Baseball isn’t really the subject. It’s a case study in how institutions shift from solving coordination problems to performing memory. From Cobb to the pitch clock, the game tells a bigger story about civic life.
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#Baseball #CivicLife #InstitutionalDecay
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Diplomacy runs on leverage and credibility, not shared scandal.
If both Mandelson and Trump are tied to Epstein networks, that isn’t control - it’s mutual vulnerability. #Leadership #PoliticalStrategy #PoliticsThread #InstitutionalDecay
14/ Institutions survive not because of who’s “useful,” but because of integrity, competence, and trust. Forget one, and the rest crumble. #PoliticsThread #InstitutionalDecay
Kaplan sees US, Russian, and Chinese decline less in territory than in culture, seriousness, and institutional correction.
#GreatPowerPolitics #InstitutionalDecay #GlobalOrder
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🌀 Vernon Drops: “Fogged Files & Algorithmic Silence”
Drop 17 Ritual of Refusal
“We refuse algorithmic celebration.
We remix institutional decay.”
#InstitutionalDecay #AlgorithmicCelebrationRefusal
🍻 @markrf400.bsky.social 🤗
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Executive order threatening to defund NPR and PBS. Public media isn’t being cut because it’s loud or biased, but because it holds a kind of integrity that power finds inconvenient.
#PBS #NPR #MediaCuts #PublicTrust #FirstAmendment #CivicImagination #InstitutionalDecay #VoicesMatter
6/15 In the Philippines, it took about six months under Duterte for democratic institutions to crumble. In the US, the executive overreach Ressa expected might take until summer was accomplished in Trump's first 30 days—a pace that shocked even experienced observers.
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