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Lori Janssen
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Words. Sunsets. Movement.▪️
Journalism/Eng.teacher▪️
30+yr Club&HSVB coach, training, recruiting▪️
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theonion.com
Travis Kelce Worried Patrick Mahomes’s ACL Tear Will Derail ‘Harlem Shake’ Groomsmen Entrance
Travis Kelce Worried Patrick Mahomes’s ACL Tear Will Derail ‘Harlem Shake’ Groomsmen Entrance
December 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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moreperfectunion.bsky.social
AI consumed as much water as the water bottle industry this year.

It also created as much carbon pollution as New York City, according to a new study.

www.theverge.com/news/845831/...
AI’s water and electricity use soars in 2025
It’s guzzling up even more water than expected.
www.theverge.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
I love this interview with Christopher Anderson, who photographed Trump's staff for the Vanity Fair shoot. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Interviewer: Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that’s on the cutting room floor? Interviewee: I don’t think there’s anything I missed that I wish I’d gotten. I’ll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, “Should I smile or not smile?” and I said, “How would you want to be portrayed?” We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, “You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.” And I looked at him and I said, “You know, you do, too.”
December 17, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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ryanjreilly.com
“In an industry where it can feel increasingly rare to see talk matched by walk, Reiner stood out. You don’t need to wear a patch on your arm to have honor, after all.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/m...
Rob Reiner Made Clear What He Believed In, Onscreen and Off
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d
it's been so long since we've had a jack performance that i kind of think people have forgotten how tremendous of an actor he is
December 17, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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jamellebouie.net
rewatching A FEW GOOD MEN and jack nicholson's explosion of fury at the climax of the trial is genuinely terrifying
December 17, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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miketaddow.bsky.social
water tasted different in these. lemonade tasted extra sweet in these. life tasted better in these.
85mf.bsky.social Mike @85mf.bsky.social · 1d
The only NBA Cups I recognize
December 17, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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janelovesrain.bsky.social
www.eatingwell.com/article/2916...
Farmers Can't Find Enough Workers to Harvest Crops—and Fruits and Vegetables Are Literally Rotting in Fields
California grows a huge percentage of our country's fruits and vegetables, yet farms are facing epic labor shortages preventing ripe produce from even being picked, let alone making its way to your gr...
www.eatingwell.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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flavorflav.bsky.social
Some classy words to honor a man and his legacy
@brezwrites.bsky.social

www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
We Could Use a Comforting Story About Rob Reiner Right Now
A line from ‘The Princess Bride’ captured everything that the director hoped to say in his celebrated films. Now, after his death, the words hold even more meaning.
www.esquire.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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pitchingninja.com
Lisa Fernandez’s changeup was so RIDICULOUS…

Forget hitting it. Forget bunting it.

The best you could do was not fall over! 🤣
December 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
We are failing our kids
December 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
Ai continues to make our lives harder and also electricity more expensive
December 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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edsbs.bsky.social
The John Mellencamp Nicotine Hut
December 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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emilynussbaum.bsky.social
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he's very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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theonion.com
In-N-Out Removes ‘67’ From Ordering System https://theonion.com/in-n-out-removes-67-from-ordering-system/
“A shrewd marketer would take the opportunity to embrace the meme and ruin it forever.” Kara Ripner, Jar Sealer
December 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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thebulwark.com
"For now, let us remember his life and his work. I would be hard pressed to forget it."

@sonnybunch.bsky.social on Rob Reiner: lnk.thebulwark.com/3MEHyOs
Rob Reiner, 1947–2025
One of the best and most versatile directors of his era.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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smrodman.bsky.social
I’m just going to tell the story. Back in 2000 I was volunteering for the Gore campaign when he came along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Alfre Woodard and Dule Hill to a GOTV event here in MN. He ended up sitting down across from me stuffing his envelopes.
December 15, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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lincolnproject.us
Rob Reiner was an American Icon who, through his art and activism, held a mirror up to American culture. His talent, humor, activism, and patriotism will be missed. Our heart breaks at the senseless loss of our friend.
December 15, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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georgehahn.com
I’m having a hard time comprehending the news about Rob Reiner. All I can articulate right now is how much I admired him, how much I enjoyed his work, and how thoroughly shocked I am hearing about what happened. My favorite superpower in any human is the art of storytelling. He was a master.
December 15, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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crobertcargill.bsky.social
The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.

All from his movies.
December 15, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
Rob Reiner had a hand in writing, producing, directing, knowing a guy, pairing up talents, punching up a script on the down low, doing a cameo for like so much of the funniest shit coming out of Hollywood the last 50 years. His influence is seen everywhere
December 15, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
What a horrifying weekend of news. Too much.
December 15, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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brucearthur.bsky.social
A treasure from beginning to end. An irreplaceable loss.
shadowtodd.bsky.social Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 3d
The run that Rob Reiner went on between 1984 and 1992 is one of the most amazing hot streaks any director has ever had. Legendary stuff
December 15, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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rollingstone.com
Rob Reiner, the legendary director and actor who rose to prominence in 'All in the Family' and went on to direct classics 'This Is Spinal Tap,' 'Stand by Me,' and 'The Princess Bride,' was found dead in his home alongside his wife.

Story: rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
December 15, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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cjzero.bsky.social
Wisconsin (3) beats Texas(1) in 4 sets, they are heading to a national semifinal and the final 4 are complete
December 15, 2025 at 2:48 AM