Shanthi Sepe-Chepuru

Buddy, I grew up rooting for chumps like Steve Garvey, John Stockton, and Karl Malone and I wouldn’t let any of them in my house now. Likewise dozens of PED-linked players I cheered for as an adult. I promise you I’m gonna be fine if Bill Clinton is led away in leg irons

They’re just like us (derogatory)!

This is “I need to call my mom to come pick me up” levels of I don’t know what’s happening here.

It’s a trade that only makes sense when taken totally out of context.

It’s art.

A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)

Girl PICK YOURSELF UP OFF THE FLOOR

okay if they find emails between jp morgan (died 1913) and jeffery epstein (died 2019) that would be a big scoop

Really good example of inflation: we reduced our natural gas by 15% compared to a year ago. Our actual bill went up instead.

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

Right, these are the two options: Either they tolerated Epstein's eugenics to get to the sex crimes or they tolerated his sex crimes to get to the eugenics

Honestly, one of the things that's most shocked me about the last 10 years is the revelation of how many highly-educated elite white men who self-identify as moderates, liberals, and/or Democrats, still seem to be 100% on board with race science and masculine superiority.

Can someone please tell baseball social media when awards are voted on because the response to Vogt winning MOY has exposed a real weak spot

I mean… if you have to say it.

grind culture has truly gone too far now

I wonder if the better analogy might be MLB making alcohol readily available to the players - the thing I’m stuck on is how what we’re all thinking (“why would you risk all this for that insignificant a reward?”) is expecting rational behavior in the face of something we know to be compulsive.

This whole thing is devastating and the thing I’m afraid so many people won’t get is that to those of us who are really critical of sports betting, *all* of it looks a little like this. Like a compulsion with a totally disproportionate risk/reward ratio. There is zero upside for our society there.

My point is that at the end of the day, the abuse that gets hurled in comments sections is almost always being absorbed by people who have nothing to do with what’s happening and often are themselves being exploited by the same people.

I know this is an unpopular take but my dudes you are not speaking truth to power with these angry comments, you're speaking truth to Katelyn, who hasn't made herself a meal at home since January and makes so much less money than you can imagine

damn, go off, buddy

oh my god. I haven't been able to figure out what was happening in my brain every time I saw his name before now. you are my hero

Unequivocally the most insane thing anyone has ever done on a baseball field. I will
not be taking questions on the matter

(And yes, someone can be platinum glove worthy one year and absolutely average the next, defense is weird and catching is hard and if you’re busy hitting 60 home runs your defense *is* going to suffer)

listen Cal Raleigh is an incredible talent but we really need to get a handle on the fact that defensively he doesn’t even compare well against *other catchers* (and while no defensive metric is going to tell you everything, if FRV and DRS are on the same page, that’s a strong indicator)

We talk a lot about how it’s hard to fully reckon with when you hear a number rather than seeing the real people affected but I, personally, think the president should be capable of conceptualizing that. But ours never got past the developmental stage where everyone else is effectively an NPC, so.

You can only do this if there is something deeply, deeply broken inside you, and unfortunately there is no nuance to be found there. If you are in favor of kids going hungry in any context when they absolutely did not have to, something is so very wrong with you

I'm hard-pressed to think of a non-Jewish Democratic politician who has spoken to Jews with more respect and empathy than Mamdani. The fact that many Jewish establishment orgs are going after him while staying relatively mum on resurgent Nazism is a disaster, both for American Jews and in general.

I don’t mean to be insensitive but is there a reason we’re drawing a distinction between public appearances (that are basically all speaking engagements) and interviews? Because within days of her husband dying she was out here trying to grift off of it.

The people who write headlines like this have to be completely ignorant of how hard it’s become to live remotely comfortably in New York and it makes me like… irrationally angry

"should women work" but it really means "should men have to ever answer to or even encounter women who are not their wives, offspring, and/or other servile figures"