Everything else is negotiable, but Thanksgiving is not Thanksgiving without olives. Happy Thanksgiving @ohtheprofanity.com and all y’all.

Exciting news — @wyofile.com is growing again! We're adding a production editor to our team. This person will serve as lead copy editor while managing our story layouts and newsletters. Pay is $65K-75K. Unlimited PTO. Plus, we have a good time and do meaningful work. wyofile.com/wp-content/u...

In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

If you’re in Laramie today, stop by the IPF before 11:30 a.m. for your chance to buy (or win, if you can do well in the “Pick a Poke” game) a copy of “Poke Pioneers,” my book about the fascinating first 50 years of Wyoming Cowboy football!

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They have a point…

Exactly 100 years ago today (Nov. 19, 1925), the nation's first night high school football game was played in Midwest, Wyoming. Here's my video from this summer saluting a tradition that's now officially a century old! www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTSN...

Getting excited to head back to Laramie this weekend. Especially since it’s going to be sunny and above freezing. My book: pokepioneers.com

It takes a long time to get detailed precinct-level data for a presidential election. We're now at 99 percent complete. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“Distinguish news from advertising and shun hybrids that blur the lines between the two. Prominently label sponsored content.” — @spj-posts.bsky.social Code of Ethics “Hell yeah we can add affiliate links to the winners! Ka-ching!” — @nytimes.com, presumably

Congrats and thanks to @aaup.org —this is a big victory that will help protect universities across the country.

When Texas seceded from the US in 1861, it issued a proclamation declaring that Blacks "were rightfully held and regarded as an inferior and dependent race." Could one even mention this fact in a history class at Texas A&M under these new guidelines?

I still can’t believe that Beavis and Butt-head never reacted to “Enter Sandman.” What a missed opportunity. BTW new episode @tpforyourearholes.com ⬇️⬇️⬇️

epstein in dozens of pieces of written documentation: the presidential candidate my best friend loves coming over to my house for the young girls i rent reporters: we are getting closer to busting this thing wide open

I will be in Laramie on Nov. 22 ahead of UW’s game with Nevada. Stop by the tailgate at the Indoor Practice Facility from 8:30-11:30 a.m. for your chance to buy (or potentially win!) a signed copy of “Poke Pioneers.” It will be great to see you there! pokepioneers.com

A quick journalism ethics lesson, straight from my left shoulder.

Grateful to @defector.com for publishing a print version of my Replay Booth episode on a 61-year-old Mets mystery and for commissioning an illustration of Mr. Met with a pipe and magnifying glass defector.com/wilbur-huckl...

Maybe our best work ever.

Enjoy a compilation of me and @pschmiedt.bsky.social reenacting some of our favorite #BeavisandButthead music video reactions.

One of the most interesting Pokes I found in this research was a guy by the name of George Mabee. Boxed in one of the preliminary fights before the Dempsey-Tunney “long count” fight… but had other dubious claims that inflated his boxing experience to a bunch of unanswered questions. #pokepioneers

Cheney is best known as the divisive and powerful 9/11-era vice president. Raised in Casper, he was also a devoted husband, avid outdoorsman and close advisor to his daughter, Liz Cheney. wyofile.com/dick-cheney-...

Former Vice President Dick Cheney, widely viewed as the primary architect of America’s post-9/11 wars, died Monday at 84 from pneumonia and cardiac complications. https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2025-11-04/dick-cheney-dead?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_ 

After Game 5 vs. After Game 7 It's almost as if sports commentary is an exercise of post-facto rationalizations!

That's the hardest I've seen Will Smith hit since —

Interesting paper! When you ask people about the most important issue "facing the country," they often say immigration. But when you ask them about issues facing them personally, it doesn't crack the top 10. This indicates that voters are reacting to media narratives, not their own experience.

Many of us have milestones we hit in our early adulthood: career, stability, residence, love. Did Beavis or Butt-head achieve any of those? Oh, and did Beavis and Butt-head ever score? We explore in the latest T.P. For Your Earholes, available wherever you get your podcasts.

So many own goals. Once again: higher ed is one of our most successful exports. We export more higher ed to China than soybeans. And yet Trump and the mini-Trumps are deliberately destroying the quality of our product

ICYMI: I did the thing

My husband "accidentally" wrote a book last winter, meaning he did a bunch of research on early Wyoming Cowboys history and realized he had some fantastic stories about the people who played on these early teams. And now you can read all about it! Congrats @pschmiedt.bsky.social. Proud of you. ❤️

New book: “Poke Pioneers” by former Wyoming sports reporter Patrick Schmiedt (that's me) brings to life the history of numerous all-but-forgotten Cowboy football players, coaches and moments from the UW football teams prior to World War II.

The spot in the contiguous U.S. furthest from a Big Four sports team is here in eastern Montana. From here, it's 475 miles from Denver, Calgary and Winnipeg. The location is about 18 miles northwest of Miles City on a Bureau of Land Management parcel. Where I want to be whenever the Dodgers play.

Damn this chart hurts my heart

50+ years ago, University of Florida told the student newspaper it couldn't print something. Editor arrested. Abortion law struck down. It resonates now. Today, the Independent Florida Alligator is still in print. That's the First Amendment legacy of Ron Sachs. www.freedomforum.org/1a-in-action...

Great thread of local front pages that went big with No Kings

"They're decrying the country that allows them to engage in this activity." The government doesn't "allow" you to express yourself. It isn't charitably granting you permission to speak. That's not how rights work. It's the other way around: the government is restricted from limiting your rights.

Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick. No valid law actually requires this, and the First Amendment would protect expression that deviates regardless. Any admin should resign rather than pushing this.

Our independent newspaper at @northeasternu.bsky.social, the @huntnewsnu.bsky.social, has signed on to an amicus brief filed by the Student Press Law Center "in defense of student journalism and international students' free speech rights." splc.org/2025/10/splc...

Beavis isn’t always an idiot, and Butt-head isn’t always a sociopath. Sometimes, we get to catch them doing good things! That's what we are exploring in the latest episode of T.P. For Your Earholes -- the boys caught in the act of being good humans. Available now wherever you get your podcasts!

This is so troubling. The First Amendment is just words on paper unless we fight to uphold them. Part of this fight is helping student news outlets survive on independent platforms if administrators cut their funding and support as cover for the real agenda of silencing people.

What a disgusting act by IU administration.

Student programs in peril after federal cuts at Latino-serving community colleges

Evening conversations in our house have moved onto Bluesky and I am HERE for it. @ohtheprofanity.com with a 🔥🔥🧵

Just like when Dick Cheney shoots a guy because he thought he was a bird.

For the evening crowd. I made this and I like how it turned out.

My husband made a kickass infographic related to this week's @tpforyourearholes.com topic, where we talk about why the early episodes suck. Turns out, IMDb user ratings agree with us. #BeavisandButtHead

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

The Oatmeal, ladies and gents. Really thoughtful illustrated essay on the use and misuse of AI art and why it often feels…bad

Sora stuff has filled a big chunk of my social feeds. I’m discerning enough to notice (most times). I fear for how its misuse will outpace, by orders of magnitude, society’s ability for its output to be debunked.

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.