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Kirk Brown @lhhawkcoach.bsky.social · 19h

Hawks win 48-14 to move to 5-1 (1-0) on the season. Thrilled for my senior who got to captain the team and played a bunch!

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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026

Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"

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Kirk Brown @lhhawkcoach.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hawks win! We finish non-league at 4-1 with a tough win over a talented St Margaret’s team. Next up league opener vs Kennedy.

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Kirk Brown @lhhawkcoach.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Creepy social media interaction. My wife texts me about the state of our pet guinea pig and updates me on the options for euthanizing him. My open social media feed flips from the video i clicked on to one advertising pet euthanasia. So now we’re reading my texts? When did I approve that?

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.

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Kirk Brown @lhhawkcoach.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Not when a small number of Americans ask really stupid questions it’s not.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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NPR @npr.org · 19/09/2026

Three reporters were blocked from the White House grounds Saturday morning, a day after President Trump said CNN, Politico, and MS NOW would be banned for reporting "FICTION and LIES." n.pr/4iyPwqp

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CNN, MS NOW, Politico reporters denied access to White House following Trump ban

Three reporters were blocked from the White House grounds Saturday morning, a day after President Trump said CNN, Politico, and MS NOW would be banned for reporting "FICTION and LIES."

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Kirk Brown @lhhawkcoach.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Happy Aloha Friday 🌴🌺🤙🏽 Maui, HI

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Mace "came fifth in South Carolina, she came last in the governor's race. Donald Trump didn't endorse her. Donald Trump said she's a nasty, terrible woman who is untrustworthy. For the first time in my life, I agree with Donald Trump." Me to mad Islamophobe, Rep. Nancy Mace, on Piers Morgan's show:

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026

Booker eviscerates Patel: "He's like an 18 year old kid who wants to join a fraternity that he could never be a member of, doing keg stands and chugging with friends. He's an embarrassment. He is a disgrace. This is a mockery and a sham. What's bad are the people enabling him."

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Jonathan Nez @formerpreznez.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

During WW2, all Americans were called to Warrior Up and fight against fascism. Diné, the beautiful language I first learned in my family home, helped turn the tide of the war.

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Kirk Brown @lhhawkcoach.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yesterday I had the honor to be a part of the induction ceremony for our 2026 Laguna Hills HS hall of fame class. 5 great players who have gone to be great men. An honor to have coached all of them and to be connected to this great program!

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Ted Cruz is aggressively booed in Austin, Texas: “Ted, you suck!”

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Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus @capac.house.gov · 10/09/2026

CAPAC condemns the Department of Homeland Security’s Discriminatory Social Media Posts

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Kirk Brown @lhhawkcoach.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

ucla is going to lose this game because they aren’t using Troy Leigber. And they will deserve to

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Kirk Brown @lhhawkcoach.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Hawks win! 42-13 over Capo Valley Christian. Laguna Hills moves to 3-0 on the season. Next up: Irvine

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Kirk Brown @lhhawkcoach.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Happy Aloha Friday! 🤙🏽🌺🌴 Launiupoko, Maui

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 01/09/2026

Was on CNN discussing the paid influencers by your tax money thanks to DOD, pushing partisan talking points.

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Kirk Brown @lhhawkcoach.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Look, I couldn’t care less about all this “SC fans didn’t show up” manufactured drama. It is worth noting that you can now get 20oz of beer in a Trojan sword at games!

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

So, I interviewed Hunter Biden too. Challenged him on Gaza, 2024, Kamala, Jill, Joe, Burisma, and also asked him about the Trump sons and who he likes for 2028. A fascinating conversation - preview clip below, full interview here: zeteo.com/p/mehdi-chal...

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Kirk Brown @lhhawkcoach.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Hawks win! 24-10 over rival Aliso, returning the Buffalo head back to where it belongs. 2-0 on the season and playing some good football #onetownoneteam #BeatAliso #TealsNotReal

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Kirk Brown @lhhawkcoach.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Happy Alohawk Friday! Home opener for the Hawks vs rival Aliso Niguel in the Battle for the Buffalo (the most beautiful, ugly trophy you’ll ever see) #onetownoneteam #TealisNotARealColor

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USC Trojan Marching Band @usctmb.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A week from today: Band and Baseball at Angel Stadium. Come early for our performance. angels.com/usc Buy tickets from the link above and get a bespoke TMB/Angels jersey.

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Kirk Brown @lhhawkcoach.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Hawks win 31-21 to open the season vs Foothill! Down 14-3 at half Hawks storm back to dominate the second half. 1-0 and on to Aliso!

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James @wearejames.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Director Chris Atkins tells The Times how he came to make the first ever official documentary on James. In print today, or online (behind paywall). James: Getting Away With It comes to cinemas this coming Monday. Tickets: jamesgettingawaywithit.com/... NBL x #James #GettingAwayWithIt

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USC_alifornia @uscalifornia.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

@nickandert.bsky.social @lintonjoe.bsky.social I’m hoping to reach Jayvon’s former coworkers at Metro and LAX who may be willing to contribute. Would you be able to help by sharing? Share or no share, thank you for your transit advocacy for LA, I’m a more informed voter because of it 🙏🏽

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Kirk Brown @lhhawkcoach.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The Lakers are being bought by a Kushner and Bezos is buying into Liverpool?!? I’d say I’ll go to just HS sports but money and buying players is wrecking that too.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I have said publicly or a while that a reporter should ask Trump to comment on Wakanda and say they're pro-tariff and only half-jokingly, I stand half-vindicated (and with this administration, as I have also said, you cannot make this stuff up):

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US government lists fictional nation Wakanda as trade partner

Officials say it was an error to add the fictional nation from Black Panther to the list.

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Kirk Brown @lhhawkcoach.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

My wife @jocenikbrown.bsky.social is really amazing. She is currently playing the lead in Alanis Morisette’s Jagged Little Pill and is so gut wrenching good. I am in awe of how talented she is. Actor, director, teacher, mom and wife. stagescenela.com/2026/07/jagg...

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JAGGED LITTLE PILL

Chance Theater superstar Jocelyn A. Brown delivers yet another dramatic and vocal tour-de-force performance, this time round as a seemingly perfect but secretly drug-addicted suburban housewife, in…

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Kirk Brown @lhhawkcoach.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Interesting to see such a thoughtful, nuanced response to this topic.

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Kirk Brown @lhhawkcoach.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Jersey looks fantastic! Seeing the TMB makes it worth watching the Angels play

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Kirk Brown @lhhawkcoach.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Just me or does this pitch look really narrow? #LIVWXM

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Kirk Brown @lhhawkcoach.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Just tried a new M&M flavor: peanut butter and jelly. It is every bit of amazing as it sounds. PB&J plus chocolate? Awesome.

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Kirk Brown @lhhawkcoach.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Just got back from the Odyssey. Pretty sure the message of the movie is if you mess with Trojans, you are screwed. Oh and the Trojan armour is the best!

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USC Trojan Marching Band @usctmb.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Vote for us in the @usatodaysports.usatoday.com Readers' Choice Awards! Best Walk-Out Tradition usatoday.com/sports/reade... Best Fight Song usatoday.com/sports/reade...

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Kirk Brown @lhhawkcoach.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Trying to think who else I’d add to my list of favorites. Lo Orr and Trep for sure. Clancy. That might be my top 5.

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Kirk Brown @lhhawkcoach.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

She is spot on and his response is equally awesome.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The documents Trump cited don't even make his case - and actually refute much of it. But that didn'tg matter. No foreign regime, no spies, no saboteurs have yet matched the damage that America’s own president just did tonight to faith in U.S. elections. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Trump Just Did More Damage to Elections Than China

His speech was a mashup of charges that aren’t supported by the documents he released.

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Kirk Brown @lhhawkcoach.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

We can now get back to those who don’t know what a red card is, ignoring soccer again.

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