No better place to spend a warm-ish sunny almost summer day especially when they hand you a Ryno bobblehead on the way in. #Gamecock baseball great Christian Walker gave the Astros the lead with a three-run homer in the 5th. But still... no better place. @sabrchicago.bsky.social

Half of business owners on this Toronto street estimated that more than 25% of their customers arrived by car. In fact, it was 4%. And the % of customers who who walked or cycled? 72%. Retailers routinely overestimate the # of “car customers.” Via @carltonreid.com www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

Important thread.

They shouldn’t arrest this person, they should put them in an ad: “At popeyes our biscuits are so good that people will break in at 5 am to cook them”

Respect for the diligence in keeping this up for 20 years.

151 of the 775 books requested have already been purchased for kids to read over the summer! Here's what you do: go to this link, pick out a bunch of books, use the SUMMER discount code and choose "in store pickup" (@moonpalacebooks.bsky.social will get them to the school). Most are under $10!

No, @politico.com, it did not. SoftBank donated $50M to Trump's personal, private foundation, an organization that's under no obligation to build anything, much less a presidential library. Which, as I explained five years ago in [checks notes] Politico, he won't: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

We all literally, LITERALLY just watched NASA fly four absolute all-stars the farthest any human has ever been from Earth and back flawlessly, and yet we're still continuously forced to pretend Musk's bullshit catastrophe factory is the future of human space exploration

When politicians say they can't hold corporations accountable, remember: they can. They just choose not to.

The story doesn't mention maybe people are using the library more for all types of materials. Our ebook/audiobook usage is way up. Libraries often pay more than $100 per audiobook or ebook for one year of use. I know everything has to have a label, but I'm not a dad and I read these kinds of books.

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The "Pokémon Fossil" exhibit at the Field Museum combines paleontology and pop culture. blockclubchi.co/43pioZe

This is monstrous, evil shit "Cemetery officials confirmed to Task & Purpose that the pages were unpublished” to meet recent orders by President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth targeting race and gender-related language and policies in the military."

Democrats shouldn’t just be focused on defeating Trump. It should be the extinction of the Republican Party They haven’t done a single thing to make the lives of ordinary Americans better in the past 40 year. The GOP is a party of, by, and for billionaire assholes

He did not “accuse” them of it. He’s a judge. He “found” that they had, in fact, done so. JFC NPR, do better.

David Horsey substack.com/@horseytoons

Federal judge in Tennessee DISMISSES the criminal prosecution against Kilmar Ábrego García as a vindictive prosecution. First time this happens during Trump 2.0. Lays much of the blame at the feet of Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Mamdani has the best instincts of any politician I've seen in years. Most would say, "Well I'm going to have to work with James Dolan so might as well get a box seat out of it." No, he knows the fans despise Dolan and the optics are bad, he also knows his brand. All Ds could learn from him.

He doesn't mean they're doing better now. He just means we stopped helping them.

The lawsuits are good, the editorials are getting better, but the news stories are still full of weasel words and normalization. The greatest power of a news organization is news. See: presswatchers.org/2025/09/how-...

Maybe someone (🙋🏼‍♀️) should find out!!! If you can help me get Minor League baseballs, please reach out! ⚾️⚾️👀

This is a "both sides" type of story, which I don't find all that helpful. Yes, fans can be idiots. But if they cross the line, then someone needs to call security and have them removed.

They” didn’t leak Trump’s tax returns. An IRS contractor did - along with thousands of other tax returns - during Trump’s first term. Biden’s DOJ prosecuted the contractor, who got the max: 5 years in prison. This is shameful spin from SDNY U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton.

Judge: Sanctions against prosecutors possible after remaining Broadview Six charges dismissed

Mississippi called a special session TODAY to erase the only Black congressman in this state. Mississippi residents showed up. All of them. On their doorstep. In their streets. To show them what they're fighting against. ✊🏼 #mississippi #democracy

Last week I appeared on WPOK 93.7 fm with Kent Casson to discuss my recent Frank L. Smith presentation for the Dwight Historical Society. We talked about his professional and political career as well as his semipro baseball team. Links are in the comments. ⚾️

"ChatGPT, the most heavily used AI service, gave wrong information in 46% of its answers, including making up an expenses scandal, giving inaccurate replies on voter eligibility rules and getting the date of the election wrong by two months." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Ghislaine Maxwell is eligible to file a claim with Trump’s $1.8 billion theft of taxpayer dollars. 5 appointees of Trump’s former criminal defense attorney Todd Blanche would then decide if she should get some of your money. This is the Republican Party.

Imagine being stressed out about life and the state of the world and then you walk outside to clear your head and see this

Comfortably the best player in Indiana Fever history. And also Caitlin Clark. #WNBA

Donald Trump is stealing your money to give to his allies, friends, and possibly even those who stormed the Capitol on January 6. To give even a single penny to the January 6ers would be an insult to law enforcement and to our democracy. We will not stand for it.

This is a UK study, but from everything I've heard, this rings true in the U.S. as well. Woman up, Book Bros.

If you’re wondering why these questions came today — Tash asked to be allowed to address her free agency in a single availability once the team got back home to Chicago. The beat accommodated that request, so she did a presser this morning after shootaround.

Such a great story. We need to support librarians and the freedom to read. Free people read freely.

I'll be sharing this all day because it's one of the most important voices (well, several voices!) to hear from about book censorship right now: young people.

EXCELLENT news this morning: Officers Dunn and Hodges sue to dissolve the "Anti-Weaponization Fund" that will most certainly be used to fund further insurrectionist activity www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

FOIA/OMA for the win!

If anyone needs a historical monster consultant, here you go. I've been following her on here for quite a while and she's pretty good.

Covid Kim in Iowa has signed into law property tax reforms, which will speed up defunding public libraries across the state. It's among the latest tactics being used in red states to harm public goods. www.weareiowa.com/video/news/l...

When Minneapolis felt under heavy siege, people from everywhere helped and reached out and it was really heartening and made a difference. Memphis deserves that too, all the more so because there appears to be a concerted effort to keep their occupation out of the news

I'm glad the city is doing something about these junkyard lots. The amount of taxpayer money spent on these deadbeat owners is ridiculous.

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Trump just pardoned himself for tax crimes.

Women’s flag football on track to gain NCAA championship status before sport makes its Olympic debut

SIGN OF THE DAY…

THIS.