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used to: teach english; do athletic comms.; know what i wanted; be younger

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I'll vote for you for President if you run on this
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 13/10/2026
The Detroit Free Press allowed readers to submit their verdict on who won the debate between Dr. Abdul El Sayed and Mike Rogers— but the only two people who said Rogers won decided to include anti Arab slurs in their letters in addition to abject lies. So the DFP refused to publish them.
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zorg @russooo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
ooh he’s sassy! i’m definitely projecting, but i wonder if he feels his seat getting hotter
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zorg @russooo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
they look too much like the bucs now that TB has gone with a dark grey instead of pewter post-alarm clocks
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zorg @russooo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
theyve had like three jersey rebrands since the super bowl loss (in '16?!) and theyve all been fine overall but missed on a small element or all the elements may look fine alone but don't come together as a whole imo
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zorg @russooo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
falcons looks terrible in these unis. need white socks
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zorg @russooo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
it looked to me like daniels f'd up the play, he obv should have thrown it away. and quinn throwing the headset tells me the same
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Again, if the 🇺🇸 media covered the GOP as it actually is, & the way foreign far right authoritarian parties are covered, behavior like this would spark a wholesale change in 🇺🇸 political journalism. This? It won’t even make headlines tomorrow, & the Sunday shows will platform a dozen GOP politicians.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Again, <only Republicans> ever get to talk like this. If a single municipal level Democrat ever did, it would be a national outrage &spark a wave of “civility” discourse, & op-eds about how Dems must Respect Real Folkz & talk across difference. Democracy is incompatible with this double standard.
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zorg @russooo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i was watching that game live and the announcers were SCREAMING for wharfie time before it even occurred and even more so when it did, as if it added five more players for fremantle. then they lost.
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David BASTARDspan @davidbix.com · 29/09/2026
Since WWE's trying to exploit PAC's death, it's time to talk about this: Remember how PAC suddenly had visa issues when AEW started? That's because, when the AEW trademarks were filed, WWE called USCIS to claim he walked out on his visa. After leaving him alone for a year and giving him his release.
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David BASTARDspan @davidbix.com · 29/09/2026
This is well-known throughout the wrestling business and among wrestling media. It was never reported because it's such a sensitive issue that everyone kind of quietly agrees not to report on that kind of visa stuff without the talent's permission. But with PAC passing away, that part is moot.
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zorg @russooo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
wasn’t there a whole thing in tennessee a few months ago, a new data center was fucking up the water in a majority-black neighborhood or something? just trying to find my footing here
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zorg @russooo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
sorry, i’m not following this story and genuinely don’t know what’s true. are you saying the latter is actually happening but the former is the conventional understanding of the topic?
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zorg @russooo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I STILL HAVE FAITH
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zorg @russooo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
afl is freaking awesome man
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zorg @russooo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
thinking about the political trends and trump’s public appearances is overthinking the situation
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zorg @russooo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
lmao RANDOM. i work in retail in a rural area. zero of the people i interact with follow political trends. their lives are small and tight (not derogatory), influenced by the people and things that go on in their immediate environment, which now includes gas at nearly $5/gal
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Brendan Quinn @bfquinn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A forewarning that this one is difficult. But it’s a credit to Duncan Robinson and his family for telling it. They hope it’ll help others. And maybe it’ll be a good reminder that “we can all be a little less certain about knowing what someone is going through.” www.nytimes.com/athletic/761...
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Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The problem with education is that it's a solved problem. Students need small classes, individual attention, lots of writing, lots of feedback, access to a well-stocked library, time to think, and time to talk with their peers. We just don't like the answer, so we keep trying to do other stuff.
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zorg @russooo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
he's walking, dudes often walk off then get diagnosed with an acl tear. and harbaugh's face
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zorg @russooo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
torn acl
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
By the time this merger ruins HBO, destroys WB, gets 5,000 people fired, moves production overseas, and guts the quality of the movies the new studio makes, most people will have forgotten how fast the AGs caved and how little they got in this deal. Writers will not.
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zorg @russooo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
faking care just to extract more money from me for a bullshit service. ughhhh can't wait to be past this
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zorg @russooo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
fucking scammers. god, im so livid. associating with Athena Auto Protection was a terrible decision and in trying to cancel my coverage with them, they gave me the runaround: “why wont you pay a lower price? what will you do if the car is damaged and youre not covered?” WTF DO YOU CARE?!
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICE abducted a WBB player while she was traveling with her Kentucky State team in early August at Louisville airport. She has been imprisoned for 1.5 months and denied care for a serious ACL injury. It is the responsibility of universities and the NCAA to protect their players. They have failed.
Aminata Seck, 26, a student-athlete at Kentucky State University, was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport while traveling with her school's basketball team Aug. 7, said Sadiqa Reynolds, a lawyer helping coordinate Seck's case.

Seck's team was headed to New York for a tournament, and she was taken into custody after going through airport security, said Reynolds, former president and CEO of the Louisville Urban League.
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Jonathan Larsen @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
But here's Rogers's backer, Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), in Uganda in 2023, after that country enacted an LGBTQ+ death penalty and the US objected... ...telling Uganda to be on God's side, not America's... ...two months before endorsing Rogers in 2023.
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zorg @russooo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
this is exactly why any "dont talk politics" talk is nonsense. its simply a way to avoid having hard conversations. we prioritize immediate comfortability with our peers over long-term comfortability with our positions/values (which may not have anything to do with the people we see daily)
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zorg @russooo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
there is so obviously 1 second left on the clock in CHI/MIN
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zorg @russooo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
goes beyond that though imo. someone (rooney, i figure) truly believes rodgers at QB gives them their best chance at winning. believing that, to me, is insane, and is reason to question the overall thought- and decision-making process
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zorg @russooo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
they can be great in some areas but there’s often one or two areas that hold them back and they are never serious about correcting those things. they use antiquated thinking to address their problems and they won’t win as long as they continue that
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zorg @russooo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
the steelers have been an unserious franchise for 15 years. after SB43 (tomlin’s second year), theyve masqueraded as contenders. anyone who has watched this team thoroughly since then can see they don’t have enough to get over the hump, something holds them back every year.
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zorg @russooo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
rodgers spent like 10 seconds at the line calling checks and shit only to get rocked by a free rusher
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g0m @g0m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone
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zorg @russooo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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zorg @russooo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
can someone help me understand?what does liking carter and hw bush have to do with thinking mao was bad?
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
this 1922 new york times story on hitler, over 100 years later, is like the poster child for why you don't just accept spin from people you have access to as gospel when you're doing reporting.
But several reliable, well-informed sources confirmed the idea that Hitler's anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded, and that he was merely using anti-Semitic propaganda as a bait to catch messes of followers and keep them aroused, enthusiastic and in line for the time when his organization is perfected and sufficiently powerful to be employed effectively for political pur- poses.
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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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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“This should be unthinkable for the son of the president. End of story.” A Russian oligarch close to Putin bankrolled Don Jr.’s wedding. www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's not just Sheeran. Every touring musician should contact these venues (assuming they exist) and let them know they will not be playing shows there until the rights of artists to speak out is guaranteed. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Macklemore Dropped From Ed Sheeran Tour After Onstage 'Free Palestine' Statements
Macklemore is being dropped from Ed Sheeran's tour after several venues allegedly said they would not allow a concert with the rapper to take place.
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zorg @russooo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
WHEW i did not know about this. maybe i did and forgot about it, but this article was written five years ago and i never hear it mentioned when he plays
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zorg @russooo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
www.metrotimes.com/news/mike-ro...
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Mike Rogers opposed 9/11 responder health care not twice, but nine times - Detroit Metro Times
Newly uncovered record shows Mike Rogers repeatedly opposed efforts to establish, advance, or fund medical care for people sickened after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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zorg @russooo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
i know this is not what this post is referencing but this feels like a similar argument to the recent talrico stuff
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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Jon Husted’s staffer took part in “Nazi military exercises” & had a “Tales from Rhodesia” Spotify playlist. The fact that significant swathes of the media ignore the multiple major Republican campaign staffers outed as Neo-Nazis (to focus on Hasan Piker instead) is journalistic malpractice.
Nazi military exercise from 2018 that Husted's staffer took part in. Credit: The Libs are Resisting
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zorg @russooo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
our society has been successfully conditioned to believe (generally) that politics happen outside of us and sports happen *because* of us
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Ben Siemon @benjaminjs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
You can tell we're a country of idiots by how easily we're convinced to debate the 1% of trans people who want the right to live their lives authentically and safely and don't negatively impact our lives instead of the billionaires who spend every day making our lives genuinely tangibly worse.
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
When reactionaries advance some bullshit, the FIRST thing to do is identify the framing and reject it They're selling this as "trans rights vs. women's sports" when they hate both those things and want to ruin them both Accept the frame and you've lost Reject the frame and call bullshit
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zorg @russooo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
whirley pop leaves very few unpopped kernels. i throw in some sugar when i hear the kernels start to sizzle which can make it a lil bit of a pain to clean, but it works great
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zorg @russooo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
come the fuck on
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