Adam Sawyer

I think this exact incongruity increases the probability that Bonds gets into the HoF.

it's a good thing the baseball writers have set a clear line in the sand that PED use will bar you from the Hall of Fame so that people like Jeff Kent, a journeyman who suddenly developed superstar power in his 30s, can be recognized

unfortunately it is very funny that Henry Cuellar took the quid and refused to do the quo

'Cloud Dancer': A Measured Response Regarding Pantone's decision, and so on, and so forth

sorry I'm late! I have at last broken my silence on Pantone's Color of the Year johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cloud-danc...

Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

I think the four pieces I edited by incarcerated queer journalist B Speaks may be the thing I'm proudest of this year. Speaks is an incredible writer, with an ability to take you into the world of the GA prison, and its trans and queer inmates, that takes my breath away.

If you want to tell me the plain language of the Constitution means something entirely different, you ought to have a heavy burden. But because we've allowed the public practices of folk constitutionalism to atrophy into lawyerly monopoly (see below), there's a brute appeal to authority available.

It's largely lost today because we've allowed constitutional law to become the exclusive preserve of lawyers, but the original idea of written constitutionalism was partly one of public education, publicity, & (proto-)democracy—people should be able to read & come to know the law which binds them

Anyway, it felt good to get that particular power play goal.

The relative futility of the Avalanche power play has been one of the weirdest sports quirks recently. One of the best starts in NHL history but just can't seem to figure it out 5-4. It's like if OKC was shooting 70% from the free throw line this season.

As Federal Prisons Run Low on Food and Toilet Paper, Corrections Officers Leave in Droves for ICE Many of the problems the agency is facing now are not new, but staff and prisoners fear an exodus of officers could make life behind bars even worse.

“We’re broken and we’re being poached by ICE...
People are leaving in droves"

Corrections officers are jumping ship for more lucrative jobs at ICE, which offers $50,000 starting bonuses, tuition reimbursement & better pay than the prison system

✏️ by: @keribla.bsky.social
for @propublica.org

The problem with questioning birthright citizenship in the US context should not be looked at with its economic peers, but its geographic. There’s a historical reason it exists and it underpins the entire state organization in the Western Hemisphere. There exceptions in the WH also tie into that:

Having finished a book tracing US migration & citizenship from the colonial period to 1888, the lesson people are missing today from history is: 1) Without legal citizenship, all kinds of discrimination can be done to you & w/ no due process/equal protection. This is the very reason why the 14th 1/

Exclusive: ICC shuns US demands to drop Israel war crimes probe and amend treaty Washington also called for end to Afghanistan investigation and change to Rome Statute in return for lifting sanctions

In a back channeled "offer" to the International Criminal Court, the United States proposed dropping sanctions on ICC officials if the Court

•Dropped charges on Israeli officials and pledged not to indict anymore
•Stopped investigating crimes in Afghanistan
•Amended the ICC treaty

the ICC said: no

Becoming a U.S. citizen takes years and involves immigrants acquiring a green card, extensive interviews, background checks, classes and a citizenship test. The naturalization ceremony is the final step to the process, where the oath of allegiance and a citizenship certificate are granted. Immigrants approved to be naturalized went to Faneuil Hall Thursday - known as the country's cradle of liberty - for that long-awaited moment to pledge allegiance to the United States. But instead, as they lined up, some were told by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials that they couldn't proceed due to their countries of origin.

Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

This discussion of travel as a perk of the job is very interesting.

⬇️ This is on the Everglades detention camp, finally included in ICE's detention reporting.

Per FL contract records, this site and the state's Baker facility have cost taxpayers more than $743 million in under six months.

A bit more than >50% of the number of Japanese Americans interned during WWII.

Judge Rules Trump Exceeded Authority by Holding Deportees at Guantánamo

Detention policy rebuff: A federal judge ruled Friday that the government has no statutory authority to hold detainees at Guantanamo Bay on their way to being deported from the United States. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...

Couldn’t Sam Altman just ask ChatGPT how to make itself profitable

That's amazing. I didn't know that I've always wanted to see that specific reaction.

Excellent.

I don't know if the Denver Nuggets have stolen a game yet this season. This would be a good one to get.

Packed Crowd Cheers as Judge Releases Advocate’s Aunt in High-Stakes Immigration Hearing Aissatou Diallo, the aunt of Adama Bah, was released Friday after a judge ripped into the Trump administration’s dubious account of her arrest and efforts to deport a woman who’d lived peacefully in A...

The aunt of Adama Bah, a prominent New York immigrant activist and advocate, was freed from ICE detention today.

She'd been grabbed from line to board a plane at LGA airport two days before Thanksgiving.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/05/a...

Nobel Committee should declare the winner of the World Cup.

Another great post.
I would just like to know how your rotating crops metaphor applies to the Lakers of Los Angeles.

ICE just released new detention statistics.

As of November 30, 2025, ICE was detaining 65,735 people across the United States.

www.ice.gov/detain/deten...

Who among us hasn't, at some point, received a participation trophy from a soccer league

That ambush take is a good one. I hadn't thought of that but you're right. That group had an opportunity to contain the vampires and had to take it.

people like Sabrina Carpenter saying essentially "decent people don't want the stench of ICE or this White House anywhere near them" to an audience of millions that includes a lot of young people helps empower them against ICE while reminding ICE agents that everyone hates them, both big wins