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Baseball and politics. I value sincerity and humility; I reject duplicity and egotism.

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Walk toward the fire

[Conversations with Coleman @ConvoswColeman]

.@coldxman: “There’s only one religion in the world where, if I slandered its deepest sacred principles right now on this podcast, my whole life would change and I would have to hire security.”

Watch the full episode with @Coldxman and @PeterBeinart now: https://t.co/g2WVscTlXC

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@washghost1 @PathToManliness It’s not like they’re working anyways!

[Washingtons ghost @washghost1]

Can we make Europeans coming here a yearly thing? Like for a month out of the summer they just come here and go on adventures

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Sentence probably needs another a few dozen words to preclude morbidly obese cashiers et al., but you get the idea

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Unions should be a privilege exclusively held by people who perspire on the job.

[Lee Kuan Yimby @LeeKuanYimby]

Union Worker 1931 building the empire state building.
Union Worker 2026 art assistant running for Congress.

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Things that a 10 year old would never possibly have heard about much less support if not for his parents:

- Metallica
- Motörhead
- radical leftism

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

Child activists at Elon Musk's Los Angeles diner,

What are leftists doing to their children?

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My enduring memories of leftist punk rockers like Tom Morello and Serj Tankian are the the 30-second ad spots paid by Sony and Columbia that would run on primetime MTV telling everyone to go to Best Buy to purchase the number one selling album in the nation.

Soooooo punk rock.

[Antifa_Ultras @ultras_antifaa]

RATM guitarist Tom Morello's message at Download Festival this weekend.

[Batfox Pictures @Batfox_Pictures]

Written after Neil Young purchased a ranch in Northern California, "Old Man" was inspired by a conversation with the property's elderly caretaker. Included on Harvest, the song paired Young's acoustic storytelling with one of the most personal and enduring recordings of his career.

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@CaudilloXIV

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The Blackshirts would be shaking in their boots

[Western Lensman @WesternLensman]

Libs are counter-programming the UFC event at the White House. With this.

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Good. The proposed terms are total bs.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨 BREAKING:

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇱🇧 Trump demanded Netanyahu stop the fighting in Lebanon and start withdrawing Israeli troops.

Netanyahu rejected both requests.

Source: Ynet / Writer: Samuel

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The more of these 1st Amendment protestor videos I see, the more open I become to rewriting the 1st Amendment to make public filming without permission illegal. These people are universally jackasses.

[Chaos TV @ChaosTV]

Karens and Security Guard Push for Arrest Over Filming in Public

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I absolutely love that the NBA’s next great star plays this way. Wemby is a throwback to the 90s era. Every star for the past 15 years has been opposed to conflict and eager to befriend opponents. Wemby wants to kill his enemies. So did KG, Jordan, Bird—take your pick of the retired Hall of Famers.

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@Keir_Starmer @10DowningStreet No one cares what you have to say. Absolutely no one.

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@CaitlinPacific What about The Beatles?

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@MelaninDominant The critical commenters need to get over their autism and appreciate what a valid, intellectually coherent, and frankly healthy perspective MJW puts forward here.

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I agree with every word of this. Two addenda:

1) To help ameliorate the impact of banning stock trading, congressional salaries should increase from $174k to $750k—and Members’ Representational Allowance (MRA) should be slashed by $575k (from $2mm) to cover the difference.

2) In addition to elected politicians, rule should also apply to federal appointees, congressional staff, and other government employees or contractors who have any level of security clearance. No wage increases to offset earnings impact.

[david friedberg @friedberg]

never thought i’d say this… i wholeheartedly agree with elizabeth warren.

also, term limits.

being an elected representative should not be a career. there should be no path for wealth creation or perpetual income from representing the interests of the people, in service of the people.

private citizens should enter public service, leave, and return to private life, as the founders intended.

“politician” has become a lucrative career option for those skilled at public oration and persuasion.

while they may represent their constituents’ interests, the reelection mandate incentivizes short-term decision-making and voting, often counter to the long-term interests of the people.

and having unfettered private market access while holding the privileged position of influence over, and non-public knowledge of, those markets will inevitably incentivize bad behavior, to the politician’s benefit, and the public’s detriment.

these ideals may be too far-fetched for our modern political machinery to consider - they would be self-defeating of the machines themselves - but the citizens can still be deafeningly loud in demanding them.

thx senator warren for getting this half-right.. also, term limits.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

Rainn Wilson says "The Office" probably wouldn’t be made today, telling Fox News Digital that media trends have shifted left and that cancel culture makes it difficult for edgy comedies to thrive.

[Tim Doolan @tdools]

New York: destroying their city

Boston: partying with Scotland

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Courage

[Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 @JasonJournoDC]

💥NEW: @DavidSacks: “Do not deny the evidence of your eyes and ears — even if they call you an election denier. I personally don’t care. I deny it.”

“Spencer Pratt should be in the runoff. I deny that Raman won legitimately.”