Bueckers’ 2025 WNBA rookie base salary was $78,831. Giving $50,000 from winning the Unrivaled FT contest is rad.

He is a 5-year-old asylum seeker who entered the country legally with his dad. "Liam...is so kind and loving, and his classmates miss him. He comes into class every day and just brightens the room,” his teacher says. Older sibling came home from middle school to find his dad and little brother gone

JC says Prediction Markets are just “glorified penny stocks” while the chief executives at Robinhood and Interaftive Brokers say they’ll become larger than the securities markets themselves. Which is closer to the truth?

Happy MLK Day! Here’s an illustration of MLK Jr in the Mason Temple giving his legendary “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech in support of the weeks long Memphis Sanitation workers’ strike. You can zoom in a little bit to read the facts. #mlkday #kidlit #illustration

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. dedicated his life fighting for equity and justice. He taught us that even in the face of intimidation and discrimination, we must never stop working towards a better future – a lesson that feels especially relevant today.

For the first time ever, a tigress & her five cubs were filmed together in Northeast China. Five cubs is incredibly rare for Amur tigers. Just over a decade ago, China’s wild Amur tiger population had fallen to about 20 individuals. Today, it’s estimated at around 70. 🧡🐯

This week's zoo update~ 1 year old fluffy and soft twins, Leni and Lotti had a great time playing in the snow, along with their mom Meng Meng at Zoo Berlin💕

if someone punches your neighbor and you go to protect them, that does not make you a protester. that makes you someone who protects your neighbor.

Wrote about how the Grok scandal upended our notion that platforms would do even the bare minimum to prevent attacks against their own user base www.platformer.news/grock-blocke...

since everyone loves a good orange cat story, i have one from this weekend 🧵

Stephen Curry has now made a three-pointer in 75 straight games, the fourth time in his career he's accomplished this 🎯 Vote Steph for All-Star at Warriors.com/Vote

Stephen highlights? STEPHEN HIGHLIGHTS.

On December 31, 1995, Bill Watterson published the final 'Calvin & Hobbes' comic strip. #CalvinandHobbes

On December 14th, I sat across from 142 New Yorkers as they shared their concerns, their dreams, the leadership they long for from City Hall. Our campaign was built around listening to the people of New York, and we will govern in the same way. Tomorrow, we get to work. youtu.be/xj89tYvwr6k

Living proof you can be the greatest shooter of all-time AND a goofball Send Stephen to All-Star » Warriors.com/Vote

Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts. George, Edwin and Josephine Moran Ed, Caroline, Jack, Rose and Rory

USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked

“My dad always wanted me to be the worst on every team, because that was my way of knowing I had to get better” —Natalie Nakase, interviewed by Alan Chazaro www.thebeliever.net/a-short-inte...

Northland Arboretum unveiled an ice skating trail in Brainerd-Baxter that will be open all winter long. Reporting and video by Kim Hyatt/The Minnesota Star Tribune Read more: bit.ly/3MOjhFU

THE NINERS WIN. WHAT A GAME.

Today on a desert slope, I found frosted Christmas stars: a rare succulent (Apteranthes burchardii) that produces starbursts of blossom after it rains:

One of my favorite presents ever—my dad found and framed this pic of my mother @sunminkimes.bsky.social at a Seattle courthouse after she passed her US citizenship test in 1981. Like so many of the people who come here to start a new life, she is the best of us—the bravest, strongest person I know.

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2️⃣6️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ Stephen Curry continues to write history.

30’s making his own Christmas magic 🎄

On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

Steph highlights? STEPH HIGHLIGHTS 📽️

Steph's routine is mesmerizing.

I send my kids to a small Bay Area school where a high percentage of parents work in tech. My informal survey of popular holiday gifts found that the two most popular were the Yoto mini music player and Tin Can phone. Tells you something that all these families want their kids to be screen-free.

What are your top 5 Stephen Curry threes 🤔 Vote SC30 to All-Star » Warriors.com/Vote

My one travel tip, if you’re flying out of SFO this holiday season. www.kqed.org/arts/1397835...

I don’t want to turn my location on! I don’t want notifications!

"I took the long walk to the billing counter. It was the first time I had dealt directly with the logistics of death instead of grieving in my head." —Jennifer Thuy Vi Nguyen on duality, detachment, and life and death decisions. longreads.com/2025/11/06/i...

the NYT cooking commenters never fail me

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

The system Meta has built tolerates scams on an unbelievable scale. Beijing Tengze was one of Meta’s top 200 worldwide advertisers last year, alongside brands such as BMW and Chanel. The company mostly advertised scams. We visited its supposed HQ: a fake address in a mountain farming town.

My favorite sufganiyot fact is that they weren't even associated specifically with Hanukkah until the 1920s, when the Israeli labor movement promoted them as a way to keep bakery workers employed over the holiday, because traditional Hanukkah food like latkes was easy to make at home

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It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

Every online space is now a casino that has been rigged against you

gotta be honest with you all, Seasonal Minion Fire Hydrant is carrying my mental health on its back.

This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.

Celebrating a career that defined greatness 🧡 #10 is now forever in the rafters for UConn WBB. Congrats, Sue Bird!

There is some argument to be made about how only the woman in this sordid scenario is paying a price but it is not a lynching in any way shape or form. I wish people demonstrated even a slight understanding of history.

Have yourself a night, Pat 😤

The case appears to be an example of a tactic that the Trump administration has used to pressure undocumented immigrants to leave the United States by separating them from their families after they refuse to comply with deportation orders. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/n...

“The decision was made to exclude me from the filmed production of Swan Lake because I was told my brown skin would disrupt the aesthetic.” ~ Misty Copeland When folks gripe about DEI, remind them who benefited from shutting out dancers like Copeland. That pattern runs through our whole history.

Please share your Thanksgiving traditions especially if (like me!) you grew up in an immigrant family and have created your own version of this holiday. We make: Turkey mole, pickled onions, jalapeño cornbread, cranberry salsa, roasted corn, and sage salsa verde (thank you Samin Nosrat!).

Beloved sibling farmers Lee and Wayne James are raising funds to buy the land they’ve been cultivating for two decades. @livpeluso.bsky.social visits Tierra Vegetables: sf.gazetteer.co/tierra-veget...