Brian Wasik

Was this the greatest postseason pitching performance in the modern era?

It’s absolutely in the conversation and I think time will only make this more impressive looking back

This is the longest World Series of all time by innings at 73 innings

Beating out 1903 (Boston Americans 5-3 Pittsburgh Pirates, 70.5) and 1919 (Cincinnati Reds 5-3 Chicago White Sox, 71.5).

Both of those series were best of 9 games.

Gettin jiggy wit it?

I mean, what can you say. Baseball.

About a century and a half of meticulously recorded detail of a simple, benign and pastoral game... that will still forever surprise you.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto won Games 2, 6 and 7 of the World Series. He threw a complete game in Game 2, six innings and 96 pitches on Friday and came back Saturday to throw 2.2 scoreless innings on 34 pitches and induce the World Series-winning double play. A legendary performance.

Maybe this WS will just go on forever as a metaphor for our democratic purgatory.

The president can order the “Department of War” to conduct acts of war wherever he feels like—in this case, the Caribbean—under inherent Article II war powers, and maybe under the old Congressional authorization for the War on Terror, but it’s not a war so the War Powers Act doesn’t apply. Gotcha!

Between grants getting politically targeted and my lab’s building getting literally fucking bombed, 2025 is going great thanks

Slide with the title “The anti-vaccination movement has no new material”. Montague R. Leverson, Lawyer, Liar, Quack 1895 Robert F. Kennedy, Lawyer, Liar, Quack 2025 Accuse expert vaccine advisory committees of pro-vaccine "bias" "That commission was deliberately packed at its very outset..." "The committee has been plagued with persistent conflicts of interest and has become little more than a rubber stamp for any vaccine". Falsely state that vaccines cause death "Vaccination has caused more deaths and diseases than ever has smallpox". "This [COVID19 vaccine] is the deadliest vaccine ever made..." Claim that healthcare practitioners and scientists are only in it for the money, not because of scientific evidence "...Jenner was a mercenary charlatan whose ignorance and impatience of scientific methods were equaled only by his mendacity..." "Doctors are being paid to vaccinate, not to evaluate. They're pressured to follow the money, not the science". Use false and inflammatory words about vaccines The "Blood-poisoning process of vaccination" "They went on a search... looking for the most toxic things that they could find...to

The anti-vaccine movement has the same talking points now as it did in the 1800’s. It’s always been a rejection of science, scientists, and progress, with a soupçon of paranoia.

Below is a slide for a talk I’m preparing that illustrates the identical strategies. I have more examples, too.

Apparently ICE didn't get the memo on anti-Christian bias.

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Katie Miler, the wife of the US homeland security adviser threatened that the government would denaturalize him because he disagreed with her: "You better check your citizenship application and hope that everything was legal and correct."

Collateral effects of COVID-19 pandemic control on the US infectious disease landscape Using data from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) disease surveillance systems, we sought to quantify the indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the possibility of lack of exposure to common pathogens resulting in ...

Collateral effects of COVID-19 pandemic control on the US infectious disease landscape

After COVID-19 measures, many infections rebounded. The net result of measures was positive.

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Looked at the numbers on this yesterday.
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Constraint in West Nile Virus Envelope Protein across Mosquito, Human, and Avian Host Cell Environments Abstract. Arthropod-borne viruses are a major cause of global viral infections, displaying evolutionary dynamics that differ significantly from vertebrate-

New in ‘Virus Evolution’ from #QVEU! PhD student Jack Dorman used deep mutational scanning to measure evolutionary constraints on the Envelope protein of West Nile Virus in human, mosquito, and bird cell lines, doing a lot of work to put it into a structural context #VirEvol

It's even sadder when you see what Capehart and Daniels look like

Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.

Can I also just say, again, that the Biden admin under no circumstances committed to “left-wing” migration policy, in any way, shape, or form. I want Douthat to articulate what specific policies he thinks are included in that, because I think he seriously misunderstands the policies at issue.

Note: while not unprecedented, it’s actually pretty rare for a sitting Catholic bishop to participate in a demonstration. It’s just not generally what Catholic bishops do.

Thus: Getting the hierarchy involved in this protest outside an ICE facility is no small thing.

the party now cared more about climate change and various academic fixations than cheap energy and good-paying jobs.

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.

The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

USAID pulled out of Sudan in July. A loss of over a billion in humanitarian assistance. Now this.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

My quote of the day

Abraham Lincoln

The Fugitive Slave Act legalized bounty hunting.

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

Also, maybe we come up with, like, two more holidays, say in the early and late spring, that involve walking around the neighborhood and talking to your neighbors?

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

This is 💯 Origin inside baseball, but I've always been perplexed by Baric's claim that our "market" studies could not be correct because, according to him, the molecular timing of the pandemic in in October, not later.

That was always wrong, but where did he get this October date from?

Well... 🧵👇

it's good that he can still be forced to do this. it's very bad that this was not the position from the start.

'Man, Ben, no one is gonna believe this on.'

Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.

Woooooow, this is bad. Be gentle with your libraries, friends. They're going to be struggling with service for a bit.
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If I misunderstood my job this much (and could not stop vocalizing my ignorance) I would resign in shame.