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That's the fun part, so far he hasn't had to - aside from taking down a couple of helicopters early on, no-one in the Russian Army seems to care to fight with him. Putin is finding out there is a down side to beating your nation into passiivity. He produced a nation where no-one cared to oppose him, in the same nation no-one will care to save him. Putin is apparently now waiting for Kadyrov to save his butt. Yup. Creating free lance armies is pretty much State Suicide 101. Or, as Gandalf would say: "A Treacherous Weapon is ever a danger to the hand."

Things getting progressively murkier. Reports that Wagner HQ in multiple places have been 'raided' by interior police. Meanwhile Prigozhin is in Rostov making nice with generals that were calling for him to stand down a few hours ago.

yeah - but he has to get control of it first.

Need some hitters.

Another report, another conclusion. https://www.reuters.com/world/no-direct-evidence-covid-19-pandemic-started-wuhan-lab-us-intelligence-report-2023-06-24/

Torkelson gets an asterisk on that K.

well at least Stewart is out of the game.

I'd say for starters he has to secure a fuel supply somewhere or he's not going to get far.

arming independent militias is a suicidal course for any government, even a dictatorship. Putin set Wagner to get chewed up at Bakhmut and now he's done with them and wants them to go away, but it's never to easy to tell thousands of armed men what to do.

1st inning triple extends Parker Meadows' hitting streak to 13 games.

wild Of course it could all just be some Kabuki on Putin's part but here's hoping it all goes South for him no matter how it starts.

What can you do? He should be in Toledo developing his command/consistency.

Well of course it does.

Good luck. I don't see anyone taking the nomination from Trump other than the possbility of the Federal corrections department refusing him furloughs to campaign - and a lot of things have to break right to get there.

well, that means it's a pretty sure bet the strikes did happen.

It wouldn't be half so bad if he were even a competent Judge, but he's an idiot. Invoking the 13th century in Dobbs - then yesterday he was the *sole* dissenter in the courts rebuff of a couple of states trying to control how the Federal gov runs immigration. You can have all the complaints you want about US immigration policy from admin to admin, but the idea that a State has any standing force the Federal government's hand on policy is legal drivel. Even Normally-I'm-a-mile-off-the-reservation-Thomas couldn't see his way to disagree with the majority on that one.

sadly I think there is zero probability of this. It's the crazies that tend to be the most monomaniacally committed. They will all stay with Trump while more secondary voices peel off slices of the remainder who are looking for less crazy voices. The thing is each voice will appeal to some of the sane because of the natural breadth of concerns of more normal people. Thus the sane vote divides and the crazy vote congeals -- to Trump. You can book it.

Pittsburgh is a traditional salary bottom feeder so there's some conventional wisdom that they would rather underslot the HS player. Ownership did spend a bunch of money on Bryan Reynolds, maybe they've changed their tack.

yeah - for whatever reason the cop probably just didn't want to deal with it. IIRC, a proper Miranda warning (at least in MI) ends by asking the suspect if he understands his rights. If he assents I would assume the police are then off the hook if he starts talking. If the suspect doesn't reply to the Miranda that he understands but then starts talking what is the situation? Is that where you tell him to shut up as you may not be able to use what he says anyway?

Big boost from the defense too - errors by Cruz and Workman opened the door to the big inning. 5 of the 6 runs unearned.

To get to Detroit? No doubt!

5 people dead because ---- apparently because of a loophole in the law. Almost any kind of vehicle used to carry paying passengers operates under some kind of certification process: Buses, trains, boats, airplanes. But apparenty not submarines. Of course the owners of Titan wouldn't want to have to 'certify' it because that almost certainly would have required pressure testing the hull - probably to 150% of it's intended use pressure, and that would have been an expensive proposition - which by the way would also have certainly revealed the weakness in the design. Hard to understand why they choose carbon fiber composite for the design of something that was going to be used in compression in the first place- maerketing? Fad engineering? Maybe to save cost handling it at the surface - (smaller cranes required etc). Carbon fiber provides no engineering advantage over steel once the vessel is in the water.

Hard to say. It could also been that for the sake of his own sanity he didn't want to hear Doerman say anything that might have led him to leave another body at the scene.

Keith made it 3/5 2B in what will likely be his last AB. Navigato 2/4 2B, HR, BB at Toledo: Parker Meadows 2/4, SacFly

Another ho-hum night for C. Keith, H 2B in his first 3 AB. Manning one hit and 6K in 4 IP. Unfortunately also 5BB!