I will be talking with some smart people about what Reeves should actually be doing in this budget next Tuesday at 5pm. Register here: buff.ly/fXy9xsz

Even the bond traders think Reeves' "smörgasbord of tiny tax canapés" is lunacy. www.ft.com/content/abfe...

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university. You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

In 1622, when the Ottoman Sultan Mustafa I was supposed to be returned to power after years of imprisonment, he instead barricaded himself in his room and refused to come out, telling court officials "I do not want to be the Sultan". Not sure what made me think of that.

Good to talk COP30 with Deutsche Welle earlier: www.dw.com/en/trump-is-...

Just spending the evening thinking about all the very sophisticated people both left and center who thought the Women's March and the pink hats were frivolous and cringe, when in fact "grab 'em by the pussy" was the most important and true thing to know about the man.

COP30 is now underway, and I have more to say on the shadow Trump is casting over it here: theconversation.com/how-trumps-t...

In all the justified "screw those guys" obits for Cheney (and before him Rumsfeld) it has not featured heavily enough that in addition to the harm the WoT caused to the Middle East, Africa and domestic US politics, it also led the US and allies to fumble the actual strategic imperative of the time.

COP30 is now underway, and I have more to say on the shadow Trump is casting over it here: theconversation.com/how-trumps-t...

Sunday night villain origin story: journals that use none of the common citation formats (Harvard, Chicago, MLA, APA etc.) but have some bespoke format of their own.

Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection. Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?

You know that Trump doesn't care about climate change. But did you know that his tariffs may also prevent *other* countries from taking climate action? New by me for @uofgpolicy.bsky.social on the Trumpian shadow over COP30: tinyurl.com/mpf7thee

The definitive moment of loss is the window after the Snowden revelations when people were up in arms about state surveillance but not the least bit interested in corporate surveillance even though the revelations were about the link between them.

Today's crazy world, data point #473: My mom helps out in a food pantry in rural Germany. And they now got contacted by American soldiers and civil servants from a nearby US-army base, because people have not received salaries for months because of the government shutdown...

You know that Trump doesn't care about climate change. But did you know that his tariffs may also prevent *other* countries from taking climate action? New by me for @uofgpolicy.bsky.social on the Trumpian shadow over COP30: tinyurl.com/mpf7thee

Came here to say this, but Jamelle Bouie has this covered. 👇 When the Democratic tent includes candidates like Spanberger and Mamdani, there is no crisis, or fight, for the party. IT’S A COALITION, NOT A POINT ESTIMATE.

Terrible scenes just minutes into the new socialist regime in New York as literally hundreds of billionaires discover mamdani already living rent free in their heads

I will just hand the mic to @rtraister.bsky.social rebeccatraister.substack.com/p/this-fucki... Good work New York!

computer show me bill ackman. enhance. ENHANCE

I would actually very much like to know where she got this shirt, because I would like one, and also she looks much more comfortably dressed to be up late at night than @chrislhayes.bsky.social. 🤷‍♀️

This is worse than the worst thing ever attributed to any “Bernie Bro”. The Democratic leader literally refusing to say WHETHER HE VOTED FOR THE DEMOCRAT.

The song they wrote about it is still my favorite song about female anger: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIw0...

Young people "do not want to wear a corporate tag on their politics and that is the one ray of hope." - @shaziazrafi.bsky.social, who has been a ray of hope all my life, on the state of progressive fightback against the global far-right womensmediacenter.com/wmclive/wmc-...

Sheffield Hallam University complied with Beijing demand to halt research about human rights abuses in China, leading to a major project on supply chains and forced labour being dropped. It was reinstated after threat of legal action but chilling effect remains www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

Great stuff, as always, from @joeposnanski.com IKF's baserunning is the tragic what-if we'll discuss forever. Miguel Rojas twice found lightning in a bottle. Baseball, man. Don't ever let anyone tell you it's dying, or boring, or whatever. They have no idea what they're talking about.

Losing the World Series to the Dodgers with poor baserunning, you say?

The difference between the Bsky experience during the 2024 and 2025 postseasons was noticeable. This place has the juice now.

Brutal for Toronto, who have been huge fun to watch all postseason. (Yes, even against us.) If any team deserved to win back-to-back, it is these Dodgers. Ohtani is the GOAT; Yamamoto is a beast. What a blessing to have had this series. What a blessing to now get to sleep. See you in the spring!

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This game is all the hypotheticals my friends and I would come up with when we were kids mixed together. "What if it's Game 7 of the WS, the bottom of the ninth, and the bases are loaded, and you have to bring your starters out in relief and there's a hit by a pitch and a force out and and and..."

When you think about it, this is actually game 8

If this game goes past daylight savings time a portal to The Good Dimension opens and we call all walk in!

No other sport gives tension like this. Welcome to the torture chamber.

I’m seeing everyone post some version of this take and it’s because Smoltz is always giving “I hate baseball” energy when his job is to create excitement around baseball. He is the Andrew Cuomo running for mayor of NYC while constantly trashing NYC of baseball announcers.

I was going to say it also helps to run bases competently, but TOR only halfway does that part.

SOMEONE PLAY “HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT”

I hate this ridiculous practice with the fierceness of 1000 suns. Make it stop!

It has been a long time since I voluntarily stayed up late at night for a baseball game in which the Yankees were not playing. But this has been an extraordinary World Series and cannot be missed.

This will be an interdisciplinary event: we're interested not just in Smith and his works, but the broader context of his time (abolition struggles! revolutions from Haiti to France!) and the state of his themes (labor, trade, finance, etc.) in the world today. If you work on *any* of these, apply!

Call for Papers: "The World in 1776/2026." 250 years after Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations blasted monopolists, mercantilists and enslavers as the scourges of a free society, what light can his ideas shed on the world today? Abstracts due December 15th. Details: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Watching the way inflation and the cost of living operate in politics if you are a person whose professional job it is to know facts about the economy is brain-breaking. Yet when politicians or campaigners try to explain facts to a voter it reads as elitist. Journalism has to do the work here.

I can’t stress this enough: you cannot understand politics without reading this paragraph about why there’s no such thing as a 1/3rd pound hamburger

Tolkien, on the record, hated Nazis, hated Tyrants, hated Government Control & Surveillance, hated bullies, and especially hated bullies who enact violence on innocent people while trying to obfuscate that it's all about power.

This will be an interdisciplinary event: we're interested not just in Smith and his works, but the broader context of his time (abolition struggles! revolutions from Haiti to France!) and the state of his themes (labor, trade, finance, etc.) in the world today. If you work on *any* of these, apply!

Call for Papers: "The World in 1776/2026." 250 years after Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations blasted monopolists, mercantilists and enslavers as the scourges of a free society, what light can his ideas shed on the world today? Abstracts due December 15th. Details: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Rare that I wake up in the morning in the UK and the baseball is still going...

Fantastic documentary on three amateur codebreakers, in three countries, who discovered and deciphered 50,000 words of coded letters Mary Queen of Scots wrote in captivity. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...