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I've been critical of this tournament's existence, and it still feels silly in a lot of ways. But I was really invested in the game tonight and didn't notice the artificial nature of things as much as I thought I might. Damn, it still feels great to beat Atlanta
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He should Google Iran Contra some time
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It seems like remarkably quick turnaround for a branding decision of that magnitude
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Which one is Mueller again?
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You hate to see it, you really do.
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He gets cancelled all the time; cancellations have little power against those with little shame.
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CruelBuffalo posted...

I dont get why Atlanta is gold

Their main colors are black, red and gold, but obviously can't wear black and red tonight given the opponent

Also woo eat my ass, Atlanta
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CanuckCowboy posted...

And on a personal level having a few beers with dubya might not be how i want to spend my time

W does not drink.
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Cannot recommend the podcast Blowback enough.
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Christian RULES posted...

Why are some people shocked? He's worn masks before and he is the one that encourages the idea of wearing masks.

Do you ever get tired of shitposting?
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https://twitter.com/business/status/1282068749550575628
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I watch F1 and Indycar when I can, and play various racing games.
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Me personally, I don't think we should sacrifice the weak.
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Biden is a deeply disappointing candidate for a number and probably going to win.
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Now, is that good?
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Update
https://twitter.com/jeremymbarr/status/1282061421845544962
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Ruvan22 posted...

I worked from home a lot and managed to keep from posting racist, sexist, homophobic comments on message boards...

The joke he's making is that his work for Fox is very similar to his posts online
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Update:

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1282036536725303296
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Outdoor activity is mostly fine. This beats the hell out of a bar or restaurant.
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No that's pretty classic lib shit
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They have a couple sales each year where their big titles drop to $40, but that's about it.
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https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-cr-bpd-detective-arrested-20200710-fb2ctzpkondxhdmreklugc75n4-story.html

A Baltimore Police Department homicide unit sergeant was ordered held without bail Friday after allegedly extorting, kidnapping and threatening to arrest a home contractor whose work he was unhappy with and whom he drove to a bank to withdraw money for a refund.

Three other homicide unit detectives were present at one point during the confrontation, and the department said a preliminary review indicates all were on duty at the time.

You are going to give me my money back, and Im going to give you freedom, Sgt. James Lloyd told the contractor, according to charging documents.

The Baltimore Sun was unable to reach the contractor for comment.

Lloyd, 45, of Gwynn Oak, was arrested and ordered held without bail by a Baltimore County District Court judge. Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said Lloyd would be suspended without pay and an internal affairs investigation has been launched.

The other three officers have not been charged with a crime, but Harrison said their police powers were suspended and they were assigned to administrative duties, continuing to collect pay. Lloyd identified them to county investigators as Juan Diaz, Manuel Larbi and Troy Taylor, according to charging documents.

The department said Harrison had taken swift and decisive action to the maximum state law allows. His chief of staff, Eric Melancon, said the state Law Enforcement Officers Bill of Rights limited the commissioners options.

The public demands a level of accountability that the commissioner can only give to a certain extent because of those laws, Melancon said in a brief interview.

The charges stem from a dispute about a home improvement job, Baltimore County police said. Charging documents show the incident occurred June 25 and was reported to county police the same day.

Lloyd, a 21-year veteran of the city police department who was the lead detective on the investigation of the death of Detective Sean Suiter, was upset with a patio that a contractor had built, county police say.

He demanded a refund and confronted the contractor with information about his drivers license being suspended, saying he could arrest him, according to charging documents. Then, authorities said, he made the victim get into Lloyds car. The victim told police that he feared being arrested and complied with Lloyds demands of going to the bank and getting a certified check for the refund, officials said.

At a bail review hearing Friday, defense attorney Matthew Fraling told Baltimore County District Court Judge Kimberly Thomas that the matter should be a civil issue and not criminal, saying it all stems from poor construction by contractor on a new patio.

I agree 100% this should have stayed a civil matter, replied county prosecutor Thomas Kane. The defendant made certain decisions which grossly changed the character of the interaction with the victim.

Fraling asked that Lloyd be released on his own recognizance, while Kane asked the judge to set some monetary bail. Thomas, however, said Lloyd posed a threat to public safety and ordered him held.

Some time after the Suiter case was essentially concluded by the department, Lloyd moved to the homicide operations unit, which tracks down witnesses for detectives.

Suiter was shot in the head on Nov. 15, 2017, while conducting a follow-up investigation of a homicide in West Baltimore. Police have said they believe he was shot with his own gun at close range, and police now consider his death to be a suicide. It remains classified as an unsolved homicide, however.

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The Switch tax is real, but I was able to get Phantom Doctrine for $2 when it's $40 elsewhere, so *shrug*
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They don't really make much pretense at being unbiased these days.
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Legion was the game I was most excited for last E3 and they... Haven't shown anything since? So yeah I'm hyped.
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LividDK posted...

It was actually the one aspect I disliked. I enjoyed the game overall but it was so jarring having this group of young, carefree hackers seemingly go from printing out slogans on t-shirts and spray painting DedSec logos on walls to happily gunning down dozens of people right from the start of the game. It felt that disjointed I actually went through almost the whole game taking down people only using Marcus' yo-yo thing, never once printed out any weapons or anything.

Yeah, I think it would've been a more interesting, distinct game if it didn't give you guns
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https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1281407557521879043
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whitehawk1986 posted...

Boycotts in general are stupid

Why do you think this?
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San Jose playing man-to-man all over the field is fascinating to watch.
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Solidarity with the workers
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joe40001 posted...

Is doxxing justified now if it's against an asshole?

If that asshole is writing the most-watched show on cable news, and the president is a regular viewer, I see nothing wrong with exposing behavior like this.
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It's definitely worth your time at that price. What I like most about it is the tools it gives you for fucking around in that world, in a way you can't do so much in GTA. It also can be played as a pretty neat stealth game if you so choose; nonviolent runs are pretty common to see with it.
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https://twitter.com/AllezLesBoulez/status/1281744522096119809
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"The deal was done. DACA is going to be just fine. Were putting it in. It's going to be just fine. And I am going to be, over the next few weeks, signing an immigration bill that a lot of people don't know about. You have breaking news, but I'm signing a big immigration bill," Trump told Daz-Balart.

"Is that an executive order?" the anchor asked.

"I'm going to do a big executive order. I have the power to do it as president and I'm going to make DACA a part of it," Trump responded. "But, we put it in, and we'll probably going to then be taking it out. We're working out the legal complexities right now, but I'm going to be signing a very major immigration bill as an executive order, which Supreme Court now, because of the DACA decision, has given me the power to do that."

Asked whether the executive order would provide temporary relief for DACA recipients, Trump said its scope would be much wider.

"No, what I'm going to do is that they're going to part of a much bigger bill on immigration. It's going to be a very big bill, a very good bill, and merit-based bill and it will include DACA, and I think people are going to be very happy," said Trump.

"But one of the aspects of the bill is going to be DACA. We're going to have a road to citizenship," he added.

This doesn't exactly sound like an ironclad commitment to the idea.
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You'd think it's the public racism that'd get him to resign, but
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/media/tucker-carlson-writer-blake-neff/index.html

The top writer for Fox News host Tucker Carlson has for years been using a pseudonym to post bigoted remarks on an online forum that is a hotbed for racist, sexist, and other offensive content, CNN Business learned this week.

Just this week, the writer, Blake Neff, responded to a thread started by another user in 2018 with the subject line, "Would u let a JET BLACK congo [N-word] do lasik eye surgery on u for 50% off?" Neff wrote, "I wouldn't get LASIK from an Asian for free, so no." (The subject line was not censored on the forum.) On June 5, Neff wrote, "Black doods staying inside playing Call of Duty is probably one of the biggest factors keeping crime down." On June 24, Neff commented, "Honestly given how tired black people always claim to be, maybe the real crisis is their lack of sleep." On June 26, Neff wrote that the only people who care about changing the name of the NFL's Washington Redskins are "white libs and their university-'educated' pets."

And over the course of five years, Neff has maintained a lengthy thread in which he has derided a woman and posted information about her dating life that has invited other users to mock her and invade her privacy. There has at times also been overlap between some material he posted or saw on the forum and Carlson's show.

CNN Business contacted Neff for comment Thursday night. After he or someone acting on his behalf passed that email to Fox News spokespeople, a network spokesperson on Friday morning told CNN Business that Neff had resigned. A Fox News spokesperson said Carlson could not be reached for comment. Neff did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Neff worked at Fox News for nearly four years and was Carlson's top writer. Previously, he was a reporter at The Daily Caller, a conservative news outlet that Carlson co-founded. In a recent article in the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, Neff said, "Anything [Carlson is] reading off the teleprompter, the first draft was written by me." He also acknowledged the show's influence, telling the magazine, "We're very aware that we do have that power to sway the conversation, so we try to use it responsibly."

When asked in a 2018 appearance on Fox's "The Five" about the writing process for his show, Carlson said he spends hours working on scripts, but referred to Neff by name, saying he was a "wonderful writer" and acknowledging his assistance. And Carlson credited Neff in the acknowledgments of his book, "Ship of Fools," for providing research. In the acknowledgments, Carlson said that Neff and two others who helped with the book "work on and greatly improve our nightly show on Fox."

During the years that Neff wrote for him at Fox, Carlson has hosted one of the most influential shows on cable news. In the last quarter, Carlson had not only the highest-rated program in cable news, but the highest-rated show in the history of cable news. Carlson also counts President Trump among his most loyal viewers. On multiple occasions, the President has tweeted out videos of Carlson's program. Which is to say, the scripts that Neff likely helped write and shape were being shared by the President of the United States.

While working at Fox News, and while a reporter at The Daily Caller, Neff was a frequent poster on AutoAdmit. Also known as XOXOhth, it is a relatively unmoderated message board like 4chan aimed at lawyers and law school students in which racism and sexism run rampant. The board's vulgar content was previously the subject of much criticism, and two Yale students sued anonymous posters on the site in 2007 alleging they had defamed them and made threatening remarks. The Hartford Courant reported in 2009 that the lawsuit was quietly settled after some of the posters were identified.
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On the forum, Neff has also expressed bigoted views. In 2014, he joked about "foodie [homophobic slurs]." And in the same year, he started a thread titled, "Urban business idea: He Didn't Do Muffin!" He joked one item could be, "Sandra Bland's Sugar-free Shortbreads!" In August 2019, a user started a thread titled, "We should just buy Canada and kick the Canadians out." Neff commented, "Okay but what do we do with the millions of Chinese people."

More recently, in February 2020, Neff called Mormonism "an inherently cucky religion." On June 5, a user on the forum commented in a thread, "Didn't Michael Brown rob a store and attack a police officer? And wasn't [George Floyd] a piece of shit with a long criminal record? Jfc libs." Another person commented, "It doesn't matter to these people." Neff then replied, "It does. The violent criminals are even MORE heroic." On June 16, a user started a separate thread about a video showing a Black man assaulting an elderly white woman in New York. Neff commented on the thread, "And to think, if this guy got killed in some freak incident while being arrested, we'd have to endure at least three funerals in his honor."

On the Fourth of July, Neff started a thread in which he jokingly "rated" members of the community using images from a 1990s video game from the makers of "Oregon Trail" that was pulled from the market due to its racist depictions of slaves. In the game, users play as slaves trying to break free and escape north. Neff assigned users on the forum images from the game, many of which depicted Black slaves using racist stereotypes. For instance, Neff assigned one user an image of a slave catcher, to which the user replied "[thank you] massa Charles for dis."

On May 27, Neff wrote that Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib known collectively as "The Squad" want to "MAKE YOUR COUNTRY A DUMPING GROUND FOR PEOPLE FROM THIRD WORLD SHITHOLES." Responding to a thread on June 27 about whether "whites fear what's going to happen to them in 10-20 yrs," Neff wrote that he has "no plans to stay" in the country "that long." In December 2019, he said that "once Democrats have the majorities to go full FUCK WHITEY, things are going to get really wacky really quickly." He argued at the time that there is a "large minority of whites who are fully supportive of a Fuck Whitey agenda" and that "there's a suicidal impulse to Western peoples that honestly feels almost biological in origin."

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Should I buy Sniper Elite 3 for Switch? ($14 on sale)
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Jesus Christ I probably still have five hours to go
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This man was mislead to death.
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https://twitter.com/riegerreport/status/1281680843585585152
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GOP donors have tried.
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Fun game, but I never had the heart for any of the higher difficulty/realistic ballistics settings
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Update
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1281641892669730816
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Trump can win Florida and lose the electoral college.
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au_gold posted...

Is she likable now?

Does your memory span last longer than five minutes?
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gatorsPENSbucs posted...

ESPN firing someone for telling another person fuck you and people are mad at ESPN and wondering why he was fired....... unbelievable.

He didn't get fired
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https://www.fox9.com/news/150-minneapolis-police-officers-seeking-disability-for-ptsd-following-riots

At least 150 Minneapolis Police Officers have begun the process of seeking 'duty disability' for post-traumatic stress under the Minnesota Public Employees Retirement Association (PERA), said an attorney representing the officers.

The attorney, Ron Meuser, who handles most disability claims for the Minneapolis Police Federation, told the FOX 9 Investigators 75 of those officers are under doctors orders not to return to work as they undergo treatment for symptoms consistent with PTSD.

The symptoms didnt just start six weeks ago, said Meuser. Theyve been dealing with symptoms for decades.

But the stress and trauma reached a tipping point with the siege of the Third Police Precinct, he said. Fifty of the officers currently seeking disability, about one-third of the total, were present at the Third Precinct on Thursday, May 28.

They did not feel they were going to come home, said Meuser. Some officers were texting their families goodbye and others were saving a bullet in case they needed to take their own life, rather than being beaten to death, he said.

Meuser said since the killing of George Floyd, officers have felt abandoned by city and state politicians as well as the community at large.

Its an emotional beatdown on a daily basis for these guys, he said.

Asked if those seeking disability are retaliating against the City of Minneapolis, Meuser denied that is the case.

Ive looked them in the eyes, not one of them is attempting to get out of working, said Meuser. Every one of them, to a man and woman, said, 'I never thought I would be leaving this way.'"

Meuser added that most of the officers seeking disability are veterans of the department with 16 to 23 years of experience.

Recent changes in state law have made it easier for law enforcement to claim their jobs caused post-traumatic stress, instead of other factors like previous military service or home life.

In the last month, the City of Minneapolis has received 17 PTSD related workers compensation claims.

But applications submitted under the state retirement fund, known as PERA, do not require an employee to notify the department that an application has been submitted.

Under PERA duty disability, officers would be able to claim 60 percent of their average salary over the next 20 years. If the employee also files for workers compensation, it usually makes up the difference to their full salary.

Minneapolis City Councilwoman Linea Palmisano (Ward 13) said so many officers seeking disability could have an enormous financial impact on the city.

This keeps someone who is no longer working, at a significant expense to our city, and I fear with appropriate treatment could have recovered and been a meaningful contributor to our city, said Palmisano.

Palmisano, who believes the officers claims are legitimate, said too little is done before a diagnosis of post traumatic stress, and not enough afterwards.

Along with other council members, she supports additional resiliency training to help officers recognize and cope with the signs of post-traumatic stress.

Palmisano said recent legislative changes, while they make it easier to establish a claim, dont allow enough time for treatment that would allow an employee to successfully return to work.

This is too often a hidden ailment, said Palmisano. And we sure dont want that because it comes out in peoples lives and their work lives in a bad way.

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https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1281622984692727814
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