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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · Feb 26

This is the same columnist who wrote in the paper that despite getting diarrhea, we still needed to give raw milk a chance. Just the most bad faith person who keeps choosing to get diarrhea but wants to believe she’s smarter than the rest of us.

Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · Feb 23

Just what we needed this morning: the Strib’s “greater Minnesota columnist” treating us to her uninformed concern trolling about trans kids’ participation in sports, marketed as “honest discourse.”

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 11h

Wild win in a shootout

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 11h

The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 19h

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 11h

since there's reports on social media of money hitting accounts worth reiterating that this is illegal and unconstitutional as shit, it's not a close question, and while I don't expect anyone on H/SASC or H/SAC will do anything, anyone performing this 'reprogramming' should face criminal penalties

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

It's also worth reiterating that absent this reprogramming authority being written into law it would be not just illegal but flatly unconstitutional for DoD to expend money in any fashion not explicitly specified (by both type/use and quantity) by Congress in an appropriations bill

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

Since we're getting a crash course in DoD reprogramming authority, CRS has a good report on it linked below. Some important points:

Congress gives DoD reprogramming authority because when you're dealing with a trillion dollars, some stuff is probably going to need to be changed over 12 months

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$5 Bits of Broken Chair Trophy @chairtrophy.bsky.social · 1h

Whoa! The Chair Trophy got some love on an Omaha local news station last night and the Huskers shot out to a huge lead!

Gophers: $2741
Huskers: $3464

Trying to honor Jack's mission while not trading on his loss is a tricky line to toe and we are doing our best. 🤎 #GBR

www.ketv.com/article/the-...

The special significance behind Nebraska and Minnesota's 'Broken Chair Rivalry'

The Broken Chair Rivalry has turned into a challenge to see which fan base can raise the most money for two important causes. One of them is the University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital. Th...

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 13h

incredible

Curt Hogg @cyrthogg.bsky.social · 13h

That insanity goes down officially as a grounded into double play, making it the only batted ball hit over 350 feet for a GIDP in the pitch tracking era (reg. + postseason).

Max Muncy grounded into a 404-foot double play.

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Grandma @grandmasweb.bsky.social · 14h

The National Guard’s mostly quiet walks through Washington, D.C., are expected to cost a little more than $200 million, USA Today reported, and that’s the figure just for the D.C. National Guard, not for the eight states that have sent troops.

A Very, Very Expensive Way to Reduce Crime

The Trump administration’s National Guard deployments are highly inefficient.

www.theatlantic.com

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I am Patrick's Sports Angst @patricksaxton.bsky.social · 13h

Dan Quinn bet the under on Caleb's completions or something?

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 13h

wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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I am Patrick's Sports Angst @patricksaxton.bsky.social · 14h

What the shit kind of spin cycle was that play from the commanders

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 14h

The good news is, they gave us one

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · May 13

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Robin Bradford @tuphlos.bsky.social · 17h

SIR!!!

Thank you.

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Stepper @stepper.bsky.social · 17h

Gonna jump in here real quick with the beginning of Purple Lamborghini Fest in 2017. The first Chair-ity year. Carrying the rebuilt trophy around Dinkytown after Demry Croft went OFF for 52 points on a BEAUTIFUL, warm and sunny November afternoon. Passion project turned into a Real CFB Thing. #RTB

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BOO!-iff @biffthetick.bsky.social · 17h

Speaking of spite:

I’ll donate $5 to the #Minnesota side for every #Gopher fan (or neutral) who replies to this with their favorite memory of the #Gophers beating Nebraska.

No shortage of them recently! #CFBsky #B1G

$5 Bits of Broken Chair Trophy @chairtrophy.bsky.social · 18h

Not enough of you are considering the fun of donating for spite.

Sooners, Buffs, Penn State fans hoping for Matt Rhule... Team One Four would love to welcome you to the squad.

Badgers, PJ Fleck capri pant haters... Team Jack is a fantastic org doing great work for kids.

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José Sepúlveda @josesepulveda.bsky.social · 23h

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

My latest video for @propublica.org.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 16h

Was waiting to see how Olivia Reingold (who Oliver's piece destroyed almost as much as Bari Weiss) would respond, and you can see the tweet below which also shows she either did not watch his piece, or just didn't understand it, since he actually addresses this point directly.

Olivia Reingold quote tweeting Variety.

The Variety tweet is about John Oliver's piece on Bari Weiss leading CBS News, saying:

John Oliver slams Bari Weiss' takeover of CBS News:

"I wouldn’t want anyone who led a pure opinion outlet, not even one that I happened to agree with, to suddenly be running CBS News. But it is especially alarming to have someone doing it who has spent years putting out work that, in my opinion, is at best irresponsible and at worst deeply misleading."

Reingold then quotes it saying:

Why does this sound like John Oliver commenting on……John Oliver

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$5 Bits of Broken Chair Trophy @chairtrophy.bsky.social · 18h

Not enough of you are considering the fun of donating for spite.

Sooners, Buffs, Penn State fans hoping for Matt Rhule... Team One Four would love to welcome you to the squad.

Badgers, PJ Fleck capri pant haters... Team Jack is a fantastic org doing great work for kids.

Brokenchairtrophy.com

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👻 ZH0000GE LIANG 臥龍 / 伏龍 👻 @shuchancellor.online · 19h

there's no such thing as "abusing a right" either you have rights or you don't

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 19h

Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson's full statement, in which she says she will sign an EO permitting protest "only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street," is up on the village's website.

"There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest," Thompson says.

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Broadview Shrinks Protest Safety Zones

The following statement can be attributed to Village of Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson:

“The protests at the ICE facility on Saturday night degenerated into chaos. There were 15 arrests, and 10 of those were around the age of my own daughter. As a mother and a mayor, I am mad. Broadview didn’t choose to have the ICE facility in our community. But it’s here. And so are Broadview residents. There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest. Too many are raising their fists rather than their voices, creating chaos at the expense of the people who call Broadview home. Broadview residents lack the protestors’ privilege to return to calm, quiet neighborhoods for undisturbed rest.

Therefore, I have issued a new executive order, in consultation with the Illinois State Police and Cook County Sheriff, that permits protests only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street.

There will no longer be a designated protest safety zone at 2000 South 25th Avenue between Lexington and Fillmore.

Additionally, it has been only God’s grace alone that a protester has not been struck and killed by a motorist on 25th Avenue given how frequently protesters dash onto this busy, four-lane street. This new
measure will provide for both the serenity of residents and safety of protestors.

As I have repeatedly said, I respect, support, and defend the protesters’ free and – peaceful – speech against the outrageous injustices and deplorable unprovoked chemical arms attacks by ICE agents against American citizens, journalists, and ministers that put Broadview police and firefighters in harms’ way.

Nevertheless, my first priority is to defend public safety and the residents who live here and people who work here. They deserve stability, safety, and respect, a quality of life that is currently being denied to them. They deserve the love and kindness that they expect by being Broadview residents.”

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 21h

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?
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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?

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This Matters To Somebody @tm2s.bsky.social · 19h

Nebraska is down in the Chair-ity but maybe today's historical rivalry thread will lift Husker spirits.

Both our teams know how hard it is to watch a legend fade away.

In 1950 time was up for #Gopher legend Bernie Bierman, and the #Huskers played a role in delivering the message. #CFBsky #B1G

$5 Bits of Broken Chair Trophy @chairtrophy.bsky.social · 1d

Kicking off Chair Week Monday

HUSKERS @TeamJack: $864
GOPHERS @MHealthFairview: $2100

Team One Four is in the lead, and has a $5K match that will kick in! Keep it up, Gophers! Huskers, get to work for Team Jack!

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 1d

The Mad Hatter is threatening Gotham

Cam Newton on a screen facing us in a blue jacket, bow tie, and hat with 3 ESPN people at a a table facing the screen discussing the KC/Det scuffle after last night's game

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Sean @titaniumman91.bsky.social · 1d

The only rivalry "trophy" with any meaning anymore. Such a shame to lose the Bell/Mizzou rivalry for some corporate ass glass trophy named something bland.

$5 Bits of Broken Chair Trophy @chairtrophy.bsky.social · 1d

@dukesmayobowl.bsky.social Your defending champ Minnesota Gopher fans are in a Chair-ity drive for pediatric cancer. Can we get some CFB online silliness to join forces and share this explainer post? We're trying to get to $15K for each Chair-ity and tell pediatric cancer to kick rocks.

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PINKERITE @pinkerite.com · 1d

Easy answer: the job of courtier to the plutocracy has always been a winning stratgy for the shameless.

www.vox.com/politics/463...

Why does Bari Weiss keep winning?

The “anti-woke” commentator quit the New York Times in protest 5 years ago. Now she’ll be CBS News’s top editor. How?

www.vox.com

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