I very much appreciated how Ken Burns ended the American Revolution documentary by citing this Benjamin Rush quote:

The Trump-Zohran meeting in a nutshell:

"zohran is a turn coat for shaking the presidents hand" is a baby brained take I'm sorry

Find someone who looks at you the way Donald Trump looks at Zohran Mamdani.

I liked how episode two of the American Revolution documentary closed with an instrumental version of the tune to both "God Save the King" and "My Country 'Tis of Thee." It could be interpreted both ways.

I enjoyed the first episode of the Ken Burns American Revolution documentary. Bringing Paul Giamatti back to voice John Adams was a good call. I also can see why the Wall Street Journal's review was very salty.

Dewey Defeats Truman.

KATIE WILSON LEADS BY 1,346!

It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life

i try not to be hyperbolic but this NY daily news editorial board piece saying mayor-elect mamdani better support israel OR ELSE is one of the most appalling things i’ve ever read

🎙️ Mamdani’s speeches, including the call-and-response chant of “fast and free buses,” were designed to make people feel ownership of the message, his speechwriter Julian Gerson told Drop Site's @ryangrim.bsky.social. The team began drafting the victory speech about 10 days before election night...

Bernie Sanders understands the assignment, and it's good that he's pushing Zohran's team to be prepared for the next 100 days.

big papers, particularly the NYT, just *love* stealing a story idea and re-reporting it without credit

I'd read the heck out of an in-depth study tracking the influence of major campaigns on the political and social dynamics of entire generations and subgroups. E.g., Smith* (1844), Goldwater '64, Bobby Kennedy '68, Jesse Jackson '84, Obama '08, and — on a lesser but still notable scale — Mamdani '25

This is an Obama 2004 DNC Convention speech-level seismic event of a speech by Zohran Mamdani. It's too bad he can't run for President, but this speech will be every bit as much of political earthquake that will be remembered.

You can see the last pockets of the Soviet old guard from space, the real "commie corridor"

That's what a billion dollars gets you I guess. I can't be mad since they are my second favorite team, but that's really a bummer.

Someone on Twitter uncovered this newsreel footage of South Korean wrestling from 1965, apparently from a national tournament called "Pro-Kesuchua." It's like a hybrid of shoot-style wrestling and Taekwondo. Amazing stuff

"If I stand with you, will you fight with me? Will you stand up for me?" My answer:

I'm sorry, but I'm not buying the idea that Graham Platner is inherently a bad person or a Nazi fellow traveler.

Zohran Mamdani is an Obama-tier orator. I think that was seen as a hot take back in June, but it's pretty clear now.

This place is suffering from mass psychosis

Trump won 49.8% of the vote and yet every corporation and institution is acting like he won 75% of the vote, feel like I’m going insane

Softball was not invented as an alternative for women, but that is what it's become. They are great athletes. But the more important point is women shouldn't need an alternative. They should play baseball if they want.

The commercial for playball.org - the league's youth initiative - begins with "Everyone knows their softball journey begins with breaking in their first glove." What the hell is that? I don't look down on softball. But MLB ought to encourage everybody, boys and girls, to play baseball.

Tolkien: The Mariners exemplify what I call "the long defeat": moments of triumph may be satisfying, but are fleeting and ultimately unrelated to victory Papi: DAAAA URUKS LOSE!!! Tolkien: Precisely, I -- A-Rod: Now Professor, you wrote about one Mariner in particular, did you not? A real star?

After 2015 and 2016, I never thought I would see the Blue Jays in the World Series again. Commiserations to all the Mariners fans on here. Baseball can be cruel.

shohei's 10 strikeouts and moonshot home run distances were really just for style points. short of pitching a complete game he completely maxed out all channels through which he could deliver objective value, so he poured his leftover brilliance into knocking out side quests. it seems impossible

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts: "Before this season started, they said the Dodgers are ruining baseball. Let's get four more wins and really ruin baseball!" ⚾️🔥🎙️ #MLB #NLCS #WorldSeries

Shohei Ohtani has Babe Ruth lookin like some random doughboy tonight. Got Barry Bonds lookin like JD Drew.

Increasingly we need candidates who'd be comfortable cutting a wrestling promo

RT if your favorite baseball team is up 2-0 in the LCS

The Baseball gods clearly wanted a Jays vs Mariners series to help make up for all the ALCS' with the Yankees or Astros involved

15 innings. Winner takes all. Playoff baseball is the best.

a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval

Was just thinking of that parallel but did not realize the specific connection. Rerunning some of the worst aspects of the W administration but with the farce dialed up to 11.

You can't defame the dead. That's drummed into you on almost the first day of law school. We'll see what happens, but any judge who doesn't throw the book at a lawyer who argues otherwise is playing with a stacked deck.

the elite liberal story of the rise of american fascism is basically appeasement theory applied to domestic politics.

ah yeah, we'll just have an amicable breakup, as soon as we figure out who gets federal public lands, gold reserves, national institutions, the military, and of course the currency

Online trads going to church for the first time and finding out it's not an IRL version of their personal Based internet club always cracks me up

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Yeah all of the Murdoch “news sources” are hitting this hard and trying to make it look like it’s widely reported by putting it in different sources. Someone’s coordinating this at the top

Worth noting too that Turning Point's Professor Watchlist was criticized in National Review years back. Feels like there was a disdain for Kirk among some establishment conservative types — he was a mouthy upstart, Turning Point was a departure from the staid existing conservative youth orgs, etc.

This is a brilliant essay. Well worth your time.

As I was saying -- it's good idea to tap the brakes on this one for now until we see some hard evidence bsky.app/profile/thel...

I have been keeping tabs on the trajectory of the Gravel teens since 2019. Henry Williams taking a job with Andreessen Horowitz, the far right venture capital firm, is an absolutely despicable end trajectory.

This story should not have been published. They hint at an accusation (Mamdani said he is black to get into a fancy college) they can't back up. That this was published tells me that Mamdani's most important opponent may not be Cuomo or Adams but a paper whose NEWS section will run stuff like this.

Between the latest Mamdani story and the Harris stuff, we have learned that American columnists cannot be normal around a diverse world full of people with different, intermingled backgrounds. Also for some reason South Asian people are getting hit by this a lot.