Matt Botts
@astrobotts.bsky.social
Security and Compliance geek, law school dropout, error-prone computer made of meat, ex-Wisconsinite. Opinions are my own.
Narrator: Funnily enough, he can’t do that.
NEW: President Donald Trump says he is granting a pardon to Tina Peters, who was convicted on state charges related to tampering with Colorado's election systems. Legal experts say presidential pardons do not apply to state charges.
December 12, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Narrator: Funnily enough, he can’t do that.
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the democrats fucked up the shutdown but they are going to, in raw political calculations, benefit tremendously because "these fuckers jacked your insurance premiums through the roof along with beef prices" is a really easy message
republicans just want you to die, as usual
republicans just want you to die, as usual
December 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
the democrats fucked up the shutdown but they are going to, in raw political calculations, benefit tremendously because "these fuckers jacked your insurance premiums through the roof along with beef prices" is a really easy message
republicans just want you to die, as usual
republicans just want you to die, as usual
I want to go to a magic show with this person, just to watch them stroke out from all the lies.
“Magic isn’t real!” they scream at a row of children before collapsing.
“Magic isn’t real!” they scream at a row of children before collapsing.
I will not lie to my children. Full stop. Santa is a lie.
Santa, the Easter Bunny. The tooth fairy. None of that shit flies in our house. We are people who take care of each other, and we dont need easily disproven lies to aid us in that.
Maybe i'm a downer, but im not lying to my kids.
Santa, the Easter Bunny. The tooth fairy. None of that shit flies in our house. We are people who take care of each other, and we dont need easily disproven lies to aid us in that.
Maybe i'm a downer, but im not lying to my kids.
December 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I want to go to a magic show with this person, just to watch them stroke out from all the lies.
“Magic isn’t real!” they scream at a row of children before collapsing.
“Magic isn’t real!” they scream at a row of children before collapsing.
10/10 description of RFK Jr. Say this description to any American and they will immediately know who you are talking about.
walking talking gas station hot dog ass motherfucker
December 8, 2025 at 10:08 PM
10/10 description of RFK Jr. Say this description to any American and they will immediately know who you are talking about.
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I feel like if the Court tries to nullify birthright citizenship then House Democrats should commit to impeaching all the Republican justices as soon as they get a majority. Even if the Senate won’t convict, make them make a spectacle out of it.
December 6, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I feel like if the Court tries to nullify birthright citizenship then House Democrats should commit to impeaching all the Republican justices as soon as they get a majority. Even if the Senate won’t convict, make them make a spectacle out of it.
I really hope these twisted fucks like Kansas winters at Fort Leavenworth.
December 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I really hope these twisted fucks like Kansas winters at Fort Leavenworth.
I’m blessed with an amazing wife, dual incomes, & no kids, so I was looking at #Broncos to haul my mid-life crisis dog.
After watching @jimfarley.bsky.social’s silence while the gutter racist President insulted Americans, Ford is off the table.
Looks like Honda for me.
After watching @jimfarley.bsky.social’s silence while the gutter racist President insulted Americans, Ford is off the table.
Looks like Honda for me.
December 4, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I’m blessed with an amazing wife, dual incomes, & no kids, so I was looking at #Broncos to haul my mid-life crisis dog.
After watching @jimfarley.bsky.social’s silence while the gutter racist President insulted Americans, Ford is off the table.
Looks like Honda for me.
After watching @jimfarley.bsky.social’s silence while the gutter racist President insulted Americans, Ford is off the table.
Looks like Honda for me.
Come see America, get lost inside our majestic vaginas.
December 2, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Come see America, get lost inside our majestic vaginas.
Feet first into the metaphorical wood-chipper for this asshole.
His name needs to be so thoroughly dredged through the mud and his punishment so severe they no American dares try this behavior again.
Benedict Arnold had more honor than this piece of shit.
His name needs to be so thoroughly dredged through the mud and his punishment so severe they no American dares try this behavior again.
Benedict Arnold had more honor than this piece of shit.
News --> The commander who oversaw Pete Hegseth's alleged killing of two boat bombing survivors is now likely to come in and face questions from the House Armed Services Committee, ranking Dem Adam Smith tells me.
In this piece, I try to make sense of this horror:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
In this piece, I try to make sense of this horror:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
Trump Boat Bombings Suddenly on Shakier Ground as Damning Info Emerges
Will Republicans give us a real investigation into Trump’s bombings, now that we just learned horrific new details about them? Or are they seriously going to fall on their swords for Pete Hegseth?
newrepublic.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Feet first into the metaphorical wood-chipper for this asshole.
His name needs to be so thoroughly dredged through the mud and his punishment so severe they no American dares try this behavior again.
Benedict Arnold had more honor than this piece of shit.
His name needs to be so thoroughly dredged through the mud and his punishment so severe they no American dares try this behavior again.
Benedict Arnold had more honor than this piece of shit.
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This is particularly ridiculous when 1)as a prominent reporter/podcaster with the Times these were basically the only topics Astead covered in 2024 (as part of a major drumbeat of coverage) and 2)he "mysteriously" lost interest in the subjects of presidential age and popularity in January 2025
November 27, 2025 at 6:40 PM
This is particularly ridiculous when 1)as a prominent reporter/podcaster with the Times these were basically the only topics Astead covered in 2024 (as part of a major drumbeat of coverage) and 2)he "mysteriously" lost interest in the subjects of presidential age and popularity in January 2025
I thought about the race car driver. How he drove around that track with cunning speed, yet, he drove home in a Buick Skylark to race his trans-am slot car.
I think about the race car driver, driving his Buick car home to his slot car. The same car that would drive him to a slot in death’s ledger.
I think about the race car driver, driving his Buick car home to his slot car. The same car that would drive him to a slot in death’s ledger.
November 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I thought about the race car driver. How he drove around that track with cunning speed, yet, he drove home in a Buick Skylark to race his trans-am slot car.
I think about the race car driver, driving his Buick car home to his slot car. The same car that would drive him to a slot in death’s ledger.
I think about the race car driver, driving his Buick car home to his slot car. The same car that would drive him to a slot in death’s ledger.
I love being wealthy enough to use Tide Pods indiscriminately.
Fuck it, toss 3 in with this load. Let the microplastics subsume me.
Fuck it, toss 3 in with this load. Let the microplastics subsume me.
November 17, 2025 at 3:48 AM
I love being wealthy enough to use Tide Pods indiscriminately.
Fuck it, toss 3 in with this load. Let the microplastics subsume me.
Fuck it, toss 3 in with this load. Let the microplastics subsume me.
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'Matt Gaetz Raped A Homeless Teenager' is what you mean.
A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here
A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
'Matt Gaetz Raped A Homeless Teenager' is what you mean.
A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here
A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here
These men are sick and utterly depraved.
The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
November 13, 2025 at 8:19 PM
These men are sick and utterly depraved.
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The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
This one’s evergreen:
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
This one’s evergreen:
Pluribus is easily the best season of the X-Files season since the 90’s.
November 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Pluribus is easily the best season of the X-Files season since the 90’s.
A majority of my BlueSky time is spent standing in my yard staring at the screen while gently saying “Let’s go pee Fozzie!”
Not at all alarming to outside observers.
Not at all alarming to outside observers.
November 8, 2025 at 3:59 AM
A majority of my BlueSky time is spent standing in my yard staring at the screen while gently saying “Let’s go pee Fozzie!”
Not at all alarming to outside observers.
Not at all alarming to outside observers.
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Normally, it's a problem if you say something to a federal court then the next day go online and admit you lied, but we're only talking about the President, the DOJ, and the US Attorneys lying about his plan to illegally withhold funds to starve people, so there likely won't be any consequences.
Trump says the SNAP money that he’s been ordered by a court to release won’t be released until the government shutdown ends.
November 4, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Normally, it's a problem if you say something to a federal court then the next day go online and admit you lied, but we're only talking about the President, the DOJ, and the US Attorneys lying about his plan to illegally withhold funds to starve people, so there likely won't be any consequences.
My wife very kindly bought fun-sized candy bars. I ate most, then claimed to be a “full sized bar house, now and forever.”
I bought full bars and 24 beers for parents.
We’ve had zero trick-or-treaters and it’s 8 pm.
I bought full bars and 24 beers for parents.
We’ve had zero trick-or-treaters and it’s 8 pm.
November 1, 2025 at 2:42 AM
My wife very kindly bought fun-sized candy bars. I ate most, then claimed to be a “full sized bar house, now and forever.”
I bought full bars and 24 beers for parents.
We’ve had zero trick-or-treaters and it’s 8 pm.
I bought full bars and 24 beers for parents.
We’ve had zero trick-or-treaters and it’s 8 pm.
Watching this same behavior trickle down as companies like Gannett and Alden Global Capital slowly devour once independent local newspapers.
the key to understanding today's moment in journalism is specifically a subset of elite journos at NYT/Free Press/WaPo who basically adopt the position of the main character of NIGHTCRAWLER (2014) when it comes to their role in the news
maybe a hot take but I think that journalists like Astead (if you can even call him that) should be focused on the fact that Trump has appointed a bunch of deranged antivaxxers instead of the fact that libs got vaccinated four years ago
October 31, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Watching this same behavior trickle down as companies like Gannett and Alden Global Capital slowly devour once independent local newspapers.
ICE / CBP really failing to beat the Schutzstaffel comparisons.
NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
October 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
ICE / CBP really failing to beat the Schutzstaffel comparisons.
Aw shit, I’m a reply guy.
October 30, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Aw shit, I’m a reply guy.