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Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

I don’t think a state that is threatening wars of territorial aggression and has random death squads wandering about its mid-tier cities assassinating civilians should be hosting the World Cup

Speaks for all of us. www.ft.com/content/726f...

Whiteness is made up for the purpose of getting middle class people to identify with the wealthy instead of the working class. My ancestors are from Ireland, Scotland, Finland, France, Italy. All different varieties of “white” that were racist to each other at some point in time.

I’m very open to the argument that the 2026 MLB season should be postponed indefinitely.

There is too much to say here for this website! Carney says many true things. He also does little about it with his domestic agenda. He also benefited greatly from the "useful lie" he's calling out, and yes I mean him personally. when did Canada stand up for those on the other end of these regimes?

Nah, my 3rd world country has better anti-corruption measures. I must remind you that 3rd world countries put their presidents in prison while you mostly pardon them.

The Dodgers are not baseball’s bad guys. If 29 other clubs voted for strict revenue sharing, they’d have to eat shit and accept it. The real bad guys are the unambitious upper-middle class who know that if this ever happened, the Brewers, Rays, etc. would clean their fucking clocks.

Yesterday was the anniversary of the coup, in 1893, overthrowing the self-government of Hawaii (the monarchy formed to unite the islands, in anticipation of just something like this) -- done transparently in service of large business interests www.ksbe.edu/article/the-...

Which types of welfare fraud are politely litigated between white collar lawyers, and which types of welfare fraud are used to justify an immigration purge and shutting off resources to the poor?

Future things swim before me, as in empty outlines and skeletons; all the past is somehow grown dim.

Matt Shaw really beginning to doubt his "Jews will not replace us" poster.

“America has fallen. You need to look up, at the people you’re used to looking down on. We’re trying to tell you something. I have lived through collapse and you’re already there. Until you understand this, you only have further to fall.” indi.ca/i-lived-thro...

Yes, it’s really hard to capture the full scale of the federal assault on the Twin Cities. At any given point dozens of locations being harassed, across Minneapolis, Saint Paul, and the 185 suburbs. Hundreds of roaming cars, highway checkpoints, heavily armed convoys. We are under attack

Yes, our work should provide us with opportunities to experience whatever brings us joy in our lives, dinner and a show, arts, a ball game with friends, the abundance of what we know as goodness. We have no use for a politics that denies these things to us and our loved ones.

Lucky to have the big man in the organization, won’t be surprised to see him managing somewhere someday. www.mlb.com/news/daniel-...

I’m reminded of the Nazi concept of “lives not worth living.”

Literally one of these cases of a federal officer being charged with state/local crimes went before a judge last month. It's routine and perfectly normal and has been done for almost 200 years. Important to know this history: prospect.org/2026/01/07/i...

It’s easy in these moments to get exasperated by the UN, but the Charter does two key things that have helped define the post-1945 world: it outlaws the use of aggressive warfare as a tool for remaking international order, and it underwrites postcolonial sovereignty. US actions this week breach both

This is really the best play they can make this winter. At the very least he should be a good defensive player and if the offense doesn't come around in the first half, there's Pratt, possibly even Made waiting in the wings and always the possibility of a trade. There is no reason to force change.

New Year's Eve, and 125 years old today is 'The Darkling Thrush' by Thomas Hardy. (And when I myself read this poem, I often find myself becoming aware of that blessèd Hope from that frail and gaunt thrush ✨️)

When a poem becomes a prayer. Siegfried Sassoon (1934)

I feel like "attention hacking" is most of politics now. The Minnesota aid fraud story is becoming a perfect example. Recap: In 2022, the Biden DOJ filed the first charges against dozens of fraudsters, many of them Somali-American, who'd fleeced a state food aid program. (1/x)

“.. The concert had been held at the Kennedy Center for 20 years ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/u...

I remember seeing Mike Sardina get into his van with the “Lightning and Thunder” logo on the side in a parking lot on Brady street in Milwaukee in the mid 90’s and thinking “huh, interesting concept.”

Once a Talking Header, always a Talking Header.

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

So on I went.

Almost a year into this presidency, Trump voters have gotten nothing except the Big Beautiful Bill, which was usual Republican politics of giving tax cuts to the rich and slashing social spending for the poor. Housing remains unaffordable, cost of living is rising, and manufacturing jobs fell.

“Aye, breach your last to the sun, Moby Dick!” cried Ahab, “thy hour and thy harpoon are at hand!”

The problem isn't that we can't talk to each other The marketplace has heard the ideas Large supermajorities reject them Yet our anti-democratic political institutions allow the 20-25% that like those ideas to capture & control all the institutions The problem is the anti-democratic institutions

Today, on the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, we remember the lives lost due to violence. Today is a call to action to continue fighting against the stigma, discrimination, and legislation that fuel this cruel violence. ☂️

a newly murdered thing of the sea

So Jeff Kent got a power surge around age 30 in the peak of the steroid era and is apparently above suspicion while Bonds, the greatest hitter most of us will ever see, is a pariah.

Apparently we’ve established that if the US can seize the largest tanker off Venezuela, it can just as easily seize a small, alleged drug boat without murdering the occupants.

ICE’s acting director ordered a Boston Catholic parish to tear down its Advent Nativity scene—stripped of baby Jesus and branded with the message “ICE WAS HERE.” The parish priest is refusing, citing he pope’s call to stand with migrants. It's another chapter in Kristi Noem's war on Christians.

The U.S. couldn’t be bothered to abide by its own Constitution. They defied Article VI from the beginning.

‘Times have changed since the 1960s. Military force and police repression are unlikely to produce the outcomes the US desires, and may end up strengthening Latin American nationalisms instead.’ Forrest Hylton on the US, Colombia and Venezuela, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

It’s amazing how much of this advertising is “you know that thing you were already doing without any issues? What if your phone told you to do it?”

As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store. Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.

Love these background features. Quality baseball organizations are made of quality people.

Quite similar styling.

Learning to use my goddam coffee maker or, occasionally, following my kid into this Blank Street joint for this matcha shit. Whatever doesn't kill me makes me stronger. #UnionUnionUnion

‘mainstream media has in fact long participated in covering up the full scale of the Epstein story. The original cover-up was ignoring his sexual crimes. Those are now better reported. But by ignoring how integrated Epstein was with the American empire, these outlets are conducting another cover-up’

Matt Arnold has been named 2025 MLB executive of the year for the second straight year, as voted on by his peers. Arnold was promoted to President of Baseball Operations last month. The Brewers would be wise to make sure they keep him around for a very long time.

But what alarms me in all this is how the girls who were victimized by these men are largely forgotten. I want us to find ways of centering them in the discourse.

Is Schumer still the minority leader? Is Durbin still the whip? Is Cortes-Masto still a vice chair? Good Democrats -- rank and file, those committed to restoring party --must tell Act Blue and every candidate with hands out for the coming midterms -- that there's no cash coming without new leaders.