Joe Davis

No post-Trump settlement can accept his regime as having been legitimate. Either because we have a republic again, or a new autocrat, or whatever else, but it isn’t possible to have a system that treats his actions as valid precedent after he’s gone. A personalist regime can’t survive the person.

Brandon Woodruff how are you this man

Voters for this year's All-Defense teams are going to have to ask themselves just how many Lynx (Lynxes?) it's reasonable to include. #WNBA

Article screen capture reads: We’ve also seen that this kind of thinking can work when Democrats do it. Last year, both the Democratic presidential campaign and the broader progressive movement took Project 2025 from a viral curiosity and turned it into one of the Trump campaign’s worst negatives. And right now, the party is effectively seizing on the Jeffrey Epstein saga, despite some initial hemming and hawing. Until recently, I ran into no shortage of people in D.C. who said Democrats should move on from the so-called Epstein files to “economic issues” — not recognizing that Epstein is an economic issue. It’s about elites doing terrible things and protecting themselves, a metanarrative that appeals to Americans’ sense that the system isn’t working for them. Social media messaging is as much about implication as it is the blunt statement of fact.

Last skeet(? bleat?) about the @robflaherty.bsky.social Politico piece:

OMFG YESSSS. Epstein IS a kitchen table economic issue. The whole sordid thing's a visceral, understandable proofpoint for how the ultra-rich no longer play by the same rules as the rest of us

www.politico.com/news/magazin...

It’s about fairness in women’s sports.

this is the structure of information now: some racist freak blogs about his personal grievances, and that gets laundered to top news sites and straight into boomer's brains

Video shows Department of Justice official urging Jan. 6 rioters to 'kill' cops The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

The Milwaukee Brewers are inevitable! Give us the rings and the lil trophy deal and the fun lil pennant.

I liked the GEM take— not enough polling too many pundits

Like this is a very good analysis of how a few hyper-motivated pundits were twisting the topline data, but lots of people who actually study public opinion were arguing against that. The pundits were just cherry-picking the data that matched their priors

I think we more pollsters and fewer pundits

Minnesota Softball Has A Title IX Problem | Defector On May 11, 2023, Ellerie Ulfers was pitching for Washburn High School against district rival Southwest in a varsity softball game in Minneapolis, Minn. The start time had been moved back 15 minutes, t...

This article shows an egregious discrepancy in Minneapolis with 48 baseball fields and just nine for softball. Girls HS varsity games have been stopped to allow men to take over the field. The current MPRB was responsive for a time but over their entire term have failed to solve the problem.

there was a competitive brand of baseball that prioritized fun and fan experience it was called the minor leagues and it was eviscerated to save a dollar

The Boy Genius Who Killed 14 Million Poor People What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE’s work?

i think i disagree with the idea that the ferritor should have been allowed to follow his own path during his schooling, neglecting assignments and being coddled for his apparent genius. i think, in fact, that this was the problem. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-boy-ge...

If you work in/adjacent to Democratic politics, or even if you are an occasional Democratic donor, this new @adambonica.bsky.social piece is the most important thing you can read today.

The Democratic Party cannot build power if it allows scam pacs to thrive

open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...

Diamond Miller will look real good in Dallas. Nobody hates young players (especially USA based ones) like Cheryl Reeve lol. But as a noted Carrington supporter, at least it’s a fun return.

“For every dollar a grandmother in Iowa donates believing she's saving democracy, 98 cents goes to consultants and operational costs. Just pennies reach actual campaigns.”

data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mother...

The Milwaukee Brewers are hilarious.

The Lynx are winning by 34 points at halftime and only 4 points have come from Napheesa Collier.

Kayla McBride is 8-of-8 on 3s

Jessica Shepard is 6-of-6 on 2s

Not missing is looking like a bold strategy

The Connecticut Sun were purchased for 10 million 20 years ago and just sold for 325 million but the league doesn’t make any money so it can’t pay its players

Discovered today that not everyone considers this nine year old viral tweet a seminal text in the field of social media studies but I do

I cannot guarantee that I will procure one during the postgame media session. But I can guarantee that I will try.

World Series Champion Brewers

That’s better. For now.

If the Brewers got a run for every ball that left the infield they might have a chance with the way Quintana looked in the first. Operation optimism is off to a tough start

That feels like a lot of effort for these folks

We are so screwed yall

The Obamas pining for the Golden Age of ESPN only makes Millennials adore them more

Welp.

Twitter is now 75% bot activity. The dead internet theory aint a theory anymore.