James Gunn’s American Project He is few critics’ idea of a respectable auteur, but his work is more consistently progressive than any other comic-book material today.

I wrote a piece on the work of writer and director James Gunn, who is engaged in a pretty incredible ongoing enterprise that despises bigotry and authoritarianism and reaffirms patriotism for progressives. www.vulture.com/article/jame...

IKF might have made it with a reasonable leadoff
(pointed out by @chriskirschner.bsky.social)

Will Smith caught 73 innings this World Series

That’s the most caught in a WS, surpassing:

71, Lou Criger 1903 (8 games)

Prior most in 7g WS: 
67, Muddy Ruel 1924

h/t @EliasSports

There were 146 IP in this World Series

That’s the 2nd-most in a WS, behind;:

1912: 147 2/3, 8 games

The Good Samaritan, by Joseph Highmore, 1744, 📸 by @patricksmith04

Yoshinobu Yamamoto:

First pitcher to win 3 games in a single World Series since 2001 Randy Johnson

First pitcher with 3 road wins in a single WS

4th P to win G6+7 in a WS, joining ‘01 Johnson, 1946 Harry Brecheen, 1925 Ray Kremer — FIRST to do it on road

FINAL: Dodgers 5, Blue Jays 4

The Los Angeles Dodgers won their second consecutive World Series, taking one of the greatest series ever with a Will Smith home run in the 11th inning. Yoshinobu Yamamoto, pitching on no days’ rest, finished the game and earned the win.

A dynasty.

Dodgers winning obviously sucks but Yamamoto just did some legend shit, gotta give it up for that

Being a starting pitcher and earning the win for your team in back-to-back nights.

Insanity.

Hello welcome to bluesky. We have every kind of anti-government radical left of center, and also, baseball

World Series Game 7s that went to the 11th and beyond:

1997 Indians-Marlins, 11 innings
1924 Senators-Giants, 12 innings

We're about to start the 11th in Toronto. Fasten that seat belt.

Cannot emphasize enough how tremendous that 3-6-3 double play started by Vladimir Guerrero Jr. was. He could have stepped on first and taken the easy out. Instead, he made an incredibly tough throw to get the force and second and returned to first for the double play. Brilliant.

The benches clear in Game 7, and the umps issue warnings 👀

Obama: "The weird videos of a US president with a crown on his head flying a fighter jet & dumping poop on American citizens - that's not even worth booing about. Because all of that is a distraction from the fact that your situation, your life has not gotten better. They do it so you won't notice"

Has this World Series consistently featured the highest quality of baseball? No. Has it featured the widest array possible of beautiful, weird, specific baseball delights? Yes.

people call toronto canada's new york, but it's not. it's canada's chicago and it's the best thing you could say about both cities

It’s okay to be glad that restaurants are doing stuff like this AND absolutely furious about the utter failure of the United States government.

I'm not a Nobel winning economist, but it seems to me the world's largest retailer and the worlds largest delivery services laying off hundreds of thousands right before the busiest retail and delivery season of the year is perhaps not an optimistic indicator of Trump's promised "Golden Age"

The Fugitive Slave Act legalized bounty hunting.

It’s crystal clear what Make America Great Again really means.

That's a lot of military hardware to position and not go to war. A lot.

I wonder what other literary themes they’ve done for Mar-a-Lago parties. Other than Lolita, obviously.

This is about as on-the-nose as it's possible to get without it being a Versailles, Romanovs, or Titanic themed party.

I have reached a level of firm acceptance that at least three to four of my fellow countrymen and women are too fucking stupid to be citizens of a republic. And another three of ten are too stupid to care.

Halloween is the first of the holy trinity of end of year holidays where you pretend you can just eat horribly for a brief window, but that window inevitably spans late October until the end of December 😅

YouTube video by MSNBC OCCUPIED: Trump renovates bathrooms as his team ramps up the military machine

Chris Hayes: “Maybe this guy is just immersing himself in redecorating projects and overseas parties in his honor while Stephen Miller builds a secret police force, and Russ Vought illegally seizes control of all government spending, and Marco Rubio plans a military adventure in Venezuela.”

Whoever wins, we all win

Maybe it is time to call Ghostbusters.

Hey folks, an update on the battle to bring down prices!

A person I interviewed for this story told me her 8th grader recently read Night by Elie Wiesel in school and observed “it’s sort of like what’s happening here right now” in case you’re wondering how things are going for Chicago’s kids.

Mike Johnson immediately tries to clean up for Brooke Rollins: "When she says 'we have failed you,' she means 'we, the Democrats,' okay?"