Matt Watkins
ignacioi.bsky.social
Matt Watkins
@ignacioi.bsky.social
48 followers 46 following 17 posts
Motorcycles, Typewriters, Long-time Mayor, Resist, Never Trump, World Travel
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Best Internetz Line I Cribbed Today In Response to a National Tragedy Intelligence Leak:

It's like House Harkonnen Meets The Three Stooges on A Badly Acted Apprentice rip-off.
I just had the weirdest epipany. I watched a TV show in 1981 and realize who the Vogon is modern day 202!. It's the Cheeto Jesus as a dictator in a floating chair summoning people he disagrees with to Mar-A-Lago and read bad poetry to them as torture. Do you see a rememblance?
In my city of Pasco, WA in the past hour. Estimating 700-1000 protestors when I drove by. Tensions have been high as ICE was pulling over US citizens that were brown in a nearby city last week. I live in a city of about 70% Latino including many hard-working immigrants.
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➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years

Making America Great Again!
Just to note that the guy that told him was done to leave was the City Manager, Mike Gonzalez. He's a good egg and friend of mine. And I believe the masked dude isn't actually a bounty hunter and known by locals in a neighboring city as a whack-a-doodle.
This is a disturbing, but not surprising, detail. Where the 2016 regime was a bit shambolic, they're hitting the ground running like full-on fascists this time around. They've learned how to better wield the levers of power.
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While we may face repercussions for this, the truth lies in the metadata. Memos to federal employees are being authored by individuals with ties to Project 2025. You can verify this yourself.
TolTok is dead. Long live TokTok!
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“Orbán used law as a weapon against democracy. He consolidated power…giving orders directly to the bureaucracy, which he had reconstructed by changing civil service law…Orbán’s was accompanied by aggressive use of libel actions…He packed the courts with loyalists.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/o...
Opinion | Are We Sleepwalking Into Autocracy?
What we can learn from countries that have pushed back on threats to democracy.
www.nytimes.com
This piece of paper is a huge milestone. Dirt for the new aquatics facility in Pasco likely will start moving next week! And then opening in spring 2026.
I love it when a plan comes together....
A shocking departure from democratic norms from the traditions of 2020. Participants entered through the doors instead of shattered windows, instead of flagpoles being used to bludgeon police they were used to hold up flags, and all defecation took place in toilets instead of senator's desks. Wow!
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Lawrence Britt opined in 1983 that there are 14 characteristics of fascism. I've checked in on each over the years and find more and more to be true. How many boxes do you think we currently tick? osbcontent.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/PC-00466.pdf
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I've been curious about my host(s) in this new space and had Googled about a seemingly successful early 30-something lady from Oklahoma. I'm watching what I'm sure is a player in the social media space. Seems smart and earnest to me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa-E...
CEO of new social media company competing with X describes users' experiences
YouTube video by CNN
www.youtube.com
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BREAKING NEWS: #DonaldTrump announces his new Secretary of the Treasury:
I ordered one of these from our friends at altnps.bsky.social. I don't do bumper stickers, but plan this be the one thing on my car, in the center of the back window. Innocuous to most....code to those in-the-know.
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Let's strengthen our community of resisters on this platform.
Like this post, comment #NoDemLeftBehind #Resist, and most importantly, hit the REPOST button.

Then, follow each other back.
An easy quick method is to follow everyone who reposts.
I have thoughts.

I haven't started a new social media system in about a decade. Now I'll have to think about what I should talk about.

Maybe I'll talk about that time I used to be a Republican. June 2016 was a critical time to make a critical choice ...
My eyes!

Damn you Jerry. You made me look. Golden retrievers with bows and dudes wearing masks are not a good combination.

Check out this hashtag of chickens driving boats. It's funnier than cats and cucumbers.

#cockdocking
Am I the first person to reply to your new account? I've never been in on the ground floor of a potential new social media system. Hold me Jerry! I'm scared!