Matt Bizer, PhD

A SSRS/CNN poll showing 61% people think Trump has gone too far using the power of the presidency and 57% think he's gone too far deporting immigrants.

People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.

Can’t think of a better encapsulation of US mainstream White House press than the fact that Trump has stated for literally YEARS that refugees seeking asylum means people from mental institutions are coming to the US and not a single reporter has pushed back on it

I’m sorry but that is not adorable, the kids need to watch The Princess Bride

I don't know how to share a civil society with people who don't see this as a moral atrocity

In a game that also had
* 5 WS starting pitchers working in relief
* 3 other regular starters in relief + Kershaw looming in pen
* Mad Max
* 3-run homer by 1-legged Bichette
* 3 hits (+ bad CS) by injured Springer
* Reverse Jeremy Giambi by IKF
* benches/bullpens clearing over Giménez HBP

Insane.

Sorry for continuing to pathologize annoying posts, but one effect of modern capitalism flattening citizens into consumers is to make people think the what and how consumption is a form of political activism...

... As a result, a lot of left/liberal people stopped being able to differentiate between "I like/dislike this thing" and "this thing is morally good/bad." This wasn't just a Twitter Brain thing, it led to Billy Eichner and Olivia Wilde sounding like crazy people while promoting their movies!

Anyway, there should be a lot more space between "I wish the Blue Jays had won" and "I find the Dodgers annoying" and "the Dodgers are destroying baseball, nobody else has a chance"

Average anti-Bluesky op-ed: this app is solely an echo chamber for left-wing politics

Average Bluesky post: baseball has taken everything from me

Whatever people think about the outcome, that entire playoffs was one of the best I’ve ever seen. What an incredible month.

It’s basically Deep Space Nine.

Great series, Yamamoto was truly amazing, sad Vlad made me sad

five skeets, by non-baseball writers, all about how intense and stress game 7 of the world series ones. includes george conway, marisa kabas, rachel gilmore, charlotte clymer, andrew hammond

yep, this is the baseball place now

That World Series was wonderful and I'm heartsick for Toronto. What a great season. You guys were so good and so fun.

Proud of all the Angelenos who are like “we needed that” about the Dodgers championship, as if it were rain

I am reasonably sure Mike is making that point exactly, in a snarky comedic way because he is a comedy writer

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Yes that’s the joke

we recreated baseball twitter in the aggregate

"You're cheering for that guy?" re: his politics in baseball is an impossible task, man. You just gotta let that one go. We can count the definitely not chuds on our fingers.

Actually deeply infuriating and radicalizing to not have a legal way to watch Florida-Georgia for the first time ever because some rich executives at Disney and Google want to be even richer than they already are

I love this man

“Yeah, I thought so” is iconic announcing

So you’re willing to let free speech die because you don’t like the regime’s current target? Have you not heard of some guy named Niemoller?

This is why I’ll always defend the ending of Lost. You people weren’t owed answers! In fact this cultural problem in storytelling rn can be traced directly to the popular outrage over “not getting answers” from Lost

Please give me one show that explains nothing please

gotta return to the TNG blueprint of discovering the ancient genetic origins of humankind in one episode, then the next episode is about how worf's kid won't share his toys at school

I think mine is True Believer off the same record. Whole album is amazing

A week ago the Dodgers were supposedly ruining baseball and turning the rest of MLB into the Washington Generals

If Trump’s fascism is so bad, why aren’t the students protesting? We asked three right-wing oligarchs who bullied their alma maters into enforcing total bans on freedom of assembly on campus.