okay so a bunch of people defected from the Democratic party because they are conspiracy theorists, so who cares the next question is: given the electorate, how do you win elections against the fascists

I actually believe that Trump is earnestly micromanaging this whole project.

IMO Biden was unpopular: - He seemed out of his depth with the Afghanistan withdrawal. - They overpromised on vaccines, which didn't restore normalcy as fast as promised. - Voters ***hate*** inflation and anchored their earnings expectations to the stimulus. - He lost control of the border.

#NoKings Side 1 of Kid 1’s sign:

"The assumption of bad faith defines and disfigures our politics." www.nationalaffairs.com/publications...

"the epistemological limitations of the human mind require toleration for speech so that new ways of living may be discovered and evaluated..." www.aei.org/research-pro...

We have an extremely long and rich history surrounding why this stuff is so important and we're just ignoring it. It's staggering.

cam skattebo wouldve loved the jackass era of mtv

Game has real Thursday night energy.

I respectfully disagree. The hostages got released. That is a key distinction between previous cease fires and this one.

Trump's success w/r/t Israel/Gaza is forcing me to reevaluate my priors. Specifically, I think that a declining America probably doesn't have the luxury of Wilsonianism. The logic of "deal-making"--anathema to me in theory--may make more sense in an international context.

Douthat is a great interviewer. He gives his subjects room to sound ridiculous without attempting to "gotcha."

JOE BUCK: Welcome to the top of the 47th [Sun rises] [Sun keeps getting bigger] BUCK: yes [World engulfed by flames] BUCK: oh god yes

cc @epicciuto.bsky.social

Tweets from the 2001 NFL draft

There are ways to challenge the design and funding burden of foreign aid that don’t involve suddenly pulling the rug out from under starving people.

What an amazing showcase for contemporary Major League Baseball, and here to tell you all about it is the man who hates it most, John Smoltz

Kind of sucks tbh

I'm not sure what the objection is regarding Senators being part of a criminal investigation when there is reasonable cause. It speaks to the integrity of the investigation that, as far as I know, nothing politically damaging or materially irrelevant to the Jan 6 case was leaked about any Senator.

Baseball on the radio is still sublime, almost co-equal with television (in the right hands, er, voice), and almost every MLB team has a great radio booth

I have a solution

Very Trump-era story. 1. The sword has no meaning for Charles, but matters for the Eisenhower Museum. 2. Illegal for the museum to give away US property! 3. Trump makes no distinction between personal/public property. 4. The person who did the right thing was fired. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

Impeachment is the constitutional remedy, but strong party loyalty has destroyed it as a viable path.

At the end of the day, the voters are sovereign, and they tolerate this. They *should* be much more punitive, but they're not. It's a genuine problem.

Strong party loyalty plus weak parties is the toxic sauce.

My baseline for parenting (and most interactions with children): if I treated a colleague or adult this way, would I be being fair to them? If I have to treat them differently, do I have a *really* strong basis for it? Wasting 30 hours a week of a kid's time isn't something I would do to an adult.

I don't care about studies on outcomes tbh (all studies are fake), the fact is that it's incredibly wasteful and disrespectful to everyone's time to force kids to sit in class and not learn anything. There will always be *some* kids like that, but if it's more than one or two, let them run ahead.

Not the worst sin of the Trump era, but certainly among them.

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Trump chortling about poor fishermen not being able to make a living is just totally execrable. Biblical symbolism everywhere.

In Term 1, Trump was itching to turn the military against the American people. Thankfully there were people like Esper, Milley, and Mattis. Now, we’ve got Homan, Miller, Noem, and Hegseth. Guardrails down.

10 years of hoping people come to their senses. They will not.

Honestly.... If we're talking about "decline" it was very clear that Biden had declined. Trump has been rambling for over a decade.

From the perspective of deterrence, it doesn't really matter who was on the boats. Which is, of course, an evil way to think about force.

This is Blueskyim.

Football essentially necessitates touching grass too

Spent too much time being surprised that Weird Al Yankovic was in Trump’s medbed video.

I have created the 1984, from the hit book "Don't create the 1984".

Heading to a "tailgate" themed birthday party today where we all have to wear jerseys. My wife, who doesn't care about sports, is rocking a Beltran jersey because of "Shellfish Beltran" meme from a decade ago. cc @ogtedberg.bsky.social tedquarters.net/2011/04/03/s...

(Hakeem Jeffries being hauled away in chains by ICE.) Jeffries: How does this help the cost of eggs? 🤣

I know he's hated but Roger Goodell is basically the greatest commissioner in sports history. He saw opportunity after opportunity after opportunity.

okay, this is starting to get eerie. because yesterday at the store i bought a can of beans for $2.29. that was a number as well

I wouldn't recommend campaigning on it, but they absolutely should tear it down. A simple written statement indicating that a ballroom larger than the White House itself is not worthy of a republic.

Sigh, the most ridiculous timeline

The use of tiebreakers in baseball to determine playoff berths is disgusting. Among the worst of Rob Manfred's many offenses. Game 163 forever.

Useful phrase from Lincoln: "covert real zeal." The curse of the anti-anti

Restore republican virtue.

There's an attitude on the Left that assumes that all public dissent from their position is just a form of false consciousness, stirred up by malicious forces. There's one account here in particular that is the stalwart of this view. (It's not someone I've talked to personally.) This view is poison.

South Park captured an impulse, it didn't create it.

One of those losses is to the Giants. Weird league.