Dr. Matthew Pate
@matthewpate.bsky.social
“Avenging Sword of Taste & Decency”
Criminologist, Author, Unapologetic Supporter of Democracy. Animal lover. If you reflexively hate the police, keep scrolling. I plant zinnias as an act of rebellion. #Resistance
Criminologist, Author, Unapologetic Supporter of Democracy. Animal lover. If you reflexively hate the police, keep scrolling. I plant zinnias as an act of rebellion. #Resistance
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We must remake the world such that the International Criminal Court has much more muscle – including jurisdiction over American and Russian politicians.
A boy can dream.
A boy can dream.
November 29, 2025 at 11:24 PM
We must remake the world such that the International Criminal Court has much more muscle – including jurisdiction over American and Russian politicians.
A boy can dream.
A boy can dream.
My #Arkansas friends, can you imagine the enormity of the pushback against what is proposed in this article? Walmart, Tyson, Simmons, Murphy, Stephens… would label anyone supporting this as a communist threat - not a defender of democracy.
How to Get Rid of "Citizens United"
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way.
open.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:59 AM
My #Arkansas friends, can you imagine the enormity of the pushback against what is proposed in this article? Walmart, Tyson, Simmons, Murphy, Stephens… would label anyone supporting this as a communist threat - not a defender of democracy.
As someone who lost good friends actually fighting drug trafficking, this monster’s bloviating mental diarrhea offends me deeply. He is the real poison in America’s veins.
The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
November 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
As someone who lost good friends actually fighting drug trafficking, this monster’s bloviating mental diarrhea offends me deeply. He is the real poison in America’s veins.
In college, I worked for the Hastings (books, music, video) stores. Every Christmas the tone deaf Texas Republicans who owned the chain would send photo cards from their yacht or ski trips. This did not engender loyalty in my minimum wage ass.
Here’s a hot take: I don’t want to see lawmakers posting holiday pictures from their mansions — I don’t care which party.
Keep that shit to yourself.
Keep that shit to yourself.
November 29, 2025 at 9:04 PM
In college, I worked for the Hastings (books, music, video) stores. Every Christmas the tone deaf Texas Republicans who owned the chain would send photo cards from their yacht or ski trips. This did not engender loyalty in my minimum wage ass.
Dimon and all the “too big to fail” architects should have been prosecuted and their personal assets liquidated. Instead they were given billions more of your tax dollars.
Dimon on why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom:
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
November 29, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Dimon and all the “too big to fail” architects should have been prosecuted and their personal assets liquidated. Instead they were given billions more of your tax dollars.
I’m waiting for the day when a White House reporter claps back hard at one of Trump’s non-answer insults. If you just stand there silently after being called fake, fat, stupid… you have failed at your job - as has every other silent reporter.
November 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I’m waiting for the day when a White House reporter claps back hard at one of Trump’s non-answer insults. If you just stand there silently after being called fake, fat, stupid… you have failed at your job - as has every other silent reporter.
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"No one's going to build a factory based on a tariff that's on on Monday, off on... Tuesday, the president's changed his mind by Wednesday, he gets hormonal by Thursday and someone says something nasty in the middle school cafeteria on Friday and they're back on again."
November 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
"No one's going to build a factory based on a tariff that's on on Monday, off on... Tuesday, the president's changed his mind by Wednesday, he gets hormonal by Thursday and someone says something nasty in the middle school cafeteria on Friday and they're back on again."
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At simultaneous green junctions, all cars get a red while all cyclists get green in every direction at once. Straight, left, right, even diagonals. By separating bikes and motor traffic into different phases, this design cuts collision risk while also improving capacity and reducing waiting times.
November 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM
At simultaneous green junctions, all cars get a red while all cyclists get green in every direction at once. Straight, left, right, even diagonals. By separating bikes and motor traffic into different phases, this design cuts collision risk while also improving capacity and reducing waiting times.
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This is a monumentally stupid approach to a traffic stop. You do not have an unalienable right to drive on a public road. You are required to present your license when asked. Being a jerk gets you treated that way. Be civil, comply and you’ll probably get a warning. Do this you’ll likely see jail.
A woman recently went viral for holding up a window sign during a traffic stop, part of a growing trend of drivers using cards to assert their rights instead of speaking to police.
November 29, 2025 at 3:26 AM
This is a monumentally stupid approach to a traffic stop. You do not have an unalienable right to drive on a public road. You are required to present your license when asked. Being a jerk gets you treated that way. Be civil, comply and you’ll probably get a warning. Do this you’ll likely see jail.
DHS could be tasking agents and recruiting task force officers to expand their Internet Crimes Against Children operations, but instead they waging a fake war against a largely non-offending immigrant population.
What the fuck is wrong with people??! 😡
“Online child sexual exploitation, a global crime targeting children, increases yearly, not only in the number of confirmed reports showing child sexual abuse images, but also in the severity of the images and videos.”
infonews.ca/news/7443044...
“Online child sexual exploitation, a global crime targeting children, increases yearly, not only in the number of confirmed reports showing child sexual abuse images, but also in the severity of the images and videos.”
infonews.ca/news/7443044...
Sexual extortion of children for money is on the rise: financial intelligence agency | iNFOnews.ca
OTTAWA — Canada's financial intelligence agency is warning of an increase in cases of sexual extortion of children for profit — acts that often are linked to
infonews.ca
November 29, 2025 at 3:06 AM
DHS could be tasking agents and recruiting task force officers to expand their Internet Crimes Against Children operations, but instead they waging a fake war against a largely non-offending immigrant population.
Only a person with no attachment to social norms speaks like this. When I say he’s a psychopath, I’m not being facetious or catty. I’m trying to convey that he has a personality disorder that disqualifies him from office.
November 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Only a person with no attachment to social norms speaks like this. When I say he’s a psychopath, I’m not being facetious or catty. I’m trying to convey that he has a personality disorder that disqualifies him from office.
Just heard over a hundred rounds of full-auto gunfire a few blocks from my home.
My New Year’s goals include a new city and a different job. Neither the current city nor job are worth any more effort. Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
My New Year’s goals include a new city and a different job. Neither the current city nor job are worth any more effort. Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
November 28, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Just heard over a hundred rounds of full-auto gunfire a few blocks from my home.
My New Year’s goals include a new city and a different job. Neither the current city nor job are worth any more effort. Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
My New Year’s goals include a new city and a different job. Neither the current city nor job are worth any more effort. Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
You’ve hit upon the common denominator among these wretched people. They are the dark triad as a form of governance.
These people are all sociopaths. It’s strange, but none of them have any empathy and they’re all compulsive liars.
Vice President JD Vance went on a bizarre rant about turkey, just moments after addressing the tragic shooting that took place in Washington DC this afternoon.
November 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
You’ve hit upon the common denominator among these wretched people. They are the dark triad as a form of governance.
Can you imagine the amount of wagon circling and damage control going on in the White House? All of Trump’s sycophantic hangers on, nepo-appointees, and lesser toadies trying to guard their nest as grandaddy teeters around babbling.
Gupta: It’s clear that there’s age-related cognitive decline.
He’s confused a lot. He sometimes mumbles sort of incoherent nonsense when he’s asked a question in the Oval Office.
Clearly they’re not getting MRIs just because, because that’s the moment that we live in. There’s a reason
He’s confused a lot. He sometimes mumbles sort of incoherent nonsense when he’s asked a question in the Oval Office.
Clearly they’re not getting MRIs just because, because that’s the moment that we live in. There’s a reason
November 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Can you imagine the amount of wagon circling and damage control going on in the White House? All of Trump’s sycophantic hangers on, nepo-appointees, and lesser toadies trying to guard their nest as grandaddy teeters around babbling.
Lots of interesting and important voices here. @rivergoat.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Lots of interesting and important voices here. @rivergoat.bsky.social
… and Hitler had a lovely singing voice, but I digress.
Tucker Carlson: What do you think of Putin?
Witkoff: I liked him. I thought he was straight up with me…I don't regard Putin as a bad guy.
Witkoff: I liked him. I thought he was straight up with me…I don't regard Putin as a bad guy.
November 26, 2025 at 7:53 PM
… and Hitler had a lovely singing voice, but I digress.
Trump is giving a real Igor energy. “What hump?”
Master and slave. The body language clearly shows which is which.
November 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Trump is giving a real Igor energy. “What hump?”
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To recap:
•Universal healthcare would save 68,000 lives & $450B annually
•Every $1 spent on SNAP results in $1.80 boost to local economies & small businesses
•The child tax credit decreased child poverty to a historic low of 5.2%, abolishing it increased it by 45%
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•Universal healthcare would save 68,000 lives & $450B annually
•Every $1 spent on SNAP results in $1.80 boost to local economies & small businesses
•The child tax credit decreased child poverty to a historic low of 5.2%, abolishing it increased it by 45%
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November 25, 2025 at 3:16 AM
To recap:
•Universal healthcare would save 68,000 lives & $450B annually
•Every $1 spent on SNAP results in $1.80 boost to local economies & small businesses
•The child tax credit decreased child poverty to a historic low of 5.2%, abolishing it increased it by 45%
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•Universal healthcare would save 68,000 lives & $450B annually
•Every $1 spent on SNAP results in $1.80 boost to local economies & small businesses
•The child tax credit decreased child poverty to a historic low of 5.2%, abolishing it increased it by 45%
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I’ve seen a better looking mug peering out of a casket.
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I’ve seen a better looking mug peering out of a casket.
It’s a broke down pimp shoe.
can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
November 26, 2025 at 2:08 AM
It’s a broke down pimp shoe.
Save for Chomsky, Dawkins, Fukuyama, Habermas, Žižek, Amartya Sen and a handful of others, that age is largely gone.
Most of that fault lies with the academic disdain for grand theory and holistic thinking. The academy wants compartmented hyper-specialists bc they can be monetized.
Most of that fault lies with the academic disdain for grand theory and holistic thinking. The academy wants compartmented hyper-specialists bc they can be monetized.
I wish America still had such a thing as public intellectuals
November 25, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Save for Chomsky, Dawkins, Fukuyama, Habermas, Žižek, Amartya Sen and a handful of others, that age is largely gone.
Most of that fault lies with the academic disdain for grand theory and holistic thinking. The academy wants compartmented hyper-specialists bc they can be monetized.
Most of that fault lies with the academic disdain for grand theory and holistic thinking. The academy wants compartmented hyper-specialists bc they can be monetized.
Let’s be clear. If Trump weren’t propped up by daddy’s money, he wouldn’t be allowed to live independently. He wouldn’t have control over his own finances or life decisions. This is what unchecked privilege and wealth does to society. The Idiot Who Would Be King.
Meiselas: If Trump was just some crappy, scummy billionaire who lived in Florida, do you think I'd give a crap? My issue is this freaking loser, this con artist, this grifter, this scammer has brought his life of scamming, bankrupting and destroying to the American people, who are now suffering.
November 25, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Let’s be clear. If Trump weren’t propped up by daddy’s money, he wouldn’t be allowed to live independently. He wouldn’t have control over his own finances or life decisions. This is what unchecked privilege and wealth does to society. The Idiot Who Would Be King.
This is typical corporate greed but it misses the broader point that it’s a business model predicated on suffering and death. I’ll bet the vast majority of you have never been in a poultry plant or a commercial chicken house. I have. If you had to see, hear, and smell it, you’d think twice.
Tyson is closing a Nebraska plant that employs 3,200 workers in order to “right-size” its business.
The meatpacking giant paid its CEO $22.7M last year, 525x its median employee's pay.
It also spent $196M in stock buybacks to reward shareholders.
Textbook corporate greed.
The meatpacking giant paid its CEO $22.7M last year, 525x its median employee's pay.
It also spent $196M in stock buybacks to reward shareholders.
Textbook corporate greed.
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
This is typical corporate greed but it misses the broader point that it’s a business model predicated on suffering and death. I’ll bet the vast majority of you have never been in a poultry plant or a commercial chicken house. I have. If you had to see, hear, and smell it, you’d think twice.