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Amos Blackman@amosblackman.bsky.social |
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Seattle, baseball, law. Not necessarily in that order.
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Amos Blackman
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He’s been a White House neurology consultant since 2012, with at least 28 visits 2012-2016. (No visitor logs for 2017-2020, of course.) Think Obama was getting a bunch of Parkinson’s checks? The simplest explanation is he’s seen a variety of folks, probably for a variety of conditions.
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Amos Blackman
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Then they have to answer that question for every visitor. I’m not saying that shouldn’t be the policy, but it’s not a policy you change on a whim to respond to a request for comment.
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Amos Blackman
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Fair enough. I also feel like another variable is that the WH press office pretty evidently hates the NYT at this point, and isn’t going to point them in the right direction one way or the other.
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White House is the government, not the campaign. If they have a policy of not commenting on medical visitors then it’s principled and reasonable to maintain it in this situation. If you break that policy once, all hell breaks loose.
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People are either ignorant of or lying about the benefit of incumbency, and anyone willing to give that up so easily is either naive or has ulterior motives.
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Amos Blackman
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It’s a kind of fascinating microcosm of a certain kind of low information voter, though. The thinking must be, “I don’t like Biden, so he can’t possibly have done anything I like.” But student debt isn’t on the list, so I feel like that might have actually got through.
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When they got the Friday night deal, I bemoaned the splintering, but honestly thought to myself, “At least they’re Apple, I bet they come up with an elegant presentation unbound by convention.” Instead, we get something worse and yet still conventional. So frustrating!
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Famously, at least among those who followed her at the old site, @emmabaccellieri.bsky.social once brewed coffee using R*d B*ll. You should compare notes.
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Amos Blackman
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This is of a piece with FedSoc pursuing the unitary executive so aggressively. Giving a liberal president unchecked power doesn’t change much; the progressive project requires a functional administrative state. But it vastly speeds up the right wing project of dismantling the federal government.
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The precarious partisan balance also makes it hard to trumpet wins, because it risks shifting the political calculus. E.g., in order to achieve Green New Deal goals, AOC abandoned the GND label because the label alone increased opposition.
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They exist for federal employees! They’re just lying to make their interpretation of sec. 666 seem plausible. You can’t tip your mail carrier $21, let alone $13,000! about.usps.com/postal-bulle...
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Amos Blackman
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darth, I know her intended sentiment is the actually worst part, but I can’t get over how self-defeating her point is regardless. If the work your invention is doing shouldn’t have been done in the first place, then you shouldn’t have invented your invention!
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Amos Blackman
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Or have one of your kids again? Send out a birth announcement with a photo of your oldest on it, see if someone has the guts to point out that they’re not a baby.
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Amos Blackman
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Wait, really? I’ve followed my favorite writers who are on here, and most of them rarely post (and a number aren’t here at all), and I’ve tried the feeds I’ve been able to find, and still have discovered many accounts. Serious, honest question: where is the best of baseball Twitter on here?
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Amos Blackman
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Maybe this is obvious, but my cynical take is that all these so-called security policies are purely to goose concession sales. None of them existed 10 years ago, and I sure don’t remember any precipitating crime wave.
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Amos Blackman
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I miss Baseball Twitter a ton, and it super bums me out that it’s still there, but I refuse to let it pull me back in.
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Amos Blackman
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Every time I encounter a David Strathairn homage organically, I am required to watch Sneakers with 48 hours. It’s a blessing disguised as a curse.
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*He* claimed it! His claim to self-funding was a centerpiece of his 2015-2016 campaign! publicintegrity.org/politics/don...
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Amos Blackman
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Pretty sure it is Thursday, darth. We never did get the hang of Thursdays.
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Jealous.
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Amos Blackman
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How do you have an ebook of The Power Broker??
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Amos Blackman
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Darth today, baseball tomorrow. Forget cherry blossoms, this is the real start of spring.
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I worry it might be impossible to recreate the fortuitous timing of the growth of Baseball Twitter where relatively diverse voices became part of the conversation before reply guys were such a completely repulsive force. (Not to downplay what people had to deal with even then.)
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Amos Blackman
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It’s definitely super-weird no matter what, but the same basic logic of refutation applies to Ohtani’s version too, because how the transfers happened is going to come out with a fairly high level of certainty. One or the other has made a pretty big gamble….
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Amos Blackman
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It’s also not an accurate representation of the response. You have a big audience. Please consider providing context (or even just point people to the source) instead of just amplifying a selective quote. www.npr.org/2024/02/29/1...
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Amos Blackman
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I’m just a listener, so I don’t really know, but I get the sense podcasting is particularly fraught in this regard. So much of the engagement is either from listeners who cross boundaries because of the parasocial relationship or trolls who don’t view anyone on the internet as human.
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Amos Blackman
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There is no conflict between the Atlantic’s fact-checking and the skepticism. The Atlantic confirmed that the author told someone at the time that it happened, which is a reasonable level of fact-checking for this type of anecdote, but doesn’t mean it actually happened the way it’s described.
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Amos Blackman
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I find it creepy masquerading as cutesy. The Mini’s “All done. You solved the clues.” gives me strong The Snowman vibes.
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Amos Blackman
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(I do appreciate that you remain, as always, unfailingly polite, even in response to an unsolicited critique from a stranger.)
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Amos Blackman
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Other than being a fan, I have zero connection to the people involved, so can’t speak to that. (Anyone with a connection is unlikely to jump in, see above re: lack of DMs.) I just know they’ve managed to remain pseudonymous longer than just about anyone and I have to believe prefer it that way.
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Amos Blackman
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One of the bummers about not having DMs is not having a private place to suggest to y’all that people who are pseudonymous generally have their reasons, and purporting to blow up their spot (especially by supposed fans) really kinda sucks.
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Amos Blackman
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I always interpreted Pawnee PR to be primarily satirizing the public radio *audience* (which is why the Bat-Man joke lands, to me). Just targeting the hosts, as it sounds like this new show does, seems to me both lazy and pointless.
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Amos Blackman
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My wife is about to embark on the same Project for the same reason, if you have any recommendations.
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