A Day in the Life . . .

Caitlin Clark on this day 1 year ago:

35 Points (76% TS)
10 Assists
7 Steals
6 Rebounds
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— Clark Report (@CClarkReport) November 19, 2024

Earth's Circulatory System

The grand rivers of Africa. pic.twitter.com/LMsBGIzQdF

— Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) November 19, 2024

Swan

Swan carrying cygnets on her back. pic.twitter.com/mbjG9to4ZG

— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) November 17, 2024

Caitlin's Swing

Caitlin Clark’s golf swing 🔥 pic.twitter.com/e0QFZjOy2k

— Indiana Fever (@IndianaFever) November 13, 2024

Curve vs. Knuckleball

Baseball is IMPOSSIBLE!! ⚾ Check out this Two Seamer & Knuckle Curve Overlay.

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— Rob Friedman (@pitchingninja.bsky.social) November 11, 2024 at 2:08 PM

Carl Sagan predicted Idiocracy in 1995

This is my first post copied from Blue Sky, rather than Twitter.

Today would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday. How fitting that he predicted the current state of our country almost 30 years ago. Worth reading. Happy Birthday, Carl. We miss you. 💙

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— Mike Meraz VOTED! 👨🏻‍💻 (@mikemeraz.bsky.social) November 9, 2024 at 12:06 PM

Elon Musk's Role in Electing Trump

Here is a video from a U.K. group called "Led by Donkeys," 9 minutes and 47 seconds. Frightening.

Here’s a video produced by “Led by Donkeys” out of the U.K. that puts down the timeline of how Musk used X to get Donald Trump elected. I would save it because I don’t think it will be up for long. pic.twitter.com/cUpCL4ghMn

— Hey, Dave! (@davegreenidge57) November 9, 2024

Here's the same video, saved from YouTube rather than Twitter; if Musk takes it down from Twitter, the first link won't work, but this one will.

How Musk broke Twitter and helped elect Trump (Location: Tesla European HQ, Amsterdam) www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX3v...

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— Led By Donkeys (@ledbydonkeys.org) November 9, 2024 at 2:39 AM

We're in Milo Minderbinder's World

“It was miraculous.

It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into…

— The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) November 6, 2024

Price List

It should be interesting to look at this four years from now:

Remember this. Lock it in. pic.twitter.com/2uCpY2XcWD

— Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep (@RossKneeDeep) November 9, 2024

HCR receives letters gloating about Trump's victory

Click here for Heather Cox Richardson's diary entry on Substack, Letters from an American, for November 8.

Social media has been flooded today with stories of Trump voters who are shocked to learn that tariffs will raise consumer prices as reporters are covering that information. Daniel Laguna of LevelUp warned that Trump’s proposed 60% tariff on Chinese imports could raise the costs of gaming consoles by 40%, so that a PS5 Pro gaming system would cost up to $1,000. One of the old justifications for tariffs was that they would bring factories home, but when the $3 billion shoe company Steve Madden announced yesterday it would reduce its imports from China by half to avoid Trump-promised tariffs, it said it will shift production not to the U.S., but to Cambodia, Vietnam, Mexico, and Brazil. 

There are also stories that voters who chose Trump to lower household expenses are unhappy to discover that their undocumented relatives are in danger of deportation. When CNN’s Dana Bash asked Indiana Republican senator-elect Jim Banks if undocumented immigrants who had been here for a long time and integrated into the community would be deported, Banks answered that deportation should include “every illegal in this country that we can find.” Yesterday a Trump-appointed federal judge struck down a policy established by the Biden administration that was designed to create an easier path to citizenship for about half a million undocumented immigrants who are married to U.S. citizens.

Later, she says:

Marcotte recalled that Catherine Rampell and Youyou Zhou of the Washington Post showed before the election that voters overwhelmingly preferred Harris’s policies to Trump’s if they didn’t know which candidate proposed them.  An Ipsos/Reuters poll from October showed that voters who were misinformed about immigration, crime, and the economy tended to vote Republican, while those who knew the facts preferred Democrats. Many Americans turn for information to social media or to friends and family who traffic in conspiracy theories. As Angelo Carusone of Media Matters put it: “We have a country that is pickled in right-wing misinformation and rage.” 

In The New Republic today, Michael Tomasky reinforced that voters chose Trump in 2024 not because of the economy or inflation, or anything else, but because of how they perceived those issues—which is not the same thing. Right-wing media “fed their audiences a diet of slanted and distorted information that made it possible for Trump to win,” Tomasky wrote. Right-wing media has overtaken legacy media to set the country’s political agenda not only because it’s bigger, but because it speaks with one voice, “and that voice says Democrats and liberals are treasonous elitists who hate you, and Republicans and conservatives love God and country and are your last line of defense against your son coming home from school your daughter.”

And:

Tomasky noted how the work of Matthew Gertz of Media Matters shows that nearly all the crazy memes that became central campaign issues—the pet-eating story, for example, or the idea that the booming economy was terrible—came from right-wing media. In those circles, Vice President Kamala Harris was a stupid, crazed extremist who orchestrated a coup against President Joe Biden and doesn’t care about ordinary Americans, while Trump is under assault and has been for years, and he’s “doing it all for you.”

Investigative reporter Miranda Green outlined how “pink slime” newspapers, which are AI generated from right-wing sites, turned voters to Trump in key swing state counties. Republican strategist Sarah Longwell, who studies focus groups, told NPR, “When I ask voters in focus groups if they think Donald Trump is an authoritarian, the #1 response by far is, ‘What is an authoritarian?’”

She goes on to tell of an earlier time when the people were flooded with misinformation: the 1850s, when the American South was flooded with pro-slavery misinformation. The result was the election of pro-slavery representatives who started the Civil War, and the beginning of economic repression of southern whites -- except for those already rich, who had been slave owners -- which lasted until FDR's New Deal in the 1930s.

"Caitlin Clark and Iowa find peace in the process."

Click here for an excellent article, by Wright Thompson of ESPN, on Caitlin Clark's college days.

Tinker to Evers to Chance

Who does that Kelsey Mitchell think she is -- Caitlin Clark?

Best pass of the year, change my mind. pic.twitter.com/0jaiE4BMnn

— Ken Swift (@kenswift) November 4, 2024

A minute and 20 seconds; 25 consecutive 3-pointers

Never touches the rim.

A minute and 20 seconds of Caitlin Clark knocking down threes without a miss pic.twitter.com/0k8yGLeEyP

— Ballislife.com (@Ballislife) October 25, 2024

Documentary: Trump's 40-Year Entanglement with the FBI and Organized Crime