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Rob Weir

@jschooltiger.bsky.social
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Dad, husband, recovering journalist, educator, Missourian. moderator/contributor at r/AskHistorians. av and events and etc. at Missouri UMC When in doubt, do the most loving thing.

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 30/09/2026
Thank you for the link! I didn't realize that was out already!
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Bonesito @bonesito.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When someone accuses me of going to a Hawks game.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
How scared are Missouri Republicans about their anti-abortion amendment not passing in November? They are running commercials that don’t even mention the amendment will ban abortion… because they know we already gave women the constitutional right to abortion. VOTE NO ON AMENDMENT 3.  
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Emi (they/them) @queeringsmite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
writing an adventure is all fun and games until you have to answer questions like "how did [NPC] transport their luggage to their secret hideout" and suddenly you're researching the history of the suitcase. thank god for r/AskHistorians that's all I can say
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Rob Weir @jschooltiger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is why we shouldn’t play Troy.
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Rob Weir @jschooltiger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ok that was filthy
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Rob Weir @jschooltiger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Being part of a sports fan is talking your shit, and I get that, but the number of Denver fans who thought they’d roll over the Chiefs at home was way too high.
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Rob Weir @jschooltiger.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If a church volunteer happened to show up at the same time and also decide to clear brush in parallel with us we’re not to blame
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Rob Weir @jschooltiger.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’m not sure what you’re implying, I didn’t see anything
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Rob Weir @jschooltiger.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I just spent a few hours this weekend with scouts cutting down brush honeyscuckle, if we had had a power tool there (which we totally didn't because that's totally not allowed) it would have gone so much faster
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/09/2026
Breaking News: The Supreme Court once again blocked Missouri from using a congressional map in November that was redrawn to give Republicans an advantage in the midterm elections.
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Supreme Court Again Blocks Republican-Backed Missouri Voting Map
The ruling deferred to Missouri’s state Supreme Court, which had invalidated G.O.P.-friendly district lines, saying voters must first have an opportunity to approve the map in a statewide referendum.
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Rob Weir @jschooltiger.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“Only a few million people want one. Why is Ferrari selling this expensive device that does the same thing as your Ford Fiesta?”
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Stephanie King @stephstephking.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
RT if you've ever had an ABSOLUTELY BALLER TIME on a neglected playground with busted creaky springs
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Rob Weir @jschooltiger.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Someone buy Rudi Keller a drink missouriindependent.com/2026/09/09/d...
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RedditCFB @redditcfb.com · 09/09/2026
South Dakota and Eastern Washington will face off this weekend in helmets with their names written in indigenous languages (Lakota and Salish).
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Rob Weir @jschooltiger.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Also Missouri!!
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Chris Vannini @chrisvannini.com · 04/09/2026
This UMass blowout of Rutgers is one of the more shocking things in college football history. 16-game losing streak, 23-game losing streak vs. FBS teams. UMass was a 29.5-point underdog and wins by 16. That's a 45.5-point miss.
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Rob Weir @jschooltiger.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Arkansas Pine Bluff just had one of the dumbest sequences I’ve ever seen Safety Safety kick out of bounds Personal foul on safety kick Mizzou gets the ball on the APB 35, immediately scores
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Rob Weir @jschooltiger.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Again!
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Rob Weir @jschooltiger.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Mizzou!
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Robert Suits @robertsuits.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I'm uncomfortable with self-promotion, but I'm sure some folks have missed it, so here goes: Are you interested in a history of migrants workers battling climate disasters and navigating energy transitions? Or perhaps in a gripping story of turn-of-the-20th-century America? Get my book!
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The Hobo
A panoramic history of America’s first climate migrants
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Rob Weir @jschooltiger.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The story was really sweet, but a part of me always wonders where the donations are for humans who want to keep the child they raised from a baby in their homes.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
STOP GROWING FUCKING LETTUCE IN THE DESERT THIS IS ACTUALLY A VERY EASY PROBLEM TO SOLVE
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Rob Weir @jschooltiger.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
What could possibly go wrong
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 22/07/2026
Are you a journalist who uses the Freedom of Information Act in your reporting? Well, you can now win $25,000. FPF is proud to announce the launch of the Penlight Prize for excellence in paywall-free public records reporting. Watch @trevortimm.bsky.social to learn more, and apply today.
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 22/07/2026
the piece is about how the collapse of unionized labor in the construction industry has affected wages and working conditions, it took 60 interviews to do. pretty burned out on people just glancing at a headline and giving the most snide possible reaction
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Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 22/07/2026
This lead: “It took less than a day for the detective to give up on the case.”
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Ross Thompson @wintermute115.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The Luddites' actual argument was that automated looms meant expensive, skilled workers were being replaced with literal children, who were then getting maimed and killed, and maybe this is bad.
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Rob Weir @jschooltiger.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
stop me if you've heard this, but it's capitalism
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Rob Weir @jschooltiger.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
someone missed the whole girl dinner thing
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Rob Weir @jschooltiger.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
What to Do: Arguably the barbecue capital of the world, Kansas City boasts more than 100 smokehouses, including the iconic Joe’s. The city is famous for serving burnt ends slathered in its signature sweet sauce, and it even has the world’s first Museum of BBQ.
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Rob Weir @jschooltiger.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Kansas Destination: Kansas City Where to Stay: The Raphael Hotel is an American classic, and not just because it dates to 1927—it’s part of the Spanish-inspired Country Club Plaza, the world’s first shopping center designed for motorists.
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Rob Weir @jschooltiger.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The Forbes article on summer getaways has the best places in Kansas as being in Missouri. Which tracks, to be fair. www.forbes.com/sites/forbes...
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52 All-American Summer Getaways
A state-by-state travel guide (including Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico) to hotels built by American entrepreneurs and other historic venues in the land of the free.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 14/07/2026
Interrogating journalists at the border and seizing their electronic devices has no place in a county that claims to protect freedom of the press. If this reporter was targeted because of his reporting or viewpoint, it’s an outrageous assault on the First Amendment.
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Journalist’s Devices Seized at U.S. Border Following Iran Reporting
On July 13, 2026, The Grayzone reported that their editor-in-chief Max Blumenthal was detained at Dulles International Airport in Washington D.C. upon return from  a reporting trip to Iran to cover…
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
On this special 4th of July I want to remind everyone that the ambrosial 90's era beverage Fruitopia was around for nine years, thats five years longer than the Confederate States of America.
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Rob Weir @jschooltiger.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
12/10 best dog
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
"The Boy Scouts changed, not because any court told them to, but because people came to understand how wrong it was to exclude a kid for who he was. That understanding built slowly, over the years, because people like you refused to disappear."
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Harry Kane always looks a little bit like he just lost a toddler at the supermarket
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Rachel Hope Cleves @rachelcleves.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride
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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 16/06/2026
the citizen suit provision in the clean air act was included for this specific and exact reason. insane memo, completely incomprehensible levels of corruption
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Rob Weir @jschooltiger.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Tamegonit Lodge/Order of the Arrow 50th anniversary, 1989.
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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
"king of the Franks" Among the wurst puns I've seen
Charlemagne brand bratwurst labeled King of the Franks
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 08/06/2026
Award-winning Somali referee Omar Artan, set to be the first from his country to officiate at the World Cup, was denied entry to the United States, a sports ministry official told AFP on Monday u.afp.com/SDH9
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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Los Angeles has reputation as most degenerate place in America for press rights. FIFA required LA World Cup host committee to write a human rights action plan. It was supposed to include press. No surprise, LA completely blew that part off. LA's seen DECADES of police violence toward press.
For its part, FIFA issued guidelines on First Amendment protections and required World Cup host cities, 11 of which are in the U.S., to submit human rights action plans.

But one host city, Los Angeles, doesn’t even mention journalists in its related webpage, despite LA accounting for half of all press freedom violations documented in the Tracker this year. And Atlanta’s 57-page plan references journalists only once, even though two of the seven reporters documented in the Tracker’s ICE detention cases were detained in the state. As of late April, most cities still had not published their plans.
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Danny Dougherty @dannydougherty.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Our take is a good business-y read on what's been bubbling up on Guitartube, but also my buddy @danvock.bsky.social had a good, wonky read on it a few days ago danvock.substack.com/p/when-guita...
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When guitar legends and Google think they don't need you
The core user becomes an afterthought in an economy where customer satisfaction and doing no evil lose their appeal
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/05/2026
NEW: Three U.S. senators have called for an overhaul of federal agents’ use of tear gas and pepper spray, citing a ProPublica investigation that found at least 79 children were hurt by these chemicals during Trump’s immigration crackdown.
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U.S. Lawmakers Demand Reforms to Immigration Officers’ Use of Tear Gas and Pepper Spray
A ProPublica investigation found that scores of children were hurt by these chemicals during President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. Lawmakers say the findings show more restrictions are neede...
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Rob Weir @jschooltiger.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I try to be patient with headline writers because I did it for 20 years and I know it's hard, but COME ON MAN
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.
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Celia Richardson @celiarichardson.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Customer feedback this week; ‘Please can you get some more diversity at the National Trust by encouraging more hot men to visit.’ Ideas for how we do this v welcome. Nothing too racy please - we are the National Trust not the National Tryst.
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Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Universities fuel local economies, so it's not just students and redundant staff at risk, it's restaurants & bars, cultural institutions, cleaners, builders, plumbers, fitness instructors, massage therapists, landlords, we are all part of an ecosystem.
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