On this Labor Day, if you’d like to lend support to MLB workers fighting for a fair wage, sign this petition backing the Dodger Tour Guides. We’re facing some cartoonishly villainous union busting tactics from the Dodgers in our quest for a fair first contract. actionnetwork.org/petitions/de...

I love listening to the Cocteau Twins because the music is heavenly and i can’t understand what the lady is saying 95% of the time

Love to see Glasnow pitch like who he is

Damn

All people's rights under the Constitution are, per the Supreme Court, 100% alienable. If you cannot hire a lawyer and engage in effective litigation against the power of the entire executive branch of the federal government, you have no rights at all.

The U.S. economy shrank at a 0.5% annual pace from January through March as President Donald Trump's import taxes at least temporarily disrupted business, the Commerce Department reported Thursday in a a downgrade from its previous estimate.

Today's newsletter is one of the few places where you'll read about Clayton Kershaw defacing his Pride Day cap with a bible verse widely used by homophobes to discredit the LGBTQ+ community. Imagine if it was someone doing that to an American flag cap logo. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

Breaking: Trump just issued a sweeping new travel ban. 
The ban fully restricts people from Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. The ban partially restricts Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.

when you *still* think your lame ass message just needs to be repackaged for the 6000th time congrats to the consultants I guess

Freddie Freeman signed for 6/$162M Based off the marginal value of a win over at fangraphs, Freddie’s 21.2 fWAR in a Dodger uniform is worth $169.7M Nobody else would offer Freeman a 6th year, and the last 2 2/3 years of his deal are house money (could even say the entire last 3 with deferrals 😎)

It’s always great to see folks chasing after a ball on the other side of a berm beyond the fence 😂

I feel so bad for Conforto lmao

The sun is setting later again 💙

I forgot how awesome Judas Priest is

Noah’s Bagels is lowkey a scam

A victory for scammers. The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau has been gutted by @makenakelly.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/cfpb-h...

Know I’m going to fall short tonight, but I’m going to try

The largest paying crowd in the history of Wrigley Field was the day Jackie Robinson made his debut. Wrigley is the only park left Jackie played a game in. Mike Ryoko was a kid at that ballpark that day and he wrote about it. Take a minute and read this today. press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago...

BREAKING — DOGE will descend upon Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) buildings tomorrow, an agency source tells me. FDIC is responsible for insuring all commercial/personal US bank accounts for up to $250k and regulating banks. Scary in light of Trump’s manipulation of markets this week.

DID YOU TRY TURNING THE UMPIRE OFF THEN BACK ON AGAIN

if Austin Barnes can’t hit, run, or throw, but he has nice advice for players, idk about y’all but to me that sounds a lot like a coach

Here’s my latest @latimes.com columna so share the hell out of it!!!

Quarter zip sweaters are the new wave

President Donald Trump says taxing imports will strengthen domestic manufacturing. Hours before announcing new tariffs, his administration cut support for centers that help US firms do just that.

WELL THIS IS JUST RUDE

“We’ve all done this” bitch I never discussed bombing people in a group chat

Pay más

They’re playing Megadeth at this bar bro this shit is COOKED

Measles cases in Texas and New Mexico now number over 250, with two deaths being linked to the outbreak. (For comparison, the US had 285 cases of measles in all of 2024). Measles isn't just a rash. For @wired.com, I wrote about why the disease can be so deadly: www.wired.com/story/this-i...

Really hoping Aaron Rodgers signs with the Vikings, not because I care at all about him or the team, but because "beloved Green Bay QB goes to the Jets, then the Vikings, also has reputation tarnished by idiocy and grift" is too delicious a history-repeats-itself circle to pass up

Very excited for this man to make my life notably worse for the next two years in order to drop out before Super Tuesday

I can’t stop listening to Beach House

NEW: The US General Services Administration plans to sell hundreds of government buildings, including FBI headquarters. Use our interactive tools to see where they are—and which Congressional districts they're in. Link: www.wired.com/story/map-fo...

A final solution.

Imagine getting dealt the card of being born in modern society and not playing it, so your child dies from an entirely preventable disease

The Richest Man in the World Says We Can't Afford Any More Cures for Cancer talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/nih-a...

Evil devours all.

SCOOP: We've learned at least three individuals closely associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year. Step inside the recruitment effort that helped build Elon's DOGE army:

Williams would’ve been sick but I’m glad the Lakers FO didn’t gamble. Curious to how Knecht fits in now

The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

Literally two weeks before my ten year anniversary at the company I work for, I was just laid off. If anybody knows of any mechanical engineering opportunities, please let me know. I have a lot of experience in acoustics and high-volume manufacturing.

CBS NEWS: “.. the water released from dams at Lake Kaweah and Lake Success is rushing into a dry lakebed in the Central Valley, where experts say it can't flow to Southern California and will likely go to waste.” www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-c...

Absolutely brutal scroll on Fox.

Smaller pubs are doing great work on individual bands of looters right now — Wired is all over the Musk stuff, and Rolling Stone has been great with the shit that most closely aligns with formal WH/Miller — but a less subservient press would be mapping out the connections of the heists in real time.

There appear to be at least three separately operating heel factions breaking things within the government in wholly different ways right now. There's the Miller-headed immigration one, the DOGE/Elon one, and a Project 2025 OMB one. This dynamic hasn't showed up in mainstream reporting at all.

Talked with a friend in DOD (former military, civilian) who says the past week was crazy. The emails they got from OPM looked like Nigerian scams, people actually reported them to IT as suspicious.

Missing Vanilla Black today 😞

Elon Musk staff has been caught installing hard drives inside the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the Treasury Department, and the General Services Administration (GSA).

Before they make it illegal to learn this quote in school (or learn about Jackie Robinson at all) this is what he wrote at the end of his life: "I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made."