🇨🇦 Addison Barger launched the first pinch-hit grand slam in World Series history and Alejandro Kirk added a two-run homer as the Toronto Blue Jays stormed back to crush the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers 11–4 in Friday night’s opener at Rogers Centre.

🇨🇦🍁🪶 Bluejay 🪶🍁🇨🇦 #TorontoBlueJays #Bluejay #AiArt #WorldSeries

Eisenhower oversaw Operation Wetback which is a model for what ICE is doing right now.

Minnesota and Maryland also opened window shopping for 2026 ACA marketplace plans, and people are seeing their premiums spike due to expiring tax credit enhancements. A typical 60-year-old Minnesotan couple making $85,000 will face a $15,500 increase in annual premiums. (1/4)

Good morning New York, while you were sleeping this was our most read story. on.ft.com/4nesqUt

Gov. Pritzker: "They literally did a military attack on a building with a Black Hawk helicopter...You don't arrest an entire building, detain everybody, zip tie children, hold elderly people in a U-Haul for house — U.S. citizens!"

“There’s nothing more Canadian than the hockey game being interrupted to celebrate the Blue Jays heading to the World Series” #Canada #BlueJays #WorldSeries

it's funny because during the shutdown, the president has been cutting funding and approving new funding without congress. soooooo.......

Has anyone noticed, Congress has been effectively dissolved. The government isn't "shutdown" it has collapsed.

Goodbye MTV...killed by the very thing I'm sharing this on, but least we enjoyed the days when it was ALL about the music. Here's my tribute. #Friday #MTV #Music #Spotify

I should note: by my count, this makes at least four clergy members *that I know of* who have been shot with pepper balls or rubber bullets fired by ICE/DHS agents in recent weeks — two Presbyterians, two Methodists and a UCCer.

America’s redistricting war is heating up. California could decide how it ends econ.st/47r1ICh

The Sun-Times is reporting Border Patrol took at least two teenage boys today when they hit Little Village, again. One is said to be a 16-year old student, U.S. citizen, and student at Benito Juarez Community Academy.

NBC News finds that: -- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six. -- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam. -- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

What on Orwell’s green earth is a “figurative” bounty?

ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today. abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...

US health insurance premiums rose to $27,000 for families in 2025 reut.rs/4ngmkTu

US banks hunting for collateral to back $20 billion Argentina bailout, WSJ reports reut.rs/4n8I1ox

. Every time food stamps are slashed, a chain reaction starts poverty → desperation → crime → more prisoners → more profit. Stop acting like it’s coincidence. #SNAP #Medicaid #30DayStrike .

I can’t get past this. This is truly a low point in American history. We are being governed by 7th graders. www.rawstory.com/trump-nyt-sa...

And here's where Lindsey Halligan learns how the press works: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

President Donald Trump so far has sought to deploy National Guard and active-duty soldiers to five major Democratic-led cities across the U.S.: Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles; Chicago; Portland, Oregon and Memphis, Tennessee. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The 2025 World Series matchup out of context…

If “Brown Sugar” put D’Angelo on the map, “Voodoo,” which arrived in January 2000, solidified his legacy as a generational musical force. Here's how he did it.

With Christian Pulisic injured, Haji Wright delivers as USMNT beats Australia, 2-1. Match report from Colorado: sports.yahoo.com/soccer/break...

You need to see this: “The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

Immigrant advocates have been thrown to the ground, pepper-sprayed, and tailed in their cars by officers in an apparent attempt to intimidate them, @caitlindickerson.bsky.social reports. One tells her: “It's never been this bad.”

Review: “The Phantom of the Opera” stage musical closed in 2023 after nearly 14,000 performances over the course of 35 years. But the masked menace had not disappeared for long. The megamusical has been distilled and reshaped into “Masquerade.”

Officials say a North Carolina government initiative is eliminating over $6.5 billion in medical debt for more than 2.5 million residents.

📸 What is your #myESMOStory? Share a group photo and tell us. Use #myESMOStory, tag ESMO and those who shaped your #ProfessionalPath. #ESMO25 🔗 ow.ly/SWfE50X8mFJ

Mike Johnson said this could be the longest government shutdown and that he “won’t negotiate” with Democrats. Of course he won't; if the shutdown ends, he has to swear in Adelita Grijalva who would provide the last vote needed to release the Epstein files. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Taylor Swift, Caitlin Clark and the Kelce family are in attendance at tonight's Chiefs-Lions game.

God Bless America is just a song by Irving Berlin. It’s not the national anthem. America is so far down the moron hole it will never get out

Proposals to build data centers are facing growing opposition across the country. Local leaders are weighing concerns about data centers’ water and electricity use with the hefty community investments that developers often offer to sweeten their deals.

A majority of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staffers who were laid off during President Donald Trump's recent "chaos" have returned to work, according to a new report.

More than 53,000 runners will take to the streets Sunday for the 47th Chicago Marathon. The race kicks off in waves beginning at 7:20 a.m. in Grant Park, sending competitors on a 26.2-mile journey through 29 neighborhoods across the city.

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

Van Halen’s final concert was 10 years ago today at the Hollywood Bowl

“After entering a home in Texas without a warrant, [DHS] agents shot and killed a family’s dog and then fled the scene.” www.reddit.com/r/somethingi...

Favorite conference @cgaigc.com congrats on 30 years #lynchsyndrome

Kid Rock: "Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings." Also, Kid Rock (Pictured).

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

A rift between American farmers and their Chinese clients as a result of Donald Trump’s trade war has allowed Brazil to cement its place as the world’s soyabean superpower

That dawg don’t hunt in Louisiana or America Mikey. Pawpaw and Memaw don’t hate America. 🇺🇸 They know Americans fought a war to get away from Kings. And, they believe in ballot boxes not bullets or riots as a peaceful transfer of power. Something your party should have learned a lesson from by now

Reporter: Why didn’t Trump win the Nobel Peace Prize? Nobel committee chair: We only give the award to people of courage and integrity.

“If you gift me a sick jet, I’ll let you build an Air Force base base in Idaho. Tradesies!!!” ~ Donald Trump to government of Qatar, probably. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Doing some back of the napkin math on the Free Press acquisition, I've determined The Onion is worth $2 trillion.

Breaking News: President Emmanuel Macron of France reappointed Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister, days after Lecornu resigned.

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…” Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆