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I really, really hope that he gets his walk rate something close to what it was in the minors. (I assume that's what the Sox are hoping to, possibly with the help of the ABS system.)

No, it's that we know they will refuse no matter what the ask is, so asking for the most basic stuff that has 90% approval ratings makes them look even more like heartless fanatics to even many conservative voters when they refuse.

The U.S. currently has more prisoners and a more sophisticated system of concentration camps than Nazi Germany had on the eve of World War II in 1939

If he can get his walk rate anywhere close to what it was in the minors he's going to be a star. If not, he's going to be Scott Fletcher, which is still useful but probably not a longterm starter.

So far, they're not off to a good start if that's the intention. Getting wiped out in districts in TX and LA that no one would give a second thought to if they HAD won... I mean that's exactly the kind of election you rig if you actually have the ability to rig elections.

A big shout out to @the-downballot.com too!

Herbert Hoover got 39% at the height of the Depression, which is pretty much your point, but it's not a new problem.

if you spend any significant amount of time on X the everything app, your brain is being cooked

The replies to this are just perfect. I really can't pick a favorite.

IKF seems like basically an upgrade to the David Hamilton role. The only way they don't make a move is if they're positive that Christian Campbell is about to break out and don't want to block him. Which would be great if true but it's the kind of thing where you'd better not be wrong...

this literally looks like a scene from THE FIRST PURGE

The great journalist Victoria Law sent her latest article to two incarcerated women; the article is about survivors of domestic violence who are incarcerated for what they did when resisting their abusers.

And, well, read the rest for yourself:

The administrators of Columbia, Penn, Brown will do their best one day to gaslight us into believing they did the best they could, but it’s harder when others made different choices.

Incinerators?

In 1946, cartoonist & illustrator Noel Sickles was sent by Life magazine to sketch the Nuremberg trials. Here is his sketch of the execution of Joachim Von Ribbentrop, who claimed at trial that his boss had made all of the important decisions, & that he was only following orders.

I hope they know something the rest of us don't about Campbell. Otherwise something is missing.

Just a correction - I was thinking of Camden, not Newark.

You're correct, wrote in the wrong one by mistake.

Note the shift after Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported

At least Leni Riefenatahl could frame a shot

There are some bangers in the Rotten Tomatoes pull quotes for "Melania" reviews but this one is the clear winner:

Maybe what they did to the Newark Police Force - dissolved the city police, had the county take over, meaning everyone was laid off and had to reapply for their jobs, and the new force has a totally different culture with a strong community policing and deescalation focus.

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That's a lot of players to be named later... trying to keep 40-man spots clear for the moment? Or recent draftees who aren't trade eligible yet?

Hicks and Sandlin are the kind of great stuff but iffy control pitchers who are likely to be hit hardest by the new ABS system, while the guy they're picking up is the kind of player who may benefit from it, and from the Sox pitching development program.

Peter Attia 1752 Niall Ferguson 59 HR McMaster 35 Janna Levin 27 Roland Fryer 9 Derek Thompson 6 Mark Hyman 5 Roger Carstens 3 Arthur Brooks 2 Reihan Salam 2 Elliot Ackerman 0 Masih Alinejad 0 Caroline Chambers 0 Clare de Boer 0 Andrew Huberman 0 Casey Lewis 0 Patrick McGee 0 Lauren Sherman 0

Looking at the list of 19 new CBS News commentators, the median number of times they appear in the searchable Epstein database is 2 and the mean is 100

A photo of a one story midcentury storefront building in a small town with signage advertising the Crazy 80's Car Museum and a Pontiac Fiero and Nissan Cherry visible in the front windows. Out front is Soren's blue 1990s Mercedes-Benz hearse, parked next to a white 1980s Chevy S10. An old Pepsi vending machine sits on the edge of the building.

Inside, an old wood-paneled retail store is filled with 1980s cars. In this photo, the front of a Volkswagen Fox and a Dodge Colt RS are visible in the foreground, and in the background in the next room are about a dozen other cars of the era.

In another room, a line of cars is punctuated by other curios of the era like an old McDonald's merry-go-round. The most obviously visible car in this scene is a Chevy Citation II.

A photo of a yellow Ford EXP and a black Mercury LN7, which are the same car with small visual differences.

Made a pilgrimage that I've been meaning to make for awhile - to Dwight, Illinois, where two recent retirees turned their hobby collection of unloved '80s cars into a museum.

Probably the only place where you're going to see an Isuzu I-Mark Diesel, a Mitsubishi Cordia, or a Mercury LN7 these days.

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

Get in. We're messing up Melania's Amazon search results. This weekend, Amazon is premiering it's $40 million Melania Trump documentary. It already seems to be a flop. But we're going to take it one step further by messing up Melania's Amazon search results. Specifically, we're going to amplify the paranormal erotic thriller, Melania: Devourer of Men so it ranks higher than her movie. The book is perfect: it's absurd, the cover is ridiculous, and it's free, so we're not giving Amazon any money. We need people to: 1. "buy" the book (it's free) 2. Share this post and get other people to buy the book. That's it. Then we can celebrate as an erotic novel about a bat monster Melania Trump becomes a higher and higher search result on Amazon.

Okay troublemakers, punks, antifa supervillains, and anyone who just enjoys being a petty little shitbird while they fuck up the algorithm of a massive media corp. Here's your assignment for the weekend. Get on it and spread the word.

One Oakland police officer made $490,000 in overtime. The city can’t find records detailing much of what he did One OPD officer logged 5,242 total working hours, racking up $490,000 in overtime pay. If he worked more than half of the time in a calendar year, why can't the city tell us what he did?

I know this from researching police salaries for a recent paper: many cities have a set of officers taking home more than $500k and they can’t really explain why

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