bet because that is an idiot’s idea of a checkmate.

Newsweek- "Most intense" strikes to come, 35 minutes ago. Reuters- Trump predicts Middle East de-escalation 33 minutes ago. Reality- WE HAVE NO IDEA WTF WE ARE DOING Market- STONKS ONLY GO UP!!!

I was talking about the mountain visibility in California when I lived there in the 1990s? Today I ran into this video short demonstrating the effect. A still from in front of the Burger King in Burbank, California in 1985, versus that same spot in 2026. Look how many more details you can see!

Ah yes, the Attorney General quoting stock market levels in answers to questions about Epstein coverups. Because that's fucking relevant.

Trump is racist, water is wet, the GOP is too proud to admit any mistake… let alone one as egregious as enabling him to continue as president.

The entire PURPOSE of the US constitution is to distribute power to as many people as possible: three branches of the federal government, voting, state powers, local governments... all of it... was designed to avoid giving power to one person. Continued subservience by the GOP to Trump is treason.

Oh what a surprise! It’s a grift! www.reuters.com/world/middle...

"Trump flipped off an autoworker at a Ford plant. The White House says it’s ‘appropriate’" **Insert Ron Howard's voice as Narrator: "It wasn't".

The US stock market has a real “whistling past a graveyard” energy about it after the weekend we just had.

I remember watching this live. It's an insult to the officers and guards who were injured or killed in defense of our democracy to suggest this was peaceful.

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeI6... Seems really relevant this week to share something made a month ago.

Thank you, Seth, for calling it out. Yes, it would be better if we had leaders with humanity. Instead, the collective fools of our electorate, saw fit to appoint a president and many representatives with none. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUW2...

Same headline. Seven years apart. 🤡 @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

There is something perfectly imperfect about a corrupt international sport organization giving a fake peace award they made up just now to a corrupt president.

My father passed away 23 years ago today at age 51. I'm less than 3 years younger than he ever lived in total... and I'm coming up on having lived more than half my life without him around. It's a heavy day for me mentally.

History will look back on this era to discuss the descent of our government into moral depravity. Somewhere in a future textbook will be a photo of the flattened east wing and the Major Events timeline of the whitehouse .gov website that starts in defense but ends up in a very different place.

I mean my first thought at seeing the 2028 Trump hats in the oval office this week were that the correct move would have been to reach for a drink, nab the hat, and then to sit on it when you settled back into your seat. Just to clear the sight line and all.

Ah yes the dumbest UN speech since the last one Trump gave. The Simpsons “so far” meme very much applies.

Multiple meetings today at work where we had conflicting information if tariffs are or are not hitting our materials. Confusion is no way to grow a business.

HALL Rutherford has a truly spectacular setup.