iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

I hope they don’t just nibble on bullpen and back-end rotations additions like they always do 🙃 Hopefully the combo of cheep controllable roster + ~$40million coming of the books next year in the form of Beni and Castillo helps.

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I think you can reasonably do one of the top non-Skubal arms (King, Rogers, Peralta, Holmes, etc) and then Jeffers (or Stephenson) as the two big signings and feel pretty good going into next season (pitching is unproven but kinda deep, Bonemer+Roch to look forward to, maybe a surprise.

Hard to win a series when you give up 9 runs in 2 games and score 0 in one other. This was fun, but flawed, team. Crazy fun season. Incredible to watch baseball as a true fan again. The good news is the holes are obvious and in the places where there are credible free agents available.

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Eating some ice cream going into the top of the 5th. Here we go boys.

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.270 xba on that Jose Ramirez homer 😐

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Feels like there’s a Ryan Jeffers-shaped hole on the roster (also a Michael King-shaped hole)

Edgar Cairo, Illinois @nickbpss.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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Baseball playoffs rule because people like to try to assign meaning to things when Stuff Happens

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Gonna have to have another I guess

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For the record, scooped myself a good luck bowl of vanilla right before that inning started!

Catherine Tinker @catherinetinker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Baseball fandoms need to figure out some European football-style chants. Seven Nation Army is getting old.

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you can’t say “a really big name” is throwing out the first pitch and you’re referring to an actor on a tv show when a team’s fans include the likes of barack obama and the POPE

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Ethan Ellis @ethanjellis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Best crowd all postseason by a country mile

Ethan Ellis @ethanjellis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I haven't lived in Illinois in 12 years, and I'm having so much fomo over the vibe in Bridgeport today

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Ethan Ellis @ethanjellis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Time for baby’s first Sunn0))) show

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Ethan Ellis @ethanjellis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

BRADEN MONTGOMERY!!! (Have to tell the dean of my college that her nephew is a very good boy tomorrow)

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Ethan Ellis @ethanjellis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Go White Sox 🥲 (spent the bottom of the 9th getting this tattoo at a 22, A Million 10th Anniversary Celebration)

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Ethan Ellis @ethanjellis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sam Antonacci out here being a hardo about drawing a walk to open the postseason. You love to see it.

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Ethan Ellis @ethanjellis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Seranthony was shipped off to Seattle at the deadline for the husk of Luis Castillo

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Even as profits soar, corporate tax payments are down 25% this year thanks to Trump and Republicans’ big, ugly bill. One of the main beneficiaries? Big Tech — which is using the tax breaks to help fuel its AI boom as it spends a fortune on the midterm elections. Remember this...

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Ethan Ellis @ethanjellis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

New 14-minute album out from the coolest band in Eau Claire, Wisconsin RIYL: Spirit of the Beehive, Palm, Sword II gashrash.bandcamp.com/album/at-lea...

gashrash.bandcamp.com

at least you know what you're laughing at, by gash

8 track album

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Ethan Ellis @ethanjellis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Old friend Jacob Gonzalez ruining Verlander's retirement party

Ethan Ellis @ethanjellis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

She was so great when I saw her in SLC. Also, Rico Nasty and Mag Bay are KILLER openers!

Ben Krimmel @benkrimmel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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Sean Manaea is wearing a "New York Is Love" Mets Pride shirt after pitching six solid innings to beat the Texas Rangers, the MLB's only team without a Pride night. Perhaps coincidence, perhaps not.

Image of Sean Manaea wearing a "New York Is Love" Mets Pride shirt.

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Ethan Ellis @ethanjellis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Weirdly the only Ella Langley song I know is ‘weren’t for the wind’, because Mount Eerie covered it on his tour last year

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Ethan Ellis @ethanjellis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ope (will not be making my connecting flight)

Ethan Ellis @ethanjellis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Those shows were so amazing — can’t believe it took me so long to see THS and it was worth the wait

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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I really hate the framing of these stories as "an AI agent broke out and hacked something." No, an inadequate sandbox meant that a powerful and unpredictable computer program was set loose on the open internet by the company that designed it. The agency isn't with the "AI agent", it's with the firm

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Ethan Ellis @ethanjellis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Maybe I do need to get back into licensing research because 👀👀👀

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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Trump's attacks on US higher ed, and Chinese scholars in particular, has been a gift to China's efforts to surge past the US on science and innovation. One report from Renmin University summed it up: "Thank Trump." 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

donmoynihan.substack.com

China: “Thank Trump”

The big winner of Trump’s assault on higher ed is America’s chief geopolitical rival

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“And when one of them told an ICE agent that he was a US citizen, one of them allegedly said, ‘I don’t care, your parents can’t help you now.’” Susan Collins stole our tax dollars to fund this terrorism across our communities.

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Ethan Ellis @ethanjellis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Gotta wake up in 7 hours to race a half marathon, but I will be sleeping much better after that Sox W

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It's bad that the central rule of US diplomacy is now "sometimes the president just says crap, and sometimes he justs post crap, and neither is the official position of the United States, except sometimes seriously but not literally, or sometimes literally, or sometimes it is. You'll find out."

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 12/09/2026

Program's up! 30+ teams share evidence abt impacts on health, educ, & econ + community response. Great folks @ziibiing.com @ottergoose.net @aaronrosenthal.bsky.social @chrisuggen.bsky.social @casemcnich.bsky.social @ngraetz.bsky.social @craigstetter.bsky.social docs.google.com/document/u/1...

Documenting the Impact of US DHS Activity in MN

Conference Date: Sept 22, 2026

Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs

Purpose

In December 2025, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) began a significant, sustained agent surge in Minnesota that affected the daily lives of many residents, but had severe impacts on immigrant communities and communities of color.

This one-day, in-person convening provides researchers from across disciplines and organizations with an opportunity to share and discuss research related to the effects of Operation Metro Surge and Operation PARRIS.

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Ethan Ellis @ethanjellis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is also where I should probably let y’all know I played drums in a Deerhunter ripoff band in high school

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Ethan Ellis @ethanjellis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In some exciting personal news, I will be seeing Bradford Cox in 10 days

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.

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@DHSgov
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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
DHS.GOV/CBРНОМЕ

Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.

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Ethan Ellis @ethanjellis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Ooh, looks interesting! Another character of Illinois Speech at the time was…Nick Fuentes

Ethan Ellis @ethanjellis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

At the stage in life where I get jump scares from seeing people I competed against in high school speech making headlines for running for office with dubious financial backers

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

For 50 years, Cuba didn't take deportations. Now the Trump admin is dumping elderly Cubans ordered deported decades ago into southern Mexico, many who have been complying with immigration check-ins since before ICE existed. There should be a statute of limitations/expiration date on removal orders.

A picture of an elderly man with grey hair sitting in a small room, next to a cot and a shelving unit with a few clothes on it. He is in a white tank top. Underneath is the following text:

"Julio Borrell, originally from Cuba, in Tapachula, on July 30, 2026 (Lisette Poole for The Atlantic)
Borrell told me that he’d come to the United States when he was 26 as part of the Mariel boatlift, the mass exodus of Cubans who traveled on crowded boats to Miami in 1980. He had seven American children, 11 grandchildren, and a great-grandchild. He had run a mechanic shop and renewed his visa each time it neared expiration. He could feel his body breaking down after years of physical labor and had been looking forward to retirement and more time with his family in South Florida."

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Ethan Ellis @ethanjellis.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The back story is it’s a running bit to take the puppet (named Zane) on various adventures based on the votes of instagram polls

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Ethan Ellis @ethanjellis.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

No joke, I played shows with him in the Western Suburbs high school indie rock scene of the early 2010s. We still follow each other on instagram. Good guy!

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Ethan Ellis @ethanjellis.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Bizhiki at the Walker Center's Sound for Silents tonight was beautiful - Unbound in particular was a highlight www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pnu...

youtube.com

Bizhiki - Unbound (Official Video)

YouTube video by BizhikiVEVO

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Ethan Ellis @ethanjellis.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I love that there are now two professional athlete Matt Wilkinsons and they have completely opposite body types (the other being the Olympic Steeplechaser)