Designers with $250k+ salaries quoted in a 500-word Fast Company piece: I think it was his typeface choice that put Abdul over the top

There's a cruel irony that every player in the organization—and probably every staffer in the warehouse too—is subject to performance-based metrics assessments that determine their worth solely by data, except for the GM and his own staff, who are never dispensable no matter how many times they fail

Andy Kostka@afkostka.bsky.social · 2d ago

.@kylegoon.bsky.social asked Mike Elias why the fans should believe in him to lead the Orioles out of this current mire. "Baseball is very, very humbling and it doesn't go linearly," Elias said. Elias' answer, below:

I'm thankful that—during the Adley era—I was invited to write the Orioles' 2023 season essay for @baseballprospectus.com and all my warnings about Mejdal/Elias's over-reliance on spreadsheets & prospects as the cornerstone for building a World Series team will be in print for as long as print exists

Real sickos remember this era. Ghouls like Lindsey Graham were popular in a pre-2016 liberal media landscape because he’d do interviews everywhere and they’d just say “Sir I disagree with everything you just said but you made me laugh. We’ll see you next time” www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pto...

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Well, you obviously react to new information, and this is new information. Allegations this credible and horrifying, there's no way Platner can stay. I believe in second chances and continue to believe in imperfect candidates, but too many strikes against and you're out. He's run out of chances.

July 4th is nothing to celebrate. 20% of all book sales today, in the store and online, will be donated to the legal support funds for the Prairieland defendants and the Minneapolis 15. Bookstore and cafe open until 4pm today, come through if you are feeling unpatriotic!

Caught the last half of that ARG/Cape Verde match

Jaylen Brown was—to my knowledge—the only player who put “Liberation” on those jerseys they had that one season post-George Floyd. It was a hollow NBA brand exercise to tamp down demands for actual change, but you have to appreciate how far JB took it compared to everyone else. Forever my fave.

I guess they listened!

Sunrise Movement@sunrisemvmt.bsky.social · 5mo ago

BREAKING: Rep. DeGette gets heated with a constituent pressing her on why she voted to send bombs to Israel: "If this the only issue that you care about is this issue, then you should not vote for me" DeGette, who's 68, is facing a primary challenge from @MelatKirosCO

One of the bright spots to your baseball team sucking is its always silly hours on the radio broadcast

The storied history of the Harlem Renaissance—born out of the Black Socialist movement, A. Philip Randolph and The Messenger, Castro's visit to Harlem and meeting with Malcolm X at Hotel Theresa is quite well known. But if Tish needs a history lesson we'll be glad to provide one for her

Noah Shachtman@noahshachtman.bsky.social · last mo.

Tish James tells CNN she's “disappointed” in Mamdani. “Some of the candidates that he has supported ... do not understand ... the cultural differences from district to district, who've not been part of the history and the struggle of some of these districts,” she said. www.cnn.com/2026/06/24/p...

Two years after Darializa Avila Chevalier took part in the Gaza solidarity encampment at Columbia University, she is now set to represent the district in which the university is located in Congress.

Representatives Goldman and Espaillat really should have moderated their extreme views on Israel-Palestine policy, views which are increasingly out of step with their constituents and American voters in general. The price of not getting out of your “ideological bubble”

I've been a registered Democrat since 2008. Also,

Jaime Harrison@jaimeharrison.bsky.social · last mo.

I say this with no ill will or animosity: if you hate the Democratic Party, then please don’t run for our nomination. Don’t use our resources. Don’t rely on our volunteers. Don’t use our infrastructure. Don’t ask Democrats to invest their time, money, and energy in your campaign.

Making Hakeem Jeffries the AIPAC/crypto/tech/finance lobbyist he always wanted to be is priority #1 next cycle.

Bold, Daring, Risk-taking, Movement-Building Socialism > Incremental, Academic/Nonprofit Progressivism

Decision Desk HQ@decisiondeskhq.bsky.social · last mo.

Decision Desk HQ projects Claire Valdez wins the NY US House 7 Democratic Primary #DecisionMade: 9:17 PM EDT

In 2023 they said you could *never* touch The Israel Issue. You couldn't challenge Israel's stranglehold over party politics. It was impossible, unmovable. I think of all those weak-willed naysayers when I see a staunch Israel supporter kicked out of his own district within an hour of polls closing.

Decision Desk HQ@decisiondeskhq.bsky.social · last mo.

Decision Desk HQ projects Brad Lander wins the NY US House 10 Democratic Primary #DecisionMade: 9:04 PM EDT

Crickets from AOC on the MAGA-level hatred, racism, and sexism leveled against a DSA challenger by an entitled AIPAC-backed incumbent in a neighboring district of hers, huh

You have to hand it to the Times. They're still innovating in the field of pushing insufferable capitalist propaganda and they'll surprise you sometimes. Didn't expect "Worrying about AI will cause a crash like the Great Depression, which happened because of bad vibes," but here we are.

On Bluesky, The Civility App™, people are currently dogging on accounts who ask for mutual aid while tone policing accounts for being too mean to Keir Starmer

There's a huge problem with generalizing demos in political discourse—an entire population share gets the blame of what 30% of it does, etc. However, a shit ton of rich white libs *still* voted for Cuomo in the general, but go off I guess

w.m.d. du bois@sjroadw.bsky.social · 2mo ago

this is the nyc gay men’s chorus and then those shitlibs went out and ended cuomo’s career and elected a socialist but go off i guess lol

I can see based off the reactions why all the Libs were so easily hoodwinked by Lin Manuel Miranda into thinking Hamilton was a good guy. Same liberals who read Hillbilly Elegy and took Vance seriously (and made him famous) btw

onion person@junlper.beer · 2mo ago

liberals when they see a meteor barreling straight towards earth:

Liberals have the mind of goldfishes. Give it 15-20 years and they won't remember all the criminal things Trump did either

democrats continue to attack trump from a hawkish pro war position and continue to appeal to no one. why not criticize trump for starting this war? why not criticize trump for willing to cause shock to the global economy and energy systems? why should we not want a good deal for iran? they won!

Chris Murphy@chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is not part of the agreement. He is making this up. Iran agrees to give up NOTHING on their nuclear program in this deal.

While many of you are chanting "Go Mexico!" or "Go Korea" I am watching a livefeed of BBC off an ipad with a VPN while my boyfriend reads the platform of Lord Binface outloud to me as we await the Makerfield byelection results

I have to love that Muriel Bowser's awful legacy of vapid, idpol, voters-be-damned neoliberalism ends in radicalizing all of DC into electing their first socialist mayor. Good riddance to all of that

there's replies here giving the (correct) answer that these things do not happen primarily because the democrats do not want them to happen, and i'm always amazed by how delusional some democrat voters are in arguing with that

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Someone asked me the other day, “If Trump can just do whatever he wants, then a Democratic president can too. why is Medicare for All impossible? Why are reparations impossible? Why is anything off the table?”