James

I just call balls and strikes

You Be the Ump 7/7 ✅✅✅✅✅✅✅ nyti.ms/3SJsFaS

@MattZeitlin @jbarro Not my district but Gounardes beating Golden was one of the biggest improvements I’ve seen

@jbarro General election, primaries are too easy to get excited about

I wrote about something I'm doing, but not very happily: voting for Kathy Hochul. I am far from alone -- her victory is likely to be delivered by voters like me. joshbarro.com/p/this-week-in…

@emilymbadger Might cut both ways though, at 6% you’d have thought the same thing but you could still save a lot by acting quickly… maybe still true

The rate of change itself must also have a real chilling effect. 'Cause if you're trying to buy a home right now, you have to keep telling yourself "Man, I could have bought this same home six months ago for $500 less a month." (or more...)

I know people like to point out that 7 percent mortgage rates are not *that* terrible historically. But there have been very few times in the last 50 years when they have risen this much, this quickly. nytimes.com/2022/10/27/bus…

@normative She suffered very serious trauma while reporting in Egypt per Wikipedia, obviously not a diagnosis but seems like the kind of thing that could explain it

Obviously I don’t know what’s going on with Logan. But she was at one point a serious and successful reporter who’s now spouting conspiracy theories so manifestly deranged that even Newsmax is embarrassed. I don’t think you need to be a psychologist to grok that something’s awry.

One weird consequence of our current politics is that a bunch of folks suffering midlife mental health crises end up becoming right-wing media stars instead of getting treatment.

@tsuyvtlv @NabyAlcantara @AirmanSandoval @Phil_Lewis_ The generic term “Nazi” is not understood to include people like Schindler, it’s true. But he was a member of the Nazi Party.

@15c3PO @NabyAlcantara @AirmanSandoval @Phil_Lewis_ There's also a difference when talking about "Nazis" vs taking about "Oskar Schindler," hence the need to name him specifically and *why* his name is notable in the first place.

Parents are stunned by a school board candidate’s comments in an Indiana town: “All Nazis weren't 'bad' as you specify. They did horrible things … Who is to say if we were both there in the same place and time, that we wouldn't have done the same thing” wthr.com/article/news/e…

It would be funny if they canceled Schindler for being a Nazi

@NabyAlcantara @AirmanSandoval @Phil_Lewis_ Oskar Schindler was a Nazi. So was Georg Duckwitz.

@AirmanSandoval @Phil_Lewis_ Haha yeah, there was some good nazis, good people on both sides

flatmate has just asked me whether i think the lettuce voted leaf or romaine in the brexit referendum and im frankly furious at how funny i found it

@newdougman @bklyngap @RyanRadia @FischermanDan @mnolangray I remember this now, when I was there it was a negligible number of stores but it seems to have been expanded since then

Bodega-dependent New Yorkers visiting a completely normal American supermarket:

@tomgara @JackieJonez Battery Park City has this feeling a bit, but it’s definitely a lot less eerie than Hudson Yards

@JackieJonez It has its own subway station! But it’s indeed the only place I’ve ever been to in Manhattan that feels like it’s a ten minute walk from anything else in Manhattan

Some people may have concerns about a giant casino in Times Square. But on the other hand, the developers say revenue from the casino will fund a fleet of surveillance drones and facial recognition cameras capable of comprehensive surveillance of the area nytimes.com/2022/10/19/nyr…

@JakeAnbinder Well I said “oh no” when I saw the next tweet

@JakeAnbinder Oh haha, I read this as a marital union and I was like, oh no, Jake

What percentage of US households these days have both parents in a union?

@normative I think it’s fair to note that when libs do this kind of thing it’s greeted with jeers of “safe spaces!” from pretty much every corner of the right

So, this specific event sounds… unappealing. But it’s not like closed/Chatham House sessions at academic gatherings are some unheard of novelty.

@gabrielroth Dr Seuss

@jacaissie @mattyglesias 0% of the time

@mattyglesias @JakeAnbinder @opinonhaver Original claim was about academics, presumably that’s the Econ department

Academics have a 50% chance of being generally liberal in a NPRish way, 30% chance of being generally conservative in a NRO/WSJ reader type way, and a 20% chance of holding some insane, incredibly esoteric and vaguely violent ideology fully understood by maybe 50 people.

@willystaley I guess maybe it’s a video game, in which case, yeah

@willystaley I thought the point was exactly this, and the kids’ absorption in 1950s tv means they intuitively understand that things used to be better

Maybe 75 percent of these kids’ caloric intake is coming from sugar, the pop charts are dominated by boy bands and Columbine is about to happen if it hasn’t already.