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Mark Anthony Frassetto @mark-frassetto.bsky.social · 5h

The Church lines up with Republicans on abortion and like 2012 Republican views on gay rights (the Church is definitely more supportive than the GOP now), and religious exemptions for religious orgs, and thats pretty much it.

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Mark Anthony Frassetto @mark-frassetto.bsky.social · 5h

I do think it hurts that police entirely stopped enforcing traffic laws during covid and never really started again -- just threw up some speed and red light cameras.

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Mark Anthony Frassetto @mark-frassetto.bsky.social · 6h

Probably 75% of the time that I wait for a pedestrian to cross before turning right someone behind me honks at me.

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Mark Anthony Frassetto @mark-frassetto.bsky.social · 7h

it is a spot foul -- I didn't actually know that when I made the suggestion but someone else asked about it and I looked it up.

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Mark Anthony Frassetto @mark-frassetto.bsky.social · 7h

Although it doesn't really seem like the rule against it would stop you from doing it -- assuming you have more than 10 seconds.

Article 1. Illegal Acts
A team is not permitted to conserve time after the two-minute warning of either half by committing any of these acts:

(a) a foul by either team that stops the clock during any dead ball period;
intentional grounding;
an illegal forward pass;
throwing a backward pass out of bounds;
spiking or throwing the ball in the field of play after a down has ended, except after a touchdown; or
illegally batting or kicking the ball out of bounds.
Penalty: For illegally conserving time: Loss of five yards unless a larger distance penalty is applicable.

Item 1. Actions by the Offense. When actions referred to above are committed by the offensive team while time is in, officials will run off 10 seconds from the game clock and reset the play clock to 30 seconds before permitting the ball to be put in play on the ready for play signal. The game clock will start on the ready for play signal unless another rule prescribes otherwise. If the offensive team has timeouts remaining, it will have the option of using a timeout in lieu of a 10-second runoff, in which case the game clock will start on the snap after the timeout. The defense always has the option to decline the 10-second runoff and have the yardage penalty enforced, but if the yardage penalty is declined, the 10-second runoff is also declined, the play clock is set to 25 seconds, and the clock starts on the snap.

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Mark Anthony Frassetto @mark-frassetto.bsky.social · 7h

dang!

Mark Anthony Frassetto @mark-frassetto.bsky.social · 7h

good question that I hadn't thought of at all, but it is the spot of the pass.

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Mark Anthony Frassetto @mark-frassetto.bsky.social · 8h

It'd be a very specific situation, catch the ball down field inside the 40 with between 10-20 seconds left, but it's certainly not an unheard of scenario.

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Mark Anthony Frassetto @mark-frassetto.bsky.social · 8h

Also I think he scored the touchdown.

Mark Anthony Frassetto @mark-frassetto.bsky.social · 8h

Are there end of game situations where 20 seconds left you throw down the middle into field goal range and then do an illegal forward pass rather than take the tackle? You'd lose 5 yards and 10 seconds but could snap it as the clock starts.

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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18h

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 20h

Here’s video of the incident

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 20h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Mark Anthony Frassetto @mark-frassetto.bsky.social · 20h

I suspect the photo of the soldiers is AI, but if it's real I think it's fine to make fun of soldiers engaged in the illegal and unconstitutional occupation of an American city.

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RedditCFB @redditcfb.com · 21h

Today is the 109th anniversary of one wild day in football

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Mark Anthony Frassetto @mark-frassetto.bsky.social · 23h

I just don't understand at all what the UK is doing, both the current government and the opposition.

Your whole economy was based on being open (finance and education) and you are blowing both of those sectors up to placate some fucking losers protesting immigrants.

Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 1d

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is expected to announce plans to cut the number of UK university places by about 100,000 annually by reintroducing student number controls, reports Patrick Jack #edusky
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/badenochs-number-caps-plan-would-cut-100000-university-places

Mark Anthony Frassetto @mark-frassetto.bsky.social · 1d

Charles mostly tried to do it with some pretense of legality though, right? ship money etc.

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Mark Anthony Frassetto @mark-frassetto.bsky.social · 1d

A bunch of dudes with punisher tattoos and hot topic tie dye T-shirts suddenly showing up to the Indivisible retiree protests on highway overpasses.

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

This is straight from the fascist playbook. It will ceate fear and mistrust among Democratic groups in Texas and it is ultimately designed to suppress votes.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

seeing otherwise smart people share the story that a south carolina judge’s beach house was burned to the ground because of a ruling against trump despite there being no evidence of that has been frustrating. just because the other side has abandoned facts doesn’t mean we can, too.

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Mark Anthony Frassetto @mark-frassetto.bsky.social · 1d

I just don't think -- "health care premiums will go up if you reelect republicans who just extended those subsidies" is a very strong message.

They need to either actually get the permanent subsidies or fail to get them in a very high profile way that puts all the blame for premiums on Republicans

Mark Anthony Frassetto @mark-frassetto.bsky.social · 1d

This is unambiguously a scam by pharmaceutical companies to force people to buy more expensive inhalers.

This is the same scam they used when they forced people to stop using generic CFC inhalers and made them use brand name inhalers instead. Prices went up hundreds of dollars.

CNN @cnn.com · 2d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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Mark Anthony Frassetto @mark-frassetto.bsky.social · 1d

Dems should simply never reopen the government. We can't fund these people, we just can't.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

DURBIN: You won't even say whether you talked to the WH about this?

BONDI: I'm not going to discuss any internal conversations with you

D: They're going to transfer TX Guard troops to the state of Illinois. What's the rationale?

B: I wish you loved Chicago as much as you hate President Trump

Mark Anthony Frassetto @mark-frassetto.bsky.social · 1d

This is the current map, which they've kept roughly the same to maintain the racial and economic line between the richer and whiter west county and the less wealthy and more diverse east county.

The weird carveout in Blue is the third most diverse neighborhood int he country.

Mark Anthony Frassetto @mark-frassetto.bsky.social · 1d

Montgomery County Maryland added a new high school so they had to redraw boundaries and surprise surprise after initially releasing maps that diversified the rich west county high schools released new maps today that maintain the segregationist lines.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

It's so incredible how low homicide rates are in Europe. The UK, with a population of 70 million people, had fewer than 600 murders in 2023.
www.connexionfrance.com/news/double-...

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Mark Anthony Frassetto @mark-frassetto.bsky.social · 1d

I am a pretty big fan of space exploration, but I don't know that I'd take vacation for this either

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