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This is pretty cool. Yesterday Rob Fitts alerted me to his and Yoichi Nagata's discovery that record of baseball being played in Japan now dates back to about a year and a half earlier than previously known, in Kobe in July 1869. Rob's post on the finding: www.robfitts.com/post/newly-i...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

It’s a continuous problem that you can’t parody the Trump guys. No matter how outrageous you make an SNL skit about them it’ll never be far enough removed from something they could plausibly do

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Tesla is Trump’s trade policy in miniature: declare war on your own best customers.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Trump to Bukele: "Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough."

submitted 55 days ago • 1183 comments

This is quite fun. “America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory t.co/ycnHVZ1gT1

submitted 56 days ago • 66 comments

Perfectly captures the unified ideological project of Trumpism: opposition to an open society and the construction of a closed society

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

"Between the elections of 2019 and 2024, roughly as many Conservative voters dropped dead as switched from Conservative to Labour."

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

If US foreign policy is genuinely threatened by criticism from college students, we have more significant problems than whatever their criticism is.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Evercore analysts reckon the weighted average US tariff post April 2nd is a Smooth-Hawley-busting 29%.

submitted 67 days ago • 6 comments

Amazing things are possible if 1) you can afford enough lawyers to neutralize any case against you, 2) you can pick the court, and 3) you are confident you'd get a full pardon if you step in it.

submitted 69 days ago • 6 comments

White House Correspondents’ Dinner Scraps Host In Favor Of Terrified Silence. “While we respect the legacy of a presidential roast, if you so much as cough, you will be forcibly removed.” Please enjoy each autocratic shift equally. [theonion.com]

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

Marshall had no idea a “creeper” could be so lovable or smart. Thanks to everyone who has seen #Mickey17 this past weekend 🤘🏻

submitted 90 days ago • 17 comments