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Baseball, politics, and other D.C. sports. Very legal; not very cool. See also, @NTP_Nate@mastodon.social


NTP_Nate 2.0's avatar NTP_Nate 2.0 @ntpnate.bsky.social
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Now I’m imagining Paul Pasqualoni on the stand as a corroborating witness.

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I am reliably informed by the conservative intelligentsia that if in the course of an arrest for passing counterfeit currency a law enforcement officer was to kneel on Johnny’s neck until he expired no crime would have been committed. Just sayin’.

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis's avatar Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social
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Fuck Sen. Warner and the hobby horse he came in on.

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NTP_Nate 2.0's avatar NTP_Nate 2.0 @ntpnate.bsky.social
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Ok, but are we *sure* that’s a typo? Feels plausible.

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Don Zeko's avatar Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social
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Say what you will about the various Democratic party actors in the fight over whether Biden stays on the ticket, but I can understand all of their behavior much better than I can the journalists who are trying to write their way into the camps

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NTP_Nate 2.0's avatar NTP_Nate 2.0 @ntpnate.bsky.social
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Ah well, at least the Nats get a point for the overtime loss.

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NTP_Nate 2.0's avatar NTP_Nate 2.0 @ntpnate.bsky.social
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This is so much stupider than regular extra inning baseball.

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NTP_Nate 2.0's avatar NTP_Nate 2.0 @ntpnate.bsky.social
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More like Juan NOPEz, amirite?

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Luigi de Guzman's avatar Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social
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Never fucking bunt

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NTP_Nate 2.0's avatar NTP_Nate 2.0 @ntpnate.bsky.social
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Ah, but then they wouldn’t be Dave Martinez’s Nats! Real “Ship of Theseus” problem.

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NTP_Nate 2.0's avatar NTP_Nate 2.0 @ntpnate.bsky.social
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I suppose we’re just supposed to let women and children get hit by baseballs now?! (This is a joke I know the reverse angle clearly shows the ball is still in play.)

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NTP_Nate 2.0's avatar NTP_Nate 2.0 @ntpnate.bsky.social
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It’s a lot to go through for a guy you’re probably trying to trade in a month!

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NTP_Nate 2.0's avatar NTP_Nate 2.0 @ntpnate.bsky.social
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If you were really a psychic you’d know the answer.

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TW's avatar TW @twesq.bsky.social
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Oh yeah, these are going on the stop signs in the neighborhood

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Joe Katz's avatar Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social
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This is particularly important to understand because Trumpist authoritarianism is the descendent of Jim Crow far more than say Hitler or Pinochet or Orban, and it's going to look a lot more like 1930s Mississippi than 1930s Berlin.

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NTP_Nate 2.0's avatar NTP_Nate 2.0 @ntpnate.bsky.social
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Everyone says that the Congressional health care plan is top notch, so they probably get the best dumbass pills too.

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NTP_Nate 2.0's avatar NTP_Nate 2.0 @ntpnate.bsky.social
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Look what happened to Edwin Diaz. Big, showy entrance routine, then BOOM, he gets hurt, hasn’t been right since, and you’re doing a big flashy entrance for a setup guy with an ERA north of 4.

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NTP_Nate 2.0's avatar NTP_Nate 2.0 @ntpnate.bsky.social
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Of all the closers in baseball who have not earned a flashy signature entrance… Kyle Finnegan is one of them. (Also, I initially read this as “fashy” because that’s where my head’s at. How’s your Friday going?)

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NTP_Nate 2.0's avatar NTP_Nate 2.0 @ntpnate.bsky.social
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Just contacted my Senator, not that it will make a damn bit of difference. Would be so nice if there were at least one senior Democrat with the political instincts that god gave a goose.

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I just did! He’s been leaning toward the conservative side of the party for years, but this is ridiculous.

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NTP_Nate 2.0's avatar NTP_Nate 2.0 @ntpnate.bsky.social
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My sense is more that it’s “This historic Labour landslide that swept away the Conservative Party” is less of a societal sea change than is being conveyed by the top line reporting and people should not be complacent about the path forward, but YMMV. Not seeing anyone unhappy w/ the result.

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NTP_Nate 2.0's avatar NTP_Nate 2.0 @ntpnate.bsky.social
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But if we did that cops might be afraid to act at all. What if there was an active shooter situation at an elementary school, for exam… oh.

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NTP_Nate 2.0's avatar NTP_Nate 2.0 @ntpnate.bsky.social
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This is the “Checkmate, Libs” to end all Checkmates Libs.

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NTP_Nate 2.0's avatar NTP_Nate 2.0 @ntpnate.bsky.social
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This guy doesn’t vote and doesn’t think you should either.

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Taniel 's avatar Taniel @taniel.bsky.social
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Explosive reporting in Le Monde confirms what was apparent all week: Macron resisted the emergence of anti-far-right front after round 1. His PM, Attal, forced it as a fait accompli, & pressured for drop outs to block RN. Even then, Macron made some phone calls to undercut it.

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NTP_Nate 2.0's avatar NTP_Nate 2.0 @ntpnate.bsky.social
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Most of the hand-wringing I’ve seen relates to the fact that the Labour landslide actually netted fewer raw votes than Labour did in 2019, so their incentives are either a) continue to drive down participation rates; or b) get walloped in turn in 5 years when voting rates normalize.

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Parker Molloy's avatar Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com
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They're really proud of the quote, too.

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A.R. Moxon's avatar A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social
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There's another key attribute of hope that doesn't get mentioned much.

Hope fights.

Even when victory seems unlikely—especially then—hope fights.

We should be hopeful people.

Full essay: www.the-reframe.com/a-fools-hope/

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NTP_Nate 2.0's avatar NTP_Nate 2.0 @ntpnate.bsky.social
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The Venn diagram of people who don’t like the nanny state but expect other folks to clean up their messes is a circle.

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bobby (frociaggine) 's avatar bobby (frociaggine) @bobbylewis.bsky.social
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the “some folks just need killing” thing out of north carolina reminds me of a third thing these annoying people are right about: as long as the republican bloodlust grows and their power is unbroken, every election probably will be the most important one of your life

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The magnitude of improvement is impossible to measure. (Please don’t do Rees-Mogg in a towel though.)

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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we’re in danger

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NTP_Nate 2.0's avatar NTP_Nate 2.0 @ntpnate.bsky.social
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We’ll double the guard at Avignon just to be on the safe side.

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NTP_Nate 2.0's avatar NTP_Nate 2.0 @ntpnate.bsky.social
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Thank you, I’m sure I will find good use for these in the future.

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Comfortably Numb's avatar Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly
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This is a great way to remove paywall from almost any article. Just create the bookmarklet, and click it when reading a paywalled article.

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Richard Gaywood's avatar Richard Gaywood @penllawen.favrd.social
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You can also just put `cooked.wiki/` infront of the URL!

Almost all recipe sites publish the bare bones recipe in a machine-readable format for scrapers. That’s how Paprika etc get the data these days. Cooked.wiki is a web based & free variant.

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Dan O’Sullivan's avatar Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social
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There is a 7 foot tall guy behind Rishi Sunak who likely ran for office just to be able to hold a printed out L behind him during his concession speech.

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NTP_Nate 2.0's avatar NTP_Nate 2.0 @ntpnate.bsky.social
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Rod Dreher’s favorite Catholic cleric also winding up divorced is what we call a storybook ending.

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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You can use the Paprika app to grab NYT recipes from behind the firewall if you’re not logged in. Just saying.

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NTP_Nate 2.0's avatar NTP_Nate 2.0 @ntpnate.bsky.social
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There’s something defective there, no doubt.

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Bex's avatar Bex @bexcommunicated.bsky.social
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Ah fuck. Everyone who told me Chevron being overturned wouldn’t matter can kindly have a seat now. I don’t really consider myself an expert in much but considering I’ve been working in health regs for the past almost 8 years, I knew this was 100% coming. I just didn’t think it would be so fast 😭

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NTP_Nate 2.0's avatar NTP_Nate 2.0 @ntpnate.bsky.social
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Why do so many of the übermenschen look like denuded Q-tips?

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NTP_Nate 2.0's avatar NTP_Nate 2.0 @ntpnate.bsky.social
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Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

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NTP_Nate 2.0's avatar NTP_Nate 2.0 @ntpnate.bsky.social
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Honestly it’s like the highest compliment at this point (w/ apologies to Mr. Bouie).

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NTP_Nate 2.0's avatar NTP_Nate 2.0 @ntpnate.bsky.social
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NY Democrats make great Republicans, Exhibit ♾️

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I’m sorry, no one who cites backlash to “Trump Derangement Syndrome” as a basis for Supreme Court jurisprudence deserves a fair hearing about their pet legal theories.

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Tony's avatar Tony @drinksthethings.bsky.social
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you cant say the tories didnt have a consequential 14 years in power. they did more to britain than any other party in decades. used all that political capital up and moved way to the right. farage was there to take anyone who moved away because of the downturn.

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Neil S. Bulk's avatar Neil S. Bulk @nsbulk.bsky.social
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This Fourth of July I'm sharing with everyone this column from The Washington Post. Please share it with everyone you know.

wapo.st/45TULbz

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