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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 5h

four mlb playoff elimination games tomorrow lol 🤮

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 7h

Aaron Judge is hitting .524 with a 1.345 OPS in the postseason. The Yankees may still get bounced tonight but he’s been the least of their problems

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Stuart Shapiro @stuartshapiroblou.bsky.social · 7h

Vin Scully probably watched Connie Mack manage a game and certainly saw Mike Trout play one.

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"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" @coyoteangel.com · 10h

It's how everyone should preface every comment:

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so we're going to go get pizza."

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 15h

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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Stuart Shapiro @stuartshapiroblou.bsky.social · 11h

Presidential campaign analysis is always bedeviled by small sample size problems. And each takes place under different circumstances. The best ones (Reagan 1980, Clinton 1992, Obama 2008) have only this in common, they answer the call appropriate for the time in which they are run.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17h

About 1 in 3 US Nobel prize winners are immigrants.
About 1 in 4 were government employees at some point.
About 44% of all Nobel prize winners were educated in US higher education.
As Trump demands a Nobel prize, he is destroying the means by which America came to dominate the prizes.

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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 17h

Two things of note in today's announcement of the 2025 Nobel physics prize (besides the work being honored).

1: The US institutional dominance of the prize continues.
2: 2 of the three laureates are immigrants, drawn here decades ago by the then-unmatched opportunities for science here...

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Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded for Work in Quantum Mechanics

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New Jersey State Policy Lab @njpolicylab.bsky.social · 19h

The second gubernatorial debate between candidates @mikiesherrill.bsky.social & Jack Ciattarelli will be held on Oct. 8th, hosted by the @bloustein.rutgers.edu; an #NJ Superior Court dismissed lawsuits from several municipalities that sought to block the state's affordable housing law; Read more:

New Jersey Superior Court Upholds New Affordable Housing Process – NJ State Policy Updates - New Jersey State Policy Lab

Public Administration Second Gubernatorial Debate to be Held on Wednesday, October 8th Hosted by the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy - On Wednesday, October 8th from 7:00-8:00pm guberna...

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

When Stephen Miller hijacks the Major League Baseball social media account

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

There’s an essay to be written about how maga patriotism is just shitty fandom. Anyone who follows sports knows fans like this, it’s always the ref’s fault, the other team doesn’t exist, there’s some plot/player/coach holding the team back otherwise they’d always win easy bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

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New Jersey State Policy Lab @njpolicylab.bsky.social · 1d

The New Jersey State Policy Lab is excited to announce that we will once again be seeking #proposals for seed #funding to support #research projects that focus on a wide array of policy challenges impacting #NJ. Proposals are due by end of day Friday, October 17th:

Call for Seed Funding Research Proposals – Due October 17th - New Jersey State Policy Lab

The New Jersey State Policy Lab (NJSPL) is excited to announce that we will once again be seeking proposals for seed funding* to support research projects that focus on a wide array of policy challeng...

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 1d

My hypothesis is that the electorate is fundamentally backward looking. Because law sort of constrained Trump during his first administration, people thought they'd get the same thing again.

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

I truly don't understand what people thought was going to happen

Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 1d

Has Trump’s second term posed a greater or lesser threat to the rule of law than you expected? @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/m...

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

I truly don't understand what people thought was going to happen

Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 1d

Has Trump’s second term posed a greater or lesser threat to the rule of law than you expected? @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/m...

Has Trump’s second term posed a greater or lesser threat to the rule of law than you expected?
Circular graph showing over half answered: much more than I expected, about a quarter: more than I expected, about an eighth: similar threat to what I expected, small sliver: much less threat than I expected.

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 2d

At what point does a governor call up their National Guard to oppose the deployment of an out-of-state National Guard?

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Stuart Shapiro @stuartshapiroblou.bsky.social · 1d

This sounds like the opening of Ken Burns' Baseball.

Stuart Shapiro @stuartshapiroblou.bsky.social · 2d

The Wire. Andor.

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Stuart Shapiro @stuartshapiroblou.bsky.social · 2d

You know it is awful if I am turning the Yankee game off.

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Pinstripe Alley @pinstripealley.bsky.social · 2d

For all the buzz around the Jays being scrappy and putting the ball in play, they've also already hit 4 homers in this series and the Yankees have 0.
So. Not good.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 2d

I was once a person who wanted to do good but harmed instead. I was once a person who wanted to do good but did not because I feared the personal consequences.

I think a lot of people struggle with pragmatism on one hand and leading an ethical life with integrity on the other.

Chiral @c-hiral.bsky.social · 2d

I'm sorry but the more I think about it the more bothered I am about this whole concept of choosing whether or not you can be a good person is it different for other people do you just get to choose whether you're flexible uncertain things how can you live that way?

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Daniel A. Horwitz @danielahorwitz.bsky.social · 2d

I still don’t get how this is basically a non-story but Biden being old and diminished was a generational scandal. You worry about a president losing their faculties in large part *because* it might empower some lunatic like this! That’s the concern!

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 3d

Miller’s apparent elevation to shadow president and his seeming intent to declare an end to the constitutional order would, in any other administration, be treated as a executive branch meltdown that was immensely embarrassing for the president and requiring Miller’s immediate removal

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Stuart Shapiro @stuartshapiroblou.bsky.social · 2d

They have adopted Trump's "in two weeks" messaging.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d

The regime keeps losing in court because what they’re doing is illegal

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 3d

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Saturday blocked President Donald Trump’s call-up of the National Guard for a deployment in Portland, saying Trump’s actions were based on false claims and undermined Oregon’s sovereignty. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Seizure of Oregon National Guard for Portland Deployment