FREDDY FREEMAN WORLD SERIES MVP. Even if the Blue Jays win the Series, he put us out of our misery

It’s great that the Blue Jays got some fruit for their team, but can I suggest that the Dodgers try something … stronger?

Dearest Margaret I write to you from the great baseball field. It has been hours since we have seen signs of life. And we are cold and hungry. Please say a prayer and send a phone charger.

This game has gone so long that our household has run out of jokes. Every stat is a new horror show. (33 runners left on base! Players with 8 plate appearances! An entire game of baseball since the last runs were scored in the seventh inning!)

Is Koufax available to pitch in the 13th?

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

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If you have direct knowledge of DHS operations in the San Francisco Bay Area, and want to share what you know with the media, get at me on Signal or in a DM here. My email is [email protected]

I hate jogging so, so much, but being able to outrun the average ICE agent might actually motivate me during my early-morning walk-run intervals with the dog.

And I think a lot of us should consider why this guy got such an explosively positive reception right out of the gate when pols like AOC and Mamdani and even Obama had to build their base brick by brick, against major pushback

I appreciate East Bay Regional Park District’s commitment to outreach, but they may have hit saturation.

I know I’m going to come off as some kind of big state urban elite who’s too good at math, but surely there must be more than two Democrats in the state of Maine, and surely there’s at least one under the age of 77 who lacks any Nazi or white supremacist tattoos.

Two of the most diverse cities in the world. Two star players in Ohtani & Vlad that are not American. Everything that’s great about baseball & the US but that Trump hates. A big middle finger to him.

Your "big tent" cannot be so large that it encompasses those who would deny civil/human rights, due process, and the rule of law to *anyone* and that includes the criminals in this administration. It for damn sure means we don't sacrifice immigrants or trans people.

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

i am just like shohei ohtani because i too have done most of the work on a group project

Just received from a colleague: looks like Penn is going to join the universities refusing the extortionary Trump "compact". I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

"Can you believe telling 44% of the population to go fuck itself didn’t make us more money: The Target Story"

if your blake be snell, gosh you're doing well if your blake be treinen, you are not doing fine-en

I find this encouraging, from @indivisible.org:

Hello from nature this morning! I'm struggling with optimism and not feeling people and that's OK but at least the world is beautiful and it's worth defending! Here's a recap of the best moments of the first hour of my day ❤️ 🪶

Trying to stop Tracey from going to a Saudi comedy festival is a solid 30 Rock B plot

A pattern is developing where everyone who fights back against a Trump attack inevitably wins with their reputation much better than before, and everyone who caves to him looks like shit and has Trump coming back for more a month later.

Are you autistic? What did you think of the announcement yesterday? I want to hear from you for a Guardian US article: [email protected]

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

You know it's bad when even a white dude is getting his show cancelled for accurately characterizing right-wing violence as right-wing violence.

happy 3²/4²/5² to ask those who celebrate

"What about a trebuchet," is a valid question and we're glad you asked. Unfortunately, trebuchets are also not designed for safe sleep.

“they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and i keep on remembering mine.” – Lucille Clifton

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

Powerless! Took too long to settle into its (weird) groove, but it was about the everyday people who have to dodge the collateral damage from superhero-supervillain battles. Truly a delight, with a great cast (Alan Tudyk, Danny Pudi, Natalie Morales).

Everything the right wing accuses the left of is projection, which tells us a lot about how comfortable they are with violently targeting people they disagree with.

In Utah, it is legal for people to conceal carry on college campuses including in classrooms & it is *illegal* for faculty to tell students that they can't have a gun in their class Imagine teaching in those conditions Imagine learning in those conditions Especially in this time of white supremacy

Man, the Dodgers’ team psychologist must be busy right now, between the guys hitting sub-.200 and the guys not throwing no-hitters.

"Performative male" is just the "metrosexual" of 2025, and it exists because the people who created the "male loneliness epidemic" are big mad that some men have decided to engage in basic domestic activities that, in addition to being objectively good, may have the side benefit of attracting women.

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You can add up all the enjoyable pursuits of LLMs and the work productivity hacks and none of them, separately or together, will be more important than AI’s ecological costs or political disruption. “We” is more important here.

The right will be like, "The left is outraged over Sydney Sweeney being hot!" when the left is, in fact, not "outraged." And then the same right-wingers will have full breakdowns about the Minnesota Vikings cheer squad and Cracker Barrel.

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

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Thus, for example, we hear a lot more horrible white people sharing their fragile feelings about Black Lives Matter than Black women opining about white supremacist marches. Which contributes to an overall distortion of who we are--and who matters.

need people to understand that accepting or conceding that he has the authority to do these things is tantamount to giving him the authority, and so your preemptive dooming is actively counterproductive

They want people to delete their personal photos so there's enough water to allow people to continue making AI slop images

This is such a charming and entertaining deep-dive!

Washington DC has 702,000 people, is 45% Black and has 0 senators Wyoming has 590,000 people, is 86% white and has 2 senators DC needs a state with proper representation, not a military takeover

If you're tired of yelling at Congress's voicemail boxes about everything, have you yelled at your state legislators lately? I just got humans in both my state senator's and state assemblymember's offices, asking them to support UCLA and UC.

Since Trump just mentioned Baltimore and how much worse it's getting, here are Baltimore's actual homicide statistics: