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Tex Western
@texwestern.bsky.social
Pro: health physicist, managing editor of @acmepackingco.bsky.social, host of The Repack on @frozentundrapod.bsky.social, Packers/Badgers/Brewers/Blue Jackets/Brentford fan, cat dad

Amateur: volleyballer, curler, D&Der, whisk(e)y aficionado
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I'm pretty irritated at Mike Judge. Idiocracy made me believe it would take 500 years for our society to devolve to this state, not 20.
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With all of the coaching changes swirling in Green Bay, it's time for a Repack to break it all down. @texwestern.bsky.social and @jumosq.bsky.social go through everything we know so far in this Tuesday evening episode:
The Repack: LaFleur extended, Gannon replaces Hafley
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January 28, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Okay @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, have you added "impeach and remove Pam Bondi" to the to-do list yet?
BREAKING: Trump's Justice Department has determined there will be no civil rights investigation into the death of Alex Pretti, and that the CBP office will investigate whether its own officers followed agency policy and DHS will investigate Pretti.

UNBELIEVABLE.
January 27, 2026 at 8:32 PM
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I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
www.theverge.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Every time Kash Patel is on camera, he looks like a Boston Terrier that just heard fireworks go off nearby
January 27, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Kristi Noem is clearly getting canned.

It's almost funny to see the entire right wing mediasphere scratching and clawing to be among the first to publish a thinkpiece that criticizes her before it happens
January 26, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Tae still got it
January 26, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Tom Brady's face in 2026
January 26, 2026 at 1:04 AM
The Yes Album
Fragile
Close to the Edge

Hemispheres
Permanent Waves
Moving Pictures
Tell me your great three album runs
You ever think about how Arcade Fire made three extremely good albums in a row and then fell of a musical cliff?
January 26, 2026 at 12:47 AM
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The nerds want to take this from you and put football in domes. Stand your ground!
January 25, 2026 at 10:16 PM
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This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
January 25, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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Our government's atrocities are bringing together Bears fans and Packers fans.
January 25, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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I'd rather hire this Ganon
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ALT: a pixelated image of a man holding a shield with a star on it
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January 21, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Noted Eagles fan's reaction to the Packers hiring Gannon.

I don't like it, folks. I don't like it one bit.
Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
The Packers are hiring former Arizona Cardinals head coach Jonathan Gannon to be their new defensive coordinator, per source.

Gannon replaces Jeff Hafley in Green Bay.
January 25, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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This moment in history provides us with incontrovertible evidence that all the conservatives who claim to be extremely devoted to freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, and opposed to the encroachment of tyranny, are completely and totally full of shit.

It's all white supremacy and greed.
January 25, 2026 at 2:03 AM
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I am watching protestors disarm smoke bombs by deploying a lead person to place a neon cone over the gas, another person to run over and pour in a liquid, and a last person to cap the hole in the cone, which diffuses the gas immediately.

The chemists are on it. 🩷
January 24, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment
January 24, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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All those people downtown yesterday, no ICE involvement, and not one incident. ICE shows up in a neighborhood and now another Minnesotan is dead. It's pretty obvious who the violent outside agitators are.
January 24, 2026 at 4:09 PM
I appreciate Pete Dougherty taking a calm, measured approach in response to @jumosq.bsky.social's piece.

Still, I remain unconvinced. Pete's argument boils down to "it would be weird for the Packers to skimp on coaches."

Yes! It would be weird! But that argument is not evidence in and of itself
Theory that Packers skimp on assistants' pay doesn't add up | Dougherty
Do the Packers have coaching staff issues because they're cheap? The argument doesn't hold up.
www.packersnews.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Impressive work by VP Dingus to accidentally stumble into an apt metaphor for the economy
Vance on the economy:

"You don't turn the Titanic around overnight"
January 22, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Aaaand suddenly the 4th jumps back into the lead
What's your favorite constitutional amendment that the US government currently pretends doesn't exist?

Personally, mine's the 25th
January 21, 2026 at 11:25 PM
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Al Gore loudly booing a US Commerce Secretary at a bankers’ forum should be a Futurama joke instead of real life.
what do you MEAN Al Gore heckled Lutnick at Davos
January 21, 2026 at 1:46 PM
What's your favorite constitutional amendment that the US government currently pretends doesn't exist?

Personally, mine's the 25th
January 21, 2026 at 2:29 PM
TRUMP IN DAVOS:
*pisses and shits all over himself*
January 21, 2026 at 2:10 PM
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My cat Waffle loves curling. He's going to be insufferable soon.
January 21, 2026 at 1:26 AM
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*incredibly slowly* so if.. I wanted.... independent voters.... To vote.... for meee.... I would support.... Abolishing ice
Independents are +12 on abolishing ICE
77 percent of Democrats want to abolish ICE.
January 21, 2026 at 2:17 AM