real talk I don't think the Andy Pages swing at Clasé's deliberate ball was that bad. He got fooled by a slider! Later in the at bat he got his bat on another slider in the same place (and grounded out weakly)! Hernández's swing on the final pitch was worse! www.mlb.com/video/enriqu...

very interesting thread. sounds like it might be the classic "center squeeze" issue with RCV, where a consensus second-choice candidate, who'd win any election head-to-head, gets too few first-choice votes to survive round 1 [assuming Fateh voters largely preferred the other candidates to Frey]

Really helpful thread explaining something I will admit I hadn’t understood about ranked choice voting:

AO3 about to become the engine of our economy

I think a number of press outlets badly want there to be a groundswell of anti-trans feeling, because the ownership/senior editorial of those papers have absolutely cooked their own brains on transphobia. It seems to be largely an elite psychosis!

oh my god protect this precious boy. please don't let him milkshake duck

@jfruh.bsky.social's suggestion that Hagar might write a book called "Horrible, and Profitable: What Today’s Leaders Can Learn From My Years Of Terror Around The North Sea Littoral" set my mind a certain way. then I had to avoid the obvious rhyme for "littoral" joshreads.com/2025/11/plea...

the virgin "ask the chatbot for papers with 'for' in the title" vs. the chad "search philpapers dot org for '"foundations for"'"

WARNING: spoilers for Rise of Skywalker

OK, I'll do one

Mamdani embodies a pro-Palestinian politics that truly distinguishes between the state of Israel and the Jewish people, and truly takes antisemitism seriously as its own problem. That makes him a threat to those who want to absolutely conflate antisemitism and anti-Zionism, whether the ADL or WoL.

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there used to be Election Twitter and now there's Ballot the BlueSky

not great for making the (correct) case that antizionism≠antisemitism to say that anti-antisemitism=zionism

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

My 8th-amendment lawyer spouse just now: “I have literally been locked in rooms with death row inmates who committed horrible murders, and Elon is more fucked up and unnerving by a lot” bsky.app/profile/jess...

Sandwich verdict wasn’t jury nullification. It was failure to prove the required “reasonable fear of physical injury” in a case where the agent was wearing A BULLETPROOF VEST. The only crime was the waste of resources on this case. My thoughts in @MSNBCDaily. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

All my life I was told I was Jewish, I was stopped by Hasids on the streets asking me to wrap Tefillin, I was invited to Jewish holidays from strangers, etc. The ONLY time I’ve been told I’m NOT a real Jew is when I criticize Israel. Go fuck yourself Alex

the position of the right wing is that the government is too stupid to buy things for the constituents, but it *is* smart enough to figure out how much money constiuents need to buy the same things

Some context from @stevevladeck.bsky.social on what KBJ is doing www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-w...

Guy with a sandwich: “Fuck you armed agent of the state.” Ivy League: “I will eat my poop and thank you for it because I’m scared of a Fox News personality cosplaying as a lawyer”

If it’s not too early for this annual reminder: remember not to give one single penny to these guys this Christmas.

I need to emphasize what I say down-thread: this is a temporary, procedural move known as an administrative stay issued in haste by Justice Jackson. Little to nothing should be read into this ruling for how SCOTUS might ultimately rule on SNAP—either way.

what's there to say, really?

did a quotevestigation: first attribution I can find for something of the form "The most dangerous place in [X] [is] between [Y] and a camera" is Cokie Roberts attributing it to "Capitol Hill Correspondents" about Phil Gramm, in 1990

fyi, apparently the guy who collapsed in the Oval Office the other day was not a pharma executive as people have been saying, but a patient (the part about Trump staring straight ahead into space while people tended to him is still 100% accurate)

“I bullied their children at our very first meeting, yet these mothers do not seem to want my friendship.”

people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up

Read this thread. All of these ICE “facilities” are concentration camps. There is a reason they are not allowing oversight. Keep protesting this shit and informing people about this Nazi regime. Nuremberg Trials 2.0 can’t come fast enough.

things that arent the future of civilization - chatbots - crypto - robot butlers - cars that sorta drive autonomously as long as youre paying attention for when they fail and almost kill a bunch of people things that actually are the future of civilization - free clean energy

There had better be trials. And not just for the low-level thugs carrying out these orders, but for everyone up the chain of command. If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics. It’s trials w real punishments.

Besides Nuremberg trials for the perpetrators, we will also need a legal understanding that any papers signed by anyone under this administration are presumptively invalid, since they were signed under the threat of torture

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

Elon Musk is not set to become the world's first trillionaire because this pay package has a bunch of preconditions he will never meet. The 600,000 people he killed are dead for real, though.

BBC really burying the lede there

These headlines about Musk's "trillion-dollar" pay package are just advertising for him. He only gets that if he meets a bunch of goals his flailing firms will never meet.

oh hey people are talking about a philosopher, that's nice for us

Gonna start calling memes "image macros" again

“A federal judge on Thursday excoriated the Trump administration’s blitz of hardball tactics against elite universities, warning that the government’s threats and investigations were undermining academic freedom at the University of California.”

I 100% agree that NYC isn't a replicative environment to be transposed onto the national stage but I do seriously hope that in the coming weeks and months people actually grapple with how a Muslim nominee was besieged by people in his own party and out on the basis of being Muslim and nothing else.

This is the fundamental question of the year, isn't it? If an idea that was once taboo has become normalized, do you have a right to continue to treat it and its adherents with moral repugnance, or are you obliged to bow to the shifting bounds of public opinion?

Hastily dismantling USAID was mass murder, and was intended as such.

Yea if we’re gonna glaze MTG im logging off get a fucking gripe guys

Bovino is a Chicago villain in the tradition of Henry Rhines, the 1840s Chicago cop who spent most of his energy trying to find people who’d escaped slavery (or at least looked like they had) and pretending he had the authority to arrest them. A NY paper called him “a degraded drunken wretch.”

is five different biology departments a lot for one university? seems like a lot (www.fas.harvard.edu/explore-our-... and I left out the one that's a program and not a department)

if it happens all the time that your "straightforward, clear feedback" gets you reported to H.R., it is possible that the problem is with you...

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the longer we soldier on without the bund’s ’wherever we live is our homeland’ the more obvious the need for it becomes!

The media is rushing 300 “New York Jews worried about Mamdani antisemitism” fetch essays based on nothing but Mamdani being a Muslim meanwhile the Republican Party from top to toe has the confidence to wear nazi makeup every day knowing the press looks at it like the westworld bots seeing a polaroid

not clicking through because I know this isn't going to be the fun kind of death ball