Today’s Song: “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” Best of luck to the Dodgers and Blue Jays because I want to see another one of those again while I live. Sending good vibes to the Red Sox, Tigers, Phillies, and Seattle. May the Mets, Yankees, Padres and, above all, the Giants stink it up.

Among the dumbest trade in history update:

Well, they will have to declare victory and quit or continue shooting themselves in the knees. The problem with the former is they will have to give Iran credible assurances after much murder, bombing, and abuse.

Campus this morning

Today was great for baseball. I needed some good news while America’s slide towards authoritarianism accelerates.

Is this the fastest "this person should not have gotten the prize" in Nobel Prize history? Genuinely interested in other examples

You must not put another scandal on him

The third paragraph reads as if the Russians wrote it. Maybe they did. In any event, it is an atrociously big lie; 1984-grade, as Aaron Rupar rightly says.

Ugh this is so good and I love reading all the lists but: 5. Harborcoat 4. Strange Currencies 3. Wolves, Lower 2. Find the River 1. Country Feedback

Sí.

Wow. If true, I must hate myself…

Beautiful. Day of the Deadish in spirit.

Pushing back on concentration camps.

This is the point, to feed the White Supremacist trolls.

This is a lot. This didn't happen during Reconstruction, when there was an actual reason to supplant local authorities....

What kind of monster uses architecture as a verb? @minakimes.bsky.social

Tec, Campus MTY in July.

Life’s Rich Pageant is REM’s best album. I am ready to fight everyone who disagrees, especially @rudalev.bsky.social and @mcopelov.bsky.social

Also, my deer friends…

Wow. Better than the NYTs

Seems like appropriate reading this day.

"the American realignment with Russia and against Ukraine and Europe is gathering pace—not merely in rhetoric but in reality" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

We’ve shifted money from saving people’s lives to killing them

Several items on Declaration of Independence list of grievances against George III also apply to Trump today, most notably on immigration, trade, and deportation without due process. Like King George, he is "unfit to be the ruler of a free people": reason.com/volokh/2025/...

Why are we here, you ask? This. This is entirely the reason we are here. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Supplied with worthy men! plant love among's! Throng our large temples with the shows of peace, And not our streets with war! - Coriolanus (III, 3)

Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history, & then, well, here it is, all in one post:

He has produced the real emergency that he can now use to stifle free speech, round people up, and demand total fidelity. At the cost of many human lives and devastation. Declaring it is time for peace right after bombing is quite the thing to say. An abuser’s tactic.

Welcome, sir.

Democratic senators need to stop pretending that GOP senators are their “good friends across the aisle” and realize many of them are just lying sociopaths who are actively fanning the flames of violence against them.

Yes, this is where we are at.

And again, they were about 15-20 times as large as the April 2009 Tea Party protests, so I'll sit back and wait for 15-20 times as many stories from political pundits explaining that this was a decisive rebuke to the sitting president that Changes Everything.

Go in and cheer the King, he rages, none Dare come about him.

Sorry am I his numbers are so few

We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History of the Republic, 1865-2025

Genius. And all too true

Dismantling the state…

The political theater gets the EMAILS treatment. The still-ongoing unprecedented crimes & Constitutional crisis of DOGE & impoundment is nowhere to be found on the front page & hasn’t been for weeks. These are choices. Others remain readily available.

Sigh. The goal is to inflict pain and spread fear, which is part of the rising authoritarian’s playbook.

Exploring places to trail run and MTB in Mexico is a real joy. This is along the Río Nazas in Durango, Mexico very near Torreón, Coahuila.

I did not know that this place was la cuna de la Division del Norte. @noelmaurer.bsky.social

What authoritarianism looks like.

@dziblatt.bsky.social, Levitsky, @lucanway.bsky.social, @annagbusse.bsky.social, @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social. All the right, smart experts interviewed here, which is how you get serious journalism on threats to democracy. Well done, & well worth a read. FWIW, again, I agree with Lucan:

Les bums

Look, either we can be mad at Democrats for using fancy words & ignoring Real Folkz & Kitchen Table Issues, or we can be mad at them for ignoring this billionaire/techbro invented fantasy world where Crypto Rules Everything Around Me. But there’s a Fascism going on, so frankly, bandwidth is scarce.

Floyd, NM tornado sequence. Estimated start time was 5:18 p.m. and rope out at 5:40 p.m. Photos captured at 5:21, 5:25, 5:31 and 5:38 p.m. this evening.

This meme never ever gets old… @mcopelov.bsky.social

there is literally no point to these press briefings other than maybe to give ilhan omar an actionable libel claim

In other words, par for the course