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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 23h
cool that MLB owners are gonna do a lockout and cancel part of the season next year purportedly for "if we don't crush player salaries, small markets can't compete!!" when 3 of the final 4 teams this year are Tampa, Cleveland and Milwaukee.
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Joe Sheehan @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Running ads promoting a labor war during the biggest game of the season to date should reeeeaaallly tell you how much MLB cares about being partners with the players.
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is just a fucking carjacking. How the hell was he supposed to know it was a state sponsored carjacking. what the fuck are we doing here.
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Suss-- 🥌 @suss2hyphens.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“No Way To Prevent This,” Says Only Ballpark Where This Regularly Happens
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
imagine if the mainstream media covered Republicans' number one donor — the biggest political donor in US history! — and his controversial views with as much scrutiny as they covered Hasan Piker's
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Gasoline-only cars fell below 50% of global new vehicle sales for the first time, as the Hormuz crisis and record fuel prices accelerated the shift toward EVs."
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Fuel Price Shock Pushes Global Gas Car Sales Below 50% for First Time | OilPrice.com
The share of gasoline cars in global vehicle sales fell below 50% for the first time ever as the Hormuz shock and the resulting record-high fuel prices accelerated the previously sluggish shift toward...
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If someone breaks laws and you choose not to hold them accountable, you have effectively rescinded said laws. That applies to constitutions as well. This is an immutable, non-negotiable fact. Any analysis of what Democrats should do once they regain power that does not acknowledge this is worthless
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jbigs.bsky.social @jbigs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I am really not convinced a 3 game series is any better than the 1 game wild card. Since 2022 one team has lost the first game and gone on to win the series. If you include the 2020 wild cards, there have been three. Personally, I enjoy the drama of a 1 game wild card better.
Season 2022 - 4 total series with 3 sweeps, game 1 winners went 4-0, host teams were 1-3.
Season 2023 - 4 total series with 4 sweeps, game 1 winners went 4-0, host teams were 2-2.
Season 2024 - 4 total series with 3 sweeps, game 1 winners went 4-0, host teams were 1-3.
Season 2025 - 4 total series with 1 sweeps, game 1 winners went 3-1, host teams were 3-1.
Season 2026 - 4 total series with 3 sweeps, game 1 winners went 4-0, host teams were 3-1.
Total since 2022 - 20 total series with 14 sweeps, game 1 winners are 19-1, host teams are 10-10.Season 2020 - 8 total series with 6 sweeps, game 1 winners went 6-2, host teams were 5-3.
Season 2022 - 4 total series with 3 sweeps, game 1 winners went 4-0, host teams were 1-3.
Season 2023 - 4 total series with 4 sweeps, game 1 winners went 4-0, host teams were 2-2.
Season 2024 - 4 total series with 3 sweeps, game 1 winners went 4-0, host teams were 1-3.
Season 2025 - 4 total series with 1 sweeps, game 1 winners went 3-1, host teams were 3-1.
Season 2026 - 4 total series with 3 sweeps, game 1 winners went 4-0, host teams were 3-1.
Total since 2020 - 28 total series with 20 sweeps, game 1 winners are 25-3, host teams are 15-13.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Mike Petriello @mikepetriello.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"What if a playoff game ends on an ABS challenge?!?" well, the world won't end and the call would be a correct one
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jbigs.bsky.social @jbigs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@dszymborski.fangraphs.com Curious if you could help me settle an argument. How much would the ZiPS playoff odds change if the Cubs were hosting the series? All else being the same, just trying to understand how much home field impacts the WC series.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Don't forget that @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social wants to let the GOP get away with all of this. He said let's turn the page and get on with business. He's on the side of the Nazis if he thinks this kind of thing is acceptable in the United States of America. This can't be allowed to slide. It can't.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We’ve been in a constitutional crisis since Jan. 20, 2025 and a blue wave in November won’t fix it if Trump can just ignore legislation passed by Congress.
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Trump cancels nearly $1 billion in spending approved by Congress, a move some lawmakers called illegal
President Trump moved to cancel almost $1 billion in spending that was approved by Congress, marking the second time his administration has employed a rarely used tactic that some lawmakers in both pa...
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
i like when i’m walking too close to where a pigeon is walking and he does his bitchy little flap-hop. well excuuuuuuse me
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Meghan Montemurro @mmontemurro.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Pete Crow-Armstrong and Cubs assistant hitting coach John Mallee’s deep bond goes back to Triple A in ‘23. PCA still remembers the moment that sold him on Mallee and it had nothing to do with hitting. On their relationship & how it’s helped PCA become an MVP: www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/22/c...
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21/09/2026
Well well well, someone said the quiet part out loud
60 Minutes (@60Minutes) on X:

“This is the first time in my adult life where there's been an issue that's come up that I feel like is going to directly impact me,” says Dave Lowe, a lifelong conservative Republican who lives near a proposed data center in Texas.

A middle-aged white man with a white beard, a cowboy hat, and a shirt stares at the camera
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The US already got a do over. A mulligan. A second chance. Much of the world, especially US allies, were ready to write off Trump’s first term as a fluke. The American people’s choice to put him back in power—as a convicted felon, after an openly bigoted, anti-democracy campaign—showed it was not.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the most masculine video on the internet right now
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
There's a lot of stuff we have done in the past which turned out to be a bad idea. So we stopped doing it. It's difficult for me to accept the inevitability of [things] knowing this. But I am worried there are not enough people standing up and saying "this is a bad idea" in 2026.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:
thehandbasket.co
Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“AI will kill us all” is how the tech industry, especially rich people in it, avoid talking about real world problems—ones they’re causing, exacerbating, or neglecting—while still thinking themselves good. “I’m better than all that,” they say. “I got high with my friends and BSed about the future.”
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The energy shock is already here. Trump’s Iran War has put two of the world’s most critical oil-shipping chokepoints at risk: the Strait of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb. Oil is above $100, and diesel has already hit a record. These are the consequences of Trump’s decision to launch a reckless war.
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Driving me crazy that a lot of very smart people aren't entertaining the idea that the **AI might kill us all** narrative is kabuki theater -- orchestrated by some of the world's richest people, whose net worth is tied up in people believing their technology is just on the cusp of super intelligence
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026
The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:
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I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
FINANCIAL WOES CAUSED BY THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF!!!
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Arrest him?
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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
what's weird to me is how frequently people use AI to reproduce things that you can already easily obtain for free. like how many human made separation of powers infographics were already freely available on the internet via a 5 second google search?
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I had missed this when I wrote my Clemente Award nominee post but why in the living fuck is Jason Adam a nominee for a humanitarian award? He was one of the Rays homophobes who defaced his cap on Pride Day.
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I read stories like that one in Wired yesterday and watch privileged assholes like Arch Manning and a room full of male reporters act like violence against women is funny and I worry about young men and boys. Then I go to my 21 year-old son's Insta and realize that some of them are OK.
Photo of a hand holding a large block of cheddar cheese with many bite marks out of it. Caption: "Giant block of cheese I take bites out of" with two heart emojis
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
some chud interviewing for patel’s FBI: “if anything the goat fucked *me*”
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
we won! the court just declared the Brooklyn Democratic Party's attempted coup null and void in a victory for democracy and common sense, Justice Jill Epstein finds that outgoing District Leaders had no right to change the rules after an election they lost iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewD...
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
if you ever wonder how Americans became the richest major country on the planet but most of us still feel so poor, looking at what we spend on cars — not just directly but in tax money for infrastructure and space in the built environment — is the answer.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I've attempted to take the "AI extinction" people at face value all weekend, like an idiot, and here's the only thing that makes sense: AI guys realized their tech is deployed to kill and surveil civilians by out-of-control (but human!) American defense contractors and stopping them is now hard.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's fascinating, to me, how many columns and articles were written after Biden's withdraw from Afghanistan about the looming humanitarian catastrophe that Biden caused and how many fewer were written about Trump slashing US humanitarian aid still being sent there from $3B/year to $0 in 2025.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Isn’t it interesting though that Mike Johnson shrugs all this off as just provocative things said just to create a “persona online” from one of his ACTUAL NOMINEES FOR CONGRESS, but Hasan Piker, who isn’t running for anything, supposedly represents the entire Democratic Party.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/09/2026
crypto, car dealerships and MLMs. ripe targets for political and policy reasons.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
You'll never guess which prominent "free speech" organization didn't talk to the Times for this article. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/u...
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How Trump Is Wielding Power to Stifle Speech
President Trump has harnessed agencies across the government to curtail press freedoms, a sweeping campaign that free speech advocates say will have lasting effects.
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Oil refinery construction timelines aside (hint: long), using DPA like this will be a great tool for green projects next Dem administration. Using same the logic about global crude disruptions and price spikes even! Just cross out "catalytic cracking unit" and write in "windmill"
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Steve Flack @vitaminsteve.com · 11/09/2026
that’s it, we’ve peaked. Call it a day, go start your weekends.
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 11/09/2026
Here’s how the New York Times describes this moment in their coverage:
At one point Mr. Trump asked attendees to raise their right hands and pledge to him that he would vote with their family and friends.
Dutifully, they did.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.
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jbigs.bsky.social @jbigs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Last Friday 1:20 of 2026. Bullpen, please let me enjoy this one.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is spectacular, folks. We live in a moment in American history when the president and his administration are so racist and dumb that a toy company has to put out a statement saying: "OUR GIANT ROBOT THAT TURNS INTO A TRUCK DENOUNCES RACISM AND HAS NO CONNECTION TO THE CURRENT PRESIDENT."
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jbigs.bsky.social @jbigs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Jed has obviously done an amazing job putting together the best position player group in baseball. But how has Cubs pitching fallen so far behind since him and Theo took over? And how have they still not figured it out?
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Michael Ernst @mjernst.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Cubs are the most unfun fun team ever.
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Doctorb Nick @nichsmith.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Katie, this is your job. Yes, you are supposed to diagnose your patients. That's what I do when I'm at work
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