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Matthew Story

@mattstorymusic.bsky.social

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Local musician in SE Wisconsin. Ex-Ohioan. Prolific reposter. Educator. Dad. Bad Destiny 2 player. Reluctant Dungeon Master. Polyamorous. Unsophisticated whiskey drinker. Milwaukee Bucks fan. He/him.

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Matthew Story @mattstorymusic.bsky.social · Aug 13

Here's this year's entry in the 2025 Hey Nonny Songwriting Contest. It's a song about taking a break from our tumultuous times, just for long enough to recharge before you go back out into the world to be a part of positive changes.

Original Song: "Chain o' Lakes"

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Matthew Story @mattstorymusic.bsky.social · 19m

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

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Capt. Jack Sharrow @sharrows.bsky.social · 1d

Without street parking, surface lots, and parking garages, Oslo’s busiest shopping district is left abandoned. Only robust transit, bike paths, scooters, and tons of places to sit remain. Sad. #BanCars

Seating in the foreground, shops on the right and left, people everywhere shopping

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Robert G. Callahan, II ⚖️ 📚 ⚖️ 📚 @rcallahanwaco.bsky.social · 1d

On this day, in 1973, George Floyd was born.

47 years later, the shocking audacity of his murder would unite Americans of all races, classes, religions, & political beliefs in believing that racism was a bad thing for five minutes.

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Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 23h

I love how Bluesky is like, "We can't let you check your DMs because we don't know your age. Also, here is literal porn on your Discover page."

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 1h

"As Congress bickers over whether ICE should be masked or unmasked, regulated or unleashed, the raids roll on — unbound, unaccountable, and increasingly at the center of America’s moral crisis."

migrantinsider.com/p/mike-johns...

Mike Johnson Says ICE Hasn’t “Crossed the Line.” The Country Disagrees.

From Chicago to Los Angeles, ICE raids are breaking windows, families, and trust — but not, apparently, the Speaker’s conscience.

migrantinsider.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h

We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞

@sbmitche.bsky.social
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 13h

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

zeteo.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song.
"Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me."
Epic

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 2h

I keep seeing people respond tot he Politico story by saying Republicans have always been this way, but DHS is publicly posting about implementing groyper policy, and that sure makes me thing things have gotten way worse.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16h

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 2h

NEW: People with facial differences are being shut out of essential services due to the proliferation of face recognition tech—and at best forced to experience further rejection due to technological failures. @mattburgess1.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/when-f...

When Face Recognition Doesn’t Know Your Face Is a Face

An estimated 100 million people live with facial differences. As face recognition tech becomes widespread, some say they’re getting blocked from accessing essential systems and services.

www.wired.com

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Tess Bridgeman @tessbridgeman.bsky.social · 20h

The President is announcing more extrajudicial killings today.

A reminder that the administration has provided no limiting principles and these killings are completely untethered from the law (there was no "armed attack," there's no "armed conflict," and these aren't "unlawful combatants").

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Girl on the Net @girlonthenet.bsky.social · 6h

“writing on the world wide web has become a little endangered. Not the presence of it, but the chances of anyone finding it.”

This!

Film Stories @filmstories.bsky.social · 3d

Google's search results are, sadly, damaging lots of websites. What does #Google actually want? And is it what a human being would want?
filmstories.co.uk/features/oka...

Okay then, Google: tell us what to do | The future of entertainment websites

Google's search results are, sadly, damaging lots of websites. What does Google actually want? And is it what a human being would want?

filmstories.co.uk

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 2h

When progressives talk about the DNC purportedly taking out Bernie Sanders it sounds insane. The DNC establishment couldn’t take out the garbage. Sanders two campaigns were terribly put together and the people he hired were utter incompetents. The Dem establishment sucks but so did Bernie’s team.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 3h

Remember how under Biden the press said this was the biggest issue ever but how now under Trump it’s barely mentioned? Yeah.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h

A grocery store clerk in Chicago says shoppers see prices “and say, ‘What the f—? .. It happens all the time.”

@wsj.com
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Matthew Story @mattstorymusic.bsky.social · 2h

Our media feed us a constant diet of headlines about what AI "could" do or "may" do. It's free advertising for non-existent products that keeps investor money flowing into the pockets of tech moguls with doomed companies.

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 6h

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 13h

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Matthew Story @mattstorymusic.bsky.social · 3h

I'm so tired of headlines about what AI "could" do or "may" do. AI runs on investment money generated by free advertising from the media for products that don't exist. Be better, SA.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 3h

The fact that Trump is sending Eric on this one suggests it isn't even Top 10 on the scale of grift he's arranging for the family business.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 3h

President Trump's personal business and his government role intersected when he was heard on a hot mic arranging a meeting between his son Eric, who runs the family company, and Indonesia’s leader.

‘I’ll Have Eric Call’: Trump Sets Up Son’s Meeting With Indonesian President

A hot-mic moment suggested a blurry line between the U.S. president’s roles as political leader and businessman.

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 12h

You can say amazing things if you know that the follow-up question will be "wow."

(Smith didn't plant anything at Mar-a-Lago because he was hired months after it was searched.)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Eric Trump: "We found out that Jack Smith was actually planting classified folders in Mar-a-Lago"

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Matthew Story @mattstorymusic.bsky.social · 11h

They didn't just all get hot; they all *stayed* hot for like a month and a half. If that's a fluke it's the biggest, most amazing fluke I've ever seen.

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absinthe makes the heart grow fonder @absintheofcolor.bsky.social · 18d

It really feels like the whole point of announcing these BS deals is to make AI inevitable in the eyes of the public so when it all comes crashing down this administration will bail it out.

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 18d

Premium newsletter: Based on my estimates and analysis, OpenAI needs one trillion dollars in the next four years to build 17GW of data centers and other commitments, with at least $500 billion needed for company operations. There is not enough capital to do this.

www.wheresyoured.at/openai-onetr...

OpenAI Needs A Trillion Dollars In The Next Four Years

Shortly before publishing this newsletter, I spoke with analyst Gil Luria, Managing Director and Analyst at D.A. Davidson, and asked him whether the capital was there to build the 17 Gigawatts of capa...

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Matthew Story @mattstorymusic.bsky.social · 12h

These Brewers haven't been able to hit since August. I don't know why their offense so suddenly and so dramatically dried up, but it did, and they can't beat the Dodgers unless they get it back, like, now.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 12h

I’m not a baseball strategy expert but it feels like the Brewers should probably start scoring more than one (1) run per game if they want to win the series

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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Dom2k @dom2k.bsky.social · 13h

MTG and Tucker Carlson have wagered that when this is over, as long as they’ve crossed over to the right side of history in time, ppl will forget/just not hold them accountable for their role in propping up the most dangerous administration in American history.
Sadly, they are going to be right

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