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December 21, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Fastest Pitch In Statcast Era (MPH):
105.7 NYY
105.5 LAA
105.1 CHC PIT
105.0 STL
104.8 MIN
104.5 SD
104.3 MIL
104.2 ATL
104.1 ATH CIN
104.0 SF MIA
103.8 NYM KC BOS
103.7 TEX
103.4 BAL
103.3 LAD COL PHI
103.2 SEA TOR
103.1 CWS
103.0 AZ CLE
102.6 DET
102.4 HOU
102.2 TB
101.5 WSH
105.7 NYY
105.5 LAA
105.1 CHC PIT
105.0 STL
104.8 MIN
104.5 SD
104.3 MIL
104.2 ATL
104.1 ATH CIN
104.0 SF MIA
103.8 NYM KC BOS
103.7 TEX
103.4 BAL
103.3 LAD COL PHI
103.2 SEA TOR
103.1 CWS
103.0 AZ CLE
102.6 DET
102.4 HOU
102.2 TB
101.5 WSH
December 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Fastest Pitch In Statcast Era (MPH):
105.7 NYY
105.5 LAA
105.1 CHC PIT
105.0 STL
104.8 MIN
104.5 SD
104.3 MIL
104.2 ATL
104.1 ATH CIN
104.0 SF MIA
103.8 NYM KC BOS
103.7 TEX
103.4 BAL
103.3 LAD COL PHI
103.2 SEA TOR
103.1 CWS
103.0 AZ CLE
102.6 DET
102.4 HOU
102.2 TB
101.5 WSH
105.7 NYY
105.5 LAA
105.1 CHC PIT
105.0 STL
104.8 MIN
104.5 SD
104.3 MIL
104.2 ATL
104.1 ATH CIN
104.0 SF MIA
103.8 NYM KC BOS
103.7 TEX
103.4 BAL
103.3 LAD COL PHI
103.2 SEA TOR
103.1 CWS
103.0 AZ CLE
102.6 DET
102.4 HOU
102.2 TB
101.5 WSH
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The FBI put a thousand agents (their own words) on trying to hide all the links between Trump and Epstein. They failed. When people found some additional photos of Trump in the release, the DOJ promptly DELETED THEM FROM THE DOCUMENT RELEASE.
www.npr.org/2025/12/20/n...
www.npr.org/2025/12/20/n...
Available to download Friday, some Epstein files no longer there Saturday afternoon
An NPR analysis of the Epstein files shows some documents, originally available on Friday, are no longer on the Department of Justice's "Epstein Library" website as the DOJ releases more files.
www.npr.org
December 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The FBI put a thousand agents (their own words) on trying to hide all the links between Trump and Epstein. They failed. When people found some additional photos of Trump in the release, the DOJ promptly DELETED THEM FROM THE DOCUMENT RELEASE.
www.npr.org/2025/12/20/n...
www.npr.org/2025/12/20/n...
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Reupping.
Don't miss livestream of Winter Solstice at Newgrange, Sunday 21 December 2025
"For 17 minutes, direct sunlight can enter the Newgrange monument through the specially contrived small opening above the entrance known as the ‘roof box’, to illuminate the Chamber."
heritageireland.ie/winter-solst...
"For 17 minutes, direct sunlight can enter the Newgrange monument through the specially contrived small opening above the entrance known as the ‘roof box’, to illuminate the Chamber."
heritageireland.ie/winter-solst...
Winter Solstice | Heritage Ireland
heritageireland.ie
December 20, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Reupping.
Very true. The people really in charge just let the idiot figure head flay so long as their main work continues unimpeded.
“The embrace of the unitary executive theory by both the president and the court has given us the worst of all worlds: an ultrapowerful presidency without an actual president at the helm.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...
Opinion | The White House Is a Lost Cause
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Very true. The people really in charge just let the idiot figure head flay so long as their main work continues unimpeded.
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Just saw this and lol’d
(I laugh to keep from crying)
(I laugh to keep from crying)
December 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Just saw this and lol’d
(I laugh to keep from crying)
(I laugh to keep from crying)
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the 900 lowest release-point MLB pitches this year
December 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
the 900 lowest release-point MLB pitches this year
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please take a moment to appreciate Tesla's epic accomplishment of coming dead last in the auto industry in reliability, despite making relatively expensive cars with a tiny fraction of the moving parts
www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...
www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...
December 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
please take a moment to appreciate Tesla's epic accomplishment of coming dead last in the auto industry in reliability, despite making relatively expensive cars with a tiny fraction of the moving parts
www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...
www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...
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Happy Birthday McCoy Tyner! Here's the pianist with the Milestone Jazzstars (Sonny Rollins, Ron Carter, and Al Foster) on Sonny's composition "The Cutting Edge," recorded live on tour in 1978: youtu.be/UUskQ8SMbUo?...
Ron Carter - The Cutting Edge from Milestone Jazzstars in Concert #roncarterbassist
YouTube video by Ron Carter Bassist
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December 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Happy Birthday McCoy Tyner! Here's the pianist with the Milestone Jazzstars (Sonny Rollins, Ron Carter, and Al Foster) on Sonny's composition "The Cutting Edge," recorded live on tour in 1978: youtu.be/UUskQ8SMbUo?...
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Most walks with runners in scoring position
(any one AL/NL season in history):
Barry Bonds (2004), 111
Barry Bonds (2002), 78
Babe Ruth (1923), 78
Barry Bonds (2003), 73
Barry Bonds (2001), 71
Barry Bonds (1996), 70
(any one AL/NL season in history):
Barry Bonds (2004), 111
Barry Bonds (2002), 78
Babe Ruth (1923), 78
Barry Bonds (2003), 73
Barry Bonds (2001), 71
Barry Bonds (1996), 70
December 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Most walks with runners in scoring position
(any one AL/NL season in history):
Barry Bonds (2004), 111
Barry Bonds (2002), 78
Babe Ruth (1923), 78
Barry Bonds (2003), 73
Barry Bonds (2001), 71
Barry Bonds (1996), 70
(any one AL/NL season in history):
Barry Bonds (2004), 111
Barry Bonds (2002), 78
Babe Ruth (1923), 78
Barry Bonds (2003), 73
Barry Bonds (2001), 71
Barry Bonds (1996), 70
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If every Muslim voter in Dearborn voted for Harris, she still would have lost Michigan.
If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION.
If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.
If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION.
If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.
December 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
If every Muslim voter in Dearborn voted for Harris, she still would have lost Michigan.
If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION.
If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.
If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION.
If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.
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I understand, as well as anyone, why folks are cynical about #SCOTUS. But even from the conservative justices' perspective, the birthright citizenship case is easy. And the Justice Department knows it, too; as I wrote in September, its bevavior in these cases has just been going through the motions:
179. Whither the Birthright Citizenship Cases?
Notwithstanding the Court's June ruling, President Trump's birthright citizenship executive order remains blocked—a broader lesson on the risks of paying attention to only one part of the news cycle.
www.stevevladeck.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I understand, as well as anyone, why folks are cynical about #SCOTUS. But even from the conservative justices' perspective, the birthright citizenship case is easy. And the Justice Department knows it, too; as I wrote in September, its bevavior in these cases has just been going through the motions:
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Where were all these Democrats and Republicans when Israel was firing on the wounded and killing survivors? Which it is still doing in Gaza?
December 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Where were all these Democrats and Republicans when Israel was firing on the wounded and killing survivors? Which it is still doing in Gaza?
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I guess now we know what the Nodfather meant when he said he'd be "anti-woke"
December 3, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I guess now we know what the Nodfather meant when he said he'd be "anti-woke"
What distinguishes the seafaring "smugglers" Trump & Hegseth enjoy assassinating from the corrupt, authoritarian, cocaine dealer Juan Orlando Hernández Trump just pardoned? Well, criminal convictions. But the boat people aren't apex oppressors. Also, Trump may have a soft spot when it comes to coke.
November 29, 2025 at 3:19 PM
What distinguishes the seafaring "smugglers" Trump & Hegseth enjoy assassinating from the corrupt, authoritarian, cocaine dealer Juan Orlando Hernández Trump just pardoned? Well, criminal convictions. But the boat people aren't apex oppressors. Also, Trump may have a soft spot when it comes to coke.
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he’s indicted falsely.
November 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
he’s indicted falsely.
lol.
Wait a minute...you mean to tell me thousands of the most beautiful women on earth didn't all randomly decide to join Twitter in 2023?????
X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
November 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
lol.
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Fun fact: November 28, 2001:
"ENRON, which had been a component of the S&P; 500, was removed at the end of trading Thursday and replaced by NVIDIA Corp., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based maker of computer-graphics chips."
"ENRON, which had been a component of the S&P; 500, was removed at the end of trading Thursday and replaced by NVIDIA Corp., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based maker of computer-graphics chips."
November 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Fun fact: November 28, 2001:
"ENRON, which had been a component of the S&P; 500, was removed at the end of trading Thursday and replaced by NVIDIA Corp., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based maker of computer-graphics chips."
"ENRON, which had been a component of the S&P; 500, was removed at the end of trading Thursday and replaced by NVIDIA Corp., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based maker of computer-graphics chips."
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Check out @zunguzungu.bsky.social launching a series about the literary history of Oakland the way of course he should, by asking…
What did Mark Twain think of Oakland?
Mostly a place to get away to, from San Francisco.
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
November 20, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Check out @zunguzungu.bsky.social launching a series about the literary history of Oakland the way of course he should, by asking…
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Trump appointed Harmeet Dhillon to the Justice Department so she could own the libs and sue DEI out of existence. But she is a bad lawyer! And her utter incompetence is the main reason why a conservative Trump judge just struck down the racist Texas gerrymander. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Trump’s Scheme to Gift the GOP Extra House Seats Just Blew Up in His Face
The opinion, written by a Trump appointee, cites Chief Justice John Roberts right up top.
slate.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Trump appointed Harmeet Dhillon to the Justice Department so she could own the libs and sue DEI out of existence. But she is a bad lawyer! And her utter incompetence is the main reason why a conservative Trump judge just struck down the racist Texas gerrymander. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Incompetent fascists are still harmful.
This opinion makes it very clear that Trump's Justice Department screwed up badly here. Texas could've just drawn a partisan gerrymander and gotten away with it. Instead, the Justice Department (unnecessarily) injected race into it, directing Texas to draw an unconstitutional *racial* gerrymander.
November 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Incompetent fascists are still harmful.
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Note: The court ruled that Texas violated the 14th and 15th Amendments by discriminating on the basis of race when drawing its new Republican gerrymander. So this opinion will not be fatally undermined by the Supreme Court's impending blow to the Voting Rights Act; it has an independent rationale.
November 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Note: The court ruled that Texas violated the 14th and 15th Amendments by discriminating on the basis of race when drawing its new Republican gerrymander. So this opinion will not be fatally undermined by the Supreme Court's impending blow to the Voting Rights Act; it has an independent rationale.
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"What the wider world should know about Catherine Connolly." via @gavreilly.com
TIME Magazine (!!!) asked me to explain what the wider world should know about Catherine Connolly:
time.com/7333194/irel...
time.com/7333194/irel...
The Meaning of Ireland's New Anti-Establishment President
Catherine Connolly has a change mandate that may put her at odds with Ireland's own government—and its allies in Europe and America.
time.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:48 PM
"What the wider world should know about Catherine Connolly." via @gavreilly.com
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One of the great antiwar poems, by Wilfred Owen, British veteran of World War I, ending with
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
(Latin for “It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country.”)
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
(Latin for “It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country.”)
Dulce et Decorum Est
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs, And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
www.poetryfoundation.org
November 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
One of the great antiwar poems, by Wilfred Owen, British veteran of World War I, ending with
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
(Latin for “It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country.”)
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
(Latin for “It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country.”)