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Alan Nathan

@pobguy.bsky.social

Professor Emeritus of Physics, U of Illinois. Physics of Baseball: baseball.physics.illinois.edu. Mostly post about baseball. Sometimes Con Law, basketball, physics, WW1, Twilight Zone, ...

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It's so wild. RedSox were the last to hire a Black player in the MLB and Celtics were the first to do so in the NBA.

Celtics have always been legendary as an organization

I rewatched Celtics City and just amazed by Red Auerbach. All of this starts bc of him

02.02.2026 23:14 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is wonderful. (And it would be great if the Celtics would resume posting on their BlueSky account.)

02.02.2026 13:52 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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67 years ago today/tonight

02.02.2026 16:24 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Remembering Buddy Holly today.

02.02.2026 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I ended the night with Jaylen!!!

02.02.2026 04:20 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Looking good, @karenkrussell.bsky.social ☘️

01.02.2026 20:57 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Gene Conley played for both the Boston Red Sox and Boston Celtics in the same year.

31.01.2026 21:48 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

what's an interesting baseball fact most people don't know?

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

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Ilan Wurman didn't sign.

26.01.2026 21:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Frame it.

25.01.2026 23:02 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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TincherSealedWitnessDec012426.PDF

This witness to Alex Pretti's murder not only refutes the governmen't story, but says she is afraid to go home because federal agents might arrest her. This is what it feels like to live under state terror.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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KARE 11: Minnesota DOC launches new website to 'address ongoing misinformation by DHS'
The DOC names Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino directly in a statement.

KARE 11: Minnesota DOC launches new website to 'address ongoing misinformation by DHS' The DOC names Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino directly in a statement.

Minnesota Department of Corrections Statement on Minneapolis Shooting and Federal Claims
January 24, 2026
The Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) extends its condolences to the family and loved ones of Alex Pretti, who was shot and killed by federal agents this morning in Minneapolis. The loss of life is tragic, and Minnesotans deserve transparency, accountability, and facts.

In the hours following the shooting, U.S. Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino held a press conference asserting that the operation was targeting an individual named Jose Huerta-Chuma and characterized him as having a significant criminal history. Because federal statements have repeatedly included inaccurate information about Minnesota custody and criminal records, the DOC reviewed available records to determine whether the individual referenced had any connection to Minnesota state prison custody.

Minnesota Department of Corrections Statement on Minneapolis Shooting and Federal Claims January 24, 2026 The Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) extends its condolences to the family and loved ones of Alex Pretti, who was shot and killed by federal agents this morning in Minneapolis. The loss of life is tragic, and Minnesotans deserve transparency, accountability, and facts. In the hours following the shooting, U.S. Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino held a press conference asserting that the operation was targeting an individual named Jose Huerta-Chuma and characterized him as having a significant criminal history. Because federal statements have repeatedly included inaccurate information about Minnesota custody and criminal records, the DOC reviewed available records to determine whether the individual referenced had any connection to Minnesota state prison custody.

ased on DOC records and publicly available Minnesota court data:

The individual identified by federal officials has never been in Minnesota DOC custody.
DOC and court records show no felony commitments associated with this
Public Minnesota court records reflect only misdemeanor-level traffic offenses from more than a decade ago.
The individual is not currently under DOC supervision.
DOC records further indicate that an individual by this name was previously held in federal immigration custody in a local Minnesota jail in 2018, during President Trump’s first administration. Any decisions regarding release from federal custody at that time would have been made by federal authorities. DOC has no information explaining why this individual was released.

ased on DOC records and publicly available Minnesota court data: The individual identified by federal officials has never been in Minnesota DOC custody. DOC and court records show no felony commitments associated with this Public Minnesota court records reflect only misdemeanor-level traffic offenses from more than a decade ago. The individual is not currently under DOC supervision. DOC records further indicate that an individual by this name was previously held in federal immigration custody in a local Minnesota jail in 2018, during President Trump’s first administration. Any decisions regarding release from federal custody at that time would have been made by federal authorities. DOC has no information explaining why this individual was released.

Things are so bad that the Minnesota prison system has had to launch a website specifically to combat DHS lies. The first major release from DOC officials suggests Gregory Bovino outright lied about the target of the Border Patrol operation during which agents shot and killed Alex Pretti.

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Kristi Noem and DHS don’t want us to see this video.

πŸ“Œ Alex was disarmed BEFORE he was shot. This was murder.

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This is the greatest movie scene of all time. If you think otherwise, you are mistaken.

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masterflashterbation's comment on "Another closer angle showing him trying to protect other protesters" Explore this conversation and more from the minnesota community

www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/...

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ICE Racial Profiling: DOJ Acknowledges and Seeks to Justify It Unpacking what DOJ told the courts versus what JD Vance and Kristi Noem tell the public

Thanks for asking, I have a written version on by Substack below. It also includes links to the court documents.

substack.com/home/post/p-...

24.01.2026 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Me too

23.01.2026 23:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is my favorite scene I n all of moviedom

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Victor Laszlo Gets a Crowd To Sing "La Marseillaise" (Clip) | Casablanca (1942) | TCM
YouTube video by Turner Classic Movies Victor Laszlo Gets a Crowd To Sing "La Marseillaise" (Clip) | Casablanca (1942) | TCM

The protestors in Minnesota might as well be singing "La Marseillaise." Got those Nazis to sit down! (Via @djrothkopf.bsky.social's indispensable newsletter.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOli...

23.01.2026 22:25 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

Probably more people out in the streets of Minneapolis than in the entire country of Greenland…

23.01.2026 22:57 β€” πŸ‘ 88    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I'll be wearing my Bates Baseball cap in the coming days, in solidarity with my friends from Lewiston ME, home of Bates College and many American citizens of Somali origin.

23.01.2026 18:16 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Most interesting to me are the analytical methods used to decide cases and how these methods are applied in specific cases, especially the "landmark" cases.

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Constitutional Law: [Connected eBook with Study Center] (Aspen Casebook) Amazon.com: Constitutional Law: [Connected eBook with Study Center] (Aspen Casebook): 9798886144574: Erwin Chemerinsky: Books

With today's start of the spring semester, I'll be taking the Constitutional Law class at the UIUC Law School. Looking forward to delving into the extensive reading list, including the 1.7k-page case book (Chemerinsky, 7th ed, www.amazon.com/Constitution...).

20.01.2026 17:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Very nice graphic! Are you showing the path of the tip of the barrel or some other point?

19.01.2026 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Jane is another of my favorites

19.01.2026 20:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sig is one of my favorite people in all of baseball. We talk often about all manner of baseball-related issues of mutual interest, especially those than can be addressed with physics.

19.01.2026 20:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's so cold in Chicago that I'm using which direction the players' breath blows as it comes out of their mouth to verify that the @weatherapplied.com model for Soldier Field is accurate at the 6 foot level.

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This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.

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