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🧸 Ben Johnson made this harder on himself

That Johnson eventually chose the Bears sent a clear signal: This is the job he wanted above all others, one that would allow him to prove himself against his old team and division rivals and establish himself as a top head coach in the league.

Anyone willingly choosing to coach the Bears is giving you a clear sign that something is not right between the ears… I lump myself in that category as someone who was excited for the season and expected things to improve from last year.

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🦅 Colbert's The Word

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Someone seriously needs to scoop him up and let him do this kind of stuff again once he's loose from CBS. Hopefully Paramount doesn't own all of the IP related to The Colbert Report...

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I'm putting a feeler out there to see if anyone is interested in joining TIV as a fellow linkblogger and helping me turn this into a collective of like-minded linkblogging individuals.

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The way I've viewed the site is basically a way to talk about what's going on in the world via links, as well as sharing cool things I stumble upon.

I've long had this idea that The Independent Variable would eventually become a more collaborative linkblog à la Boing Boing—or maybe having the occasional guest editor/curator à la Kottke.

Now that we're on Ghost, and

🗯️ In Charlie Kirk’s name: Trump officials signal move to limit free speech

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“With God as my witness, we are going to use every resource we have at the Department of Justice, Homeland Security and throughout this government to identify, disrupt, dismantle and destroy these networks and make America safe again for the American people,” he added. “It will happen, and we will do it in Charlie’s name.”

In honor of the “bastion of free speech” and the debater who was so skilled he only ever debated with college students, we are going to… ensure no one can ever speak a negative word about Trump, Kirk, or any of their allies

💬 Slack is extorting us with a $195k/yr bill increase

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Skyfall

Two days ago, Slack reached out to us and said that if we don’t agree to pay an extra $50k this week and $200k a year, they’ll deactivate our Slack workspace and delete all of our message history.

What a class act they run over at Slack and Salesforce. A week’s notice to go from $5k a year to $200k a year for a non-profit when it probably costs Slack pennies on the dollar to host their data.

🤡 Trump says he’s designating antifa as “a major terrorist organization”

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Context: Antifa is a decentralized, leaderless movement that’s opposed to fascism and is loosely defined as far-left.

I’d love to hear him try to name a single individual in this so-called “major terrorist organization.”

🧸 Ben Johnson made this harder on himself

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🤡 Trump says he’s designating antifa as “a major terrorist organization”

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