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Tigers fan, Michigan fan, Lions fan. Common sense fan. Let's make things better. Fishing makes me happy
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Kelly: When I was flying in combat over Iraq during the first Gulf War, I didn’t expect that there was a 10-year-old kid sitting in South Africa who would one day become the richest guy in the world and call me a traitor for doing my job. Now, he kind of acts like a 12-year-old kid

Another subpar year of ice cover. For one day I broke average, which was a statistical anomaly at best. I didn't even break 50%. I'm sad, very very sad. I just want to be cold again.

What To Know About NOAA http://theonion.com/...

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Fun Fact: Democrats are wearing pink tonight as a symbolic protest against people who want them to do something meaningful

The Pop-Tarts Bowl’s absurdist pageantry has been the best thing to happen to bowl season in many years. This is its origin story. http://dlvr.it/TJKD0l

The average American voter thinks that the government is too big but that it should spend more money on everything it does. This explains a decent share of the political chaos of this country.

In Michigan, we expect our congressional delegation to support democracy, not bow to Putin and fascism. Where are our military veteran Congressmen John James and Tom Barrett after Trump’s comments? Come on, guys — you either stand for something, or stand for nothing at all.

Starmer to Zelenskyy: You are very very welcome here in Downing Street. As you heard from the cheers outside, you have full backing across the United Kingdom.

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

“Sorry VP, sold out”— JD Vance met with pro-Ukraine protests as he tries to go skiing ⛷️ in Vermont

All federal employees must respond to an email from a Nigerian prince with their bank account number or risk being terminated.

Russia coming back to win the Cold War in 2025 after the ESPN win probability chart said the USA had a 99.999999999% chance of victory

How it started/How it's going

Fortunately @marc-gregor.bsky.social is on Bluesky now, so I can tag him in this amazing shot.

The Onion is within a hair's breadth of reporting real news apnews.com/video/robert...

Tigers have signed lefty reliever Andrew Chafin to a minor league deal with a camp invite. It's the third time Tigers have brought him into the fold since 2022.

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

The enormous miss by the Vet Committee that could have enshrined both at the same time, and whiffed And they like to say that us number-nerds have no romance for the game. You have no idea how elated we would have been to have Lou+Alan together at the same time

AMERICAN DREAM, 1776: I hope our new nation can someday fulfill the promise of true democracy for, of, and by the people AMERICAN DREAM, 2025: I hope the unelected billionaire Nazi fries his brain on Ketamine so someone can stop his broccoli-headed teen soldiers from crashing planes

1. End the rule of law 2. Crash the economy 3. Make it so that planes regularly fall out of the sky 4. Take everyone's antidepressants and anti-anxiety drugs away 5. Promote maximal gun ownership. Now, let's see what happens.

Hi Bluesky! Glad to be here.

25 years ago today, Baseball Reference was created. We've had a few different looks over the years, but our mission has stayed the same—to make baseball stats accessible for everyone. ⚾

Just got a rejection letter for a job I applied for with the federal government. Not unexpected... but I applied in 2020.

Struggling with lots of midlake crisis thoughts lately. Advice?

it’s just kinda sad that millions of people voted for a candidate bc they thought he would press a big nonexistent button that said “make groceries less expensive” and then two weeks in he pressed a big button that says “make groceries more expensive”

Over the last nine days, the house has been out of session while the Democracy is sold for parts. Would have been nice had the Democrat come back on their own and sued, yelled, stood up, etc. Anything but stayed home

This is a reminder that no one can convince Trump voters to no longer support Trump, better than Trump can.

RFK Jr looks and acts exactly like the guy in a zombie film who's desperately trying to hide the fact that he was infected from the other survivors.

The property insurance industry knows what’s up with climate change and socio economic risk. It’s just about math and science to them. So it’s interesting to see what they have to say www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/brea...