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Won't the type of players and the coaching given which emphasizes home runs distort the issue? The low home run high OBP guy is almost gone. They would be the ones making small ball work in the playoffs.
WWJD? Maybe the best way to be like Jesus is to stop dreaming about being with Him in heaven someday, and start focusing on incarnating God's presence here on earth today. Don't be so heavenly-minded that you're no earthly good.
In Defense One, Jon Duffy, a retired USN captain, furnishes withering analysis of Hegseth's latest escapades in the Caribbean. Essential reading. www.defenseone.com/ideas/2025/0...
This formulation is popular: contrasting SCOTUS' intolerance of race as an admissions factor with SCOTUS' tolerance of race as a detention factor. There are, in fact, doctrinal, historical, and logical distinctions between the positions, that one could use to dismiss this comparison. But... /1
Good morning. Bang up day from @tennesseelookout.com, including this piece from @anitawadhwani.bsky.social about how the Tennessee Office of Criminal Justice Programs will no longer fund Catholic Charities of East Tennessee if the agency continues to serve immigrant children.
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Thanks for calling out the delayed hypocrisy. The controversy over substance is over my head. Should you get off radio and TV because MAGA and Nazis are on there too?
This is a great line: Dudek, who was at home in his underwear watching MSNBC, got an email stating that the president of the United States had appointed him commissioner. Inside DOGE’s Takeover of the Social Security Administration
At DOJ, at DOD, at the FBI….literally everywhere, this is what you hear over and over again.
Still trying to understand the Hyundai ICE raid. Supposedly a months-long investigation that... picked up people here on visas, permanent residents, and U.S. citizens? I also haven't seen anyone charged under 8 USC §1324a for hiring undocumented employees. 🤔 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...
i do wonder at what point this ratcheting of rhetoric about the democratic party ends up having real life effects
I’m late on getting around to reading this story, but it’s a really good (and disturbing) read www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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This is incredible work. In a just world it would win some major reporting awards. I’m saying that now bc I don’t think it will. There’s a particular kind of scoop you only get by being a really effing good beat reporter for a long time who sources trust. Investigative reporting doesn’t prize that.
Once again calling for the MLBPA to designate this day as Curt Flood Day. And a shout-out to all unions, including my local CUPE. Workers unite.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
BREAKING: Holiday weekend legal showdown over an aggressive Trump admin immigration move. In 4 AM order Sunday, Judge Sparkle Sooknanan in DC halts mass deportation of 600 unaccompanied children to Guatemala. Hearing this afternoon. w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
“.. Yes, it will be on the shelf,” he said, “but you’re not going to be able to find it at a pharmacy, that’s already happened. CVS, Walgreens, because of this confusion, they’re not going to stock it ..” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
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Understood. It's never one thing, but a combination of many things. I don't know which is more depressing, money or hatred deciding elections.
jjryan6.bsky.social (@jjryan6.bsky.social) reply parent
So everything goes back to fundraising. Whoever has the most money will win? Is that the only reason people stayed home? I think racism and sexism played a big role in suppressing votes. Another reason to be concerned about how far we have come as a country.
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There was no end to the proclamations that Trump would destroy democracy. The Ds spent too much time talking about Trump and not enough time talking about how they would fix issues.
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Beyond the criminal liability question, I think it’s just bad journalism for reporters to assert or imply that these representations were made outright on the application—we don’t know that. All we know is that she signed a contract containing a standard occupancy clause w/ conditional language.
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Wouldn't it have been easier to keep the judges they already had? www-foxnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.foxn...
“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
@aselrod.bsky.social is spot on: "it isn’t just that this administration has turned America over to bullies, thugs, and thieves. It has also drawn a hard line around the entire aspirational ideal of becoming American."
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
In 2023, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin ended a policy of automatically restoring the voting rights of people with felony convictions. Virginians no longer regain their rights when released from prison unless they're deemed worthy on an individual basis.
The US Administration has decided to destroy a top network for clinical trials to test new treatments for children with brain cancer. This is another atrocity that will harm Conservative and Liberal Americans, long after the politicians responsible are gone.
President Donald Trump says he “stopped six wars” in six months since taking office. Trump had a hand in temporary ceasefires in a few conflicts. But there’s little evidence he permanently resolved them and, in some cases, little evidence of U.S. intervention.
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This is the part that does not get talked about enough. What rights do those people have to sue the gov for false arrest? Anything?
From @markhertling.bsky.social — retired Three Star General, veteran of our modern wars. www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
I miss the old brand #CDC
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Braves are pitching batting practice to your guys. Quantrill is toast this year.
So.... 1)The state of Florida spent >$200 million to build the facility it calls "Alligator Alcatraz" 2) It opened in early July, christened by Trump. 3) Now it is closing, due to a judge's order. 4) It will cost $20 million to dismantle the center, which was used for about 2 months.
Today is the ninth day that the homepage of Reginfo.gov — the federal government website for informing the public about what survey data and other information agencies collect — has displayed a notice saying it's "currently undergoing revisions" with no further explanation
Gift article. New from Tom Nichols. President Trump acts like a sadistic superhero. @radiofreetom.bsky.social @ericowens.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Here's a deep dive into the man Trump chose to lead his antisemitism task force that's targeting universities. It's quite a read! @propublica.org @chronicle.com @peterelkind.bsky.social @katiemangan.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/leo-...
National Guard soldiers called into service for President Trump's law enforcement surge in D.C. have been assigned to spread mulch at federal monuments. Normally the Park Service does that, but the administration laid off the workers. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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What would the answer have been if Biden deployed the troops. Blind loyalty in the face of misuse of our troops.
Think you have what it takes to successfully manipulate the market and build a domestic industry from the ground up? If so, these eight questions stand between you and your Summer School diploma in Political Economy.
Onlookers said it was salami; jury said it was bologna
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Shoe is on the other foot now.
First piece of hate mail is in! "Who are you to call (Confederates) traitors!"
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All I have heard for the last two years was how the 2024 election was about democracy. Then 6 MM voters stayed home or crossed to Trump. There needs to be an issue people can count or see the results of.
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Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell: “I have spent the last 17 years in my own prison for what she, Jeffrey, and all the co-conspirators did to me. I was raped three times a day. Ghislaine must die in prison.”
America now
"If you want to have a coup against the constitutional order, you want to control the capital city. And if he has control of the policing in the city of Washington...Who's gonna tell him to leave the White House?" @gtconway.bsky.social joins @jvl.bsky.social:
This is actually how an FBI weaponized by the president behaves and is a classic move by authoritarians from Mussolini to Hitler to Stalin, Putin and Pinochet: persecution of perceived political enemies.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who deported to a Salvadoran prison, Abrego Garcia was released pending trial on human smuggling charges in Tennessee. He will go to his family in Maryland accompanied by private security. Kudos to @tennesseelookout.com's @anitawadhwani.bsky.social and photog John Partipilo.
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The plan was always to make the taxing more regressive. Sales tax very regressive, coporate tax not regressive. Its all to save money for the rich.
🧵 Voting reform is a paradigmatic issue in US politics, in the following way: Republicans have been accusing Democrats of cheating on voting for *years*. Consistently, day after day, for years. Now, importantly, *at no point have they produced evidence of voter fraud*. Not then, not now, not ever.
Trump's DOGE fired nearly half of the Education Dept.’s civil rights division. But get this: Now with a 25k-case backlog, remaining staff have been told to investigate allegations that students of color are being advantaged, not disadvantaged, by schools.
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So much mixed messaging in Rollins' statements. Ironic she is announcing cuts to education at an FFA breakfast. I would expect the any future grants will be substantially smaller than what was cut. I hope the social gains they think they'll get make up for their broken financial future.
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The article was very nuanced about gamification around Swift. A lot of it's driven by fans looking for that extra connection that makes them closer to the star than others. I see redditors reviewing every Insta post from Radiohead who also plays along with it. Not for me, but I am happy for them.
Imagine if they’d had sandwiches. 🥪
Tracking Black Job Gains and Losses Biden: Black unemployment hit 4.7% — lowest ever recorded Trump (2025): Back up to 7.2% They said he'd be better for jobs... better for who exactly? Facts don’t lie — just politicians do.
US army rolling the red carpet to murderer’s plane. I will never forget this image.
Someone finally wrote the data-center/electricity inflation story. @nytimes.com #CPI www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...
The White House ordered heavily armed military soldiers to arrive outside a press conference by a dissident governor and just stand there. Wearing masks to conceal their identities. What is being done to the country I treasure, and the freedom my ancestors fought for, sickens me beyond words.
The moment he named his platform “Truth Social” we were headed this way.
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This obsession with proving bonafides with Trump is all about the next election and nothing to do with safety. If Lee placates Trump enough, he can pass go in the next election. It's sickening. And Tennesee National Guard troops will have to pay the price.
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All o will remember about him is how he is injured 50%of the time. Cannot be relied on to be available. Glad he hits it hard, but when does he play?
This is appalling. Civilized countries look at us and are rightly horrified that this idiocy and cruelty is sanctioned by--encouraged by--our government. (I originally wrote "Other civilized countries look at us..." But do we any longer count in their ranks?) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
HAPPENING NOW: It's Day 2 of the bench trial in Newsom v. Trump, the suit brought by California over Trump's use of the national guard and marines for immigration enforcement. I'm covering for @lawfaremedia.org. Today we expect testimony from the government's witnesses. 🧵
Another Tennessee community is dealing with the same developers who are part of the Christian nationalist effort in Jackson County. MONDAY on @NC5 at 6PM, we travel to that county to investigate.
New: Harvard patents targeted by Trump administration - www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Just out from me at Cato: in its case against Maryland federal judges, the Trump administration is advancing the dangerous and open-ended argument that legal checks on a president's actions "diminish the votes of the citizens who elected him." Whoa! /1
Migrants and refugees are “messengers of hope” and a “true divine blessing” in a world often “darkened by war and injustice,” Pope Leo said in his most extensive remarks on migration since his election to the papacy in May: americasvoice.org/blog/pope-le...
"Last night I was informed that tomorrow will be my last day in the FBI. I understand that you may have a lot of questions regarding why, for which I currently have no answers," the FBI's former acting director, Brian Driscoll, wrote in a farewell message to colleagues.
NEW: The Department of Veterans Affairs just terminated union contracts including AFL-CIO (AFGE), NAGE, NFFE, SEIU, and nursing unions NNOC and NNU. nurse.org/news/va-term...
Katie Johnson's video just isn't going away. Epstein And never let them forget it.
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He did not if you follow him. I am able to reply.
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Reign of terror!
The FBI? For enforcement of state disputes? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...
Trump on undocumented farm workers: "People that live in the inner city are not doing that work. They've tried, we've tried, everybody tried. They don't do it. These people do it naturally. Naturally ... they don't get a bad back, because if they get a bad back, they die."
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Great job following this. Gerrymandering for school board seats. Every possible way to take advantage of a situation.
Trump says the -818k 2024 benchmark payroll revisions show BLS commissioner McEntarfer was political and incompetent. Let’s look at the facts. 1. The revisions were released in Aug 2024, not Nov 15 as the president said. So the BLS release showing far less job growth came 3 mos. BEFORE the election
If you want a weird but true fact to talk about: Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.
This is the best thing you'll see today, and I say that as a person who wrote something awesome today and does not lack for confidence.
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About time. Should have been done after the first time they were barred from entry.
jjryan6.bsky.social (@jjryan6.bsky.social) reply parent
I like the idea a lot. It's time the franchise had an African American manager.
If you've been skeptical about the possibility of a Epstein conspiracy, as I have, I encourage you to read this incredible piece of reporting from CBS. They present fairly compelling evidence that someone doctored the Epstein jail footage and Trump AGs Bondi and Barr and FBI lied about it.
One of the most consequential things Trump is doing. Deserves as much attention as the Epstein mess. But good luck with that. He is changing the policy so that greenhouse gases cannot be regulated and climate change can’t be addressed. Trump is killing the future.
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Interesting Chipper results. If he had not been injured would have been closer. .470 OBP amazing.
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It's a bluff so T can make sure they like him.
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Do you have examples of what other HP vendors have done that makes sense? I am trying to understand what would be called for.
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Jealous!
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A combover cover up.
If you speak out against government suppression of speech, the government will investigate your speech.
jjryan6.bsky.social (@jjryan6.bsky.social) reply parent
This should shut down any chance Derosa had of becoming a manager. No one would ever want to play for him anymore.
jjryan6.bsky.social (@jjryan6.bsky.social) reply parent
Thanks for the follow-up. Seems they keep trying to hide in plain sight. I missed the earlier coverage.
jjryan6.bsky.social (@jjryan6.bsky.social) reply parent
Can they block coverage in a courtroom? This is the first I have seen you report about this.
