A join taskforce with Mare and Tom Brandis, that's got to be in the works.

The word data is plural. E.g “The data suggest…” The singular would be datum.

For Tampa area people: those old school malls are dying. So why not build a baseball stadium?

You seem to think I’m giving a vibes-based answer, but in fact I checked NYC tourism agency data. This is 2023 but unlikely there has been a huge change. Business travel = 20% of tourism. www.business.nyctourism.com/press-media/...

I've gone down some interesting rabbit holes researching potential Tampa Bay baseball stadium sites, but I did not expect to be researching WWII German POW camps as part of this beat.

This is simply not true. Many states have scholarships for high-ish achieving in-state students (Bright Futures in FL, Calgrant in CA), and low income students can also receive federal Pell grants.

I am thrilled to see that my practice of never buying gifts for anyone is now a form of protest!

Kudos to whoever paid for this Washington Metro ad

I wrote a thing about the generational cliff Israel is facing in US public opinion and why it's not going away easily (if at all). If you thought it was interesting, share it, and I would love to hear your thoughts.

This should be disqualifying for a party leader

We all know this wasn't intentional right?

I lived in Germany during of wave of anti-immigrant sentiment in the 1990s and loved this postcard. I'd love to see someone post what an MLB team's lineup would look like if you eliminated all foreign-born players.

Maybe this shouldn’t bug me given the stakes but it does: this is in the city of Chicago!! I’ve seen so many posts talking about “suburbanites.” Give city folks their due.

WHAT HAPPENED TO BICHETTE’S HAIR

ICE agents greeted by a hero on arrival in New York this evening. Make statues of this.

I realize the architectural integrity of the White House is not the main issue here, but are there no review panels charged with overseeing major demolition of this and other federal buildings? Can the next Speaker decide to install skylights in the Capitol Rotunda?

Pardon my subpar photography, but: I think someone was inspired by last night.

@abbyhiggs.bsky.social hello from NYC

Going to a protest in NYC is great, you get to hang with your friends. Protesting in a small Central Florida or Idaho town? That takes courage.

Our uni has stopped investing in everything OTHER THAN AI, and so my one use of AI is writing up the ridiculous vision plans and mission statements explaining how our department aligns with the university’s new cyber-focused strategic plan.

I began writing for @draysbay.bsky.social in 2016, just in time to cover the Rays first search for a new stadium site. Looking forward to my second decade on this beat, where I get to bring together my baseball and urban planning passions. The latest: build a stadium on a community college campus?

in Chicago they are arresting entire buildings of residents and tear gassing, arresting and in 2 cases shooting protesters. We can debate the right word to use but alarm is the appropriate response.

They will just arrest the game day staff and leave the high rollers to get through a 4 hour game with no beer and dirty bathrooms.

It was always inevitable that Cawthorn would land in Florida.

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

To all my international friends: SORRY we’ll try to do better, I swear.

@draysbay.bsky.social sigh. Imagine that, a ballpark accessible with decent transit. Some day.

Anyone here use Census quickfacts? It's been down for at least several days. I can't figure out whether this is normal maintenance as they claim or more data shenanigans.

This is for baseball fans! Are you a baseball pacifist? I have never liked the idea of intentionally hitting a batter with a 97mph projectile, but I have friends who think that's part of the game.

Next up, the FL Dept of Bloodletting and Leech therapy.

For the first time, [Nadler] said that when Congress returns later this month, he plans to join a growing number of Democratic lawmakers trying to use congressional authority to block the transfer of offensive weapons to Israel. “ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...

@50501movement.bsky.social Tampa Florida, where organizers were kind enough to hold the protest at 5 pm when it was "only" 88 degrees.

So many of us are looking for leadership and unions can help provide that, as they have in previous eras. I would note however that my union is struggling just to remain recognized after our state passed laws raising the bar for public employee unions to be certified.

Oh no he didn't!! That's appalling.

This whole series of posts reminds me of the time in 2006 (!) when the head of the humane society made a joke that dogs should now be called "canine-Americans" and this got picked up by humorless bloggers everywhere as evidence of left political correctness run amok.

As a sign of how good this campaign is, I have been waiting for this clue to be revealed all day and I am over 1000 miles from New York City.

Trump regularly calls people vermin, calls reporters “nasty,” calls US cities shitholes. But the Democrats are failing because deep in a budget document someone used the term “pregnant people?”

I love to see this, hope we can get this going in St. Pete too.

Before he said "Atlanta" was confused, because the main crazy person kids hear yelling is Trump.

That’s over 1/4 of the population.

First of all, who said anything about “street living?” And second, you think homelessness started in 1980? depts.washington.edu/depress/hoov...

Also, nearly all these monuments were erected decades after the civil war had ended, so the only history they are recalling is the effort to enact Jim Crow laws and terrorize Black residents in the 1910s and 1920s

When @theonion.com turns your last 2 decades of research into a satirical post: theonion.com/real-estate-...

I hope Democratic comms people are smart enough to make Randy Fine the face of the Republican Party. He’s a mean-spirited monster and he’s aching for someone to hand him a mic so can share his vitriol with the world. Who hurt you, Randy?

Tucked away in the 'One Big Beautiful Bill' is the requirement that all visitors to the US must pay $250 just to enter the country starting 1 October! For a family of 5 that's $1250! I doubt this will help America's crashing tourism business which is down 10% already since January

What an amazing woman and what an indictment of our detention system.

Why are American Jews so ambivalent regarding Trump's anti-antisemitism campaign, even when many of them are actually worried about the phenomenon itself? Together with my colleague Ted Sasson we discuss this question, and what Israel should be doing about it. Read, comment, and share as they say.

Every liberal SCOTUS dissent kinda feels like this