Ben Forer

And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

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I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

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Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

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‘I Feel Like I’ve Been Lied To’: When a Measles Outbreak Hits Home

i almost can’t read this it makes me so angry. delusional grifters with purity fetishes and eugenic worldviews have brought pain, suffering and death to children www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...

The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.

The MAHA Report cites studies that don’t exist.

W/ @emilykennard.bsky.social:

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4-year-old Bakersfield girl facing deportation could die within days of losing medical care In 2023, a Mexican girl, 4, was allowed U.S. entry for lifesaving medical care. She and her parents, who live in Bakersfield, have been told they must leave.

“With the appointment set for 7/31/23, Vargas… carefully carried her daughter out of the hospital, her nutrition bags still connected intravenously.”

When your child is sick, nothing else matters. In S.G.V. , I see my daughter. Both patients at CHLA. Both overcoming more than any child ever should.

Broadway's TV revival Streamers and live productions are converging as content owners see value in expanding reach from stages to screens and vice versa.

The next step — VR. The best seats in the house from anywhere in the world. Seems like a value prop that could get people to put on their headsets.

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The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters.
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Our daughter is immunocompromised. Her safety depends on the whole community being vaccinated—not just her.

This policy hurts everyone, especially the most vulnerable.

Pablo Torre: Influence + Audience = The Cultural Supremacy of Sports — Impolitic with John Heilemann Pablo Torre, ESPN and MSNBC commentator and host of the Edward R. Murrow Award-winning video podcast Pablo Torre Finds Out, is back with John to weigh in on an assortment of red-hot stories at the int...

Hopefully it’s not for many, many years, but whenever it’s time for PTI 2.0 — @pablo.show & @jheil.bsky.social have my vote.

My favorite person in the world is immunocompromised and this shit is galling and terrifying.

Clooney Brought Edward R. Murrow to Broadway. Next Stop: CNN.

CNN will broadcast the penultimate performance of "Good Night, and Good Luck" on June 7! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/t...

Must have watched the Google Gemini ad at least 100 times during the NBA playoffs. Still can’t figure out why you’d run an ad where AI identifies a bunch of problems and doesn’t help solve any of them.

@reckless.bsky.social @davidpierce.xyz Official speaker of the LAFD! Perfect for today’s open house.

BILL GATES: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one.”

@financialtimes.com
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Research at risk: Life-saving heart pumps for babies | Cornell Chronicle After receiving a stop-work order from the federal government, the future of a device to help children with heart defects is uncertain.

“Approximately 40,000 children born every year have some type of heart condition, Antaki said, but that isn’t a large enough number to incentivize medical device companies to invest ..

“For that reason,” Antaki said, “our only option is federal funding ..”

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Research at risk: Life-saving heart pumps for babies | Cornell Chronicle After receiving a stop-work order from the federal government, the future of a device to help children with heart defects is uncertain.

One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects.

It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this.

The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.

Our daughter isn’t able to receive the MMR vaccine because she received a heart transplant at six months old. Herd immunity is vital to her health and safety.

Thank you @katie-drummond.bsky.social for speaking so strongly on why vaccination isn’t a personal choice.

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Scientists Find Measles Likely To Become Endemic in the US Over Next 20 Years A new study forecasts more than 850,000 measles cases over the next 25 years if US vaccination rates stay the same. Millions of infections are possible if rates drop.

A new study forecasts more than 850,000 measles cases over the next 25 years if US vaccination rates stay the same. Millions of infections are possible if rates drop. www.wired.com/story/scient...

Opinion | Larry David: My Dinner With Adolf (Gift Article) When a private meeting goes unexpectedly.

Larry David perfectly trolling Bill Maher for bootlicking is a nice Monday surprise

404 media article excerpt that reads: Palantir writes it “remains committed” to “privacy and civil liberty protections,” and says it believes this work with ICE is “intended to promote government efficiency, transparency, and accountability.” “We believe these conditions are the necessary predicate to provide the tools to help ICE drive accurate enforcement actions and enable fair treatment and legal protections (including due process) for citizens and non-citizens,” the wiki says. “Palantir is cognizant of the risks to privacy and civil liberties involved in these mission sets and how they may be influenced by shifts in priorities,” another section reads. “Many risks will not be within our means to address—some are structural and must be fully baked into the equation by virtue of a willingness to engage at all in these efforts. It's important to note that there will be failures in the removal operations process,” it adds.

Imagine being the Palantir internal comms person writing that your company is "committed" to "privacy and civil liberty protections" and then also saying a few paragraphs later that you know that there will be "failures in the removal operations process."

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The whole ethos of these tech guys is that laws don’t apply to them. It explains so clearly how Musk and DOGE are behaving. They’re not geniuses. They’re just willing to behave lawlessly in ways most of us won’t.

Trump Is Sending People To The Camps “More than a prison, El Salvador’s CECOT has many if not all...

“More than a prison, El Salvador’s CECOT has many if not all the hallmarks of a concentration camp." talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

Before press came in — but while live feed was running on Bukele’s feed — Trump said to him: “home-growns are next. … You’re gonna need to build about 5 more places.”

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So from my uniquely weird perspective after living in the UK through Brexit, being in India during Modi's demonetization, and living in Brazil when the real tanked during the Bolsonaro administration, I can confidentally say that Americans do not and can not understand how bad this is going to be.

Is a journalism-to-politics pipeline forming?

Our golden age has just begun.

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.

They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.