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Jason from Buffalo

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As I navigate being a caregiver to my aging parents, this article not only hits close to home, it's calling from inside the house

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...

Opinion | The People Holding Everyone Together Are Coming Apart

www.nytimes.com

November 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM

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Bridge from Buffalo 🏳️‍⚧️ 🖖

@abridgeinbflo.bsky.social

Just a fun factoid, Bethlehem Steel, including the steelyards in Buffalo/Lackawanna, were the source for the steel used by the US during WWII.
Buffalo industry beat the Nazis and fought off fascism - we can do so again with a Just Transition into renewable energy.

November 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM

Jason from Buffalo

@buffaloj77.bsky.social

Last night was gross #BillsMafia
It made me want to either throw up in my mouth, or throw something. Share with me in anger Bills fans, we deserve better:
Medium:
medium.com/@jasongerard...
Substack:
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#GoBills #FireMcDermott #FireBeane #TerryPegula

Week Twelve — Bills v Texans

Houston, we have a BIG problem

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November 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM

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NPR

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This tiny disc of zinc with just a smidge of copper has played an outsized role in our national (and international) discourse. n.pr/4r6TDvB

Farewell, fair penny. You are finished, but never forgotten

This tiny disc of zinc with just a smidge of copper has played an outsized role in our national (and international) discourse. The U.S. Mint ended production of the one-cent coin last week.

n.pr

November 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM

Jason from Buffalo

@buffaloj77.bsky.social

The Bills keep their playoff hopes alive after a thrilling, if not nerve-wracking win v. Tampa. I wrote about it here:
On Medium:
medium.com/@jasongerard...
On Substack:
open.substack.com/pub/buffaloj...
#BillsMafia #GoBills #JoshAllen #JA17 #BuffaloBills

Week Eleven — Bills v Tampa

With Six TDs, JA17 puts entire franchise on his back

medium.com

November 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM

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Acyn

@acyn.bsky.social

Sanders: The wealthiest people on earth are pouring hundreds of billions into research and development for AI and robotics. You think they’re doing that because they’re thinking, “Oh man, this is going to be something that will improve life for working people, for low-income people.”?

November 17, 2025 at 6:52 PM

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Steve Reynolds

@reynoldstop20.bsky.social

The book @mattsinger.bsky.social did on Siskel & Ebert was wonderful, and this 50th anniversary article is a great companion.

Matt Singer @mattsinger.bsky.social · 14d

50 years ago this week, Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert made the first pilot for their TV show. In honor of this huge anniversary, I created my definitive “Best of Siskel & Ebert” article - 50 of their best reviews from across their entire career. 👍🏻👍🏻

The 50 Best Siskel & Ebert Reviews

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November 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM

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They Might Be Giants

@tmbg.bsky.social

KSMU's They Might Be Giants annual music marathon has begun! Streaming at KMSU.org. Rarities, requests, interviews and a live performance probably around 5:20 central. Tune in now!

November 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM

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Drew Magary

@drewmagary.bsky.social

I wrote an explained to the Epstein files a little while back. Just because this shit isn’t surprising doesn’t mean it isn’t important. www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

Jeez, I wonder why Trump won't release the Epstein files

SFGATE columnist Drew Magary unpacks the scandal and perceived cover-up.

www.sfgate.com

November 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM

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NPR

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Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot.

50 years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald, a 'rock star' ship, sank in Lake Superior

Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot.

n.pr

November 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM

Jason from Buffalo

@buffaloj77.bsky.social

Yesterday was brutal #BillsMafia Today is a good day to be angry. I share your frustration and I'm ready to move on from just about everyone except the players
Read my post on Medium:
medium.com/@jasongerard...
Or on Substack
open.substack.com/pub/buffaloj...
As always #GoBills

Week Ten — Bills v Dolphins again

A tale of two teams heading in opposite directions

medium.com

November 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM

Jason from Buffalo

@buffaloj77.bsky.social

For as great as the Raiders punter has been tonight, the Broncos punter has been inversely horrible. Yikes.

November 7, 2025 at 2:15 AM

Jason from Buffalo

@buffaloj77.bsky.social

Twice in one week? How can you stand it!

My quick summary on the inactivity of the #Bills front office at the #NFLtradedeadline
On Medium
medium.com/@jasongerard...
And Substack
open.substack.com/pub/buffaloj...

#GoBills #BillsMafia

Special Report — Bills Trade Deadline

Not with a bang but a whimper

medium.com

November 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM

Jason from Buffalo

@buffaloj77.bsky.social

Due to #ElectionDay news, this week's #BillsMafia musings were delayed slightly. Without further ado, my #Substack and #Medium reviews of Week 9 are here:

open.substack.com/pub/buffaloj...

medium.com/@jasongerard...

#LetsGoBuffalo #BuffaloBills

Week Nine — Bills v. Chiefs

Bills Mafia vs Chiefs Kingdom — A rivalry of brotherhood

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November 4, 2025 at 9:18 PM

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The Associated Press

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BREAKING: An Alabama man has been arrested and charged with threatening rabbis, imam and others in several Southern states, the FBI says.

Alabama man charged with threatening rabbis, imam and others in multiple Southern states

Federals prosecutors have charged an Alabama man with making threatening calls and texts to multiple rabbis, an imam and others in the South, including telling one that “I want you to die.”Jeremy Wayne Shoemaker of Needham, Alabama, was charged with making an Interstate Communications Threat.

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October 31, 2025 at 5:25 PM

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The Onion

@theonion.com

RFK Jr. Greets Trick-Or-Treaters With Big Bowl Of Ape Glands https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-greets-trick-or-treaters-with-big-bowl-of-ape-glands/

October 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM

Jason from Buffalo

@buffaloj77.bsky.social

How does one cope during these difficult times? Listen to The Beatles

October 28, 2025 at 9:02 PM

Jason from Buffalo

@buffaloj77.bsky.social

My weekly review of the #BuffaloBills is here #BillsMafia

Is the sky really falling or were expectations truly unrealistic for 2025?

medium.com/@jasongerard...

open.substack.com/pub/buffaloj...

#GoBills #LetsGoBuffalo

Week Eight — Bills v Panthers

Trouble in Paradise or simply Unrealistic Expectations?

medium.com

October 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM

Jason from Buffalo

@buffaloj77.bsky.social

I think about this passage about once a week. This and the last stanza from The Hollow Men.

"Sweet Man" Cam @malaiseforever.bsky.social · Oct 26

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register.

Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”

October 27, 2025 at 10:15 PM

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Stephen Caruso

@stephenjcaruso.bsky.social

Morning everyone. Pennsylvania's budget is 119 days late. Gov. Josh Shapiro spent the weekend campaigning in New Jersey and Virginia. Both chambers return to Harrisburg for three voting days -- and 39 scheduled fundraisers.

October 27, 2025 at 12:20 PM

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Chris Murphy

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social

They don’t even pretend to care. This is the only story. You can’t open the government if the House refuses to show up.

October 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM

Jason from Buffalo

@buffaloj77.bsky.social

October 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM

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Mark Hamill

@markhamillofficial.bsky.social

The Farce Will Be With Him... Always.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 21

Trump: "We have Darth Vader. You know Darth Vader, right? Darth Vader is a man who is sitting -- is that Darth? Stand up please. Does everybody know -- they call him Darth Vader, I call him a fine man. But he's cutting Democrat priorities and they're never gonna get them back."