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MattRiffs.bsky.social
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Public health consultant. I love democracy and red wine. I detest rudeness and bigots. Co-author of Globetrotter: How Abe Saperstein Shook Up the Sports World (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024). 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈
Thanks for sharing this image and the underlying story. I recalled seeing this photo in 1990, but I had never fully understood the deeper story.
November 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Not only that. Burkman and Wohl recently opened a firm using aliases, which misleads potential clients.
Convicted fraudsters launch AI lobbying firm using fake names
Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman are operating under the pseudonyms Jay Klein and Bill Sanders.
www.politico.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
So true. ICE has managed to recruit people who have the traits of both Barney Fife and Bull Connor.
November 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
“Life is lived forward” — except for those children who may get really sick and die because people like Cassidy allowed a lunatic to become health secretary.
November 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM
He’s a jackass who seems to assume that people choose to live in food deserts, to go without health insurance, or to live in a neighborhood where crime or infrastructure makes them tough to walk or bike in.
November 19, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Sad to see that Ford is adopting a strategy right out of the Trump playbook.
November 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Curious if there have been any recent developments in Michigan that might explain his sudden change of heart. Or does the Speaker think the GOP might win the governor’s office next year and, therefore, wants to insulate a new Republican guv from FOIA?
November 17, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Kelly cares about power and access, and she doesn’t give one whit about truth and justice. She’s hoping to score points with Trump by trying to downplay the sex-trafficking that happened.

So damn cynical. So damn evil.
November 14, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I hear you. Bear in mind that there are able-bodied adults who have low hourly-wage jobs that don’t pay enough to keep them out of poverty. In some cases, they struggle to find jobs that offer full-time weekly hours.
November 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM