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Jordan Treske @jordantreske.bsky.social · 3h

Happy to share that I contributed a Bucks season preview for this month's issue of @milwaukeemag.bsky.social. Best of all, it's in print! A big thank you to @tiwindisch.gspn.info and @justingarcianba.bsky.social for helping me out with this. Pick up your copy today!

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Ben McCormick @caseofthebens.bsky.social · 23h

This is criticism and essay and all around freaking great. Exactly the kind of work for which @defector.com is the perfect home

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Ben McCormick @caseofthebens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This 1000% Taylor Jenkins this, Taylor Jenkins that, across every interview. No one more important at the org—Burries/Herro/Rollins/Turner included—than the new coach

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Ben McCormick @caseofthebens.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Four of the first five Bucks questions coming from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporters. More important than ever to subscribe to them as a Bucks fan @jimowczarski.bsky.social

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Jim Owczarski @jimowczarski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🗣️ it is Bucks media day in Milwaukee. ICYMI: Here is a dive into new head coach Taylor Jenkins’ unique plan and core principles as he starts this new chapter in franchise history 🔖 www.jsonline.com/story/sports...

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Ben McCormick @caseofthebens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If TD S1 is going to be on here because it’s a self-contained story, zero reason Fargo S1 and S2 aren’t on here as separate entries

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Ben McCormick @caseofthebens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I always knew I was the target for Ted Lasso but the All the Presidents Men stuff last episode put me at the center of the bullseye

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Ben McCormick @caseofthebens.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Three things I need separated: 1) how can the Kings “indicate” they’ll pay Duren (a free agent) max money next summer, and 2) Draymond in the year of our lord 2026 got a $27m one-year deal at the exact number PO he declined But the Bucks telling free agent GTJ they’ll pay him is circumvention?

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Jim Owczarski @jimowczarski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's a new chapter for the Bucks & make no mistake, Taylor Jenkins will be its author. The new head coach has leaned into the emotions of the fan base & has a unique on-court approach for this version of the team. "I gotta connect.” 🔖Here's how he's going to 👇 www.jsonline.com/story/sports...

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Taylor Jenkins is set to try a different tack as new Bucks coach | Exclusive

Coach Taylor Jenkins plans to set a new course for the Milwaukee Bucks in the post-Giannis era. Here's how he'll do it.

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Ben McCormick @caseofthebens.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Turf field in East Rutherford have anything to do with ZBB’s injury?

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Ben McCormick @caseofthebens.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Crazy that America’s favorite game is one where this happens regularly and without penalty. Crazier is I tuned in too

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Nick Juskewycz @itssked.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Chris Simms my GOAT. He's 100% spot on here

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Ben McCormick @caseofthebens.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Wendell Berry and Annie Dillard in one month is brutal. RIP to two of the best nonfiction writers to ever do it

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Ben McCormick @caseofthebens.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: Sex Bob-Omb will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

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Ben McCormick @caseofthebens.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

TIL baby aspirin is named after the dosage and not who should be taking it

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Ben McCormick @caseofthebens.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Your weekly reminder Rutgers may not real

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Ben McCormick @caseofthebens.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

As a CFB casual this may well be out there already, But in this maximum NIL era I wonder if very good teams wobbling early in the season will be more common. Teams just never having played together figuring it out vs continuity that’d prove out week 1

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Ben McCormick @caseofthebens.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Is targeting a thing at all or are we pretending that wasn’t helmet to helmet

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Curt Hogg @cyrthogg.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Malachi Coleman? Sure!

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Ben McCormick @caseofthebens.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Am taking it as largely a good thing I don’t recognize almost any of these Badgers players

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Barton @barton13.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Best special teams play inside of Lambeau in years.

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Ben McCormick @caseofthebens.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

We have strayed far from God’s light

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Ben McCormick @caseofthebens.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Storming the field for that is such loser behavior

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Ben McCormick @caseofthebens.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Never seen someone at baggage claim so locked in

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Ben McCormick @caseofthebens.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Anyone find the Clippers relative silence a bit disquieting? Haven’t fired Zucker or Frank, haven’t finalized the Kawhi trade…

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Ben McCormick @caseofthebens.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I’m starting a new conspiracy: is Rutgers just a figment of our imagination? Do you know someone who went there? I don’t. It’s in Newark AND Camden? 🤔 If you did go there, did you see the university’s accreditation paperwork? Could all be an elaborate ruse

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Aaron Gleeman @aarongleeman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Pablo Torre can obviously fight his own battles, but I can't get over how many prominent people in media downplayed, refuted, and even mocked his Clippers reporting and are now just silent on the whole thing. Massive outlets ran cover for the Clippers and now just ... move on.

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Shams Charania Tweets @shamsbot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The NBA's rulings are final -- there is no formal appeal or arbitration process available to the Clippers with the league. LA's only outlet to fight the punishment is in court.

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Ben McCormick @caseofthebens.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Cackling the Clippers are blubbering “b-b-b-but the NBA didn’t tell us this was going to happen!!!”

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Harrison Faigen @faignews.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Getting Kawhi officially cost the Clippers 10 first-round picks, two swaps, and SGA.

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Ben McCormick @caseofthebens.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Basically: Ballmer: “I’ll fight this; I’ll sue.” NBA: “Try. See what comes out in discovery”

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Ben McCormick @caseofthebens.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Creating space in the Tim Curry lovefest for one of his best works: being Nigel Thornberry

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Ben McCormick @caseofthebens.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Joining the “who’s the next Bond?” discourse: The first two episodes of Lanterns has put me over the top for Aaron Pierre. His on screen running is excellent.

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Ben McCormick @caseofthebens.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Mike Lindell has admitted to doing plenty of drugs in his life. It is worth a Google to see just how much. It’s mindboggling.

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

damn, thats the biggest dildo they've had to get rid of at a WNBA game yet!

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Newcastle United @newcastleunited.com · 23/08/2026

INSTANT IMPACT ⚡️

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Ben McCormick @caseofthebens.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

If Giannis wanted to leave to do cool shit, playing with Klay Thompson is definitely that

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Ben McCormick @caseofthebens.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This is a very weird thing for Shams to post about Klay’s buyout

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Ben McCormick @caseofthebens.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This. It’ll be a few hours of talking about the Cavs and Watson. Then we’ll realize we heard the sound of the Nuggets’s window shutting

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Ben McCormick @caseofthebens.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

So the carousel marches on. Mathurin or Kuminga to MKE?

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Justin Russo @flybyknite.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A statement from NBA Chief Communications Officer Mike Bass:

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Ben McCormick @caseofthebens.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Read the ESPN article. For it to close on two grafs about Sandberg’s guilt and how Ballmer is a class citizen highlights it’s an ownership-sourced hatchet job. Called a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist a “podcaster” Zip about the Clippers co-owner investing $2m in a sinking ship for no reason.

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