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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

They should also meet some scientists who uhhhh very heavily skew nonwhite!

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Irrelevant if the dissent doesn't include the words "I should have retired and I screwed up"

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

like a Cubs fan, all you have to do is wait for next year.

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

They did lose a Hawaii seat in 2010

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Ironically this was the rule that I used on online dating for listing my height, about which I was called out by my now-wife on our second date. I would not have gotten past her height filter!

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

But also, love too be told I am going to hell if I don't uncritically accept the unverifiable things I am being told by the proselytizer.

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Amidst all the concern trolling about default and debts, I never once hear or see any of these bamas propose raising their own absurdly low taxes even one red cent.

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I'm in NC and am the kind of guy who votes in mid-October usually, and I'm done voting for the foreseeable future if the Dems allow this to move forward. Imagine I am not alone.

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

They'll sadly vote at even higher rates and margins for Rs in 2028 despite this

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Bloomberg also does a nice job of dispassionately explaining what is going on while not trolling me or obviously/directly kowtowing to fascism, I continue to support their efforts. They're a useful adjunct.

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Just subscribe to a couple of newsletters (whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com, Vox's The Logoff are good) and unplug from the rest.

whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com

Day 1473

“Infamous and disgraceful.”

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

They should maybe ride pine for the duration, imo

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Oh I think it's defensible, I just think the bullpen is too underresourced to avoid the months-long implosions we've seen the last two years, and they're alarmingly close to not having any functional infielders. Floor is quite low.

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

the Cubs are uh.... not division favorites in the NLC. That's the Brewers.

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Given trends in young male voting since August 2020, very possible this has shifted in the wrong direction.

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

From experience, the problem with this is that while you can get them to agree, they then ask you what a better news source is, and none exist.

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

And also makes the ongoing capitulation more painful

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

This tells me they aren't spending the Bellinger money

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Just a guy with double digit followers here but the answer to your question is quite clearly “yes”. Another cultural exchange that is bad for the left and good for the right is the downward spiral conventional Hollywood is on, at the expense of Netflix/twitch/social media slop

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Conversely, are we certain that this post is real? I've seen a lot of screen caps but no links and it's only circulating now despite being a year old.

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Sadly the only two of these I've read (Wide Wide Sea and Oathbreakers) were excellent.

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Man MLB writers…. I dunno…..

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

It turns out some people are angry about the real possibility of an anti-MMR vaccine US government. You can choose to also be angry about that, or be angry about people’s’ tone in expressing anger over that.

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Has even one D senator talked about the Samoa outbreak in public since the election?

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

No arguments with your value judgment with respect to RFK’s influence. I just think medicine as a field will alleviate more suffering in the long run by remaining clearly opposed to the quackery.

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

* (though idk that doing so would have actually countered the firehose of bullshit which was coming from what is now MAHA. Lies run a mile before the truth gets its shoes on these days)

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

I’d much rather our professions are clear eyed about the stakes here, so that if the worst happens we may have an opportunity to regain some trust. Your points about institutional public health not communicating nuance well with COVID* were very valid. There is…. less nuance about the MMR vaccine.

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

It’s very possible we get outbreaks of morbid preventable illness (I’m especially worried about measles) due to this nomination. If that happens, and prior to that happening we increasingly indulge RFK’s mishegas, we’ll lose a lot of credibility (which we’ll deserve to lose).

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Entirely aligned with you on the approach to individual patients. I don’t know that I buy the wisdom of the “join with Sauron” with respect to healthcare professionals responding to RFK’s likely ascent to HHS. I’m unsure it will result in harm reduction.

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Respectfully, this seems a bit confused. You still encourage a patient who is an active smoker with COPD to quit smoking when they’re in your office. Nonjudgmentally of course, and you don’t dwell on it, but you do it. This is no different.

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

This way, when the people who believe bad and costly things implement harmful policies that hurt people (which they will do whether they are given olive branches, or not), you gain some credibility with voters who don’t like to see people hurt, and then good policy can maybe happen again.

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Alternatively, it may be useful for politicians and politics professionals to actually believe things, especially substantively good and correct ones (like MMR vaccinations are good), and take clear positions rooted in those things (such as, “I’m not going to help the anti-MMR vaccine HHS nominee)

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

This is an intellectually moribund article.

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

My god, she still thinks she is going to become governor of GA and then president. Read the room, please

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Also in both cases, the ghouls that would have supported the bad positions didn’t give the president any credit

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Where this misses me is that absent the egregious cheating, his actual baseball case is quite mid?

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Well then, with respect to these negotiations, I look forward to them definitely acting in a way that indicates they are willing to make a contribution to American interests, as they consistently have done in analogous situations under Bibi

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

It wasn’t using the iron dome in February 2022, however, and plenty of other allies who are less dependent on the US for defense than Israel is managed to chip in at the time.

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Right but one could argue that some deference to US interests should be owed. Instead they act as if they expect unconditional aid in perpetuity (which no ally gets) and do stuff like this when we need their help theintercept.com/2022/03/23/u...

theintercept.com

Why Israel Refused to Help Ukraine Defend Itself From Russian Missiles

Israel refused to sell its Iron Dome missile defense system to Ukraine and blocked the U.S. from sending Iron Dome batteries owned by the U.S. Army to Kyiv.

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

What I am saying is that the Israeli government’s public posturing towards the US is revealing with respect to how they view their relationship with us.

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I’m not making that comparison. It’s possible for both Americans and Israelis to love Trump.

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

On the contrary, they elect Bibi in perpetuity and he acts as if we are his vassal at essentially every public opportunity. That reflects some real sentiment.

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I put much more stock in this kind of thing than a single outlier poll conducted early in a war, prior to any opportunities for tension to open up between the US and Israel.

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

(This is because they view America as their vassal state and adore Trump)

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Despite this, 18/29 other orgs have inked a guaranteed contract with a player in excess of the JHey deal, and 25/29 other orgs have entered the postseason after a full season more recently than the Cubs. They either are bad at business, bad at the baseball stuff, or a little of both

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

My thing about this: every team is a business and is facing uncertainty regarding 2026 and the CBA. Save LAD/NYM/NYY, all lack massive TV cash cows and/or Cohen.

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Sam Rubinstein @smrubinstein.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Isn't this just... a garden variety paleocon?

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