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Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties. It’s laughable that these people want you to believe that judges can’t restrict the executive, after the last four years, or the last forty. Everything is simply “only we, the Herrenvolk, deserve power.” It is what it is.

One part to watch: when asked how Trump's policies will affect them, 35% think "financially better off" 25% think "stay about the same" The majority of people are still expecting a windfall or Bidenonomics. Question is how they'll react when they instead get a brutal DOGE & tariffs recession.

Trump Dallas Mavericks 🤝 TERRIBLE at trade

he was right, not even half an hour after this post, the mavs traded luka to the lakers for AD and a pick

Ok lol the Mavs GM is a Nike marketing guy and singlehandedly botched a Steph Curry deal

A Polite Penguin Patiently Waits for Humans to Move Out of the Way 🐧

My Co-founder Josh Weinsch took this photo of his little daughter’s bike, which was in their driveway when they evacuated. Their neighborhood was vaporized.

Big news from the “WTF, Cannon?!” Corner of the universe:

Still wild to me that so many "savvy" folks on left and right have bought into the idea that online misinformation is overblown and doesn't really matter. From lies about migrants to transgender people to crime to election denial to climate denial, it's literally driving our country's politics.

For those new to BlueSky and interested in FanGraphs writers -- or those who aren't, making this an odd choice -- I put together a FanGraphs starter pack of writers/editors who currently are staffers or contributors to the site. go.bsky.app/Q1Dm1ED

New: A 2006 study found undocumented immigrants contributed more to Texas than they cost the state. The state hasn’t updated the analysis since. But a series of reports released by nonprofits and universities since then have reached similar conclusions. www.texastribune.org/2024/12/06/t...

Letting Bregman walk and then pivoting to 3/$66M or whatever for 34-year old Christian Walker would be peak Jim Crane in his post-intellectual GMs era.