jskrenes.bsky.social
Unapologetic liberal, dog dad, housing preservationist, practicing Christian, active community member, fan of the Milwaukee Bucks and St. Louis Cardinals, looking for friends at the end of the world.
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Yes because I hate the NFL too.
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I just visited the St. Louis Courthouse where the Dred and Harriet Scott and Virginia Minor cases originated. It served as a poignant reminder that the history of our SCOTUS is that they frequently rule unjustly and immorally to uphold discrimination and monied interests, until pressured otherwise.
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Ok, but what if there was a chance someone wasn't a citizen? Do we really want to live in a country where armed people CAN'T blow up people's houses just in case?
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Lots of potential, and I wish there was more of a "win now" option. But I don't think any #47 pick in this year's draft could have done that.
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"And although I do not support the current Republican leadership, I also do not support Democrats abusing power in this way, and the only way to keep that from happening is to continue to vote for Republicans, who I do not support."
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"Belle" changes the imagery entirely vs. "Bell" in this context though, so the analogy might be better if we were using Scattergories or at least Bananagrams as the game.
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It's rare in baseball, but the @durhambulls.bsky.social have a perfect game.
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Shaved by the Belle
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Maybe the next great comic book story...
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I mean the never-Trump GOP endorsements shouldn't be IGNORED. But Dems forgot that voters as a rule "come home or stay home" by the time the general election rolls around. Nothing wrong with padding some of those margins AS LONG AS YOU DON'T FORGET YOUR BASE which they did by muzzling Walz.
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And I'm not saying a centrist/Democratic Party economic platform is THE answer. But the alternative was worse and was known to be worse, and thermostatic voting helped put us where we are now. Bare minimum, Dems need to learn to keep people on board through multiple election cycles.
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I mean, this is the problem in a nutshell. GOP fuks things up. Dems get elected with the slimmest of majorities, if that, and still somehow manage to push the proverbial boulder uphill. But they don't get things far enough, so people vote for the ones who caused the problem in the first place.
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I don't disagree; but it does suck that the things I spoke of were objectively verifiable and the media chose to make it a horse race and ignore the true threat Trump poses.
I mean, this was not a surprise or anything new but it was distressing all the same. Also Dems need their own media ecosystem
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We need to pass the baton to the younger generation of party leaders. But we can't ignore the lack of information, the disinformation, and misinformation and even flat-out prejudice that contributed to Trump's victories.
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I'm glad he won and I'm hoping that this is the direction Democrats continue to go in. But this sentiment misses the point that Biden HAD an excellent economic track record that wasn't properly reported on by the media, and Harris had far and away the better economic policies vs. Trump.
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I never understood why that is the worst swear word. Fucking can be pretty great. But damning someone, that's always bad and depending on your beliefs, maybe forever.
Anyway, damn Donald Trump.
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Are the death threats coming from inside the house?
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And yet, for reasons no kid could understand, you could play as the best player in the game, Magic Johnson. But the second-best player, Michael Jordan, was only in a one-on-one game with Larry Bird.
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"Despite losing in the primary, Andrew Cuomo won't rule out running in the general election, proving to voters in a post 'me too' world that no doesn't always mean no."
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I still remember meeting him at one of his first campaign events, and being blown away at just how good he was even then at schmoozing. Which was exciting at the time because we had to get Hofstede out of office. His skill at that is as good as anyone. I just wish he was good at other things.
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I mean the Doritos thing, I get.
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Please describe your criteria for "real American."
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And since I live 2.5 hours from Minneapolis, 6 hrs from MKE, and 8 from Chicago, seeing ANY NBA game in person takes planning and $$. Leaving games unscheduled until the last minute makes it harder for me to attend. Lastly, I hate that my favorite team won something stupid and lost in the playoffs.
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All I wanted the NBA to do was to eliminate scheduled B2B games so that stars are more rested and there's a better chance I can see the best players go against each other every game. Instead they ADD meaningless games to the schedule.
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I don't remember the exact details either, but it WAS ridiculous. When 87 trades and signings happen within moments of the deadline being lifted, it's OBVIOUS those kinds of conversations were taking place across the league. If it's the rule, everyone should be punished for breaking it.
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Didn't the Bucks get penalized for maybe thinking they'd like to do a trade before July 6?
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One of the things that made Twitter great was the ability to interact with almost anyone, no matter how high-profile they are. (or the almost anyones who manage their social media accounts but I digress)
All the leftier-than-thou folks aren't going to attract those people without content like this.
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I think the key to raising any social media platform is content. In some ways, it almost doesn't matter what the content is. If there's enough of it and it's not toxic, it will attract people on almost the sheer gravity of interactions alone.
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On the plus side, he's moving through the phases of being mired in an unnecessary, endless Middle East conflict through mistakes entirely of our own making faster than any US administration in history.
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Is this like those documentaries I watched in the '80's where the little league team had to win the championship in order to save the orphanage?
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The Bucks now have the chance to pull off the funniest trade ever.
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If his goals involve a perpetual war that helps to keep him and his cronies in power for as long as he wants, then yes, he is very close.
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Oh god I hate the NBA Cup more than anything else in professional sports.
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I saw him in concert last year, and he's still got it. Slower than younger performers, obviously, but not coasting as a shadow of his former self.
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Please tell ESPN their CGI "replays" are the worst visual sports imagery since the fuzzy NHL puck tracker.
And I *liked* the fuzzy NHL puck tracker.
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SAS: "I'm not saying it's even remotely possible to play basketball on a ruptured Achilles..."
Skip: "Of course not."
SAS: "And I wouldn't call him soft for sitting out thr rest of the game and obviously want a quick recovery."
Skip: "Right."
SAS: "BUUUT..."
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This whole season feels defined by injuries. Heck, even Wemby going down kept us from seeing the Spurs in the playoffs and Pop having to retire - in a normal year those would be the biggest injury stories. I was hoping the playoffs would stand apart from that pattern.
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Everything is true there except the first five words.
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Yeah but this time it's knowingly.
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He will also repost that letter on various Senate Democrats social media accounts.
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I thought it was TWO flag poles.