Matt Ogren
@mogrendc.bsky.social
Recovering pollster and former twitter addict. Duke grad, new dad, and DC resident
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my beloved girlfriend has an inexplicable attraction to grotesque, almost supernaturally weird old men. guys who look like the adults from a roald dahl story. fellas who act like they were perhaps recently animals turned human through some unnatural bargain with the fey. not me though
November 18, 2025 at 4:33 AM
my beloved girlfriend has an inexplicable attraction to grotesque, almost supernaturally weird old men. guys who look like the adults from a roald dahl story. fellas who act like they were perhaps recently animals turned human through some unnatural bargain with the fey. not me though
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If you read this, I want you to just post a GIF when you finish it with your reaction
November 18, 2025 at 2:35 AM
If you read this, I want you to just post a GIF when you finish it with your reaction
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The power of Fox News isn’t that they push conservative ideas, it’s that they are willing to set any kind of ideological consideration aside at the drop of a hat to boost Republicans regardless of what they do at any given moment.
November 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The power of Fox News isn’t that they push conservative ideas, it’s that they are willing to set any kind of ideological consideration aside at the drop of a hat to boost Republicans regardless of what they do at any given moment.
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
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This is what Trump means by affordability.
Eric Trump: "You can send $500 million worth of bitcoin on a Sunday night at 11pm while having a glass of wine with your wife for virtually zero fees."
November 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
This is what Trump means by affordability.
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a lot of people regretting the 'this shoulda been an email' advice rn lol
November 13, 2025 at 3:57 AM
a lot of people regretting the 'this shoulda been an email' advice rn lol
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Something that’s so striking in these emails is how…unimpressive Epstein is. He comes off as a pompous, sub-literate lech. Yes everyone is so mortifyingly solicitous of him! All fawning and flattery! Why?????
November 13, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Something that’s so striking in these emails is how…unimpressive Epstein is. He comes off as a pompous, sub-literate lech. Yes everyone is so mortifyingly solicitous of him! All fawning and flattery! Why?????
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jeffrey epstein spent thanksgiving *2017* with President Donald Trump at Mar a Lago and we only know this now i'm going to go insane
November 13, 2025 at 2:57 AM
jeffrey epstein spent thanksgiving *2017* with President Donald Trump at Mar a Lago and we only know this now i'm going to go insane
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They could call it "The Pedolands"
President Trump would like the Commanders’ new stadium named after him, though no formal talks have occurred, ESPN reported. Trump will be in attendance at the team’s game on Sunday — the Commanders expect the topic may arise during his visit.
Trump Stadium, home of the Commanders? The president is not opposed.
No formal conversations on naming rights for the Commanders’ new D.C. home have been held.
wapo.st
November 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They could call it "The Pedolands"
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The key factor that everyone seems to always forget is that Trump was the host of what was once the highest rated show on network TV - a purportedly non-fiction show that portrayed him as a hyper-savvy and hyper-successful businessman.
Trump has gotten huge numbers of infrequent voters to the polls, twice. He's deeply unpopular but has mobilized a large, unprecedented coalition of Americans motivated by some combination of ignorance, avarice, and cruelty. It is hard to describe what he has as something other than charisma
His charisma is fundamentally incompatible with me (and likely many of the people on Bluesky) but it’s kind of insane to say it doesn’t exist
November 7, 2025 at 3:16 AM
The key factor that everyone seems to always forget is that Trump was the host of what was once the highest rated show on network TV - a purportedly non-fiction show that portrayed him as a hyper-savvy and hyper-successful businessman.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale
The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
November 1, 2025 at 4:48 AM
F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale
The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
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When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”
It’s very telling that opening your publication to MAGA “thought” requires a massive downgrade in quality control.
October 30, 2025 at 10:38 PM
When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”
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This is really well done. slate.com/business/202...
I Went to Watch the Tiny Operation That’s Making ICE Lose Its Mind. A Lot Can Happen in 24 Hours.
At the headquarters for Donald Trump’s darkest work, a few people are getting under the administration’s skin.
slate.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:19 PM
This is really well done. slate.com/business/202...
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“Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections”
The central organizing principal of the Republican Party, at both the federal & state levels, is now that votes for & governing by Democrats are fundamentally illegitimate. This is totally incompatible with democratic/republican government.
The central organizing principal of the Republican Party, at both the federal & state levels, is now that votes for & governing by Democrats are fundamentally illegitimate. This is totally incompatible with democratic/republican government.
October 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
“Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections”
The central organizing principal of the Republican Party, at both the federal & state levels, is now that votes for & governing by Democrats are fundamentally illegitimate. This is totally incompatible with democratic/republican government.
The central organizing principal of the Republican Party, at both the federal & state levels, is now that votes for & governing by Democrats are fundamentally illegitimate. This is totally incompatible with democratic/republican government.
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it’s wild that this is just sort of the most openly corrupt administration of all time and they’re just allowed to do that and most media doesn’t say a word about it
October 25, 2025 at 3:22 AM
it’s wild that this is just sort of the most openly corrupt administration of all time and they’re just allowed to do that and most media doesn’t say a word about it
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this dickhead didn’t post this to bsky, but fuck you @talsmith.bsky.social . this legislation saved my life. condescending piece of shit.
October 19, 2025 at 10:33 PM
this dickhead didn’t post this to bsky, but fuck you @talsmith.bsky.social . this legislation saved my life. condescending piece of shit.
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and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.
October 19, 2025 at 1:51 AM
and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.
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Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.
www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...
www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...
October 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.
www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...
www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...
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I'm not a fan of these new Taylor Swift lyrics.
Two of you have posted art of Clippy being pregnant at me
October 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I'm not a fan of these new Taylor Swift lyrics.
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if you bought out my media company for $150 million dollars I would be a lot more interested in the $150 million dollars I now have than being political commissar for CBS
October 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
if you bought out my media company for $150 million dollars I would be a lot more interested in the $150 million dollars I now have than being political commissar for CBS
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zuckerberg trying for John Wick this Halloween but ending up more ghislaine maxwell
September 28, 2025 at 1:28 AM
zuckerberg trying for John Wick this Halloween but ending up more ghislaine maxwell
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Trump demands that Microsoft fire Lisa Monaco. Anybody from the party of small government have an issue with this or nah?
September 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Trump demands that Microsoft fire Lisa Monaco. Anybody from the party of small government have an issue with this or nah?
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An iron law of reactionary thinking: when they are in a weak position vis a vis an institution, they demand fairness; when they gain power, fairness goes out the window.
Which is to say: once the reactionaries take over higher eduction, liberal voices will be eliminated.
Which is to say: once the reactionaries take over higher eduction, liberal voices will be eliminated.
More than anything, they want to be patted on the head and told they're a good boy by the liberal elites
September 26, 2025 at 8:42 PM
An iron law of reactionary thinking: when they are in a weak position vis a vis an institution, they demand fairness; when they gain power, fairness goes out the window.
Which is to say: once the reactionaries take over higher eduction, liberal voices will be eliminated.
Which is to say: once the reactionaries take over higher eduction, liberal voices will be eliminated.
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Now pushing no Tylenol for kids. My two small kids recently spiked three fevers in two weeks (Covid, virus, virus). You want me to make them stay up all night sweating and keening rather than give them one safe chewable, drop their temp, and let them go to sleep? You are an actual monster.
September 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Now pushing no Tylenol for kids. My two small kids recently spiked three fevers in two weeks (Covid, virus, virus). You want me to make them stay up all night sweating and keening rather than give them one safe chewable, drop their temp, and let them go to sleep? You are an actual monster.