If John Roberts is "just calling balls and strikes" couldn't he be replaced by the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) System?

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Tom Steyer was right about Xavier Becerra, at the end of 2020 when he said this.

A huge thing to the credit of Ted Turner: he was widely criticized for his dumb and stupid classic movie colorization scheme and instead of doubling down and crashing out over the negative publicity, he listened to the criticism and launched Turner Classic Movies.

Ted Turner was the biggest (and richest) champion of classic movies we have ever seen. Without him, TCM wouldn’t exist. Without him, folks in the industry now wouldn’t care about things like restoration and finding lost films. It would still be a cottage industry for a niche interest.

Cartoonist: Paul Duginski

@malcolmnance.bsky.social fyi virtual event #blackcowboy Brian Branch-Price photographs document the life of the Black cowboy from New York to California, at rodeos, trail rides, bull riding, and steer wrestling. www.eventbrite.com/e/the-histor...?

@brat2381.bsky.social fyi virtual event #blackcowboy Brian Branch-Price photographs document the life of the Black cowboy from New York to California, at rodeos, trail rides, bull riding, and steer wrestling. www.eventbrite.com/e/the-histor...?

@deardean22.bsky.social @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social @ektashahmd.bsky.social fyi virtual event #blackcowboy Brian Branch-Price photographs document the life of the Black cowboy from New York to California, at rodeos, trail rides, bull riding, and steer wrestling. www.eventbrite.com/e/the-histor...?

YOU'RE NOT YOUNG EITHER. WHO THE HELL CARES? WE NEED TO WIN. SHUT UP.

(1/2) It’s Teacher Appreciation Week! We recognize and celebrate the educators who excite thinking, mentor young people, and nurture children’s dreams every single day. Thank you to all of our educators.

(2/2) Special congratulations to 2027 Virginia Teacher of the Year Madeline Duffy for her well-deserved honor and for the lasting impact she makes in and beyond the classroom.

If you think trump administration is going to listen to a Dem majority in congress you've got another thing coming. It is we the people that will have to rise up against these nazi bastards. Remember this post. He will not follow judicial orders.

Impressed by the number of bikes and bike lanes in Bristol. The city could have said, look, we are made entirely of hills, biking is madness, maybe we could have a funicular or something. Instead they said no, we are strong, we can do it, we will have the finest quads in all the kingdom 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️🚴

They're really stopping an election that's already under way to erase my people from the map.

Meanwhile the California grid now boasts the equivalent of 12 nuclear power plants worth of batteries -- the total cost of which was, I suspect, less than a single nuclear plant.

Holy shit, Japanese baseball games are so much more fun and engaging lol Cheering sections for both the home and away teams that have drums and shit. Never been into a baseball game more, this rules.

It’s the way to go. Invest in solar energy.

Looking forward to this!! @deardean22.bsky.social we have excellent Black performers with Seattle Opera and Pacific Northwest Ballet, per your post about Black ballet dancers, a few weeks ago.

I’ve had it with those I’ve had it podcasters As one commenter said: they sound like red pilled bros..

I was thinking of this earlier. So much of our issues started because (usually white people) confused everyone in the world being locked in and forced to watch streamers for entertainment as them actually having valuable opinions on things. And when their subs tanked in 2021, they freaked out.

Attention all men. More of this, please.

Really we all should root for a Knicks-Sixers playoff series every year because it’s one of the few matchups where the teams commute back and forth via chartered Amtrak trains instead of chartered flights. Tons of C02 emissions saved (Sixers boarding train pics from 2024)

@bluegal.bsky.social @driftglass.bsky.social fyi introduced in the House of Representatives by Nikki Budzinski and Michelle Fischbach. vegconomist.com/politics-law...

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I never thought I would have to ask this question but here we are… Did these people really believe he was going to be a dictator that gave them universal healthcare and forgive their debt? Did they not know what dictator meant? The more l think about it the dumber they seem💀😭😂😂😂 I can’t y’all.

"If you give the rich tax breaks, they'll lower prices for everyone else." No, they won't. Want proof? Every single MLB team owner is in the richest 0.1% and receives hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax breaks every year. And it now costs an average $225 to attend a game.

America has a demented president running the country and the people who voted for him, or couldn't get themselves to vote for Harris so they stayed home or voted 3rd party, are responsible for this damn mess. Anyone with a lick of sense could have seen this coming.

Texas voters just sent the book banners packing. Not in California. Not in New York. In Texas. Across the state, voters went to the polls and threw out right-wing school board members who built their local political brands on book bans, anti-LGBTQ policies and Christian nationalist culture-war panic

No. The owners of Right Wing propaganda media decided this was the way, when they persuaded voters to elect T & the GOP dominated Congress thru lies about how he'd lower grocery prices, act as the Peace Candidate, deport only violent criminals etc. bsky.app/profile/upin...

"Night Wing" was created using #gouache on paper. 🦉 #owl Prints/merch of my work; www.the-inner-observer.com

Oh Karen, black veterans fought for this country & came home to a country that treated them as second class citizens. Woman sit your flat, privileged, unseasoned food eating ass down and shut the fuck up.

My Dad was drafted in the Korean war. Black soldiers didn't get access to the GI Bill until the 70s, but paid taxes to that benefit white soldiers. White vets voted against their interests.

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Trump UNO blah blah blah! We Democrats are winning here in Texas!

Spoken with truth and fire!🔥🔥 #VRA

Do you know what I HATE worse than liars? 🗣️Folks that won’t admit they’re wrong!!! Like l said…Jeffries didn’t lose a single democrat on this vote. Not A Single One Instead of listening to your lil friends learn something and read about what’s actually happening🤷🏾‍♀️ www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/04/...

Rep. Jasmine Crockett is starting a leadership PAC to help other candidates after she’s out of office. FIRE: Fuel Individual Rights Everywhere And planning to tour the country to actually educate people about what elected officials can actually do/should do etc. www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/n...

NEW: This past Saturday, Democrat Quentin Wiltz was elected mayor of Pearland, Texas, FLIPPING a Republican-leaning suburb BLUE. This is huge. Congrats, Mayor-elect Wiltz!

Okay folks, because this happens every year: 1. The Met Gala funds the Costume Institute which does not receive any of the money the Met Museum gets from tickets or money from the general donation pool to the Met.

2. The celebrities and public figures attending have not paid for their tickets but are invited to wear clothes that are essentially pieces of art that tie into the theme of the CI’s work. Tables are generally paid for my corporations.

3. Is it fucked il tht this is how we fund the arts? Yes! 4. Would my friends (union, working class people) who work for the CI be out of a job without it? Also yes!

5. There are lots of things to criticize about the Gala. Including how folks like Bezos launder their reps with donations that are small compared to their wealth. But these are systematic issues not specific to this one event.