the man who decided to build 9.7 fWAR 2004 Adrian Beltre in the aggregate (JD Drew, Jeff Kent, Jayson Werth) and set the Dodgers in .500 hell for a few more years. commiserations to any baseball lovers in Colorado

I want Robert Caro to write a book on Pelosi because there's just so much you could probably gleam about the path of America from her story.

with Pelosi retiring from Congress, there goes the last direct descendant of the San Francisco Burton Machine. but in a sense, it was going the way of the dodo since the Gingrich Revolution of 94. felt this story with Phil Burton’s office chair captured the feeling of extinction well

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it's crazy to think that I was alive (as a baby) when Prop 187 passed in California under a pretty popular GOP governor. may as well happened five centuries ago when they spoke in Ye Old Californian accent

pushing a big red stop button on the “South Korean politics is just a five year preview of US politics” machine until further notice

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

OC has gone woke, I repeat, OC has gone woke

I will NOT lib out. (expression of stony resolve softening, warm smile spreading across face) Ah what the hell. Pass me a lib, brother

just had a hard talk with the missus…she identifies as a aloof wife

maybe Zohran will finally make New York pizza taste good in his term

Zohran Mamdani, the bookie student from the Mira Nair film QUEEN OF KATWE?

미국 언론들이 일제히 조란 맘다니 민주당 뉴욕시장 후보가 당선됐다고 발표했습니다.

I will NOT lib out. (expression of stony resolve softening, warm smile spreading across face) Ah what the hell. Pass me a lib, brother

Seeing a disgusting loser get his ass kicked all over New York City really makes me miss the Mets

ALTHUSSER: a subterranean current of aleatory materialism links Marx with Democritus and Epicurus TRUMP: correct

Trump says communism has “been tested for over a thousand years” - confirmed opponent of peasant revolts

get ready to speak katie porter californiabros

*Richard Burton as O'Brien voice* "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a car spinning the block for parking—forever"

Dick Cheney, the Wal-Mart greeter?

hard pill to swallow for some technologists/futurist tech fetishists out there that the most efficient, greenest form of land transportation was invented 200 years ago and it just keeps reinventing itself

baseball's over, readers tweeting high praise...gonna have to prioritize actually writing my next Substack post instead of other projects. 🙏

"All my friends are poor Please think about this poverty Soon this will be your matter too This land is in need of a shock" Enamored by this Korean indie folk artist Lang Lee (이랑/李瀧) lately www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4Tq...

baseball over,

My congratulations to all Baseball Perverts. It was their "super bowl" last night and it seems they all had a very bad time (in their culture that's how you have a good time)

good morning, Sunday morning

mossing your own teammate to save you the World Series

play Randy Newman baby

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOO

I must be dead. This cannot be real

peak baseball is indistinguishable from the feeling of hitting your head against a cement wall

this is playing out like a manga arc

Muncy home run a huge hit not only bc it halves the deficit but also it guarantees an Ohtani at bat

it's prayin' time

Dodgers don’t deserve to win the series if they continue to forget to hit since the fifth inning of Game 3 anyway

There were no right decisions here, they put everything into winning game 6.

that’s my World Series Game 7 starter

Game 7 baby

DODGERS MANDATE OF HEAVEN ALERT

lol see you tomorrow

can someone pick me up I’m scared

Sucks enormously to see the MTA using AI art here, especially when I know they have many fabulous artists on staff. I hope this was an experiment not to be repeated for them.

wdym you’re the fruit plate from the 16th inning of the dodgers game

Dodgers in seven

it's the most frequently taught thing in public comms classes: 1) have an overarching message you can return to when you are lost or distracted 2) three simple talking points (and list three supporting data/anecdotes/etc. for each) 3) all short enough to be written in a single index card