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Fighting the current status quo. Music nerd, OG #shoegazer. 404 & 313, with some 517. #OnePride #LGRW #GoGreen Fave 2025 tracks: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/2025-repeat-plays/pl.u-xlyNBlkTkAqgbJ

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Jer @jerdem.bsky.social · Aug 29

Happy new album by #TheBeths day. They’re still great and Elizabeth Stokes songwriting is as well. #AppleMusic
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Best Laid Plans by The Beths on Apple Music

Song · 2025 · Duration 5:05

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Jer @jerdem.bsky.social · 16h

Kinda like Michael Vick.

Jer @jerdem.bsky.social · 1d

I usually get my dystopian tech news from @hypervisible.blacksky.app, though I could just be behind.

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

A Palo Alto company has launched more than 4,000 of its "smart" balloons. Looks like one of them smashed into a United 737.

Everyone was OK, but the pilot did tell passengers, “The aircraft has collided with an object and a window in the cockpit has shattered"

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Silicon Valley startup admits its balloon may have struck United jet, forcing emergency landing

A Silicon Valley company says one of its “smart” weather balloons may have struck a United Airlines flight, cracking the cockpit windshield and injuring a pilot.

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Jer @jerdem.bsky.social · 1d

Guided missile warheads are considered small arms?

Jer @jerdem.bsky.social · 2d

Cc: @dennycarter.bsky.social

Jer @jerdem.bsky.social · 2d

Insert audio from Patty Donahue of the Waitresses at the end of “I know what boys like” sneering… “Sucker!”

Politico @politico.com · 2d

“Put America first”: GOP senators are fuming at Trump’s idea to import Argentinian beef to lower US prices.

Lawmakers face blowback from angry ranchers who were already alarmed by Trump’s $40 billion bailout of Argentina — even as the country undercuts US soybean farmers over trade with China.

‘Put America first’: GOP senators fume at Trump’s idea to import Argentinian beef

Farm-state lawmakers and allies of the president are rushing to get him to reverse course.

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Jer @jerdem.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe the greatest compliment.

“When you’re in a heavyweight fight, and you don’t cross your T’s and dot your I’s, the other team’s going to win,” Bowles said. “Dan did a great job, again, getting his guys ready.”

Nick Baumgardner @nickbaumgardner.bsky.social · 2d

They said the window was closed. Too much change. This is what happens, they said, when your cabinet gets raided.

One problem.

Dan Campbell doesn’t have a cabinet. Dan Campbell is the cabinet.

Welcome to Detroit. Home of the NFL’s most resilient football team.

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Jer @jerdem.bsky.social · 3d

3rd string Lions secondary making a stand! #onepride

Jer @jerdem.bsky.social · 3d

Insane amount of secondary injures for the Lions. #onepride

Jer @jerdem.bsky.social · 3d

And very deserved chant.

Jer @jerdem.bsky.social · 3d

So jersey grabs are penalties now. Make it make sense. #onepride

Jer @jerdem.bsky.social · 3d

Somehow, a clear jersey grab is a “judgement call” now.

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 3d

I'm old enough to remember when David Broder said of Bill Clinton, "He came in here and he trashed the place, and it's not his place." Every day, in ways both literal and figurative, we now can see what trashing the place truly means. wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

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Jer @jerdem.bsky.social · 4d

Treating her staff like a hostile audience to be provoked is top class people management. So savvy.

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Jer @jerdem.bsky.social · 4d

No, he wrote “Columbia”. AP doesn’t need to quietly spellcheck his BS.

Jer @jerdem.bsky.social · 5d

That is awesome.

Jer @jerdem.bsky.social · 5d

Heard this classic Simple Minds track in a commercial today, bummed it was for Chat GPT though. music.apple.com/us/album/som...

Someone Somewhere (In Summertime) [Remastered 2002] by Simple Minds on Apple Music

Song · 1982 · Duration 4:37

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Jer @jerdem.bsky.social · 6d

Not tired of this. At all. #LGRW

Ryan Hana @ryanhanawwp.bsky.social · 6d

Tonight's #LGRW game recap:

- 4 STRAIGHT WINS
- THE CAPTAIN WINS IT! Larkin OT hero 🚨
- ASP 1st CAREER GOAL (& point)!
- GIBSON 1st RED WINGS WIN, *massive* performance & huge for confidence
- Detroit was perfect through 2, fell off but survived a strong TBL surge in the 3rd

Jer @jerdem.bsky.social · 6d

Mamdani is on our side. ✊

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The biggest sporting event in the world is happening in our backyard. But most New Yorkers will be priced out of watching it live. Sign our petition calling on @FIFA to put game over greed: zohranforn...

TikTok video by Zohran Mamdani

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Jer @jerdem.bsky.social · 6d

🎯 Direct hit.

Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 6d

French philosopher and novelist Jean-Paul Sartre knew what made fascists tick.
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"Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge,” Sartre said. “But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."

Fascism, as Robert O. Paxton writes in The Anatomy of Fascism, “is an affair of the gut more than of the brain,” a phenomenon of “mobilizing passions” reaching a fever pitch that turns otherwise reasonable people into delusional, dangerous fanatics yearning for the void, for fascist movements – anywhere they are found, or have been found – want nothing more than the end of all things. It is a movement of death and destruction, of all-consuming nihilism. It is a movement that seeks to dismantle love and human connection wherever it is. It is an assault on what it is to be a human being. Nothing about fascism is natural. In fact, Paxton cites a number of intellectuals who in the 1930s dismissed fascism as a most unnatural phenomenon.

Jer @jerdem.bsky.social · 7d

Gianni might at least tease the possibility to assuage you know who.

Jer @jerdem.bsky.social · 7d

I feel that. Wouldn’t put it past FIFA to at least consider moving games either, though it seems way too late and complicated to do so.

Jer @jerdem.bsky.social · 7d

Could not agree more. The 2026 World Cup gives #FIFA the opportunity to inflict their corruption directly on to fans. Just say no.

Cc: @willbunch.bsky.social

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FIFA is hell-bent on making the 2026 World Cup the stupidest sporting event in history — SB Nation

FIFA is already one of the most corrupt, greedy, and short-sighted governing bodies in sports — but even they’ve found a way to top themselves.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 7d

You rarely get to see an actual photograph of the First Amendment being neutered.

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Jer @jerdem.bsky.social · 7d

No need to apologize for harping. More harping is needed, all over, because it’s too easy to lose focus on the constant stream of atrocities now.

Jer @jerdem.bsky.social · 8d

This is the original alt text for that gif, the worst alt text ever.

“a giant inflatable orange man with a pitcher of iced tea on his head .”