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Brandon Wall

@walldo.bsky.social

Now: on the market | Previous: CBS News (Social Media director), BuzzFeed News (Director of Newsroom Strategy and Experiments), Chicago Sun-Times (Digital Editor) | Once described as 'a beautiful creature of the Internet'

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Latest posts by walldo.bsky.social on Bluesky

Blue Jays should definitely be proud though. That was some damn good baseball.

02.11.2025 04:21 β€” πŸ‘ 182    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

I'm a Dodger fan and can't help but be thrilled that they won. But those Blue Jays were something else and deserve all the kudos. As one wag said on BSky when they beat the Yankees "Any team that beats the Yankees is America's team.If that's the Toronto Blue Jays, so be it. I don't make the rules."

02.11.2025 04:25 β€” πŸ‘ 512    πŸ” 61    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 4

Truly epic. Everyone is gonna remember that time Will Smith shocked everyone on live TV

02.11.2025 04:08 β€” πŸ‘ 223    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1

I need someone to clip and post all of the bleeping out Fox did as Will Smith came back to the dugout

02.11.2025 04:08 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

oh my god I obviously sympathize. Sending you all the love and deep breaths, this has been incredible(y stressful)

02.11.2025 03:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

All the thinkpieces about Bluesky don't account for the fact that it's occasionally 100% wall-to-wall baseball on here

02.11.2025 03:41 β€” πŸ‘ 4687    πŸ” 547    πŸ’¬ 59    πŸ“Œ 53

okay thank you, this is one of my pet peeves. at least give me some greenwashed message about conserving energy if you're checking if anyone is seeing ads!!

02.11.2025 03:56 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yuppp. I was working the night of Cubs World Series Game 7 in 2016 and my BuzzFeed News co-workers, bless them, let me stand 2 feet from the giant TV and I did not do a single ounce of work for 4 hours and 28 minutes through a rain delay and extra innings

bsky.app/profile/pete...

02.11.2025 03:50 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Fox Sports should probably go interview the managers again right now. They’d love it.

02.11.2025 03:44 β€” πŸ‘ 276    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 0

I said in the group chat before this game started that it had the chance to be the second or third greatest World Series Game 7 ever, or at least in recent memory, and now here we are

02.11.2025 03:43 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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YES Roku I am still watching!!! What timing

02.11.2025 03:42 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I love that so much. I screamed my head off in the BFN newsroom on Beverly while Cocca yelled at me to get out the push alert, and then I emotionally blacked for several hours

02.11.2025 03:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I LOVE BASEBALL SO MUCH

02.11.2025 03:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am having all-too-vivid flashbacks to Cubs Game 7 World Series a decade ago and oh my god, I love baseball so much this is so stressful

02.11.2025 03:29 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is such good baseball, i hate it so much

02.11.2025 03:19 β€” πŸ‘ 543    πŸ” 70    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 3

I love sports announcers: β€œIn a game full of MVPs, who could imagine it would be a total fucking loser who would hit a home run to tie the score in the top of the 9th”

02.11.2025 03:20 β€” πŸ‘ 340    πŸ” 60    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 10
Al videos of SNAP
beneficiaries complaining about cuts go viral

Al videos of SNAP beneficiaries complaining about cuts go viral

Fox News has now changed the headline and completely rewritten the story (without a correction). It makes no sense as a story anymore.

01.11.2025 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 479    πŸ” 77    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 3
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ICE has powerful facial recognition app Illinois cops are barred from using β€” with little apparent oversight The Trump administration has contracts with Clearview AI, a firm banned from doing business with Illinois police agencies. β€œThis is what dystopian nightmares are made of, this kind of continual expans...

"ICE has powerful facial recognition app Illinois cops are barred from using β€” with little apparent oversight"

"The Trump administration has contracts with Clearview AI, a firm banned from doing business with Illinois police agencies" chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

01.11.2025 17:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well said as always my friend, thank you for sharing your perspective

01.11.2025 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What historic reference for this. For the endless videos. For the schools on lockdown because - not because the police are outside chasing gunmen or whatever - but because there are convoys of men stopping people demanding papers and using chemicals to disperse anyone who presses them too hard.

01.11.2025 02:50 β€” πŸ‘ 47    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

So of all the scenes and work over the years, nothing has felt so out-of-body as watching everything from the past month. Brighton Park, gas. Suppressive. Casual violence. East Side after they wrecked. Gas, because a kid hit someone with an egg.

01.11.2025 02:50 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It's been maybe six or seven years since have felt this disoriented by events. At one place with one way of viewing and having to operate and be on point then the scene dissipates and you're back left with your world as it was just before, almost. This is different obviously.

01.11.2025 02:19 β€” πŸ‘ 76    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 7
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Tear Gas, Pepper Balls Among Weapons Deployed Against Illinois Protesters A judge issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics by federal agents, including those involved in Operation Midway Blitz in the Chicago region.

Children tear-gassed. Teenagers tackled to the ground. Bellingcat analysed footage of clashes between federal officers and civilians after a judge issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics in Illinois: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...

31.10.2025 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1866    πŸ” 836    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 40
It is a screenshot of an Associated Press tweet and video clip. Its caption reads: President Trump declined Friday to say whether the U.S. will resume underground nuclear weapons testing, which ended in 1992, saying only, β€œYou’ll find out very soon.”

It is a screenshot of an Associated Press tweet and video clip. Its caption reads: President Trump declined Friday to say whether the U.S. will resume underground nuclear weapons testing, which ended in 1992, saying only, β€œYou’ll find out very soon.”

There is a non-zero chance we only learn the US has completed its first underground nuclear weapons test in decades after an automated USGS earthquake social media account suddenly starts posting about an extremely shallow seismic event in Nevada

31.10.2025 22:08 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
It's a push alert from the official Google app that reads " Barack and Michelle Obama officially endorse Kamala Harris for president" that I received in October 2025

It's a push alert from the official Google app that reads " Barack and Michelle Obama officially endorse Kamala Harris for president" that I received in October 2025

Just received a timely news alert from Google

29.10.2025 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

i should be able to click a button at the beginning of a sports season that says β€œi’m normal” and i don’t get served any ads for crypto or gambling

26.10.2025 22:50 β€” πŸ‘ 10370    πŸ” 1429    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 23

Probably just a coincidence my FYP on the Other App is wall to wall racist posts about Mamdani as early voting kicks off

26.10.2025 19:10 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I would love to know the thought process behind Fox choosing Death Cab's Transatlanticism for the soundtrack to their hype video opening World Series Game 2

26.10.2025 00:11 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can't be mad at the Cubs. They came back from 2-0 to force Game 5 against the team with the best record. Cubs looked good, but those stranded runners were brutal. Milwaukee was relentless. Still! This season was a blast.

Hope springs eternal. 166 days until Opening Day

12.10.2025 02:53 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

...and that is why we call them the Cardiac Cubs

12.10.2025 01:22 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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