Matt Olson is playing in his 740th consecutive game *with Atlanta* this afternoon in Pittsburgh Olson’s 740 games tie Dale Murphy’s franchise record of consecutive games played Overall, his streak is at 874 games

They’re trying to deport the men who witnessed the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. newrepublic.com/article/2129...

According to the most rigorous studies, 10.8% of college men perpetrate at least one rape before graduation. This statistic always comes to mind when I see men in power reacting with disgust to the idea that one of their peers could face even a shred of accountability.

It’s getting trite but if this were Biden the NYT would have a full spread about his unfitness for office

Nick Green seems like a nice guy but he really doesn't bring much as a color analyst.

Thank you, All-Star Matthew Olson.

No clue why we were pitching to Soto there.

The technical term for getting beaten soundly by Belgium in soccer is “getting waffle housed.”

If roughing up a girlfriend and locking her in a room was a virile, authentic a rejection of “smoothgroined” “HR lady” politics, but a rape is too far, then what’s at stake is not a principled rejection of violence against women but a cynical assessment of how much violence a man can get away with.

I think Ozzie wants to adopt Jim Jarvis.

There's a part in the book "Careless People" where the author beats Zuck at Settlers of Catan, and he is absolutely wrecked by it. Someone pulls her aside to explain everyone else has been letting him win for years. I think about this a lot re: why tech bros think everyone will love AI chatbots.

👇 See: history of railway and airplane safety, history of food standards, history of cold chain standards, among many many others

One of my favorite musician bio’s too. An interesting dude, from an underexplored part of the American racial hierarchy, with a clear class position that came through his art

What are your top 5 Stephen Kings? 1. The Stand 2. The Dark Tower (first 4 especially) 3. Skeleton Crew 4. Bag of Bones 5. Revival

It’s been several days since democratic socialists won primaries in multiple states. We haven’t had diner profiles of their voters the way we got profiles of tea party and maga supporters shoved down our throats for the last 15+ years. The mainstream media is in the tank.

The “vibe shift” proclaimed Nov. 2024 - Jan. 2025 was just some elites—in business, media, law, and some higher ed admins—who kinda liked the fascism and gave themselves permission to accommodate it. That’s all it ever was. A close presidential election is not somehow a binding cultural referendum.

One of the original art forms created by America is painfully blatant metaphors

The National League #All-Star starters as voted by fans: C Drake Baldwin, ATL 1B Freddie Freeman, LAD 2B Ozzie Albies, ATL SS CJ Abrams, WAS 3B Max Muncy, LAD OF Juan Soto, NYM OF Brandon Marsh, PHI OF Andy Pages, LAD DH Shohei Ohtani, LAD

See, the plan is, you put 1,000 foreign women who all got pregnant at the same time on a hospital ship, and you do that 1,000 times, and then you wait 18 years, and then you move all the babies to Wyoming, and you win a House seat.

The best thing about the contrast between Obama's presidential library speech vs. Trump's July 4 display today is Obama gave Minneapolis protesters a shout out while the marchers who turned out for Trump are literal neo-Nazis. Says it all about the two Americas on display here.

Do not stop, do not pass GO, march straight to hell you un-American pieces of human excrement. And fuck this administration and the Republican Party for what they've done to our capital city.

Nazis in the White House, Nazis marching in DC on July 4th. Tracks.

Remember when Trump said Ukraine had no cards to play?

Trump’s new strategy. Now he’s failed completely abroad, he’s looking to the Enemy Within to create new Hate Figures to unite his wavering followers. Can’t stop Iran’s threat so let’s have a 2026 Red Scare to turn neighbour against neighbour. A new HUAC on the way? Very dangerous.

England's favorite son, The Only Michael Harris!

I do think it’s funny that all these independent thinkers end up regurgitating confederate or segregationist propaganda that is decades or centuries old. But it’s only because they’re not susceptible to manipulation like you sheeple

The local news just cannot fathom why a 400 million dollar bribe jet from another country is controversial.

A giant chunk of our consultant class has no idea how to fight Republicans. They want milquetoast candidates with nothing behind them because they have no idea how to push back on lies and negative attack ads. 1/

Don't want to speak ill of the dead, so getting this Mitch McConnell take out now. He saw Trump with complete clarity, as a danger to America, but protected him anyway. Perhaps more than anyone, he had the power to end Trumpism, but chose party over country. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/jan-6-and-...

Honestly shocked it took this long. McCutchen had always seemed like a player the Braves would sign.

On one hand, it seems astounding that RFK Jr.’s anti-vax organization didn’t vet her before including her in a lawsuit against AAP, in which she claimed that vaccines killed her twins. On the other, it shows the endless capacity of anti-vaxxers to take the word of a random person over facts.

Man boasts he is thrilled to be an idiot.

Ok, Dylan Lee deserved to have an off day. New series tomorrow.

Do you think CNBC or traditional media would have let this slide if Joe Biden gave the same answer about Hunter?

Imagine being brow-beaten into NOT giving necessary advice to citizens to help avoid black out and brown outs because you didn’t want to contradict TED CRUZ’s stupid and wrong tweet! 😂💔

It makes sense that the far right loves the idea that trans girls can overpower cis girls, because that naturally follows from the position that cis women are inherently weak. The fact that people nominally on the left adopt this position, and claim it to be feminist, is somewhat more puzzling

The #Braves today recalled INF Jim Jarvis to Atlanta and designated INF Rowdy Tellez for assignment.

Country Roads is a million times better than Sweet Caroline and I’ll die on that hill

Thank you Money

The US literally did build this plane, it was built by union workers at Boeing. What Trump really means here is that that the US WOULDN'T build a plane like this because that sort of shit is reserved for petrodictatorships

"confiscated her rosary"

Again, we've endured years of legacy media reporters chasing after Donald Trump supporters to find out what they want, and somehow "They want an ethnic cleansing" was never the takeaway, even though it's literally the correct answer.

Also a Big Yikes for reactionary centrist pundits (yes, that one in particular, but also others) with the bad habit of treating poll numbers as some sort of immutable assessment of values rather than messy metrics of temporary and easily moved attitudes of a generally mid-to-low info electorate.

Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.

reminder to ALL journalists

So he's gonna advocate for all people with depression to get four months off for rehabilitation, right? And he's gonna tell RFK jr to fuck off with his quest to limit the medication that Kean is very clearly taking to be functional?

personally I think we should immediately impeach supreme court justices who are willing to lie about the plain meaning of the 14th amendment

A new WoodMac report finds that the Trump administration's refusal to issue lawful permits for renewable energy development is putting 92 gigawatts of energy and $121 billion worth of investment at risk. The same administration that says the need for power is a "national emergency."

Of course The Constitution does not protect trans students wanting to play sports. But it *does* protect billionaires wanting to unduly influence elections. Very important to preserve the market for buying and selling politicians...