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Professional Heathen. A chaotic mix of sports, data, politics, and powerlifting. #BanSocialMediaAlgorithms

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TheCheech @thecheech.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
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thethinkingatheist.com @thethinkingatheist.com · 08/08/2025
"Gerrymandering" originally used on March 26, 1812, in the Boston Gazette to critique to redrawing of Massachusetts state senate election districts under Gov. Elbridge Gerry. One of the remapped, contorted districts was said to resemble the shape of a mythological salamander.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 22/07/2025
BREAKING: Ozzy Osbourne, lead singer of Black Sabbath and godfather of heavy metal, dies at 76
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Ozzy Osbourne, lead singer of Black Sabbath and godfather of heavy metal, dies at 76
Ozzy Osbourne, lead singer of Black Sabbath who became the throaty, growling voice of heavy metal, died just weeks after his farewell show.
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AEW On TV @aewontv.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The vibe this #AEWAllInTexas Week See you when we're LIVE with #AEWDynamite at 8/7c on TBS and HBO Max
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Meredith has always been a G, but it's still exceptionally weird and very refreshing hearing from a tech exec who can see through all of this AI bullshit for what it is at its foundation: a backdoor surveillance tool.
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TheCheech @thecheech.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I've always had an issue with folks stating that sports is a distraction from what matters. Like we can't keep track of both sports and politics? Sports serves a distraction from our everyday reality, yes. But so does art, science-fiction, music, and whatever hobby outside of work and family.
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Mel Brooks @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I told you we’d be back
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thethinkingatheist.com @thethinkingatheist.com · 10/06/2025
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
this is what it took to get the Democrats to make a good post
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 29/05/2025
KOSA's impact "could be devastating not only to kids’ access to factual, accurate information but also on news outlets that depend on online audiences to survive," @caitlinvogus.bsky.social writes in @bostonglobe.com.
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Democrats, don’t risk free speech in the name of protecting kids - The Boston Globe
The Kids Online Safety Act empowers the government to be speech police.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
this shit needs to be banned and the people making it should be prosecuted the way Republicans go after drug dealers
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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 30/04/2025
The Score afternoon hosts Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes discussed the departure of their executive producer, Shane Riordan, at the beginning of their show Tuesday.
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Matt Spiegel, Laurence Holmes discuss Shane Riordan's departure from The Score
On Monday, Riordan posted on X that he’s no longer at The Score. The Sun-Times reported that his removal wasn’t related to a behavioral issue or anything he said on the air.
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TheCheech @thecheech.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
It's almost like we shouldn't give one person this amount of power and flexibility in wielding it.
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Sohrab Ahmari @sohrabahmari.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
"The people pushing AI are the same sorts who spent the 2010s promoting web 2.0 as a new vision of freedom and connectivity, all while destroying traditional media and ripping off as much private data as they possibly could and cheerfully selling it to advertisers." unherd.com/2025/03/why-...
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Why I'm boycotting AI
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The Cognitive Dissonance Podcast @dissonancepod.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
It is a mistake to assume everyone wants to be informed because what a lot of people actually want is to be confirmed.
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AEW On TV @aewontv.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH #AEWDynamite is LIVE on TBS and max
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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 19/03/2025
Why do nearly 45,000 scholarly papers cite themselves? @dalmeet.bsky.social finds out
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Why do nearly 45,000 scholarly papers cite themselves?
While thousands of papers cite themselves, the percentage that do so is relatively low. Haunschild & Bornmann/arXiv.org While using bibliometric techniques to measure how disruptive research pa…
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 19/03/2025
If Republicans cut $880 billion from Medicaid: - Millions of children will lose their health care. - Funding for community health centers will dry up. - Your mom and dad may not be able to get the nursing home care they need. That's what happens when Musk runs the government.
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Majority Report @majorityreport.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Tim Walz admits Democrats have failed to deliver for Americans youtu.be/g4ShD45iiDo
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Tim Walz Admits Democrats Have Failed To Deliver For Americans
YouTube video by The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder
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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Slashing IRS staff will end up costing the U.S. government. Multiple studies have shown that for every dollar spent by the IRS, the agency returns between $5 and $12. New @propublica.org by @andykroll.bsky.social
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How DOGE’s Cuts to the IRS Threaten to Cost More Than DOGE Will Ever Save
The Trump administration claims gutting federal agencies will save money, but cutting the IRS means the government collects less taxes. “If you’re interested in the deficit and curbing it, why would y...
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 04/03/2025
No. Now is not the time to play dead. The Democrats have already played dead for too many years. 60% of our people are living paycheck to paycheck. Millions of seniors are going hungry. Now is the time to stand up for the working class of this country.
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thethinkingatheist.com @thethinkingatheist.com · 01/03/2025
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 24/02/2025
NO. At a time of massive income and wealth inequality we should not be giving tax breaks to billionaires. We should demand that they start paying their fair share.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
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Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 12/02/2025
Here's the latest ep of my iHeartRadio/CZM show Better Offline. I'm joined in my living room by Wide Left's @arif.bsky.social and Western Kabuki's @birdrespecter.bsky.social to explain the evils of the sports gambling app industry. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h... linktr.ee/betteroffline
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How Sports Gambling Apps Are Rotting Society
Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 02/12/2025 · 1h 25m
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
folks really need to accept that "lawful" and "lawless" don't matter, what matters is being able to marshal and deploy force (force of capital, the force of arms, the force of a crowd...) none of the people running the country right now give a good goddamn about the law
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TheCheech @thecheech.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Just log off and go talk to people....
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Mac Ross @punchingprof.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
PROP - PR Over Policy. Don't confuse them. He is flooding the zone. He knows that media will cover everything he does. Getting people upset. Which helps give him more coverage of the upset people. All just talking about him. Dems need to be strategic.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
so many people warned about exactly this for years and major papers preferred to publish scare pieces about trans girls playing sports
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Brad Biggs @bradbiggs.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Source confirms Dennis Allen has been hired as #Bears defensive coordinator. Also, special teams coordinator Richard Hightower will be retained. So, Ben Johnson has 3 coordinators in place.
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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Every sentence of this article from 1941 slaps so hard. The section on Jews becoming Nazis is spot on.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
The Democratic Party needs to get out of this woman's way.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
We failed to stop fascism's rise. Now it's dancing about on the White House lawn. I don't know how to fix all this but I do know that the shit we've been doing won't get us out of this one. shatterzone.substack.com/p/we-failed-...
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We failed to stop the rise of fascism. What comes next?
How to navigate the future without a map.
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Soup for Chickens @soupforchickens.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Audio; podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/i...
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The Age of Cowards and What Happens Next
Podcast Episode · It Could Happen Here · 21/01/2025 · 25m
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CHGO Sports @chgo-sports.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
BREAKING: The Chicago Bears are hiring Ben Johnson as their next head coach, per multiple reports.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Oligarchy (noun): A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 16/01/2025
President Joe Biden used his farewell address to the nation Wednesday to warn of an “oligarchy” of the ultra-wealthy taking root in the country.
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Biden warns of dangers of ‘oligarchy’ of ultra-rich, ‘tech-industrial complex’ running country
President Joe Biden used his farewell address to the nation Wednesday to warn of an “oligarchy” of the ultra-wealthy taking root in the country and of a “tech-industrial complex” that is infringing…
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 16/01/2025
Joe Biden is right. There is an oligarchy forming in America
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TheCheech @thecheech.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
The issues with #tiktok are the same issues with #meta and #x, unregulated data collection and manipulation via unregulated algorithms. We need to #bandatacollection and #banthealgorithm. Banning specific apps will only create more bans when others appear.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
I'm sorry but the Dems are ridiculously bad at their Hegspeth questions. IMO, if you want to prove someone is incompetent, you ask them the hardest strategic questions they will have to know to succeed at the job
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Axios @axios.com · 14/01/2025
The Department of Justice's final report on Trump's dismissed federal election subversion case was published early today, revealing new details of special counsel Jack Smith's investigation. Read it in full here:
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READ: Jack Smith's final report on Trump's Jan. 6 case
Smith's findings from Trump's classified documents case remain sealed.
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Nate Tice @natetice.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Derrick Henry had 27 runs for 11 first downs and 6 TDs aligned at the QB position when he was with the Titans. This was his 3rd snap as a Wildcat QB this season, per @TruMediaSports.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 10/01/2025
The U.S. Justice Department is suing several large landlords, including a Chicago-based firm, for allegedly coordinating to keep Americans’ rents high by using both an algorithm to help set rents and privately sharing sensitive information with their competitors to boost profits.
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Justice Department accuses six major landlords, including Chicago-based firm, of scheming to keep rents high
The U.S. Justice Department is suing several large landlords, including Chicago-based Cushman & Wakefield, for allegedly coordinating to keep Americans’ rents high by using an algorithm to help…
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Donald Trump was found guilty of 34 charges but won't face any punishment — and will be back in the White House this month. Nearly 800 prisoners are now helping to battle Los Angeles fires, making as little as $5.80 per day. A tale of two justice systems.
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Nearly 800 prisoners now helping to battle Los Angeles fires
Incarcerated firefighters working to battle the widespread Los Angeles brush fires are paid between $5.80 and $10.24 per day, plus $1 for active emergencies.
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Nate Tice @natetice.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
watch the path of Abdul Carter (#11)
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Jimmy Carter in 2015 on the role of money in American politics. Spot on.
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God @thegodshow.com · 08/01/2025
When a liberal area suffers a climate change disaster, Republicans say “God is punishing them.” When a conservative area suffers a climate change disaster, Republicans say “Democrats control weather machines.” Must be hard going through life as a full-blown idiot.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
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