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This is a good short article on MLB's history of racism. One passage stands out: "In 1947, after Robinson joined the Dodgers and Larry Doby joined the Indians to become the first black player in the AL, the Sporting News ran another editorial on segregation:
'Once Again, That Negro Question.' It quoted an unidentified player who complained about the end of all-white teams: 'Let us not discriminate against the white player because he is white.'”
This, of course, is essentially the same as those who hear the slogan "Black Lives Matter" and complain "What about White Lives Matter."

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On Monday, the Court of Appeals of Maryland (our highest court) issued an opinion dealing with the duty of a property owner to third-parties. The principle that it articulates may be more important that it first appears.
The case is Steamfitters Local Union No. 602 v. Erie Insurance Exchange.
While the opinion deals with a number of issues, this may be the most important passage (at slip. op. 43):
For at least the past 80 years, this Court has recognized that ownership, operation, and maintenance of property comes with a common law duty to use reasonable care so as not to cause harm to the neighboring property owners.
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The USDC for the D.Oregon issued an injunction against federal forces in Portland, enjoining them "from arresting, threatening to arrest, or using physical force directed against any person whom they know or reasonably should know is a Journalist
or Legal Observer . . ., unless the Federal Defendants have probable cause to believe that such individual has committed a crime.
For purposes of this Order, such persons shall not be required to disperse following the issuance of an order to disperse, and such persons shall not be subject to arrest for not dispersing following the issuance of an order to disperse."
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This is the entry in Lord Louis Mountbatten's diary for July 24, 1945:
"I had come back convinced that Labour would get in by a handsome majority and was astounded to find that the Prime Minister [Churchill] and indeed everyone I met at Potsdam was quite confident that the Conservative Party would get in.
"The most pessimistic majority I heard was 30, and the Prime Minister himself told me he thought he would have 1OO."

There's a lesson here for Joe Biden.
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