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Andrew Wender Cohen

@awcohen.bsky.social

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History professor. CNY resident. Philadelphia sports fan. Books: The Racketeer’s Progress (2004) and Contraband (2015).

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Andrew Wender Cohen @awcohen.bsky.social · 12h

This is Philadelphia Athletics erasure!

Andrew Wender Cohen @awcohen.bsky.social · 14h

Jalen Effing Hurts

Andrew Wender Cohen @awcohen.bsky.social · 14h

Critics of the #Eagles offense need to understand that the Vikings had the fifth best defense in football coming into the game. They hadn’t allowed more than 24 points all season.

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Andrew Wender Cohen @awcohen.bsky.social · 17h

#Eagles

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Andrew Wender Cohen @awcohen.bsky.social · 15h

Adoree

Andrew Wender Cohen @awcohen.bsky.social · 17h

#Eagles

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Andrew Wender Cohen @awcohen.bsky.social · 18h

I’m watching The Boys season one right now. It’s way better than I realized. Arguably more enjoyable than Peacemaker. Villains suited to our moment. Action.

But I do credit Gunn for showing a person really struggling to throw off his upbringing and past and connect with other humans.

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Andrew Wender Cohen @awcohen.bsky.social · 19h

I will check it out!

Andrew Wender Cohen @awcohen.bsky.social · 19h

Yeah. The cliffhanger wouldn’t bug me if they were going to do a Season 3! But Gunn gets us to care, then leaves him in limbo.

Andrew Wender Cohen @awcohen.bsky.social · 19h

If Gen-X meatheads are capable of any kind of any kind of meaningful contrition or redemption, then Peacemaker Season 2 shows the way. I mostly loved it.

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Andrew Wender Cohen @awcohen.bsky.social · 20h

I apologize for being a terrible pedant, but WV didn’t ban slavery until 1865. The issue in 1861 was loyalty to the US and the federal Union.

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Andrew Wender Cohen @awcohen.bsky.social · 20h

In fairness, that guy is at Eagles and Syracuse Orange games as well.

Andrew Wender Cohen @awcohen.bsky.social · 21h

Giants fans 🤷‍♂️

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

Curtis Silwa was asked if he felt okay with losing and contributing to Zohran Mamdani’s victory and he responded by laying into Bill Ackman and Andrew Cuomo.

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Andrew Wender Cohen @awcohen.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe one of the team’s three Jewish players: Stubbs, Lazar, and Bader. But that isn’t as predictive as it once was.

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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 1d

There’s only one King

elvis presley is singing into a microphone while wearing a white and gold suit .

ALT: elvis presley is singing into a microphone while wearing a white and gold suit .

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine a whole family of Hunter Bidens, including in-laws and the president himself. Their corruption is so all-encompassing that it resembles what water looks like to a fish. My latest.

newrepublic.com/article/2019...

The Trump Family’s Ever-Expanding Portfolio of Corruption

Presented for your approval: a tour d’horizon of the First Family’s misdeeds. Even Barron’s getting into the act!

newrepublic.com

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Andrew Wender Cohen @awcohen.bsky.social · 3d

I think we can agree that two datapoints don’t tell us much.

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Andrew Wender Cohen @awcohen.bsky.social · 3d

So you say. It’s easy to make statements! For instance, I say that the Patriots got caught cheating twice, with actual evidence, and should have been punished much more severely.

COYS!

Andrew Wender Cohen @awcohen.bsky.social · 3d

It‘s transformational in that it will transform the next generation into the people from Wall-E.

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Andrew Wender Cohen @awcohen.bsky.social · 3d

It’s an old expression. I didn’t invent it.

Andrew Wender Cohen @awcohen.bsky.social · 3d

Data is not the plural of anecdote.

To assess bias, you’d have to look at more than two cases.

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Andrew Wender Cohen @awcohen.bsky.social · 3d

Has RFK been studying the sperm counts of teenage boys? And if so, how did he obtain his samples?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

RFK Jr: "Today the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone of a 65 year old man. Our girls are hitting puberty 6 years early ... our parents aren't having children."

Andrew Wender Cohen @awcohen.bsky.social · 3d

No link!

Andrew Wender Cohen @awcohen.bsky.social · 4d

Dudes, @jesuszoidberg.bsky.social said TOMORROW.

The 2025 Eagles need an outside cornerback. The o-line may be hurting, but no rookie is displacing any of those guys this season.