If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.

WAM had @robarthur.bsky.social run a report for us that found that fielders in stadiums with closed roofs were, on average, positioned a foot closer to where fly balls landed than in outdoor venues. Theoretically, you could use WAM's data to position your fielders better and save a few runs a year.

"Individual liberty" is when conservatives decide everything. Their concept of liberty is just domination, not freedom to do what they want, but freedom to force everyone else to do what they want. bsky.app/profile/donm...

whenever I see this topic, I think back to @robarthur.bsky.social's two-parter from 2021 on fielding and how much better it had gotten. First part covered how defenders were playing deeper, removing a bunch of hits thanks to better athleticism and throwing ability in particular:

"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.

Every Democrat in Congress should put out a video saying troops have an obligation to refuse unlawful orders. Make them prosecute all of you. This isn't a close call. I'd add Republicans too if I thought any of them had the courage to actually cross Trump on this.

BREAKING: Trump is again separating kids from families The govt isn't releasing info, but we found ICE has sent record # of kids to shelters. One family went to govt office , only to have parents detained while the children—aged 5, 11 and 1--went to shelters www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

"underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy" is such absolute horseshit. There's no doubt, there's no "orthodoxy"--vaccines save lives, that's a simple fact, and what he is doing will end lives.

Editor-in-chief used AI editing tools to insert hallucinations into stories without fact-checking or disclosure, reports @niemanlab.org. #WCGW #AmReading #GenAI #AI #Journalism

Saberseminar gave a donation of $10,000 to @theyoungcenter.bsky.social using the proceeds from the 2025 event! The Young Center does incredible work protecting the rights and interests of immigrant kids and we are so proud to support them. Thanks to all the attendees for making this possible!

Grok gave me a side by side comparison of how Elon Musk would improve upon Jeffrey Epstein's private island logistics, including how he would avoid getting caught. Not alt-txting that one bc Jesus Christ

What this shows yet again is that DHS's "official version" of events simply shouldn't be believed without verification. In video after video, claims made by DHS officers and DHS itself were shown not to have occurred at all — or to have occurred in a substantially different way than first described.

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

I asked Grok whether Elon deserves the prestigious title of Biggest Douche in the Universe.

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

Check out our story here, which was a big collaborative effort from @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social, @jodiscohen.bsky.social, @tchristianmiller.bsky.social, Sebastian Rotella, & me. Data & research from Nick McMillan, @kirstenberg.bsky.social, & Gabriel Sandoval www.propublica.org/article/chic...

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

I’d started to wonder whether the Epstein files were a bit of a macguffin, but no no they implicate the President of the United States in a pedophilia ring—and show the entire Republican Party as well as much of the federal government has been baldly covering it up. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The amount of work the Trump administration is putting into making sure people starve is staggering. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

They send armed goons to kidnap parents in front of their children and then get mad that we don’t thank them for “keeping us safe.” Hell isn’t hot enough for these assholes.

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

How many Republicans objected to a Trump nominee with an acknowledged "Nazi streak"? Four (4).

2 million more than June and now basically 2% of the entire US population. Which is huge. It may not seem like a big number, but one in 50 people suggests to me that almost everyone in the US personally knows someone who attended.

If universities fight, they'll win. If they negotiate, they'll lose. It's pretty simple. share.google/Sx4rRygspcx2...

'“Can we fix the showers? Gas chambers don’t fit the Hitler aesthetic,” Joe Maligno...wrote' 'Many of the chat members already work inside government or party politics, and one serves as a state senator.'

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If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

fear of losing money is what made ABC suspend Kimmel; fear of losing money due to a boycott seems like a plausible antidote to this kind of behavior as well www.yahoo.com/news/article...

"MAGA is a social movement and has been since the beginning. What you have is a situation in which a social movement took over one of the dominant political parties. But in this case, the movement that has taken over the party is largely anti-democratic," says @devawo.bsky.social.

we wrote about this WH tactic recently. they’re asking journalists for expert source names and then using them to look up political donations in FEC records to try to discredit those sources as biased. www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...

I really think that Dems should demand firing RFK Jr. as a condition to fund the government his negative value over replacement cabinet member is undoubtedly the highest in the administration

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot. one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

A data broker owned by major US airlines, including American Airlines, United, and Delta, is selling access to five billion plane ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching and monitoring of peoples’ movements, including by the FBI, Secret Service, ICE and other agencies

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

This citizen and vet was grabbed by immigration agents--and held for three days He wasn't allowed to contact anyone, not his lawyer, not his family "No one told me what I was there for. I thought I was gonna just disappear and never see my fucking kids again" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

I’ll go a step further: if you are a tenured professor in a red state who assumes that your job will still exist in 36 months, then I’m torn between admiring your optimism and scorning your naïveté. At this point, I would not bet on blue staters being safe!

Twitter is run by a far-right Ketamine addict who has helped spread vaccine misinformation that will lead to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. Here's another piece on how BlueSky's lack of intellectual diversity is destroying liberalism.

The U.S. Secretary of Energy does not know that electricity is energy. I'm glad we've gotten rid of DEI programs and are now giving America the leadership it deserves.

Pritzker: "Unidentifiable agents in unmarked vehicles with masks are planning to raid Latino communities and say they're targeting violent criminals."

Yesterday the president demanded that evidence about Covid vaccines be shown to the public. Today @apoorvanyt.bsky.social & I run through some of the studies made public over the past 4+ years that show that the vaccines work. Gift link: nyti.ms/46k17Tq

Critics see big risks

“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time rather than his current ability to kill by the thousands. Why is it that killing a single person is seen as murder but killing masses is excused if you are a politician?” Dr Bill Foege

Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.” Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment. No questions asked. No proof required. Pass it on.