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Neil Snyder @neilsnyder.bsky.social · 2h

I like but I still need some insurance runs to feel at ease.

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Neil Snyder @neilsnyder.bsky.social · 6h

Yes, they put Joe Quenneville, who until last night had not coached in the league for several years, on the list. Reader, I watched the Ducks play last night (loss against a team that is middling AT BEST) and I think he might have an uphill battle.

Neil Snyder @neilsnyder.bsky.social · 6h

Did you know there exists a level of Takes beyond preseason power rankings? I present to you the Hockey News list of favorites to win the Jack Adams trophy after two days of games in the season.

Six Early Front-Runners For The NHL's Jack Adams Award In 2025-26

The NHL’s 2025-26 season is underway, but there’s still time left to make some more predictions.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12h

Might feel like an inversion of the Civil War, but less than you might think. The federal government was thoroughly in the hands of the Slave Power in the 1850s. States resisted the Fugitive Slave Act; Dred Scott was SCOTUS. Secession happened b/c they wouldn't accept losing that control in 1860.

Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 12h

Republican Governors Eagerly Join Trump’s Military Campaign Against Blue Cities
theintercept.com/2025/10/09/r...

Republican Governors Eagerly Join Trump’s Military Campaign Against Blue Cities

An Intercept analysis finds nearly every Republican governor has deployed National Guard members to aid Trump’s domestic military agenda.

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Neil Snyder @neilsnyder.bsky.social · 10h

The columnist may not be good a predicting outcomes.

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Wiseowl374 @wiseowl374.bsky.social · 19h

This man is your friend he fights for freedom poster but it’s portland frog hero

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 22h

Welcome to…. Jurassic Park Louisiana.

Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 22h

Putting this on my vision board for how I want to age.

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Neil Snyder @neilsnyder.bsky.social · 22h

I’m brainstorming other halftime performances that would be acceptable to Mike Johnson. What if the Gaithers flew down to the field with jet packs? What about the Oak Ridge Boys or Alabama?

Neil Snyder @neilsnyder.bsky.social · 22h

I like that Mike Johnson’s suggested replacement for the foreign paganism of Bad Bunny is a low-tier schlock-country musician with one recognizable song. Maybe he could sing “God Bless the USA” five times for his halftime show.

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Neil Snyder @neilsnyder.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think I ever observed motion smoothing on a TV before today at the Xfinity store, I see why people complain about it.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 1d

feel like if you had a super long work day and you get home feeling exhausted but still make the healthy meal you had planned for dinner instead of just eating some slop then there should be a procession in your honour in your neighbourhood, and the mayor should give you the keys to the city

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Neil Snyder @neilsnyder.bsky.social · 1d

This administration is really a flame to the weirdest moths.

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Neil Snyder @neilsnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Forever two weeks away from the blockbuster policies that will cover everyone and make healthcare cheaper. C’mon, bro, just trust me, we will totally address this after you rubber-stamp our spending plan.

Neil Snyder @neilsnyder.bsky.social · 1d

You could be forgiven for thinking the fever broke after January 6 and Dem control but that ignores the fact that the “post-Trump” GOP did not move away from illiberalism but towards it. This is where the right is now, you are going to have to be ruthless if you want to preserve liberal democracy.

Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 1d

We’ve also got to stop imagining that this will all somehow stop and go back to normal overnight once Trump makes some specific key mistake or, eventually, leaves the stage entirely.

We are a decade into Trumpism. Whatever comes after him for the GOP isn’t going to be a McCain or a Bush.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

Generative AI, in both form and content, and whether looked on favourably or critically, seems to embody a collective hopelessness about the prospect of human learning and creativity, if not human knowledge altogether. It’s as if climate change had fans.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

Benny Johnson and Oregon MAGA activist (and convicted J6 felon) David Medina accompanied Kristi Noem during her visit to Portland. Here they are amplifying a local MAGA influencer with some, well, interesting ideas about race and religion.

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Neil Snyder @neilsnyder.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not surprising that when you don’t make friends in your state party, or your House colleagues, or your staff, you end up on the receiving end of these sort of leaks.

Neil Snyder @neilsnyder.bsky.social · 1d

What she says here is completely untrue, everyone knew she was a conservative walking a tightrope to keep her job, saying she was a reporter was generous. She mostly did opinion journalism, unlike Choe who actually was just a reporter who went off the deep end and got canned.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

The federal government is basically being run now by the algorithmically amplified, right wing grifter industrial complex, as exemplified by this weirdo from Washington state who was flown in for Trump’s Antifa round table.

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Neil Snyder @neilsnyder.bsky.social · 2d

Oh yeah this guy was too extreme for the local Sinclair outlet where he was employed as a journalist. He ended up on wingnut welfare at the Discovery Institute.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Jonathan Choe to Trump: "Another group right now that is behind antifa and working with antifa very closely based on the research that we have right now that we're gonna give to you and your team are the Democratic Socialists of America."

Neil Snyder @neilsnyder.bsky.social · 2d

This clown with her weird Veronica Lake hair used to be on FOX 13 as their political reporter and was masquerading - very poorly - as a voice of the Sensible Moderate combatting radical left wing Seattle. Love this pathetic sycophancy for her!

Conservative Influencer Tells Trump She Thinks She Got Hotter After Embracing Trump

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Neil Snyder @neilsnyder.bsky.social · 2d

Gotta go check out the Riyadh Comedy Festival.

Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 2d

He had his “yearly physical” on April 11th. They’re not even trying.

Neil Snyder @neilsnyder.bsky.social · 2d

Roy Cooper, puckhead. I bet he had strong feelings when the Capitals bought and then shut down CapFriendly and has at least one tab open on his computer with PuckPedia open on it.

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Neil Snyder @neilsnyder.bsky.social · 2d

The event and the venue here…

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Gov. Bob Ferguson @governorferguson.bsky.social · 2d

Attorney General Bondi recently threatened to put me in jail. Now, the President has threatened to put the Illinois governor and Chicago mayor in jail.

This is about as authoritarian as it gets.

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