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Lorene

@lorene9.bsky.social

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Lorene @lorene9.bsky.social · Jul 27

The best way to end Women in Baseball Week @wibw.bsky.social is Peaches' night at the Rockford Rivets and joining in the excitement for the Women's Baseball World Cup next summer. How cool are these banners?! First pitch is in one year. Set your alarm. @iwbc4me.bsky.social @sabrchicago.bsky.social

International Women's Baseball Center Rockford. The cup comes home t-shirt promoting the women's baseball World Cup in Rockford next year.

Women's Baseball World Cup banners outside Rivets Stadium.

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Lorene @lorene9.bsky.social · 5h

Birthday cake and dynasty.

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Maggie Hendricks @maggiehendricks.bsky.social · 6h

Kahleah Copper is such a class act. She fouled out of the game, got a tech and will get a fine from it, and she is still out there saying congratulations to the Aces players.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8h

UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago.

She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵

OPINION AND ORDER
Since this country was founded, Americans have disagreed about the appropriate division
of power between the federal government and the fifty states that make up our Union. This
tension is a natural result of the system of federalism adopted by our Founders. And yet, not even
the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one
state's militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution, calling such
a suggestion "inflammatory," and stating "it is impossible to believe that [a President] would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs." But Plaintiffs contend that such
an event has come to pass, and argue that National Guard troops from both Illinois and Texas
have been deployed to Illinois because the President of the United States wants to punish state elected officials whose policies are different from his own.

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Lorene @lorene9.bsky.social · 6h

KFC! #Skyin4

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 11h

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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Lorene @lorene9.bsky.social · 7h

Respect.

T 💀 @reflectivity.bsky.social · 8h

🎶 it’s the most wonderful time of the year 🎶

a laptop playing baseball and a dual screen of the wnba finals and a college football game

Lorene @lorene9.bsky.social · 8h

I will never get used to Lobo praising A'ja. Never ever. #wnbafinals

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I have been a good Bling 😊🇨🇦 @blingdomepiece.bsky.social · 10h

We‘ve gotten to the Anne Frank stage of the presidency.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Lorene @lorene9.bsky.social · 14h

Thread. #gococks

WNBA @wnba.com · 14h

Lorene @lorene9.bsky.social · 16h

It looks great.

Lorene @lorene9.bsky.social · 16h

Vegas, baby!

Lorene @lorene9.bsky.social · 16h

The book as well as the biography, game recaps and essays? This is awesome.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 17h

Trying to scare people. But it won't work. No one looks scared to me anymore. And it's power in numbers. All the TV hits in the world won't change the fact that when Americans see the sheer number of people out there, absolutely no one will believe anything these guys say.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Lorene @lorene9.bsky.social · 16h

Exactly.

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 16h

One way to get him to stop uttering these obvious lies is for the people listening to him when he speaks in front of the microphone to stop taking his obviously false & unserious answers at face value & instead demand actual answers when they ask questions.

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 2d

The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 16h

Trump has less than 40% approval and Republicans have convinced themselves you need to pay people to protest his policies

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

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VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago October 2025: "Are the helicopters over my house this evening because of the Cubs playoff game or is it the federal government doing extrajudicial kidnappings?"

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WBEZ @wbez.org · 1d

Judge’s order bars ‘federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois’ for at least 14 days.
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Federal judge hits Trump administration credibility in siding with city and state against National Guard deployment

Judge's order bars 'federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois' for at least 14 days.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 1d

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Mother Jones has substantially more paid subscribers than Bari Weiss’ Free Press, so perhaps someone should put us in charge of a TV network.

Nice little TV network you got there

How easily has Trump rolled corporate media? So much more easily than he probably expected.

www.motherjones.com

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Lorene @lorene9.bsky.social · 1d

Thread.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

idk how many people there are who will throw down for jim comey, but there's a helluva lot of people who will throw down for tish james

Lorene @lorene9.bsky.social · 1d

Ridiculous. @sc.edu better not even think about it.

Lorene @lorene9.bsky.social · 1d

This thread. We can't be everything to everyone at all times under our current budget situations.

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 1d

"The chatbot struggled to correctly answer questions about books . . ."

This would be hilarious if it weren't for the fact that the authors, and many library administrators, weren't still insistent that chatbots are something libraries should implement. 📚

preprint.press.jhu.edu/portal/sites...

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: A federal judge in Illinois has blocked Trump administration authorities from using force against journalists in the Chicago area — including threats or arrest or riot control weapons. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 1d

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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