C.S.

Baseball is stupid, but it's stupid in a manner which ennobles the human spirit. Football reveals the lies we tell about ourselves and our society for the hollow boasts that they truly are.

if someone did this to me at my work I would lay down on the floor

Check out how easy this is.

Eternally proud of Thorns fans’ response to these industrial strength anti-trans shit stirrers. Don’t start something with the Riveters. You won’t be able to finish it. (The other contemporaneous chant was “terfs fuck off.”)

found out that my mother in law decided she was aggressively pro trans rights literally by going, I don't know anything about this but everyone who is against trans rights is also against free school lunch, the issue I know and care a lot about, so this must be the correct way to feel about this

[Jared Harris in The Expanse voice]

Also: the cruelty inflicted on the unhoused is a barometer of the state violence we're willing to tolerate.

Literally anybody but the dodgers 2k26

what I hope this thread makes clear is two things: 1. expanding the court has real problems, and these are valid concerns 2. there are no good options left, and this is the best of the bad ones unless we want to accept a conservative supermajority for the rest of our lives

lol, and furthermore, LMAO

In the 1800s, people used to roll out picnics to watch public executions in the Pacific Northwest. That followed a history of lynchings. I wrote about the death penalty in this moment and Oregon's loudest voice against it. leahsottile.substack.com/p/76-an-amer...

Literally anybody but the dodgers 2k26

I think Assassins is just the correct answer

Ivan Turgenev's "Execution of Troppmann" is a short essay, published in 1870, that gives a first-hand account of the writer attending a public execution in Paris. Turgenev's details how the drunk, unruly crowd turned a somber moment into a carnival. A deeply moving essay; I encourage you to read it.

Imagine what it does to a person to see a human being put to death. Imagine what it does to a country to allow this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

a livestreamed execution is just a lynching

Pennsylvania and New York abolished public executions in 1834–35, and by the mid-1840s they had been abolished across the east coast and Midwest scholarworks.law.ubalt.edu/cgi/viewcont...

Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238, 297 (1972) (Brennan, J., concurring) “No longer does our society countenance the spectacle of public executions, once thought desirable as a deterrent to criminal behavior by others. Today we reject public executions as debasing and brutalizing to us all.“

It is centering HIM. That is not what restorative justice would do.

People angrily demanding why he must be punished and why we can't restore him is the fucking opposite of restorative justice.

Restorative justice doesn't mean "nothing bad ever happens to you." It means, "in determining what happens from here on out, we center the needs of your victim to repair what happened to them over your own needs."

Happy belated feast day of St Francis I just saw a wild rabbit in the street in downtown Baltimore

All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison

Return of the Jedi is a prison abolitionist film

Made a cathartic post about the Mariners after not being interested in them for most of the season. Photoshop is my passion

Vacating a stay of execution, and without even a word, is in-sane and horrific (Yes I know they've done similar shit before, that was wildly fucked up too)

BREAKING: SCOTUS’s Republican appointees will allow Tennessee to kill Christa Pike tonight, vacating a stay of execution entered by the Sixth Circuit this morning. The three Democratic appointees dissent.

When the light bat speaks, you listen

NEW POST: Zombie Light Bat scores a coup, as The New Yorker's Isaac Chotiner sits down for us to interview Seattle Mariners President of Baseball Operations Jerry Dipoto. thelightbat.substack.com/p/new-interv...

Portland has The soccer culture in the US and that soccer culture is a trans flag with the three arrows superimposed on it. They can fucking try

I would have gone out and found like an 8th generation Texan family who had an adult trans kid who fled Texas and cut an ad with them going "i voted the way i did to keep this texas family together, but Ken Paxton drove them apart. When the government reaches into the home, I begin to question it."

When the league proposed changes that would have eliminated early deals and made it more difficult for moneylenders to prey on baseball families, David Ortiz used his influence within the powerful players union to help block the reform. @propublica.org @mlb.com www.propublica.org/article/how-...

makes "at least three" and "don't play games with me, kid" look pretty good by comparison

Baseball fan? You need to read this.

And that, not to be cute about it, is ballgame

People get confused about the trans sports thing because at a glance it seems like a small issue that impacts a very small number of people and thus makes sense as a "reasonable" concession. But it isn't, because conceding that is accepting that a kid's trans identity is on some level fraudulent

PA: I apologize that I apparently misunderstood my conversation with the other side. I thought we were all going to be adults here. Apparently we have a reading problem here.

Belfi Rivera was 14 when the Diamondbacks made a handshake deal that would pay him $1.8M after he turned 16. But he saw almost none of it. $630K went to a trainer who brokered the deal, and $950K+ went to a lender whose business partner is Red Sox legend David Ortiz. New, @propublica.org

You really can't budge an inch on this stuff. It does nothing but validate their deranged hatred. This was a test of leadership and Talarico failed it

Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.

the 2026 seattle mariners

ok look The Odyssey is very much a sequel