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jasonkirk.fyi
Showing a couple of this weekend's playoff games to the next person who says college football is just too sloppy to watch. It is perfectly sloppy, to be clear. This shit is great too, to be clear
January 18, 2026 at 10:21 PM
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adamrothman.bsky.social
After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.
April 18, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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faineg.bsky.social
we have been way too tolerant of cowards: we should be demanding that far more people in power who claim to be against the murderous evil of MAGA meet the standard currently being demonstrated by Jerome Fucking Powell
joshuajfriedman.com Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 16d
Jerome Powell: "This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions—or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation."
January 12, 2026 at 1:17 AM
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helldude.bsky.social
there needs to be a sex offender registry but for ice guys. you should have to go door to door when you move to a new area and inform your neighbors that you used to be an ice guy. they shouldn't be allowed with 500 feet of a school
January 9, 2026 at 12:24 AM
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tylerhuckabee.bsky.social
america is about to face a test of whether to believe the fiftieth-hand testimony of the State protecting its own vile interests or lots of video footage from various angles and it's a test not everyone will pass.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20d
Kristi Noem accuses the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis of committing an act of "domestic terrorism"
January 7, 2026 at 8:08 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
I think my least favorite quality in a person, one that is so often praised as an asset or virtue, is: "doesn't take no for an answer." We're living through an extended nightmare of what that looks like when brought to its logical conclusion.
January 6, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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hannahposts.bsky.social
It's never "we should be more like Europe" when it's about social programs or renewable energy or recycling or anything. Just the nativism, whiteness, and occasionally the more limited vaccines
December 20, 2025 at 3:20 AM
pikafarad.bsky.social
@shutdownfullcast.bsky.social This could be Wikipedia vandalism, but I'm choosing to believe it's true: Lou and Skip Holtz have a cousin named Kerosene Holtz
A screenshot from Lou Holtz's Wikipedia page: "His cousin Kerosene Holtz played football in Fort Scott, KS as a line backer. [sic]"
December 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
pikafarad.bsky.social
@shutdownfullcast.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social hey Holly, did you know about Sherrone Moore's DoorDashing of Plan B when you compared chasing office tail to Instacart?
December 12, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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bubbaprog.xyz
In 2000, there were five bowl games that matched up one conference champion against another: The Rose Bowl, the Sugar Bowl, the Sugar Bowl, the Liberty Bowl, & the Humanitarian Bowl. This season, there is one scheduled bowl game that matches up conference champions: the Myrtle Beach Bowl.
December 8, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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jasonkirk.fyi
2014-2022: The “the committee is always biased in favor of Bama and gives them lots of undeserved freebies” thing was frequently repeated, but not really true

2023-2025: It’s true now lmao!
December 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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bubbaprog.xyz
What do we even need a playoff for anymore
December 7, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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bubbaprog.xyz
Ohio State-Indiana is by many measures among the top three Biggest Games Of All Time but the playoff has eliminated so many of the consequences of losing that I don't think it will ever feel that way
December 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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kleinman.bsky.social
Strong disagree here. With so much of the weird stuff in college football getting rationalized out of existence we NEED 7-5 Duke to play for a conference title.
nauerbach.com Nicole Auerbach @nauerbach.com · Nov 30
This might be an unpopular take ... but if I'm the ACC and Cal upsets SMU, I override the tiebreakers and put Miami in the ACC championship game against Virginia.
November 30, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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brianvan.bsky.social
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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normcharlatan.bsky.social
Alright, sadly the Blue Jays season is over.
I gotta focus. I’m shifting into Grey Cup mode.
November 2, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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malaiseforever.bsky.social
reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book
“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register. Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”
October 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)
For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary. Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from). The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe. Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky. Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat? This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight: * Waste of public resources on military theatrics. * Fraud in the name of “public safety.” * Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect. Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation. Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here. When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness. Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy. A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control. Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard. Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.
October 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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jessespector.com
god i hope john smoltz is in the epstein files
October 13, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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dirtbagqueer.rocks
if we’re gonna live in this world where injuries are back up on kickoffs bc we want returns can we just. fuckin. go back to the pre-2011 kickoff rules already
October 3, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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alexkirshner.com
Hard to name an activity I respect less than walking in the aisles in the middle of play at a sporting event. There used to be some social sanction against doing this, but not anymore
October 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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dirtbagqueer.rocks
not to be a shieldy but i really do not agree. they suck equally and neither should exist in the regular season
chrisvannini.com Chris Vannini @chrisvannini.com · Sep 29
College football overtime has its faults, but it's better than NFL overtime.
September 29, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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dirtbagqueer.rocks
jawaan taylor should be straight up arrested
September 22, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
These are all people who wanted to kill their enemies before Charlie Kirk was shot, are more vocal about it now, and will keep lusting for it long after Charlie Kirk has been buried. Today’s biggest event could have been a dog farting and they would have reacted by wanting you dead.
mccallan.bsky.social Mccallan @mccallan.bsky.social · Sep 11
Not the radical left!
September 11, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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rincewind.run
rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words
September 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM