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Brian Phillips

@brianphillips.bsky.social

I wrote 4000 words about Nuzzi/Lizza/RFK, please read it before it gets taken down by HR

The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined

Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time

www.theringer.com

November 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM

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CJ Fogler

@cjzero.bsky.social

Like, I can't even get mad at the Packers D doing this

November 23, 2025 at 8:41 PM

Megan Schuster

@megschuster.bsky.social

just bought a Jurassic World toy for a kid who’s obsessed with dinosaurs—this is the sweetest list!

treb @treblaw.bsky.social · 4d

🧵 We are, in fact, doing the thing again for @onesimplewish.bsky.social. In 2024, the kind people of this community put the money cannon on blast to help grant $75K in wishes for children in foster care. Toys, tech, a suit for job interviews. Here we go again! 👇
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...

November 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM

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Josh Gondelman

@joshgondelman.bsky.social

Wait sorry here is the link for my show on 11/23 in Minneapolis!!! theparkwaytheater.com/all-events/j...

Josh Gondelman

Fresh from his new stand-up special Positive Reinforcement, Josh Gondelman returns to The Parkway for a hilarious night of stand-up comedy! 

theparkwaytheater.com

November 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM

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CJ Fogler

@cjzero.bsky.social

Max Verstappen wants #69 if he fails to repeat as champion 😂 www.motorsport.com/f1/news/vers...

Asked whether #3 would be the preferred option if allowed, the world champion joked: "I actually wanted #69, but my dad said 'that's not a good idea'. But that number always looks the same, no matter how you look at the car! #69 would be very good for the photos and marketing, and for the caps as well. It doesn't matter how you wear them, it always stays #69. In that respect it would be a good marketing tool.

November 20, 2025 at 6:54 AM

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Steven Ruiz

@stevenruiz.bsky.social

The Week 11 QB notebook is live. This week, I’m looking at…

🏈 The root cause of JJ McCarthy’s problems
🏈 The play that has me fading any Kirk Cousins optimism
🏈 Drake Maye’s sack rate
🏈 The worst INT I’ve ever seen
🏈 More!

www.theringer.com/2025/11/18/n...

Week 11 QB Notebook: Should the Vikings Bench J.J. McCarthy?

Welcome to the QB Notebook, a column covering the most interesting passers, plays, and story lines from the week in NFL quarterbacking. In this edition: J.J. McCarthy’s continued issues, Drake Maye’s ...

www.theringer.com

November 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈

@josephpolitano.bsky.social

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

November 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM

Megan Schuster

@megschuster.bsky.social

a real headline I saw today

November 14, 2025 at 1:40 AM

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Tyler Parker

@tylerparker.bsky.social

Wrote about Lane Kiffin. On goatees, devotionals, and the healing powers of the tarmac. Just troll, baby.

How Lane Kiffin Shitposted His Way From the Tarmac to the Top

From hot mess to Hotty Toddy to the hottest name in college football coaching. You can’t keep Lane Kiffin down.

www.theringer.com

November 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:

- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

As a Black Hawk helicopter roared overhead, the slender, 28-year-old immigrant from Venezuela answered softly, his eyes darting to a television crew invited to film the raid. Next to Caicedo, masked Border Patrol agents inspected another man’s tattoos and asked him if he belonged to Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang that the Trump administration has designated a terrorist group.

Until that moment, Caicedo’s only interaction with law enforcement in his two-and-a-half years in the United States had been a traffic stop two weeks earlier for driving without a license or insurance, according to the records we reviewed. Chicago police had run a background check on him and found no prior arrests, no warrants and no evidence that he was in a gang. Caicedo said he had a pending asylum application, a steady job at a taco joint and a girlfriend whose daughter attended elementary school across the street.

None of that mattered. The U.S. government paraded him and his neighbors in front of the cameras and called their arrests a spectacular victory against terrorism. But later, after the cameras had gone, prosecutors didn’t charge Caicedo with a crime. They didn’t accuse him of being a terrorist. And after a brief hearing in immigration court, the government sent him back to the country he had fled nine years earlier.

“I lost everything,” he said in a phone interview from his mother’s home in the Venezuelan city of Valencia. “For those fools, everyone from Venezuela is a criminal.”

November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM

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Bill Grueskin

@bgrueskin.bsky.social

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM

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Deirdre Assenza

@deirdreassenza.bsky.social

The Louvre thief has been identified as Mr. Steal Your Girl

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I was hoping the Louvre thieves would be hot, but this is ridiculous. He looks like Al.
He's so beautiful, he looks like he's FROM the Louvre. Guess he also stole my breath because I can't breathe. Come on.

October 30, 2025 at 11:41 PM

Megan Schuster

@megschuster.bsky.social

the bar is playing I Will Always Love You and when I tell you it took *everything in me* to not go for the high note in front of a room of people

October 30, 2025 at 12:03 AM

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Alex Kirshner

@alexkirshner.com

The latest HANG UP AND LISTEN is out 🎧

NBA gambling indictments

@megschuster.bsky.social on F1 and Verstappen's wild comeback attempt

NFL midseason checkup

@benlindbergh.bsky.social @lindsaygibbs.bsky.social slate.com/podcasts/han...

How Legal Gambling Set the Stage For Federal Indictments of NBA Stars.

The ease and access of online betting opened the door for some of the charges facing the NBA.

slate.com

October 27, 2025 at 11:09 PM

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CJ Fogler

@cjzero.bsky.social

JADEN!!!!!
Jaden McDaniels slams all over Yang Hansen

October 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM

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Silky

@silkyweineck.bsky.social

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM

Megan Schuster

@megschuster.bsky.social

ok I’m officially on the M’s bandwagon

October 18, 2025 at 1:01 AM

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bleary

@bleary.off-the-records.com

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?

October 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM

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Joel D. Anderson

@joelanderson.bsky.social

What do Arch Manning’s struggles this season tell us about him as a player—and the system that hailed him as the Next Big Thing? I talked to some folks and wrote about it. www.theringer.com/2025/10/09/c...