Mary Craig
@marymcraig.bsky.social
Baseball and political theory, often simultaneously. See: Touching Home: Baseball and the Liberal-Republican Tradition in America. (they/them)
Please let this produce a wildcat strike.
January 24, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Please let this produce a wildcat strike.
A large part of the New Deal's failure is due to it intentionally excluding the vast majority of Black workers by not applying to domestic and agricultural laborers.
January 19, 2026 at 4:17 PM
A large part of the New Deal's failure is due to it intentionally excluding the vast majority of Black workers by not applying to domestic and agricultural laborers.
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MLB beat writer: talk a little about the rally in the 7th, what did you tell your guys with regard to changing their approach at the plate
NBA beat writer: in your estimation does the proletariat benefit from a properly educated and organized vanguard party in the nascent stages of revolution
NBA beat writer: in your estimation does the proletariat benefit from a properly educated and organized vanguard party in the nascent stages of revolution
January 10, 2026 at 4:04 AM
MLB beat writer: talk a little about the rally in the 7th, what did you tell your guys with regard to changing their approach at the plate
NBA beat writer: in your estimation does the proletariat benefit from a properly educated and organized vanguard party in the nascent stages of revolution
NBA beat writer: in your estimation does the proletariat benefit from a properly educated and organized vanguard party in the nascent stages of revolution
I'm making all of my students read this at the start of the semester. LLMs are only inevitable if we decide them to be.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
January 8, 2026 at 6:35 PM
I'm making all of my students read this at the start of the semester. LLMs are only inevitable if we decide them to be.
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I’m only going to say this once: opening the door for widespread legal sports gambling led directly to this, and everyone who helped that push for the former needs to reckon with their role bsky.app/profile/peop...
“What appears to be a newly created account appeared to invest $30,000 Friday in Maduro's exit. After Maduro went into custody Saturday morning, that same investor netted $436,759.61.”
Someone made $400K by predicting Maduro's capture. Here's what happened
The winnings come as the rules governing prediction markets are still evolving.
www.axios.com
January 3, 2026 at 9:38 PM
I’m only going to say this once: opening the door for widespread legal sports gambling led directly to this, and everyone who helped that push for the former needs to reckon with their role bsky.app/profile/peop...
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Latin American Coups promoted by the United States
January 3, 2026 at 10:38 AM
Latin American Coups promoted by the United States
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#OtD 1 Jan 1804 Haiti became an independent republic, the culmination of the Haitian revolution abolishing slavery and freeing itself from French rule. It began as a rebellion of the enslaved in 1791. Learn more about this and other Black revolts here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/a-h...
January 1, 2026 at 2:10 PM
#OtD 1 Jan 1804 Haiti became an independent republic, the culmination of the Haitian revolution abolishing slavery and freeing itself from French rule. It began as a rebellion of the enslaved in 1791. Learn more about this and other Black revolts here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/a-h...
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if anyone ever wonders why I stopped playing wordle or connections this is why. If you are looking for an easy way to put a little more good into the world this year - cancel your NYT subscription.
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
January 1, 2026 at 8:02 PM
if anyone ever wonders why I stopped playing wordle or connections this is why. If you are looking for an easy way to put a little more good into the world this year - cancel your NYT subscription.
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This thread efficiently and eloquently lays out the propaganda witch hunt of Mel Curth due to a potent combination of right wing cynical grifting and academic cowardice and collaboration. 🫡
Statement Re: OU Discrimination Investigation
Today, my client, Mel Curth, submitted her appeal of the University's Institutional Equity Office finding that she engaged in arbitrary and capricious grading of a student's assignment in violation of that student's religious liberty.
Today, my client, Mel Curth, submitted her appeal of the University's Institutional Equity Office finding that she engaged in arbitrary and capricious grading of a student's assignment in violation of that student's religious liberty.
December 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM
This thread efficiently and eloquently lays out the propaganda witch hunt of Mel Curth due to a potent combination of right wing cynical grifting and academic cowardice and collaboration. 🫡
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“why don’t other professors strike or protest?”
because they’re cis and know it can’t happen to them. they know they’re safe as long as they don’t do anything in solidarity with the out group. at best they won’t take a risk for us, at worse they like an entire demographic of competition being erased
because they’re cis and know it can’t happen to them. they know they’re safe as long as they don’t do anything in solidarity with the out group. at best they won’t take a risk for us, at worse they like an entire demographic of competition being erased
December 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
“why don’t other professors strike or protest?”
because they’re cis and know it can’t happen to them. they know they’re safe as long as they don’t do anything in solidarity with the out group. at best they won’t take a risk for us, at worse they like an entire demographic of competition being erased
because they’re cis and know it can’t happen to them. they know they’re safe as long as they don’t do anything in solidarity with the out group. at best they won’t take a risk for us, at worse they like an entire demographic of competition being erased
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The basic truth is the University of Oklahoma fired an instructor because she had the audacity to do her job while trans. Media like CNN are complicit in simultaneously pushing the anti-trans narrative and covering up the brutal outcomes of this societal purge.
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
The basic truth is the University of Oklahoma fired an instructor because she had the audacity to do her job while trans. Media like CNN are complicit in simultaneously pushing the anti-trans narrative and covering up the brutal outcomes of this societal purge.
The NFL has no interest in protecting its Black players. What that fan said to Metcalf is far more violent than was Metcalf's response.
The two-game suspension for Steelers WR DK Metcalf has been upheld by an appeals officer jointly appointed by the NFL and NFLPA.
Metcalf is out for the rest of the regular season and sees $45M in future guarantees voided, including $25M that was fully guaranteed for 2026.
Metcalf is out for the rest of the regular season and sees $45M in future guarantees voided, including $25M that was fully guaranteed for 2026.
December 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
The NFL has no interest in protecting its Black players. What that fan said to Metcalf is far more violent than was Metcalf's response.
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This thread by a former NYT editor documents how the NYT came to push the Cass Review so hard over other reviews. It was dictated from the top by editors. They sidelined their own London reporter to put Azeen Ghorayshi on it.
How the nyt used the Cass report to restart its anti-trans propaganda campaign in the US:
Coverage of the report was initially assigned to a nyt UK correspondent, usual practice for a UK report. The story being prepared cited critics who called Cass a shoddy, political document that defied science
Coverage of the report was initially assigned to a nyt UK correspondent, usual practice for a UK report. The story being prepared cited critics who called Cass a shoddy, political document that defied science
One reason the NYT has burned its credibility with trans people is that they still cite the discredited Cass report in reporting on trans healthcare. Never the German, Utah, or other systematic reviews supporting care. They also never provide the political context behind restrictions in care.
December 20, 2025 at 10:59 AM
This thread by a former NYT editor documents how the NYT came to push the Cass Review so hard over other reviews. It was dictated from the top by editors. They sidelined their own London reporter to put Azeen Ghorayshi on it.
If you need a gift for a lover of baseball history and a hater of liberalism, might I suggest my book. At just $45, more expensive than a book should be, but it's shockingly reasonably priced for an academic book. upress.missouri.edu/978082622340...
Touching Home
Baseball’s relationship to American ideals has long been an object of study across disciplines. In Touching Home, Mary Craig contributes to this ongoing st...
upress.missouri.edu
December 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
If you need a gift for a lover of baseball history and a hater of liberalism, might I suggest my book. At just $45, more expensive than a book should be, but it's shockingly reasonably priced for an academic book. upress.missouri.edu/978082622340...
Fascism eliminates trans people because trans existence reveals the falsity of gender essentialism. Without gender essentialism, there's no nuclear family and therefore no capitalism. Fighting for trans people isn't simply a good in itself; it is necessary for the liberation of all.
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Fascism eliminates trans people because trans existence reveals the falsity of gender essentialism. Without gender essentialism, there's no nuclear family and therefore no capitalism. Fighting for trans people isn't simply a good in itself; it is necessary for the liberation of all.
I am always early for things because my anxiety about being late overrides my ADHD. There are people who are chronically late simply due to being inconsiderate people, but the vast majority of people with ADHD, the frustration and shame they feel about constant lateness is a heavy weight.
I do my best to keep an open mind and change my views on a matter when the underlying information changes, but I reject any and all scientific literature which suggests that people who are chronically late for things are anything other than inconsiderate assholes.
December 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I am always early for things because my anxiety about being late overrides my ADHD. There are people who are chronically late simply due to being inconsiderate people, but the vast majority of people with ADHD, the frustration and shame they feel about constant lateness is a heavy weight.
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There is a well coordinated national campaign targeting a single trans professor at Oklahoma University to get her fired. It's part of a broader campaign to push trans people out of public life entirely. It was never about sports.
December 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
There is a well coordinated national campaign targeting a single trans professor at Oklahoma University to get her fired. It's part of a broader campaign to push trans people out of public life entirely. It was never about sports.
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The Twitter account for the Turning Point USA chapter at OU seems to have only started posting last week with an anti-trans pressure campaign. And then, oh gosh, what are the odds that they just happened to immediately find someone who claims to have been discriminated against by a trans person?
December 1, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The Twitter account for the Turning Point USA chapter at OU seems to have only started posting last week with an anti-trans pressure campaign. And then, oh gosh, what are the odds that they just happened to immediately find someone who claims to have been discriminated against by a trans person?
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It's incredible how quickly people's rational thinking goes out the windows once a trans person is involved. Suddenly, a coordinated national smear campaign targeting a single trans instructor needs a "well, ackshually."
December 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
It's incredible how quickly people's rational thinking goes out the windows once a trans person is involved. Suddenly, a coordinated national smear campaign targeting a single trans instructor needs a "well, ackshually."
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every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
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i want to mention for anyone who doesn't know yet that the instructor in this case is trans
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
i want to mention for anyone who doesn't know yet that the instructor in this case is trans
It's so great to see colleges pay the government millions of dollars for the privilege of unilaterally instituting Zionist, anti-trans policies, all while claiming to uphold academic freedom.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 2:10 AM
It's so great to see colleges pay the government millions of dollars for the privilege of unilaterally instituting Zionist, anti-trans policies, all while claiming to uphold academic freedom.
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It’s not about being on a high horse it’s about using these moments of frustration and crisis and rupture to help people understand how the system works so they get out of their delusional frame of mind
November 10, 2025 at 2:47 AM
It’s not about being on a high horse it’s about using these moments of frustration and crisis and rupture to help people understand how the system works so they get out of their delusional frame of mind
In addition to MLB's FanDuel partnership, I think that the exploitative nature of MLB's Dominican academies played a role here. Would Dominican players be less desperate to make money if they weren't told from childhood that their communities depended on them doing so?
November 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
In addition to MLB's FanDuel partnership, I think that the exploitative nature of MLB's Dominican academies played a role here. Would Dominican players be less desperate to make money if they weren't told from childhood that their communities depended on them doing so?