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Really have to appreciate the Royals media just wiping their hands of the Salvy/Q stuff and accepting everything is fine in the locker room. It clearly isn’t.

Legacy/corporate media in this country has done an utterly shitty job over the yrs covering Trump’s pathological lying. In fact, they HAVEN’T covered it. And so they’ve normalized it. Look at his war against Iran. Trump lies incessantly, hourly, about this war, yet the media never questions the veracity of what he says, instead acting as his dutiful stenographer. Legacy/corporate media has done this country such a profound disservice.

Salvador Perez has a 24.1% infield pop-up rate entering today's game. Tenth-worst in MLB. Since he really tapped into his power in 2017, he has been around 5-10%, but this is just abysmal. I don't care what he says. He is unplayable.

The Royals are gonna really really regret giving Quatraro that extension and I’m not exactly sure why they felt compelled to do so.

7-15 record 2-10 on the road 7 game losing streak Last place in the central Worst record in the AL (tied for worst in all of MLB) Fewest runs scored in all of baseball

Trump is now telling MAGA that we should agree to give up our rights for the greater good. He wants us to agree to allow the federal government to spy on us via FISA. Anyone still supporting this man is a fraud. He has done a full 180 on MAGA and is a Warhawk neocon.

@h8rproof82 Exactly

We gotta stop talking about Cole Ragans like an ace

POTUS is laying out two courses of action—a negotiated settlement, or a major escalation. There is a third option, and he should take it: recognize there is no way to force a positive outcome and simply leave. The region is not ours to fix. President Reagan chose this path in Lebanon in ‘84, withdrawing U.S. forces after the Beirut barracks bombing once it became clear the mission’s stabilization goals could not be met, effectively ending direct American military involvement and avoiding a deeper quagmire and long-term entrenchment in the region. A negotiated settlement is unlikely to work or be taken seriously by the Iranians unless we make concessions on the enrichment issue. As we saw yesterday in the SOH, the IRGC is empowered to act without the consent of the civilian leadership, so it’s likely they won’t honor any deal reached. A major escalation will lead to a very destructive outcome for Iran, the region, and eventually the U.S. If POTUS chooses brute force and targets civilian infrastructure, we will create another generation of radicalized Iranians who will rally around the regime and escalate the war by any means possible. If POTUS opts to strike the civilian infrastructure, declare victory, and then leave, we will only further erode our standing in the world, the petrodollar, and eventually our status as the world’s reserve currency holder. We need to get out now. Don’t double down on failure. Avoid the sunken cost trap, leave now, and put America’s interests first.

And I say again a guy who hits 40 homers in one season in the minors does not just turn into a bad hitter in the MLB ZUMWALT NEEDS TO GO

🚨 Donald Trump claims a U.S. Navy destroyer intercepted an Iranian-flagged cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman—and says U.S. forces “blew a hole in the engine room” after the crew refused orders—adding the vessel is now in U.S. custody. If true, that’s a direct military strike despite a supposed ceasefire. No independent confirmation yet of these claims.

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NEW @NBCNews Decision Desk poll: 67% of Americans disapprove of President Trump's handling of the war with Iran more on @MeetThePress

2 days after Trump made 13 celebratory posts in a hour claiming that Iran surrendered to all his demands and the war is over, he’s back threatening to blow up power plants and bridges.

15 teams in Royals history have started a 162-game season with a record of 7-14. The average final record is 67-95. The 2017 team posted the best finish. (80-82)

Guy parachuting into Virginia Tech Spring game is stuck on the scoreboard after rough collision. #oops

“Somebody shorted the oil markets today by hundreds of millions of dollars exactly 20 minutes before Trump made his announcement that everything was going to be great. And if you see that once, it could be a coincidence. But that’s happened at least three times, if not more, since the war began. That’s a pattern.” “And what that suggests is that there’s rampant corruption and insider self-dealing going on with the president’s up and down predictions of what’s going to happen tomorrow in the negotiations and in the markets. And I’m sure that that’s being investigated. We can’t prove it, but it seems like the corruption that we’re seeing in our government, maybe not the President, but people who are in the know and the markets, is having a priority over the actual negotiations to end the war. And that’s a crazy thing that our system has never seen before.”

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"Trump is really good about asserting his own reality ... but Americans aren't going to buy it if things don't change and change soon. And even if they do improve, the higher prices are going to remain for a while," said @JonLemire.

Extraordinary the number of #MAGA folks that humiliated themselves yesterday pretending Trump was telling the truth & that Iran capitulated to all demands, w/ the strait was open back to pre-war traffic. Biggest loser was again @ClayTravis

For years, @RepThomasMassie was popular among MAGA: until he opposed a couple of Trump policies, and Trump told his followers to hate Massie him because he's a "grandstander" who accomplishes nothing. Overnight, huge numbers of MAGA followers started reciting that like some mantra. Last night, Massie just helped defeat renewal of warrantless domestic spying on Americans: accomplishing more -- just in this alone -- than 90% of House members.