A lot of people who don’t believe that every American is responsible for Trump believe that every Democrat is to blame for last night’s vote.

Hilarious thing abt Steelers discourse in Pgh: the local press is so desperate to oust Tomlin, who is obviously a D-first coach, they pretty much won’t talk about how bad Rodgers is. They have to keep pretending the defense is the main problem, so they can say exactly one guy is to blame.

Incredible news

I really do think that most Americans think the GOP and GOP are unmovable objects that cannot be changed by public opinion so trying to change them gets people too depressed but they don't understand how to process that and not take all that unprocessed rage out on Democrats.

What do you get when you cross a red-tailed hawk with a turkey vulture? 🪶

Wow, what a piece of shit. Like, sure, pro athletes tend to have bad politics, but this guy's going the extra mile to harm people.

Hey Pennsylvania voters (and Pittsburghers): did you try and contact Senator Fetterman's office yesterday only to find out you couldn't leave a voicemail? I'm interested in talking to his constituents for the news today.

I cannot believe that Bluesky is a less pleasant experience than this game.

8. Evil city / pure countryside is an example of what Jeremy Lent calls a “root metaphor”: an idea so deeply implanted in our minds that we don’t even recognise it as an idea.

@Tormny_Pickeals: I made the Black Panther communist tweet as a warning A Lot of People on the Internet: At last, we have enough people on our side to make bullying some creators into making the Black Panther communist tweet a reality

Extraordinarily repulsive. As bad as or worse than the worst 4chan edgelord, and he obviously believed every word. Good riddance.

Oh my fucking god

We’ve been talking about needing to reinstate shame among the elites. This is part of the work: associate them with the concept of shame, and then kick their asses in the public square, so acting shamefully looks like loserdom. Also, the Obamaspeak is so weird.

After one particularly egregious set of comments by Watson about blacks and Jews, I and the other authors got legal advice on how to add wording to our contract that would make sure Watson would not be able to insert any deranged ideas into our book

St. Peter Dinklage

they also believe they’re savvier than normal people so they think “I’m impressed” and “this is impressive” mean the same thing

Does anyone on here work with race and medicine in the southern US in the early 20th century? Niche, I know, but I came across something very weird in my late father's stuff that might be of interest. Feel free to share.

That awning is a like a pet cone to prevent the top half from seeing what they did to the bottom.

Michael was supposed to be the only smart one, but nobody noticed how dumb the rest were. So they made Tony Soprano also pretty dumb, and the rest super-dumb, but it still wasn't enough for people to notice just how dumb he is. He has trappings of leadership & success, that's all viewers can see.

Thermostatic opinion when I’m out of power: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Thermostatic opinion when I’m in power: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

“Look at those women with their Stanleys and their toddlers and their bullet journals” they will ruin your life buddy

It’s hard to make the G-G feud make sense because it so rapidly shed its original meaning and just became an us vs them. The useful mnemonic is that Guelph & pope have one syllable so that’s one side, against Ghibelline and Emperor on the other side which are 3 syllables.

Really unfortunate timeline sequence.

Really hard to overstate how far down the ballot this happened. The Allegheny Co. Council at-large seat that went to a 20something guy on the Labor ticket (we have DSA & Greens, no Labor) was created to be an R seat on an inevitably D-leaning Council, but the incumbent couldn't hold it vs a nobody.

We are raising taxes on the rich specifically to cleanse the WH.

Election results showed a nationalized thermostatic backlash against the party of the president, similar to 1st Trump term but with even smaller candidate & issue effects & regardless of turnout.

Good news!

TPOREAM

As much as I would prefer voters vote on policy, they do not, the vote on vibes. You get good vibes when you stick to the basics, shake hands, show pride in the place you want to represent.

So, because the Allegheny County, PA (Pittsburgh) Council mandates seats for minority parties, the Democrats were never able to unseat at-large Republican Councilman Mike Embrescia. So, they ran a left-wing Independent and he's winning easily!

SCOPA retains its Dem majority, and every other PA Dem judge won as well.

I was curious: in 1957, these four combined for almost 30 WAR. Most years, 45 is enough to make a team a contender, and 7 of 8 NL teams had a 10+ WAR pitching staff. IOW, yes, add these 4 to almost any roster, and you've got the best team.

And look, this doesn't make MY correct, but not every argument you can think of against his is automatically correct. "National perceptions about SF have never been used against Dems before" is simply nonsense. And beyond SF, "Governor Moonbeam" was used in the fucking '80s, what are we doing here?

I'm sorry, but what the fuck is Bouie talking about here? SF has been tied around the necks of Dems for 20+ years—why does he think every House race in the country used to mention Nancy Pelosi? Why does he think SF came up in the gay marriage discourse in '02 & '04—WHICH DEMS LOST? It's delusional.

Woke up today to the news

For my entire adult life, baseball people have wrung their hands about the sport's shrinking popularity and fretted over how to grow the game with young people. Turns out the answer is: Show them a game like the one we just watched. Today's Lewsletter: www.thelewsletter.lewispoll.is/p/game-seven...

Sure, people are mocking this, but you have to remember: it's pronounced "LOOV"

baseball is Type 2 Fun

Pittsburgh this afternoon. They later marched down the street to the front of the store itself. AFAIK, there’s been no ICE presence at this store, which doesn’t have a big day laborer scene.

I will say that modern checkouts make SNAP infinitely simpler: for the most part, the computer knows what’s eligible, debits only that total from the EBT card, then shows the remainder. No need for separate orders, except for older/simpler systems.

OMG 💀💀💀

teach your kids not to slide into home on a force play

Ok, based on how angry I am right now, I’m more invested than I thought.

Ok, I now believe I could be an above average third base coach just because I’ll tell the players to NOT FUCKING SLIDE when the bases are loaded. Jesus.

Seen at a bar in New Orleans last night by my (Philly) nephew. I hope he bought this dude a drink. #Phillies #Pirates #P00P

Obligatory: my dad looks so much like Wallace Shawn that, back when he was in NYC often, ppl would ask if he was WS all the time. They actually met once and chatted for awhile (nobody asked WS if he was my dad). Also, I will apparently age to look like this 😬

Town upriver from here imploded their coal-fed power plant last year, now the neighbors are picketing against a proposed data center for the site.

Josh Shapiro, the ball's in your court.