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https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/11/politics/trump-border-immigration-charts/index.html 3 graphs that explain Trump’s border dilemma/s

Quentin and Eaton? AL acquisitions are hardly better...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2016/07/30/padres-trade-matt-kemp-braves-hector-oliveras/87830222/ Forgot how they kept playing musical chairs with Hector Olivera and Kemp deals before he eventually ended up in LA again...of course, Olivera originally signed by LA in perhaps the worst Cuban deal ever (Rusney Castillo would be right up there.) But these deals are not netting elite under 25 prospects. White Sox need one of these: Shelby Miller for Swanson, Inciarte, Blair and Speier...or the other terrible DBacks’ move, Touki Toussaint and Arroyo (contract dump of just $9.5 mill) for IF Phil Gosselin.

You can say goodbye to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Our new SCOTUS nominee has deemed it to be unconstitutional. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/07/10/scotus-could-cripple-cfpb-with-brett-kavanaugh-on-the-bench.html

Of course, when a bad contract gets absorbed, it actually turns into a net positive for the Dodgers (Kemp).

What has the GOP done well, exactly? They got 77,000 votes in three states they wouldn’t have without Comey’s unsanctioned intervention into the election...otherwise, the storyline would be a completely different take on things. Not that Clinton would have fixed any big problems. Still not clear what Trump has done, other than increase our future debt payments at an alarming pace. But two justices who want to set women back by 50 years, it was all worth it!

Indians had 4-0 lead in 9th against Cincy, now down 6-4. Bullpen just not the same. Now 7-4. Votto and Suarez are pretty stout.

Farmer is convinced Covey is tipping his pitches...

Don’t be jealous because Ocasio-Cortez now is one of the 25 most high-profile Democrats in the country and hasn’t even been elected yet...

Imagining a better health care system, less defense spending, a more affordable higher education system, a safer/cleaner environment, more protections for workers/wage fairness, job training/vocational tech spending....better infrastructure...and regulations to protect us from investment banks becoming too big to fail. Crazy socialists/commies! We should just follow that wise sage, Rep. King of Iowa.

https://sports.yahoo.com/10-degrees-forget-star-snubs-first-half-baseball-awards-far-interesting-060643878.html

Disgusting. Hard to believe it’s actually 2018 in America.

Heitkamp, Manchin, Donnelly, Doug Jones...definitely are on the watch list. Second tier, Tester and McCaskill, although the latter would be shocking because of Roe v. Wade and her state’s GOP being in total chaos...and her opponent barely running a campaign until recently.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/09/us/mexican-man-beaten-brick-los-angeles/index.html Meanwhile, a 92 year old Hispanic man was getting beaten by cinder blocks while the (attacking) mom’s 4 year old watched... Usually not a GoFundMe fan , but this one seems to be a worthwhile donation and has really blown up quickly.

Senate Democrats are sure to press Kavanaugh to explain his views on investigating and impeaching a president based on allegations of lies and a cover-up, something that could prove uncomfortable for Trump given the investigation underway by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. A graduate of Yale University and Yale Law School, Kavanaugh — the only one of Trump’s four finalists who has an Ivy League degree — will be in good company on a court where all the current justices have gone to law school at Harvard or Yale. Last year, Trump said he was drawn to his first appointee, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, because he had degrees from Columbia, Harvard and Oxford. Some conservative activists in recent days had launched a campaign against Kavanaugh, complaining about his past ties to the George W. Bush administration and previous rulings that were not hard-line enough for their taste. Many preferred one of the candidates who had worked outside of Washington, despite their less sterling resumes. The other finalists, also federal appeals court judges, were Amy Coney Barrett of Indiana, Thomas Hardiman of Pennsylvania and Raymond Kethledge of Michigan. But lawyers who have worked with Kavanaugh are confident he will be boldly conservative. “Brett Kavanaugh is courageous, tough and defiant. He will never, ever go wobbly,” said Justin Walker, a University of Louisville law professor who worked as law clerk for both Kavanaugh and Justice Kennedy. “I predict that he would be a rock-solid conservative in the Alito-Thomas mold,” he said, referring to Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Clarence Thomas. http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-20180709-story.html

https://www.mlb.com/news/rick-hahn-patient-during-rebuilding-process/c-284681614

Tried to score from 3rd with one out when he should have retreated back to third. Avi pretty much the only bright spot, he should go to All-Star game again, haha. Or Omar.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/07/politics/steve-fitzgerald-kansas-candidate-barbarism-comments/index.html Greg, what do you think of this guy from your neck of the woods? Who compared Planned Parenthood to Dachau, except worse...

So much for Moncada’s baserunning rating...

Terrible defense. Have to take out at home, then try for DP...wondering if Davidson really is much better over there.

But blanket media buys in Iowa are much cheaper. https://truthout.org/articles/how-liberal-partisan-politics-strengthen-the-right-wing/ How liberal (centrist, really) politics are actually strengthening the right wing agenda.

Maybe they’re all Eastern European beauties on “Einstein” visas?

Nobody has ever claimed a progressive/liberal/socialist could win in Alabama.

Next up...Night of the Long Knives.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/06/politics/bill-shine-fox-news-donald-trump/index.html more reverse swamp-draining...former Fox News exec/#metoo enabler/Ailes protege Shine hired by WH