Sam Westmoreland
@swestmoreland.bsky.social
Current writer and editor of words at The Cool Down, and writer of sports-related words at The Big Lead. Formerly at Bleacher Report. DnD nerd, actual play lover.
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"more children should die" is a cornerstone tenet of American conservatism
Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.
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An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
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December 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
"more children should die" is a cornerstone tenet of American conservatism
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This rules people.com/halle-berry-...
December 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Will Cain is a whole bitch who got wrecked in sports and had to go shake ass for racists for money
Fox News' Will Cain: "I’m sure there are very honorable law-abiding upstanding citizens and contributors from the Somali community here in the United States, BUT..."
He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."
He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."
December 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Will Cain is a whole bitch who got wrecked in sports and had to go shake ass for racists for money
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these are all terrible options, and if we lived in a functioning democracy with working regulators we'd think nothing of putting a blanket end to pointless media consolidation
these deals are always terrible for product quality, consumers, art and labor, but this is always downplayed in coverage.
these deals are always terrible for product quality, consumers, art and labor, but this is always downplayed in coverage.
Paramount throws in more cash in bid for Warner; Comcast wants to combine assets with NBCUniversal
Jockeying for HBO-owner Warner Bros. Discovery has intensified as the auction appears to enter its home stretch.
www.latimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
these are all terrible options, and if we lived in a functioning democracy with working regulators we'd think nothing of putting a blanket end to pointless media consolidation
these deals are always terrible for product quality, consumers, art and labor, but this is always downplayed in coverage.
these deals are always terrible for product quality, consumers, art and labor, but this is always downplayed in coverage.
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I need every cis person who is framing the OU situation as an academic controversy to read this for the context they are missing and so desperately need to be loudly fighting against.
I've got a piece up today at @lukeoneil47.bsky.social's Welcome to Hell World. Check it out: www.welcometohellworld.com/a-coordinate...
A coordinated campaign to drive trans people out of public life
Parker Molloy on the latest Oklahoma anti-trans work
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December 2, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I need every cis person who is framing the OU situation as an academic controversy to read this for the context they are missing and so desperately need to be loudly fighting against.
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The biggest hypocrite of the Lane Kiffin saga is not Lane himself. It's Jeff Landry, who pretended he was going to take on the buyout industrial complex and then did the opposite. Maybe, one day, an SEC or Big Ten governor will have the courage of their convictions on this slate.com/culture/2025...
Lane Kiffin Is Not the Biggest Hypocrite in His Own Move to LSU
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry’s shamelessness really stands out.
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December 2, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The biggest hypocrite of the Lane Kiffin saga is not Lane himself. It's Jeff Landry, who pretended he was going to take on the buyout industrial complex and then did the opposite. Maybe, one day, an SEC or Big Ten governor will have the courage of their convictions on this slate.com/culture/2025...
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Fuck you if you support him.
Trump on Minnesota's Somali community: "They contribute nothing. I don't want them in our country, I'll be honest with you."
December 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Fuck you if you support him.
A great, great hire by UCLA to get the guy who continued JMU's upward trajectory after Cig left for Indiana. The big question is whether he can make the west coast transition, but I have high hopes for him.
SOURCE: UCLA is hiring James Madison head coach Bob Chesney to be its new head coach, @theathletic.com has learned. He just told the team he's leaving.
Chesney has been the top focus of the search for weeks. He's led the Dukes to an 11-1 record this season, 20-5 in two seasons.
Chesney has been the top focus of the search for weeks. He's led the Dukes to an 11-1 record this season, 20-5 in two seasons.
December 1, 2025 at 5:50 PM
A great, great hire by UCLA to get the guy who continued JMU's upward trajectory after Cig left for Indiana. The big question is whether he can make the west coast transition, but I have high hopes for him.
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and you know what? these students should also be judged, and judged harshly for this. running to the admins and state legislators and the press because you got a fairly earned failing grade on an assignment is and should be seen as a mark of extremely poor character. it makes you a very bad person.
the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
and you know what? these students should also be judged, and judged harshly for this. running to the admins and state legislators and the press because you got a fairly earned failing grade on an assignment is and should be seen as a mark of extremely poor character. it makes you a very bad person.
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"No ceiling" results in what we have: a couple dozen psychopaths control several trillion dollars and the power has made them go stark raving mad. They are obsessed with using their concentrated wealth to punish the population and remake the country into a failed state and international pariah.
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"No ceiling" results in what we have: a couple dozen psychopaths control several trillion dollars and the power has made them go stark raving mad. They are obsessed with using their concentrated wealth to punish the population and remake the country into a failed state and international pariah.
I think this nails it. The issue isn’t the calendar, the issue is guys like Lane don’t care that their screwing around is shitty and impacts everyone else around them.
I have a potentially hot take
I don't think you can prevent what we're seeing with Kiffin/LSU/Ole Miss with better contracts or tweaks to the calendar.
I think we need a sense of professional honor, and failing that, *shame*, to actually set standards of acceptable behavior for coaches and admins
I don't think you can prevent what we're seeing with Kiffin/LSU/Ole Miss with better contracts or tweaks to the calendar.
I think we need a sense of professional honor, and failing that, *shame*, to actually set standards of acceptable behavior for coaches and admins
November 30, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I think this nails it. The issue isn’t the calendar, the issue is guys like Lane don’t care that their screwing around is shitty and impacts everyone else around them.
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If Trump does go through with his threatened invasion of Venezuela without Congressional approval, that should absolutely be grounds for immediate impeachment proceedings.
We would need mass, popular mobilization calling for his removal from office. It has to be a red line.
We would need mass, popular mobilization calling for his removal from office. It has to be a red line.
November 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
If Trump does go through with his threatened invasion of Venezuela without Congressional approval, that should absolutely be grounds for immediate impeachment proceedings.
We would need mass, popular mobilization calling for his removal from office. It has to be a red line.
We would need mass, popular mobilization calling for his removal from office. It has to be a red line.
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like a man divorcing his wife but still acting extremely married to her while openly dating other women, which would be cra-ohhhhhhhh
Kirk Herbstreit implores Ole Miss administrators to allow Lane Kiffin to coach the Rebels — if he leaves for LSU — and let him finish what he and his players started.
November 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
like a man divorcing his wife but still acting extremely married to her while openly dating other women, which would be cra-ohhhhhhhh
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Critics have claimed the recipe requires half a dozen eggs, while others have noted that only six eggs are required
How did the @nytimes.com editors let this sentence appear?
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Northwestern University Nears Deal to Resolve Its Conflict With the White House
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Critics have claimed the recipe requires half a dozen eggs, while others have noted that only six eggs are required
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This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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the stadium DJ hitting Knuck if You Buck mid-fight is incredible work. you spend all season working to be prepared for that moment
November 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
the stadium DJ hitting Knuck if You Buck mid-fight is incredible work. you spend all season working to be prepared for that moment
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This moment really gives the game away. Trump openly admits that he’s attacking another immigrant group for no related reason to the National Guard shooting. The logic amounts to “one immigrant bad = all brown immigrants bad & must be deported”
Transparent racist scapegoating.
Transparent racist scapegoating.
TRUMP: If you look at Somalia, they are taking over Minnesota.
REPORTER: What do the Somalians have to do with this Afghan guy who shot the National Guard members?
TRUMP: Ah, nothing. But Somalians have caused a lot of trouble. They're ripping us off.
REPORTER: What do the Somalians have to do with this Afghan guy who shot the National Guard members?
TRUMP: Ah, nothing. But Somalians have caused a lot of trouble. They're ripping us off.
November 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
This moment really gives the game away. Trump openly admits that he’s attacking another immigrant group for no related reason to the National Guard shooting. The logic amounts to “one immigrant bad = all brown immigrants bad & must be deported”
Transparent racist scapegoating.
Transparent racist scapegoating.
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This is unhinged, unadulterated white nationalism that is so off-the-charts fascist not even David Duke would have said that in public.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 6:02 AM
This is unhinged, unadulterated white nationalism that is so off-the-charts fascist not even David Duke would have said that in public.
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The biggest con in contemporary politics is Gender-Conservatives calling trans women perverts and rapists while constantly, and I mean constantly innovating new ways to sexually harass us on a mass scale.
November 27, 2025 at 9:09 PM
The biggest con in contemporary politics is Gender-Conservatives calling trans women perverts and rapists while constantly, and I mean constantly innovating new ways to sexually harass us on a mass scale.
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My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?
November 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?
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i promise i don’t mean to high horse this but if you’re thinking about giving lizza ten bucks there are a lot of good independent journalists whose work you could subscribe to for a month instead
November 22, 2025 at 7:34 AM
i promise i don’t mean to high horse this but if you’re thinking about giving lizza ten bucks there are a lot of good independent journalists whose work you could subscribe to for a month instead
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Two important causes:
November 23, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Two important causes:
This one is just for @adampwells.bsky.social
Lonnie Chisenhall
3B-RF
Debut: 2011 - Retired: 2018
CLE
3B-RF
Debut: 2011 - Retired: 2018
CLE
Lonnie Chisenhall at baseball-reference.com
Career stats of Lonnie Chisenhall
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November 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This one is just for @adampwells.bsky.social
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I have never felt more patriotic
November 22, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I have never felt more patriotic