Barely 3 weeks into the season and the Mets already have that funereal vibe

Time for Mamdani and Obama to go to a baseball game with the Pope. Let’s just blow this whole thing wide open.

Cover of Mother Jones with an image of fingers pointing at John Roberts and the coverline "Blame John Roberts for Everything"

The NYT big expose on SCOTUS today pairs well with @ariberman.bsky.social and @pemalevy.bsky.social's cover story on how ~everything wrong with this country today can be laid at the feet of John Roberts: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Texas immigration court interpreter detained by ICE says ‘they want to make me disappear’ Meenu Batra, the state’s only licensed Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu interpreter, says she was treated ‘like a criminal’

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vintage Mike Trout crushing 900 feet of home runs in Yankee Stadium is fun to watch

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

and the pitcher kept the ball in his hand the whole time lol

the levels of elite impunity we are seeing now and the levels of war crimes we are seeing now are two aspects of the same path of historical development. right now they see war as our problem (and their investment opportunity). it is world historically important that we make war their problem again

Elderly woman pushing a rolling walker, to which is attached a protest sign that reads OFF WITH HIS HEAD

My queen today

Blake’s Urizen creates a baseball field

Beckett and Seaver at Shea stadium 1964

on his first visit to NYC in 1964, Samuel Beckett went to a Mets doubleheader at Shea Stadium (with a friend named Seaver) #neverforget

“making adjustments” is such a trite baseballism, but watching Mets rookie Carson Benge it’s his in-game adjustments that have been so impressive. In his regular season debut today he had a couple rough at-bats, looked overmatched, adjusted and mashed a home run next time up. Kid’s gonna be good

I know it’s against the Pirates and it’s opening day but this Mets lineup has big 2022 Mets vibes. Every at-bat competitive, putting the ball in play

I don’t attend many Yankees games but I was at a Yanks/Rays game a few years ago and Brandon Lowe blasted 3 majestic homers in 3 at-bats against the Yanks in the Bronx. Dude loves quieting the crowd in NY, I guess. Saving the Pirates from total embarrassment so far against the Mets in Queens today

“How close his experience was to ours is proved by the fact that the two things that interested him most were (a) the world revolution and (b) the future of American democracy.”

- CLR James re: Melville

the failure of the Mueller Report, ultimately, was the successful result of the conservative project to make sure that what happened to Richard Nixon would never again happen to a Republican president

V for Venezuela

V for victory

nothing better

José Buttó with a scoreless inning pitched for Venezuela in the biggest appearance of his baseball life. He’s one that got away for the Mets, I wish they’d held onto Buttó. Solid, versatile swingman, and he posts. I always thought he deserved a chance for a bigger role with the Mets

My verdict on this book is that there are absolutely some incredible passages, some of Melville’s best most wildest philosophical and metaphysical speculations, as well as vast encyclopedic arrays of arcane learning, but overall a tedious read. A text fit for a special collated edition

This tournament rules

The Venezuela-Japan WBC game is absolutely bonkers

Italy beats Team USA at the WBC, biggest win in Italian baseball history 🤌

both his parents are actors the man understands a cinematic moment

Nas Nasty, Esco, Nasir (Repurposed) produced by Purpose of Tragic Allies YouTube video by Purpose of Tragic Allies

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So This is Dyoublong? Living Inside the World of the Wake: Part 3 Continuing my American-spectator-in-Ireland, wandering psychogeographical exploration of Finnegans Wake and relevant sites, jumping around ...

new post, continuing a series of psychogeographical wanderings in Dublin exploring sites related to Joyce and Finnegans Wake:

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one thinks of Bachelard’s “Poetics of Space”

want to see Dominican Republic face Japan in the WBC final, we deserve it. I love the energy their fans bring to the park. Baseball atmosphere at its finest

Roc Marciano - Rain Dance (Visualizer) ft. Errol Holden YouTube video by RocMarcianoVEVO

Roc Marciano - Rain Dance ft Errol Holden

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A 1944 map by geologist Harold Fisk charts a 40-mile stretch of the Mississippi River from Friars Point to Gunnison, Mississippi. Fisk used aerial photos and maps to estimate the past and then-present channels. Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/mississippi-rivers-hidden-history-uncovered-by-lidar?fbclid=IwY2xjawQYXkdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFCZ2JBT2tWdVlXMmEzNU5Uc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHsbjW-Yuubr_o_Kfeh0Elzc94geDwfXIZmeNL7NyljEBAOEjH53m2QLSo1NF_aem__4NkCIJ_D8J6mI1e8eMByg

Rivers are living beings.