jbal4
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jbal4
@jbal4.bsky.social
Product Manager and freelance writer (Pitchfork, Billboard, RBMA)
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thank you to the Patriots for being so loathsome to ruin this moment with Dave Portnoy in the owner's suite
November 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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"No rapping tonight."
Why?
"You rap about Karl Marx everytime, it's embarrassing."
Ok
[After one too many drinks]
Uh oh y'all I'm starting to feel sparks
October 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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I've got it on good sourcing that the leagues best teams also finish their mandated cybersecurity trainings on time.
October 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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postmodern finance theory
October 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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feel like this goes beyond politics and into tech and maybe culture. there's a kind of future blindness it feels like. a focus on both tearing down structural things/institutions and replacing them with nothing. or building things that disrupt institutions/infrastructure w/ little thought to future
This is, to me, the defining dyamic of everything the last six months. Any game theory notion of deterrence or the shoe being on the other foot ever is entirely gone. Either 1) They don't think they'll ever lose power again or 2) they're confident Democrats won't ever do the same things back to them
Budget agreements won’t matter, funding obligations won’t matter, expended funds on the basis of promised reimbursement won’t matter.

You really don’t get the impression the GOP is thinking through what this means for the second they’re not in control.
July 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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LL Cool J said that he will not perform at Wawa Welcome America in Philadelphia on July 4th because of union strike

“There is absolutely no way I can perform across a picket line”
LL COOL J drops out of Wawa Welcome America concert because of union strike
LL COOL J said that he is not going to perform at Wawa Welcome America on July 4th in light of the AFSCME District Council 33 strike in Philadelphia.
www.nbcphiladelphia.com
July 4, 2025 at 2:55 AM