MAT-AT (aka Downtown Lars)
@08mms.bsky.social
M&A Lawyer, Semi-Stereotypical Dad, Michigan Wolverine, National History Day - Michigan Regional Runner Up (2000)
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Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
![I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor or degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes" When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy [sic].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:egd33s7iuqsmwlwab6mbtrqi/bafkreiaaicjid4jg3oongeah73ukqvwsqv4vwbp75q4f755nldtcfermhi@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
saving bottlecaps a la fallout? check it out in David Graeber and David Wengrow’s book The Dawn of Everything (pg 423)
November 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Ryan Lizza's kids and their mother must be laughing bitterly right now.
He left them for someone who left him for Skeletor.
He left them for someone who left him for Skeletor.
November 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Ryan Lizza's kids and their mother must be laughing bitterly right now.
He left them for someone who left him for Skeletor.
He left them for someone who left him for Skeletor.
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So that's why he's called the head of state
November 15, 2025 at 1:33 AM
So that's why he's called the head of state
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your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
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"trump sucked dick" no he didn't stop giving him valor he didn't even try to steal
November 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
"trump sucked dick" no he didn't stop giving him valor he didn't even try to steal
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I think a part of me irrevocably is broken now reading “a mental object ie mobject”
"skin as part of brain?"
This is that great intellect people talk about?
November 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I think a part of me irrevocably is broken now reading “a mental object ie mobject”
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this is what will show up if you invite me to your ai & copyright law conference
November 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
this is what will show up if you invite me to your ai & copyright law conference
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Someone else repeated my mistake of using the word "suburban" within a forty-mile radius of Chicago-area Bluesky users and the result is @thelouvreof.bsky.social worthy.
November 4, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Someone else repeated my mistake of using the word "suburban" within a forty-mile radius of Chicago-area Bluesky users and the result is @thelouvreof.bsky.social worthy.
I’ll knock doors for this guy until my knuckles bleed.
Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."
November 4, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I’ll knock doors for this guy until my knuckles bleed.
As a constituent, not a big fan about these anti-democratic shenanigans. @chuygarcia.house.gov was a great rep and would be fine with him dropping out early and going all out on endorsing his CoS in the primary, but this is not how we get our best reps. chicago.suntimes.com/elections/20...
U.S. Rep Jesus 'Chuy' Garcia won't seek reelection, leaves seat for chief of staff
Garcia, 69, has been a fixture in Chicago politics for four decades as an alderperson, Cook County commissioner, state senator and two-time mayoral candidate.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:04 AM
As a constituent, not a big fan about these anti-democratic shenanigans. @chuygarcia.house.gov was a great rep and would be fine with him dropping out early and going all out on endorsing his CoS in the primary, but this is not how we get our best reps. chicago.suntimes.com/elections/20...
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I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.
October 23, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.
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Not sure the folks at NBC/Peacock thought this one through
October 18, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Not sure the folks at NBC/Peacock thought this one through
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Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
October 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
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cannot stress how funny this is. this is a ~120 mile ride. my weekly bike commute is a 40 mile round trip that i do with ebike assistance leaves me completely sore the next 2 days and i eat like a horse day-of, and i've been doing it for like 15 months. this bumbling stooge didn't even bring water.
The only thing that anyone ever needs to know about Bill Ackman is that he once joined a group of avid long distance bikers from NYC to Montauk and back without training or preparation, arrogant in his ability to "lead the pack" and ended up screaming in agony
October 18, 2025 at 5:36 AM
cannot stress how funny this is. this is a ~120 mile ride. my weekly bike commute is a 40 mile round trip that i do with ebike assistance leaves me completely sore the next 2 days and i eat like a horse day-of, and i've been doing it for like 15 months. this bumbling stooge didn't even bring water.
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Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."
October 17, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."
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Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
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A scene from Zohran Mamdani's first State of the City address:
Mamdani: We must protect health care for all New Yorkers.
Eric Adams, Mamdani's weirdness translator, on the side of the stage: If you can't go to the hospital after a unicorn attack, YOU WILL PERISH.
*crowd murmurs in appreciation*
Mamdani: We must protect health care for all New Yorkers.
Eric Adams, Mamdani's weirdness translator, on the side of the stage: If you can't go to the hospital after a unicorn attack, YOU WILL PERISH.
*crowd murmurs in appreciation*
September 30, 2025 at 12:30 PM
A scene from Zohran Mamdani's first State of the City address:
Mamdani: We must protect health care for all New Yorkers.
Eric Adams, Mamdani's weirdness translator, on the side of the stage: If you can't go to the hospital after a unicorn attack, YOU WILL PERISH.
*crowd murmurs in appreciation*
Mamdani: We must protect health care for all New Yorkers.
Eric Adams, Mamdani's weirdness translator, on the side of the stage: If you can't go to the hospital after a unicorn attack, YOU WILL PERISH.
*crowd murmurs in appreciation*
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Ruin a band with law:
Something Corporate
Something Corporate
Ruin a band with law:
No Reasonable Doubt
No Reasonable Doubt
Run a band with law:
Grand Funk Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad.
Grand Funk Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad.
September 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Ruin a band with law:
Something Corporate
Something Corporate
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i truly hate that he's genuinely funny
September 22, 2025 at 2:01 AM
i truly hate that he's genuinely funny