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I write Cup of Coffee, a daily baseball, politics, entertainment, and nonsense newsletter. Fascists fuck off.

Columbus, Ohio
Joined December 2009
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My baseball, news, culture, and whatnot newsletter, Cup of Coffee, is now on Beehiiv. Same as it ever was. But better.
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Last night: Me: Got any homework? Anna: Nah. Me: Whatcha gonna do? Anna: Have a map I’m working on. Just found this on her desk.
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Update:
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It’s things like this that keep me from even thinking about quitting this website.
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"Chile becomes 'Long Chile,' removing the entire west coast and causing Chilean-American War" was not something I was really expecting.
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My 16-year-old daughter just red pilled us all.
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Update: I asked her if Ohio2 was a replica of the actual Ohio or if it’s just a cutout shape.
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I will note that her disrespect for Wyoming is notable. She has long said, as a rhetorical non-sequitur, “is Wyoming even real?” And this has been displayed on the light box in her room for several months.
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Folks, I realize you all have a lot of questions. I have many myself. We're just going to have to wait for her to get home from school to sort all this out.
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I don't know why I find it hilarious that Hershey has in-house counsel separated by whether they handle salty snacks or sweet snacks but I do find it hilarious.
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The point has been made repeatedly, but I still cannot get over how "there is a market for labor, sometimes market conditions change, and companies actually have to participate in that market" is being covered like some crisis that requires desperate and unorthodox measures.
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I told her that I've been to Wyoming. Skied there. Hung out there for days. It's a real place. She responded by saying "uh huh."
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How pissed is Luke Voit at Eric Hosmer right now
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I wish the @AP would call Pennsylvania. The destroying of the suburbs is going to take a long time and the sooner we get started on it the better.
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@TrevGould On-brand
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This exchange -- featuring a reporter saying "we didn't break a big story earlier because you don't pay for newspapers" followed by another reporter saying "if you want to know so bad, why don't YOU go find out" -- is giving me a stroke.
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Almost every weekend my son and like three other kids spend the night at yet another kid's house. Each week they pool their money, walk to a gas station, buy shitty snacks, lay it all out on an ironing board and post a pic of it on Instagram. I dunno man.
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Players’ names on the back of jerseys: nearly invisible. Players’ nutsacks and sponsorship patches: visible from the International Space Station.
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My brother just called me at 6AM his time to tell me that Scott Boras gave his seats and a jersey at the Dodgers game last night to a member of the K-pop band BTS (Suga, he says). He started the call with "who is Scott Boras?"
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Two years ago today Wikipedia notified me that someone at my IP address had vandalized the page for Mallard ducks. It turned out to be my then-12-year-old daughter.
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My son wrote "thicc" on my patio 56 times.
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They’re gonna play the “triumph over adversity” card all year and the media will eat it up so much they’ll claim to be underdogs by September. What a world.
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. @JoseAltuve27 : “Believe me, at the end of the year everything will be fine. We’re gonna be in the World Series again.People don’t believe it. We will. We made it last year. We were 1 game away from winning it all.I’m happy for the Nationals..We will be in the World Series again”
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"Get an education. Better yourself!" (tuition triples, income stays flat) "Can't afford college? learn a trade!" (spends 40 years busting unions, slashing benefits) "Pull yourself up by your bootstraps! Start a business!" (supports healthcare system shackled to W2 work)
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Max Scherzer, Shohei Ohtani, and Mike Trout should form a “we can’t do this shit by ourselves” support group.
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I am not going to listen to David Brooks tell me that young people are soft when 50-60 year-olds are blocking traffic, protesting, and giving TV interviews in which they can barely hold back tears over not being able to get lawn fertilizer or hair dye.
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Yermín Mercedes is one of the better stories in baseball so far this year and his manager is publicly ripping him, calling him "clueless" and apologizing to the opposition for him hitting a home run. And people in baseball wonder why the median fan age is like 55.
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Whoever runs the Twitter at @BadlandsNPS has some guts. Sad to say that tweeting objective facts is "guts" but it is in this mad age.
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A.J. Hinch: Bregman shouldn't have carried the bat. Dave Martinez: Soto shouldn't have done it either. Alex Bregman: I'm sorry I did that. Juan Soto: It was awesome Bregman did it so I thought I'd do it too. All of this is fun. And a little child shall lead them.
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Major League Baseball needs to be suspended immediately. Rob Manfred needs to answer for why he allowed the Marlins-Phillies game to take place yesterday in such dangerous conditions. Then, in my view, he needs to resign.
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You never hear dudes like this condemning religious institutions which condone and cover up the molestation of children and the preaching of hatred and discrimination. So fuck all the way off with this noise.
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NYT has spent six years sending armies of reporters to every diner in the Midwest, but when it fails to cover a congressional district that touches Queens it's out of their bailiwick.
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This is absolutely healthy mindset and it makes me think that Conan is better-adjusted than almost anyone who has achieved a certain level of fame.
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Al Gore looks like the fictional president they put on video monitors or magazine covers in the background of movies that take place in some near dystopian future, calling him "President Jacobson" or whatever.
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NFL: free network TV NBA/NHL: basic cable MLB: increasingly on high-tier cable and now an additional streaming service. The owners are getting their money, but the game is increasingly out of sight and out of popular consciousness.
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Afternoon bump. It's been an ugly week in a lot of ways and there are lots of reasons to be grumpy, but the response to this from BTS fans has been sweet and heartening and it's a good reminder that there is more than negativity in the world. @BTS_ARMY
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In 2014, when Nikki Hayley was governor, South Carolina received $7.87 in federal funds for every dollar spent in income taxes, which was the highest ratio of any state in the entire country.
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States should always plan for a rainy day just like any business. I disagree that states should take Fed money or be bailed out. This will lead to taxpayers paying for mismanagement of poorly run states. States need to tighten up, make some cuts, and manage.
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Here's the thing about the Astros bad apologies: it's not because they're tone deaf or because they have bad P.R. It's because they're not sorry.
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Steven Matz' agent has NO IDEA what he unleashed last week.
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How far up your own ass do you have to be to think that reporting on a congressional candidate being a fraud is some luxury good for which readers feel unjustified entitlement?
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Eric Newcomer
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Not going to take media criticism from non subscribers anymore. Libs ordering up stories they don’t pay for or conservatives whining about slant without building any news gathering organizations go fuck yourselves
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I do not know why people have been sharing Moneyball/Lord of the Rings mashups but I have laughed like a loon at every single one of them.
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@_bbbene I'm afraid to ask.
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Anna came home from school and asked me if, since I used her map for Twitter klout, I'd buy her AirPods. I said no. Then she asked me if I'd write an essay for her that she has to do for AP European history. I said no. Then she went upstairs. Internet fame is fleeting.
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Clevinger: "Oh, sweet, I know all the great places to go out in Chicago"
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It's absolutely fucking shameful that the @Dodgers are caving to a notorious, hateful homophobe in Bill Donahue and are allowing him to dictate the team's Pride Night. Absolutely pathetic.
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Three years ago today I was notified that someone at my IP address, who turned out to be my twelve-year-old daughter, had vandalized the Wikipedia page for Mallard ducks for some reason.
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The radicalization of Ken Rosenthal is about the only good thing that has spun out of this round of labor strife.
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So Ohtani's position is the "Ippei straight-up-stole money-from-me" scenario. Which puts the wire transfers at the forefront. The feds/forensic investigation can figure that out. If it's born out, Shohei is in the clear and Ippei is in tons of serious trouble.
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Best Rovell tweet ever is still the one when the Chilean miners were being rescued.
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@notfinnigan Given that she tells me that all the time I'm kind of exhausted by it, frankly.
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Columbus City Schools teachers went on strike and broke management in two days. Do not, ever, listen to someone crying about how "no one wins with a strike" or that a strike represents some mutual failure. It is the only real power workers have. Strikes work.
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What a day.
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Live feed from the Oval Office, where President Trump's aides have prepped him for the hearing.
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Wondering how many people believe Trevor Bauer was "proven innocent" despite lots of evidence against him while also believing that Ohtani "had to have been involved" despite zero evidence of that and lots of evidence absolving him.
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"Will you keep politics out of sports, please. We like sports to be politics-free"
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Bill James wrote this 16 years ago. It still applies, even if it is still ignored almost 100% of the time.
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As a little brother myself, I respect the little brother energy.
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@davidfrum Imagine getting a forecast wrong. In other news, love this thing you wrote for National Review in February 2003.
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I went to the store and came back to find hundreds of replies from @BTS_twt fans from my thread this morning. They have been uniformly sweet and positive, even if some of it skews a bit sharply into the kind of fandom . . . not everyone has. A refreshing end to an ugly week.
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Baseball getting called out as "woke" is the most hilarious shit I've seen in a dog's age. There is none less woke a thing than baseball this side of the Eisenhower era.
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The plot of "Blazing Saddles" involves business and political interests cynically attempting to leverage ordinary people's racism in an effort to obtain financial gain. People say that movie couldn't be made today? Bitch, we're living in that movie.
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2021 is the year for which the Cubs fought tooth-and-nail to keep Kris Bryant. The year for which they manipulated his service time and for which they took him through a contentious arbitration in order to hold on to him. Now they're cheaping out this year. What a league.
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Not hyperbole. If you're unaware, over 70% of the population passed an anti-gerrymandering amendment. The GOP ignored it and gerrymandered severely. A GOP Supreme Court struck it down multiple times. The GOP imposed it anyway, daring someone to stop them. No one did.
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Life comes at you fast.
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A lot of people have pinged me this week re: the This American Life stuff about Ohio gerrymandering. It's jarring how eye-opening it is to everyone -- as it should be! -- but how it's no longer news in Ohio. Republican lawlessness is simply a fact of life here now.
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Imagine if "stock price goes up, would-be stock-buyers turn to increasing bids to purchase stocks" was breathless, front page news.
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That the Boston Effing Red Sox are crying poor and trading away the best player they’be developed in ages for financial reasons is an absolute embarrassment. And it’s an insult to Red Sox fans.
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Some personal news: After 11+ years at NBC, @HardballTalk is officially no more and I'm out with it. I want to thank @NBCSports for a hell of a ride and HBT readers for riding along. My ride's not over, though. Updates soon, but you're not rid of my opinions just yet.
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I thought Jose Altuve was injured but he looks pretty spry here.
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I don't know if Ohtani did anything wrong, and I hope he did not, but to say there is no investigation planned only 15 hours after two wildly conflicting stories about a multi-million dollar illegal gambling scandal drops is a hell of a thing.
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The latest on the Shohei Ohtani-Ippei Mizuhara saga: Ohtani is not currently facing discipline, according to an MLB official, nor is he believed to be under active investigation by the league. On Mizuhara's surprising firing and how it came down:
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It is 100% fact that, in Ohio, the Republican Party can do whatever it wants and no court can stop it. If it tries, as it has, the GOP will simply ignore the law. You cannot vote your way out of that. It's literally impossible.
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Smoltz: "15-20 years we weren't hearing much about Tommy John surgery" Smoltz: had Tommy John surgery 18 years ago.
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All my new followers who are here for Anna content should probably be brought up to speed on her past work. Like the time, when she was 12 years-old, and I found out she had vandalized the Wikipedia page for Mallard Ducks. This is what she wrote. It was up for a while.
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@Lesley_NOPE I think she's taking land away from Canada and giving it to Texas. Guess you gotta ask yourself if you feel tough enough to come and take it back.
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OMG I just found a letter my great grandmother wrote to the Detroit Free Press in 1936 shitting all over Walt Disney.
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Manfred bristles whenever people suggest he doesn't like baseball and that he's hostile to fans but then he drops shit like "hey, Oakland fans aren't losing baseball; the Giants are still in the Bay Area" and it's clear that the criticisms of him are vastly understated.
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NBC executives once got on me because I was tweeting a lot about how the U.S. should do more to aid Syrian refugees (I needed to "let it go" they said). Tony Dungy, though, can spread debunked anti-trans propaganda and he's gold.
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This probably shakes out for Biden. But the fact that America can experience what it has and witness what it has these past four years and not decisively repudiate Trumpism tells you everything you need to know about this broken country.
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To review: this started with "why didn't the NYT report on Santos?" A NYT reporter said "no one pays for Newsday!" And this guy then proceeded to say people feel "entitled to scoops" and told a non-reporter that if he wants to know stuff, find out for himself.
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It's hilarious how utterly shook the entire right wing establishment is by single congressional nominee from a district none of them live in.
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I’m shocked a bartender from Queens doesn’t want to debate a Harvard law graduate.
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Most people will focus on all those Star Destroyers or how Rey throws a light saber like Thor throwing a hammer, but don't sleep on C-3PO's eyes glowing red right before that monster blaster shot. I'm assuming he becomes all-powerful and, finally, kills his many tormentors.
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I am way less interested in hearing a ballplayer say he's a changed man now and more interested in exploring why so many 17-18-year-old boys/men are idiots who lack empathy for marginalized people and thus feel it’s cool to use slurs so casually.
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Heard this: Hunter Pence is on his way to San Francisco for a physical. If he passes, he’s joining the Giants. He turned down offers from Padres and Astros.
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It's hilarious to me that while people like Aaron Rodgers and Trevor Bauer always had fans, they did not have strident fanboys fiercely defending them until they did or said horrible horrible things. Then people come out to lay down their lives for them. Instructive stuff, that.
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In 2020 Ohio's Governor said, following a mass shooting in Dayton, "We owe it to the victims. We owe to the families and to all Ohioans to finish the job and get this done...I am committed.” In March he signed a bill allowing people to carry concealed weapons without permits.
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May 25, 2021: Cardinals vs. White Sox in Chicago. Just putting that out there as the night La Russa gives a quote agreeing with the opposing manager that his own player was "out of line," that "we don't play the game that way" and that "I'll have a talk with him."
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The man literally owns a major league baseball team and he’s promoting them by talking about opposing players who are gonna take his pitchers yard.
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John Fisher calls Sutter Health Park "the most intimate park in Major League Baseball". He says he can't wait to watch the MLB's top stars like Aaron Judge hit home runs here.
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They saw me in my mask and one of them said “you wear a mask you’re probably voting for Biden.” I said “I can’t vote for Trump if he dies of COVID.” No immediate response.
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@HardballTalk This is a gambit to maintain control of the Phanatic without paying the mascot's creators, with whom the Phillies are fighting in court. Figure if you can pay Odubel Herrera $20.5 million to go away you can pay the creators of baseball's most beloved mascot, but what do I know?
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This dude took over a company, alienated its customers, and is now casting it as an epic battle when in reality it's like a guy who took over a bar and got rid of the good taps and got rid of the jukebox wonders why no one shows up anymore.
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This is a battle for the future of civilization. If free speech is lost even in America, tyranny is all that lies ahead.
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For anyone who missed it: Trevor Bauer sicced his attorneys on me over the weekend. I wasn't fucking having it. That pathetic fuck needs to do better than that and, folks, he doesn't have better than that.
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Now returning to my stroke. The toast smells amazing.
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The new jerseys are bad but the pants are an absolute embarrassment. Honestly cannot believe this was allowed to happen. How far down the MLB org chart do you have to go until you find someone tasked with giving a shit about baseball as opposed to marketing and revenue?
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There is no reason whatsoever to pay attention to that retired Devil Rays and Giants player. Don't give him oxygen. Don't make him trend.
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Obama's refusal to use his clairvoyance in order to plan historic diplomatic trips is why he's wrong for America.
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Marc Thiessen 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🇹🇼🇮🇱
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Brussels under attack. Obama on a tourist trio in Havana with his family. Says it all.
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MLB driving the car into the ditch over an issue it has half-assedly thrown out there a bunch of times over the years, which has never been well-received by the players, and which it never considered a priority, let alone a deal-breaker. Unreal.
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This story should be every bit as big as the Penn State story. Everyone close to it should lose their jobs or worse.
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Yahoo News
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Michigan State employees reportedly knew about Larry Nassar's abuse and did nothing via @YahooSports
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