Andrew Burky
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@bryarea 118 pitches? Book the TJ now.
Really not sure i’d ever use a top 10 pick on a pitcher.
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Season long Patrick Bailey at bat thread, a personal diary. Here is where I’ll be expressing all my emotional angst over watching Patrick Bailey hit.
3/27 - solid AB. Full count ground out. Proud of you Pat. That wasn’t too torturous. (0/6 on season)
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@knbrmurph When ownership runs a franchise to be somewhat profitable they will end up somewhat unsuccessful.
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There’s a reason Washington didn’t do this. Jackson didn’t do this. Lincoln didn’t do this. TR didn’t do this. FDR didn’t do this. Reagan didn’t do this.
They were all *real* American patriots.
This is something you see in banana republics, from Mickey Mouse wannabe despots.
The Associated Press@AP
BREAKING: U.S. Treasury is working to put President Trump's signature on new paper currency, a first for a sitting president, an AP source says. apnews.com/article/trump-…
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Six consecutive Yankees get on base -- five hits and a hit batsman. Only one hit really hard, that last triple by Grisham, but all together non-good for Webb. Down 5-0.
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Taiwan needs to be taking careful notes right now about how relatively easy it is to shut down a small waterway vital to the commerce of an adversary that desires to attack you, and to gain great leverage while doing so…
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@ChangPants Shaheds came from Iran years ago. What did Israel or the U.S. do back then specifically in response to that? Almost nothing.
Now suddenly Europe is supposed to rush into Iran?
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@Legal_Fil @cabsav456 The amount of bots is so damned concerning though. You can see the intelligence operation happening in front of your eyes. The manipulation is so blatant and yet no one really bats an eye.
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@cabsav456 You are very kind.
For what it’s worth, I always enjoy your takes/reactions, especially when you disagree! It’s a good reminder that honest people can come to very different, but sincere, conclusions.
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While I will commend Trump in all sorts of ways for his Iran policy, his pathological hatred of Zelensky really is a major weak spot.
Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86
JUST IN: The country that learned to shoot down Iranian drones over Kyiv is now teaching the Gulf to shoot them down over refineries. Nobody asked Trump. The Gulf asked Ukraine. President Zelensky confirmed at the UK Parliament on March 18 that 201 Ukrainian military specialists are already deployed across UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, with teams en route to Kuwait and 34 more ready to go. These are active-duty government military personnel, not private contractors. They are sharing combat-proven expertise from three years of intercepting Iranian Shahed drones over Ukrainian cities, power grids, and civilian infrastructure. The Gulf states requested the assistance. Saudi Arabia explicitly approached Ukraine. The arrangement is reciprocal: Ukraine provides the expertise that no other country possesses at this depth of operational experience, and the Gulf provides what Ukraine needs most, funding, technology, and air defence systems. Zelensky specifically highlighted Patriot missiles as part of the exchange. The country that cannot get enough Patriots from the West is earning them from the Gulf by teaching drone interception. Trump did not request this deployment. No reporting in any outlet, from Reuters to Al Jazeera to the Kyiv Post, indicates American coordination or approval. The recent Trump-Zelensky tensions over aid disputes and public friction are well documented. This is not a Washington-orchestrated move. It is a bilateral arrangement between Ukraine and Gulf capitals that bypasses Washington entirely. Zelensky built a parallel channel to the Gulf that gives Ukraine what America has been reluctant to provide while giving the Gulf what America’s $23.5 billion arms surge does not include: the people who know how to fight Shaheds because they have been fighting them every night for three years. The expertise is specific and irreplaceable. Ukraine has intercepted thousands of Shahed-136 and Shahed-238 drones since 2022. It has developed detection protocols, jamming techniques, acoustic tracking, small-arms interception methods, and integrated air defence coordination that no training manual teaches. The Gulf states purchased Patriot batteries, THAAD radars, and anti-drone systems through the $23.5 billion arms package. The hardware is American. The operational knowledge of how to use it against the exact Iranian drone variants now striking Gulf refineries is Ukrainian. Israel views this positively. Anything that strengthens Gulf air defences against Iranian drones reduces the threat environment for every country in the region, including Israel. Ukrainian-Gulf cooperation reinforces the anti-Iran alignment that the Abraham Accords established. Israel and Ukraine share a common adversary’s weapons system: Iran builds the Shaheds, Russia deploys them against Ukraine, and the IRGC deploys them against the Gulf. The expertise flows in one direction. The threat originates from the same factory. The Putin dimension is real but secondary. Iran supplies Russia with Shahed drones for use against Ukraine. Ukraine now teaches Gulf states to destroy those same drones when Iran uses them directly. The feedback loop is elegant: every Ukrainian lesson learned from shooting down Russian-deployed Shaheds over Odesa is now applied to IRGC-deployed Shaheds over Ras Laffan. Putin’s Iranian drone supplier is being countered by the country Putin is fighting, on a battlefield 4,000 kilometres from the front line. The irony is structural. The aggravation is intentional. Two hundred and one experts. Government military, not contractors. Gulf-requested, not Trump-directed. Shahed-specific, not generic. And the country with the most relevant expertise on Earth got there before the $23.5 billion in hardware arrived. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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If true, that would be completely unsustainable in the Russia-Ukraine context. Room to be skeptical here. These are often singular cases because of a coordination failure.
OSINTtechnical@Osinttechnical
Ukrainian air defense experts arriving in the Middle East to assist Gulf countries were shocked to find that some PATRIOT batteries had been firing up to 8 missiles at a single target -The Times Ukrainian teams are rapidly working to share lessons learned with allied personnel.
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This article is well worth reading, about the Danish resolve and plans to make any attempt to take Greenland as costly as possible.
The Danish troops that deployed hastily in January brought with them blood supplies.
Hans Tino Hansen@HthHans
More in the article (in Danish) 4/4 dr.dk/nyheder/indlan…
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Q: Do you have a comment on the six service members who passed?
TRUMP: *ignoring question* Go ahead. Who else?
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@EvansRyan202 @yardonna No need to keep responding to all these weird anonymous red eyed accounts. We all know their deal.
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@AGHamilton29 @ggreenwald Why does Tucker get roasted for taking money from Qatar but MAGA leaves Trump alone for the same thing?
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Totally agree with this, as long as "everyone" means "everyone."
AG@AGHamilton29
One of the best things the DoJ and FBI can do for the public discourse is to expose everyone taking money and directions from foreign governments and the intermediaries facilitating it. Expose it all, then the public can judge the reality of foreign influence.
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🚨 THEO VON: “I have a lot of uncomfort about America's relationship with Israeli political leaders … I do not understand Trump's infatuation with, or beholding to this government … And I don’t understand how our relationship with them is helping America.”
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The discount on Urals crude versus Brent has shrunk to zero. Russia's windfall now exceeds anything we saw in 2022 after the Ukraine invasion. Recent US sanctions waivers have destigmatized Russian oil and give Putin a huge windfall. Terrible for Ukraine.
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/a-huge-windf…
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NEW: Pete Hegseth’s pastor double downs on banning Marian processions in the United States.
Douglas Wilson@douglaswils
@bradleybirzer Bradley, I wasn't talking about anything internal to a worship service. I was talking about a Virgin Mary parade down Main Street.
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And now Bokarev and Chemezov's project lies in pieces on the ground, even before it had a chance to make a grand debut as the more professional alternative to Gen. Andriy Averyanov's burnt-to-a-crisp Unit 29155. No doubt its ignominious and humiliating end will be handled with the usual grace and forgiveness for which rivalrous siloviki factions are known.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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@lerchorinyo @ItsTheEnforcer That’s what folks are saying about the Ayatollah
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@ItsTheEnforcer Putin is the moderate. Careful what people wish for..
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🚨BREAKING: Vladimir Putin is taking steps to prevent a coup as tensions grow between him and the Russian military.
Mobile Internet has been terminated in central Moscow. Putin also ordered the arrest of a Russian deputy defense minister.
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Quinnipiac Poll: Do you support/oppose sending ground troops to Iran?
Republicans: 37/52
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