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Matt 🔱 @mearnsrea.bsky.social · 13h

Shoulda gone for 3. If they're gonna beat the shit out of (my beloved) M's, he could have at least made it super cool by hitting for the cycle

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Matt 🔱 @mearnsrea.bsky.social · 14h

This has to be Kirby's last inning

Matt 🔱 @mearnsrea.bsky.social · 14h

So much for a distraction from the real world

Matt 🔱 @mearnsrea.bsky.social · 14h

What's going on with Kirby's control tonight? I know he's been more of a contact guy than a strikeout guy this year, but this seems like he can't find the zone

Matt 🔱 @mearnsrea.bsky.social · 14h

Huh. Turns out the Blue Jays can also hit home runs in T-Mobile Park in the postseason. I did not like finding out like this. Bad experience, do not recommend.

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Matt 🔱 @mearnsrea.bsky.social · 19h

theonion.com/rockies-pitc...

I guess that's it. Kick the Onion off of Bluesky.

Matt 🔱 @mearnsrea.bsky.social · 20h

[In the cadence and tone of a gregorian chant] Ite nautae. Totum vincamus.

Matt 🔱 @mearnsrea.bsky.social · 21h

This is why the Dems have been atrocious for years. It isn't "we should provide social prgrams," it's "we should means-test social programs." And now they're doing the same thing with civil rights. Fuck this whole party-they just want in on the deal where the Republicans sell you out.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Kaine: "We should not be allowing the president to create a secret enemies list and make the unilateral decision about whether to kill people without sharing that information at least with the Armed Service and Intel committees. So this is very troubling."

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 1d

i had a client once who was arrested because the cop insisted his signature was a fake signature. he watched the guy sign the summons and insisted he was ... faking a signature?

we lost

T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 1d

This is yet another reminder that the "you can just walk around with your papers and be fine!" is a lie: the cops routinely claim whatever documentation you provide is invalid

It's racism all the way down

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

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Matt 🔱 @mearnsrea.bsky.social · 1d

It's the documentarian's curse. Do you really think Ken Burns wanted to make that 2010 addenda to his Baseball series? Of course not! The witch who gave him storytelling powers forced him to talk to George Will again

ProJared🇺🇦 @aidenhoho.bsky.social · 1d

@jonbois.bsky.social if the Mariners pull this off you are cosmically required to make a part 7

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Stephen 🇵🇸 @tgk.bsky.social · 1d

Fork found in kitchen

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Matt 🔱 @mearnsrea.bsky.social · 2d

Fuck that guy. Baseball is for everyone. Especially in Seattle.*

*provided you have enough disposable income to pay to watch the games

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 3d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 4d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Matt 🔱 @mearnsrea.bsky.social · 2d

If the Mariners win today, how will the national media call it a theft tomorrow? Wrongfully obtaining a W? Exerting unauthorized control over a victory? Obtaining control of a triumph by color or aid of deception?

govt.westlaw.com/wcrji/Docume...

govt.westlaw.com

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Matt 🔱 @mearnsrea.bsky.social · 2d

Counterpoint: you should absolutely continue to rub your national commitment to a healthy democracy with strong social programs in our face. (But the person who told me the most racist joke I ever heard was from Vancouver Island, so maybe keep working on that)

Matt 🔱 @mearnsrea.bsky.social · 2d

www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/mun...

Stealing a @normcharlatan.bsky.social bit / robando una cosa de @normcharlatan.bsky.social

Matt 🔱 @mearnsrea.bsky.social · 3d

Matthieu Audacieux? Jean-Paul Crawford? Georges Polonais?

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Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 3d

It's cool that this series features all four kinds of mustache a white guy can have. From left to right: gravel cyclist, cop, Field Marshal Haig, Bruno Kirby

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Amanda Lane Cumming @amandalc.bsky.social · 3d

Find someone who wants you as much as national broadcasters want the Mariners to bunt.

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Matt 🔱 @mearnsrea.bsky.social · 3d

Not pleased that my entire team is functioning at the same mental level as a parent with a newborn right now, but they're doing pretty damn well under the circumstances

Unworried @lesleynope.bsky.social · 3d

Look guys the Mariners are sleep deprived and burnt out. We need to score more runs.

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Matt 🔱 @mearnsrea.bsky.social · 3d

The Big Dumper was some beer league blueliner's nickname in Moose Jaw or Brandon starting like 10 years ago and he's so cheesed off that some fuckin' baseball player stole his name

Suss-- 🥌 @suss2hyphens.bsky.social · 3d

The Big Dumper is what Canada probably calls a spice cabinet or something

Matt 🔱 @mearnsrea.bsky.social · 3d

There's definitely a moment when I meet someone who is vocally anti-israel where I have to ask "why?" Because a lot of them aren't actually that interested in preventing genocide so much as carrying another one out

Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 3d

saw someone arguing that MTG's anti Israel noises suggest that she's a more reliable moral voice longterm than most centrist Ds, and...like, people really need to acknowledge just how antisemitic she is and what role that plays in her approach to Israel policy. 1

Matt 🔱 @mearnsrea.bsky.social · 3d

Goddamn it.