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Ben Ross @benross.bsky.social · 7h

The baseball game has officially outlasted the soccer game next door that started 2 1/2 hours after it

Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 7h

This baseball game has officially outlasted the college football game across town that started an hour after it

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slangsonsports.bsky.social @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 7h

14 innings!!!

This is the longest winner-take-all game by innings in postseason history

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Ben Ross @benross.bsky.social · 8h

Um did you see that accurate throw to 2nd base???

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 12h

Pete Hegseth announced an agreement today to build a Qatari Emiri Air Force facility at a U.S. Air Force Base in Idaho.

Reminder: Earlier this year, the Trump admin accepted a Boeing 747 jet as a gift from the Qatari royal family.

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Loyola University Chicago @loyolachicago.bsky.social · 1d

Loyola University Chicago is greatly saddened to confirm the death of Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, BVM. This is a tremendous loss of someone who touched the lives of so many people. We appreciate everyone’s thoughts & prayers during this difficult time. For more information: https://bit.ly/4o7eIUk

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Ben Ross @benross.bsky.social · 1d

Warriors open the season Oct. 21 against the LeBron-less Lakers

Shams Charania Tweets @shamsbot.bsky.social · 1d

Lakers star LeBron James is sidelined for at least 3 to 4 weeks due to sciatica on his right side. He is out for the start of the 2025-26 NBA season.

Ben Ross @benross.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, but my point is this is not that

Ben Ross @benross.bsky.social · 2d

Nah he's just not good anymore

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Ian Hunter @bluejayhunter.com · 2d

"Start spreading the news, bitches!"

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Ben Ross @benross.bsky.social · 2d

Jehs

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Brent Maguire @bmags94.bsky.social · 2d

Oh my god, Kyle Schwarber. He ties this game with a HUGE home run.

117.2 mph exit velocity. 455 feet.

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Ben Ross @benross.bsky.social · 2d

Steph Curry is still a freak

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Ben Ross @benross.bsky.social · 2d

Just complete fiction. Untethered from reality.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump on Portland: "It's like the movies you see for the kids, I guess not only the kids, adults also, where you have these bombed out cities and these bombed out people. It's like, worse than that."

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

"The Federal Protective Service reports — which are prepared each day for law enforcement partners — offered no indication of a dangerous escalation of tensions, or unusual levels of protest activity that would prompt the level of alarm expressed by Trump..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Before Trump Ordered In Troops, Federal Officers Called Portland Protests ‘Low Energy’

www.nytimes.com

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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 2d

"We took the freedom of speech away..." - Donald Trump, October 8, 2025

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d

Padilla: Do you believe government officials are obligated to follow court orders whether they agree with them or not?

Bondi: I wish you loved your state of California as much as you hate President Trump.

Padilla: I asked a simple yes or no question

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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Bill Barnwell @billbarnwell.com · 4d

What a drive:

- Burn 43 seconds and a TO on two Trevor scrambles
- Gorgeous, world-class throw up the sideline
- Delay of game with a stopped clock
- PI at exactly the right time
- Trevor trips and scrambles for a TD anyway

Gregg Rosenthal @greggrosenthal.bsky.social · 4d

We spent an entire segment on the Jaguars last week being the most Messy Fun team in the NFL

They've done us proud with this performance tonight

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 4d

Trump doesn't rule out a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell:

"I mean, I'd have to speak to the DOJ. I'll look at it."

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 4d

"U.S. citizens, immigrants with legal status and children have been among those detained in increasingly brazen and aggressive encounters..."

apnews.com/article/chic...

Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

apnews.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d

Important to note ICE tends to drop off detainees before 9 a.m. and after 6 p.m., which is why people were protesting at 5 a.m. to begin with. It's not because waking up at 4 a.m. was a convenient time for protesters!

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 4d

New: Broadview, IL Mayor Katrina Thompson issued an executive order today - her first this year - limiting protest outside the Broadview ICE facility to between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.

The order cites "recent escalation of violence by ICE" at the facility as reason to restrict protest there.

An executive order restricting protest at the Broadview ICE facility. Full order can be found here:

https://broadview-il.gov/reference/latest-news/village-of-broadview-executive-order-no-2025-01/

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slangsonsports.bsky.social @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 5d

The Blue Jays have 8 home runs and 7 strikeouts so far this postseason

They’re the second team in postseason history with more home runs than strikeouts in their first two games of a single postseason, joining:

2005 White Sox, 6 homers & 4 strikeouts

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Ben Ross @benross.bsky.social · 5d

We live in a world where the Carolina Panthers have a better record than the Baltimore Ravens

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Ben Ross @benross.bsky.social · 5d

Starting to think it might take more than Pete Carroll to fix the Raiders

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Will Harris @sandwichpick.bsky.social · 6d

Literally the first time they've had the lead in any game this year and it's against Penn State

Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 6d

Call it.

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