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GIMBOKNOWS @jimboknows.bsky.social · 6m

I don't just love that Max is shoving in a big game for us tonight. I love that should we need him again we're all gonna feel GREAT about it.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3h

Cuomo’s desperate final act is bankrolled by the very billionaires who brought us Donald Trump and the broken status quo.

New Yorkers are ready for change.

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei

If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 19h

Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."

Cardiff set to tackle SUV 'carspreading' in UK first

Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and f...

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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 4h

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Kenny Smith @kennysmith.bsky.social · 12m

Again, whatever adviser decided to go away from “Weird!” last fall should be banished to doing nothing more than city council elections in Sausalito for the rest of their career.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

RFK Jr: "Today the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone of a 65 year old man. Our girls are hitting puberty 6 years early ... our parents aren't having children."

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Scott Kingery @techlifeweb.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 16m

Max is dealing. Jays up 5-1 after 5.
#torvssea #mlb #alcs #baseball

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 15m

Ernie Clement's reaction coming out of the mound meeting speaks for all of us watching

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Codify Baseball @codifybaseball.bsky.social · 17m

Max Scherzer will not go willingly.

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CatWoman @catwomanresists.bsky.social · 21m

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Richard Deitsch @richarddeitsch.bsky.social · 20m

Max Scherzer Hot Tub Time Machine.

Incredible.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 6h

Newsom: This president appears unhinged… seems listless… he seems, dare I say, in decline—cognitively, and… physically. These are just the rantings of someone who needs an intervention, needs some help, needs to be stabilized.

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Chad Crichton @chadcrichton.bsky.social · 3h

It was easy to do given that it was free and I can always re-register (but probably won't).

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Chad Crichton @chadcrichton.bsky.social · 3h

I joined a political party for the first time in my life to help him win in a bid to make sure Poilievre was defeated and I was surprised how quickly after the election I emailed the party to cancel my membership.

a man says kinda disappointed here with his hands in his pockets

ALT: a man says kinda disappointed here with his hands in his pockets

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Chad Crichton @chadcrichton.bsky.social · 4h

I think we actually agree almost entirely on the policy question. All I'm trying to say is that I'm pretty confident that if this government were to lead us in that direction, in this moment in history, we might find that the destination at the end of that journey is a Polievre majority government.

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Chad Crichton @chadcrichton.bsky.social · 4h

Anyway, as I say, my main idea here is just that if the government is going to choose to take the 40% side of a 60:40 issue they can probably find MUCH less electorally dangerous examples to roll the dice on than, "bail reform is unnecessary and the sentences of violent criminals are long enough".

Chad Crichton @chadcrichton.bsky.social · 4h

So will the notion that what voters repeatedly say they want their government to do is nothing but "vibes" or that voters wouldn't want those things if they were just a little smarter, or just a little better informed.

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Chad Crichton @chadcrichton.bsky.social · 4h

Mostly though, I just question the political wisdom of campaigning AGAINST, rather than in favour of, tougher bail restrictions and longer criminal sentences in 2025, in a country where the majority of voters are in favor of both policies and a majority of voters still support the death penalty.

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Chad Crichton @chadcrichton.bsky.social · 4h

Again though, your contention that these policies won't work is based on an assumption that the goal of these policies is to reduce crime, whereas to most Canadians, the goals of these policies are to make it harder for repeat offenders to get bail & make the sentences of convicted criminals longer.

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Chad Crichton @chadcrichton.bsky.social · 5h

Also I think you might be mistaken in assuming the goal the public has in mind when calling for these policies is "reduced crime".

I think people want bail to be harder to get because they think bail should be harder to get and for sentences to be longer because they think sentences are too short.

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Chad Crichton @chadcrichton.bsky.social · 5h

Like, I despise Doug Ford but there's arguably a reason the Prime Minister is following the, "tell the people you'll do what polls say the people want you to do" lead of a Premier who's currently leading his third majority government while surrounded by the ashes of the two main opposition parties.

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Chad Crichton @chadcrichton.bsky.social · 5h

This is all well and good but the fact remains that Canadians are sick of repeat offenders commitng additional crimes while out on bail or serving house arrest sentences in the same neighborhood as their victims which is why these policies are extremely popular and the Supreme Court is not.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 6h

“The PC should be able to act on your behalf.”

the fuck is it with these guys

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 13h

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sunny Hostin to Cheryl Hines: "The problem is that your husband is the least qualified HHS head that we've had in history. I think that's very dangerous. He has spread a lot of misinformation, chaos, and confusion."

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