I haven't watched the Tigers much this year (don't have Bally Sports or whatever the RSD is now called) but every game I have watched is filled with tons of strikeouts and un-clutch hitting. What a mid team (Skubal excepted)

CADE. CUNNINGHAM. 😤 Year 5 for the Pistons star!

There are a few people I follow on here, good writers & media folks, who are promoting their "Let's analyze the Ryder Cup!" or "Details on the almost comeback!" and there are few stories I could have *less* interest in. Just glad the home team lost, and that it's over.

I don't know if there is a movie in this story (e.g., I hope the production goes on w little drama) but there definitely should be a long CBS Sunday Morning type piece about some community players deciding to put on, again, a 50-year old musical about their hometown. www.mlive.com/news/muskego...

I detest the Lions blue on blue PJ look. I can't wait until this trend goes away. They are the Honolulu blue *and* silver. Wear both at home. #nfl

Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

They are totally illegal and unconstitutional, they are terrible policy and people hate them.

It's absolutely fucking insane that Trump can just arbitrarily raise the prices of whatever he wants. This is untenable.

LOL

Always nice when I can plan out decisions at the level of C-Suite guys & gals who make tens of millions a year. Bringing Kimmel back was the only way to go.

I would like national TV sports/news to regain its bearings and stop doing live hits with people sporting handheld iPhones, Airpods and bad lighting.

“We wanted to focus on his magnetic presence on screen in 11 of our favorite performances, a sampling that just skims the surface of this man’s underrated range.” Read on for our contributors picks for some of the late Robert Redford’s most notable roles. www.rogerebert.com/features/the...

Let me just say a simple thing. Democrats have no obligation to provide the votes to fund the destruction of our democracy. If you want my vote for a bipartisan budget, there need to be protections to stop Trump's brazen lawlessness.

“When was Joe Biden president?” remains the most difficult question in politics

Not sure if it’s a coincidental software glitch, or the site is overwhelmed or something, but I’m trying to cancel or pause my Hulu subscription, and it won’t let me do it. It just keeps cycling back to the profile screen. I’ll try again tomorrow. Least I can do.

"Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know. But the most telling detail in Klein’s column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself." Ta-Nehisi Coates, with receipts.

The Khan speaks the truth that others fear to utter: Trump is of soft and infirm mind

Surprised the NFL hot takes industry hasn't (that I've seen) gotten into the Vikings & JJ McCarthy mismanaging his 2nd ever game. He already had a short week, then made even shorter by birth of his 1st child, still thrown in there against more QB pressure than the Falcons have done in 10 years.

#RIP to Robert Redford, who pulled off the rare trick of being a pin up, a movie star, a mogul, and an activist. Recently I watched Butch & Sundance, the whole way through. Normally, I just watch 20 min here & there. As a whole movie...it's not that great! A tonal mess, with narrative shagginess.

It truly cannot be restated enough that earlier this year Trump pardoned everyone involved with J6, the largest event of political violence in the US in my lifetime. They have absolutely no credibility here and deserve to be confronted with this fact whenever they're in public.

Damn. This dude writes for the Dispatch!

Kirk didn't serve in the military or hold office. The war hero treatment -- half-mast flags, military guard, Air Force Two escort, calls for a statue at the Capitol or to lie in the Rotunda -- shows that for MAGA, service to Trump has become the highest, most honorable form of service.

An antisemite shot two kids in Colorado, at least one of whom is Jewish. The White House “fighting antisemitism” doesn’t care, because the shooter was a student radicalized online into far right beliefs, which the regime is cool with, rather than a student verbally criticizing Israeli govt policy.

Attention @thepressbox.bsky.social @bryancurtis.bsky.social only in journalism word: "dustup"

In re: the rush to culpability here, worth remembering that Trump and his allies insist to this day that “they” — the left, their enemies — tried to kill him in Butler, Pa. Which is not what happened.

After another fun day, sat down to watch a Law & Order rerun. See a “Mature Theme” warning. It’s a ripped from the headlines Crown Heights riot episode. Tony Todd is bringing the HEAT. Not sure they’d make a pulpy yet frank episode w stark anti-Jew and anti-Black characters today.

The number of people who must have watched college football from 2021-2023 and not understood how talented & mentally tough JJ McCarthy is never fails to astound me. “Not sure of his arm strength” This is his first ever TD, as a teen! m.youtube.com/watch?v=jLva...

I like Troy Aikman as a commentator, and he has really stepped up his game a lot post-Romo, but man did he just commit the cardinal color commentary sin: start explaining what went wrong, only to have to meekly change your mind once it is clear you were wrong. Jefferson whiffed on that catch! #nfl

Based on today's "ah, f' it -- let Trump do what he wants" shadow rulings, I am 95% sure Trump will get the OK on his "emergency" tariffs. Roberts et al will come up with something, "Too disruptive to our economic system for the court to interfere w a nationally elected king...oops president" etc.

These poll results are fascinating, and track almost too close to what I believe (e.g., Trump voters lack emotional stability), so I'd like to see it replicated. Trump women are fascinating. True leopards eating faces creatures. - Achieve financial independence with Trump in office?

Biscuit in the Basket. Monday's moon over the city skyline. Today in Chicago.

Yeesh, this QB from WVU stinks. Rich Rod has got to get one of his mobile, quick twitch guys on the squad. #CFB

A great example of how local news is under-resourced & thus underperforming. The Pulte family, very prominent locally, is caught in a scandal of its own making. Except few will know, as the @freepress.bsky.social and @detroitnews.com have nada on it. Should be all over it. bsky.app/profile/mich...

Awww, the Duchess of Kent died. Seemed like a classy lady, with one of the best, positive examples of “stiff upper lip” yet still having empathy. Her hugging Jana Novotna (RIP) was such a lovely moment. m.youtube.com/watch?v=FxGd...

Bluesky’s problem in miniature: I miss the first half of the Chiefs game, and read that Xavier Worthy got injured bc Kelce ran into him. I searched Bluesky for a highlight; no video comes up, just a bunch of people commenting how it ruined their fantasy team. That’s gotta be a five second search.

First month of negative jobs growth since Trump's first term

The Aug employment report shows the strain from growth negative policies--restrictive immigration means construction job losses, trade war means mfg job losses, budget cuts mean state & local govts and health care sputter as job engines. The economy is v close to a tipping point

Man, Cramer is such a wuss. He notes that manufacturing is going *down*, the opposite of what's supposed to be happening, but follows up w, "I don't want to criticize the President." Why the hell not, Jim? He's wrecking the economy -- your job is to commentate, so do it! OK, turning off CNBC.

Who is this numbskull in the peach jacket on @cnbc.com ? She just said "good labor markets & economies don't die of old age, but of some kind of external shock." Hello?!?! What do you think the tariffs are? They are huge shock have stunned wide swaths of the economy. 1/2

Any other lyrics— don’t even try chronic town murmur or reckoning btw— just form vowels and syllables, and mean it

The job numbers have got to be below expectations, if not poor. Lutnick is @cnbc.com bloviating about "wait until next year! Best economy ever" when asked about weakness in the job market. 1/2

I don't think there is any music artist (except for maybe Prince) who I admire more than Springsteen. He is compelled to make music, lots of it, and share it with the world. He thinks deeply about his artistry That said, I don't regularly listen to his music! 1/2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YNu...

The Trumpist majority on SCOTUS, like Trump himself, is spending down a trust fund they did not create, apparently believing it refills automatically. But it doesn’t. The whole system depends on other key institutions treating their rulings as legitimate.

Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...

“In 2023, the share of Black worker's unemployed fell to 4.8%, the lowest level since 1972” And in 2024, Black men voted for Trump at over twice the rate of 2016. In today’s media environment, it not just the economy, stupid. www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

Louis Gosset and Isaac Hayes just walked into a literal Nazi bar on Rockford Files. About to whoop some ass. 1970s TV was wild.

Who is programming TCM today? It's Labor Day -- why are they showing Tarzan movies instead of films like Norma Rae, Silkwood, or Matewan? Lean into each holiday!

RFK Jr: “If you’ve ever compared an unvaccinated kid to a vaccinated kid… you see the bright eyes, the engagement, the social interactions, the curiosity. And you compare them to the child who even had one or two vaccines, and they’re completely different.“ This man is an existential threat.