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Gleeman: In pulling Twins off the market, Pohlads crush hopes of a fan base that deserves better
www.nytimes.com/athletic/655...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/655...
In pulling Twins off the market, Pohlads crush hopes of a fan base that deserves better
After 10 months of hope, Twins fans find themselves stuck in the same place they've been for decades under the team's current ownership.
www.nytimes.com
August 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Gleeman: In pulling Twins off the market, Pohlads crush hopes of a fan base that deserves better
www.nytimes.com/athletic/655...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/655...
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If we were a more serious country actually concerned about things like 🇺🇸 power, rising 🇨🇳, & <insert int'l security threat/issue ______," this would be a national crisis & a presidency-ending scandal. But since we just like to pretend we care about this stuff & glorify the military, here we are.
"Counting the mass firing, the department has lost nearly 3,000 staff.
The result is a weaker, demoralized diplomatic corps facing mounting global crises."
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
The result is a weaker, demoralized diplomatic corps facing mounting global crises."
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Is Gutting The State Department And Dragging Diplomats ‘Through The Mud’
Secretary of State Marco Rubio "succeeded [in creating] an environment where people wake up and don’t want to come in to work," a still-serving State Department official told HuffPost.
www.huffpost.com
July 27, 2025 at 1:33 AM
If we were a more serious country actually concerned about things like 🇺🇸 power, rising 🇨🇳, & <insert int'l security threat/issue ______," this would be a national crisis & a presidency-ending scandal. But since we just like to pretend we care about this stuff & glorify the military, here we are.
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The Trump administration's chaotic State Department reorganization, which includes the termination of 1,350 professionals, has been predominantly inspired and executed by two twentysomethings who compensate for their lack of experience with nationalist extremism. shero.substack.com/p/a-small-ca...
“A Small Cabal of Unqualified MAGA Extremists”
Far-right ideological policies, pursued by inexperienced Trump appointees in their twenties, are behind the mass firings of career diplomats and services that predominantly serve minorities.
shero.substack.com
July 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The Trump administration's chaotic State Department reorganization, which includes the termination of 1,350 professionals, has been predominantly inspired and executed by two twentysomethings who compensate for their lack of experience with nationalist extremism. shero.substack.com/p/a-small-ca...
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was one of the ways the government spent money so that remote parts of America aren’t left behind, and voters from there who say they’re being left behind elect politicians who work to leave them further behind, then complain that no one cares about them.
I’m old enough to remember when John Barrasso consistently opposed defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting because CPB’s most important role is financially sustaining radio and TV broadcast infrastructure in places like WYOMING where private enterprise will not connect people to the world.
July 17, 2025 at 11:26 AM
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was one of the ways the government spent money so that remote parts of America aren’t left behind, and voters from there who say they’re being left behind elect politicians who work to leave them further behind, then complain that no one cares about them.
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I'm sure that Marco Rubio -- in addition to his roles as Secretary of State, acting National Security Adviser, acting Head of USAID, and acting U.S. Archivist -- can just cover the work of seven hundred diplomats too.
700 diplomats at State are set to be laid off. This amounts to 60% of all foreign service officer currently based in DC. 60%!
State Department to Soon Begin Mass Layoffs www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...
State Department to Soon Begin Mass Layoffs www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...
State Department to Soon Begin Mass Layoffs
www.nytimes.com
July 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I'm sure that Marco Rubio -- in addition to his roles as Secretary of State, acting National Security Adviser, acting Head of USAID, and acting U.S. Archivist -- can just cover the work of seven hundred diplomats too.
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It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
June 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
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"I won’t soon forget this tweet (which Musk took down after it caused an uproar): 'Stalin, Mao, and Hitler didn’t murder millions of people. Their public sector employees did.'"
https://trib.al/FlSGBZl
https://trib.al/FlSGBZl
Meet Elon Musk’s Puppet Master: Russell Vought
The person poised to take over DOGE from Trump’s pet billionaire is the guy who’s actually been running it all along.
trib.al
June 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
"I won’t soon forget this tweet (which Musk took down after it caused an uproar): 'Stalin, Mao, and Hitler didn’t murder millions of people. Their public sector employees did.'"
https://trib.al/FlSGBZl
https://trib.al/FlSGBZl
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I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
June 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
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Turned on CNN three times yesterday while running errands. First time was in the middle of a segment about Biden's age. Second time they were airing a promo for Tappers book, which is about Biden's age. Third time was during a panel discussion -- about Biden's age.
Meanwhile . . .
Meanwhile . . .
Trump Justice Dept. considers removing key check on lawmaker prosecutions
The Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section is charged with ensuring cases against elected officials are not politically motivated. The Trump administration is considering changing that.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 18, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Turned on CNN three times yesterday while running errands. First time was in the middle of a segment about Biden's age. Second time they were airing a promo for Tappers book, which is about Biden's age. Third time was during a panel discussion -- about Biden's age.
Meanwhile . . .
Meanwhile . . .
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May 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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The number of deaths from the illegal defunding of USAID will be (roughly) calculable, and that number should stick to Musk forever.
But harder to count—but prob vaster in number—will be the preventable deaths and harms resulting from willfully gutting science in the name of racism.
But harder to count—but prob vaster in number—will be the preventable deaths and harms resulting from willfully gutting science in the name of racism.
what a time to be defunding science
Great article. Gift link.
May 16, 2025 at 11:57 AM
The number of deaths from the illegal defunding of USAID will be (roughly) calculable, and that number should stick to Musk forever.
But harder to count—but prob vaster in number—will be the preventable deaths and harms resulting from willfully gutting science in the name of racism.
But harder to count—but prob vaster in number—will be the preventable deaths and harms resulting from willfully gutting science in the name of racism.
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The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents.
What the fuck are we doing here?
What the fuck are we doing here?
May 12, 2025 at 12:31 AM
The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents.
What the fuck are we doing here?
What the fuck are we doing here?
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this is almost as many mugshots as you'd get if you lined the street opposite with pictures of republican pedophiles
The driveway of the White House is now lined with mugshots….disgusting….this had to be a Stephen Miller idea
*posted this morning by Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt
*posted this morning by Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt
April 28, 2025 at 7:46 PM
this is almost as many mugshots as you'd get if you lined the street opposite with pictures of republican pedophiles
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Whenever I'm tempted to think that a new thing seems too complicated, I read newspaper articles about pizza from the early 1950s.
November 9, 2024 at 8:17 PM
Whenever I'm tempted to think that a new thing seems too complicated, I read newspaper articles about pizza from the early 1950s.
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if high food prices under a Democratic president led the DNC to suggest people adapt by eating more tofu you would run 187 think pieces about how out of touch with Real Americans they are
April 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
if high food prices under a Democratic president led the DNC to suggest people adapt by eating more tofu you would run 187 think pieces about how out of touch with Real Americans they are
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What a vision for the future.
Lutnick: "The army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones -- that kind of thing is going to come to America."
April 6, 2025 at 8:13 PM
What a vision for the future.
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Going to gut Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid to pay for billionaire tax cuts
BREAKING: Senate Republicans plugged away overnight and into early Saturday morning to approve their multitrillion-dollar tax breaks and spending cuts framework.
Senate GOP approves framework for Trump's tax breaks and spending cuts after all-night session
The Senate plugged away overnight and into early Saturday morning to approve their multitrillion-dollar tax breaks and spending cuts framework.
bit.ly
April 5, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Going to gut Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid to pay for billionaire tax cuts
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Wow who could’ve guessed that this would happen
It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world
It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction
It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world
It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction
April 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Wow who could’ve guessed that this would happen
It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world
It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction
It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world
It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction
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Hey, are we ever gonna have sprawling coverage about this president's mental state too? Or was that just reserved for the guy who wasn't breaking the economy?
Trump: "An old fashioned term that we use -- groceries. I used it on the campaign. It's such an old fashioned term, but a beautiful term. Groceries. It says a bag with different things in it."
April 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Hey, are we ever gonna have sprawling coverage about this president's mental state too? Or was that just reserved for the guy who wasn't breaking the economy?
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When are liberals going to learn that you don't fight fascists by giving them the benefit of the doubt.
You should never start a sentence with "______ is not wrong."
You should never start a sentence with "______ is not wrong."
RFK Jr. is not wrong. We are failing to keep our communities healthy. This message resonates with many.
But I have serious concerns about his ability and expertise to lead such a sweeping overhaul of the HHS workforce. We need accountability, not just rhetoric.
But I have serious concerns about his ability and expertise to lead such a sweeping overhaul of the HHS workforce. We need accountability, not just rhetoric.
March 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
When are liberals going to learn that you don't fight fascists by giving them the benefit of the doubt.
You should never start a sentence with "______ is not wrong."
You should never start a sentence with "______ is not wrong."