Matthew Lebo
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Huntington, WV
Joined April 2017
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With Trump's attack on immigrants we are stepping up by creating the Immigrant Safety Resistance Fund through my org @BluejayRising. With the money raised we will be able to send allies to training, which helps non-attorneys earn certification from the U.S. Department of Justice.
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@AlDefinitely I swear, this whole party is nothing more than a bunch of high school bullies desperate to live out their treason fantasies.
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@PunishedMetros Renationalizing railroads, green energy investment fund, progressive prison reformist Minister for Prisons, ending the Rwanda scheme. Not a bad week if they follow through.
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@arlenparsa Best case scenario, that’s child abuse. No legitimate, safe company in the country, compliant with fair labor law and paying real benefits, would hire an American without a social security number, to name just one issue. They’re just begging for their child to be exploited.
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@nikicaga I will never understand the depths of stupidity required to cross the giant blinking danger gates.
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@EPM106 There’s only room for one insane, deeply problematic, old millionaire main character dude in a major sitcom. It helps that Danny DeVito doesn’t constantly act like he’s above above it all, and unlike Chevy Chase, you can tell he actually likes what he does.
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@DailyBeardsley NGL, the name “People of the State of California v. Ally Beardsley” goes hard.
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@merovingians Hell, look how much Michigan’s been able to accomplish with the slimmest of majorities in both houses.
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@imbobswaget Kids have no energy when they go to school for 40 hours a week? Has she met children?.
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@USA_Polling The idea that any 20 year old would find inspiration in Biden’s rhetoric is hilarious.
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@ThunderWolf08 Donald Trump presiding over the 250th anniversary of America just hit me like a truck.
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@atl_pain @BetterCallSaul Cancer meds, barbiturates, and alcohol, my gut says he’s already dead.
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West Virginia is the Union State, no matter how much our government hates that fact. That is why I am so PROUD to announce that the students of Marshall University are unionizing! The first meeting of the Marshall United Students’ Union will be this week! More details soon!.
The Great Railroad Strike (1877). The Great Coal Strike (1902). The Paint Creek–Cabin Creek Strike (1912). The Battle of Blair Mountain (1921). The Black Lung Strike (1969). The 1977–78 Miners’ Strike. The Pittston Coal Strike (1989–1990).
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@the_transit_guy And only ever between 1 and 4 AM. It’s gorgeous in there, and they have a bunch of museums and art, but I’ve never gotten to see any of it because it’s always closed by the time my train gets there.
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@the_transit_guy Pretty sure he did more damage to his truck than the paint. I don’t think pickup trucks are supposed to be one-wheel drive.
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West Virginia, remember that insane rain on Friday? That was us getting hit by a fucking hurricane several hours from the ocean. We were spared the fate of Asheville by pure luck and a couple hundred miles. Climate change is not a myth or distant threat that doesn’t concern us.
Asheville is over 2,000 feet above sea level, and ~300 miles away from the nearest coastline. No place is safe from climate change. We all suffer the consequences. We must all take action. We are all in this together.
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IT’S OFFICIAL!. Marshall University now has a union to advocate for the good of ALL students, as students, as workers, as citizens, and as people!. I am so proud to announce the creation of the MARSHALL UNITED STUDENTS’ UNION. Solidarity forever for the Union makes us strong!
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@ZZZZach89 Or how only four original Mayan books still exist because the Spanish burned fucking all of them. 3 of them are in Europe, 1 in Mexico City, none held by Mayans. Centuries of untold history, culture, and science burned by Diego de Landa. Only God knows how far that back humanity.
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In the light of this tragedy is a good time to remind everyone that Jim Justice is an active danger to the lives of miners, whose companies owe 1/5 of all mine safety violation fines in the United States.
Very tragic news to report from Logan County. Unfortunately, we lost our fourth coal miner of the year this evening, Gary Chapman. When we lose a miner, it’s not just a loss for the community, but a loss for the entire State of West Virginia.
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I hope West Virginia’s leaders who fought to protect the USPS sorting facility are willing to fight to protect the USPS. No groups would be hurt more by postal privatization than rural people and lower income, the demographics that define West Virginia.
BREAKING: Trump says his team is looking into the privatization of the Postal Service.
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In WV, the 2022 midterms had 43% turnout. The entire suite of extremist Republicans controlling 90% of the House of Delegates was chosen by the 27% of registered voters who voted GOP. In the primaries this year, voter turnout by county ranged from 18-44%. Vote. Fucking vote.
Protip: sitting out elections because your state is red is why your state is red.
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@Krishan_A_Patel Trump himself didn’t expect to win this race. Look at his victory speech and tell me that man had any idea he was about to become president again.
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Doing my part to Make Morrisey Unemployed Again!.
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@sahilkapur @SpeakerJohnson “Our young women legislators who are of birthing age” is the creepiest way he could’ve possibly said “pregnant women.”.
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If enough people vote for @SteveWilliamsWV, we can make Morrisey cry on Election Day, and I think that’s beautiful.
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@vanillaopinions @VentMal But he certainly won’t help. He’s an inexperienced, unlikable, uncharismatic, straight, white, middle aged elitist from a safe red state with no discernible personality who functions exclusively as a Trump yes man. He brings nothing at all to the table electorally.
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If y’all know people in Berkeley County, WV, the Board of Education there just named Ryan Saxe their new superintendent, just hours after he announced his resignation from Cabell County. Saxe removed libraries from every elementary school in the county, fought like hell to defund.
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@KNLScurry06 @nikicaga The thing about freight trains is that they are also extremely capable of killing you. They should be shorter and better regulated, but freight trains will always invariably win if you get in their way. Don’t cross the fucking gates. Your life is worth more than 20 minutes.
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@pr3cipitation What I wouldn’t give for a Crown of Candy sourcebook. I get why they’re not gonna make one, but it feels like half the conversations I have with one of my best friends are speculating about Calorum lore.
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@hashtagwarfreek @NewsWire_US That’s the point. The winner of the popular vote wins the election.
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@Fabius1776 @SimpleSCOTUS SCOTUS released a TON of horrible rulings in a short amount of time: Near absolute criminal immunity for former presidents, ruling that cities can criminalize homelessness, making it massively easier to bribe public officials….
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Jim Justice is a fucking joke, an insult to the people he wants to vote for him. We’re one of the poorest states in the country, beset by countless crises he refuses to acknowledge. Whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican, you deserve a Senator who will do their fucking job.
I have been told by people in the @WVGovernor administration that @JimJusticeWV is telling those in his orbit that as a Senator he will not be in DC more than 14 days a month and has no plan to be on any committees. No Senate seat in the nation has had more influence over the.
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@nzsamueltaylor Both the Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah River are partially in West Virginia.
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@intilektual @UnionTyler “The most leverage you have is that you’ll stop doing it.” Yes, that’s how unions work.
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Hey, Mingo, buddy, what’s going on, man? I know it’s not even 5% counted yet, but y’all in Coal Country do know who Blankenship is, right?
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@GrantOB The fact that Brennan’s instinctual reaction was a combination of math, awe, and self-care.
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@_fat_ugly_rat_ West Virginia lost a whole ass governor in 2017, Senator-Elect Jim Justice was first elected governor as a Democrat in 2016 and pretty much immediately flipped Republican. We keep losing legislators, too, most notably Doug Skaff, owner of two of the largest newspapers in WV.
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@NewsWire_US Is there anything Republicans love more than committing acts of quasi-treason?.
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@ThunderWolf08 Just rode St. Paul to Milwaukee a few days ago. I loved the whole ride, but that stretch from St. Paul to La Crosse is so damn pretty, following the Mississippi and surrounding wetlands. So peaceful.
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@gavinbena That’s the beauty of ranked choice, it’s a way better indicator of voter priorities than first past the post could ever be.
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Jim Justice, the coal baron, left entire West Virginia communities without a drop of nonpoisonous water to drink or bathe with. Jim Justice, the part-time governor, never did a damn thing to help them. Vote @ElliottForWV.Vote @SteveWilliamsWV.
Remember, voting blue is a vote for fresh water.
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@ErinInTheMorn Correct me if I’m mistaken, but it looks like that only bans using funds from this particular budget to display pride flags. It’s bad but sounds like it could be a lot worse. Would it preclude waving donated or already owned flags or displaying non-flag pride symbols?.
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@fudokun7 @un_a_valeable The “they started it” part should probably get more attention. Britain dominated the slave trade, and their government spent two hundred years paying off the debt from compensating slavers, so maybe Britain shouldn’t be “a little smug” about their dominance in human misery.
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@Robert_Dehn1 @guntiiiii Making it far more difficult for poorer citizens to be able to run. Most people can’t afford to legislate as a hobby.
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@SMcconnell33 @dick_nixon @RadioFreeTom There’s a difference between wanting the job and giving marching orders to your interviewer.
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Marshall stands with the students and faculty of WVU! A huge thanks to @wvunitedsu for sending people down from Morgantown!. The online petition is open until midnight Tuesday if you missed the chance to sign it!. Remember, y’all, solidarity is the single greatest weapon we have!
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@The_Wub_ My brother in Christ, when people say you lack media literacy, THIS is what they mean.
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@nikicaga Much of their success is uniquely Mexican, but left-wing, grassroots populism backed by concrete action is a winning brand.
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@russophileLs Nothing screams “peace and security” quite like “being a neutral power in a geopolitical buffer zone.”
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@hillam_jared @The_Dirty_Mac @the_transit_guy Lmao, Nashville to Chicago through Louisville and Indianapolis is a little under 500 miles. The standard US rail gauge is just under 5 feet. 5 foot wide, 500 miles long means the total area taken of the tracks would be less than one half a square mile. O’Hare is 12 square miles.
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@DrLearnALot Here me out, what if we DON’T have children working around industrial machinery?.
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@ALC42Charger Averaging just under full capacity seems impressive to me for a new route that has yet to run on any major travel season, no major holidays and only just hitting summer traffic. Extrapolated out, that’s over 200,000 rivers per year for just two trains of 300 per day.
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@JordanUhl Who doesn’t love “The elites are coming after me!” rhetoric from one of the most powerful men in history, a Senator since before a majority of Americans were born, a man with the unilateral power to change the beliefs of tens of millions of people against their avowed principles?.
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And this is the exact bigotry that proves why we need gestures of support like this mural.
A video posted to Facebook on Wednesday shows a pick-up truck driver doing a burnout on the Pride crosswalk in Huntington.
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@fauxvantasma Not universally, of course, but I feel like BLeeM’s the kind of guy that could pull across sexuality if he wanted to. He’s like the Ryan Reynolds of neurodivergent nerds.
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@NQRW Few of Amtrak’s problems are Amtrak’s fault—nearly all come down to limited government support, aging infrastructure, and interference from the freight companies whose lines they run on—but I don’t get what’s the problem in this picture.
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Friday, 3:00 PM - Stop the Cuts Solidarity Rally at the Marshall University Student Center #StopTheCuts. Please join me and @wvunitedsu in calling for the Governor and Legislature to fix WVU’s artificial deficit. These cuts would be devastating for ALL WVians, not just WVU.
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@russophileLs It’s almost as though it went exactly how economists said it would—strong price controls briefly making the ruble appear stronger than it actually is.
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@ErinInTheMorn Using the “deeply rooted history” test to say which minorities have rights. Woof. Even for cis people, a broad ruling here, with Dobbs and the upcoming Idaho abortion case, could seriously harm your right to make medical decisions with your doctor, even life and death decisions.
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@UpstateNYYFan @MagicMeese @TheOnion Ah yes, courts, government buildings, and airports, three types of places famous for how cool they are about you carrying a gun.
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@zachp_25 I have seldom found a more visibly, openly LGBTQ-friendly town than Huntington, one of only 129 US cities to receive a perfect 100 on the Human Rights Campaign LGBTQ Equality Index. Especially at Marshall University, it’s so nice to see so many people like me living so openly.
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@USA_Polling I’m happy for the NPS, NASA, and USPS, but I feel sad for the IRS. They get none of the respect they deserve for keeping our government alive.
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@razroo_chief @PalmerLuckey A great place to start would be for corporations to stop murdering people for profit.
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@naaycoqui @NewsWire_US That’s right. We’re stealing one seat from a three-seat majority after forgetting to steal the presidency.
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@OrganizerMemes I would love to believe that, but he is the man who criminalized abortion in West Virginia and gutted education and other public services to give himself and his buddies tax cuts. He’s not incompetent by principle. He’s a despicable man who is genuinely just that incompetent.
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@1followernodad That’s why I adore @Amtrak. Unlike driving, your fellow travelers are more than a faceless obstacle. Unlike flying, most people on the train want to be there, people who don’t mind the slower, scenic route. There are few simple joys I love more than just chatting on the train.
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@616alex616 @TheAleksee He was chosen in large part because of his exceptional ability make his attacks stick and energize progressives, then Biden’s advisors took over to stop him from taking the attack or rally progressives.
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@GoldwagNathan Do people know what “experiment” means?. “The electoral college is essential to the American democratic experiment.”. Cool. It’s actively harming our democracy, so maybe we should tweak the variable.
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@CForumGA @NewsWire_US A great place to start would be to eliminate the maximum limit on the Social Security tax. It’s one of the only American taxes to follow an explicitly regressive tax structure, where poor people are required to spend a higher portion of their income on this tax than rich people.
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If only we had predicted that Justice’s vote-buying scheme would collapse the budget…. If only we had a gubernatorial candidate who knows how to manage a budget instead of finance Justice’s vote-buying scheme by gutting public services…. Vote @ElliottForWV.Vote @SteveWilliamsWV.
This morning's commentary: The next WV governor will face budget issues right away.
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