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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Fox crew just mentioned about the Tigers trading Smoltz and that was in 1987 for Detroit to get Doyle Alexander whom the Twins beat twice in the ALCS

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

lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com

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

Since Feel It Still by Portugal The Man is being used on roughly half the non-political commercials I was looking at other pop rock songs of 2017 and there's Imagine Dragons and that Chainsmokers/Coldplay song and 21 Pilots and yeesh that's just bleak so kudos to using the catchy song

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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.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

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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The Timberwolves approach of really liking one another, not caring whose usage is high, sharing the ball until the defense is shifted there's a mismatch to attack has been just a delight to watch. This is the beautiful game

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Melo steals a James Harden pass, has some trouble coming up with it but delivers a behind the back pass to Jaden McDaniels for the slam

Shocked that someone who spread false rumors of a woman is this thin skinned

RedditCFB@redditcfb.com

The wildest part about Pat McAfee's weird comment about the University of Utah is the video that provoked it... *this* is the video that broke him:

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This whole Atlanta stadium debacle is just Kathy Engelbert reminding us one last time how she's the worst commissioner in professional sports history. Gotta hand it to her.

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I would take a thousand replies disagreeing with me over one trying to tell me how or what I should post.

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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.

Erin Maye Quade@erinmayequade.bsky.social

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.

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

Dana Houle@danahoule.bsky.social

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?

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social

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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My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.