But I bet that was a fun project to work on

I'm honestly surprised that many states made the change. Fun stuff.

There are some questions I'd have about the ability to keep product in date for smaller self dist. and the effects one craft brand has on the entire craft segment in a small area

Out of curiosity, what state are you in?

Yuengling, Sierra, and Lagunitas have carved out their own tier of beer clout along with Stone and New Belgium (maybe Shiner). The rest are owned by Heineken USA or Corona. Craft is a more expensive alt to their base products, so they have little interest in pushing their own craft portfolio.

That's interesting. Were you able to follow the data past 2 years to make sure there wasn't just an initial flood of products after dereg before the market resettled?

And let's acknowledge the obvious... self distr. is cumbersome and difficult. It will fail if you suck at it lol.

I'd also add 2 factors. 1) craft never really captured that light and easy drinking segment. They tried with Mexican lagers and experimental sours, but now lose serious shelf placement to seltzers. 2) Over investment in facilities. Some solid places just grew too quick without the right foundations

The 3 tier distribution system is set in stone. A distributor's rights give full control for a product in an area. Some big stores (or small intrepid ones) have a purchaser to help that, but it's usually beer salesmen that rarely has craft exp. And has incentives to get more placement for big brands

And on and on and on we go

someone seems very tired of being told he doesn't respond enough

Last preseason game for random hypotheticals! So do you think Blumel would have slotted in on that second line had he stayed?

Garcia Ramirez v. ICE case caption. ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER AND TO ENFORCE FINAL JUDGMENT AND PERMANENT INJUNCTION Upon consideration of Plaintiffs' Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order and to Enforce the Permanent Injunction and accompanying Memorandum of Points and Authorities and Declarations (the "Motion"), and all other materials properly before this Court, it is hereby ORDERED that Plaintiffs' Motion is GRANTED; and it is further ORDERED that Defendants and all persons acting under their direction or in concert with them, are hereby ENJOINED from implementing any new directive regarding age-outs; ORDERED that Defendants and all persons acting under their direction or in concert with them, are hereby ENJOINED from detaining any class member in an adult ICE facility in any manner that contravenes the Permanent Injunction; ORDERED that Defendants immediately rescind any determinations to detain based on this directive; ORDERED that Defendants immediately produce that directive, any related policies regarding that directive, and the Age-Out Review Worksheets of any class members who may have been impacted by that directive, including all AORs issued since October 1, 2025. SO ORDERED this 4th day of October 2025.

BREAKING: Federal judge BLOCKS a new ICE policy that went into effect last week to automatically detain unaccompanied migrant children on their 18th birthday when they “age out” of shelter care.

The TRO enforces a court order in a case brought by @immcouncil.org and @immigrantjustice.bsky.social.

Tricia McLaughlin • @TriciaOhio X.com This morning, during routine patrolling in Broadview, in the same area of Chicago that law enforcement were assaulted yesterday, our brave law enforcement officers were rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars. Agents were unable to move their vehicles and exited the car. One of the drivers who rammed the law enforcement vehicle was armed with a semi-automatic weapon. Law enforcement was forced to deploy their weapons and fire defensive shots at an armed US citizen who drove herself to the hospital to get care for wounds. The armed woman was named in a @CBP intelligence bulletin last week for doxing agents and posting online 'Hey to all my gang let's fuck those mother fuckers up, don't let them take anyone.'

Thankfully, no law enforcement officers were seriously injured in this attack. Pritzker's Chicago Police Department is leaving the shooting scene and refuses to assist us in securing the area. There is a growing crowd and we are deploying special operations to control the scene. This is an evolving situation and we will give more information as soon as it becomes available. 1:19 PM • 10/4/25 • 52K Views

WHOA: DHS says that their officers were “rammed and blocked in” in Chicago and got out of their cars and shot an U.S. citizen who reportedly also had a gun and who had been tracking ICE raids. They are blaming the shooting on her, and say they were already tracking her socials. More details to come.

I am always happy to point out technicalities. Especially while I'm stuck on an overseas flight lol. And always happy to blend the lines of sports and scifi

Was there a point? Or am I just the entirety of Ultimate twitter on Bluesky looking for excuses to talk about flying plastic? One may never know.

I get it's a for profit business, but at what point does a cash grab go too far?

It’s perfectly acceptable to like the work of his firm and also 1) acknowledge that he makes money off many of the cases his reporters are covering and 2) understand that fundraising for non profit journalism shouldn’t work like that at all.

Homepage - El Paso Matters El Paso Matters is an independent, member-supported nonprofit news organization focusing on in-depth and investigative journalism covering the El Paso, Juarez border region

Here’s a non profit news organization in El Paso there every single day! elpasomatters.org

Frisbee is a trademark. The proper term is "flying disc". As in, "I couldn't give a flying disc what it's called."

Step one: prevent people from working
Step two: complain about those people not working

This is pretty, but how do we find the photos he got?

Oversize clothes have officially made their comeback I guess.

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

Awarding Influence - Public Citizen

Public Citizen identified eight companies that received nearly $1B in non-competitive state contracts between 2014—2024. During those same years, these companies, their PACs, their officers, and their employees donated nearly $3M to Texans for Greg Abbott PAC.

www.citizen.org/article/awar...

So the Avs official account is on Bluesky, but Dallas Stars still haven't made an account here..it's a bit depressing.
#TexasHockey #DallasStars
#Don'tbeshy

It's only preseason but I still hope they light up Binnington's bitch ass #TexasHockey

We Are Higher Ed

Look, if you're an academic, please organize with your colleagues & figure out what you can do to protect/defend/restore higher ed, democracy, your colleagues and your students.

A place to start for resources and ideas = WeAreHigherEd.org.

Large Load Queue Has Tripled in Texas: Grid Roundup #76 Biggest coal plant in Texas offline for two years; peak demand is down, energy use is up in Texas; forward prices for 2026-2030 are up 15-20%; 70% of Texas' large load queue is data centers

ERCOT's Large load queue has tripled in the last year and is now 70% data centers. Forward prices are up 15-20% compared to last year

Also, the largest and newest coal plant in Texas (and the US) is offline for 2 years.

That and more here:
www.douglewin.com/p/large-loa...

Today begins the process of removing interpretive assets across National Park Service sites that violate the president's EO. If you work for the NPS, please let me know what, if any, changes are taking place at your site. No names will be used. Thank you. #NationalParks 🗃️

cwmemory.com/contact-me/

My top friends have probably changed since then, but my profile song was a banger.

Trump’s EPA Plans to Stop Collecting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data From Most Polluters Climate experts expressed shock and dismay at the move. “It would be a bit like unplugging the equipment that monitors the vital signs of a patient that is critically ill,” one said.

When @fastlerner.bsky.social reported in April that the EPA was going to stop collecting greenhouse gas emissions data from most polluters, it wouldn't admit it was eliminating the requirements. Today it announced the change, saying it's "cutting unnecessary red tape" & "unleashing American energy."