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Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 4h

Feels like one of those things you should always just kinda assume even if you don't know.

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Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 4h

Who?

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6h

Trump posthumously awards Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom

President granted the US’s highest civilian award to the far-right commentator who was assassinated in September Donald Trump posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States, to the assassinated far-right commentator Charlie Kirk at the White House on Tuesday. Kirk, who was shot at an event at Utah Valley University in September, was among the most significant rightwing activists in the modern political era, galvanizing a younger generation of conservatives to engage in politics and support Trump’s candidacy ahead of the 2024 election. Continue reading...

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Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 9h

Tangentially, one of the great propaganda/marketing "victories" of our time is the way the multi-billion dollar supplement/wellness industry has painted pharma (and lord knows they suck, too) as an untrustworthy titan hiding the "real answers" in their pursuit of profit.

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Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 21h

"Prisoners, the overwhelming majority of whom never were charged with anything."

That's called a hostage, dipshit.

Palestinians just always guilty until proven innocent, and even then fair game for murder, anyway in the eyes of Israel.

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Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 21h

If I hear one more news outlet refer to the released captives as Israeli "hostages" but Palestinian "prisoners," I swear to God...

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Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone figure out what Dave Roberts was complaining to the umpires about, or was he just trying to take a little heat off his guys for some all-world dipshit baserunning?

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Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 1d

Ah the good ol' bases loaded 8-6-2(unassisted) double play

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Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, the whole idea this series is a proxy for anything else is just stupid. Ergo, for me, go Brewers just because fuck the Dodgers.

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Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 1d

Couldn't this be viewed both ways? If the Brewers win, sure that's "proof" that small market teams don't need to spend to compete according to the "no floor" crowd, but it's also "proof" that there's no need to cap the Dodgers, too.

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Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 1d

You know, in a sane world, a bunch of spoiled brat cops saying they'll stop doing their job if they don't get the mayor they want would be viewed as a serious indictment of the cops, and not the mayor.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d

CBS News would never put a thinly sourced 'story' by a rookie blogger like this on it's air. Until now. The Free Press isn't a journalism outlet, it's bloggers aren't reporters. This piece is more NYPost than Tiffany Network but I guess that's the goal.

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Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming the NYC mayor, The Free Press reports

The Free Press spoke to several New York City Police Department officers who are worried about Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor. Olivia Reingold joins CBS News with more.

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Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 2d

We have eight callouts

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Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 2d

"If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue"

Roe v Wade was a "long opinion" and that didn't stop you cunts from "unresolving" it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 2d

Westways with Red Plum

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 3d

Somewhere out there, all these years later, he sits shrouded in the shadows inside a long abandoned community theater, frantically writing, throwing away, and rewriting his revenge burn, plotting to use it on a day that will never come.

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Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 3d

Really is just an all-time impressive propaganda victory that guys with enough money to buy cable news station were able to convince a huge chunk of the country that their power is nothing in comparison to the guy I sometimes buy a bag of oranges from at the freeway on ramp.

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Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 3d

It really is just an historic failure of democratic messaging that Republicans have spent years getting away with branding themselves as the party of the "troops" (a sentiment many of my veteran coworkers believe) when it is almost universally them doing this shit.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 3d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 3d

It's insane how many after-market modifications you can do to a vehicle without being able to prove you can actually handle it, too. Those guys on lifted trucks who can't see the fifty feet in front of their hood and have tires wide enough to almost need two lanes have no business owning those.

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Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 3d

Go invent your own stupid sport and stop ruining ours.

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Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 3d

Cal Raleigh triple play is the funniest possible outcome, right?

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Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 3d

In one of the younger little leagues I played in, after 4 balls they didn't give you a walk, they just let you hit off a tee instead. I see no harm in trying that out here.

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Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 3d

Imagine how many Pierzynski bunt references we'd have if there was a runner at second to start every inning

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Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 3d

The fact the free runner doesn't exist in the postseason is all the proof we need that it shouldn't exist at all, as it creates an inferior product.

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Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 3d

They should let the original starting pitchers come back in, I think they're well enough rested

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Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 3d

Another inning ending double play and I don't know if that's a sign that there is no god, there is a god and he has abandoned us, or he is present and he hates us.

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Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 3d

I hope he walks the bases loaded so I can hear AJ Pierzynski suggest a bunt

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