{"id":10962,"date":"2025-09-27T10:48:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T14:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=10962"},"modified":"2025-09-27T10:48:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T14:48:50","slug":"stick-to-baseball-9-27-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/27\/stick-to-baseball-9-27-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 9\/27\/25."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For subscribers to The Athletic, I wrote my annual column with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6653052\/2025\/09\/24\/mlb-player-award-picks-mvp\/\">my ballots for the awards I don\u2019t have this year<\/a>. A record number of people didn\u2019t read the intro this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Endless Mode, I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.endlessmode.com\/tabletop\/board-games\/naishi-is-a-good-card-game-with-a-deeply-misguided-theme\">reviewed the two-player game Naishi<\/a>, which is a solid enough game, but which is yet another example of white European designers &amp; illustrators using Japanese culture and history as a theme, and in this case they really misused it in a way that I couldn\u2019t get past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I sent out another edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/keithlaw.kit.com\/\">my free email newsletter<\/a> on Friday, touching on (waves hands pathetically) all of <em>this<\/em> happening around us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now, the links\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Longreads first: A team of Bloomberg reporters gained access to 18,000 emails from Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s Yahoo account, and found that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/features\/2025-jeffrey-epstein-emails-the-network\/\">a number of prominent lawyers and academics continued to help him<\/a> even after his crimes against children were first exposed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For Pioneer Works, Lauren Markham describes <a href=\"https:\/\/pioneerworks.org\/broadcast\/edge-of-paradise-lauren-markham\">how climate change is already making parts of Greece uninhabitable in the summers<\/a>, with fires and temperatures topping 110 degrees.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Texas Monthly<\/em> examines <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/news-politics\/east-texas-water-wars-kyle-bass\/\">the water wars in the eastern part of Texas<\/a>, as politicians, residents, and carpetbagging investors try to claim the increasingly scarce resource.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ProPublica exposes how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/kristi-noem-fema-florida-naples-sinan-gursoy\">a Florida donor got Kristi Noem to fast-track disaster aid for a tourist pier in Naples<\/a>. Drain the swamp!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jamelle Bouie calls out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/20\/opinion\/maga-trump-debate-kirk.html\">the MAGA movement\u2019s complete disinterest in debate<\/a>, despite the disingenuous claims to the contrary in the last two weeks.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Stranger<\/em> reports on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/news\/2025\/09\/23\/80249464\/seattle-area-trans-women-are-being-attacked-by-groups-of-men\">the rise in attacks on trans women in the Seattle area<\/a>, part of a larger increase in attacks on LGBT people in general.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Writing in Stat News, Arthur Caplan, head of the Division of Medical Ethics at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, says that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/09\/23\/trump-autism-claims-jump-the-shark-arthur-caplan\/\">Americans can no longer trust their government\u2019s so-called health advice<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>As you may have seen already, White House border czar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/msnbc\/news\/tom-homan-cash-contracts-trump-doj-investigation-rcna232568\">Tom Homan accepted $50,000 in a CAVA bag<\/a> from FBI agents posing as business executives in 2024, but Trump\u2019s DOJ and FBI shut the investigation down. Drain the swamp!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/nightmare-bacteria-infections-spiking-leaving-key-carbapenem-antibiotics\/\">Antibiotic-resistant <em>Enterobacteles <\/em>infections rose 461%<\/a> in U.S. hospitals from 2019 to 2023; while still rare overall, it\u2019s a \u201cnightmare\u201d bacterium due to the lack of treatments and high fatality rate.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bill Berrien, a Republican candidate for Governor in Wisconsin, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/wisconsin-governor-berrien-sexually-explicit-2f7986f773082d9ebe6974a67fe8a242\">followed a number of sexually explicit accounts on social media<\/a> until reporters from the <em>Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel<\/em> asked him about it. He has, of course, taken up the party line in attacking trans people.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ryan Walters, the Republican superintendent of public instruction in Oklahoma, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/oklahoma-school-superintendent-ryan-walters-96567486aa0a2cd03e3f8f40e66b29dc\">resigned to take a job with a reactionary nonprofit<\/a> that he says is going to \u201cdestroy the teachers\u2019 unions.\u201d Walters tried to force Oklahoma teachers to teach the Bible in public classrooms, but all he really did was drive Oklahoma\u2019s national education ranking down even further, while also facing allegations that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oklahoman.com\/story\/news\/education\/2025\/09\/17\/ryan-walters-oklahoma-nude-women-tv-no-charges-ok-county-da\/86200991007\/?gnt-cfr=1&amp;gca-cat=p&amp;gca-uir=false&amp;gca-epti=z118976p119950c119950e007700v118976&amp;gca-ft=13&amp;gca-ds=sophi\">he was watching porn in his office<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcboston.com\/news\/local\/video-shows-ice-with-5-year-old-girl-while-agents-attempt-to-arrest-her-father\/3813686\/\">ICE agents held a five-year-old girl hostage to try to get her father to surrender to them<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A Los Angeles-area woman with bipolar disorder <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/los-angeles-woman-conned-life-savings-scammers-using-ai-pose-general-hospital-star-steve-burton\/17655567\/\">gave her life savings to scammers<\/a>, even selling her house to send them money, because she fell for their AI videos showing a soap opera actor saying he was in love with her.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>After <em>The<\/em> <em>Guardian <\/em>revealed that Israel was using Microsoft cloud and AI services to conduct mass surveillance on Palestinians, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/785733\/microsoft-block-israeli-military-cloud-ai-services-palestine-protests\">the software company blocked the country<\/a> from using at least some of those services. Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-genocide-accusations-e6996472084cba5618e430d143f4b8d4\">more experts have come out to call Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza genocide<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Concho Observer <\/em>reports on <a href=\"https:\/\/conchoobserver.com\/2025\/09\/23\/new-trans-policy-creating-confusion-on-campus\/\">the fear and confusion at Angelo State University<\/a> due to Texas\u2019s transphobic law that prohibits faculty from mentioning the fact that there are more than two genders, discussing anything relating to transgender people, or using trans students\u2019 correct names.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Meanwhile, an anonymous Texas A&amp;M professor wrote an open letter to students there, <a href=\"https:\/\/thebatt.com\/news\/anonymous-professor-calls-on-students-to-be-agent-of-change\/\">asking them to be agents of change<\/a> and fight the state and federal governments\u2019 attempts to bowdlerize their education.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Task &amp; Purpose<\/em> tracked down <a href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/news\/marine-curtis-evans-ice-broadview\/\">the flag-bearing marine in this viral photo<\/a> at the protests outside of ICE\u2019s Chicago facility last week.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/politics\/trump-fair-housing-act\/\">The Trump Administration is gutting the Fair Housing Act<\/a> in addition to all of the other havoc and harm they\u2019re causing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mississippifreepress.org\/rep-bennie-thompson-a-no-on-honoring-charlie-kirk-saying-he-resurrected-dangerous-prejudices-of-a-dark-past\/?utm_content=bufferd2cc2&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=bufferapp.com&amp;utm_campaign=bufferbsky\">voted against the resolution to \u201chonor\u201d Charlie Kirk last week<\/a>, saying that Kirk \u201cresurrected dangerous prejudices of a dark past\u201d and that the activist\u2019s \u201crhetoric was divisive, disparaging, and too often rooted in grievance.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Dean of Harvard\u2019s School of Public Health <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/2025\/9\/24\/autism-dean-public-health\/\">took $150,000 to lie under oath by claiming that Tylenol causes autism<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Slovakia\u2019s right-wing leader pulled the country further from the west with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/9\/26\/slovak-constitutional-change-promotes-anti-lgbtq-national-identity\">a constitutional amendment that only \u2018recognizes\u2019 two genders<\/a>, putting EU aid at risk and earning condemnation from Amnesty International.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/wireStory\/chicago-approves-90m-payout-disgraced-sergeant-framed-hundreds-125949478\">Chicago will pay $90 million to victims of one crooked cop<\/a>, Sgt. Ronald Watts, who planted drugs on suspects, falsified reports, and threatened to charge people with drug-related crimes if they weren\u2019t paid off. The city faced over 170 lawsuits related to Watts\u2019 conduct and those of officers who served under him.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Three really exciting board game Kickstarters launched this week. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/boardgametables\/container-gruntz-and-triangulation\">Container<\/a> is a \u2018grail game\u2019 that\u2019s been out of print for years; it\u2019s an economic game about shipping containers and people freaking love it. <a href=\"https:\/\/gamefound.com\/en\/projects\/saltandpepper\/the-voynich-puzzle\">The Voynich Puzzle<\/a> is a heavy-ish Eurogame from the designer of Barcelona and Windmill Valley. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/insideupgames\/kalypso\">Kalypso<\/a> is a midweight tile-laying game from a first-time designer and from the publisher of Earth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For subscribers to The Athletic, I wrote my annual column with my ballots for the awards I don\u2019t have this year. A record number of people didn\u2019t read the intro this year. At Endless Mode, I reviewed the two-player game Naishi, which is a solid enough game, but which is yet another example of white [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1083,828,959,1485,939,160,1456,1112,190,961,590,1197,1438,870,477,940,807,987,1003],"class_list":["post-10962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-board-game-news","tag-climate-change","tag-first-amendment","tag-greece","tag-harvard","tag-health","tag-immigration","tag-lgbt-rights","tag-links","tag-longreads","tag-oklahoma","tag-police","tag-scams","tag-stick-to-baseball","tag-texas","tag-the-swamp","tag-vaccines","tag-water-crisis","tag-wisconsin","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10963,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10962\/revisions\/10963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}