An intimidating presence on the mound at 6’4”, Newcombe was the third Black pitcher to appear in an MLB game and won baseball’s first Cy Young Award in 1956. #BlackHistoryMonth

This is non-fiction but lands as visceral (as per author's point) social horror. Only it's entirely real. And that some, even many, won't understand, intuit, or feel any sense of the horror at all, will only see cause to celebrate and wonder what the big deal is, is part of the horror itself.

Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

Rayfield: This is a president who deliberately leads by fear, because that’s how he gets the outcomes he’s looking for. He creates primary dynamics where people are scared to say anything different — because if they do, he’ll try to compel their actions in Congress.

Farmer, 86, Rejects $15 Million Offer to Sell His Land to Data Center Developers: ‘Not Interested in Destroying My Farms’ Pennsylvania farmer Mervin Raudabaugh sold development rights to a land trust for $1.9 million instead.

This sort of thing is why people are understandably not coming to the US. I would be really surprised if the expected international crowds arrive for the World Cup, at least at the US venues. Maybe some diehard fans will come. But the risk is just too great.

what is even the point of this

Judge Goodwin: "An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct. A regime of secret policing has no place in our society."

Page 34: "An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct."

Page 29: "Absent genuine, particularized necessity, the Fourth Amendment’s reasonableness requirement prohibits government officers from executing a civil arrest while systematically concealing their identities in a manner that eliminates contemporaneous and subsequent accountability."

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

Almost like one guy saw an opportunity to get rich even as he took an entire country down

One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kids’ résumés

Last day @sosbangor.bsky.social before our 23 day cruise on the RRS Discovery for the SeaSTORE project. We'll be studying the impact of bottom trawling on seabed carbon stocks. We'll study the chronic and immediate impacts.

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Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

I had the honor of hearing Jesse Jackson speak to A & T University students. Seeing *everyone walking in the same direction when I pulled the consortium van into the lot, I followed them. He was a moving speaker. external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%...

My quote of the day Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change. Jesse Jackson

And yes, we discussed Duvall holding up cue cards for Brando on the set of 'The Godfather'... RIP: www.thedailybeast.com/robert-duval...

RIP Robert Duvall, thank you for teaching me at a very young age how terrible rich people are for workers

How to use social media to mobilise people into climate action Fascinating experimental research based on Extinction Rebellion messaging

i‘m using it for a column but i want to share here this line from lincoln on jefferson because it is applies to our situation as well. you can find it in his april 6, 1859 letter to henry l. pierce.

… may also violate Nigerian and international laws concerning mercenary activities and foreign enlistment. www.bbc.com/news/article...

NEW: As Trump politicizes Justice Dept… there’s another wave of damaging resignations youtube.com/shorts/IXxFh...

This brought back memories of conversations. Thanks as always for the great @ngumenyuk.bsky.social for seeing the essential. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/o...

Serendipity—just seen on FB:

Urge your reps to ban Surveillance Pricing and boycott any business that uses it. If it’s allowed to take root, you will be robbed for the rest of your lives.

To all of you people out there that have been involved with Trump and similar degenerate oligarchs and have been forced to sign non-disclosure agreements, here's a fact that you may find interesting: non-disclosure agreements become void if they are employed to hide criminal activity. So speak up!

Raskin: What makes somebody a good lawyer? You have to identify with the people who are the victims of injustice — not with their perpetrators. So I would say to Pam Bondi: If you’re going to stand with the victimizers and not the victims, then you’re not a real lawyer.

This is what authoritarians are never gonna understand: average, everyday citizens do not like watching paramilitary thugs brutalize children. All the vaporware memes in the world can't fix that for them

The next morning, you lay your hand on her forehead, and the heat of her skin sends a ripple of unease through you. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Trump. Fava beans. A nice Chianti. Your liver.

The SAVE Act would require Americans to show a passport or birth certificate in person just to register to vote. Millions of Americans don’t have access to these documents. This is voter suppression, plain and simple. Call your senators to urge them to vote no: (202) 224-3121

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this is public humanities

Great thread. You can't have a high renewables and a high nuclear power system, unless you over-index on storage. You need to scale nuclear to a portion of always-on demand.

Want to make story problems more accessible? Omit the numbers. Learn why that works—plus three other strategies to make math more engaging and accessible! ➗ #MathSky #ITeachMath #EduSky

I often wonder how we’ll explain him to future generations. The drafts I create in my mind usually start with: “You see kids, in the early 2000s the TV executives discovered that they could just follow ridiculous people around with a camera and make a fortune. ‘Reality TV’ they called it…”

Epstein survivor Anouska De Georgiou: The fact that the very people who are meant to lead this country have completely retraumatized us… it’s—I mean—it’s like being raped by the Department of Justice.

The Librarians www.pbs.org/independentl...

Furieux après que le New York Times a révélé qu’il avait renoncé à réclamer une indemnité de 200 millions à la prestigieuse université privée, le président républicain redouble d’exigence contre elle.

This is a truly timeless piece... harpers.org/archive/1941...

Absolutely!!!! Kraft + Trump = GO SEAHAWKS!!!!