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From Bay-Waveland, MS, to Gainesville, FL, lived south of I-10 except for college (USM) my whole life. Tampa Bay Rays, New Orleans Saints, Florida Gators. Books, movies, TV, Pixies (family tree), Bob. Committed pluralist. You should be, too.
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What cannot be lost in the Minnesota assassinations is that at the first home attacked, the father/state senator blocked entry into his home and was shot multiple times. Then his wife, shielding their TWELVE YEAR OLD DAUGHTER, was also shot. The child called 911. Think on that.

Empathy that is not presented in a religious context is often called socialism by the religious.

Baseball is so wild. The Rays have gone from unwatchable to must see in six weeks.

One Lowe makes an insane defensive play to end the top half, the other Lowe knocks it out of the park a moment later.

Swept #RaysUp

“What the f*** happened to you, man? Your ass used to be beautiful.”

FLORIDA turned out. I found Bluesky posts from 74 different #NoKings protests in Florida today! I’m sure I missed some! We are many, they are few. Testing Bluesky’s threading capacity: one post per city/town/metro area, listed roughly in order of population size. Long 🧵

A song famously written in response to an incident the sisters had with a creepy perv. Perfect choice!

Vacationing this weekend in Jekyll Island, GA. There was a #NoKings march in nearby Brunswick in very red Glynn County. Good showing.

No kings. No aristocracy. No gestapo. Fight tyrants. Tax the wealthy. Hold law enforcement accountable. Act like fucking Americans.

So much for Trump’s famous “This wouldn’t have happened if I were in the White House.”

When someone you know starts saying things like "immigrants do work no one else will" please please please finish the sentence for them: "for minimum wage." The fact is that migrant labor lowers prices. That may be desirable, it may not be desirable, but it's a fact that gets lost in the discussion.

Robert E. Lee and his men killed over 110,000 US Army soldiers. Here's why that same Army must rename its military bases after him. by Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth

MAGA are posting a speech with Obama saying, "if you're a criminal, you'll be deported" and saying Trump's doing the same thing. The level of denial and delision truly is remarkable. Same thing!

Just saw a picture of William Holden smiling and had to do a triple take.

It seems like right wingers think every single protestor is an undocumented migrant.

Not enough people realize that ICE was formed in the reactionary wake of 9/11.

Trump’s absolute incompetence is on full display.

Gavin Newsom finally realizing that opposing Trump is good politically for someone in the Democratic Party

“This could poll well with midterm swing voters in Ohio” I remark sagely as I watch a fourth grader get bundled into an unmarked van at recess by armed and masked agents of the state.

Give Trump this: his voters are learning basic American concepts like due process, habeas corpus, and posse comitatus. They ignore all of them, but it's a start!

Tyrant enrages parts of population > sends in troops > manipulates base > base applauds > population fights back > more military > police state. We really are going to go through the entire fascist kabuki, aren't we?

I think the whole peaceful protest versus active resistance reveals a lot about the commenter’s view of American history, particularly the Cold War era versus all the rest of it.

Welcome to the Majors, Roman Anthony. Oof! #Rays

One of the biggest drivers in American culture right now and for the last 25 years is the notion that you should never have to expect consequences for being an asshole

Today's #Wordle is an excellent object lesson in incentives. What has motivated me for a while now is to have more guess in 3 than 4. I got it in 2 today. Might as well have been a 5 or 6 for what I'm trying to accomplish. I'm not happy. I should be! Be careful how you set your goals!

If you can't tell the difference between LA and Jan 6, please do America a favor and stop voting. We'll take it from here.

It would be far too on the nose for CNN to have to pre-empt “Good Night and Good Luck” to show breaking news coverage out of Los Angeles.

You are here.

They got what they wanted.

The bottom part of the #Rays lineup has been comically good today.

Trump is going to declare martial law and rather than fighting him, all the gun nuts who for years rallied against tyranny are going to support him. #LA

This story coming out about the LA elementary school is blood-boiling. Own this MAGA. Own that you were so gullible and dumb that you thought Trump and Stephen Miller were only going to target criminals.

At first I mistook her for Karoline Leavitt, which would have been terrible enough but predictable. Every so often we need to remind ourselves that our Attorney Fucking General is saying things like this.

“Raises questions”

War is peace! Freedom is slavery! Ignorance is strength

“Powerful individuals and the status quo, the greatest love story of this, or any other, time.” - John Green