Matt Calcara
@mattcalcara.bsky.social
Lancer, Trojan, friend of Dorothy, tech project manager, fmr travel writer, ran for office once & likely never again, dog Dad to Zuvvy.
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nothing smacks of professional-grade logistics like FREE scrawled on a cardboard box in bubble letters
January 26, 2026 at 1:23 AM
nothing smacks of professional-grade logistics like FREE scrawled on a cardboard box in bubble letters
Happy first week of the new #ksleg session!
Glad Minority Leader Woodard took up my framing of the property tax amendment as creating a "garbage California market" for Kansas.
B/c, and they talk about this in the podcast, it *would* screw up the housing market.
kansasreflector.com/podcasts/kan...
Glad Minority Leader Woodard took up my framing of the property tax amendment as creating a "garbage California market" for Kansas.
B/c, and they talk about this in the podcast, it *would* screw up the housing market.
kansasreflector.com/podcasts/kan...
Kansas Reflector staff breaks down the first week of the legislative session • Kansas Reflector
Kansas Reflector editor in chief Sherman Smith leads a discussion with reporters Tim Carpenter, Anna Kaminski and Morgan Chilson to recap the busy first week of the 2026 session of the Kansas Legislat...
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January 26, 2026 at 9:23 AM
Happy first week of the new #ksleg session!
Glad Minority Leader Woodard took up my framing of the property tax amendment as creating a "garbage California market" for Kansas.
B/c, and they talk about this in the podcast, it *would* screw up the housing market.
kansasreflector.com/podcasts/kan...
Glad Minority Leader Woodard took up my framing of the property tax amendment as creating a "garbage California market" for Kansas.
B/c, and they talk about this in the podcast, it *would* screw up the housing market.
kansasreflector.com/podcasts/kan...
It's not "targeting" to write something down.
Targeting is when you shoot someone in the back who is being held down.
This is just sparkling getting on your nerves.
Targeting is when you shoot someone in the back who is being held down.
This is just sparkling getting on your nerves.
Not even their dogs are safe from the obviously fake receipt thing
January 26, 2026 at 8:12 AM
It's not "targeting" to write something down.
Targeting is when you shoot someone in the back who is being held down.
This is just sparkling getting on your nerves.
Targeting is when you shoot someone in the back who is being held down.
This is just sparkling getting on your nerves.
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Analysis | Whether it was furnishing Jeffrey Epstein with young girls in the 1990s or furnishing Stephen Miller with murders in the 2020s, Donald Trump has always helped his closest associates get an erection.
January 25, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Analysis | Whether it was furnishing Jeffrey Epstein with young girls in the 1990s or furnishing Stephen Miller with murders in the 2020s, Donald Trump has always helped his closest associates get an erection.
Why is she so good at this and like no other members of Congress are? (I miss Katie Porter & her whiteboard, tbh)
I also love that she uses a disarming, charming smile before she moves in for the kill.
We *do* need a Glass-Stegall for healthcare. Or to trash the entire system for #Medicare4All
I also love that she uses a disarming, charming smile before she moves in for the kill.
We *do* need a Glass-Stegall for healthcare. Or to trash the entire system for #Medicare4All
Just masterful interrogation by @aoc.bsky.social www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8fcDFPm/
January 26, 2026 at 6:14 AM
Why is she so good at this and like no other members of Congress are? (I miss Katie Porter & her whiteboard, tbh)
I also love that she uses a disarming, charming smile before she moves in for the kill.
We *do* need a Glass-Stegall for healthcare. Or to trash the entire system for #Medicare4All
I also love that she uses a disarming, charming smile before she moves in for the kill.
We *do* need a Glass-Stegall for healthcare. Or to trash the entire system for #Medicare4All
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Charles Yang of Time for Three absolutely slaying me. I would lose my mind if I heard this live. Even crappy phone speakers made me scream and cry.
January 25, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Charles Yang of Time for Three absolutely slaying me. I would lose my mind if I heard this live. Even crappy phone speakers made me scream and cry.
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We're owed a president with some virtuous scheming viziers after this. Some guy hissing "We must ban the SUVs sire"
January 26, 2026 at 4:28 AM
We're owed a president with some virtuous scheming viziers after this. Some guy hissing "We must ban the SUVs sire"
This is 1000% true.
The modern Democratic Party would simply collapse were it not for the efforts of women of a certain age.
I'd say "Take a bow, ladies" but you're all too humble and self-effacing for that and I honestly love you all so much. 😍🥰
The modern Democratic Party would simply collapse were it not for the efforts of women of a certain age.
I'd say "Take a bow, ladies" but you're all too humble and self-effacing for that and I honestly love you all so much. 😍🥰
Almost every time I volunteer to do the actual work with some group - from phonebanking to door knocking to folding zines or whatever - the crowd is anywhere from 70 to 90 percent femme. Also, primarily OLDER people.
Older ladies actually make shit happen.
Older ladies actually make shit happen.
January 26, 2026 at 5:18 AM
This is 1000% true.
The modern Democratic Party would simply collapse were it not for the efforts of women of a certain age.
I'd say "Take a bow, ladies" but you're all too humble and self-effacing for that and I honestly love you all so much. 😍🥰
The modern Democratic Party would simply collapse were it not for the efforts of women of a certain age.
I'd say "Take a bow, ladies" but you're all too humble and self-effacing for that and I honestly love you all so much. 😍🥰
Girl. Same.
Haaaaaard same.
Haaaaaard same.
I will always have enough rage in me to spare some of it for AI slop.
January 26, 2026 at 12:58 AM
Girl. Same.
Haaaaaard same.
Haaaaaard same.
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Whistles are now WMDs, according to the "high IQ" crowd.
January 25, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Whistles are now WMDs, according to the "high IQ" crowd.
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From the NY Post. You know they are really scrambling when they are running "The gun was no angel" stories.
January 25, 2026 at 1:53 PM
From the NY Post. You know they are really scrambling when they are running "The gun was no angel" stories.
I jist fell down a rabbit hole of reading stories from the Guardian's "Dining Across the Divide" series.
I wish American media would do stuff like this: I found the series quite fascinating despite it being thoroughly British-oriented.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
I wish American media would do stuff like this: I found the series quite fascinating despite it being thoroughly British-oriented.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Dining across the divide: ‘She’s not unwelcoming or racist but she thinks immigration is creating a brain drain elsewhere’
They had different opinions on social media, asylum seekers and ‘woke’ politics, but which Stewart Lee sketch got them both laughing?
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2026 at 12:26 AM
I jist fell down a rabbit hole of reading stories from the Guardian's "Dining Across the Divide" series.
I wish American media would do stuff like this: I found the series quite fascinating despite it being thoroughly British-oriented.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
I wish American media would do stuff like this: I found the series quite fascinating despite it being thoroughly British-oriented.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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This is nonviolent resistance. If she comes with violence, they get the cover of “law & order” to meet her with violence. Instead, coming like this, she has removed all good response options from the authorities.
January 25, 2026 at 5:32 PM
This is nonviolent resistance. If she comes with violence, they get the cover of “law & order” to meet her with violence. Instead, coming like this, she has removed all good response options from the authorities.
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The media should cover sport the way they cover the state murder of civilians:
‘Jannik Sinner appeared to win the French Open yesterday after what supporters say was a comeback from being two sets down.’
‘Jannik Sinner appeared to win the French Open yesterday after what supporters say was a comeback from being two sets down.’
January 25, 2026 at 1:57 PM
The media should cover sport the way they cover the state murder of civilians:
‘Jannik Sinner appeared to win the French Open yesterday after what supporters say was a comeback from being two sets down.’
‘Jannik Sinner appeared to win the French Open yesterday after what supporters say was a comeback from being two sets down.’
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Clarissa explains it all to the DHS Instagram account
January 24, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Clarissa explains it all to the DHS Instagram account
I just woke up from the worst nightmare.
Only to find that I am actually living in it.
We need solidarity now, if we want to stop all this.
inthesetimes.com/article/broa...
Only to find that I am actually living in it.
We need solidarity now, if we want to stop all this.
inthesetimes.com/article/broa...
Want to Fight Fascism? Look to U.S. History.
What Reconstruction, the New Deal and the Rainbow Coalition can teach us about building the broadest possible front to fight the authoritarian Right
inthesetimes.com
January 25, 2026 at 11:05 AM
I just woke up from the worst nightmare.
Only to find that I am actually living in it.
We need solidarity now, if we want to stop all this.
inthesetimes.com/article/broa...
Only to find that I am actually living in it.
We need solidarity now, if we want to stop all this.
inthesetimes.com/article/broa...
Mike Tyson!?!
WTF is Mike Tyson doing with all of these awful, detestable people at the White House???
WTF is Mike Tyson doing with all of these awful, detestable people at the White House???
An insane, perfect encapsulation of it all:
The same day Trump’s agents kill a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser who was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files
The same day Trump’s agents kill a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser who was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files
January 25, 2026 at 4:40 AM
Mike Tyson!?!
WTF is Mike Tyson doing with all of these awful, detestable people at the White House???
WTF is Mike Tyson doing with all of these awful, detestable people at the White House???
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I miss the days of just being able to make some waffles for breakfast instead of worrying that I'm not doing enough to fight the spread of fascism while also making waffles.
January 24, 2026 at 5:28 PM
I miss the days of just being able to make some waffles for breakfast instead of worrying that I'm not doing enough to fight the spread of fascism while also making waffles.
I am thisclose to starting a Bluesky handle called "That's an Impeachable Offense" that just retweets things that are impeachable offenses.
I'm just not sure I have enough time to do that with all the impeachable offenses going on.
I'm just not sure I have enough time to do that with all the impeachable offenses going on.
January 25, 2026 at 4:35 AM
I am thisclose to starting a Bluesky handle called "That's an Impeachable Offense" that just retweets things that are impeachable offenses.
I'm just not sure I have enough time to do that with all the impeachable offenses going on.
I'm just not sure I have enough time to do that with all the impeachable offenses going on.
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And ICE can execute, arrest, or disappear you for no reason, with no process and no accountability. So there goes the 5th and 6th.
What the Trump Admin is telling you.
-Don't record ICE
-Don't carry a gun around ICE
-Don't ask ICE for a warrant.
So that takes out the 1st, 2nd, and 4th Amendments.
-Don't record ICE
-Don't carry a gun around ICE
-Don't ask ICE for a warrant.
So that takes out the 1st, 2nd, and 4th Amendments.
January 25, 2026 at 2:37 AM
And ICE can execute, arrest, or disappear you for no reason, with no process and no accountability. So there goes the 5th and 6th.
You know, JoCo, it was REALLY a bad idea not to elect a Democrat as District Attorney last election.
Because our DA Steve Howe would never, ever, EVER say this publicly.
Let's not make this mistake ever again, OK? Any Democrat who has ever run for the position would be better than him now.
Because our DA Steve Howe would never, ever, EVER say this publicly.
Let's not make this mistake ever again, OK? Any Democrat who has ever run for the position would be better than him now.
DA Bregman: If ICE comes in without a warrant, without reasonable suspicion, without probable cause, that is false imprisonment in New Mexico. You can’t confine, restrain, or detain someone without proper legal authority to do so. And there’s no exception for law enforcement.
January 25, 2026 at 4:20 AM
You know, JoCo, it was REALLY a bad idea not to elect a Democrat as District Attorney last election.
Because our DA Steve Howe would never, ever, EVER say this publicly.
Let's not make this mistake ever again, OK? Any Democrat who has ever run for the position would be better than him now.
Because our DA Steve Howe would never, ever, EVER say this publicly.
Let's not make this mistake ever again, OK? Any Democrat who has ever run for the position would be better than him now.
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Holy shit. This speaks volumes about the midterms ahead.
January 25, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Holy shit. This speaks volumes about the midterms ahead.
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Who are the bad guys in this image, PAM
January 25, 2026 at 2:51 AM
Who are the bad guys in this image, PAM
USC out here showing the real-world benefits of lower pollution via the adoption of electric vehicles.
phys.org/news/2026-01...
phys.org/news/2026-01...
Adoption of electric vehicles tied to real-world reductions in air pollution
When California neighborhoods increased their number of zero-emissions vehicles (ZEV) between 2019 and 2023, they also experienced a reduction in air pollution. For every 200 vehicles added, nitrogen ...
phys.org
January 25, 2026 at 3:57 AM
USC out here showing the real-world benefits of lower pollution via the adoption of electric vehicles.
phys.org/news/2026-01...
phys.org/news/2026-01...