Joe Bill Matt

Sports, tech, pop culture, music, video games, politics, bullshit. Engineer. Sometimes here, sometimes elsewhere. The OG. 🏳️‍🌈

[Catherine Rampell @crampell]

Unemployment rate for Black Americans @ 4.7% is now at an all-time low -- below 5% for the first time in US history

[Acyn @Acyn]

Garland: And now after three trials, we have secured the convictions of leaders of both the proud boys and the oath keepers for seditious conspiracy, specifically conspiring to oppose by force the lawful transfer of presidential power. Our work will continue.

[dr zorters 💚 @dementedforever]

@ContraPoints

[🅹🅾️🅴🆈աrecκ ☭‎ @joeywreck]

An unhoused man on a subway was loudly upset about not having any food to eat, so an ex marine put him in a chokehold and killed him—because public displays of suffering is offensive to the american public. The cops let him go and the media is reporting this as a heroic incident.

[Brian Schatz @brianschatz]

If we default, global economy will crash - stock market way down, interest rates way up, 7 million jobs lost. R’s say they will take cause American default if we don’t cut the six bucks a day that hungry kids gets for food, and throw 21 million people off health insurance. No.

[follow @bencollins on bluesky @oneunderscore__]

Finally a good community note.

[follow @bencollins on bluesky @oneunderscore__]

Reporters punching back against trolls gives regular people permission and an example to stand up for the truth just as loudly as those perpetrating an active war against it.

It also has this weird side effect of being very, very fun.

[follow @bencollins on bluesky @oneunderscore__]

I wish reporters at legacy media outlets would realize that the only way forward is through. You must punch back against trolls. They melt instantly like a witch in sunlight. Shocking, I know, but letting liars pummel you in the street is not working. It's letting the truth rot.

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

Ah so we're pretending there was any child in the 2000s who didn't like Harry Potter to own the libs.

[Simon Rosenberg @SimonWDC]

Words we should be using to describe McCarthy's plan to push the US into recession and default:

reckless
unprecedented
irresponsible
radical
illiberal
dangerous
MAGA

[follow @bencollins on bluesky @oneunderscore__]

Something deeply wrong going on in this country right now, driven by a heavily-financed, paranoiac right-wing media environment.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Daniel Enrique Laso, 9
Jonathan Casarez, 18
Diana Velazquez Alvarado, 21
Sonia Argentina Guzman, 25
Julisa Molina Rivera, 31 Jose

These were HUMAN BEINGS whose lives were stolen by gun violence.

[Patrick Klepek 🎃 @patrickklepek]

Waypoint was profitable, for a time, the company bragged about having a subscription business with steady income. The company stopped bragging when we did too well right out of the gate, and they didn’t like the lack of growth. Being profitable wasn’t enough.

[Environmental Services Weedle @PartyWurmple]

Amazing to see someone describe a group of cops being lazy bastards who refuse to do the most basic parts of their job and coming away convinced that this is the fault of mean leftists posting ACAB on twitter

[David Corn @DavidCornDC]

Nothing but the best people.

[Joe Bill Matt @joebillmatt]

How to Use Mastodon, the Social-Media Platform Blocked by Elon Musk’s Twitter - The Wall Street Journal https://t.co/CcVn5ERamh

[Paul Blest @pblest]

That was the final humiliation of Dave Chapelle. This is a man who famously stopped doing the show because he didn't want to be a clown and 20 years of people screaming "I'm rich bitch" at him on the street later, an apartheid nepotism case does it and he has to pretend it rocks

[Joe Bill Matt @joebillmatt]

Opinion | Fetterman, Trump, and a New Model of Blue-Collar Masculinity - POLITICO https://t.co/YUoNdTiZmF

[Joe Bill Matt @joebillmatt]

The deranged Supreme Court case that threatens US democracy, Moore v. Harper - Vox https://t.co/t8FaAfFu5N