Aaron S. Veenstra

Lots of Jackson Chourio jerseys in here.

"Nobody questions the success of the military operation."

It is logically impossible for a military operation with no objective to be successful.

"I did all kinds of criminal fraud but only because I'm an enormous sucker. Please put me in Congress."

We're only going to win in November by nominating moderate narco communists.

It's interesting that Tillman feels comfortable framing $700M/mo as "massive" when a completely voluntary war of aggression is costing $1B/day.

Tokyo Dome is packed and loud for the first game of the WBC between Australia and Taiwan, and I'm hoping the same or more for the Venezuela-Netherlands game here on Friday. I hate sports nationalism, so I'm supporting the Aussies, who should really be the Ballabies rather than the Southern Thunder.

A war that isn't a war, documented with videos that may or may not be real, funded by elected leaders who are neither for nor against it, is the most dystopian thing that's happened in my lifetime

Mr. Show - Imminent Death Syndrome YouTube video by Willo

Counterpoint:

Nada Surf: "Inside of Love" YouTube video by Aaron S. Veenstra

#20YearsAgoToday, I shot this clip of Nada Surf at the Annex in Madison. I wasn't a huge fan of them, but they played for two full hours(!), including an eight-song encore(!), and I didn't get tired of it, so maybe I was?

God I wish that said Jared Moskowitz instead of Greg Landsman.

"I can repair this irreparably broken thing."

Another key way these stats bros track the use of analytics in sports discourse. When was the last time you saw a confidence interval around a player's wRC+? We don't talk about uncertainty in sports analytics because projecting certainty & precision is more valuable than doing best stats practices.

Talarico also has an official Spanish-language account here, which posts less frequently but is original material, not just translations of English posts. Interestingly, Crockett's official House account posts here more or less daily, but the campaign saw it as an afterthought.

An interesting datapoint that ties in the meta-discourse about What Bluesky Means: Crockett's campaign barely posted here, while Talarico's posted frequently, with multiple accounts. JC's had two original posts and a repost in the last three weeks, JT's two accounts posted five times just yesterday.

I'm glad these people decided on "WAR" as their preferred term, even though it's a conceptual mismatch for elections, because the way they talk about it is just like the way people who know only superficial things about baseball analytics talk about WAR.

Dems in the Colorado House should make it publicly known that such a move would be followed immediately by impeachment proceedings.

Three years ago, I bought tickets to the WBC championship the day before for about $100 each. Right now, the cheapest tickets for this year's championship game are more than $400.

It's too bad nobody knew about the dog when Tillis voted to confirm Noem.

Since it seems like we're on newspaper opinion section discourse again: They are a vestigial limb of a time that's long over. Opinion is *everywhere* now, the water we all swim in. And, frankly, we've become so media illiterate now that opinion's existence does lasting harm to the reporting work.

This is just as big a "You can't trust us" sign as making Bari Weiss your EIC.

The original presentation is a pathology.

Seems bad, but at least we can be confident that the voters of Maine aren't the biggest dullards in the country. Hang on, I'm being handed the 2020 Maine election results.

Two-step flow of communication - Wikipedia

You don't get a larger audience on Bluesky. You post to the news-intensive audience of Bluesky and those people carry that info into their own social networks, which is also how news works in traditional media: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-ste...

Always fun when the "US parties are too weak" discourse pops up on a day when UK parties are being too strong.

Driving in Australia last year was revelatory because people just go the speed limit (at least in and around Perth). They're not on their phones. They don't run red lights. Why? Because traffic laws are enforced. We never saw highway traffic moving at more than 10 k/h over, and even that was rare.

In this house we support the USA:

Unregulated
Securities
Abolition

This is exactly why I get a little twinge when people say like "Any other president would've been impeached and removed for this immediately." The only direct evidence we have suggests not!

Not really enjoying living 20 miles from Donald Trump's house in the era of openly targeting heads of state with military action.