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Crowdsourcing: I'm taking my parents to London in May. The in-city stuff is sorted, but looking for one day trip out of town. Difficulty: my parents' mobility is not HORRIBLE but is not ideal. Countryside/quaint town > big touristy things, so no Stonehenge/Windsor. I have ideas but thoughts welcome.

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In today's newsletter I talked about a very dumb CNBC article about salary caps and baseball labor. Get used to seeing a lot more of this kind of horseshit over the next year and a half. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

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Within less than 24 hours of each other. I wonder if they even realize these are connected.

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I just looked out my door and saw a woman helping another woman on with what looks like a bridal veil and thought to myself "somebody's gettin' married today" and now that "Muppets Take Manhattan" song is in my head and it's not getting out for 48 hours, I know it.

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Pulp did this yesterday. Someone needs to explain the Rule of Goats to these guys. bsky.app/profile/lord...

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I write about this article in my newsletter today, but dudes: imagine if Major League Baseball teams made a point to attract and keep young fans with low ticket prices rather than treating people as sentient ATMs and pricing out all but the rich. bsky.app/profile/dani...

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Domestic terrorism. bsky.app/profile/more...

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One byproduct of constantly ordering government attorneys to make illegal and unethical arguments is that you get fewer and/or dumber attorneys filing briefs, thereby undercutting the mission. Expect more and more of these kinds of smackdowns going forward. bsky.app/profile/lizd...

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imagine a world where the social media history of ice agents got the fine-toothed comb treatment that they are giving to chemistry phd candidates from abroad

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Even non-U.S. companies are appeasing Trump. Pathetic. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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I know whey they do it but I really hate this kind of scheduling. bsky.app/profile/matr...

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(Edited) Nick Castellanos became the 4th player to earn a platinum sombrero with 5 strikeouts in a game this season. We had 7 such instances in 2024, but the first one didn't happen until June 30th stathead.com/tiny/3jSlV

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I saw that ICE is trying to say the "illegal ideas" thing from that post meant "intellectual property," but sorry, when you're disappearing people because of things they've written, the ideologies they hold, or their choice of clothing or tattoos, you aren't beating the Thought Police charges.

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The Columbus Dispatch is a Gannett Newspaper which routinely claims to me and its readers that it's standing up for us and serving as a beacon in the dark and all of that. It was always horseshit, but now it's beyond comical. bsky.app/profile/phil...

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Today's newsletter: Uninformed salary cap talk, a big coffee drinker, making live sports more family-friendly, MAGA Maoism, MAGA Totalitarianism, MAGA Eugenics, access, stunt performers, and a new single from Pulp. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

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Again, OREN CASS IS NOT AN ECONOMIST. He has no training on the subject and espouses views that no credible economist holds. He's a hack. It is inappropriate to refer to him as an "economist" to give false balance. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/o...

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Ok

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This is a shallow observation, but seeing those pillows remind me how crazy it is to me that so many people worship such unpleasant-looking and sounding people. Substance aside, Trump and other MAGA people are just mean and unpleasant and terrible in primal ways. Like, literary-level ugliness.

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