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can't recall the post where i first saw this but it made me laugh til i almost puked

Open up that fucking pit because this song is about a nice day at the beach

The Gap of Hormuz

"I'm helping Hilary Clinton retool her universal healthcare plan"

Lmao. I can't even imagine a world where the mainstream dem candidate supports universal healthcare anymore.

We fell so far so fast

using public office to name and shame evil landlords into submission is so cool. i hope democrats learn from him

This is from 2007

We had all been into candlemaxxing but then we got lampmogged. It was terrible. bsky.app/profile/wooo...

as a Las Vegan who covers a lot of A's games:

Locking up your young players also makes them easier to trade once you get settled into your new stadium and want to tear it all down again.

I can't help myself from following them but I wouldn't ever give Fisher the benefit of the doubt.

The A's are a dead stock energy you find on the bottom shelf of a dollar store

mario bros 93 they could never make me hate you. sure you're not a good "adaptation" or whatever the fuck manchildren care about but you're so visually interesting and have a unique aesthetic sense that still sticks with me. also a foundational film in terms of "what a sexy lady looks like" to me

This is genuinely one of the best pieces I've read about television.

So great that it’s pitch black dark at 7am. Makes it so easy to get up and get he day started. Love fake time it’s such a great idea really benefits everyone.

One great thing about Bluesky is that the Kobe stans haven't found it.

the lesson here is to never, ever feel any optimism about the Las Vegas Raiders

Can't believe he demanded a trade because he thought they benched him when he was healthy enough to play but he wasn't healthy enough to get traded. Now both sides are mad and the Raiders are going to trade him for like a 4th round pick.

The most Raiders outcome here possible

Eugenio Suárez had his U.S. citizenship application canceled The Cincinnati Enquirer ran a story yesterday about Latin American ballplayers who are concerned about Trump's authoritarian crackdown on immigrants. A lot of the story is stuff you've read before, with players and team officials talking about "being careful," and making sure they carry their work permits and other documentation with them, as if there is some level of reasonable precaution someone can take to stave off an arbitrary and capricious secret police force. I mean, they're arresting and imprisoning citizens, so I don't know what makes anyone think that a ballplayer, even one carrying their visa, is immune from Trumpist brutality. But honestly, what else can they say? To speak up more loudly likely puts a target on their back. I mean, it's not crazy to think that someone like Stephen Miller or whichever sadists are calling the shots at ICE and Border Patrol these days might want to make a special point of going after a high-profile critic of the Regime, especially if they are a Mexican, Dominican, or Venezuelan ballplayer. Meanwhile this from Reds third baseman Eugenio Suárez is truly screwed up. After talking about how one of his family members had their TPS status revoked, he said this:

Suárez said he himself was scheduled to go through his U.S. citizenship processing in December until he was informed his application was canceled. His wife, who also is from Venezuela, had already completed hers, he said. “They shut down everything, so I couldn’t have it. Because of the Venezuela thing,” he said. “It is what it is. I respect the decision.” I'm not sure how anyone can "respect" that decision but, again, what the hell else can someone in Suárez's position say to the press? That's especially when the players are being hung out to dry by Major League Baseball, which seems more concerned about upsetting Donald Trump than it is about its players being subjected to brutal and lawless federal agents. Get a load of Rob Manfred here:

“Look, obviously I worry about anything that could be disruptive to the very best players in the world being out on the field," Manfred said in response to a question from The Enquirer. "But the prospect of that disruption, given that our players all had visas, it’s speculation at this point.” The Enquirer has reached out to the commissioner's office twice in recent weeks to see whether anything has changed but has not received a response. I'm not sure how anyone could read the news over the past two or three months and think that the brutalization of Latin Americans in this country is the stuff of "speculation" or that if someone has their paperwork in order they're all safe, but that's Rob Manfred for ya. In contrast, an anonymous MLB employee is quoted in the story saying that MLB is not doing enough and that he fears that it will take a high-profile incident involving a player – “something bad” he said – before the league gets more proactive in protecting its personnel. Unfortunately, history has shown us over and over again that this person is correct. MLB only reacts to problems. It's never proactive when it comes to anything negative or controversial. The league, led by Ostrich-in-Chief Rob Manfred, loves to bury its head in the sand. I too hope nothing bad happens. But I am nowhere near as optimistic – or is it deluded? – as Rob Manfred is on this score.

In today's newsletter: MLB seems content to tell Latin players "if you follow the rules you'll be OK." I'm not sure how you can say that when an arbitrary, and capricious authoritarian government is unleashing its secret police force.

Also: fuck Rob Manfred. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

i say this as someone who loves sports: the best you can hope for from most male pro athletes is for them to just say nothing about politics

i think we should start with war crimes and other forms of elite impunity rather than repackaging broken windows theory

i guess i just think it’s fine? some of the QTs compare it to stuff like smoking on the train or leaving your dog’s poop on the sidewalk but those things are civically obnoxious and stealing from whole foods just isn’t lol

...idk maybe this is a hot take but I believe in stealing from the rich and Bezos owns Whole Foods so I'm personally failing to see an issue here

If you're scared of protesting or a general strike because you could lose your job, healthcare, and housing, or even go to jail, now you understand why the US has no universal healthcare or housing and no guaranteed parental leave, but DOES have the largest prison and police system on planet Earth.

The guy who voices Master Chief from the video game "Halo," who was featured in a White House meme video showing missiles blowing people up in Iran, calls it "disgusting and juvenile war porn" wapo.st/3NhffGm

I miss McCoy Stadium and the PawSox so much. Used to go to so many games on a whim because it was close and cheap.

Going to Catholic School

I really don’t understand people who pine for being a child again. Hell, I’m elated I’m not in my thirties again. Being old is great, you finally get to be yourself

Iranian hackers threatening to hack into the top 3 credit bureaus and wiping Americans debt… and I just wanna know who I gotta speak to in order to expedite this.

Something that speaks to a sudden decline in our society is the amount of people I’ve seen lately approaching stop signs and then going right through them like “nope, don’t believe in this anymore!”

Love this piece, very spot on considering the fervor with which people participate in nostalgia anymore. Also I talk with my blue collar husband about this, who lives parallel to the imagined, most desired life of many white collar men. There's a phantom of masculinity which we all worship.