The Mets, Reds, and Diamondbacks are having a mid off the likes of which you’ve never seen.

This is basically what I feel like all the time now

There’s no rule that says a Golden Retriever can’t play basketball…but what if there was? Thus begins the opening lines for my screenplay “Air Bud: Class Action Attorney” and yes the dog does drink himself to death. It’s not a happy story it’s the story about how these systems crush us.

researching a maritime disaster in 2025: Option A: 350 word article by someone from politics beat Option B: 60 min netflix docu with 45 min of unsubstantiated vibes Option C: some rando YTer called Brick Immortar who has a 4 hr breakdown with all court docs & interviews with every survivor

rip sisyphus you would have loved escalators

The Guardians were 12 1/2 games behind the Tigers 29 days ago. They’re now tied for first place. How many teams have ever been that far out that late in a season and finished first? That would be zero.

Something nice I will say about Bluesky is that the majority of the user base has a deep hatred and mistrust of gimmick or brand accounts so the gimmick accounts that have toughed it out are generally very high quality gimmicks.

Universal childcare wouldn't just relieve working families of a massive cost burden. It improves the whole economy. "There are a lot of reasons building a child care system that works for everyone is important to our children, to parents, to employers and to economic growth."

The worst-hitting MLB team in 1999 (Twins): .264 AVG / .328 OBP / .384 SLG All MLB Teams Combined in 2025: .246 AVG / .316 OBP / .404 SLG

José Ramírez is not underrated. He's properly rated. First ballot Hall of Famer. He'll have his fifth top-5 MVP finish this year. We don't have to keep pretending he's some nobody. Everyone knows he's great.

Angela Paxton filed for divorce from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in July, accusing her husband of adultery. The records were placed under seal, but a group of 8 news organizations are arguing in court that the records are of public interest.

Wow. After being fired from @washingtonpost.com, my Substack, The Golden Hour, has been #1 rising bestseller in Culture for three days. Thank you all for the support!! Please subscribe! substack.com/@karenattiah...

One stark marker of how much our society has devolved in just a few years is Bob Iger personally got on a call to convince us to let Disney/HULU make the 1619 Project. That America no longer exists.

noticing more "oh so you hate waffles?" style randomly aggro replies these days. winter is coming

Coming to an AI model near you: "Huawei ... revealed that China’s Zhejiang University used its Ascend 1k accelerators to create a version of DeepSeek’s R1 model that improves on the original by producing fewer responses that China’s government would rather avoid." www.theregister.com/2025/09/22/a...

An open endorsement of hate - precisely what you do not want the President to do after an assassination when messages from leaders disavowing violence are especially important www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/u...

let’s start calling sweatpants, pajama pants, and any other non-constricting soft pants “boneless pants”

Hey, everybody! There's a clearance sale at the market place of ideas!

Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.

This moment is disturbing even in the mundane: I’ve started taking screenshots of historical sources I’m using in research from the national park service, the smithsonian, and the national archives, just in case they get taken down. It’s now a part of my process and takes time I have to plan for.

ironing is a ploy by Big Wrinkle to sell more wrinkles

Microsoft gave guidance on H1Bs to its employees last night

Whooping cough cases are rapidly rising in Louisiana. The vaccine-preventable infection has already caused 2 deaths of infants. State leaders say it's the "worst whooping cough outbreak in the past 30 yrs." There has been no public health assistance from the CDC, which is now controlled by RFK jr👇

I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!

24. Khanna: “And then what about our vice president, the champion of free speech, as he told us during the campaign. The vice president is telling Americans to snitch on fellow Americans with offensive posts and to call their employer so they can be fired.

12. And that chill will likely be chilliest among people Trump already dislikes. Indeed, as I was writing “a chill has set in” – I was alerted to this from the HuffPost. www.huffpost.com/entry/the-vi...

A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security on 100% of their income. A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security on less than 1% of their income. Instead of raising the retirement age, we should scrap the Social Security tax cap.

Boomers think their wealth came from wise choices – this myth needs busting

They’re even turning on their own. Texas Republican Ted Cruz slammed FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, calling his behavior “mafia-like” and warning that Carr’s threats to retaliate against media companies for their programming were “dangerous as hell.”

NATO Article 4 🇪🇪⚠️

2006: Jacob Wilson to Jack Wilson 2025: Jack Wilson to Jacob Wilson

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

had to read the article to understand wtf was going on here which is that Meta is literally feeding Instagram pictures parents took of their teenage daughters to middle aged men as ads for Threads

/3 My point is that with a gleefully fascist government — supported by the sort of gleeful fascists who like Dan and Erick — it IS possible that people who stand up to the government will be hurt or killed, but there worse things than being dead — like living as a willing fascist.

Keep cancelling! creators.yahoo.com/lifestyle/st...

“Newsgathering is a protected right under the First Amendment. What’s at stake here is not just these two reporters’ fates, but also the fundamental constitutional rights of a free press that are protected for all of us under the First Amendment.”

I cannot overstate how remarkable it is that under GOP rule, US federal health regulations have been captured by fringe crackpots who espouse views that the vast majority of the US public—and nearly 100% of health professionals—reject. Gift link:

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Utah is a special place. Even when you're just driving between destinations, the views are top-tier.

This dog led an officer to his leash while being rescued from his burning home. 14/10 for all (IG: aurorapoliceil)

Big Dumper. 56 HR. Ties Ken Griffey Jr. for the single-season Mariners record. All hail the Dumper. All praise to the Dumper.

"I've had an escape plan for every classroom I've been in for the last twelve years." Student leaders from Evergreen High School share their candid thoughts with our @marcsallinger.bsky.social following last week's shooting.

this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers

So many people feel overwhelmed while scrolling and there’s a reason for that. Bots are a large part of the problem. We’ve been breaking down how to spot them. After tracking bot groups that push narratives and attacks, we found some common traits:

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

what we’ve seen from the right is the most insane case of cancel culture i’ve ever witnessed. the left has never even done close to a fraction of a fraction of what they want to do now

Elon sharing the name of 66 random not-famous people to his many millions of followers because this person said they said things she didn’t like about Charlie Kirk. I erased the names and employers from the screenshot but you can see their jobs. Nurses, teachers etc.

UPDATE: At least 19 states have issued orders to protect COVID vaccine access including AZ, CO, CT, DE, IL, KY, MA, MD, ME, MN, NC, NV, NJ, NM, NY, PA, RI, VA, WA. Almost all orders allow pharmacies to give vaccines without a prescription, some states have taken steps to ensure insurance coverage.