Mason Miller this season: 23 strikeouts, 30 batters faced

That 76.7% strikeout rate is the highest by a pitcher in his first 9 appearances of a season in the last 120 years

Deadline for early-bird registration rates is TODAY! #NASSH2026

Electoral College cartogram showing which states are in the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact and which ones could join in time for it to activate by 2028. Each state is sized and labeled according to its number of electoral votes. The states are spaced out enough to accommodate the changes in size but retain their general shapes and relative positions on the map. Current members are in solid orange, potential members are in light green, and nonmembers that are unlikely to join are in medium gray. Members have 222 electoral votes, potential states have 68, and the unlikely states have 248. The compact would only activate once states with at least 270 electoral votes have joined. The seven potential members and their electoral vote are Alaska (3), Arizona (11), Michigan (15), Nevada (6), New Hampshire (4), Pennsylvania (19), and Wisconsin (10). Democrats would need to gain the governor's office and/or legislative chambers to win unified power in these states, as detailed in the spreadsheet linked in this post.

NEW: Virginia just passed a law to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, giving it 222 of 270 electoral votes needed to activate.

This map and spreadsheet show which states could join to activate it by 2028 depending on the outcome of the 2026 elections docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Just confirming that Made by History will now be back up and running in the next few weeks with a new home and new partners at the Philadelphia Inquirer. Exciting! So, if you have pitches, now's the time to start sending them to madebyhistory@inquirer.com 🗃️ #MadebyHistory #HistoryMatters

NEWS: Eric Swalwell suspends his campaign for governor

An ICE agent stands over a body bag while another agent kneels next to it. The text below reads “You’re fine—people only get angry about us killing white people.”

Sunday Taquitos #23: Cold As ICE

Art by @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social

Swalwell needs to withdraw immediately.

This reporting is extremely thorough and the allegations are horrific. Swalwell’s attorney is trying to undermine this woman’s credibility by saying she kept working for him afterward. It’s tired victim-blaming rhetoric. She was 21 when it started. I believe her and I hope she is okay.

Man in critical condition after shooting involving ICE agents along I-5 in Stanislaus County The acting director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) identified a man shot by federal agents Tuesday morning in Stanislaus County.

I would like to talk more about how ICE shot someone else yesterday and he is in critical condition! The coverage is really horrifying because DHS is giving a similar story to the one they gave about Renee Good and so much news coverage is just buying it. Please talk about Carlos Mendoza Hernandez.

What a result: A Democratic-backed candidate has won the mayoral election in Waukesha, the biggest city in the notoriously conservative Waukesha County.

Alicia Halvensleben will be the next mayor. She defeated a GOP state lawmaker.

So to recap, Trump:

- Started a war for no reason on the belief that Iran would surrender immediately

- Killed thousands including over 100 elementary schoolgirls

- Threatened genocide up to and including nuclear war

- Then backed down in exchange for a worse position than the US had before

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The world not screeching to a halt when the US killed more than 100 little school girls on the very first day of this "liberating war" led us exactly to this moment

"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.

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Tradwife movement ‘attracts men who are hostile to women’ The strongest predictor of support for women staying at home and deferring to their husband is not, as researchers expected, chivalry but ‘hostile sexism’

"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women"

Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds?
www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...

This is an absolute scandal; the United States government is deliberately consolidating all deportation cases of an ethnic minority that the President has called "garbage" in front of a handpicked group of judges and with dramatically accelerated timeline.

A lawsuit was filed yesterday against it.

Calling all Dem. candidates ad writers...

No. Hell no.

Event announcement: Iowa Colloquium on Sport and Culture: 2026 Birrell-Parratt Lecture

Friday, April 3, 4:00pm CST; Sarah K. Fields, University of Colorado Denver

“Name Image, and Likeness: Past Battles, Present Complexities, and the Future of College Sports”

Gender is socially constructed.

“If you’re gay or transgender, I love you. And if anybody gives you shit, tell ‘em Charles said fuck you.”

a fuckton of people filling 7th avenue as far as the eye can see with billboards in times square

NYC No Kings march today photographed by Adam Gray: www.instagram.com/p/DWcf2Xmj-UL/

Chase DeLauter did it again!!!!
YES HE DID !!

Only other player with 4 HR in first 3 career regular-season games: 2016 Trevor Story

Only other players to homer in each of first 3+ career regular-season games:
2016 Trevor Story (1st 4)
2019 Kyle Lewis

LAPD officers arrest a protester dressed as the Statue of Liberty outside a federal building during a ‘Kings Day’ protest. (Connor Sheets/Los Angeles Times)

A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...

Folks,

If the estimates are correct, today was the biggest day of protest in U.S. history.

People are already trying to dismiss the meaning.

Don’t buy it.

We are the majority.
We have the numbers.
We have the will.
We have the passion.

Keep going!

Infielders with 275+ HR, 275+ SB, 400+ 2B:

José Ramírez
Alex Rodriguez
Craig Biggio
Ryne Sandberg

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Today is the Blue Jays home opener and as good a time as any to share this truly wonderful baseball (and indeed life) advice from former Jay Mookie Wilson. Believe in yourselves folks.