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Megan Schuster
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on the absolute edge of my seat waiting for the Press Box episode about this
bryancurtis.bsky.social Bryan Curtis @bryancurtis.bsky.social · 2d
A scene from American Canto. Olivia Nuzzi tries to visit the WWE Hall of Fame, only to discover that it is not a physical building.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Former US military lawyers speak out:

"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."

Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes

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• If the U.S. military operation to interdict and destroy suspected narcotraFicking vessels is a “non-international armed conflict,” as the Trump Administration suggests, orders to “kill everybody,” which can reasonably be regarded as an order to give “no quarter,” and to “double-tap” a target in order to kill survivors, are clearly illegal under international law. In short, they are war crimes. • If the U.S. military operation is not an armed conflict of any kind, these orders to kill helpless civilians clinging to the wreckage of a vessel our military destroyed would subject everyone from SECDEF down to the individual who pulled the trigger to prosecution under U.S. law for murder. Highlighted sentence at the end of the document reads: Again, the bottom line is that, since orders to kill survivors of an attack at sea are “patently illegal,” anyone who issues or follows such orders can and should be prosecuted for war crimes, murder, or both.
November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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brianphillips.bsky.social
I wrote 4000 words about Nuzzi/Lizza/RFK, please read it before it gets taken down by HR
The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined
Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time
www.theringer.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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cjzero.bsky.social
Like, I can't even get mad at the Packers D doing this
November 23, 2025 at 8:41 PM
megschuster.bsky.social
just bought a Jurassic World toy for a kid who’s obsessed with dinosaurs—this is the sweetest list!
treblaw.bsky.social treb @treblaw.bsky.social · 13d
🧵 We are, in fact, doing the thing again for @onesimplewish.bsky.social. In 2024, the kind people of this community put the money cannon on blast to help grant $75K in wishes for children in foster care. Toys, tech, a suit for job interviews. Here we go again! 👇
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November 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Wait sorry here is the link for my show on 11/23 in Minneapolis!!! theparkwaytheater.com/all-events/j...
Josh Gondelman
Fresh from his new stand-up special Positive Reinforcement, Josh Gondelman returns to The Parkway for a hilarious night of stand-up comedy! 
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November 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Max Verstappen wants #69 if he fails to repeat as champion 😂 www.motorsport.com/f1/news/vers...
Asked whether #3 would be the preferred option if allowed, the world champion joked: "I actually wanted #69, but my dad said 'that's not a good idea'. But that number always looks the same, no matter how you look at the car! #69 would be very good for the photos and marketing, and for the caps as well. It doesn't matter how you wear them, it always stays #69. In that respect it would be a good marketing tool.
November 20, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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The Week 11 QB notebook is live. This week, I’m looking at…

🏈 The root cause of JJ McCarthy’s problems
🏈 The play that has me fading any Kirk Cousins optimism
🏈 Drake Maye’s sack rate
🏈 The worst INT I’ve ever seen
🏈 More!

www.theringer.com/2025/11/18/n...
Week 11 QB Notebook: Should the Vikings Bench J.J. McCarthy?
Welcome to the QB Notebook, a column covering the most interesting passers, plays, and story lines from the week in NFL quarterbacking. In this edition: J.J. McCarthy’s continued issues, Drake Maye’s ...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
November 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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a real headline I saw today
November 14, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Wrote about Lane Kiffin. On goatees, devotionals, and the healing powers of the tarmac. Just troll, baby.
How Lane Kiffin Shitposted His Way From the Tarmac to the Top
From hot mess to Hotty Toddy to the hottest name in college football coaching. You can’t keep Lane Kiffin down.
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November 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:

- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
As a Black Hawk helicopter roared overhead, the slender, 28-year-old immigrant from Venezuela answered softly, his eyes darting to a television crew invited to film the raid. Next to Caicedo, masked Border Patrol agents inspected another man’s tattoos and asked him if he belonged to Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang that the Trump administration has designated a terrorist group. Until that moment, Caicedo’s only interaction with law enforcement in his two-and-a-half years in the United States had been a traffic stop two weeks earlier for driving without a license or insurance, according to the records we reviewed. Chicago police had run a background check on him and found no prior arrests, no warrants and no evidence that he was in a gang. Caicedo said he had a pending asylum application, a steady job at a taco joint and a girlfriend whose daughter attended elementary school across the street. None of that mattered. The U.S. government paraded him and his neighbors in front of the cameras and called their arrests a spectacular victory against terrorism. But later, after the cameras had gone, prosecutors didn’t charge Caicedo with a crime. They didn’t accuse him of being a terrorist. And after a brief hearing in immigration court, the government sent him back to the country he had fled nine years earlier. “I lost everything,” he said in a phone interview from his mother’s home in the Venezuelan city of Valencia. “For those fools, everyone from Venezuela is a criminal.”
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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deirdreassenza.bsky.social
The Louvre thief has been identified as Mr. Steal Your Girl
gayfatfriend 5h + I was hoping the Louvre thieves would be hot, but this is ridiculous. He looks like Al. He's so beautiful, he looks like he's FROM the Louvre. Guess he also stole my breath because I can't breathe. Come on.
October 30, 2025 at 11:41 PM
megschuster.bsky.social
the bar is playing I Will Always Love You and when I tell you it took *everything in me* to not go for the high note in front of a room of people
October 30, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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The latest HANG UP AND LISTEN is out 🎧

NBA gambling indictments

@megschuster.bsky.social on F1 and Verstappen's wild comeback attempt

NFL midseason checkup

@benlindbergh.bsky.social @lindsaygibbs.bsky.social slate.com/podcasts/han...
How Legal Gambling Set the Stage For Federal Indictments of NBA Stars.
The ease and access of online betting opened the door for some of the charges facing the NBA.
slate.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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cjzero.bsky.social
JADEN!!!!!
Jaden McDaniels slams all over Yang Hansen
October 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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silkyweineck.bsky.social
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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ok I’m officially on the M’s bandwagon
October 18, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing? 2? Questions I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up. Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?
October 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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What do Arch Manning’s struggles this season tell us about him as a player—and the system that hailed him as the Next Big Thing? I talked to some folks and wrote about it. www.theringer.com/2025/10/09/c...
The Arch Manning Experience vs. the Arch Manning–Industrial Complex
What do Manning’s struggles this season tell us about him as a player—and the system that hailed him as the next big thing?
www.theringer.com
October 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.
Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.
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October 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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the best character on television
October 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
megschuster.bsky.social
possibly the greatest thing ever written
October 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
megschuster.bsky.social
can I mass-sue everyone who has made me aware of the Travis Kelce Penis Song
October 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM