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I also have a photo of my driver's license on my phone, saved in LastPass, but only the front. I need to get the back photocopied and saved as well. I also tried to replace the DL online but they couldn't find a match for my SS#, Bday, eye color, and ZIP. That doesn't necessarily mean they don't have it, or it doesn't exist, because government web services are notoriously wonky and unreliable. I honestly believe much of it is still on Windows 2000 or even Windows NT architecture. It might well be the last thing they spend our tax dollars on, if any is still available after the general theft.

If you lose your credit card, don't pull the trigger right away and have it replaced. Put a temporary hold on it instead and wait 24 hours or so just in case. I played ball last night and when I got back home and into the house, I noticed I didn't have either my credit card (CC) or my driver's license (DL). I went back out to look in the car, I looked in some pants pockets and a couple other places around the house, and they didn't turn up. I concluded I must have dropped them out of a pocket at the field, which was three miles away, and it was 10 at night, so I wasn't going back to look there. Figuring they were gone gone, I went to the Chase site and requested a new CC. It was easy and fast, but they do close out your account and process sending you a CC to arrive in "5 to 7 business days". I do have Apple Pay so the new CC is paired with my phone, but otherwise, I can't go online and book hotels or anything like that, because you can't find out what the new CC number is until you get the physical card. This morning, I figured I would go right to the Secretary of State first thing and get my DL replaced. I go to the garage, open the garage door—and there are my CC and DL lying on the ground. They'd been sitting in the alley for more than nine hours overnight. I didn't see them when I went to the car to look last night because the garage door was already closed. It's a PITA to not have my full CC available to me, but at least I have my DL, because that might have been an entire day waiting for it to be replaced. If I have a choice, I choose to lose the CC over the DL ten times out of ten. But the point is, had I just put a hold on my CC instead of going right to replace it, I could have lifted the hold when I found it and everything would be 100% normal right now.

I ****ing hate Eddie Vedder, but yeah, this is a good album ... 😏

"Who's a good batboy? Who's a good batboy? You're a good batboy! Yes you are! Yes you are!"

I was thinking this very thing when my buddy gleefully texted me that the White Sox got shut out AGAIN! That’s happened with the A’s last year when they started out 12-50—remember? They were a lock to lose 120+ games. Of course, they did lose 112, but that just puts them in run-of-the-mill Tigers territory. And they ended up having a better record in June than we did!

“Says” is buying a lot of people a lot of face time on national news networks.

Tuff guy’s not taking the stand. He’s just flexing for the base. They’ll forget he even said he would when he wussies out of it.

At his best Cabrera was at least the equal of Pujols as a hitter. Their top ten oWAR seasons: Miggy 9.1 7.9 7.7 7.0 6.8 5.6 5.4 5.2 5.2 5.2 Pujols 8.6 7.9 7.9 7.5 7.1 6.8 6.7 6.1 6.0 5.7 Miggy’s outsized triple-Crown season was the best between the both of them, but beyond that, Pujols was consistently better. Then, of course, there’s the glove. Pujol’s 2007 was the best defensive season at first base of all time, and by a wide margin (minimum 80% of games played at 1B). No contest.

Come on, how hard can it be to be the governor of freakin' South Dakota?

Wait, so, are they domestic terrorists or terrorist cosplayers? So hard to keep up ...

I was assured these domestic terrorists had college administrators by the balls. 1 big thing: College protest crackdown Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios Colleges are cracking down on pro-Palestinian protests that administrators say are getting increasingly disruptive, Axios' April Rubin writes. Why it matters: It's a stark pivot from just a few years ago, when colleges bolstered diversity, equity and inclusion programs and course offerings in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests. 🔎 Zoom in: Tensions at Columbia bubbled over after university president Minouche Shafik last week called in the NYPD to disband a pro-Palestinian encampment at the center of campus. The University of Michigan said it will draft a new policy on punishable disruptive behavior following a pro-Palestinian protest at its convocation. The University of Southern California canceled its valedictorian's commencement speech, citing safety concerns that the student called a "campaign of racist hatred." Stanford banned overnight camping in February to end an encampment populated by dueling pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli tents, citing student safety, extreme weather and rodents. Today's N.Y. Post cover 🎓 In response to pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia over the weekend, President Biden said as part of a Passover statement yesterday: "Even in recent days, we've seen harassment and calls for violence against Jews." "This blatant Antisemitism is reprehensible and dangerous — and it has absolutely no place on college campuses, or anywhere in our country." 🏢 The new toughness extends to the workplace. Today's Wall Street Journal front page: "Bosses are losing patience with staff eager to be the conscience of their companies." "The moves are a correction to the last several years, when corporate leaders often brooked dissent and encouraged staff to voice their personal convictions." (Gift link) Go deeper: Pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Columbia are drawing backlash from members of Congress and the White House.

This guy is touting Kristi Noem for VP based on: Of course, he's not posting any recent picture of her—just one in black and white with poor resolution that equate to squinting. Here, I think I can help: Ummm ... hubba hubba?

Said nobody here. Try again.

I'm sure anyone who equivocates the black experience in America with the Jewish experience in America will.

Shouldn't be hard to get cheap tickets.

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Good thing Aaron Judge doesn't play for the Tigers. We already have plenty of hitters who can strike out four times in a game. 😏

This. Right here. Doesn't mean one-hundred-point-zero percent of all participants are being merely performative—in a large cohort there are always a few true believers who would go the whole mile, and also a few who are planted by nefarious organizations. By and large, though, practically all these kids will have moved on to something else to occupy their lives, and I would bet a large percentage of them will reflect on this in a few years and ask themselves, what the hell was I thinking?

One part of it might be the amount of money parents are giving to the school for their kid to be there; and another might be some parents are wired in to people who can make the academic administration accountable.

One difference between the two might be that the animosity against teh blacks is coming from inside the house, and is so deeply rooted in American history that it can be fairly argued this entire country was founded on racial hatred against people of African features. It’s far more widespread, far more ingrained, and thus far more pernicious than anti-semitism, which comes from outside the house and might be seen as more isolated and transient than racial hatred. In fact, in America, Jews are not even considered a proper race as African-featured people are, while in Europe they traditionally have been considered a race. Jews in America are basically seen as white. That helps tamp down the spread of anti-semitism and thus I don’t believe it will ever reach 20c European proportions here.

Republicans could have the exact fascist state they want, and maybe even bloodier, if only they could figure out a way to dump Trump and find a standard bearer more palatable to normies.

It’s almost as though they were completely steeped in childhood until a light-switch moment, and then immediately embrace what they think of as adulthood, without going through any interim maturation process, which takes time, learning, and mistakes.

And Faedo closes it out! We get to rest the back of the pen. That's big for the series coming up in Tampa.

We could really use Faedo closing this out now.

Solid joke!