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Reality Has Set In For The San Francisco Giants

Reality Has Set In For The San Francisco Giants
Maybe we've been viewing Harrison Bader all wrong. Not that he hasn't behaved like a Thanksgiving ham in a batting helmet, but he may have spurred his soon-to-be former employers to accept their current situation with a clearer eye and purpose. And with some gelignite. ...

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The Right Has Created Its Perfect Trans Athlete

The Right Has Created Its Perfect Trans Athlete
A lot of people in and around the WNBA are talking about trans women. In the aftermath of Indiana Fever role player Sophie Cunningham's negative comments about trans people playing sports in an ESPN profile, transphobic right-wing grifters and small groups of protesters have...

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Public health officials have confirmed 3 cases of a rare tick-borne illness called rabbit fever, which has symptoms more severe than Lyme disease.

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Leaked Flock talking points coach police officers on how to convince the public to support installing more Flock cameras:

"Don’t avoid the concept of mass surveillance because you’re not going to convince opponents that it’s not"

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The Push to Elect Kansas Supreme Court Justices Is a Cynical Anti-Abortion Power Grab

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at Balls and Strikes. On Tuesday,...

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Inside the Spending of One of the Largest Super PACs

“In less than five years, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee has become one of the biggest spenders in American elections, flooding the airwaves in congressional races across the country,” the New York Times reports. “Since its first involvement in elections, the amount of money AIPAC-affiliated political action committees have spent on campaign advertising and […]

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Judge Blocks New York Ban On ICE Officers Wearing Masks

“A New York law banning U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from wearing face coverings and requiring that they wear visible identification has been put on hold by a federal judge,” The Guardian reports. “But a state law prohibiting cooperation between local police departments and ICE has been allowed to stand.”

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Bonus Quote of the Day

“Ken Paxton’s defense attorney just endorsed me. At this point I’m just waiting on Paxton’s family dog to come over to my side.” — Texas U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico (D), on MS NOW.

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Not an inquiry, but an audit: Ontario to review its wildfire response (nationalobserver.com)

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Miss ‘Grantchester’? Here Are More Crime-Solving Clergy (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

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A Time to Kill — Schumacher’s courtroom melodrama is smarter than its reputation suggests (medium.com)

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Yes, the Show Has Drawn Raves. But Some of the Objects Are Not Real. (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

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This isn't the new normal. It's just the beginning (nationalobserver.com)

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Opinion | The Iran and Ukraine wars were never separate (wapo.st)

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Trump Live Updates: Senate Committee to Cast Vote on Advancing Blanche Nomination (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

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Wolves, long feared and reviled, may actually be lifesavers (wapo.st)

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Ariana Grande and the Debate Over Health, Privacy and Celebrity (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

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Indigenous leaders give the UN a roadmap for protecting their peoples (nationalobserver.com)

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Opinion | My company’s drones hit Russia — and showed what the Pentagon doesn’t know (wapo.st)

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