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Matt Rockwood

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🎭🎤🎬 he/him Speaker of Words, Eater of Feelings, Believer of Women Lives in Chicago SAG-AFTRA/AEA #UNIONSTRONG✊ #blacklivesmatter #resist

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Matt Rockwood @mattrockwood.bsky.social · Dec 24

Woke and proud

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Matt Rockwood @mattrockwood.bsky.social · 2d

I’m choosing to take you at your word, just please don’t use that to shorten “f’ing” any more.
Thanks

Matt Rockwood @mattrockwood.bsky.social · 2d

I’m choosing to believe her.
I’m still not wild about her response, though

Matt Rockwood @mattrockwood.bsky.social · 2d

Yup, I’ve Been hit with this before.
I try to remember to remove the ✅ so it stays in 🛒 but doesn’t get purchased.
I’ve also tried to make it SOP that if you didn’t put it in the cart un-✅ it
Good thing Amazon has easy returns!🤣🤣🤣

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Matt Rockwood @mattrockwood.bsky.social · 2d

Why are journalists accepting Republicans’ answer of “I don’t know what you’re talking about” without any pushback?
If they are being honest, which I highly doubt, shouldn’t it be concerning that our leaders are so woefully uninformed!?
What good is freedom of the press if you aren’t going to press!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Q: What's your message to the 170 US citizens who have been detained by ICE? About 20 of them are children

MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.

Matt Rockwood @mattrockwood.bsky.social · 2d

They say no, but apparently even after being told how we are taking it, that’s our fault and we should shut up about it.🤷🏻

Matt Rockwood @mattrockwood.bsky.social · 2d

Are you serious?
If I ever thought someone took something I posted the wrong way I would apologize, not turn it on them.
This says a lot about your advocacy

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Matt Rockwood @mattrockwood.bsky.social · 2d

And I’m not alone in this

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Matt Rockwood @mattrockwood.bsky.social · 2d

As someone who’s been called a fag all his life, this f—g means fag.

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Matt Rockwood @mattrockwood.bsky.social · 2d

If you mean f***cking that’s not the way to do it 🙄

Matt Rockwood @mattrockwood.bsky.social · 2d

You called them a fag!
What else would f—g mean?

Matt Rockwood @mattrockwood.bsky.social · 2d

Wow

Matt Rockwood @mattrockwood.bsky.social · 2d

f—g?

Matt Rockwood @mattrockwood.bsky.social · 2d

I’m sorry, what a what?
Is that the slur I think it is?

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Matt Rockwood @mattrockwood.bsky.social · 3d

All Gout Boy

Matt Rockwood @mattrockwood.bsky.social · 4d

Stop calling us Nazis or well shoot you is a heluva stance.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Homan: "If the hateful rhetoric continues, there will be bloodshed. People are going to die ... there is going to be more bloodshed unless this hateful rhetoric stops."

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 5d

never trust a white person who refers to Black people as "blacks."

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Matt Rockwood @mattrockwood.bsky.social · 6d

I was concerned that if Bezos bought Condé Nast their journalistic integrity would go the way of WaPo.
Looks like they’re trashing it without him.

GQ @gqmagazine.bsky.social · 7d

Is hard-right streamer Nick Fuentes winning over women on the left? Writer Katherine Dee investigates www.gq.com/story/nick-f...

Is Nick Fuentes Winning Over Women on the Left?

There are the Tumblr “Nickstorians” and sincere fanfics. But are young, liberal, possibly irony-poisoned women fetishizing or even falling for the hard-right streamer with the “groyper” following? Wri...

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 7d

“… we weren’t shocked when #IndigenousPeoplesDay was erased at the federal level. But we’re also not deterred. We’ve always had to fight to be seen. And we’ve never needed permission to celebrate ourselves.” nativenewsonline.net/opinion/we-r...

We're Still Here: Why It's Still a Good Day to Be Indigenous

Opinion. It’s a good day to be Indigenous.

nativenewsonline.net

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 8d

I don’t understand why we need a “Columbus Day” when this country celebrates incompetent white men failing up and taking what isn’t theirs all year round.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 8d

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

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Matt Rockwood @mattrockwood.bsky.social · 8d

I didn’t know Teddy Roosevelt hosted “America’s Top 40”

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 9d

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Jeff @jeffhovis.bsky.social · 9d

So apparently CDC Disease Prevention and Controls efforts are "Democrat Programs".

So what are the MAGA Republican alternatives, Pestilence and Plague?

Didn't we try that route already in Trump Season 1, the Pandemic.

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Matt Rockwood @mattrockwood.bsky.social · 11d

Your “president of peace” is a POS.
He’s staging a military invasion of my home, Chicago a well as in DC and LA.
He’s openly called for malicious prosecutions of his so-called “enemies”
These lickspittles lap up trumps words like dogs to their own vomit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

VARNEY: There's virtually universal agreement on this program that the president should get the Nobel Peace Prize. After all, if Obama can get one for doing very little, surely President Trump can get one for bringing peace.

JONI ERNST: Exactly. President Trump is the president of peace.

Matt Rockwood @mattrockwood.bsky.social · 11d

“Black people can’t do it alone. There aren’t enough of us. We need white people to catch up and step up, and to do that they must center the voices of the people who’ve survived those systems the longest. That means moving from disbelief to solidarity, from surprise to action.”

Here to do the work

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

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