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Yes, really. 

On one hand, you have the Chinese government who wants the ability to extradite residents of Hong Kong with no oversight. The same Chinese government that regularly disappears people in it’s custody, and is running literal concentration camps for ethnic minorities and political dissidents. Read more

There was an old saying about the Braves and their pitching staff whenever the playoffs rolled around in the 90's. Read more

The Braves had one of the best rotations in baseball for a long time.  They won 14 consecutive division titles and only had one World Series win to show for it.  Some teams just struggle to get it done in the postseason.  The Dodgers are going to go down as another one of those teams.

So she put on the gauntlet, snapped her fingers and half her legal fees disappeared? Read more

10 million ppl lost their homes. He bailed out banks, not ppl. He persecuted whistle blowers, he bombed libyia and Syria, he surged in Iraq, he refused to end the carried interest loophole, he refused to prosecute torturers, he did his best to cut social security and Medicare bit the feral GOP wouldn’t take yes for an… Read more

This is not

Diggs: sidelined, let down, unbelievable.

If there is a baseline between exuberant celebration and disturbingly degrading behavior, these videos are a slow roller toward first that might not stay in fair territory.

Pretty sure 151 Walker has a first round bye:

Okay, so the videos are in Italian. As someone who took French in high school (which is very close to Italian), I can tell you that the umpire is not saying “I like to play sports with my brother” or “I would like to go to the store.” Read more

just because it’s new doesn’t mean it’s better. this guy just loves blending the lines between what’s legal and what’s not. james harden is an all-world talent to begin with, this bullshit doesn’t make it better in any way. and watching some guy slowly dribble a ball at the top of the arc for 18 seconds then trying to… Read more

Looks pretty clean to me, he traveled when he caught the ball just to make sure he got one in though.

You know how I know you’re from Canada? Read more

William and Mary is a public school

don’t feel too bad. for real. you were a teenager. I really dislike how kids are pushed into making big college and career decisions that will affect their entire life...before they’ve even actually lived as an adult. sigh. but if you wait to go to school, you can be penalized in a lot of ways. sigh.

To me if her tears are genuine or not doesn’t matter. She can be genuinely remorseful and feel guilty as fuck that doesnt change whether she is guilty in the eyes of the law. She shot a man in his own home. 

I respect his shameless, self-abasing hustle in this race to be human furniture as long as Lizzo isn’t upset by it. Read more

NBA fan math works like this:

LeBron 37 wins last year
+ Davis: 33 wins last year
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There’s still Melo.