*whispers* we were supposed to impeach Dubya

I DO buy the idea that there's a culture shift needed in the clubhouse. All last year they were a good team playing bad baseball. It was weird! I would be inclined to locate the problem with the coaching staff, though.

Mmm, reading discussion of the Mets' offseason plans and Stearns talking about the need to improve "run prevention" and is it just me or like Is that not a kind of weasely way of putting it? Like, the problem was the PITCHING, not Pete's defense

Gosh, this definition of "rebellion" is ringing a bell, I feel like I've seen one of those sometime recently, but I can't quite put my finger on it...

I feel like there's something interesting to say, maybe, about how the locus of white supremacy had narrowed in the last, say, century? Like, in the dialogue in Du Bois's "Superior Race," intelligence is only one of several qualities the two characters are arguing about

Hey uhhhh, anyone On Here know anything about event budgeting?

Ahahahaha Madison would've been incandescent with rage over the idea of putting a supermajority requirement for legislation in the fucking Constitution

Is it jury nullification, or is it the sovereign (the people of the United States of America, constitutionally) determining that a state of exception is necessary? Can someone print this out and glue it to the door of Vermeule's office.

Good evening! For the first time in, welp, over a month, it's a new installment of Constitutional Perspectives! (Sorry for the delay...) Today we're talking about the states! What is a state, anyway? eveningconstitutional.net/federalism-p...

What's that I was saying the other day about how it's so taboo for anyone to say what every normie Democrat is feeling about Trump

Letting Antoan Richardson to go the Braves is inexcusable, what the hell

The psychic wage of hierarchy is, imo, the #1 obstacle to democracy worldwide

Apparently this also didn't matter! Combined with last year this is a great showing for Campaigns Are Meaningless lol

Holy shit, this card is like ten times creepier than anything in Duskmourn

OH MY GOD THE MARIO CUOMO QUOTE

"The strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves" goddamn

Lmao we kicking it off with Debs

Prop 50 called *immediately,* lmao, it's official, clean sweep

This is not bringing the vibe down, imo. Fucking bring it on.

Again, the thing about AOC is that she's just very very good at this

Lol, and might I add, lmao

AOC just saying basically this same thing from Mamdani HQ on MSNBC

Okay y'know what, she's reciting the Statue of Liberty poem now, I take it all back

Well it took all of about two minutes for the cringe to hit at Sherrill's speech Yes, "liberty and prosperity," what an inspiring state motto

No resume or profile, just mad game

Just saying, I called it for Mamdani back in June

New Jersey has decided that, in fact, clean energy WILL cost you an arm and a leg, but that if you are a good person, you'll do it anyway

No but it's true, the Federalist Party collapsed politically once Washington was dead

This Spanberger speech, I gotta say, not exactly rousing oratory

Okay I'll bite, what is a "public service commissioner"

Where is Kornacki???

It's so vitally important to our entire national politics these days to just pretend that nobody on the left feels, or is allowed to feel, a really deep hatred toward the tyrants and war criminals who have spent the last twenty five years destroying the future

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No no, he's *best* known for having apologized to Cheney for it

Everything always does seem to reduce to the demand that the Democratic voter base stop trying to exercise real power

THIS is what we're doing direct defiance of a court order over??

Among other things, this simply doesn't follow! Assume it's true that *candidates* perceived as more moderate do better, that does not entail that *parties* perceived as more moderate do better! Voters might like moderation relative to the party

You, weak, pathetic: if Mamdani wins I'm leaving the city Dick Cheney, heroic, strong: I will simply die before I even have to hear the news that Mamdani won

ExCUSE me???

This seems right to me about the Antideficiency Act angle but it is a little weird to me that anyone ever thought you could just NOT shut the government down when appropriations had lapsed, as a constitutional matter???

Okay in looking up Mamdani's baseball views to make this post I seem to have discovered that a certain former star baseball player went on a rant a couple days about about how much he sucks and NYC sucks for electing him That player? John Rocker

Oh yeah I believe this so hard. The labels and categories we use are always extremely clunky approximations of the underlying phenomena; their point is to be useful. And if they aren't being useful, we should change them

James Gunn should cast Sabrina in the DCU just because of this stupid... "controversy," ugh

Look, all I really wanted was for someone to do something awesome, and that's what Yoshi Yamamoto did. What a series

Shohei must be the first pitcher ever to lead off game 7, huh

It's... it's kind of the Confederacy and the Union though (albeit not exactly along the same geographic lines anymore)

Yes, actually! There's a deep political theory thing going on here: the demand to be utterly free from the exercise of power by others is ultimately a demand to exercise arbitrary power over others