Matt
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SWFC, Mets, Jets, Caps, Terps, Saints and adopted Evertonian. Most of which derogatory. Never Bunt.
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bittersweet seeing parts of the lethargic british press sluggishly get around to wondering if US far-right religious think tanks are working to influence british politics. they are, yes! it is not secret! do your jobs better!
Just the casual 12 seasons its taken them, while owned by literal oil state!
Absolutely insane they've existed for 11 seasons and they're still playing on shitty baseball conversions
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this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
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this is obviously appalling - and he should lose his job - but it's also really quite shocking; I first met Calgie when he was a baby reporter in his early twenties and sure, he was always a Tory, but he was....fine and normal? right-wing radicalisation is out of control in SW1
A mainstream “journalist” calling for a British MP to be deported. Is it because I’m Muslim? Next time, just say it with your chest.
And conceded within 3 minutes! Not exactly Gladbach's season so far
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I've spent my life arguing against all football fans being tarred with the same brush, but to not even acknowledge that Maccabi Tel Aviv's far-right fans posed a threat to public order, and Birmingham's Muslims in particular, is next-level racist gaslighting
I never thought being pro-football-hooligan would become a mainstream political position in Britain but here we are.
I mean for sure. But to have a 6 weeks of summer recess, 2 weeks of parliament, for another month of Conference recess is absolutely absurd. Make everyone host theirs the first full week of September!
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after 9/11 one of my Pakistani friends had his car tires slashed or window smashed every day until insurance stopped covering him.

he eventually killed himself

Republicans were always this racist, they just weren't stupid or bold enough to write this down until recently
As I note in this episode, I'm a woman so I'm used to people reflexively dismissing me as "stupid" or "ignorant." So not surprised that happened here.

But I was a young Republican in high school. I would have *never* said shit like this. Ever.

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Why Marjorie Taylor Greene makes Republicans miserable
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This one feels way way harder to pull off, court of public opinion wise, because I think abortion is harder to demonise than trans people. But all they need to do is apply pressure and challenge how the Abortion Act is applied, to cause complete chaos and destruction. Horrifying
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Yeah, this is sadly very naive. They've already done it to trans rights (which let them undermine basic principles of bodily autonomy) and made strides on anti-abortion rights - their "free speech protesters" outside abortion clinics regularly get to launder their views via the TV and print media
Right-wingers who think tactics they've used to criminalize abortion in the US will have the same kind of traction in the UK fail to grasp that religious fundamentalism is widely viewed as nuts in the UK, & has been for many decades, if not centuries.

As much chance of abolishing UK gun controls.
The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
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Tbf, he had nearly as much negative war that season for the Mets as Atlanta. But how did he manage -1.5 in like 30 games, my god
Robinson Canó had actual plate appearances with the 2022 Mets, after all...
How the hell are they rivalling the disgrace the Jets put this afternoon??
Fucking hell fire
Penn State has officially announced the firing of James Franklin.

Associate head coach Terry Smith will serve as interim head coach for the remainder of the season.
That's where I got to very quickly. Tried to park the conversation, see the night out. But, not exactly tried to organise anything since, and that was Easter! A real shame but nothing to be done
I know (well knew) one who went properly mental, and then his GF began saying things they just didn't come close to a few months later. I just couldn't comprehend it, and no idea how to drag these guys back
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This is the fucking Prussian constitutional crisis. If you let them fund the military without Congressional authorization you've just given up on constitutional government. Congress is a dead letter.
Combined with 'this 30 year old adviser was a politics student when Democracy 3 was released', horrifying mix
Norvell being canned as Napier stays after the first 3 weeks of the season is easily the funniest outcome anyone could have thought of
Americans just need to have fucking draws in all their sport and get on with it. 12 innings, draw. 5 minute 5-5 OT, draw. NBA 2 OTs, draw. Amazingly the only sport which has it right is the NFL with 10 minute OT
This is part of why I like the regular season extra runner because .. in theory, extra inning games that go on very long sounds fun, but in practice, they all just start to look like *this.*
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Unless they’re declaring him an anti-pope and installing their own guy in Avignon, they’re not “rejecting” him, they’re just bitching and moaning and forgetting who’s in charge of the church they’ve weirdly and ignorantly attempted to infiltrate. bsky.app/profile/wash...