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Jeff Kraemer @jeffkraemer.bsky.social · 1d

Me too.

Jeff Kraemer @jeffkraemer.bsky.social · 1d

I seldom missed a game since 2012 and, after that send, I tried and failed to remember the name of the previous third base coach. Fugue state.

Jeff Kraemer @jeffkraemer.bsky.social · 1d

"Joey JoJo!" is one of my all-time favourite Simpsons gags.

Jeff Kraemer @jeffkraemer.bsky.social · 3d

I'm loving this footage from the umpire's POV, though.

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Jeff Kraemer @jeffkraemer.bsky.social · 3d

Can’t sleep or eat because Ernie’s splitting the vote 😨

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 7d

Hey, what was happening in Germany in the 1930s? I forget.

James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
For those who actually respect history, the origin story of Antifa is well documented. Antifa is an organization that emerged with the “German Communist Antifaschistische Aktion” movement in the 1930’s.
German Communists smeared anyone to their right as "fascists,” a common ploy used by the ignorant hysterical activists of the Democrat Party today. Like today’s leftist loonies, the German Antifa of the Weimar years even labeled the leftwing SDP as "social fascists." Today’s Antifa are a paramilitary mob used by the usual suspects to foment fake “mass protests” and burn down cities. The same puppet masters of the Democrat activist judges ruining America today also fund these “useful idiots” of Antifa to impede the mandate given to the current President in his landslide last election victory.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 7d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 16d

Europe always gets me so "things could be better" urbanism-pilled.

Lille (population 238,000)
2 metro lines
60 metro stations
24 intercity trains per day to Paris

Toronto (population 2.8 million)
2.5 metro lines
70 metro stations
7 intercity trains per day to Ottawa

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 16d

Today marks the 7th anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 16d

“It’s easier to talk here than it is in America.”

— Dave Chappelle, doing his shtick in front of a whooping, cheering crowd in … Riyadh.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/w...

At Saudi Comedy Fest, American Free Speech Becomes the Punchline

www.nytimes.com

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 16d

In America when the bases are loaded we say the bags are juiced but in Canada they say the milks are bagged

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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · Sep 9

Readers have long been frustrated by Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken". Thanks to AI, it is now possible to explore BOTH of the paths described by the speaker

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Sander van der Linden @profsanderlinden.bsky.social · Sep 5

In a new paper we show how misinformation derails support for public action on climate change by casting doubt on the scientific consensus (which undermines public opinion).

Disinformers attack expert consensus because they know it works.

Free: bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Jeff Kraemer @jeffkraemer.bsky.social · Aug 25

Great stuff. I always look forward to your newsletter, D.M.

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Jeff Kraemer @jeffkraemer.bsky.social · Aug 21

Also, it would be nice if the Education Minister stopped referring to education as "the product."

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Jeff Kraemer @jeffkraemer.bsky.social · Aug 20

Timely work by The Onion: theonion.com/pirates-unde...

Pirates Under Fire For Directly Marketing Team To Children

PITTSBURGH—Detailing the harmful, long-term effects of early exposure to the ball club’s dismal on-field product, parents and child safety organizations denounced the Pittsburgh Pirates Monday for dir...

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · Aug 18

I get that sometimes the garbage can't pile up forever or ERs need nurses, and some strikes need intervention. Air Canada's a private company with 44% market share & stock mostly held by foreign investors.

Air Canada's *not an essential service* and the Canadian government has no right to intervene

Toronto Star @thestar.com · Aug 18

#Breaking: Air Canada flight attendants ordered to return to work by noon — no word yet on whether union will comply

Air Canada flight attendants ordered to return to work by noon — no word yet on whether union will comply

Flight attendant continues picketing and union has not said whether it will comply with the Canada Industrial Relations Board order made over the weekend.

www.thestar.com

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · Aug 16

Fuck that! Not loving this ugly precedent of the Liberal government injecting themselves into labour issues to side with corporations.

Flight attendants are striking for extremely reasonable demands. Did you know they don't get paid UNTIL takeoff time? All the boarding and prep they do for FREE.

Government Shuts Down Air Canada Strike That Grounded Hundreds of Flights
A walkout by flight attendants ended after about 12 hours with the imposition of binding arbitration. But getting travel back to normal will take days.

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Jeff Kraemer @jeffkraemer.bsky.social · Jul 25

I had the same thought. Seems like an extra starter would be prudent, but right now they'd need to go to a 6-man rotation.

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · Jul 24

A Quebec fisherman who was fishing 15 kilometers north of the US border was essentially kidnapped by US Border Patrol, who capsized his boat and dragged him to an American prison cell.

In any normal time this'd be quite the international incident, y'know?

www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

Lallemand said he borrowed his friend’s boat and was fishing near Venise-en-Québec, which is roughly 15 kilometres north of the U.S. border at the northern tip of Lake Champlain. He says he has been fishing for decades and is adamant that he was in Canadian waters when the Coast Guard showed up and told him to turn off his engine, to which he complied.

The three officers told him he was in U.S. territory.

“I said, ‘No, I’m very sorry, I’m in Canada.’ And I said I’m polite enough to talk to you guys but you cannot arrest me. ‘You can’t come across the border and pick me up’ but they did,” he recalled.

Lallemand started his engine and said he wanted to talk with the officers by the shore, but the Coast Guard followed and tried to push him into the U.S., which is what caused him to go overboard.

“They’re tying my boat to their boat. They’re not even taking care of me. The third time I went down, coming out with water in my mouth, spitting it out, I said throw me a buoy,” he said.

Once on their vessel, he said he was aggressively put in handcuffs. “I never saw somebody so angry,” he said.

He was then handed over to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, who fingerprinted him, put him in a jail cell with his clothes soaking wet, and gave him a “dirty” blanket.

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Jeff Kraemer @jeffkraemer.bsky.social · Jul 23

@wilnerness.bsky.social I know headlines aren't your responsibility, but maybe you know who can fix this?

Headline from the Toronto Star website: "Yankees broadcaster Anthony Kay admits 'it's not mirrors,' the Blue Jays are really good"

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · Jul 20

The only thing to understand about the pronoun thing is that just because something is outside of your lived experience doesn’t mean it’s not real or the person telling you is mistaken or you are being inconvenienced

Nicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · Jul 19

im always taken aback by just how much cis people will humiliate themselves to be dicks to trans people. like sorry, youre confused about pronouns? how did you make it thru 6th grade english you slimy dipshit? why are you going on podcasts to advertise youre too stupid to understand simple concepts?

“The trans issue for me is so novel,” Newsom said. “I'm trying to understand as much as anyone else the whole ‘pronoun’ thing.”

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Jeff Kraemer @jeffkraemer.bsky.social · Jun 27

Hell yeah

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jun 26

With all the social media discourse about how every newspaper is untrustworthy, I find that young people aren’t learning this habit of looking through a daily central source for the top stories

When we don’t have any sense of a shared news reality, we are easier to divide

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jun 19

Look people, no matter how much we destroy the Earth by polluting it with CO₂, microplastics, PFAS, etc. everywhere, and even if AMOC shuts down and both the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets melt, the Earth will still be infinitely more habitable than Mars. Mars is a shithole and we're not going.

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · Jun 18

This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Jun 18

Vice-President JD Vance confirms he has joined BlueSky.

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Just set up my page on @bluesky, hope to see you guys there!
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Hello Bluesky, I've been told this app has become the place to go for common sense political discussion and analysis.
So I'm thrilled to be here to engage with all of you.
States" supports this position). The implication of these arguments is that courts should defer to so-called expert con-
There are several problems with appealing and deferring to the authority of the expert class. First, so-called experts have no license to countermand the "wisdom, fairness, or logic of legislative choices." FCC v. Beach Communications, Inc., 508 U. S. 307, 313 (1993). Second, contrary to the representations of the United States and the private plaintiffs there is no medical consensus on how best to treat gender dysphoria in children. Third, notwithstanding the alleged experts' view that young children can provide informed consent to irreversible sex-transition treatments, whether such consent is possible is a question of medical ethics that States must decide for themselves. Fourth, there are particularly good reasons to question the expert class here, as recent revelations suggest that leading voices in this area have relied on questionable evidence, and have allowed ide-logy to influence their medical guidand
Taken together, this case serves as a useful reminder that the American people and their representatives are en-
JD Vance @jd-vance-1.bsky.social • 47s
To that end, I found Justice Thomas's concurrence on medical care for transgender youth quite illuminating. He argues that many of our so-called
"experts" have used bad arguments anc substandard science to push experimental therapies on our youth.
JD Vance @jd-vance-1.bsky.social • 46s
I might add that many of those scientists are receiving substantial resources from big pharma to push these medicines on kids. What do you think?

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