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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 10h

cam skattebo wouldve loved the jackass era of mtv

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 23h

Game has real Thursday night energy.

The Falcoholic @thefalcoholic.bsky.social · 23h

Bills and Falcons just trading aggressively stupid bullshit

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 1d

It's not a question of math. The final hostages were the leverage and the reason Israel was still fighting.

Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 1d

The "final" hostages. It's an important distinction. Hamas gave up its main leverage.

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 1d

And I don't think Trump deserves "credit" for creating this reality, but his administration was able to take advantage of facts on the ground to accomplish a positive objective. To me, that deserves some latitude.

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 1d

I respectfully disagree. The hostages got released. That is a key distinction between previous cease fires and this one.

Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 1d

No, you don't gotta hand it to him for possibly getting the third Biden cease fire eight months late after tolerating a mass starvation campaign and demanding a little ethnic cleansing and enormous bribes as a treat, and only because Netanyahu surprise bombed the chief bribe facilitator.

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I think that the facts on the ground were relevant. Kind of like Reagan "ending" the Cold War. But I think historical actors deserve credit for riding the tides successfully, so-to-speak.

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 1d

And sometimes, you gotta tip your cap. Trump's administration saw an opportunity.

I spent a lot of time bashing Jared Kushner but really, he comes across quite well here, and also with COVID (per Deborah Birx).

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's success w/r/t Israel/Gaza is forcing me to reevaluate my priors. Specifically, I think that a declining America probably doesn't have the luxury of Wilsonianism. The logic of "deal-making"--anathema to me in theory--may make more sense in an international context.

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 2d

I definitely believe he has always had contempt for religious people. I'm wondering if he's wavering as he's staring down mortality.

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 2d

Do you see this as dropping the mask or feeling his mortality? I'm actually more inclined to think the latter.

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 3d

Douthat is a great interviewer. He gives his subjects room to sound ridiculous without attempting to "gotcha."

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 4d

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

Douthat: So that’s the first purpose of your political project, for America to stop making God angry.

Wilson: Yes. And most people think that when they are confronted with that project, they think that we want to get our tentacles into everything and start controlling everything. I actually think we need limited government. The government should be significantly smaller than it is, and we need to curtail a lot of the busybodyness that we have. That’s why I would call myself a theocratic libertarian. There is a true libertarian element in this, and yet, the transcendent grounding for what we’re talking about means that we acknowledge the authority of God.

We have racked up quite a body count of awful crimes, and I believe the only way out is for us to repent and turn to Christ. This would be things like no more Pride parades, no more drag queen story hours, no more abortion on demand, no more legalized same-sex unions — all of that, done. That’s the repentance part.

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Justin Klugh @justinklugh.bsky.social · Nov 10

JOE BUCK: Welcome to the top of the 47th
[Sun rises]
[Sun keeps getting bigger]
BUCK: yes
[World engulfed by flames]
BUCK: oh god yes

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 4d

In fairness, Obama won the prize because of his campaign

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 5d

cc @epicciuto.bsky.social

Tweet about the third amendment allowing businesses to refuse to grant ICE access to bathrooms

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 6d

Tweets from the 2001 NFL draft

Pack2010 @pack2010.bsky.social · 6d

I think there's a reason why the cardinals chose Leo

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 6d

given how bad this admin are at optics they're going to get into a fight with the catholics at some point i fear

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 6d

There are ways to challenge the design and funding burden of foreign aid that don’t involve suddenly pulling the rug out from under starving people.

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Ted Berg @ogtedberg.bsky.social · Oct 26

What an amazing showcase for contemporary Major League Baseball, and here to tell you all about it is the man who hates it most, John Smoltz

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 7d

This doesn't mean that I was wrong about the left. It just means that everything totally sucks

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 7d

Kind of sucks tbh

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 7d

as a kid growing up right-wing i regularly heard people express their desire for "a government so small I can drown it in the bathtub". imagine my surprise growing up to realize i was the only one who actually believed that.

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Saoirse Like Inaoirse @handle.invalid · 7d

I'm not sure what the objection is regarding Senators being part of a criminal investigation when there is reasonable cause. It speaks to the integrity of the investigation that, as far as I know, nothing politically damaging or materially irrelevant to the Jan 6 case was leaked about any Senator.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 9d

Baseball on the radio is still sublime, almost co-equal with television (in the right hands, er, voice), and almost every MLB team has a great radio booth

Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 9d

caught the end of the tigers win old-school style: on am radio on the way back from a wedding

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 11d

I have a solution

Winnie the Pooh meme. Slob Winnie is “Gifted and Talented”
Tuxedo Winnie is “Differentiated Instruction”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12d

Very Trump-era story.
1. The sword has no meaning for Charles, but matters for the Eisenhower Museum.
2. Illegal for the museum to give away US property!
3. Trump makes no distinction between personal/public property.
4. The person who did the right thing was fired.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out

www.nytimes.com

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 12d

This whole aesthetic is disgusting and disturbing.

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