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I’m here to bring the funk and a good attitude. bass player for Brozie O’Donnell, formerly of Benchmarks, blog boy at Pats Pulpit, Wall of Weiners Champion at Cori’s Doghouse

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Goose @goosebass.bsky.social · 7d

Today I learned that the New England Patriots are number 1 in the NFL in success rate on plays with 10 or more yards to go on 2nd and 3rd down.

Read that again

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 10h

Framing it as Trump simply going after his political enemies is misleading because to a fascist every other living person is their political enemy.

You’re his political enemy. You just haven’t been identified yet.

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Goose @goosebass.bsky.social · 10h

Like, practice squad guys in the NFL were all-SEC and All-Americans. The back of the roster in college, even at LSU or Notre Dame or whatever…..they’ll be working down the hall from you at Initech at 23

Goose @goosebass.bsky.social · 10h

I’m not sure I totally agree with the contention that Bill and his boys just saw easy money, so much as I think it’s an extension of the last few years in New England where the best take I saw was “Brady was trying to run up the high score, and Bill was trying to unlock all the Xbox Achievements”

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Goose @goosebass.bsky.social · 10h

This is really well done and nails what I figured would be the number one with a bullet problem Bill would have to work around, which is that the gap between a replacement-level NFL player and the last guy on a college roster is Mariana’s Trench

The Bill Belichick experiment has been an embarrassment. It’s time for North Carolina to end it.

Bill Belichick was supposed to make North Carolina elite in football. Instead, he’s only brought embarrassment.

www.sbnation.com

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♨ naïve dumbass @atticusgf.bsky.social · 12h

half these people aren't even allowed to be this close to an elementary school

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Goose @goosebass.bsky.social · 13h

….comeback album from The Starting Line good?

Goose @goosebass.bsky.social · 13h

The answer of course is Corpsegrinder

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Goose @goosebass.bsky.social · 13h

The guy at Zaxby’s corporate HQ who every time someone says “salads” corrects them and goes “um, I believe you mean ZALADS”

Goose @goosebass.bsky.social · 14h

Champagne for her, single malt for me

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Cody Alexander @matchquarters.bsky.social · 19h

Patriots running a Boss (Load) Front overload pressure for a sack vs. the Bills.

The 5-O Front forces the LG to fan to the drop-out, leaving an alley for the stunting DE straight to the QB.

Center & LG work back, but it leaves a defender free.

Simple 4 > 3 math...
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brent is Saw Gerrera-pilled @therealbrent.bsky.social · 1d

Between this and the refusal to seat Grijalva, this is very obviously where we are headed.

We may be able to vote in 2026 (with military surrounding us) but they may just refuse to accept the results.

And that’s kind of the ballgame at that point if they succeed.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

Two big GOP activists from Oregon were in DC last month for meetings with Trump admin officials. On their podcast they talk about a plan they discussed to nullify the results of Oregon's 2026 federal elections. Pass federal voter ID law, then refuse to seat OR delegation because OR didn't comply.

Ep. 18: September to Remember
October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min
Also, we proposed a idea how to do a end run on vote by mail. Concept is based on what Trump proposed. When you vote, you check everyone's citizenship as well as voter ID.
In a vote by mail state, you might be able to check citizenship during voter registration. You can send copies of your passport and your birth certificate in.
How in the world are you going to check our voters?
Voter ID, right? Vote by mail. So that creates a problem for Oregon.
But if federal government new requirement is to check both, and if Oregon can comply with the requirements, what would happen to our election result? I'm talking about the entire federal delegation.
For federal elections, we're talking about only federal elections.
COMMON SENSE
Vascluar

Ep. 18: September to Remember
October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min
So entire federal delegation, congressmen and senators could be challenged, could be unseated because you didn't follow federal requirements to elect them. So I said the trade-off is worth it. You know why?
Democrats control two Senate seats out of six congressional seats. We only control one. They control five.
You talk about trade-off, right?
COMMON SENSE
Sanctuany

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Goose @goosebass.bsky.social · 1d

Just 10 years ago we had Wolfenstein: The New Order that enthusiastically posited “slaughtering Nazis and Klansmen by the dozens double-fisting auto shotguns and laser cannons rocks and every one of them deserves it, actually”

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Goose @goosebass.bsky.social · 1d

Stefon Diggs is currently the WR20 in PPR fantasy football while playing on a pitch count and without a touchdown

Goose @goosebass.bsky.social · 1d

In other words our own government is punching us and spitting on us and daring us to punch back so they can skip the boring stuff and justify imprisoning, disappearing, exiling and/or just killing everyone who doesn’t want to be a loyal serf to the godking

Goose @goosebass.bsky.social · 1d

Can’t emphasize enough that they are trying to provoke us into a bloody confrontation that they can slap on all their propaganda posts and shows and say see? See?! We must crush the dissent….er, RIOTS and INSURRECTION

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Goose @goosebass.bsky.social · 1d

They didn’t get the violent made-for-TV backlash that they wanted from letting ICE hunt us and siccing The Troops on cities with lots of brown people so now they’re gonna declare war against us using the legal doctrine of “I wanna”

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. the debate inside the administration has shifted recently, from whether it makes sense to invoke the act to more deeply exploring how and when it might be invoked ..”

@nbcnews.com
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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Goose @goosebass.bsky.social · 1d

Players should be allowed to eat pickles right out of the jar on the sidelines just like Marshawn ate his Skittles

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

From @theathletic.com: NFL players are reaching for pickle juice as a solution for cramps. “It’s nasty, yeah,” said 49ers cornerback Eli Apple. “But it works.”

The salty solution for cramps? 49ers players reach for pickle juice shooters

A few NFL players started drinking pickle juice 25 years ago, but the two-ounce containers used now are a relatively recent phenomenon.

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Goose @goosebass.bsky.social · 1d

Babe wake up new all time Allen Iverson quote just dropped

Goose @goosebass.bsky.social · 1d

If her elevator pitch “Feed kids. Fix roads. Fund hospitals” isn’t enough for you, in Music City USA she is equally at home telling a bad-faith dipshit “yeah, no, that’s not how anything works” and sitting in someone’s living room asking them “tell me about you. What’s important? What do you need?”

Goose @goosebass.bsky.social · 1d

One more

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Goose @goosebass.bsky.social · 2d

Lamar and Jordan Love are nipping at Drake’s heels at 5th and 4th in the league, respectively

Goose @goosebass.bsky.social · 2d

Fun fact according to @rbsdm.com, through 5 games only 2 QBs have a higher Completion Percentage Over Expectation than Drake Maye:
Sam Darnold and Jared Goff

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Goose @goosebass.bsky.social · 2d

Haha Jerry’s doing the Nick Swardson bit where Nick says that when he’s 90 he’s going to be shoplifting and driving 100mph everywhere and if the cops catch him, just say “but I’m ooooooooold!”

ProFootballTalk @profootballtalk.bsky.social · 2d

Jerry Jones: Showing middle finger was inadvertent, intention was thumbs up.
www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb...

Jerry Jones: Showing middle finger was inadvertent, intention was thumbs up

Video of Cowboys owner Jerry Jones flashing his middle finger at fans at MetLife Stadium circulated after Sunday's win over the Jets, but Jones said the message he was trying to send wasn't the one us...

www.nbcsports.com

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, lots of quotes that boil down to "Trump said he would do this, but I assumed the Norms Fairy would stop him."

Alex Aronson @alexaronson.bsky.social · 3d

Everything that's wrong with legal journalism in one New York Times headline and pie chart.

If all these "legal experts" are so shocked by the threats to the rule of law, maybe they're not the experts we should be asking in the first place.

All of this was foreseeable. Many forecast it.

NYT headline: "Bow to the Emperor: We asked 50 Legal Experts About the Trump Presidency."

Pie chart showing over 50% of surveyed legal experts saying that Trump's second term has posed "much more threat" to the rule of law "than I expected."

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Goose @goosebass.bsky.social · 2d

One of the ways I know my brain is broken is literally any time Joe Flacco is in the news, the first thing I think of is “became highest paid player in NFL history, immediately went and got McNuggets”
sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-sh...

Joe Flacco celebrates NFL’s largest contract with a McDonald’s visit, because of course he does

Though it's hard for a guy who just signed the largest contract in NFL history (and has a lifetime supply of Gummy Bears) to portray himself as an Everyman, Joe Flacco is doing his best to seem like a...

sports.yahoo.com