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¡matt! ✶✶✶✶ @mattfromchicago.bsky.social · 10m

Yo this is like watching the White Sox play the White Sox

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¡matt! ✶✶✶✶ @mattfromchicago.bsky.social · 14m

Regardless of what happens here this game is a great advertisement for the pitch clock

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¡matt! ✶✶✶✶ @mattfromchicago.bsky.social · 17m

every crowd shot for the last 5 innings

ShitpostBot 5000 @shitpostbot.com · 18m

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¡matt! ✶✶✶✶ @mattfromchicago.bsky.social · 19m

shoulda bunted

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¡matt! ✶✶✶✶ @mattfromchicago.bsky.social · 20m

Throwing absolute junk up there right now

¡matt! ✶✶✶✶ @mattfromchicago.bsky.social · 22m

Flaherty going to walk in the winning run and end this in the most anticlimactic way possible

¡matt! ✶✶✶✶ @mattfromchicago.bsky.social · 22m

Flaherty going to walk in the winning run and end this in the most anticlimactic way possible

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¡matt! ✶✶✶✶ @mattfromchicago.bsky.social · 23m

if they get Raleigh to 2B, they have to PR, right?

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Roger Cormier @yayroger.bsky.social · 34m

ADAM AMIN: Welcome to the top of the 47th
[Sun rises]
[Sun keeps getting bigger]
ADAM AMIN: yes
[World engulfed by flames]
ADAM AMIN: oh god yes
AJ PIERZYNSKI: shoulda bunted

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¡matt! ✶✶✶✶ @mattfromchicago.bsky.social · 29m

What a fuckin inning

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¡matt! ✶✶✶✶ @mattfromchicago.bsky.social · 31m

To play devil's advocate I don't think you can definitively say that he does or doesn't get his index finger out of the way

Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 43m

unquestionably hits the bat first

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¡matt! ✶✶✶✶ @mattfromchicago.bsky.social · 32m

No that's a strike

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¡matt! ✶✶✶✶ @mattfromchicago.bsky.social · 45m

Nobel Participation Trophy

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Rep. Buddy Carter: "Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. That's why I'm introducing a resolution today that will honor him with the Nobel Peace Prize."

(It doesn't work like that lol)

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 2h

Should’ve defunded the police like we instructed smh

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¡matt! ✶✶✶✶ @mattfromchicago.bsky.social · 1h

Even AI doesn't know this is AI-generated

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¡matt! ✶✶✶✶ @mattfromchicago.bsky.social · 1h

White Sox have played 2 winner-take-all games in my life and both of them nearly drove me insane

¡matt! ✶✶✶✶ @mattfromchicago.bsky.social · 1h

Sometimes I'm glad I root for a baseball team that's good charitably once a decade so I don't have to deal with stuff like this that often

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¡matt! ✶✶✶✶ @mattfromchicago.bsky.social · 1h

Sometimes I'm glad I root for a baseball team that's good charitably once a decade so I don't have to deal with stuff like this that often

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 1h

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

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¡matt! ✶✶✶✶ @mattfromchicago.bsky.social · 11h

Why the fuck are my tax dollars paying for crowd control for these ICE shitbags @jbpritzker.bsky.social

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 15h

People have been loudly booing the few ICE cars with masked agents inside that we've seen roll through.

ISP telling the crowd anyone who steps over the barricades or into the driveway will be arrested.

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¡matt! ✶✶✶✶ @mattfromchicago.bsky.social · 11h

Another ruling they will simply just ignore

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¡matt! ✶✶✶✶ @mattfromchicago.bsky.social · 1d

This is like getting a round table of Karl Malone, Patrick Ewing, and Gary Payton to discuss how to beat the 90s Bulls

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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¡matt! ✶✶✶✶ @mattfromchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Very cool that the Sun Times is embedding skeets from BS in their reporting

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

A federal judge said she is partially granting the state’s request to block the Trump administration’s deployment of National Guard units in the Chicago area as part of an immigration enforcement action.
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Judge grants a partial temporary restraining order on National Guard deployment in Illinois: Live updates

After hearing arguments from the state and Justice Department, the federal judge deciding whether to block President Trump's deployment of National Guard troops to the Chicago area has returned to the bench after an afternoon recess.

trib.al

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¡matt! ✶✶✶✶ @mattfromchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly wouldn't surprise me if that's the code word for Diet Coke

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¡matt! ✶✶✶✶ @mattfromchicago.bsky.social · 1d

this is what I would have thought being president was like if I was 5 years old

Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 1d

"He works from an office dubbed the “Freedom Suite” on one end of a hallway on the deputy attorney general’s fourth floor, which visitors have described as being decorated with oversize photos of Trump and a small cup of holy water on the wall."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Inside the Justice Department Where the President Calls the Shots

The president has executed a wholesale transformation of the Justice Department, taking control in ways he could have only dreamed of in his first term.

www.wsj.com

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¡matt! ✶✶✶✶ @mattfromchicago.bsky.social · 2d

Obviously this whole thing is an overhyped warning shot at others that the DOJ is fully weaponized to go after Trump's enemies but man, this idiot helped put him in office and this is the thanks he gets

NPR @npr.org · 2d

The former FBI director, who has long been one of President Trump's most vocal critics, was indicted last month on two counts stemming from his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee in September 2020. n.pr/47f3lnI

Former FBI director Comey pleads not guilty to federal charges of lying to Congress

The former FBI director, who has long been one of President Trump's most vocal critics, was indicted last month on two counts stemming from his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee in September 2020.

n.pr

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¡matt! ✶✶✶✶ @mattfromchicago.bsky.social · 2d

we're living in a simulation, don't @ me

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 3d

Fan wearing a "Dump Here" jersey with 61 caught Cal's HR 🔥

Immediately changes into an identical 62 jersey

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