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It is objectively bad for democracy that both blue and red states are doing extreme gerrymanders.

But the only feasible solution — a national ban on partisan gerrymandering — has only been endorsed by one party. And it's not the one complaining about Virginia right now.

Starting a mid-decade redistricting war only to end up with -1 seats is the same fine strategic genius and subtle grasp of game theory that brough us the Strait of Hormuz.

Man, that was the most entertaining #Reds game I've seen in person in a long time, and the first I've ever seen away from GABP. Where were you when Ke'Bryan Hayes and Dane Myers went back-to-back off of Steven Matz? First time seeing Chase Burns pitch did not disappoint either. #ATOBTTR

The Onion wants to make us submissive slaves to the New world order.

Correct.

Ke’Bryan Hayes has left the yard! What is going on!!! and Dane Myers! #Reds

Steven Matz is throwing pitches every like 4 seconds. Guy gives hitters no time to get comfortable in the box. #Reds #Rays

Elly and Chase Burns in human form.
#Reds

Tuesday night @ the Trop!
Elly bomb 💣
#Reds

Favorite Lay’s. My local UDF used to stock them sometimes.

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

would die for taylor dearden (and most of the pitt cast, but especially taylor dearden).

LIV legend Talor "If Rory McIlroy goes and completes his grand slam without some of the best players in the world, there’s just going to be an asterisk” Gooch.

Sid Rosenberg @sidrosenberg19 X.com Figures! Mr. Met ran away from ME last season!!! And he's hugging the Mayor! Mr. Met is an Antisemite!!!!!!! katie honan @katie_honan • 6d Mr. and Mrs. Met (@MrMet) meet Mr. @nycmayor

Sid Rosenberg O @sidrosenberg19 X.com Just when you thought things couldn't get worse we found out today that Mr. Met is a raging antisemite!

Sid Rosenberg • @sidrosenberg19 X.com This was me at Citifield last season being IGNORED by Mr. Met! Yesterday Mr. AND Mrs. Met were hugging and kissing our Antisemite Mayor @NYCMayor! Easy to conclude that Mr. Met is an Antisemite!!!!!

Sid Rosenberg @sidrosenberg19 X.com l'll be 59 on Sunday:) For the first time ever I'm sporting a Yankee jersey as I make my way to the Bronx. The official transition from a life long Met fan to a Yankee fan is now underway. Like my friend @CGasparino once wrote "Go Woke, Go Broke!" The Mamdani Mets are too WOKE for me! See ya at the Stadium soon fans!

Absolutely dying at right-wing radio host Sid Rosenberg getting so angry that Mr. and Mrs. Met hugged @mayor.nyc.gov that he started calling them antisemites and became a Yankees fan.

The Pitt Topps Set would be dope. Base set of all the cast and an insert set of all the gnarly diseases and conditions of the patients. 1/1 Mr. Digby Cast Removal auto would be my white whale.

Colored-pencil card drawing of Michael Robinavitch from “The Pitt” tending to an injured Pirates player

Dr. Robby, 1975 Topps style

One of the funniest Abbott episodes yet. Drunk Janine was great @quintabrunson.bsky.social #AbbottElementary

Why did the Giants not challenge that! That was obviously not a catch from Friedl? #Reds

These two runs are on Elly. After a GIDP in the bottom of the sixth. Should’ve been a 1-2-3 inning for Burke. Elly is human, after all.

And he breaks up Landen Roupp’s no-hit bid. Great few minutes from The Old Dominion product. #Reds

PJ Higgins, ABS god!
#Reds

as Victoria Spartz (IN-05) runs for her fourth term, the issues page on her website still touts her support for term limits and promise to serve three terms or less. in a january interview with Current Publishing, Spartz straight-up lied and said she never self-imposed any term limits.
#INpol

Dems should reintroduce and pass the For The People Act!

Last month in The Onion:

Katie Miller, spouse of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller:

jeff brantley and tommy thrall are a great duo on reds radio. if i'm watching on tv i prefer to mute the broadcast and listen to radio.

man, just play the damn game. give us an auction and a bloody immunity challenge.

This is Sadie. She was finally reunited with her human, astronaut Christina Koch, after her mom’s voyage around the moon took her the furthest any human has ever been from their dog. She can't wait to hear all about the universe. 14/10 (IG: astro_christina)