Not only is white supremacy morally repugnant but it’s also historically ignorant and objectively wrong. Having researched the Negro Leagues has really highlighted how amazing Black America has always been. (1/5)

Here's an appropriate article in light of today's weather. lastwordonsports.com/baseball/202...

If you want to understand what’s going on you need to be able to tell when a projection of strength is masking great weakness and hoo boy is this ever a time when that’s happening. It doesn’t mean it’s not dangerous, but don’t assume this means they’re winning.

It's also ironic that the right were so certain Charlie Kirk's murder would be the Reichstag Fire that shifted public feeling towards Christofascism, but it didn't even move the needle, and now Alex Pretti's murder may do the exact opposite. Kirk was so unlikable he couldn't even be a useful martyr.

One of the main drivers of this is that between Koch, Wilkes, Saudi, and Qatari money, these guys genuinely can't imagine how any of this stuff gets done without throwing mountains of cash at it. What it gets you is think tanks and Tucker Carlson's dumbass podcast. It doesn't get you a movement.

Absolute banger of a comment on r/military: www.reddit.com/r/Military/c...

This is ok tho

They literally are in massive crisis, non-stop resource, constant defcon whatever because of Minneapolis. They can't even deal with one mid-sized city, much less the country

Worth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.

The people who'll tell you today's murder victim in Minnesota shouldn't have turned up to a protest carrying a gun are the same people who said Kyle Rittenhouse was perfectly entitled to do the same thing.

/2 The official policy of Trump supporters is that they support anything this government does. Treat them accordingly.

It’s no comfort, but the official DHS line being “he can be killed by masked agents of the state because he had a legal gun” is such an interesting new frontier in how Trump has made the conservative movement very publicly and embarrassingly abandon every principal it once claimed.

The Strib has identified him. Alex Pretti. Another 37-year-old executed for standing up for our immigrant neighbors. For shame. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

New from the SABR Games Project: Tom Merrick remembers Ewell Blackwell’s 1947 bid for back-to-back no-hitters. sabr.org/gamesproj/ga...

The best thing that I can say about Gonzales as my congressman is that he’s not Chip Roy.

As a legal professional, I can say that the hallmarks of a solid legal opinion based in fact and good law are "no you can't have a copy" and "no you can't take notes, just read it once and you're done".

Who was the last pitcher sent to the mound by Walter Alston? You'll know if you read my new SABR Games Project jawn🚨, which summarizes Alston's last game, 50 years ago this coming September: sabr.org/gamesproj/ga...

But time and circumstance will always prove us wrong eventually. The thing that’s supposed to happen…won’t. The surprise will appear, sometimes as heartbreak, sometimes as salvation. And I’m gonna stand in awe, wondering how the hell that just happened, every time. I hope I always do.

There are a lot of reasons to like sports, but the thing that draws me in is the opportunity to watch Things Not Go The Way They Are Supposed To. It’s the thing that ties together underdog stories and impossible endings and dominant runs by superhuman athletes, this destruction of sensibility.

The reason we've seen almost bizarrely anemic counter-protesting from the right is they're fucking tired. They've been at the grindstone for over a decade now and you could argue longer than that. They're exhausted and being asked for one more absolutely massive, socially expensive lift.

RIP Wilbur Wood, 84, a Chicago White Sox workhorse in the 1970s and arguably the best left-handed knuckleballer in major league history. Read his SABR bio: sabr.org/bioproj/pers...

Truly incredible. Like tar and feathering but with water and silly string. Triumph of wit and solidarity over the right wing algorithm machines. Love to see it. 💜

If you aren’t looking at Minnesota and seeing something that makes you hopeful despite the situation, you’re not getting the right information. You need to be able to use this to steel yourself against the chuds and their propaganda because resistance to them is working and it’s beautiful.

It *sucks* that he is in power, that he has the power to inflict so much harm, that he is using that power to inflict so much harm and that so many people voted for the Orange Man to lead us here. But normally tyrants find it easy to get the public in on their pogroms.

New from the SABR Games Project: the late Barry Sears remembers the first-ever major-league game to feature three players with 500 or more career home runs, in Cincinnati in 2005. sabr.org/gamesproj/ga...

please put me first on the "people who defended their neighbors" list. bold and underline it while you're at it

1. It's been more than a day since 2 of America's most storied newsrooms, CBS and ABC, reported that killer ICE agent Jon Ross suffered "internal bleeding" based on unnamed sources Since then - No other news org has confirmed the story - No evidence (photos, medical records) has been produced

Strange that nobody in the administration brought up this internal bleeding last week

This is not a novel observation, but I really don't think the admin quite understands the level of radicalization that is happening to opposition elements that were not previously radicalized in the slightest.

I was told that the US is running Venezuela now and it would be easy and there'd be lots of money... and now the US govt is telling Americans to get the hell out. These guys don't even know what a plan is. It's all just wish casting. It's incredible that they currently run the world.

if Trump can't produce the kind of fearful, subservient, authority-loving red state life that he adores in Minneapolis, in LA, in Portland, etc, he ends up looking weak - Minneapolis lost one Good person, and that's an awful tragedy, but - there are a lot more Renee Goods still left in Minneapolis

You can't dream of deporting millions (including American citizens) or get teachers fired for saying anything you don't like or make sure Hollywood doesn't show you a single gay ever again AND be someone who can live peacefully with their neighbors who don't want that. It's fundamentally impossible.

We talk a lot about the GOP's structural advantages, and not enough about the Dem's big structural advantage: the law. Trump's attempted political prosecutions have floundered because Dems don't break the law, but the Democrats would not have a similar problem if they decided to go ham on the GOP.

NYT: The death toll for the US attack on Venezuela has risen to 80, including civilians and members of security forces, and could rise further.

Gallego has been posting about Trump's war with Venezuala.

Worst Bluff Ever.

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What this underscores is a fundamental truth that while none of the rest of us need supremacists in our spaces, and are just fine without them, supremacists need the rest of us or they collapse against each other. Without them we're fine. Without us they've got nothing.

But why is Erika Kirk doing a town hall at all? And why is Bari Weiss conducting the interview? For all the bullshit GOP talk about “coastal elites” hardly anybody outside of the media even knows who these people are.

Kinda wild how quickly the entire trump admin moved on from the whole Indiana thing and how much it probably should tell everyone that you can tell him to fuck off and their need to constantly own the news cycle will mean that they move on from you within days.

Sportsball Stevie thinks a 9-4 record and three-game winning streak is a triumph of woke ideology over merit…

SABR Games Project article on Robinson’s immaculate inning coming in January!

truly honored that @marissarmoss.bsky.social and @natalieweiner.bsky.social let me be the first guest writer for Don’t Rock The Inbox and that they trusted me to memorialize Raul Malo, who i tried to find the words to describe www.dontrocktheinbox.com/remembering-...