Sometimes you read an article that makes you feel like... idk... 15 years ago, some of us got on an express train and saw what was on the tracks ahead. And now we're on a call to the people on the slower train, now approaching, and they cannot comprehend the landscapes we describe as familiar.

Sam, this is Bank Spendman. You can use your credit card at Burger King to get that Whopper you're craving.

SOMEONE hasn't read historical scouting reports where weird old guys get all Sir Mix-A-Lot over a teenager

Surely this guy fell through a portal from 1983 while doing coke off the glass plate of a copy machine

lol. lmao even. www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

🚨 Sen. Elizabeth Warren and HUD whistleblowers are speaking out. HUD Secretary Scott Turner, other political appointees, are dismantling civil-rights enforcement, placing HUD on “an unalterable course” toward violating federal law and endangering the public. www.federalunionists.net/press/whistl...

🚨 HUD whistleblowers and federal unionists reveal Trump’s appointees have gutted civil rights protections in housing. Here’s what you need to know: 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/r...

Very good Mr. DeNiro, may I ask you your views on vaccines

A journalist who thinks they did "a very thorough data-led analysis" by using ChatGPT should be out of a job on the very same day.

Today's decision about ABS zones is MLB prioritizing their control over how we experience the game ahead of technical reality (no matter how much they tested in the minors). This will not factor into much, if any, coverage.

I don’t know man I think a lot of y’all really overstate the extent to which there is some kind of umpiring problem in MLB. Like, I guess if the argument is “the only acceptable number of missed calls is zero” then that makes sense. But it just isn’t actually that big of a problem imo

A whole lot of sports media are quite guilty of this about men who have treated women like crap.

AI at work is the ultimate evolution of all those work apps that make it take like 5 hours to finish an expense report only to have it sent back because you forgot to select US dollars in a dropdown menu

I bet you thought it'd be hard to be worse than Jordan Romano was in 2025. Well, give a big @thedirtyinning.bsky.social hello to Reggie Grabowski, who also sucked, only in 1934. @nocartridge.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/dirty-...

Watch my full interview with federal HUD whistleblowers Paul Osadebe and Palmer Heenan @therealnews.com: therealnews.com/federal-whis...

🚨 Federal whistleblowers reveal how Trump's HUD is abandoning vulnerable Americans "The frank fact of the matter is that, right now, discrimination is not being prosecuted," they tell me. "Fair housing laws are not being enforced" @therealnews.com @fedworkersunited.bsky.social @afge476.bsky.social

This is a really long shot but Sarah and I were supposed to go to Rilo Kiley in Raleigh on Wed but she’s stuck in SF for work. Would anyone be able to get me Jenny’s agents contact so I could maybe get her to send a message for Sarah? I Never was our first dance and it’s our anniversary this weekend

MARC tells me “if you see something, say something,” so here’s something: Why the hell was someone who looked like Dr. Robotnik on my train

An hour ago: hell yeah taking transit to a meeting this week Now: “train’s hit a deer”

He probably had a schedule conflict.

Nothing like seeing random Eagles fans leap to their feet and start running around like maniacs in public after a big play

My cool wife teaches 9th grade English in Baltimore. Because of budget cuts in an already impoverished area she has spent over $400 on classroom shit the school should be supplying. Please consider helping or sharing this Wishlist of supplies/treats for her kids www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

the rats nest that is the flow of money in AI compute is so unbelievably complicated and circular that i had to make a diagram

Was reminded of how back in 2016 a not insignificant amount of op eds were written about how Bernie Sanders must be an antisemite or a fellow traveler of antisemitism because he's against Israel's illegal settlement enterprise. Even Deborah Lipstadt, Biden admin's antisemitism envoy, was in on it.

Post now deleted, more or less confirming it was a DM. Great opsec!

I was so inspired by the @washingtonpost.com’s “Ready for Some Football” column that I wrote my own for @baseballprospectus.com on late regular season baseball. Sports! Sports! Sports! www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

Federal workers like FUNner Micah Neimeier-Walsh protect workers every day at NIOSH. The agency's research & trainings are the most cost-effective way to test products + prevent harm. But that all changed when DOGE "blew it up." Read how in @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Ezra Klein 🤝 Neera Tanden Despite the overwhelming popularity of abortion rights in all states, we should surrender instead

Google doodle where the second O has a tongue coming out of it to lick the second G, which is a boot

we wrote about this WH tactic recently. they’re asking journalists for expert source names and then using them to look up political donations in FEC records to try to discredit those sources as biased. www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...

The idea that MLB cares about youth player health beyond their ability to exploit it is ridiculous. This is as much about centralizing/lowering the price for the data collection market as it is anything else.

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Time for my "irresponsible worked-too-late dinner my wife dislikes”: Ledo Pizza near the office

I feel like I remember seeing this explicitly being pitched at CES a long time ago, but I could be fabricating a memory

Social Security's former acting chief offered insight into DOGE's takeover: "A bunch of people who didn’t know what they were doing, with ideas of how government should run — thinking it should work like a McDonald’s or a bank — screaming all the time.” Read more: www.propublica.org/article/insi...

We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.

Charlie Kirk’s job was getting paid $80,000,000 a year by 900 year old conservative donors to essentially do this but with racial crime stats

Just a reminder that if you ever visit an Atlas Restaurant Group location you are putting money in the evil Smith family's pockets

Just very weird to follow politics knowing that there's going to be a recession that'll make everything we're talking about feel like it happened in prehistoric times.

I'm eating trash in the bay and I'm doing just fine gotta eat all the trash because I want it all it started out with a can, how did it end up this bad it was only a can, it was only one can

people leading the way on those causes have argued forever that on a long enough timeline--which might not even be that long!--the Palestinian cause is everyone's cause. Domestic policing crackdown mirroring Israeli occupation was a sign of that. This is another. It will not end here.

a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

seriously, i just walked by the campus, they haven’t repaired it

COVID-19 has revealed that much of the US public is willing to accept mass death and abandonment. We were pushed by propaganda to see many around us as disposable. That helped set the tone for current fascist violations. I wrote about it for @prismreports.org. prismreports.org/2025/09/16/c...

Time for a paper plug: We find that, going the other direction, pitchers tend to perform better on the mound after batting and particularly when they had successful at bats. (most likely a "staying warm" effect; but some evidence for adrenaline boost after success) academic.oup.com/oep/article/...

Please do not buy Rubenstein’s “Aw, shucks” act. He is a vicious private equity operator about whom a reasonable case could be made helped orchestrate the Iraq War to boost his defense contractor holdings Despite his shtick, he is not flummoxed by the genius of baseball scouts and sportswriters

my only new-user harangue is just use the damn alt text: • it's searchable • you can explain a reference/what the fuck that thing is to help people get it, or tell extra jokes • it's not hard, and you're not special • that you're posting in the first place tells everyone you've got the extra minute