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Ryan White

@thatryanwhite.bsky.social
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I wrote books about Jimmy Buffett and Bruce Springsteen. I write other things too. Probably a lot of Michigan sports here. Free newsletter: Portfolio of Enthusiasms portfolio-of-enthusiasms.beehiiv.com

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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 30/09/2026
The guy who proclaimed the Iowa Hawkeyes are the Atlanta Hawks also said a month ago that anyone who thinks Michigan fans say "beat Ohio" doesn't know ball. The absolute goat in the crowded "Republicans don't know ball" marketplace. Yes he voted for his govt to control college sports, why do you ask
The Hawks/Hawkeyes guy accusing libs a month ago of not knowing ball

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“Beat Ohio?”

Tell me you don’t know ball with saying you don’t know ball.
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Ryan White @thatryanwhite.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Me watching the Red Wings on Friday night, probably
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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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Emily Hilliard @emhilly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Grateful to Smithsonian Folkways for the opportunity to write the bio for the late great Michael Hurley as they announce the reissue of his debut album First Songs. Miss the guy and have been thinking of him as cider sipping and tea tasting season rolls around. folkways.si.edu/artists/mich...
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Michael Hurley | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Michael Hurley was a beloved iconoclast who made his 60-year career as a traveling musician and visual artist his own way.
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 28/09/2026
DHS has refused a request from the NFL to remove a social media video of former Philadelphia Eagles player Brian Dawkins. www.washingtonsun.com/agencies/dhs-…
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Homeland Security Rejects NFL Request to Remove Brian Dawkins Video
DHS used the Eagles legend's highlights to promote its border message.
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Prashanth Iyer @prashanthiyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
From @mbultman.bsky.social - Simon Edvinsson is not practicing and no longer has a locker in the Red Wings dressing room - Horcoff says negotiations are ongoing with Simon and his representatives What the hell is happening to this franchise this offseason
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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 28/09/2026
We all kinda knew who was going to be on the far left of this chart.
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arr @arr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This makes me hopeful. This number is aspirational but nowhere near out of reach: a working professional could realistically cash out their 401k and buy off a public official. Owning a senator is more attainable for most Americans than home ownership.
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
From the official Dept of Education account on X, an endorsement of Bo French's racist tweet about Indian students at a University of Texas football game. Just awful.
A photo of a Texas football game with a largely white audience shown and the caption "Make college football great again."
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Ryan White @thatryanwhite.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I look forward to never having a clue what DQS is or does.
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Nick Baumgardner @nickbaumgardner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Barry Sanders at home watching Gibbs run for his life with one sock already falling off his leg as the rest of the team crumbles around him
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Ryan White @thatryanwhite.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
At least I’m not going to lose any sleep thanks to the Lions.
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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Ryan White @thatryanwhite.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
35 years ago they just let you spend $4 million on dolphins and tankers and guitar solos and other cool, crazy shit youtu.be/dpmAY059TTY?...
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Guns N' Roses - Estranged
YouTube video by GunsNRosesVEVO
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 17/09/2026
do you even hear yourself
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Ryan White @thatryanwhite.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Look at DTE just once again refusing to send power to my home for going on three hours now.
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Detroit Lions (Unofficial) @notlions.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
With great power comes....D-Barnes
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Ryan White @thatryanwhite.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Perfectly normal 2-0. #GoBlue
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Ryan White @thatryanwhite.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
lol
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Ryan White @thatryanwhite.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’m doing the best I can.
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Ryan White @thatryanwhite.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Would love to follow along on this little political journey tonight but there is Reacher and then football. You know, Democrat stuff.
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 09/09/2026
I’m so tired. Tired of being told “study hard, work hard, and good things happen” when the reality is being lazy and dumb are rewarded at the highest levels of gov and business. Tired of being told “treat people how you wanna be treated” only to have the meanest and evilest people run the world.
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SaraKateW @sarakatew.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I have no idea what happened in the football game, but why does this look like the back cover of a Dean Koontz novel ©️1983.
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Ryan White @thatryanwhite.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Did I leave the Michigan game early? I did. Do I regret it? I do not. To quote the poet Shoresy, “So dumb.”
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Ryan White @thatryanwhite.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
it’s ok to be just a hat
A white ball cap with a blue sticker on the brim that promises the hat is “built for continuous cooling”
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Bart King @bartking.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
REPORTER: Can we use the word “Thunderstruck” in the headline? 😀 EDITOR (joylessly): no
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Ryan White @thatryanwhite.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is how I learned UMass was packing MACtion
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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 04/09/2026
WE HAVE "DON'T SCORE TOO QUICKLY AND GIVE UMASS THE BALL BACK" DISCOURSE!!!
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Ryan White @thatryanwhite.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“You don’t want to score too quickly,” he says about a team down 24-7.
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Ryan White @thatryanwhite.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The season’s first ball don’t lie
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Ryan White @thatryanwhite.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Been a big year for sheltering in the basement. Don’t love that for anyone around here.
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Michael @bravesandbirds.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Just a complete and absolute lack of ball knowledge on the Right.
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Peter Ames Carlin @peteramescarlin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Hey it's a nice mention of #TonightinJungleland in today's @nytbookreview.bsky.social! @brucespringsteen.net
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Ryan White @thatryanwhite.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
And off we go …
The first kickoff of the FBS season, as seen on a big screen on a Midwestern porch.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 28/08/2026
"For more than a year, the National Park Service has been quietly working to fulfill an unprecedented directive from Trump officials: Parcel off a corner of Yosemite National Park to give to a private developer." www.notus.org/agencies/tru...
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Trump’s Quietly Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private Developer
The National Park Service is under pressure to make an unprecedented deal that cedes a quarter-mile strip of the park.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
So Mike Rogers can be just like daddy🌴
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Ryan White @thatryanwhite.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Someone should start a social media site that is just heartwarming stories about Dolly Parton. The timeline is lovely right now, despite the sadness of the moment.
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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Ryan White @thatryanwhite.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
One of the things I've learned over the last four years working in adversing is: So many people had to sign off on this.
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Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A Good Good Callaway ad featuring one of the YouTube channel's stars tackling a female golfer drew widespread criticism. awfulannouncing.com/golf/good-go...
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Callaway deletes controversial Good Good golf ad
The Good Good Callaway ad featured one of the channel's stars tackling a woman attempting to use a driver.
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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
damn, thats the biggest dildo they've had to get rid of at a WNBA game yet!
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Jacob Evans @vumpire.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The prologue of every Stephen King novel published between 1975 and 1988: Under thy shadow by the piers I waited Only in darkness is thy shadow clear. The City’s fiery parcels all undone, Already snow submerges an iron year...--Hart Crane We've got the biggest balls of them all --AC/DC
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Jason Beck @jasonbeck.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Tigers have lost 19 games that they've led in 7th inning or later this season, two more than any other MLB team. (h/t @slangsonsports.bsky.social)
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Detroit Tigers (Unoffical) @nottigers.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
static.klipy.com
Yakuza: Two Men in a Cutscene
ALT: Yakuza: Two Men in a Cutscene
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Ryan White @thatryanwhite.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Hard to tell some days where the cicadas end and the tinnitus begins.
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Spooky Blaylock 🎃🕷️ @velodus.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I'm not kidding when I say that this is one of the greatest metaphors you'll ever see in your life
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Is it because they openly muse about replacing humans with technology as if human beings were a problem to be solved through elimination, is it that.
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Phil Christman @philipchristman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
this week I spoke to a family member and realized that the very good U of M decision to hide first-semester grades is already getting turned into a dumb culture war thing. this is an incredibly good decision that makes sense pedagogically. it gives them permission to learn when habits are forming.
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Ryan White @thatryanwhite.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Detroit’s pro teams should pay me to stay away from their games.
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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 14/08/2026
Absolutely enormous respect to whoever understood that the necessary follow-up to “what if Reacher faced a larger man” is “what if Reacher held a tiny kitten”
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