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Matt Luckett

@lucketthistory.bsky.social

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HUX MA Program Director at CSUDH and maker of various and sundry things. Also making fascism unfashionable. Mostly here for hockey news and shameless self-promotion. No DMs pls

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Matt Luckett @lucketthistory.bsky.social · 24d

Somewhere in the afterlife…

Charlie Kirk: “I was killed for saying the wrong thing to the wrong people, I guess.”

Emmett Till: “Tell me about it.”

Matt Luckett @lucketthistory.bsky.social · 11h

I know there is a large constituency of people who don’t own shelter pets, but those ASPCA commercial guilt trips are falling flat over here.

I love our little dog but he costs a helluva lot more than $19 a month.

Matt Luckett @lucketthistory.bsky.social · 13h

Same

Matt Luckett @lucketthistory.bsky.social · 13h

Biden, who apparently cannot sign his own name but somehow possesses the ability to time travel, went back to January 6, took over the FBI’s command and control from Trump, and fabricated a massive MAGA coup attempt that wouldn’t matter anyway b/c DJT is President again just for giggles and kicks

Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17h

Trump has rolled out yet another baseless conspiracy theory in his relentless campaign to lie and spread misinformation to the public. His latest claim, that the FBI orchestrated the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol and that Biden ordered it, collapses under even the most basic scrutiny.

Matt Luckett @lucketthistory.bsky.social · 14h

I hope I’m wrong about this but I feel like the minute the hostages are released that Israel is going to carpet bomb whatever is left of Gaza.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18h

This sums up their lying perfectly www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weeke...

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Matt Luckett @lucketthistory.bsky.social · 23h

Gonna have to cool it with the anti-MAGA Facebook stuff for a while because one of my cousins just milled me 340 sq ft of pine tongue and groove flooring & even had it kiln dried for our upcoming upstairs renovation and I don’t know where he stands.

He’s not here, though, so fuck Trump, etc., etc.

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Matt Luckett @lucketthistory.bsky.social · 1d

I have an uncle who is 100% this. He’s insufferable now

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 2d

Think about how for decades, one of the ingredients of a crackpot was: retired engineer.

Retired engineers, for *generations* have been a fertile ground for crackpot theories in everything.

They get that golden watch and bam, incoherent manifesto about quantum archeology inbound.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets."

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Matt Luckett @lucketthistory.bsky.social · 2d

I hardly ever think about the fact that I have Von Willobrandt’s Disease. That is, until I cut the tip of my finger while tearing the foil off of a wine bottle and I bleed like a news headline for the next ten minutes

Matt Luckett @lucketthistory.bsky.social · 2d

If he ends up giving the Taliban an Air Force base here in Northern California I’m going to be very upset.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 3d

Okay if we give POTUS our nicest iceberg for free, will he build us a Training Base in Florida? We need a place to train jungle warfare operatives

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Matt Luckett @lucketthistory.bsky.social · 2d

People seem to confuse cognitive tests with intelligence tests, but there is no reason to take either if you are a functional human adult without some type of neurological and/or personality disorder.

Matt Luckett @lucketthistory.bsky.social · 2d

When you can’t beat them, buy them.

Matt Luckett @lucketthistory.bsky.social · 2d

Huh? I mean…. Why?!?!

I’m so confused right now.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

Matt Luckett @lucketthistory.bsky.social · 3d

I had to tell my daughter “no” at least seven times yesterday when she saw a giant 7-foot animatronic skeleton at Home Depot. But I just now realized I can cover it with glossy grey spray paint, put red LEDs in its eyes, and give it a prop rifle and suddenly I have a T-800 model Terminator

Matt Luckett @lucketthistory.bsky.social · 3d

Look everybody Bobby is doing a science

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

Matt Luckett @lucketthistory.bsky.social · 3d

This is exhibit A for Why I Hate Purity Tests. Who cares who she is and how she got here? And who cares if it’s only on two or three issues?

It’s like what Billy Beane says in Moneyball: when you get the answer you want, say “Thank You” and hang up

Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 3d

Her pivot could expose everything Washington wants buried...or prove the system still owns her. If Greene’s break is real...the GOP’s in trouble. If it’s not...America is. 🔥👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 3d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Matt Luckett @lucketthistory.bsky.social · 3d

I’m so fascinated by this… I want a VR headset that allows me to experience the world as Noem for a few minutes (but no more than that, my brain would melt)

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d

Noem claims Portland hid their war zone from her.

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Will🇺🇸📎✌️🌲 @econaturalist.bsky.social · 4d

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Matt Luckett @lucketthistory.bsky.social · 4d

I would definitely put a bird on that

Matt Luckett @lucketthistory.bsky.social · 4d

I’m excited about Halloween this year. It’s fun to dress up as things that don’t exist, like vampires, or Antifa

Matt Luckett @lucketthistory.bsky.social · 4d

I have a movie idea. It’s called Escape From Portland…

Plot: Snake Plissken misses his bus. He ends up spending two hours at an Arby’s waiting for the next one

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Matt Luckett @lucketthistory.bsky.social · 4d

I learned that when I was eight. No basic training needed, unless you count Boy Scouts