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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 7h

very funny to pull these numbers and then be like "wow everyone else in this place sure is uncool"

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 7h

James Franklin is fired and Chapel Bill endures

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Mike Tanier @miketanier.bsky.social · 7h

It turns out that the play requires practice and skill.

SugarBearChi @sugarbearchi74.bsky.social · 7h

Ravens ran 3 run plays on the goalline including 2 tush pushes and got nothing. Why?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 9h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Prof. Kristoffer Ealy of the Resistance @kmezdoesit.bsky.social · 7h

Democrats aren’t losing to real monsters—they’re losing to the imaginary ones Republicans keep inventing. My latest for @LincolnSquare: @nefariousmedia.bsky.social @richfann.bsky.social @2wayray.bsky.social @sherantsmtl.bsky.social
👉 www.lincolnsquare.media/p/why-democr...

Why Democrats Keep Losing to Monsters That Don’t Exist

The modern propaganda rule is that you don’t need truth. You just need repetition.

www.lincolnsquare.media

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 1d

Balogun levels with Ecuador with some nice passing after a turnover #USMNT

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Prof. Kristoffer Ealy of the Resistance @kmezdoesit.bsky.social · 3d

Just Take the Check and Shut Up About Slavery
Some jokes aren’t worth the check. A look at moral gymnastics, Saudi money, and why honesty still pays better than hypocrisy.

@nefariousmedia.bsky.social @sherantsmtl.bsky.social @richfann.bsky.social @2wayray.bsky.social

Just Take the Check and Shut Up About SlaverY

The psychology of selling out — and why it’s easier to just admit you wanted the money.

open.substack.com

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Justin McClelland @justinmcclelland.bsky.social · 3d

In which I attempt to talk about the Chamber of Horrors for longer than the match @mindofmaitland.bsky.social #mlw

PWTorch @pwtorch.bsky.social · 3d

PWTORCH DAILYCAST – Wrestling Coast to Coast: Maitland & McClelland review MLW Slaughterhouse Chamber of Horrors, Opera Cup quarterfinals, more: www.pwtorch.com/site/2025/10...

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Andrew Hammond @ahamm.bsky.social · 3d

Teenjus?

Page Six @pagesix.com · 3d

Mel Gibson’s ‘Passion of the Christ’ sequel to star new Jesus, cast

Gibson's long-gestating sequel will start shooting in Rome, but with a completely new cast, an insider told Page Six.

pagesix.com

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Sean Radican @seanradican.bsky.social · 4d

Check out my latest take: Mark Briscoe’s latest booking letdown in AEW is a wasted opportunity to give fans a big moment www.pwtorch.com/site/2025/10... @pwtorch.bsky.social @ceehawk.bsky.social @frankpeteani73.bsky.social @zackheydorn.bsky.social @richfann.bsky.social @alan4l.bsky.social

RADICAN’S TAKE: Mark Briscoe’s latest booking letdown in AEW is a wasted opportunity to give fans a big moment

Mark Briscoe is someone that is impervious to being booked poorly given his charisma and connection with the crowd. Mark and his brother Jay were relegated to only appearing only in Ring of Honor unde...

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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 4d

You would not believe how many stories like this have been popping up over the last ~5 years

Not just full games cancelled—entire characters and plot lines removed or changed, leaving less time for making the *rest of the game better*, to try avoiding a small and malicious contingent of voices.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 4d

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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Andrew Hammond @ahamm.bsky.social · 4d

Baby Billy Freeman.

Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 4d

I hope UNC's next head football coach is someone even more famous and less qualified to coach a college football team

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Rich Fann II @richfann.bsky.social · 4d

CANNOT WAIT FOR FELDER FRIDAY

Ollie Connolly @ollieconnolly.bsky.social · 4d

Per sources: Bill Belichick has discussed buyout options with North Carolina’s hierarchy. Belichick has signaled a willingness to trigger his own $1 million buyout if he can find a soft landing with another team or in media

Rich Fann II @richfann.bsky.social · 4d

The concerns. With history. In a game where aliens created most of existence.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 4d

Ubisoft canceled an 'Assassin's Creed' game set after the Civil War

• Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave

• Would fight the emerging Ku Klux Klan

• Leadership canceled it — concerned with US political climate & Yasuke backlash

(via Game File)

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Alison @alliex.bsky.social · 4d

“This country would not exist if Black women had not birthed it from their wombs on the blood-soaked earth of Native people. Enslavement, lynching, Jim Crow, genocide, the prison industrial complex aren’t footnotes in American history. They’re the main text.” — Imani Gandy

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 4d

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

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Author Myron J. Clifton @deardean22.bsky.social · 4d

Being unemployed presents opportunities for self improvement

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

we charge our hyundai ioniq 5 around once every two to three weeks at a muncipal charger and i’d say it runs about $9 for 250 miles of range.

How Much It Costs to Drive an E.V. and a Gas Car in Every State

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Defector @defector.com · 5d

Two months later, on July 12, the couple were in the area of Bristol, Conn., staying at a hotel. Hill had been yelling at Vaccaro all day because "she was not doing what he wanted her to do," the document said. Inside their hotel room, with some of Hill's other children and family waiting in the lobby, Vaccaro told Hill that she didn't want to go out because she was pregnant and didn't feel well. Hill responded by picking up Vaccaro's phone and throwing it at her face. He then "threw a punch and tried to hit her pregnant stomach, but she deflected it," the document said. Hill also "ripped at her hair and pulled some hair out, then grabbed her purse and flung it across the room," the record said.

Vaccaro was very far along in her pregnancy in November of 2024, when the couple along with some family were at their Sunny Isles Beach, Fla., condominium getting ready to leave for a Dolphins game. Hill got angry with Vaccaro while they were in the bedroom, with the rest of their family in the living area, and spat in her face, the document said. She gave birth to their daughter the next day.

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 5d

Wait, so now athletes have to wait until a new coach is HIRED before they can enter the portal?

Previously, it was immediately after the previous coach was fired.

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 6d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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