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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2h

This David Bateman article on "democracy-reinforcing hardball" came out in Comparative Political Studies but here it is ungated (it's important) www.davidalexbateman.net/uploads/1/1/...

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Alex @callmealex.bsky.social · 3h

24 team college football playoff is such trash lol

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 14/10/2026

The modern Republican party is like a specialized island species where they have no known predators. They are completely unprepared for a hostile environment. They have designed their own simulacrum and no longer how to live among us here, in the Real.

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Alex @callmealex.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Whatever this type of guy is. Guy who looks like me

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Alex @callmealex.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Got new glasses and decided to become a guy who looks like this

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 13/10/2026

Remembering that time when some big name accounts were arguing that X is all good now and the algorithm has been de-Elon'd. Wait, that was yesterday. The same time this was happening.

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J.P. Hoornstra @jphoornstra.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Flipped to the Rays-Guardians ALCS to see an MLB-sponsored ad in which fans complain about small-market teams needing more of a chance.

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Rajan Narang @rdnarang.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Feels like we’ve seen a lot more mistaken or questionable media buys this cycle; I strongly suspect that it’s because some Republican firms are having AI put together the buy structures and then they’re not checking them

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

OOPS GOP ad buyer mixes up Portlands, spends money meant to help Maine Sen. Susan Collins in Oregon The PAC boosting Collins is "absolutely furious" at the "ridiculous error" made by the buyer, which takes blame and has refunded the money. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

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GOP ad buyer mixes up Portlands, spends money meant to help Maine Sen. Susan Collins in Oregon

An outside group mistakenly spent nearly $25,000 to boost Collins in Portland, Oregon, rather than Portland, Maine. The buyer admitted to the error and refunded the PAC.

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Alex @callmealex.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Making eye contact and giving the mutually congratulatory nod to everyone else at O’Hare airport also doing the post-marathon shuffle walk across the terminal

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Alex @callmealex.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Been thinking about how a lot of the hats people are wearing these days look dumb. Should do something about that

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

huh, interesting that vance thinks this is the worst terrorist attack and not oklahoma city

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Alex @callmealex.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is who you’re going up against

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Alex @callmealex.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Meet me at the Chicago marathon expo in the next 20-25 min for an ass kicking

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 09/10/2026

This goes against the intuitions of a lot of older people who were socialized into the party alignment of the 1970s-1980s-1990s. But you could make a case that the Trump second term is the most directlyand outwardly anti-Christian presidency in American history.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I like it and I'd like more of it

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/10/2026

The Woke are coming off a down season but the core remains intact and they've called up some young talent. Advanced metrics suggest their stars were underperforming their peripherals for much of the summer. Expect contention as early as next season if they sign some high heat relief over the winter

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I guess this is just sort of the logical endpoint of this administration’s commitment to fulfilling their supporters’s desire to vicariously consume violence done to other people.

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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You know, no one claims Paxton is a better Christian than Talarico. But they are all rejecting Talarico for claiming that his faith demands that he advocates for the vulnerable. So they quite simply reject the gospel in favor of Mammon

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026

the funny thing about this of course is that "athenian democracy" was a cautionary tale to the framers, who saw it as unstable and prone to demagogues and tyrants like the one rubio works for

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Alex @callmealex.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I will not be watching the Yankees embarrass themselves, I am going to The Beths concert instead

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Alex @callmealex.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

okay I sent this too soon. Most of them are getting the question right

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Alex @callmealex.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That's not what a simple random sample is! We went over this!!

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Alex @callmealex.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

death, taxes, and students defining a simple random sample as when each member of the population has the same chance of being sampled

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Alex @callmealex.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This team is so embarrassing sometimes

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Alex @callmealex.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hahahah another fuck up!!

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Alex @callmealex.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And now a catchers interference lmao

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 06/10/2026

Cam Schlittler should be legally allowed to murder his infielders.

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The state that elected JD Vance trying to get to the World Series

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Alex @callmealex.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Gonna be so normal about baseball again

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Me when my parents rented DEEP IMPACT from Blockbuster

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Alex @callmealex.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Presumably there are very interesting and cool findings that researchers are finding that are actually impacting how the game is played and managed. I don’t think players who hop over the foul line hit better” is one of them??

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Alex @callmealex.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I don’t understand who the Google cloud AI baseball commercials are for. “Do teams win more on bring your dog to the ballpark day? Do players hit more home runs on a full moon?” Is the point of the ads that Google AI is good at finding spurious correlations?

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“The Protestant work ethic is contrary to American culture” I say as I eat from my bowl of paint chips

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 05/10/2026

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

brings me no joy to say that Fukuyama nailed it

But supposing that the world has become "filled up," so to speak, with liberal democracies, such that there exist no tyranny and oppression worthy of the name against which to struggle?
Experience suggests that if men cannot struggle on behalf of a just cause because that just cause was victorious in an earlier gen-eration, then they will struggle against the just cause. They will struggle for the sake of struggle. They will struggle, in other words, out of a certain boredom: for they cannot imagine living in a world without struggle. And if the greater part of the world in which they live is characterized by peaceful and prosperous liberal democracy, then they will struggle against that peace and pros-perity, and against democracy.

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