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John Biemer @johnbiemer.bsky.social · 16m

I will not get too excited about a preseason exhibition game…. I will not get too excited about a preseason exhibition game…. GREAT GAME, HOYAS!!!

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John Biemer @johnbiemer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m not a member of the US Senate, the “world’s most exclusive club.” But I do know the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

we've never had much reason to articulate this before a.i., but a reason we enjoy literature, art, music, etc. is that we know it is one human mind trying to express something fundamentally human and otherwise inexpressible to another human mind

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John Biemer @johnbiemer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Can we retire the phrase “not on my Bingo card”? It was really funny at first. It had a good run. But it’s time.

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John Biemer @johnbiemer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Great run by Shelton. Zverev’s serve was too much.

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Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Having gone through this twice, this is beautifully written.

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John Biemer @johnbiemer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

When I’m “on call” for work, I check my phone too much. Which isn’t great, because I already, normally, check my phone too much.

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John Biemer @johnbiemer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

After dropping off our daughter at college for her freshman year, I started thinking about the maelstrom of emotions you undergo at this milestone moment. How can I feel so happy, so proud and so sad all at the same time? My new piece trying to make sense of it for the Chicago Tribune:

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John Biemer: Dropping a child off at college stirs up a tangle of emotions

I’m 53 now. I’ve been to weddings, funerals and graduations. And yet, there’s nothing that feels quite like a college drop-off.

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John Biemer @johnbiemer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

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John Biemer: Dropping a child off at college stirs up a tangle of emotions

I’m 53 now. I’ve been to weddings, funerals and graduations. And yet, there’s nothing that feels quite like a college drop-off.

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John Biemer @johnbiemer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The Andrew Garfield Spider-Man movies are underrated.

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John Biemer @johnbiemer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Russell Westbrook was Allen Iverson 2.0.

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John Biemer @johnbiemer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Pure luck, but it finally happened for me Wordle 1,881 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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John Biemer @johnbiemer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It bums me out that Europe has been at the forefront of accepting and addressing climate change, and yet it’s often the part of the world getting hit the hardest by extreme heat waves.

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John Biemer @johnbiemer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Turns out, LeBron got out of the Lakers at just the right time.

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John Biemer @johnbiemer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

LeBron isn’t as good as Jordan because he doesn’t have as many rings. Also LeBron joining the Sixers is “ring chasing.” I mean, what do you expect? Should he have joined the Jazz?

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John Biemer @johnbiemer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

As our 18-year-old daughter headed out to day three of her four straight days this weekend of Lollapalooza, I took a little pride in thinking that we Gen Xers had created something that the kids today still consider cool. And by “we,” I guess I mean Perry Farrell. But still.

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John Biemer @johnbiemer.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

As my teenaged daughter heads into four straight days of Lollapalooza, it gives me some small level of pride that Gen X created something that the kids still consider cool.

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John Biemer @johnbiemer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The president was asked one of the most hotly debated questions in sports, “who’s better Michael Jordan or LeBron?” And, you’re not going to believe this, but his “analysis” of their phenomenal careers and his final answer once again was all about himself.

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John Biemer @johnbiemer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The name “Infantino” means, of course, infant or small child, so maybe in the end that referred to his job trying to manage a big orange baby.

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John Biemer @johnbiemer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I don’t have a particular rooting interest for Argentina or Spain but I would enjoy the delightful awkwardness of the president handing the World Cup trophy to Spain a week after saying the Spanish are “bad people.”

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John Biemer @johnbiemer.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Excited for this new Christopher Nolan movie because, well, don’t mean to brag, but we actually have a Honda Odyssey. And every day in that sweet minivan is an epic adventure!

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John Biemer @johnbiemer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

This is one of the best scenes in movie history because it works on two levels. It shows the appropriate shock and awe for the characters in Jurassic Park first seeing dinosaurs but it also represents the feeling we as a movie audience felt seeing what CGI could now do, which was revolutionary. RIP

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Sam Neill's Omg Jurassic Moment

ALT: Sam Neill's Omg Jurassic Moment

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John Biemer @johnbiemer.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Can’t believe they scheduled a World Cup quarterfinal in July in Florida. Even crazier that it’s between … England and Norway. Those hydration breaks never looked so good! 🥵

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John Biemer @johnbiemer.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Every now and then, I fall apart

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John Biemer @johnbiemer.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I like the hydration breaks in these World Cup games but I think they ought to give the players orange slices too.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

“The most historic sporting event of all time”? The NBA Finals, the Stanley Cup and the World Cup are all going on right now. This is maybe the fourth biggest sporting event of the weekend.

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John Biemer @johnbiemer.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

New Yorkers at MSG gave the president a Bronx Cheer

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John Biemer @johnbiemer.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

“So, who’s going to guard Wemby?” The dilemma for every NBA team facing the Spurs.

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John Biemer @johnbiemer.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Nothing screams hockey like a Stanley Cup Finals matchup between… Las Vegas and Carolina.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

This right here.

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John Biemer @johnbiemer.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Here’s President Trump to talk for two hours about how great he is and how the country is respected more than ever. And here’s Vanilla Ice to sing a ten-minute version of Ice, Ice Baby. Happy 250th Birthday, America!

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John Biemer @johnbiemer.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Ted Turner, one of a kind. CNN was so freaking good at reporting the news in the ‘80s and ‘90s. The Gulf War. Every Election Day. Where did you turn? CNN. And you hear those letters, C-N-N, in the voice of James Earl Jones. And if it weren’t for CNN, I never would’ve met my wife. Thanks, Ted! RIP

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John Biemer @johnbiemer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

America invented rock and roll and America’s greatest rock and roll artist is Bruce. And there’s nothing on earth like the E Street Band. See them on this tour if you can, as we did last night in Chicago. It’s absolutely fantastic.

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John Biemer @johnbiemer.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

And dancing behind movie scenes Behind those movie screens, Asha Bhosle Shes the one that keeps the dream alive From the morning, past the evening To the end of the light

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James Martin, SJ @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I doubt that Pope Leo XIV will lose any sleep over this, before he begins his pilgrimage to Africa tomorrow. But the rest of us should. Because it is unhinged, uncharitable and unchristian. Is there no bottom to this moral squalor?

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NBA Cobwebs @nbacobwebs.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

April 2, 1984: Georgetown tops Houston, 84-75, to win the "Battle of the Big Men" and an NCAA national title. For the Hoyas, Reggie Williams scored 19 PTS, David Wingate added 16 PTS and Patrick Ewing had 10 PTS/4 BLK. The Cougars' Alvin Franklin had 21 PTS/9 AST. Akeem Olajuwon had 15 PTS/9 REB.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 02/04/2026

“It will just open up naturally,” Trump says about the Strait of Hormuz. He also once said, at the beginning of the pandemic, that COVID would end by itself. "One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear"

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John Biemer @johnbiemer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

This is crazy hangtime by AI. Two defenders jumped with him and were on their way down while he was still going up.

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John Biemer @johnbiemer.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I am glad to hate on UConn all Big East season but then root for them as a standard bearer of the conference once they’re in the Big Dance. Especially if they’re playing Duke.

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John Biemer @johnbiemer.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

My high school senior daughter just went to party where the theme is “2016” and I’m admittedly a little confused as to how her 2016 outfit differs from 2026 fashion, or from 2006 for that matter. But I think I nailed it by telling her to “party like it’s 2016!”

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John Biemer @johnbiemer.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

“Billikens” is right up there with “Hoyas” in terms of odd college mascots that you constantly have to explain if you went there.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Second "Go raibh míle maith agat" of the night (thanks in Irish, or literally "may a thousand goodness be upon you) #oscar

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John Biemer @johnbiemer.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Sorry, living Blues legend Buddy Guy was on the Oscars stage but he didn’t get a moment to play a lick with the camera on him? That’s a miss.

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John Biemer @johnbiemer.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

You say Die Hard is a Christmas movie? I say The Fugitive is a St. Patrick’s Day movie.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Remember when they declared they had restored free speech and ended federal censorship on Trump's very first day back? Well, now they're openly bragging about all the journalists they got fired for saying the wrong thing and all the companies the federal government forced to make changes.

RESTORING FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND ENDING FEDERAL CENSORSHIP

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John Biemer @johnbiemer.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Sometimes it’s the small things in life but I always enjoy seeing that not a single person among the hundreds of thousands of people playing Wordle on any given day solved the puzzle the way that I did.

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John Biemer @johnbiemer.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Look how many defenders Michigan had surrounding Robinson every time he touched the ball and he still went for 50

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Someone in NYC should do interviews with middle-school kids who take the subway to and from school every day, to see if they have any advice for Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy who can't seem to go a single day without pissing himself in fear over them.

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John Biemer @johnbiemer.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

One Hoyas win last night in the first round of the Big East Tournament -- their first tourney win in quite a few years -- and my phone is blowing up with texts this morning about how fun the Big East Tournament is and how we all have to go next year. Hope springs eternal. Let's go, Hoyas!

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