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Passion for pitching forever without injury, while with great skill and stamina. Oh, and I want to save the world, too. AKA Rob MacKnight

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Terrorism versus war:

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

More of CNN's false equivalence language. Ukraine is not targeting St. Petersburg, but striking military installations, Russian warships, and oil refineries. It's the Russian terror state that strikes cities and targets civilians. https://t.co/Cy7DgqtkuT

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Putin’s pals best stay clear of windows:

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

I’m shocked. Shocked, I tell you,

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@DanClarkSports Of course…and anyone with any baseball sense knew that when the Padres stupidly extended him a DECADE after his first 5 years here.

Dumb!

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How come these fanatics don’t follow our Constitution?

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: The Secretary of Homeland Security just admitted, on camera, that he is going to violate your First Amendment right to free speech.

He said, “I have ZERO tolerance. If you verbally assault our officers… we will find you, we will arrest you.”

Except… that’s not how the First Amendment works.

Unless someone is making a credible threat of violence, speech… even rude, angry, or insulting speech… is still protected.

That’s the whole point of a free speech clause… to protect the people from situations where those in power don’t like what’s being said.

So, when a top federal official starts framing “verbal assault” as something you can be arrested for, without clearly defining it as an actual threat…

It stops sounding like protecting officers, and starts sounding like a government trying to silence people who speak out against it.

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@MrPlowSD I like to remind fans that Mike Schmidt hit .196 as a Rookie, w/136 K’s.
The Phillies believed in the kid, let him take his lumps and learn, and he ended up batting .267 with 548 HR’s a .380 OBP, and a spot in the Hall of Fame.
The Padres are dead last in Runs and Batting Ave.

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The Trump Touch:

[Greta Berlin @Truegreta]

I stood at this pool, at both monuments and saw both reflections…
He’s a God damn idiot, as are the fools that support him. The “Reflection Pool” wasn’t designed by American architect Henry Bacon a hundred years ago to look like a swimming pool. It’s designed to have a darkened characteristics that has reflective qualities to reflect the monuments.
That way, the Washington Monument is reflective to you when at the Lincoln Memorial, and when at the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial is reflective to you.
It’s designed to enhance the grandeur of monuments, create an illusion of reflection, and inclusion of expansive space of unity.
He’s a tacky vulgar person that vulgarizes everything he touches. America isn’t becoming great, it’s becoming vulgar.

Credit - Mathew Reed

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @NAFOvoyager]

This is not World War II footage.

This is Toretsk, Ukraine — and it’s not as far away as you think.

A city that once had over 30,000 residents. Now almost completely erased.

There is no excuse for this. None.

[Devana 🇺🇦 @DevanaUkraine]

🚀 The Russians struck the warehouses of the "ATB" grocery supermarket chain and the private postal company "Nova Poshta" in the city of Dnipro, simultaneously damaging a kindergarten and residential buildings, and wounding people.

📦 Explain to me, what is the point of destroying food, products, and Ukrainians' orders from online stores? It seems to me that this is Russia's despair. They realized that they will succeed in nothing by military means, so they destroy everything they can. In fact, a nuclear strike is not far off from here, because with such attacks, Russia has admitted that it has lost the war but cannot exit it...

The cruelest trick of a failing empire is to turn the war against the infrastructure of daily life, hoping that hunger and cold will accomplish what its soldiers could not.  As Niccolò Machiavelli warned, an adversary who realizes they cannot win, yet possesses the means for total destruction, becomes entirely unpredictable. When a regime ties its domestic survival to an unachievable foreign conquest, admitting defeat is synonymous with regime collapse. Therefore, the systematic destruction of civilian life becomes a substitute for victory—a grim signal that if the empire cannot possess the land, it will leave behind nothing but ashes.  This methodology heavily mirrors the German Baedeker Blitz of 1942, where the Luftwaffe intentionally targeted non-military, culturally significant, and commercial towns in Britain rather than industrial centers. Having lost the Battle of Britain and facing a prolonged war of attrition, the Nazi regime sought to punish the British population directly to shatter their morale. Just as in modern Ukraine, the strategy failed catastrophicaly. Instead of breaking the public will, the destruction of civilian spaces erased any remaining desire for compromise, hardening national resolve into an absolute commitment to the total destruction of the invading regime.

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

In the Donetsk region, the Russians are quite simply burning everything alive.

Footage of burning phosphorus rain over Kostyantynivka.

White phosphorus ignites spontaneously and burns at temperatures exceeding 800°C. If it comes into contact with a human being, it causes deep chemical and thermal burns. Phosphorus is nearly impossible to extinguish with ordinary water; its combustion is accompanied by the release of dense, toxic smoke that instantly sears the respiratory tract. Moreover, the resulting widespread fires and the long-lasting chemical contamination of the soil make this weapon a devastating threat to all living beings in the vicinity of the impact site.

Russia is cancer.

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[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Rubio once again complains US-led negotiations between Ukraine and Russia were "unfruitful":

"We invested tremendous amount of high-level time in that conflict over last year. Neither side is prepared to make concessions necessary to reach agreement."

Once again, it is necessary to point out the obvious: when you have a nation trying to murder its neighbors to steal their land, and people just trying to survive, there is no middle ground.

Ukrainians, as the victims of this unprovoked attack, cannot just agree to die under Russian occupation, rot in FSB torture chambers, and be thrown into unmarked mass graves to never be found.

We simply want to live. There is zero room for concessions. As for Russia, they can be forced to stop killing us.

You could bring them to that breaking point much faster than we can do without you, if you finally stopped this disgusting bothsidesism, stopped endless sanctions waivers, seized their shadow fleet, and armed Ukraine to the teeth.

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@FPWellman @Karen_Russell Are you challenging the logic of The Great and Powerful Oz?

[🪽Aurora🪽#NAFO #smokefleet @Darla7angel7]

@BohuslavskaKate WTAF
Where are the world leaders condemning this FFS 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

[Diggerjb @diggerjb]

@BohuslavskaKate @penpusherMakar Whilst EU and NATO leaders sit there and watch saying we stand strong with Ukraine
🤬🤬🤬🤬 weak pathetic leaders that deserve to not be in their position

[Elizabeth Quinn-nolistsplease @julepandme]

@BohuslavskaKate Fucking terrorists. It's shameful Russians are allowed in any civilized country. The entire nation should be treated on par with groups like ISIS, as the pariah they are.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Devastating footage of rain of burning phosphorus falling over Kostiantynivka.

​Russians are scorching the earth, wiping out every living thing in the Donetsk region.

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @NAFOvoyager]

💔 Dnipro. This 3-year-old boy was just asleep in his own bed.

We don’t hate russia enough.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Toretsk. Another town in Ukraine that Russia has turned to ash and ruins.

​Russians who claimed to have come to "liberate" Donbas are only liberating it from life itself.

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Scott Pelley issues new statement after being fired by CBS for opposing their pro-MAGA bias:

“New management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them.

Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done.

Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.”

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@LoneStarChica Twisted dude

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@LFGPads19 Can you imagine how much more of this we’ll see with two new expansion teams?