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Jay Flatiron

@jayflatiron.bsky.social
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PROUD Union carpenter. I like to build and fix. I like books and scotch, and love my kitty. NY Rangers fan. My banner is ironic. Delay, Deny, Depose. FUCK ICE

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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 2h
“Amazon’s broadcast team decided to treat Browns QB Deshaun Watson, a proven and unrepentant menace to women, with the kind of soft-focus treatment usually reserved for diabetic Olympians.” defector.com/the-tv-peopl...
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The TV People Are Talking About Deshaun Watson All Wrong | Defector
If you missed last week’s Thursday Night Football tilt between the Steelers and Browns, don’t grieve. The game itself was inessential, and Amazon Prime’s coverage of the game all but incentivized the ...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2h
Wall Street profits and bonuses are poised to hit a record high. CEO pay is up. Corporate profits are skyrocketing. U.S. billionaire wealth is up 30% in a year. Meanwhile, inflation eats up the paychecks of working people as the social safety net is cut out from underneath them. Trumponomics.
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Wall Street Eyes Record Bonuses as Profit Heads Past $90 Billion
A blockbuster year for New York’s trading and investment-banking firms is poised to deliver record earnings for the industry, with profit on pace to exceed $90 billion, and bonuses expected to reach a...
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I spent a year watching school administrators do their jobs—and interviewing the students most impacted. I spoke to @thecut.com in a long-form Q&A about what I saw. Mainly, a system designed to protect perpetrators and punish victims in each and every case.
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The Reason Why Colleges Still Fail to Address Sexual Violence
The “Cornell Seven” case highlights what’s wrong with Trump’s Title IX rules — and how the system was always designed to fail.
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Jay Flatiron @jayflatiron.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Dear every football broadcast: Can we get younger, more exciting, more capable broadcasters/commentators instead of the same old, crinkled clowns you've had for 30 years? So many of them can't keep up with the highlights they are talking about, and don't have any analysis of what they narrate.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And by a current Cornell student: "This putrid treatment of women did not originate in this house. It is a culture created over years of “tradition,” and it is what fraternities are built to produce, no matter what we say about the usual exceptions to the rule."
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Cornell, abolish your fraternities
The case surrounding the ‘Cornell 7′ is as lurid as it gets; whether or not these men face prosecution, it will not change the structural issue with Greek life
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Stroke victims are often given leg braces to help them walk.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 28/09/2026
The Senate is voting on the Protect College Sports Act TODAY. College athletes need a say in the terms and conditions of their work, but this bill would silence athletes and empower the NCAA. Tell your senators: vote NO on the Protect College Sports Act!
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Protect College Athletes
Tell the Senate to vote NO on the Protect College Sports Act Call 844-332-8460 or fill out the form on this page to receive a call. For decades, the bosses who run college sports worked together...
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 26/09/2026
Yes, yes, I'm sure that will stop all interest in the film.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just a remarkable choice, this headline. No other leader of any other country in the history of the UN would get that headline after giving an address with that quote.
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Jay Flatiron @jayflatiron.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
@sickoscommittee.org NICE PUNT #IOWA
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Jay Flatiron @jayflatiron.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"I've already done over a billion in fraud. I still have such a tiny penis. If I let other, more wealthy people with tiny penises do major fraud, maybe they and their tiny penises will be be my friend. For money."
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Putting your principles first.
In September 1964, the Beatles refused to play the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida, when they learned the crowd would be segregated.
The city backed down.
The show went ahead - integrated.
Bringing that up this week for no reason in particular...
Music has always
been bigger than just music.
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Jay Flatiron @jayflatiron.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Another name for the "Protect College Sports Act" could be "A Lot of These Players are Getting Uppity or Need to Smile More"
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Jay Flatiron @jayflatiron.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
wut
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Jay Flatiron @jayflatiron.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
@sickoscommittee.org Go Hawks!! (yeah they dropped it) #IOWA
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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 12/09/2026
From Iowa State’s Band: “…members of the Cyclone Marching Band will wear a Black & Gold pin with an outline of the state of Iowa and the letters “DIFD,” in honor of Derek Phillips, a member of the Hawkeye Marching Band who passed away earlier this week.”.
Iowa state band uniform with a DIFD pin
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Jay Flatiron @jayflatiron.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
That's a big fucking horse.
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Jay Flatiron @jayflatiron.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
GODDAMNIT
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
A viewer named Debbie got the phrase “nut cuttin time down on the ranch” banned from my program. Debbie ruined it for everyone.
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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 09/09/2026
Any answer other than “who gives a shit, republicans are using a dozen kids playing JV volleyball as a distraction from looting the county and covering for elite pedophiles” is cowardly horseshit
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A new tool exposes the $1.7 billion union-busting industry. You can search every law firm, consultant, and individual attorney. And you can estimate how much a typical union-busting drive costs, depending on the workplace, number of employees, & length of campaign. prospect.org/2026/09/08/u...
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How Much Do Union-Busting Campaigns Cost? - The American Prospect
Is your boss making you sit through anti-union propaganda meetings? It turns out those are pricey.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Thirty-four days before she reported to prison, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes gave Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim access to document her every move. That turned into a three-year project, and A24 will release the resulting documentary this October.
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Jay Flatiron @jayflatiron.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is all so fucking embarrassing.
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Jay Flatiron @jayflatiron.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
HOLY LORD THIS IS TRANSCENDENT
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Jay Flatiron @jayflatiron.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
@sickoscommittee.org HAWKBALL
Graphic for college football showing NIU has 19 yards and Iowa has 19 first downs.
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
As a former professional football player, I can confidently say that this essay is incorrect from every conceivable angle, and contributes heavily to the culture of toxic masculinity that still infests high schools and colleges across the country.
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Pablo Torre @pablo.show · 24/08/2026
P.S.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Sorry it just occurred to me that there may be people who haven’t seen clip from the Quibi show where Rachel Brosnahan plays a woman dying because of her golden prosthetic arm and I needed to fix that
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Racket @racketmn.com · 02/09/2026
While Mich Golden sales represent just a sliver of AB InBev's $59 billion annual revenue, the beverage giant keeps churning out the product, almost exclusively to satiate demand in Minnesota.
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How Michelob Golden Light Became Minnesota’s Signature Summer Beer - Racket
Our state's go-to macro lager is more than a lawnmower beer: It’s a testament to the quirks of Minnesotan life.
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Jay Flatiron @jayflatiron.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Me playing baseball.
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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026
If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
America's national parks are being quietly taken apart: mass layoffs, record budget cuts, monuments shrunk by millions of acres, protected land reopened to drilling. None of this is speculation. Ten sourced examples, one at a time. 🧪
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Jay Flatiron @jayflatiron.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This is clown shit. We have an apprenticeship program based around regular classes and being mentored in the field by journey-level tradespeople.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
America is lawless. Are Dems ready to get tough on crime? A THREAD.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
You know something has gone terribly wrong when 94% of teachers have to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies while the average Wall Street employee got a bonus of $246,900 in 2025. Hello?
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 26/08/2026
Jesus Christ every American media outlet I've seen is reporting on Trump renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America like it's something he can just do. None of them are commenting on how fucking absurd it is, how embarrassing and pathetic it is, how small and weak and never gonna happen it is.
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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Georgia audited its own data center tax breaks and found that the state gave up $474 million in sales taxes in one year—and got back just $41 million from the industry. At least 38 states have deals like this. #AI #News #US
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I absolutely loved this article. What a fantastic takedown of the bullshittery that is the AI industry. AI does not scale. The returns are diminishing. Line only goes up if it runs on hype and grift. Bc it's a grift run by the amoral sociopathic incel Nerd Reich.
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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
My latest piece for @thenation.com about Enes Kanter and these Right Wing Hordes, stalking The WNBA www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Enes Kanter Freedom's Bigoted Stunts Have Nothing to Do With Protecting Women
The trans women in sports panic is nothing but a stalking horse for permitting violence against trans people—and we should celebrate players like Natasha Cloud who say so.
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 21/08/2026
twitter update: the us department of education tweeted an ai photo of trump, linda mcmahon, and epstein??????
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https://x.com/usedgov/status/2090122240360669200the photo in question, showing the typical ai shiny style with a very epstein-like character on the righthand side
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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
look, we are not cancelling @bencollins.bsky.social or @sky.skymarchini.net or @mmasnick.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy @techdirt.com or @theonion.com so tough shit, we all have to find a way to live together. what if we all agree to cancel @jcsalterego.bsky.social 😂 he loves that kind of thing.
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Jay Flatiron @jayflatiron.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Screenshot from the movie Galaxy Quest where the background actor "Guy" is now know as Security Chief "Roc" Ingersol so the viewers know he is an important character.
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Jay Flatiron @jayflatiron.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
GODDAMNIT
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Jay Flatiron @jayflatiron.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Fucking embarrassing.
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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Since we’re telling stories about DEI and mandatory HR sessions, let’s talk about how it all fits into the enshittification of the academic job experience…
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Mike 🍁 @thewarrenisempty.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This also is rape culture
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TQ 🌿 @witchytq.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
they know we don't want it. they do not care.
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