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silverwuffamute @wuffaf.at · 7h

How much do the Mariners mean to Seattle?

Here is a photo from the Husky game last night, people literally standing in the concourse to watch the Mariners try to win the ALCS.

They paid money to see a Husky game but all they could think about were those damn Mariners. 🔱

Photo from the Husky game last night showing everyone with their eyes glued to the TVs in the concourse where they were showing the Mariners game.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 1d

The nation’s biggest private prison company — accused of human trafficking — is asking the Supreme Court to make it immune from lawsuits.

Their argument? Corporations should be shielded from lawsuits when doing the government’s dirty work.

The Lever @levernews.com · 1d

The nation’s largest private prison company is asking the Supreme Court to give federal contractors blanket immunity from lawsuits — including human trafficking claims.

If they win, private contractors could operate with even less accountability than they do now.

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Adam Kendall @theboobla32.bsky.social · 19h

Not necessary. Only season ticket holders and email subscribers have access to playoff tickets. Blue Jays invasions happen because there are walk up tickets available for $15, not StubHub tickets that cost $370 that all of Washington & Oregon is trying to buy.

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MLB (Bot) @mlbbot.bsky.social · 22h

FOR HUMPY! 😭

The Mariner Moose lifts Humpy the Salmon up in celebration after Humpy won the Salmon Run for the first time ever. Mariners fans can be seen going wild in the background.

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 22h

mariners fans are my favorite bunch of fans of any team in any sport. i watched the bottom half of the last seven innings standing up in my living room. thanks for letting me hitch a ride

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Claire @baseball-broad.bsky.social · 23h

Why? Because this is the Seattle Mariners.

James Smyth @jamessmyth621.bsky.social · 23h

Welp, it’s the longest winner-take-all game in MLB postseason history

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Adam Kendall @theboobla32.bsky.social · 22h

The Mariners since 2022 have played four playoff games at home. Three of them have gone 11+ innings.

Why do cocaine when you can just watch Mariners playoff games at home.

ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 22h

Seattle is physically incapable of playing a normal game of any sport

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 22h

Seattle is physically incapable of playing a normal game of any sport

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 23h

This baseball game has officially outlasted the college football game across town that started an hour after it

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willow 🐈‍⬛🔮🖤✨ @hanayanagi.kim · 22h

THAT'S MY MOTHER FUCKING BOYS OH MY GOD

mariners win and advance to the american league championship series

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 22h

Best team.

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 22h

HOLY SHIT THEY FUCKING DID IT

MOREOVER, ICE MUST BE DESTROYED

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Adam Kendall @theboobla32.bsky.social · 22h

THE SEATTLE MARINERS!!!!!!!!!

Adam Kendall @theboobla32.bsky.social · 1d

Go Mariners!!!!!!!!!!! Go make magic happen tonight.

Adam Kendall @theboobla32.bsky.social · 1d

Do that via cutting the cost per mile of building transit, not by making the system worse via forcing every route to share one tunnel through downtown. There's only so many trains per hour one tunnel can fit.
Heck a second tunnel allows us to build a fourth line that then uses the second tunnel.

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Adam Kendall @theboobla32.bsky.social · 1d

You elected MarKKK Carney, who's selling out Canada to Trump. He's elbows up because he's pinned against the ropes taking body blows, not willing to throw punches himself.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

We have truly not yet figured out how to cope with a person or institution that is "aware" of climate change, "accepts the science", but then decides to continue actively worsening it anyway

We don't even have a word or a phrase for this!

theconversation.com/mark-carneys...

Mark Carney’s climate inaction is at odds with his awareness of climate change’s existential threat

Climate action no longer seems to be a priority for Prime Minister Mark Carney, despite his previous activism. This is bad news for Canadians and the climate.

theconversation.com

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Adam Kendall @theboobla32.bsky.social · 1d

We can build a second tunnel. We can't have every route share the same tunnel. That's just called having branches. Seattle needs a genuine metro system with multiple routes, not one spine route with branches. We just gotta get costs down and build much much faster, not 9 years of planning.

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Adam Kendall @theboobla32.bsky.social · 1d

At least the depression is kicking in now, so that at 8 or 9pm you can have your jubilation of the day, rather than the reverse.

Go Mariners!

Adam Kendall @theboobla32.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry, I ain't reading your fascist propaganda. Go register as a Republican. Get out of the Democratic Party if your desire is ethnic cleansing of Latinos.

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Adam Kendall @theboobla32.bsky.social · 1d

You're the one claiming that the Dems need to embrace white supremacy fascism themselves in order to defeat the GOP's white supremacy fascism, rather than, ya know, becoming the party of anti fascism, who's platform is centered around crushing the forces of fascism and creating liberation.

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Adam Kendall @theboobla32.bsky.social · 1d

Thank God the courts ruled against Jim Crow Joe's white supremacist restrictions on asylum.

I'm assuming that, since you want restrictions on freedom of movement, you're a white supremacist fascist.
Because Biden's restrictions on asylum were fascist, hence the term Blue MAGA.

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 6d

James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:

Or, to put it another way, as long as white Americans take refuge in their whiteness— for so long as they are unable to walk out of this most monstrous of traps-they will allow millions of people to be slaughtered in their name, and will be manipulated into and surrender themselves to what they will think of-and justify—as a racial war. They will never, so long as their whiteness puts so sinister a distance between themselves and their own experience and the experience of others, feel themselves sufficiently human, sufficiently worthwhile, to become responsible for themselves, their leaders, their country, their children, or their fate. They will perish (as we once put it in our black church) in their sins—that is, in their delusions. And this is happening, needless to say, already, all around us.

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Adam Kendall @theboobla32.bsky.social · 1d

The Mariners must win tomorrow and then beat Toronto, so as to become Vancouver's team again. The 20+ year playoff drought + Jay's mid 2010's success led to Vancouver moving away from the Mariners.
Mariners winning helps Vancouver get an MLB team (we've played preseason games in Vancouver before)

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2d

Many Vancouverites, including me, cheer for the Seattle Mariners as our local Cascadia team & take the train to see a game occasionally. Sorry Detroit, I hope Seattle wins tomorrow night!

Until they play the Jays.

With the (North) American League pennant at stake, it’s 100% #GoJaysGo!

#TeamCanada

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 3d

YES! BLUE JAYS WIN THE SERIES! TORONTO WINS! CANADA WINS!

(Ok, I can concentrate on work now…)

Great series, gentlemen.

#JaysWin #CanadasTeam

Adam Kendall @theboobla32.bsky.social · 1d

He did ban asylum. Biden was incredibly racist on immigration. He crushed the anti ICE protests and sought to normalize Trump's white supremacy & ethnic cleansing to a liberal Democratic base. Biden's immigration policies coined the term Blue MAGA.

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