Sam

Sam

@gildedguile.bsky.social

Chicago and Toronto 🐻⬇️ 🍁🐦 Chelsea fan🦁 Jam bands🪿⭕️⚡️🌹 Bad at chess ♟️ Left of center ◀️ Boglehead 📈 History, libraries, and Epic IT 📚💾

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A gunman opened fire at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, injuring two people before being shot dead, according to the university reut.rs/4b6iHNh

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Stephanie Ruhle Hammers Trump Over His Description Iran War: ‘Does That Sound Like a Little Excursion to You?’  MS NOW's Stephanie Ruhle took President Donald Trump to task on Wednesday after the president repeatedly called the war with Iran that he started an "excursion." The post Stephanie Ruhle Hammers Trump Over His Description Iran War: ‘Does That Sound Like a Little Excursion to You?’  first appeared on Mediaite.

Stephanie Ruhle Hammers Trump Over His Description Iran War: ‘Does That Sound Like a Little Excursion to You?’ 

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Here is @aoc.bsky.social thankfully telling everyone exactly what to do to stop a concentration camp from being built where you live.

Please take it to heart and take action.

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how is "mayor chooses his words carefully" a NYT story but "president chooses his words like a haunted magic 8 ball on meth" not

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'The Islamism of the Iranian regime is now reduced to a rather worn veneer' The appointment of Mojtaba Khamenei as supreme leader, in a regime that calls itself an Islamic Republic, already signals a form of defeat in the ongoing war waged by the US and Israel, writes Gilles Paris.

'The Islamism of the Iranian regime is now reduced to a rather worn veneer'

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Hawley Takes Aim At FDA Approval For Mifepristone Hawley Takes Aim At FDA Approval For Mifepristone

His bill adds to Republican efforts to curtail reproductive rights.

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Just fully detached from reality here.

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US Navy tells shipping industry Hormuz escorts not possible for now The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since ​the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high f...

Whoa. This is big. "The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high for now." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

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“Typically, people familiar with [DHS] say, a candidate that green wouldn’t have gotten an interview for a junior position, much less be hired to run operations. According to LinkedIn..Fugate’s leadership experience comes from having served as secretary general of a Model United Nations club”

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Team USA advances to the World Baseball Classic quarterfinals with help from Italy's 9-1 win over Mexico 🇺🇸

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Records are made to be broken but, I can't stress this enough, this was not the record. Wilt Chamberlain still holds that by a lot.

Sportswriters complaining that Kobe got knocked down to third sound like MAGA idiots arguing that Riley Gaines really deserves the honor of fourth place. Grow up.

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'Real money': how the war in the Middle East exposed India's dependence on Russian oil The United States has granted New Delhi a temporary waiver allowing it to purchase fuel from Moscow, pausing prior attempts to cut India off Russian energy. "To enable oil to keep flowing into the gl...

The United States has granted New Delhi a temporary waiver allowing it to purchase fuel from Moscow, pausing prior attempts to cut India off Russian energy.

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American officials already talking about regime change in Cuba while Israeli officials talk about confronting Turkey. I'm sorry but you have to finish the war you started before you get another war.

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Trump: "Spain? I think they've been very bad. Not good at all. We may cut off trade with Spain."

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America’s CEOs aren’t acting in the interest of shareholders by staying silent about democracy and the rule of law, they’re acting out of fear. www.profgmedia.com/p/role-models

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In Brooklyn! I forgot this part!

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We weren't grateful enough for the war on Venezuela and Iran and our recompense will be Bay of Pigs 2: 2 Stupid 2 Furious.

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Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”

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Pete Hegseth Is Pushing Defense Employees to Volunteer With DHS The defense secretary has made clear that Pentagon managers are to encourage workers, including civilians, to volunteer to assist in the administration's immigration crackdown.

The defense secretary has made clear that Pentagon managers are to encourage workers, including civilians, to volunteer to assist in the administration's immigration crackdown. www.wired.com/story/pete-h...

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Trump Administration Offers Free At-Home Loyalty Tests

Trump Administration Offers Free At-Home Loyalty Tests https://theonion.com/trump-administration-offers-free-at-home-loyalty-tests/

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"You ought to come back to us with some data" -- Dick Durbin dogwalks Peter Schweizer over his wild, evidence-free claims about a plague of Chinese "birth tourism"

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a man with a mustache says i don 't think i 'm a lot dumber ALT: a man with a mustache says i don 't think i 'm a lot dumber

If we've learned anything from this war, it's that this administration should have played less Call of Duty and more Risk.

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Hope y'all bought gas 87 minutes ago

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these dudes are of course completely incapable of their feigned job of "make government run more efficiently" but they're also kind of bad at their actual job of "loot the government without attracting too much attention" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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@davidjbier.bsky.social is so so good at this. He's my guest on next week's #WITHPod

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Final:
Cardinals 1
Mets 6

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The only MLB pitchers to have a 70-start span with a 70+ average Game Score in the last 100 years:

Sandy Koufax
Bob Gibson
Randy Johnson
Pedro Martínez
Clayton Kershaw

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Running out of time: Israel escalates Iran strikes as Trump weighs ‘elegant exit’ The Israeli military is pushing for more strikes on Iran before the window of opportunity closes, when US President Trump decides to end the war.

NEW: Israel has concluded in #Iran war
• Regime change not an option
• Protests didn’t mobilize
• Kurdish option is no more
Result: Escalation of strikes as Trump looks for “elegant exit” and wait for next round www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...

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Cactus League report: Rosters are shaping up for the Cubs and Sox — and the World Baseball Classic heats up The Cubs and White Sox are starting to make cuts in spring training camp, whittling down roster sizes before opening day on March 26.

Cactus League report: Rosters are shaping up for the Cubs and Sox — and the World Baseball Classic heats up

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The average
shadow weighs
1.3 pounds.

I'm having trouble figuring out how to weigh mine.

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