Are there any active professional baseball players with anything approaching progressive or left politics?

Me (gasping for air): Pance Roth My son: Dad, you can go now. We love you. Me (exhaling one last time): Pance Rotttthhhh.

Thinking this morning about the best way to honor The Wolverines from Red Dawn.

Releasing an interview soon with @davidjroth.bsky.social where we visited the headquarters of Topps and talked about the history and mystery of Guy Remembering. If you want to hear him exclaim "Ah, fu*kin' Corch!" when he comes across a Chris Corchiani card you have no choice but to subscribe.

REMINDER! Poutinefest is this weekend. It's a literal festival of poutine. Poutine is french fries with cheese and gravy folks.

Releasing an interview soon with @davidjroth.bsky.social where we visited the headquarters of Topps and talked about the history and mystery of Guy Remembering. If you want to hear him exclaim "Ah, fu*kin' Corch!" when he comes across a Chris Corchiani card you have no choice but to subscribe.

It’s a lot of hats. Act now!

Gundy will be appointed Oklahoma Director of Human Services in 2026. All food stamp recipients must now drag a big tire 50 yards before receiving their benefits.

I am preparing myself for the weirdest possible second act for Pearl.

there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.

My kids youth soccer league.

I heard someone once describe a certain kind of orientation towards political discourse as “a pleasure to have in class.” I’m not gonna pretend not to be a “pleasure to have in class” type but we need far fewer people like that.

I heard someone once describe a certain kind of orientation towards political discourse as “a pleasure to have in class.” I’m not gonna pretend not to be a “pleasure to have in class” type but we need far fewer people like that.

Pfff Cancel Culture. Am I right?

Top, top headline.

I made a relatively gentle attempt to talk about this in my Sport, Comm, Culture class today and 100% did not nail it. Very much overthinking and kinda up my own a** these days.

I made a relatively gentle attempt to talk about this in my Sport, Comm, Culture class today and 100% did not nail it. Very much overthinking and kinda up my own a** these days.

Awooga Wolf the latest to endorse Andrew Cuomo for Mayor. “He’s the only candidate whose eyes come fully out of their sockets when he sees a sexy dame.”

A little over a week until PoutineFest. I'll be presenting on the representation of gravy in mass media in the William Shatner Ballroom at 2 PM. Get your tickets now!

The part of teaching I struggle with most is not letting the 2-3 people in every class who look at me like I’m speaking Urdu or like they would rather be literally anywhere else in the world get in my head. Often times it’s just the way they look, all the time, but it never fails to gnaw at me.

Probably shouldn’t go fishing…in the ocean. We might just kill you. Ha! Great stuff.

Glad I got this in when I did. The torpedo bat discourse has kind of fallen off a cliff, but Ezra is still doing his thing.

Often the teaching gods sprinkle a little fairy dust on me as I plan my classes. Next week we're talking about fandom and this will be the assigned reading. Absolutely delightful.

Glad I got this in when I did. The torpedo bat discourse has kind of fallen off a cliff, but Ezra is still doing his thing.

Happy Birthday to the late #QPR legend Ray Wilkins who played in the Premier League while looking exactly like Frank Subotka from S2 of The Wire. An exemplar of the elite-professional-athletes-looking-like-your-high-school-shop-teacher period in sport, which ran from approximately 1972 to 1994.

All good dude. I mean who amongst us hasn't gotten a little out over our skis and suggested euthanizing an entire population of people.

I shared this original story with my students as a warm up the other day, and now all I get on my FB feed is A.I. Phillies Karen slop where she's sobbing in a really uncanny and unconvincing way.

Happy Birthday to the late #QPR legend Ray Wilkins who played in the Premier League while looking exactly like Frank Subotka from S2 of The Wire. An exemplar of the elite-professional-athletes-looking-like-your-high-school-shop-teacher period in sport, which ran from approximately 1972 to 1994.

Credit: @jerseyisbest.bsky.social

Buying a bunch of these to put up on the walls of the WeWork headquarters my my new A.I. enabled fart app.

These shooters are getting further and further into a symbolic universe that's opaque to outsiders. They recycle recognizable elements like the Ciao Bella song recast as a motif in the Helldivers 2 video game, but there's no guarantee they mean anything like what outsiders think.

Permission structures is a term I’ve been thinking about a lot lately.

if i get killed, you can quote stuff i wrote. that's why i wrote it

Left the @defector.com birthday bash with plenty of treats. A Troy Aikman figurine and this set of basketball cards with these incredibly rude graphics. They could have just put a little note in the corner.

Have to teach tomorrow. Trying not to get carried away @defector.com birthday bash. #HappyBirthdayDefector

Pushing this to the top, apropos of nothing. @davidjroth.bsky.social not sure if you got to any of these?

Permission structures is a term I’ve been thinking about a lot lately.

For me this is why SM is at the center of how broken we are. We’re not meant to live in a society where everyone is talking (in public) all the time. Though it is not everyone (or even all humans) it produces an alternate reality where it is, which is why this cycle is almost impossible to break.

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

If anyone is going to the party tonight hit me up. I bought the platinum level ticket which means I've got a spot in @dhm.bsky.social's workshop on declining birthrates and the America Uncanceled mixer with @drewmagary.bsky.social, but other than that I'm wide open and would love to network.

For @us.theguardian.com, I wrote about the significance of Bari Weiss's reportedly imminent role steering CBS News. Her publication, The Free Press, has often been the Trump administration's de facto ally in its war against liberal institutions.

If anyone is going to the party tonight hit me up. I bought the platinum level ticket which means I've got a spot in @dhm.bsky.social's workshop on declining birthrates and the America Uncanceled mixer with @drewmagary.bsky.social, but other than that I'm wide open and would love to network.

This guy’s been in my feed a lot lately. I actually have no idea what his politics are, but it’s telling how most young high profile Dems have some conservative marker. This guy has a divinity degree, most are troops. He will of course lose to Cornyn by 12 points.

This guy’s been in my feed a lot lately. I actually have no idea what his politics are, but it’s telling how most young high profile Dems have some conservative marker. This guy has a divinity degree, most are troops. He will of course lose to Cornyn by 12 points.

For "conservatives" who may not get it, this is sort of like when someone challenges your political commitments in a way that makes you uncomfortable, except instead of the consequences being you feel a little uneasy, the person uses the power of the state to have you fired. Hope this helps.

The left is the Phillies fan Karen.

For "conservatives" who may not get it, this is sort of like when someone challenges your political commitments in a way that makes you uncomfortable, except instead of the consequences being you feel a little uneasy, the person uses the power of the state to have you fired. Hope this helps.

This is why we're losing. This women is obviously a woke liberal scold.

Seriously considering asking my Dean if we can spend $500 on this NBA Jam arcade machine (for sale on Wayfair, so it comes with a free slave). I think I can make a solid pedagogical argument for the necessity of my students learning about (and embodying virtually) Mike Iuzzolino.