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Mo'ne Davis spent years telling people that she was done playing baseball. She did not want to be forever defined by what she did as a 13-year-old in Little League, a decade ago, and she did not feel like there was space for her to do much else. And then she felt differently. On Davis and the WPBL:
Mo’ne Davis Is Finally Ready to Play Baseball Again
More than a decade after becoming a Little League sensation at age 13, Mo’ne Davis is set to make more history as the face of the Women’s Pro Baseball League.
www.si.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Mo'ne Davis spent years telling people that she was done playing baseball. She did not want to be forever defined by what she did as a 13-year-old in Little League, a decade ago, and she did not feel like there was space for her to do much else. And then she felt differently. On Davis and the WPBL:
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THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
![II. Credibility
The Court next addresses the credibility of the parties’ evidence and witnesses. After reviewing all the evidence submitted to the Court and listening to the testimony elicited at the preliminary injunction hearing, during depositions, and in other court proceedings, the Court finds Defendants’ evidence simply not credible. [FN 6]
Plaintiffs submitted a mountain of evidence, providing the Court with over eighty declarations, numerous videos and articles, and other evidence. Defendants did not rebut anything that Plaintiffs set forth in their declarations or testimony, even with BWC footage.
[FN 6] In another case considering some of the same evidence presented to this Court, another court in this district also found that the perceptions of certain of Defendants’ declarants, such as Hott and Parra, were not reliable. See Illinois v. Trump, No. 25-cv-12174, 2025 WL 2886645, at *5 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 10, 2025) (noting a “troubling trend of Defendants’ declarants equating protests with riots and a lack of appreciation for the wide spectrum that exists between citizens who are observing, questioning, and criticizing their government, and those who are obstructing, assaulting, or doing violence”), motion to stay denied in part, 155 F.4th 929 (7th Cir. 2025).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreifpyry2il5toxbr3iejgrsxs6kmnwve75qwnhebfp44ieyjrfpsdu@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
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I am begging America to not be stupid enough to embrace a racist and an antisemite because Donald Trump thinks she's a meanie. Just grab some popcorn and watch the Nazis fight.
Trump: “I am withdrawing my support and Endorsement of ‘Congresswoman’ Marjorie Taylor Greene…”
November 15, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I am begging America to not be stupid enough to embrace a racist and an antisemite because Donald Trump thinks she's a meanie. Just grab some popcorn and watch the Nazis fight.
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I do think it’s noteworthy that when these guys are inventing party planks that don’t exist they always go to anti-racism as the mockworthy initiative
I don't think it helps the debate about what Democrats should do to pick an obscure thing that some Democrat somewhere may have said -- like on teaching eighth grade algebra -- and then attribute it to Democrats generally.
November 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I do think it’s noteworthy that when these guys are inventing party planks that don’t exist they always go to anti-racism as the mockworthy initiative
Korean fried chicken and beer is my dream business meeting locale
Jensen Huang, the Nvidia chief executive, and the leaders of Samsung and Hyundai staged an outing over fried chicken and beer in Seoul before announcing a business deal. nyti.ms/4hzIEGN
October 31, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Korean fried chicken and beer is my dream business meeting locale
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This is the best school in America
I saw a swordfight at halftime and now the mascot is shaving someone’s head
October 31, 2025 at 1:49 AM
This is the best school in America
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This week's post is going to focus on getting started with the BDB. I have a series of 4 planned for the next two weeks to help get newbies with some base programming knowledge go from zero to a basic model with tracking data. If you have questions, please ask!
open.substack.com/pub/cincysam...
open.substack.com/pub/cincysam...
October 17, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This week's post is going to focus on getting started with the BDB. I have a series of 4 planned for the next two weeks to help get newbies with some base programming knowledge go from zero to a basic model with tracking data. If you have questions, please ask!
open.substack.com/pub/cincysam...
open.substack.com/pub/cincysam...
MLB shouldn’t even have playoffs. This is a hill I will die on.
great example of the total folly of pretending MLB's postseason decides the actual best team when you have a five-game series to determine the outcome between two extremely evenly matched teams
October 11, 2025 at 3:17 AM
MLB shouldn’t even have playoffs. This is a hill I will die on.
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NFL Big Data Bowl dropped this past week and while I'm not entering this year, I did want to have some fun with tracking data and other football side projects so I'm launching a Substack as a public forum to do so. Plan to do some BDB tutorials. Check it out!
cincysam6.substack.com/p/welcome-fr...
cincysam6.substack.com/p/welcome-fr...
Welcome, Friend.
I figured I’d start this Substack with a brief introduction to myself and the purpose of this space.
cincysam6.substack.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:29 AM
NFL Big Data Bowl dropped this past week and while I'm not entering this year, I did want to have some fun with tracking data and other football side projects so I'm launching a Substack as a public forum to do so. Plan to do some BDB tutorials. Check it out!
cincysam6.substack.com/p/welcome-fr...
cincysam6.substack.com/p/welcome-fr...
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Echoes of Enrique Peñalosa's “A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation."
Mamdani: We need to make public transportation so good that “no matter how much money is in your pocket, you say: I’m gonna use this.”
September 7, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Echoes of Enrique Peñalosa's “A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation."
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Actually wild that the Texas legislature banned trans people from bathrooms in government buildings yesterday and it hasn’t gotten a whiff of news coverage in the Associated Press, NYT, WaPo, etc
I guess the national news biz is just shrugging at this stuff now?
I guess the national news biz is just shrugging at this stuff now?
September 4, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Actually wild that the Texas legislature banned trans people from bathrooms in government buildings yesterday and it hasn’t gotten a whiff of news coverage in the Associated Press, NYT, WaPo, etc
I guess the national news biz is just shrugging at this stuff now?
I guess the national news biz is just shrugging at this stuff now?
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when my house is burning down but i can die at peace knowing we got rid of all those damn firefighting immigrants
August 28, 2025 at 3:05 AM
when my house is burning down but i can die at peace knowing we got rid of all those damn firefighting immigrants
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I’m concerned that people won’t appreciate how big a line is being crossed here. Texas is suspending basic Constitutional freedoms for opposition lawmakers. This isn’t dipping your toe in the authoritarian waters, it’s diving head first into the deep end. This is big league authoritarianism.
Trump has done a lot of authoritarian things this year and IMO none of them is as authoritarian as restricting opposition legislators’ right to travel freely.
WILD situation in Texas right now: The House Speaker has required Dems, who just returned from their out-of-state quorum break, to have police escorts once they leave the chamber. One Dem is refusing to leave the House floor with escort, and GOP leaders have blocked press access to the chamber.
August 18, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I’m concerned that people won’t appreciate how big a line is being crossed here. Texas is suspending basic Constitutional freedoms for opposition lawmakers. This isn’t dipping your toe in the authoritarian waters, it’s diving head first into the deep end. This is big league authoritarianism.
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Today's Rooster dispatch:
💥Ohio's school bus swindle
💥The long-awaited downfall of Cleveland Councilman Joe Jones appears to be en route
💥 A chance to win @sethharpesq's damning new book, "The Fort Bragg Cartel"
www.rooster.info/p/ohios-scho...
💥Ohio's school bus swindle
💥The long-awaited downfall of Cleveland Councilman Joe Jones appears to be en route
💥 A chance to win @sethharpesq's damning new book, "The Fort Bragg Cartel"
www.rooster.info/p/ohios-scho...
Ohio's school bus scam
It's one of the biggest disgraces about living in Ohio.
www.rooster.info
August 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Today's Rooster dispatch:
💥Ohio's school bus swindle
💥The long-awaited downfall of Cleveland Councilman Joe Jones appears to be en route
💥 A chance to win @sethharpesq's damning new book, "The Fort Bragg Cartel"
www.rooster.info/p/ohios-scho...
💥Ohio's school bus swindle
💥The long-awaited downfall of Cleveland Councilman Joe Jones appears to be en route
💥 A chance to win @sethharpesq's damning new book, "The Fort Bragg Cartel"
www.rooster.info/p/ohios-scho...
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I find the dildo thing pretty appalling so I wrote a bit about why
Why A Bunch Of Real Dicks Keep Throwing Fake Ones | Defector
Every misogynist joke poses a question to its female audience: Can you laugh along? Will you be chill or are you going to make a big deal out of this? Are you going to be a bitch about it? Arriving in...
defector.com
August 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I find the dildo thing pretty appalling so I wrote a bit about why
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Mo Salah is asking the right questions
August 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Mo Salah is asking the right questions
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"We're all throwing dildos at women athletes to promote our memecoin" really puts a fine point on not just how sexist, mean and stupid so much of right now is, but also the grim degree to which we're just inundated with Stuff a 15-Year-Old Dipshit Would Think is Cool. A confederacy of Beavises.
August 8, 2025 at 3:04 AM
"We're all throwing dildos at women athletes to promote our memecoin" really puts a fine point on not just how sexist, mean and stupid so much of right now is, but also the grim degree to which we're just inundated with Stuff a 15-Year-Old Dipshit Would Think is Cool. A confederacy of Beavises.
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Wait holy shit, she's a maths prodigy, she's going straight for a maths PhD after being homeschooled and never completing high school and... she's also trans, and she just casually dropped that into the end of the interview.
My day has just been made, Hannah Cairo is fucking amazing.
My day has just been made, Hannah Cairo is fucking amazing.
I had an enlightening conversation with mathematician Hannah Cairo about how she broke a huge conjecture in Harmonic Analysis at just 17 years old, what being a transgender mathematician means to her and how math has supported her along her journey! 🏳️⚧️ 🌊 ✨
Read the Q&A here:
Read the Q&A here:
Teen Hannah Cairo's Mathematical Discovery Sends Ripples through Harmonic Analysis
When she was just 17 years old, Hannah Cairo disproved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, breaking a four-decade-old mathematical assumption
www.scientificamerican.com
August 8, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Wait holy shit, she's a maths prodigy, she's going straight for a maths PhD after being homeschooled and never completing high school and... she's also trans, and she just casually dropped that into the end of the interview.
My day has just been made, Hannah Cairo is fucking amazing.
My day has just been made, Hannah Cairo is fucking amazing.
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I think my favorite thing about Bluesky is how it encourages conversation and new dialogue with interesting strangers
August 8, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I think my favorite thing about Bluesky is how it encourages conversation and new dialogue with interesting strangers
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Local news in Cincinnati is failing us so badly right now. It’s wall to wall coverage about suburbanites cowering in fear over a street fight a week ago and crickets about this.
J.D. Vance, he's just like us in that he has the power to complain to the army corps of engineers to raise water levels so he can navigate his boat safely.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
August 6, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Local news in Cincinnati is failing us so badly right now. It’s wall to wall coverage about suburbanites cowering in fear over a street fight a week ago and crickets about this.
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Why is it so easy for many of us to see this extortion while the @nytimes.com treats this as The Art of the Deal? It is so repulsive and craven of these reporters and their editors.
It is not “deal-making.” It is extortion built on Christopher Rufo’s idea of “taking down” one or more elite university.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...
Trump’s Deal-Making With Other Elite Schools Scrambles Harvard Negotiations
www.nytimes.com
August 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Why is it so easy for many of us to see this extortion while the @nytimes.com treats this as The Art of the Deal? It is so repulsive and craven of these reporters and their editors.
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If you put the DOGE guys on a desert island where the only way out was to say the magic words “I’m not sure what the answer is, let me consult someone who has worked on this problem for a long time” they would all starve to death
August 4, 2025 at 3:23 AM
If you put the DOGE guys on a desert island where the only way out was to say the magic words “I’m not sure what the answer is, let me consult someone who has worked on this problem for a long time” they would all starve to death
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In general, if the opposing offense is begging you to stop running a play, you keep running the shit out of that post. www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...
Trump Demands Reporters Stop Talking About Him And Epstein In New White House Scrum — Claims ‘I Have Nothing To Do With The Guy!’
Trump demanded that reporters stop talking about him and deceased sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein and offered a list of other topics.
www.mediaite.com
July 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
In general, if the opposing offense is begging you to stop running a play, you keep running the shit out of that post. www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...