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Padres have their North Star in new manager Craig Stammen New manager brings a sensibility fostered growing up surrounded by family in a small Ohio town

What a great profile piece on new Padres manger Craig Stammen, from the tiny village of North Star in the farmlands of western Ohio.

It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted

John Roberts and the Cynical Cult of Federalist No. 70 Alexander Hamilton’s treatise on executive power is one of the conservative legal movement’s favorite texts to quote—and misquote.

“The relationship between the president and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned in her dissenting opinion. “In every use of official power, the president is now a king above the law.”

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Agency Information Collection Activities; Revision; Arrival and Departure Record (Form I-94) and Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) The Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will be submitting the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review an...

don't just kvetch; comment.

CBP is proposing a massive new interference with the private lives and opinions of visitors to the united states, and those who exit. you can email comments to CBP_PRA@cbp.dhs.gov - and post them if you do. you have until early february.

YouTube video by MS NOW Barron Trump's ties to accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate exposed in NYT report

WATCH: New reporting from the New York Times reveals Andrew Tate’s release from Romania—where he faced rape and human trafficking charges—may have involved powerful allies, including Barron Trump. Pulitzer-prize winning investigative reporter Megan Twohey joins to discuss.

Tweet by Heritage Foundation co founder criticizing Heritage Action threat to Indiana

The Heritage Foundation is cracking

Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."

I mean, who doesn't want the murderous Saudi regime from controlling our news? It's bad enough the evil Murdoch family from Australia has brainwashed generations of Americans and keep MAGA afloat with propaganda.

tRUmp transfers 760 acres of public land in San Diego County to the US Navy to create a National Defense Area along the US-Mexico border, expanding militarized zones despite historically low border arrests and drawing criticism as part of Trump’s aggressive immigration agenda, per the Guardian.

20M Americans will struggle to pay for healthcare because Congress and MAGA hate you so much for having Obamacare insurance.

Vance and Trump Jr., reinforcing weeks of death threats against independent-minded Indiana Republicans, are pressuring them to help rig next year’s midterms.
The Trump regime is a Mafia-style criminal enterprise.

Liam Neeson loses a fan. Won't be watching your movies, dude, because of your stupidity.

Inventing an imaginary boogeyman

MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”

Chris Perkins: What Mike McDaniel’s return would mean for Dolphins Dolphins owner Stephen Ross greatly values process. And coach Mike McDaniel is winning Ross over in that area. But at some point results must matter. This is the NFL. It’s a results-based bus…

Perkins: "If McDaniel commits to sticking with this run-first offensive system, I’d be open to his return. But it’s not that easy. Let’s face facts. The likelihood is that this season will result in mediocrity."

The US government is now a mafia organization.

Putin did this.

Preller dispels Tatis trade rumors: 'We need Fernando' ORLANDO, Fla. -- On the set of MLB Network at the 2018 Winter Meetings, Padres general manager A.J. Preller was asked about Fernando Tatis Jr., who back then was a top prospect on the verge of breakin...

Winter Meetings rumors are often conjecture, and so were the ones suggesting that the San Diego Padres were willing to trade superstar Fernando Tatis Jr.

The betrayal was suicidal for her, and just plain stupid

He is not well.

If someone’s grandpa posted this on Facebook, the family would be discussing assisted living by dinner.

From Planet Senile Trump, population of 1

So they know The Senile Orange Emperor is committing war crimes … just saying the obvious

Selfed-described as the smartest person on the planet, the Dementia Emperor answers question on 6G: “What does that do? Give you a little bit deeper view into somebody’s skin? See how perfect it is? I like the cameras the old days.” He is a bloody idiot, isn't he?

Prediction: Tourism for the 2026 World Cup will be the worst in the modern era.

Tourism to the USA has plummeted under tRUmp, and the Demented Orange Emperor is preparing a sweeping new proposal that would require foreign tourists to hand over five years of social-media history before entering the country. How is this legal? How stupid is this? Why would anyone want to visit?

U.S. forces [illegally, not doubt] seizes an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, the Orange Emperor said Wednesday, in the latest escalation in an illegal "war" against Venezuela. When is Congress going to put a stop to this nonsense?

Judge Breyer issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration’s attempt to federalize California’s National Guard, ruling that claims of civil unrest used to justify the move were unfounded.

If you want a primer on the Network State, I spent some time with a group hoping to make one this summer:

www.wired.com/story/tech-b...

Friends, the Great Font War has been lost! <snicker> OMG, Lil Marco has nothing better to do as Secretary of State.

The Padres are aggressively shopping infielder Jake Cronenworth, according to USA Today's Bob Nightengale. Take it with a grain of salt, since Nightengale is more often wrong than he is right when he spreads MLB rumors.