Stephen Tignor
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Stephen Tignor
@SameSteveTignor
Anything of interest: Music, books, movies, art, buildings, sports, politics.
New York City Katılım Mart 2017
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Are the Phillies a good baseball team?
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@daveweigel Feel like the main point of this is that Trump lied, in the State of the Union, that she was killed by an immigrant. He caused the "messy politics" by lying
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My Americana leadoff column this week is about Muralgate.
The long backlash to the George Floyd moment semafor.com/article/04/01/…
Laura Ingraham@IngrahamAngle
Disgusting.
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@TalkinBaseball_ @TalkinJake @trevorplouffe Can the play at the plate call be automated? If not, you need someone there
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Umpires won’t be calling balls and strikes at all soon
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There are moments that offer a pretty good sense that something new is going to work. This feels like one for ABS. The Cincinnati crowd’s reaction was thunderous. And the situation itself — twice it salvaged a bases-loaded opportunity. This system plays.
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@PeterCanellos @nytimes No questioning of Alito's positions here. Did he have a coherent pro-Cambodian bombing viewpoint, or did he just not like change and inconvenience?
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The book's not out until next month ("Revenge for the Sixties" from S&S), but there are a few thoughts in the @nytimes today from yours truly
nytimes.com/2026/03/20/opi…
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@Kasparov63 @scottlincicome Need the ump for calls at home plate
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@scottlincicome If the robot system knows for sure what is correct on every call, why not use it for every pitch automatically? The general fear of automation?
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@dilanesper @DouthatNYT According to Douthat and David Brooks, the only people who aren't to blame for Trump are the Republicans who voted him in twice
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i think a lot about @DouthatNYT 's decadence thesis these days. Perhaps humans are bound to screw up stability and prosperity?
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@daveweigel Are you interested in the funeral oration, or are you making sure you get enough digs in at Dems, even ones not in office, to keep your both-sides tour card?
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I'm getting some "who cares?" replies on this.
Obviously I'm more interested in the Biden funeral oration than normal people are. But talk to a non-politics junkie, you'd be surprised how "Dems tried to run a half-dead guy then replaced him without a primary" comes up.
David Weigel@daveweigel
He's not kidding. This was a verbatim part of Biden's *eulogy for Jesse Jackson.* Just a rambling mess.
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6 for me!! I feel confident nobody
Has all 20
How many for you?
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@AsteadWH Except that Biden stuck to his (terrible) convictions on Gaza
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Biggest thing dems could do for their current position imo is have true moral convictions. They love to wait till the poll tells them something is confirmed Okay and by that time it’s too late. You should try believing in something, anything, the first time - even at pt of risk
Alex Thompson@AlexThomp
.@hollyotterbein scoops: Top Dem officials who worked on the party's still-secret autopsy of the 2024 election concluded that Kamala Harris lost significant support because of the Biden administration's approach to the war in Gaza. axios.com/2026/02/22/dnc…
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Amazingly enough, 46 years later, the U.S. once again defeated the best hockey team a hostile, communistic power could put on the ice!
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@mattyglesias He also just wants the power of the purse, like a king
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@whignewtons At some point, they had to see the forest for the trees. Trump wanted to use tariffs to take the power of the purse from Congress. Biden's was a one-off to fulfill a dumb campaign promise
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Perhaps a fair point—after all they voted to strike down Biden’s student loan debt forgiveness. But then what do you think of Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson? They, of course, voted to uphold Biden’s debt forgiveness.
Matt Lewis@mattklewis
Does anyone believe Thomas, Alito, or Kavanaugh would have voted to uphold unilateral Clinton, Obama, or Biden tariffs — of this magnitude?
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Dems (in CA too) taking a Slim Charles approach to this after Ohio Rs changed the language of the anti-gerrymandering amendment to make it sound pro-gerrymander.
Once you in it, you in it. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/08/16/ohi…
Bernard Stanford ✡︎@stanfordNYC
There's no high ground in gerrymandering, and what Democrats propose to do in Virginia is well-precedented. But this language is actually unconscionable. The line "restore fairness in the upcoming elections" is totally inappropriate to put to voters.
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@stanfordNYC "Temporarily" is also part of that sentence
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There's no high ground in gerrymandering, and what Democrats propose to do in Virginia is well-precedented.
But this language is actually unconscionable. The line "restore fairness in the upcoming elections" is totally inappropriate to put to voters.
Virginia Public Access Project@vpapupdates
"Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to allow the General Assembly to temporarily adopt new congressional districts to restore fairness in the upcoming elections, while ensuring Virginia's standard redistricting process resumes for all future redistricting after the 2030 census?" Virginia voters will answer this ballot question on April 21. Use VPAP's resources to explore the proposed districts and see how yours would change. vpap.org/redistricting/…
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Graham Platner says his favorite alcoholic drink is Jim Beam: "It's the best bang for your buck, when it comes to bourbon. It's not the best bourbon, but it is the best bourbon for $17."
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Campaigning for U.S. Senate in 2026 involves ICEMOGGING the fish while STREAMMAXXING.
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@daveweigel "No Hannity retweets" should really be a law
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@jmart He also thinks the Rolling Stones got their music from Europe
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The president’s principal representative here, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, delivered a speech aimed at reassuring Europe and articulating Trumpism without the rhetorical headbutt that was Vice President JD Vance’s address to last year’s gathering. However, Rubio’s remarks were so compelling that they were met with a standing ovation and only served to remind Republicans and other observers across the Atlantic that he’s a far more talented political athlete than Vance — fueling another round of it-has-to-be-Marco-in-’28-right?
politico.com/news/magazine/…
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@daveweigel Weird headline to begin with. Do Dems, who gave her a prime spot at the convention, not take her seriously? And why would she need a rebirth? She's been steadily raising her mainstream profile for at least a year now
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@AlecMacGillis Hard to understand, even in the name of cost-cutting. Books was one section, along with the Sunday Arts, where the Post was superior to the Times
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At the bottom of the front page of today's Washington Post. For the first Sunday in eons, there are no book reviews in the paper.
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