This is wild: Bluesky says at least 3% of all posts made on November 1 -- Game 7 of the World Series -- were about baseball. bsky.social/about/blog/1...

Hello welcome to bluesky. We have every kind of anti-government radical left of center, and also, baseball

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck

"It's time to put the storm windows on." — Mike Barnicle

I wrote about one of the most terrifying days of my life. www.pbump.net/o/taking-tyl...

people have already mentioned SNEAKERs, THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR and of course ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN as great redford performances, let me recommend THE CANDIDATE, which is really one of the best movies ever made about american politics

Corporation Reaches Goal, Shuts Down https://theonion.com/corporation-reaches-goal-shuts-down-1819566365/

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

This is why I don’t spend much time on Meta’s Threads. So beyond repulsive.

Wow. A group of top scholars at Harvard just sent a letter to its president, Alan Garber, warning against surrendering to Trump. Signatories include Steven Levitsky, Dani Rodrik, Ryan Enos, Theda Skocpol, and Steven Walt. Someone forwarded it to me. Read it here:

“Going along is what did them in.”

Also out: The fourth annual Peninsula International Dance Festival is coming up at the end of July. Read about the spirit of unity which brings together the over 250 performers who will showcase traditional and contemporary dance from across the globe: www.sfcv.org/articles/mus...

I have two new articles out in the San Francisco Classical Voice! Firstly, a Q&A with Canadian violinist Blake Pouliot, who told me about his performing inspirations and goals ahead of his performance with the SF Symphony next week: www.sfcv.org/articles/art...

Had only ever seen Jon Hamm wear a @cardinals.com cap until tonight.

Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.

From TACO to FAFO, investors love parodies of Trump acronyms reut.rs/4mTwkn0

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, renowned journalist Scott Pelley just highlighted how Donald Trump is working to stifle free speech in America, and how he plans on fighting back. This is huge.

It's not just you - it's hypernormalization

This is a pretty classic example (imo) of how journalists are approaching LLMs like ChatGPT wrong. AI should be a tool for journalists to improve their work, not a replacement for doing proper research and reporting— even if it's just finding some fun summer book recs.

UNREAL: Worcester police and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were seen on video detaining a mother and her teenage daughter, whose face was slammed into the ground, Thursday in the Massachusetts city. www.nbcboston.com/news/local/h...

"On Swift Horses" is a movie that doesn't shy away from its bold narratives (and attractive cast)— but its sweeping thematic ambition can land a bit heavy-handed. Read my review in The Daily Northwestern: dailynorthwestern.com/2025/05/01/l...

Market Basket is famous for lots of things. Add its music to the list.

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

Full suite of projections seen:

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

Hey NBC and Seth Meyers, y’all need to book the largest possible venue in D.C. on April 26th and do a competing fundraiser and comedy show that actually celebrates the First Amendment. Televise it. Make Amber Ruffin the central act. Send a message that free speech is non-negotiable.

"A terrified young student, snatched off the street by a masked police force taken thousands of miles across the country without anyone knowing. It is as flatly authoritarian as anything we have ever seen in this country," says Chris Hayes on Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk's detention.

If this happened to an American student who wrote an op-ed while on Fulbright in Turkey, it would be an international incident. Congresspeople would demand the student be returned w/in the hour. Their intellectual, professional, political, & personal integrity would be defended

In which the Department of Homeland Security struggles to answer a very simple question: "Is any criticism of the United States government a deportable offense?" (From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)

"town hall night in america" -- every congressional district, once a month, all on the same night: oldgoats.substack.com/p/lets-creat...

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.

Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes announces she's quit the paper because her editors wouldn't print a cartoon going after Big Tech and media oligarchs paying tribute to to Trump A new low in mainstream media's post-Trump meltdown anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

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