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@mfbabbitt.bsky.social
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Math teacher, book lover, sports fan

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mfbabbitt.bsky.social @mfbabbitt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Arike Ogunbowale is awesome
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph
Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential 
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic 
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is 
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted 
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s 
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those 
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is 
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not 
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.
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mfbabbitt.bsky.social @mfbabbitt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Boston sports media keeps mistakenly referring to Drake Maye as Mac Jones. So funny.
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mfbabbitt.bsky.social @mfbabbitt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Heeeey! Did you know that an Indiana Fever player set the WNBA record for points in a single season? No, not her. No, not her either, ugh, why would you even think that?
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mfbabbitt.bsky.social @mfbabbitt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Julian Jaynes vindicated?
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onion person @junlper.beer · 11/09/2026
it’s wild that the heritage foundation wrote in text that the assault on trans woman particularly in sports is their first step in their efforts to completely abolish all Title IX protections and liberals still don’t believe it’s about more than trans women in sports
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mfbabbitt.bsky.social @mfbabbitt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Indeed, in that alternate universe we get Senator Joe Tache, of course, not Deaton.
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mfbabbitt.bsky.social @mfbabbitt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Texting Diana. Not watching the play clock.
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mfbabbitt.bsky.social @mfbabbitt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Not pictured: the first down marker.
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mfbabbitt.bsky.social @mfbabbitt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Pat McAfee with a George Washington (Brad Neely) reference on College Gameday - incredible
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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/08/2026
Sophie Cunningham Claims Any Woman Who Averages More Than 8 Points Per Game Should Not Be Allowed To Play In WNBA theonion.com/sophie-cunningham-clai…
Sophie Cunningham Claims Any Woman Who Averages More Than 8 Points Per Game Should Not Be Allowed To Play In WNBA
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
What do you do when you've launched a moral panic about transgender athletes in the WNBA, but there has never been an active trans player in the league? Simple: you start a conspiracy theory about every single woman on the court.
wired.com
There Are No Trans Women in the WNBA, so Right-Wingers Are Making Some Up
As culture warriors continue to stoke the flames of a gender panic in professional sports, wild conspiracy theories are coming into play.
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mfbabbitt.bsky.social @mfbabbitt.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Exactly as anyone would guess, the transphobes can’t name any WNBA players except Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham.
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mfbabbitt.bsky.social @mfbabbitt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I do this almost every time Lisa Frank comes up and my wife teases me.
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mfbabbitt.bsky.social @mfbabbitt.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
As of this moment, the highest paid guard and the highest paid right tackle in NFL history are both former Tennessee Volunteers.
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mfbabbitt.bsky.social @mfbabbitt.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Cedanne Rafaela is going to hit 8 home runs tonight.
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mfbabbitt.bsky.social @mfbabbitt.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
They want so badly for an ICE agent to die. They’ve been licking their lips in anticipation for months.
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mfbabbitt.bsky.social @mfbabbitt.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
FIFA rescinded Balogun’s red so that more people would make bad bets on the USA to win. Wake up sheeple.
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mfbabbitt.bsky.social @mfbabbitt.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Ms. Rachel should replace Platner in the Maine senate race
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Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
anyone who finds more things to like about this country than me is a glassy eyed, historically illiterate moron. anyone who likes fewer things is a nihilistic doomer
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
publiccomment.blog/p/hyperfascism
I would like to suggest that Trumpism is best understood as a species of what I’m going to call hyperfascism. By “hyperfascism,” I don’t mean “superfascism” or anything like that. Instead, I’m using the hyper- prefix in a way similar to how Baudrillard deploys it in his definition of hyperreality as a sort of representation that is more “real” than whatever it was originally meant to represent. (He uses Disneyland as an example of the paradigmatic hyperreal space.) I’m also influenced by Anton Jäger’s suggestion that “hyperpolitics”—or constant and frenetic political activity in the absence of any structures that might convert this activity into real institutional change—is the dominant political register in 21st-century Western democracies.

So what is hyperfascism? It is hyperreal, hyperpolitical fascism. It’s a dramatic reenactment of totalitarian domination in a time and place where the infrastructure for real totalitarianism is nowhere to be found. It’s the signs and symbols of fascism detached from the machinery of the Nazi war economy or the large-scale, organized street violence of the Italian blackshirts.

Make no mistake: hyperfascism is still fascism. But it is a shallow sort of fascism, obsessed with outward appearances and completely uninterested in everything else. It is as if the architects of the Trump regime had cribbed their entire governing agenda from cheap cyberpunk thrillers about fascist dystopias. They certainly haven’t given much thought to how authoritarian regimes consolidate popular consent; in fact, they’re acting like the 2024 election represented the end of politics, and therefore the end of any need on their part to modulate their behavior in order to ensure regime stability.
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mfbabbitt.bsky.social @mfbabbitt.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Could you even go so far as to say that Trump is *submitting* to Islam?
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mfbabbitt.bsky.social @mfbabbitt.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Makes you want to eat mold
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mfbabbitt.bsky.social @mfbabbitt.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Not significantly different from Infinite Jest
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mfbabbitt.bsky.social @mfbabbitt.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
The big question is: are the WH insiders lying or stupid? And what of the Politico reporter: gullible or happy to publish lies from the administration for clicks? Hard to tell! What *is* clear is that Rubio won’t be the 2028 pick unless Trump dies first.
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mfbabbitt.bsky.social @mfbabbitt.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Ok, ok wait. I’ve decided maybe this is just ambiguity/confusion with the wording. Are the odds of both events, separately 50%, even though you’re flipping two? Yes. Maybe that’s what some (many?) of the 48% were thinking
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mfbabbitt.bsky.social @mfbabbitt.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Oh…. no. Oh no.
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Keith Law @keithlaw.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
can we impeach someone for crimes against math
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Micah @rincewind.run · 15/04/2026
the usual suspects will bitch and moan about how this isn’t fair and people will leave and as always no they won’t the entire point of owning an enormously expensive second home there is that it’s New York City you can go somewhere else but it’s not gonna be NYC
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mfbabbitt.bsky.social @mfbabbitt.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The best part is that, to the nearest percent, 100% of those men don’t know shit about sports. They’re casual fans with no expertise or insight just throwing their money away.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
More than half of men ages 18-49 (52%) now say they have an active sports betting account with an online sportsbook like DraftKings, Caesars, FanDuel, or BetMGM. sri.siena.edu/2026/04/13/m...
sri.siena.edu
More Than a Quarter of Americans, 27% Have An Active Online Sports Betting Account; A Third Have Opened an Account At Least Once – Siena Research Institute
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mfbabbitt.bsky.social @mfbabbitt.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I feel like this is the move right? We should make a bunch of these featuring people hated by MAGA and spread them everywhere. Perhaps someone who gets upset at one of the fakes, will be less likely to defend Trump? Well, here's hoping. May I present Obama-Jesus:
Instead of Donald Trump, Barack Obama appears to be Jesus (or perhaps a doctor). He lays a glowing hand on a sickly old man's forehead in front of four onlookers, the American flag, the Statue of Liberty, three angels, and four eagles.
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Alright let's see. In 2019 Trump was angrily posting about the 1.8 billion in cash the Obama administration gave Iran in 2016. 1.8 billion divided by 2 million is 900. Prior to the start of this war, about 135 ships went through the Strait of Hormuz every day.
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 02/04/2026
But surely if *I* debase myself enough, Donald Trump won’t cast me aside in a fit of pique,
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Zero percent chance this ever gets built. Will they raise money for it? Yes. Will the money go to building it? No.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Incredible scene: Travelers wait on hours-long security line at George Bush International Airport in Houston while Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” blasts through the speakers. (video shared directly with me)
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mfbabbitt.bsky.social @mfbabbitt.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
The vibes are bad. Nevertheless, Lady Vols by 8.
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Kori Schake 🎃 @kschake.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Aid to Ukraine from 2022-2026 was a rounding error. We used more in the first two weeks of the Iran war than we provided in the 4 years of aid to Ukraine.
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mfbabbitt.bsky.social @mfbabbitt.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Ach, apologies, the Evergreen Game
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mfbabbitt.bsky.social @mfbabbitt.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
NBA broadcast chess graphic of… the Opera House Game?
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mfbabbitt.bsky.social @mfbabbitt.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
What’s with the scare quotes around “Straight”? Is he doing a Gender Thing again? Or is it just his weak spelling skills on display?
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
This is what ICE has done to journalist Estefany Rodriguez.
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mfbabbitt.bsky.social @mfbabbitt.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
At the *very* least, who could object to the sentiment that we think the world would be a better place if they sat the next few elections out
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mfbabbitt.bsky.social @mfbabbitt.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
What a tremendous villain that Auburn coach turned out to be. There’s just no doubt at all that if he was a better football coach he’d still be, you know, coaching football. Alas.
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mfbabbitt.bsky.social @mfbabbitt.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Thanks for fighting the good fight, Alex!
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Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The Massachusetts Department of Correction has been fighting me for months, trying to withhold data about its collaboration with ICE. Yesterday, I won that fight, and obtained records showing that the state has transferred more than 2,000 people into ICE custody since 2009. A quick thread:
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mfbabbitt.bsky.social @mfbabbitt.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Loyalty test to thin the ranks of anyone who wouldn’t gleefully follow an illegal order?
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mfbabbitt.bsky.social @mfbabbitt.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
I’ve just been handed a note from a time traveler from October 2026. Republican/Republican leaning voters responded to the question “Which party was most responsible for introducing U.S. voters to the Epstein Files?” with these results: 54% Democrats 34% Republicans 12% Both parties equally/unsure
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mfbabbitt.bsky.social @mfbabbitt.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Crybaby Bondi has a nice ring to it, I think
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