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TannerHQ
@tannersmith4.bsky.social
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Mostly baseball and 76ers homer stuff here I write Swings and Takes for BaseballHQ.com, as well as contributing on the minor league side
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WATCH: "They are underwater across the board, and they know it. And that is causing them to double down in public. But it is backfiring. That is why—whether it's a shutdown, whether it's all of this—they want us to blink first. And we have too much to save," says AOC.
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There's a wrong way and a right way to report this
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100% of NFL teams didn't pay tribute to Melissa Hortman

Also: All media has to pretend this stuff is totally normal
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it’s fascinating. majorities of americans oppose the military occupation of cities. a substantial number of those are fucking furious about it, but rather than lean into this anger and attack trump’s perception of strength, these “strategists” want democrats to avoid the confrontation entirely.
There it is folks. The brilliant Dem strategy, according to the genius pundits with the ear of Dem leadership, is to let Trump keep doing everything he's doing but only if we can also help Republicans avoid paying a political price for hurting people long enough to hold the House and Senate in 2026
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🚨Trump drops all pretense and openly admits the mass raids in Chicago are about ICE raids and deportations (not crime), and essentially declares that he’s going to war with the city.
Just Trump declaring war on a US city, a normal Saturday
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Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
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Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.
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Narciso Barranco's story is a story that echoes in the experience of millions of undocumented immigrants; a hard-working father who raised proud American children who love their country.

The Trump admin lied to the public and painted him as a danger. He is not. He's part of the American fabric.
EXCLUSIVE EXTENDED INTERVIEW: “I see my reflection in their pain, because it’s my own,” Narciso Barranco, the father of three Marines violently detained while landscaping, told me about the men he met in ICE detention for my first assignment as MSNBC senior national and political correspondent.
'Don’t separate families': Soboroff speaks with father of Marines, detained by ICE | MSNBC EXCLUSIVE
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For Cardinals fans, I think it is worth saying that I wrote a full scouting report for @baseballhq.com on Nate Dohm back in June. My latest for the site for Orioles fans was on Wellington Aracena.

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As an aside, I'm told multiple major outlets were not interested in this story and passed on covering it. Mind-boggling.
"Despite Trump officially activating FEMA on Sunday, FEMA has just 86 total staff deployed at this point [to Texas], according to figures shared with staff Monday evening...In the past it would normally be in the several hundreds at this point in the disaster recovery process."

My latest:
FEMA response to deadly Texas floods delayed & deficient with Noem in charge
Staffers sound the alarm.
www.thehandbasket.co
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While Republicans celebrate the passage of the largest Medicaid cut in history, the Curtis Medical Center in Nebraska announced it will shut down as a result of these horrific cuts — the first of many hospitals to close.

This is a dark day for rural America and for our country.
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David is right. What JD Vance is saying is nothing is more important than destroying this country’s basic principles and crash the economy to expel a population he doesn’t like.

There are other options! Ones that actually make this country BETTER, not WORSE.
I’ve warned about the nativist mind virus for many years. They’d destroy the economy, bankrupt the government, shred the Constitution, trample our freedoms, and imprison their own people to get what they want: not just mass deportation, but something more like ethnic cleansing
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one thing that is important to emphasize at that this is just republican governance at work! this is what happens when you give republicans power in washington!
Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie.

One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.

They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
More important story now than ever
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Jul 1
Andrew Roth survived the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald. Jack Moran helped liberate the camp while serving in the U.S. Army. Decades after liberation, the two met and shared their stories.
80 years later, a Holocaust survivor meets an American soldier who helped free him
Andrew Roth survived the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald. Jack Moran helped liberate the camp while serving in the U.S. Army. Decades after liberation, the two met and shared their stories.
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The hardest rule of Beltway journalism is that Republican public officials have no agency and bear no responsibility for choices fully within their discretion
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The @baseballhq.com Eyes Have it Podcast will post tomorrow. I am blaming the weather in the SE for the flights delays, getting me home so late from a trip. Tanner Smith is my guest. I’ll let you know when it’s up tomorrow.
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we only have each other, the entire media is gonna be creaming for war coverage
Ah here comes @cnn.com with the bullshit straight out of 2003
Has been a busy weekend so I haven’t plugged this yet so was very excited to get to talk to Chris Blessing on the Eyes Have It podcast for @baseballhq.com! It was a great convo, Chris is one of the people who I have to thank for having the chance to work in baseball. open.spotify.com/episode/5iuS...
Episode 5.13: The Tape Delay Edition with Tanner Smith
The Eyes Have It - A BaseballHQ Prospect Podcast · Episode
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SHUT. IT. DOWN.

A senator was dragged out of a press conference for standing up for his constituents and against fascism.

Watch how your representatives and senators respond to their own colleague being treated like this. That'll show you how they'll react when it's *you* on the ground.
Call your senators, demand they shut the Senate down.
Out yesterday on @baseballhq.com: I wrote one of my favorite articles of the year on two guys with underwhelming numbers to date who I believe could provide big power numbers for fantasy managers for the rest of the season:

www.baseballhq.com/articles/ski...
Swings and Takes: Cheap Power
Brett Baty and Andrew Benintendi may be on the verge of power spikes.
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