Matt Separa
@mattsepara.bsky.social
Gov't Oversight. MI/DC/VA/elsewhere. Here: Politics, Star Wars and other nerdery, DIY projects, bread, and occasional puns. Views expressed are my own. Mark Hamill mentioned me once on the beforetimes social media app.
I just keep thinking back to Tim Walz describing these people as weird. I dont like using weird as a pejorative term--I'm weird. But there's something just not right about all these people with their fixation on dressing nice and working out at airports.
Saladino: "The goal here is not for people to get sweaty in airports. Nobody wants to be sitting next to somebody smelling on an airplane. But ... "
December 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I just keep thinking back to Tim Walz describing these people as weird. I dont like using weird as a pejorative term--I'm weird. But there's something just not right about all these people with their fixation on dressing nice and working out at airports.
Aside from this being an incredibly onerous requirement--how would you even do this?--this is so fucking Orwellian.
Some visitors to the United States may soon have to provide their social media history from the prior five years to enter the country, according to a new Trump administration proposal. https://cnn.it/4pw55Qk
December 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Aside from this being an incredibly onerous requirement--how would you even do this?--this is so fucking Orwellian.
I shot the serif, and I shot the diversity.
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I shot the serif, and I shot the diversity.
Lol--so basically he's like "Go back to the XP version of Microsoft Word, not the subsequent versions that changed the default to Calibri."
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Lol--so basically he's like "Go back to the XP version of Microsoft Word, not the subsequent versions that changed the default to Calibri."
Republicans: "Churches should be able to make political statements and keep their tax exempt status!"
Also Republicans: "Wait, no, not those political statements!"
Also Republicans: "Wait, no, not those political statements!"
December 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Republicans: "Churches should be able to make political statements and keep their tax exempt status!"
Also Republicans: "Wait, no, not those political statements!"
Also Republicans: "Wait, no, not those political statements!"
She won 60-40 in a city Harris carried by 1 percent.
Breaking News: Miami voters elected Eileen Higgins as mayor, choosing a Democrat to lead the city for the first time in almost 30 years.
Eileen Higgins Wins Miami Runoff Election to Become City’s First Female Mayor
Eileen Higgins, a former Miami-Dade County commissioner, will also be the city’s first female mayor and the first non-Hispanic mayor since the 1990s.
nyti.ms
December 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
She won 60-40 in a city Harris carried by 1 percent.
This rhetoric is going to get her killed.
Trump: "Ilhan Omar, whatever the hell her name is. With her little turban. I love her. She comes in, does nothing but bitch ... we ought to get her the hell out ... she's here illegally."
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
December 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM
This rhetoric is going to get her killed.
You know what's better than a plan with 44 million people? One with 330 million.
Rand Paul on his healthcare plan: "What if you could join Costco? Costco has 44m members and if one person negotiated for all 44 and they bought a group plan like Toyota or General Motors does, they would be the largest collective entity in the country. They would drive prices down by sheer might."
December 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM
You know what's better than a plan with 44 million people? One with 330 million.
love to live in a free market* society
*i.e. the president decides how companies can operate
*i.e. the president decides how companies can operate
Their explicit case to shareholders is that the president is in their pocket and will try to block Netflix, so you might as well cave and take our offer, which will pay out faster.
Trump has become their corporate thug.
Trump has become their corporate thug.
December 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
love to live in a free market* society
*i.e. the president decides how companies can operate
*i.e. the president decides how companies can operate
Day what feels like 500 of "The president is clearly regularly receiving some sort of unknown intravenous treatment, but the legacy media and press will not ask him or the White House questions about it or press for answers on whether the President has a serious medical condition."
Trump's bandaged hand last night at the Kennedy Center Honors gala
(photos via Getty and by Allison Robbert and Brendan Smialowski)
(photos via Getty and by Allison Robbert and Brendan Smialowski)
December 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Day what feels like 500 of "The president is clearly regularly receiving some sort of unknown intravenous treatment, but the legacy media and press will not ask him or the White House questions about it or press for answers on whether the President has a serious medical condition."
Oh hey and they didn't even have to commit a war crime to do it. Funny how that works.
A law enforcement crew from U.S. Coast Guard Station Miami Beach seized approximately 3,715 pounds of cocaine last week from a suspected smuggling vessel. www.stripes.com/branches/coa...
Coast Guard seizes $28M in cocaine off Miami
A U.S. Coast Guard Station Miami Beach law-enforcement crew seized approximately 3,715 pounds of cocaine from a suspected smuggling vessel.
www.stripes.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Oh hey and they didn't even have to commit a war crime to do it. Funny how that works.
"I am here, standing next to this war criminal because if he were to come to my country we would have to arrest him" is a hell of a statement and self own.
At a joint press conference with Prime Minister Netanyahu in Israel, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz acknowledges that the reason he is in Israel instead of Netanyahu being in Germany is the ICC arrest warrant against Netanyahu.
December 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
"I am here, standing next to this war criminal because if he were to come to my country we would have to arrest him" is a hell of a statement and self own.
Labour: "How is Reform so far ahead in the polls??? We are working hard to deliver for our constituents!
Also Labour: "Let's parrot Reform talking points and make everyone think they're right."
Also Labour: "Let's parrot Reform talking points and make everyone think they're right."
December 7, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Labour: "How is Reform so far ahead in the polls??? We are working hard to deliver for our constituents!
Also Labour: "Let's parrot Reform talking points and make everyone think they're right."
Also Labour: "Let's parrot Reform talking points and make everyone think they're right."
Leo calls the faithful to the Butlerian Jihad.
December 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Leo calls the faithful to the Butlerian Jihad.
More like "Vanity? Fair."
December 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
More like "Vanity? Fair."
So, this is probably obvious, but if you claim its OK to strike two people in the water trying to flip their boat because they *might* resume a "hostile act," you're essentially saying you can kill anyone, for any reason. Any person *might* commit a hostile act in the future.
December 4, 2025 at 11:52 PM
So, this is probably obvious, but if you claim its OK to strike two people in the water trying to flip their boat because they *might* resume a "hostile act," you're essentially saying you can kill anyone, for any reason. Any person *might* commit a hostile act in the future.
I don't understand how this is not the number one and only question the political press ask the White House every day. The president is clearly receiving some sort of unknown medication intravenously at regular intervals.
Trump had some hefty bandages yesterday on the back of right hand -- the same one that is often discolored
(Chip Somodevilla/Getty)
(Chip Somodevilla/Getty)
December 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I don't understand how this is not the number one and only question the political press ask the White House every day. The president is clearly receiving some sort of unknown medication intravenously at regular intervals.
Go get em tiger! You're 12!
December 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Go get em tiger! You're 12!
I'm sure Trump signed every one of the 1500 January 6th pardons by hand.
BREAKING: President Trump declared that all of former President Biden’s pardons are now “invalid.” There is no legal mechanism for presidents to revoke their predecessors’ pardons but if Trump is taken seriously, thousands could be thrown into legal chaos.
Trump Claims Former President Joe Biden’s Pardons Are Invalid
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I'm sure Trump signed every one of the 1500 January 6th pardons by hand.
Never thought I'd see a day when GEORGE WILL is the sanest voice on the Washington Post's editorial page.
GEORGE WILL: “.. The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself.”
@postopinions.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
@postopinions.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
December 3, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Never thought I'd see a day when GEORGE WILL is the sanest voice on the Washington Post's editorial page.
He will be pardoned by Trump, of course.
Breaking News: Joaquín Guzmán López, a son of the drug lord known as El Chapo, has pleaded guilty to kidnapping his father’s former cartel partner.
Son of El Chapo Pleads Guilty to Kidnapping Father’s Former Cartel Partner
Joaquín Guzmán López admitted to having the once-untouchable drug kingpin Ismael Zambada García abducted and flown to the United States, among a sweeping set of other crimes.
nyti.ms
December 2, 2025 at 12:09 AM
He will be pardoned by Trump, of course.
These are labour party numbers here folks.
Gallup poll | 11/3-11/25
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
November 29, 2025 at 2:24 AM
These are labour party numbers here folks.
I guess Stephen Miller hates the idea of Christmas trees (brought by Germans), Santa Claus (brought by the Dutch), and St. Patrick's Day (Irish, obv).
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I guess Stephen Miller hates the idea of Christmas trees (brought by Germans), Santa Claus (brought by the Dutch), and St. Patrick's Day (Irish, obv).