Willie Mays makes “The Catch” in the 1954 World Series

One of the greatest plays ever

The Grateful Dead’s Europe ’72 is 50

I am not a big fan of their long jams but there are a lot of excellent songs on this album which was a 3-record set. I love the version of “Comberland Blues”. I think this was their best period. I saw them in 1973 and the concert was not as good as this.

"Europe '72" by @GratefulDead was released exactly 50 years ago. And if you listen to this potent live set right now, it will STILL give you a powerful contact high. pic.twitter.com/y7hnPFyIvF
— David Wild (@Wildaboutmusic) November 5, 2022

It’s the 50th anniversary of the release of EUROPE '72 🌈💀⚡️

In 1972, the Dead performed & recorded 21 live concerts with each night being an exceptional display of the magic that was uniquely the live Grateful Dead.

Revisit the album here: https://t.co/MLgXYWw6Pd pic.twitter.com/FaopbvUDpy
— Grateful Dead (@GratefulDead) November 5, 2022

The lightning-in-a-bottle recording fueled a musical cult that has spanned half a century… and who knows where it’ll go from here. https://t.co/TabwiUFtP1
— billboard (@billboard) November 4, 2022

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I remember Spencer Gifts

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Sure, maybe you don’t NEED a vibrator, a marijuana leaf ashtray, and a hat that says “Asshole” but, then again, why the hell not? pic.twitter.com/V3aDWmDWv5
— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) November 6, 2022

Trump mob update 11/5/22

I am glad these people are going to jail but the people who incited the rally need to be charged too. I don’t think Trump will go to jail but I believe he belongs there.

JUST IN: Latest update in Jan. 6 cases:

-900 arrests
-447 guilty pleas (110 to felonies)
-316 sentences handed downhttps://t.co/kyCjJ7oY9Y pic.twitter.com/7a5S2PCRa5
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) November 14, 2022

HAPPENING NOW: Jurors now text exchange in which Oath Keeper Kelly Meggs says he "looked for" Speaker Pelosi while inside the Capitol on Jan. 6.

FBI agent testifying notes Meggs spent most of his time near Pelosi's office.

This has come up before: https://t.co/gc8VnOJhjy pic.twitter.com/6DvsOfXkUx
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) November 1, 2022

Troy Faulkner, who smashed in a Capitol window while wearing a jacket bearing his last name and telephone number, said he had a case of "the Trump crazies" on Jan. 6, his friend writes in a letter to a judge. pic.twitter.com/FzcBk6RWZ1
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) November 1, 2022

Jan. 6 defendant John Thomas Gordon, caught thanks to his massive head tattoo, pleaded guilty to a felony civil disorder charge. His sentencing guidelines range is 12 months to 18 months, per plea agreement. pic.twitter.com/73dNVCUVsW
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) October 30, 2022

John Charles Stewart, a Proud Boys member from Pennsylvania, has pleaded guilty in a deal with U.S. prosecutors. Former Proud Boys chairman Henry “Enrique” Tarrio said Stewart proposed storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. https://t.co/L4aUmfwKnz
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 29, 2022

U.S. Capitol Police Officer Michael A. Riley was found guilty of deleting his messages with a man who was at the Capitol and later arrested. https://t.co/ZtJQlFgALI
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 28, 2022

“I was going to be super hard and go punch a Antifa terrorist in the face. And I end up being the terrorist. Plot twist, huh?”

Video of former West Virginia councilman Eric Barber's FBI interview about Jan. 6. pic.twitter.com/Sk4KykRubb
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) October 28, 2022

Macsen Rutledge, who was wearing a "bear-like hood" when he stormed the U.S. Capitol, was arrested in Lansing, New York, today. pic.twitter.com/3cFzs95VPf
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) October 27, 2022

Breaking News: A man was sentenced to more than seven years for dragging a police officer into a mob during the Capitol riot, leading to the officer’s assault. https://t.co/qCfrEDCi86
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 27, 2022

Newly released video from the Capitol on January 6th. Take 30 seconds to watch it. Does this look like a peaceful gathering to you? pic.twitter.com/7YfG79N7FF
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) October 25, 2022

A Delaware man who helped lead the initial break-in and mob pursuit of a police officer in the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol was sentenced to 24 months in prison Monday. https://t.co/D69fK3bnAa
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 24, 2022

"Mazza was the 48th rioter sentenced for a felony. The average prison sentence for Jan. 6 felonies is slightly less than three years. Of the 880 rioters charged so far, more than 270 have been charged with assaulting the police." https://t.co/cfWPxzZhYg
— George Conway🌻 (@gtconway3d) October 23, 2022

Man who brought two guns to the Capitol on Jan. 6 — and was only caught because he dropped one (and then lied and said it was stolen) — sentenced to five years in federal prison. https://t.co/K2CvqeSAft
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) October 21, 2022

Covers: Pretty Flamingo

“Pretty Flamingo” was a 1966 hit for Manfred Mann.

Decreasing Republican support for Ukraine

They’re pro-Putin. If the GOP wins the House or Senate, they will make it harder to get funds to support Ukraine.

This is the result of a coordinated, deliberate campaign by the right – including Trump’s operation – to undermine Ukraine. This isn’t just happening on its own. https://t.co/jh45pTgPqo
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) November 3, 2022

This. Another emerging Trump line is Russia and Ukraine need to cut a deal, as though both are equally responsible or at fault. He catches himself here – "we could a had a negotia-" but in Alaska said "we could a had a deal." Putin wants a deal where he gets east/south Ukraine. https://t.co/Zteu2jPL9R
— Jonathan Nicholson (@JNicholsonInDC) July 23, 2022

Marjorie Taylor Greene takes the stage at the Turning Point USA event and immediately gets the crowd booing the idea they should care about Ukraine pic.twitter.com/hALbBMccT6
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 23, 2022

"I would far rather go to war over the monarch butterfly than deciphering what guy in a tracksuit gets to run Crimea oceans away" — Gaetz pic.twitter.com/NCYGMHJs3c
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 23, 2022

“The GOP is Vlad's cavalry, promising to ride to his rescue.” https://t.co/shbwOqVIP9
— John Sipher (@john_sipher) October 21, 2022

Covers: Carrie Anne

“Carrie Anne” is a 1967 song by the Hollies.

GOP polls will be used for the claims that elections were stolen

Republicans have issued polls showing their candidates doing better than more objective polls. Then, when some of them lose, they won’t accept the results. It’s a scam and I can see it coming.

Same with not counting the mail-in votes. Republicans complain about votes not being counted by election day but they block efforts to count them earlier.

Republicans flood the zone with pro-GOP polls, bending models in their direction https://t.co/IIjGrYhaJy
— Daily Kos (@dailykos) November 1, 2022

At this point, we basically have normal pollsters being like "don't trust our polls, they probably suck" and then Republican pollsters being like "our raw data wasn't good enough, so we just added some pretend Republicans to make things look better."

Not a great place to be! https://t.co/YUARLgybj5
— Ben Yelin (@byelin) November 1, 2022

Ignore the polls — even the political writers have begun acknowledging that the GOP is flooding the zone with crap polls to influence the RCP/538, while many of the traditional polling entities simply aren’t polling these midterms. pic.twitter.com/m5KW1wB2MN
— Angry Staffer 🌻 (@Angry_Staffer) November 3, 2022

Highly respected Marist has dropped 3 Senate polls:

Fetterman 51-45
Kelly 50-47
Warnock 48-48, up 4 w/RVs

These polls continue the pattern of respected independent polls being 4-8 pts more Dem than the recent flood of bullshit GOP polls. 2/https://t.co/7n6ykbIzVC
— Simon Rosenberg (@SimonWDC) November 4, 2022

This is what I’ve been talking about. More than half the polls being used on aggregate sites are GOP – the rest are split between Dems/Independent

Flooding the zone is an attempt at voter suppression, and it’s a built-in excuse to accuse Dems of cheating if/when they’re wrong. https://t.co/us0qwfqbzl
— Angry Staffer 🌻 (@Angry_Staffer) October 30, 2022

1) The majority of polls released in the past week are Republican-commissioned and designed to (falsely) show a GOP landslide. There are always a handful of these “fake polls” and they just get averaged out, but now they’re dominating the averages. So why is the GOP doing this?
— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) October 31, 2022

A "GOP flooding the zone w/shit polls" update.

In GA last 5 "A" rated independent polls have Warnock up an average of 3.2 pts, and he leads in every poll.

In October Rs have dropped 15 different polls by *10* different pollsters. The last 5 of these have Walker up 4.4 pts. 1/
— Simon Rosenberg (@SimonWDC) November 5, 2022

"Last week, four Republican-leaning firms…showed Dr. Mehmet Oz with a lead. This week, four conventional pollsters have shown John Fetterman tied or ahead."

Gosh, that's some whacky polling-average trutherism coming from [checks notes] Nate Cohnhttps://t.co/2ZrnFE1r5A
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) November 5, 2022

Bruce Catton has been added to the Library of America

I am glad that The Library of America has published the Army of the Potomac trilogy by Bruce Catton. Non-fiction Civil Wat books were the first adult books I read. I had the Pocket Books paperbacks which are probably in my basement somewhere. Our family took a vacation in 1963, right before I turned 10, which included stops at Gettysburg and several Virginia Civil War battlefields. When we came back, I found I could read adult books about the Civil War and never went back to books for kids or adolescents. Catton wrote a second trilogy. Someone (I think it was the father of one of my sister’s classmates) gave me his hardback copy of one of them. Catton also wrote the text for The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War.

I owe a big debt to Catton and other authors of Civil War books for increasing my already strong interest in reading.

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Wisconsin’s extremist Republican gerrymandering

Democrats won 53% of the vote in the Wisconsin state assembly elections in 2018. Republicans only won 44.6%.

Democrats only got 36 seats while Republicans got 63 seats due to gerrymandering.

We MUST elect @janetforjustice and defeat her MAGA opponent to restore fair maps. pic.twitter.com/Aof7nzRcvE
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) March 27, 2023

In Wisconsin, Republicans are close to capturing veto-proof supermajorities in the State Legislature that would render the Democratic governor irrelevant even if he wins re-election on Tuesday in the battleground state.https://t.co/87Z2Olkojq
— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 4, 2022

Republican legislators have gerrymandered Wisconsin’s district map to such an outlandish degree that the state is barely recognizable as a democracy.

The party's gubernatorial nominee intends to make the state even more voter-proof. #WIGov https://t.co/ORah6q1dx0
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen) November 2, 2022

Republicans have been explicit about their contempt for democracy but this hasn't figured into campaign coverage nearly as much as it should have. https://t.co/UXcgOY0usW
— Lawrence Glickman (@LarryGlickman) November 1, 2022

A 50-50 state with veto-proof supermajorities for one-party is not simply not democratic. The plans to take control of elections afterward are ominous. Democracy is in danger in Wisconsin. https://t.co/NKO8MV6bZa pic.twitter.com/vdURlbBnEU
— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️) (@BrendanNyhan) November 4, 2022

Wisconsin’s GOP gubernatorial nominee said the quiet part aloud: "Republicans will never lose another election in Wisconsin after I’m elected governor." (via @MaddowBlog) https://t.co/6nnfz5Mvgg
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) November 4, 2022

https://twitter.com/bkesling/status/1589244762854400003?s=20&t=a0W6mRHkLphxvDRfvaPcWA

NEW: Wisconsin Legislature ask the state Supreme Court — for the second time — to reconsider its decision to strike down the state's legislative districts and order new maps. The court rejected the lawmakers' first request.https://t.co/byJT5uawrx
— Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) January 23, 2024

Grofman and Cervas, who were appointed by the WI Supreme Court, are among the best-known nonpartisan experts in redistricting, Byer and Nordenberg said.

The two experts recently assisted in drawing neutral maps in New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. https://t.co/siStNkr6Uq
— The Redistrict Network (@RedistrictNet) January 4, 2024

A remarkable stat from the plaintiffs:

Wisconsin's constitution requires all legislative districts to be contiguous, but under the GOP's gerrymanders, 54 of 99 Assembly districts & 21 of 33 Senate districts aren't.

Only 3 other states have a combined 9 non-contiguous districts https://t.co/facKQmaqeK
— Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social (@PoliticsWolf) October 20, 2023