Mark Rankin
Mark Rankin
@sugarbuzz.bsky.social
Small town Southern Minnesotan probably bemoaning the state of politics and the state of Minnesotan sports teams
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Im a Twins fan. They famously traded away half the roster last season and than when made deadline deals this season completely collapsed. Feeling shame requires me to be above being indifferent about them at this point
every fan of an AL team should be experiencing secondhand shame that this is the best team their league produced. you should all feel like Lord Toranaga when Tadayoshi spoke out of turn at the Council of Regents
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The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.
Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
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Reupping this thread because I'm not sure who convinced a bunch of Democrats that the way out of authoritarianism is to concede on EQUAL RIGHTS, but I can *promise* that it won't work. It never has.
If folks in the Democratic party cannot find it within themselves to be absolute staunch supporters of trans people's rights because trans people are people who have inherent worth, then they should at least do it because if we give up on trans people, then we're literally giving up on democracy.
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Nick Punto 2B-3B-SS Debut: 2001 - Retired: 2014 STL - PHI - MIN - BOS - OAK - LAD
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The same guy who endorsed tafoya in the strib today wrote that "70 percent of the teams in the NBA could fold tomorrow and nobody would notice a difference with the possible exception of increase in street crime." He's considered a moderate.
Not an exact parallel but shades of the fall of the Soviet Union and how they were forced to withdraw out of Eastern Europe because of mounting internal problems
I’d say Trump isn’t as good at influencing foreign elections as Putin, but I dunno, the Serbia results are a huge defeat for Putin. He’s lost both Orban & Vucic in a year.
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Sign+share! Union proposals our newspaper's parent company has rejected: Content under a reporter’s name must be their work, not AI; AI content must be reviewed by a human journalist and LABELED as AI; AI may not be used to generate deepfakes; Pioneer Press may not lay us off and replace us w/AI
Stop the bots! The Pioneer Press union is fighting for AI protections in our contract. If you don't want a bot clone of your favorite reporter writing stories under their byline, tell our bosses to keep our coverage human: act.aflcio.org/letters/tell...
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Yes you are allowed to care about Brazilian elections. But the fact that US politics have become an MMORPG for right wing Twitter users is actually a negative development. And aren't you, an American, tired of hearing from Canadian Bluesky users about how we're on the verge of dictatorship?
I think this becomes quite understandable in the context of an international fascist movement that has swept much of the planet in a decade, with horrifying and very extreme consequences for the entire species
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