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@jmakula87.bsky.social

He/Him - Detroit sports are dope. Love basketball, especially the Detroit Pistons. Sometimes too optimistic for my wife's taste. Be kind.

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Latest posts by jmakula87.bsky.social on Bluesky

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

07.10.2025 23:44 β€” πŸ‘ 9265    πŸ” 4277    πŸ’¬ 162    πŸ“Œ 289
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Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

08.10.2025 00:36 β€” πŸ‘ 5149    πŸ” 2693    πŸ’¬ 129    πŸ“Œ 209

Apparently I misread the schedule, and he's already at full rest if it happens!

07.10.2025 21:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Jokes on me then! Haha. I was thinking it was 3 days rest. Thanks!

07.10.2025 21:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My vote is to postpone the Tigers game and back up the if necessary game 5.

...this obviously has nothing to do with Skubal getting full rest between those starts.

07.10.2025 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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If you want me to do a survey, I need at least 5 bucks.

07.10.2025 20:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Bluesky vs. X engagement comparisons tell familiar story.

Example: My colleague @johngramlich.bsky.social has similar # of followers on each site. Last week, he had a popular post about sports gambling, a topic of interest across political ideology.

X: 59 retweets
B: 1,234 total reposts

07.10.2025 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 172    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4

Excited for the Dolphins to finally reset after going all in, getting injured left and right, and then floundering for the last couple years.

07.10.2025 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My latest book, Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment, is out in paperback today! You can get it wherever you get your books. Ideally at your local indie bookstore www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jason...

07.10.2025 15:20 β€” πŸ‘ 809    πŸ” 50    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 15

Just as a reminder, Bondi’s origin story in Trump world is that she said she was going to investigate Trump University, Trump sent her a $25K check and the investigation disappeared. She later became Trump’s personal defense lawyer. So yeah, don’t challenge her integrity.

07.10.2025 15:42 β€” πŸ‘ 5631    πŸ” 1692    πŸ’¬ 199    πŸ“Œ 45

That's not a touchdown by Trevor Lawrence. But it's definitely an awful call right out of 1962.

07.10.2025 00:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Lol at Mahomes saying something like, "Bruh, please." while telling him to calm down after a stupid penalty.

07.10.2025 00:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Billion dollar companies have researched and spent millions upon millions on creating these platforms to suck people in like a black hole and turn their brains to mush. It sucks.

06.10.2025 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Like how in the world do we combat the social media addiction in people (seems to be the worst in pre-work force and post retirement people)?

06.10.2025 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I thanked somebody on FB for something they did years and years ago when I was a kid, and I already knew they were on FB too much, but their reply ended up turning into a rant about today's kids.

I feel sorry for them, because that is just depressing.

06.10.2025 19:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

They were a mix of like UNC and the Lions.

I think the concept was good, but on camera - from far away - execution was terrible, especially readability during the game.

But I hope that I'm in the minority and that lots of people liked them

06.10.2025 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Post du fooking jour.

06.10.2025 12:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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SOUTH CAROLINA… β€œJudgeΒ Goodstein was walking on the beach when the fire started.Β Her husband, Arnie, was in the house with children and perhaps grandchildren. The family had to escape by jumping from a window or balcony...” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

05.10.2025 22:20 β€” πŸ‘ 9261    πŸ” 4720    πŸ’¬ 932    πŸ“Œ 820

Unfortunately (and fortunately since we lost haha), I had to be up at 5am and decided sleep was more important than staying up.

06.10.2025 10:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They're probably actually kinda dope if a person was walking down the street in one. But on camera, they don't read at all. They're just white and kind of blurry.

06.10.2025 00:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

These Bills jerseys suck.

06.10.2025 00:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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I get wanting to keep a defense honest, but how far are they willing to go?

05.10.2025 19:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Like, there's a non-zero chance that literal gunfire breaks out between the Nazis and the CPD.

05.10.2025 19:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@sethwalder.bsky.social

I get wanting to keep defenses honest, but when Miami is averaging 1.5 yards a carry and putting themselves in 2nd and 3rd and long over and over, how can that be justified?

That's a genuine question. Is it TRULY opening up the passing game in some way?

05.10.2025 18:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

05.10.2025 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 43881    πŸ” 15628    πŸ’¬ 3461    πŸ“Œ 3031
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Not great lol.

05.10.2025 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ump repaid us on that last AB lol.

05.10.2025 04:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not counting any chickens here, because the meat of the Seattle lineup, big dumper and all, is walking up to that plate.

05.10.2025 03:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You can crank 5 out there right to somebody, and then you have a seeing eye single weasel its way through there for an RBI.

05.10.2025 03:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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For real, that thing is a couple inches out of the zone.

05.10.2025 03:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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