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absolutely repulsive.

members of the White House Faith Outreach team had a public prayer session today, when some members began speaking in tongues. It's a cult.

Fox New Alert: Rubio begs China to not let Iran close the Straight of Hormuz, showing just how little the world respects Obama.

If Iranian agents attack America, it will be all Biden's fault, unless they attack California, in which case it will be Newsome's fault, or attack Chicago, in which case it will be Obama's fault

I blame Siakam

Athletic gave Suns a D for trade, saying it was not enough for KD

tom nichols in the atlantic And this is where the American strikes were really a gamble: They were undertaken by a White House national-security team staffed by unqualified appointees, some of whom—including the director of national intelligence and the secretary of defense himself—Trump has reportedly frozen out of his inner circle. (Given that those positions are held by Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Hegseth, respectively, it is both terrifying and a relief to know that their influence may be limited.) The American defense and intelligence communities are excellent, but they can function for only so long without competent leadership. ... But perhaps the biggest and most unpredictable gamble Trump took in bombing Iran was sending American forces into harm’s way in the Middle East with a team that was never supposed to be in charge of an actual war.

i just punched you in the face; now is the time for peace!

Trump repeats the "Iran is 2 weeks away from building a nuclear bomb" line also Trump, I am giving myself 2 weeks to decide what to do in hopes it just resolves itself while I golf because he is held to no standard, and because Americans for the most part lack any critical thinking skills, he gets away with this stupidity again and again

from that well-known liberal rag the WSJ: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Poised for More Power Ousting or killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei could lead to more radical, anti-Israeli Iran “The balance of power within Iran in the aftermath of this will shift in the direction of the military, in the direction of the Guard,” said Ray Takeyh, an Iran expert and senior fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations. “Those in charge will be the men with guns. And they will try to bring back some sort of clerical leadership because, after all, this is an Islamic Republic.”

Tucker Carlson humiliated Ted Cruz, something that Ted usually pays people to do but Tucker did it for free. The similarities between Iraq and Iran are striking. Neocons say we have to drop bombs to protect Israel, just like we had to remove Saddam (in part) to protect Israel. Iran is about to have WMDs that threaten Americans, just like Saddam had WMDs. If we drop bombs on Iran, it will spur regime change, just like Bush 1 encouraged an Iraqi uprising against Saddam and when the Kurds and others followed through, Saddam gassed them to death and we did nothing. Also, there is no guarantee that regime change will happen; or that the next person will not be more insane. Considering the current government of Iran was installed after a popular uprising, unlikely that having the US turn parts of Iran into a nuclear wasteland for all eternity will inspire Iranians to do what the US wants. There will never be US boots on the ground in Iran as that alone would coalesce all Iranians against the US, and Trump has no stomach for it (thankfully). So any "war" would be us bombing lots of Iranians from 30,000 feet. Any extended bombings would kill another 100,000+ civilians but no one cares about that. I wish there would have been some way to have a diplomatic solution where Iran would agree to forego nuclear weapons in exchange for something else.

article about Tigers and their affiliates mostly all in 1st place. https://www.mlb.com/milb/news/tigers-farm-system-nearing-playoff-success-at-multiple-levels?t=mlb-pipeline-coverage

neither of the people I voted for in the VA dem primary won, and i don't care. Spanberger will win in a blowout and hopefully carry any other 2 dems across the finish line.

Idiot

espn 24. Detroit Tigers Andrew Fischer, 3B, Tennessee Top 150 rank: 53 2025 MLB draft: Mock drafts and rankings Fischer is rising due to his strong performance in the SEC this year, and while he's likely still behind Irish, he might be sneaking up on Laviolette with a chance to go in the top 20 picks. I think Detroit is looking to pair a college player with a high school player between this pick and its next (34) and will be looking mostly at left-handed hitters. As you can guess, that means a lot of different players have been tied to these two picks. Slater de Brun, Cam Cannarella, Fauske and Kayson Cunningham come up the most. 34. Detroit Tigers: Aaron Watson, RHP, Trinity Christian HS (Florida)

i suspect that Miller's threat to send the ICE division leaders with the fewest scalps to Dachau to join the other undesirables is motivating these people to just follow orders to keep their jobs

Carlson is not a good faith actor, but I would fallen out of my chair if he asked "Do you think American troops are going to be welcomed as liberators?"

hopefully the Tigers know what they really have in Cris. i would do Hamm and Jung and more for Bednar; you get him for 1.5 years.

10 game lead in mid June. unbelievable.

Biden had the political capital to either restore economy and bring the US back to full employment ASAP, with significant risk of inflation, or push through legislation and reform to protect democracy. He choose the economy and it was more successful than just about anyone could have imagined. One of the most consequential one term presidencies ever. Perfectly rational to think that if he modeled normal behavior and a normal presidency that people would be reminded what a vile perversion of power Trump's presidency was. The problem is the American people are stupid.

the MAGA cult and all the grifters will fall in line and embrace war, as long as Trump is degrading and demeaning the Other, that will be enough to sustain their black hearts it is the Trump-curious people - who voted for him on a lark or because he was an "outsider" or because he was entertaining or because he is a super successful business man or because he was going to cut the price of everything all at once - that he will lose a lot of support from.

Also Comrade Tulsi just testified before Congress that Iran was neither close to making a nuclear bomb or pursuing that. And this:

Greene is the test case. This Winter they could lock him up, will cost well over 200M

pitchers are always going to get injured, but it "feels" like they have an above average number of pitching prospects hurt right now. i think all of Hall, Schiefelbein, Massey, Swanson are injured, so 4 of your top 5 2024 picks (by $) are out. P Wilson has been horrible and injured. Jake Miller was surging, but he is injured. Blake Dickerson, injured. Wilmer Flores has ben injured for 3 years. Dylan Smith finally got healthy an jumped all the way to Detroit. maybe Mattison does the same? Ty Madden could return this year.

it does