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What's up with Justice Jackson? She started making her mark and speaking out early, and some of her dissents are so pointed Kagan and Sotomayor don’t even join them. The far right is out for her, and even Republican justices are getting snarky.
So what's up? Here’s my take 🧵
So what's up? Here’s my take 🧵
July 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What's up with Justice Jackson? She started making her mark and speaking out early, and some of her dissents are so pointed Kagan and Sotomayor don’t even join them. The far right is out for her, and even Republican justices are getting snarky.
So what's up? Here’s my take 🧵
So what's up? Here’s my take 🧵
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Everybody hates Dave Matthews but he's a pacifist quaker that renounced his South African citizenship rather than have to join the military in opposition to apartheid (being active against it), gives a lot to charities and causes, and has been pro-palestine anti-netanyahu for years and years, so
May 7, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Everybody hates Dave Matthews but he's a pacifist quaker that renounced his South African citizenship rather than have to join the military in opposition to apartheid (being active against it), gives a lot to charities and causes, and has been pro-palestine anti-netanyahu for years and years, so
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I normally agree with you, Sally. But as I argued 16 years ago, Rose was rightly banned from baseball but deserved HOF recognition for his on-field play. 4,256 hits, 17 All-Star games, 2,165 runs, 746 doubles. I simply cannot ignore the statistics.
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A Baseball Quandary: Good Statistics, Bad Character, Broken Rules
There is perhaps no game as baseball that harmonizes so perfectly with statistical measurement. Virtually every aspect of the game is judged...
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May 15, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I normally agree with you, Sally. But as I argued 16 years ago, Rose was rightly banned from baseball but deserved HOF recognition for his on-field play. 4,256 hits, 17 All-Star games, 2,165 runs, 746 doubles. I simply cannot ignore the statistics.
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ehlersoneverything.blogspot.com/2009/09/base...
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I'll say on this, as I have in the past, that I think most plagiarism scandals are overblown, often things that cld simply be carelessness. But the President of Harvard lost her job at least in part over what was apparently a much less serious case. So wld be wrong to brush this off.
May 11, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I'll say on this, as I have in the past, that I think most plagiarism scandals are overblown, often things that cld simply be carelessness. But the President of Harvard lost her job at least in part over what was apparently a much less serious case. So wld be wrong to brush this off.
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I think it’s strategic evil by Stephen Miller.
May 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I think it’s strategic evil by Stephen Miller.
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
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Chuck (verb) Schumer (noun)
May 7, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Chuck (verb) Schumer (noun)
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It’s like Abraham Lincoln is ashamed
May 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
It’s like Abraham Lincoln is ashamed
Hopefully ICE isn’t in the air.
This is what Atlanta looks like to migrating birds tonight. Godspeed adorblers and all the little birds navigating this uncertain world.
April 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Hopefully ICE isn’t in the air.
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The Norton Library edition of my translation of the Iliad, with stylish red cover, is now available. It has complete text, maps, notes, introduction and translator's note, and it's yours for under $10 (as are many other tempting Norton Library volumes). wwnorton.com/books/978132...
April 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The Norton Library edition of my translation of the Iliad, with stylish red cover, is now available. It has complete text, maps, notes, introduction and translator's note, and it's yours for under $10 (as are many other tempting Norton Library volumes). wwnorton.com/books/978132...
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Pope Francis’s "Urbi et Orbi" Easter speech:
“How much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalized and migrants...I appeal to all those in positions of political responsibility in our world not to yield to the logic of fear which only leads to isolation from others.”
“How much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalized and migrants...I appeal to all those in positions of political responsibility in our world not to yield to the logic of fear which only leads to isolation from others.”
April 21, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Pope Francis’s "Urbi et Orbi" Easter speech:
“How much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalized and migrants...I appeal to all those in positions of political responsibility in our world not to yield to the logic of fear which only leads to isolation from others.”
“How much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalized and migrants...I appeal to all those in positions of political responsibility in our world not to yield to the logic of fear which only leads to isolation from others.”
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"...Torabi’s posts have been seen hundreds of millions more times in the last 30 days than news giants like MSNBC and CNN. Ranked by views, or 'total impressions,' he is the only nonconservative voice in the top 10..."
The 40-something single dad shaping liberal media from his laptop
Acyn Torabi dominates social media with fast-cut clips of political mayhem. Are they news, or something else?
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April 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
"...Torabi’s posts have been seen hundreds of millions more times in the last 30 days than news giants like MSNBC and CNN. Ranked by views, or 'total impressions,' he is the only nonconservative voice in the top 10..."
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I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning
April 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning
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Canada is ready to step up.
April 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Canada is ready to step up.
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This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.
March 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.
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Strap this man into the best surplus cosmonaut suit we can find and fire him into the sun.
THERE. IS. NO. TREATMENT. FOR. MEASLES. OTHER. THAN. NOT. GETTING. IT. WHICH. MEANS. VACCINATION.
THERE. IS. NO. TREATMENT. FOR. MEASLES. OTHER. THAN. NOT. GETTING. IT. WHICH. MEANS. VACCINATION.
RFK Jr on measles: "We need to do better at treating kids who have this disease, and not just saying the only answer is vaccination."
April 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Strap this man into the best surplus cosmonaut suit we can find and fire him into the sun.
THERE. IS. NO. TREATMENT. FOR. MEASLES. OTHER. THAN. NOT. GETTING. IT. WHICH. MEANS. VACCINATION.
THERE. IS. NO. TREATMENT. FOR. MEASLES. OTHER. THAN. NOT. GETTING. IT. WHICH. MEANS. VACCINATION.
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spotted in the toronto star
April 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
spotted in the toronto star
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"So Trump will impose these tariffs and sit back and wait for other world leaders to petition the king with their offerings that will ultimately expand his own power, all the while we are the collateral damage. We all get thrown under the bus; 350 million people suffer so that one man can benefit."
Petitioning the King
Trump believes crashing the economy is worth it if he can extract what he needs from the rest of the world.
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April 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
"So Trump will impose these tariffs and sit back and wait for other world leaders to petition the king with their offerings that will ultimately expand his own power, all the while we are the collateral damage. We all get thrown under the bus; 350 million people suffer so that one man can benefit."
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Very much a "the best time to plant a tree is 100 years ago, the second best time is now" situation
April 6, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Very much a "the best time to plant a tree is 100 years ago, the second best time is now" situation
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Hopefully this makes your day a little better
April 7, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Hopefully this makes your day a little better
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I'm 18. The economy enters a once-in-a-century recession. A Republican president is responsible.
I'm 29. There is once-in-a-century pandemic that leads to a once-in-century-recession. A Republican is responsible.
I'm 35. Tarriffs trigger a once-in-a-century recession. A Republican is responsible.
I'm 29. There is once-in-a-century pandemic that leads to a once-in-century-recession. A Republican is responsible.
I'm 35. Tarriffs trigger a once-in-a-century recession. A Republican is responsible.
April 2, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I'm 18. The economy enters a once-in-a-century recession. A Republican president is responsible.
I'm 29. There is once-in-a-century pandemic that leads to a once-in-century-recession. A Republican is responsible.
I'm 35. Tarriffs trigger a once-in-a-century recession. A Republican is responsible.
I'm 29. There is once-in-a-century pandemic that leads to a once-in-century-recession. A Republican is responsible.
I'm 35. Tarriffs trigger a once-in-a-century recession. A Republican is responsible.
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Mark my words, this post by Trump is going to turn out to be the most economically damaging post in the history of social media.
April 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Mark my words, this post by Trump is going to turn out to be the most economically damaging post in the history of social media.
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you don't need to be jacques lacan to see how desperately transmuting material loss into symbolic gain is really just slapping a fancy new signifier atop a yawning black hole but hey it doesn't hurt
April 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
you don't need to be jacques lacan to see how desperately transmuting material loss into symbolic gain is really just slapping a fancy new signifier atop a yawning black hole but hey it doesn't hurt