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Correction - agree on Spiller wasting union $, but I voted for Baraka, not Fulop.
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Same - if he weren't spending so much union $ on the campaign I might have considered him! But he's been flooding us with mailers paid for by NJEA. Very not cool.
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I've heard Tom Malinowski would run for Sherill's seat if she's the nominee. I was his constituent in NJ-07 and wish I could vote for him again. He likely would hold NJ-11.
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Gottheimer helped scuttle Build Back Better in a revolt against Pelosi.
Any of these 4 would be better than the GOP nominee, but I'd prefer Ras Baraka or Mikie Sherrill. And I voted early yesterday!
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Didn't like Fulop taking a shot at Murphy but not Trump before a recent debate, but I'd still rank him 3rd, ahead of Sweeney, Spiller, and Gottheimer.
Sweeney made a deal with Christie cutting public employee pensions.
Spiller is using NJEA funds as de facto campaign $ bombarding teachers with ads.
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It's a sign that perhaps I'm more of a politics nerd than a baseball nerd that I only recognized the congressman!
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How about Geoffreys?
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Aren't you a little old to be watching cartoons?
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The headline is accurate: many Trump voters did not vote for this. This post makes the stronger claim that *most* Trump voters did not, which may not be true if you equate support for Trump's policy as voting for this. Few Harris voters are likely in the 38%, so it's likely >50% of Trump voters are.
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I'm closer to this camp. I don't hate him, but think he lacks self awareness. He wrote a book titled The Road to Character, and then divorced his wife of 25+ years to marry the far younger research assistant for that book.
So it's hard to take his moralizing seriously.
Maybe he's right here!
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He's put his music into public domain, which is awesome!
tomlehrersongs.com/disclaimer/
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Shout out to tent camping! Great way to experience National Parks. We did annual summer trips when our kids were younger!
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Why yes, yes it is!
foot.yalecollege.yale.edu
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Is FOOT still a thing? Freshman Outdoor Orientation Trip. Many first year students would go camping for a few days to meet other frosh before the start of school. My spouse did that!
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I was on a Yale Glee Club tour where we went to, and performed at, Disney World!
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You don't even need to be left of center!
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She sure seems smart enough to know better, and strategic enough to try to appeal to Trump. Contrast her current appearance with her when she first entrred Congress.
I think she's made herself over to look like Melania Trump, and it's been quite effective.
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Her appearance has changed quite a bit!
Contrast this from when she was in Congress in 2011:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kr...
with this, her 2025 official portrait:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Of...
I find it striking how much more she resembles Melania Trump now.
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She did campaign in Michigan.
Arguably not enough, but that's easier to say with hindsight.
eu.freep.com/story/news/p...
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I was stealing the line from Phineas and Ferb, which I used to watch with my kids. You might actually be too old for that reference!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=fgmF...
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Aren't you a little young to be saying "back im my day..."?
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My old phone would autocorrect Alito to Halitosis.
Made me wonder what AI knows that I don't!
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Four Seasons Total Landscaping?
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Hmmmm.... without much thought I'd say:
Henry Aaron
Pedro Martínez
Willie Mays
Jackie Robinson
Babe Ruth
Since he's still active, I don't need to make room for Shohei Ohtani yet.
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I just hope that the HOF process (he apparently can now get on a veterans' committee ballot) takes at least as strong a stand against betting on baseball as the writers have against known steroid/HGH users. Because the betting is worse.
But in a small committee, who knows how this might play out.
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As a blue state baseball fan, I saw them often on out of market broacasts and was repulsed by them. But I think they work as a dog whistle. Even if you don't care about trans rights either way, contrasting They Harris with You Trump tugs at identity without saying don't vote for the black woman.
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Like Fred's boy!
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Worth remembering that Ed Whelan used Zillow to falsely accuse someone other than Brett Kavanaugh of attempting to rape Christine Blasey-Ford.
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Ain't technology great?
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Leo is the first Peruvian Pope. Maybe you just need to be naturalized somewhere else!
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Two good things. Operation Warp Speed was a success, albeit one he disowned for political reasons and is now determined never to repeat.
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Also the "right" never did, nor could, exist: if your opinion is that I should be shamed or shunned for my statements, you *can't* say that. If I'm sufficiently important. The underlying presumption is free speech exists for us, but not those who might criticize us harshly.
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Perhaps that's because clerical celibacy is not also protestant doctrine, but symbolic ritual cannibalism is. But I agree it's weird either way!
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Another South American pope!
bsky.app/profile/hunt...
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Thank you for confirming! I saw Wikipedia say he was naturalized in ~2015. So does that mean he's no longer a U.S. citizen?
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Wikipedia says he's a naturalized Peruvian citizen. So born in the U.S., but maybe no longer USian?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Le...
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Bring it, Ken! He looks like Sam Buttrey from Jeopardy!
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Not regretting a block seems almost predetermined, as you'd be less likely to hear more valuable discourse from those you block, and thus have less chance to regret one.
But each user has a right to block whomever they want, fot reasons that make sense to them.
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She's no Edith Wilson, but allegedly the First Lady is rarely at the White House.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Not just conservative students! The NYT ran an editorial 3 years ago saying you had a right to express your opinion "without fear of being shamed or shunned". How that applies when my opinion is you should be shamed is a conundrum!
www.popehat.com/p/our-fundam...
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If the beverages contain alcohol, your guests may get Punch drunk.
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No worries. I was also going off memory, that the Book was maybe mid-late 00s, and OPS hadn't made TV broadcasts yet. My abomination quip was intended as both literally accurate and provcative.
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Thanks for the correction!
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IIRC, wOBA was introduced in The Book, which predated wide use of OPS.
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OPS is an abomination of arithmetic that becomes redundant when you're showing O and S.
And wOBA is awesome!
(Yes, I know I'm not a typical fan)
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Didn't Cooper publicly say he didn't want it? IIRC he didn't want to resign and make Mark Robinson governor.
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Funny but true fact: the one time I saw Rush, it was because my wife wanted to go. She went with me to the Metropolitan Opera, so I owed her one.