Outrageous

The Giants were allies long enough to get Mission Rock built and that was almost certainly the plan all along.

Judge Mark Pittman, who signed the case over to Judge Reed O'Connor, is who presided over the Prairieland trial in the US Northern District of Texas, where the protest occurred. O'Connor, who's had a role in several anti-trans DOJ efforts, handed down some of the sentences with Pittman yesterday.

Giants ownership is often framed as a broad “group,” implying dozens of small stakes. But I learned recently that the near-control of the franchise rests with two blocs. The Johnson family (~25–30%) and Publix heir David Jenkins (20%). SSP has consolidated a few smaller stakes, could be up to 10%.

when people say that there is an entire welfare network for far right cranks that are bankrolled by local car barons and billionaires, what that means is that every university is prone to opening a Center For Freedom Thoughts Studies that focuses on how to ban trans people and put migrants in camps.

Bradford does the kind of investigative sportswriting that is so desperately needed in a rapidly shrinking ecosystem. Work that's virtually non-existent because it takes an ethical compass, a social justice lens, money to produce, and lawyers for when the threats come. Subscribe if you're able!

the story of Iran is that you don't always have to win. sometimes you just have to have what it takes to deny victory to your opponents, and endure

On a totally unrelated note: there’s a prominent NBA writer and reporter who takes pride in the video hits he does from the driver’s seat of his Tesla while it’s on autopilot

From @jessicawluther.com, in our magazine: Once the majority has decided a marginalized group is the demon in one part of a story, it’s easier to paint them as demons in another. To counter this, we need to look at gender-expansive athletes in a detailed and holistic way.

I thought the Giants couldn’t be more disappointing. Sadly I was wrong.

I’m not someone who thinks you need big qualifications to talk about soccer but the fact that the face of US soccer commentary is Alexi Lalas who doesn’t have the credentials, humor, substance, or insight to be worthwhile, and is just plainly a bad person reflects so badly on the country

It should be required to wear the Pride Night hats mostly because I want these guys to squirm, or for every one of the worst people in the league to have to sign with the Rangers to avoid it

People are in motion, everywhere.

jackbooted thugs

In response to the New Jersey Attorney General’s statement tonight about the protests outside of Delaney Hall, we asked for comment about police using rubber bullets on photojournalists, rounding them up, and forcing them to leave. No response so far.

RIGHT NOW: NJ state troopers with riot gear are forcing protesters supporting the hunger strikers of Delaney Hall and media ppl down the street. They’re firing flashbang grenades at the ground to force people to disperse, per the @statuscoupnews.bsky.social livestream www.youtube.com/live/yTlpCYk...

I haven't messed with this really but just be careful about games with underlying judgements that may/may not meet reality. If you enter the owners *first* proposal of a hard cap into this it rates it as "balanced." I'd disagree with that assessment pretty heavily.

"player salaries are why going to baseball games is expensive" listen I know Nate Silver has become slightly less trustworthy over the last decade-plus but this has been a very settled issue for decades now

this would be embarrassing if the author was capable of shame

days into a hunger and labor strike of hundreds detained in GEO Group-run Delaney Hall, people inside report beatings, rotten food, crumbling facilities, and denied medical care. protesters and organizers outside are confronting ICE in the Newark street. talked to a few about it: @us.theguardian.com

“We need to keep remembering that the fight is about those on the inside,” said Cristian Moreno-Rodriguez of El Pueblo Unido of AC. “As long as we keep doing that, we encourage everyone to keep coming, to make sure we’re highlighting the atrocities and abuses these ICE agents are committing.”

An agent at Delaney Hall attempted to kick a demonstrator into the tires of a moving semi. This cannot be reformed. Video via @statuscoupnews.bsky.social

The detainees who are on hunger strike inside the Delaney Hall Detention Center are heroes. They are fighting for everyone's freedom. The same goes for those who are standing up to ICE outside Delaney Hall tonight. Thank you for your courage.🖤 The mercenary scum who serve ICE are beneath contempt.

Just got a message from someone on the ground outside Delaney Hall asking for folks to bring as much support as they can. In an attempt to break the hunger strike, ICE aims to transport the strikers out of the facility tonight. They need folks on the ground to stop them.

destructive force, and the larger the penis, the more destructive he imagines it is. From a sadistic desire to harm his partner, he may wish to witness her body “destroyed” by a larger penis than his own. This was my experience with an abusive ex who wanted to sexually enslave and pimp me

If you believe in a hierarchy of masculinity and when sex is the central point of becoming a man, dominating a woman, then the idea of penis size as evidence of how masculine one is becomes extreme. White dudes are obsessed with the idea of black dudes having big penises. From slavery till now.

I have an answer! It’s because they find black men and black bodies erotic. Cuck porn isn’t about the woman, it’s about being attracted to the man through the woman. It’s a desire to be submissive through hierarchy — the military, sports, gangs, all show this drive. And naturally it shows up in sex

In the basketball justice system, pick and roll based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious plays are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

I am begging anyone who says shit like this to look at places with legislative term limits to see how it's gone. Ohio has had them for 30+ years and it has led to rampant corruption, perpetual campaigning, the ascent of lobbyists, and the back-burnering of anything but the most gimmicky legislation.

Jessica Luther's (@jessicawluther.com) review of the latest books on trans athletes is excellent. One quote: In a transphobic world, “There is an ease to being cis that is hard to evaluate but could arguably be a competitive advantage, and it is an ease that cis folks often take for granted.”

“Pronoun-policing” is one of those things that gets wildly inflated in people’s memories. For every one time they’ve been asked to use different pronouns for someone, they remember it as like twelve times.

as many of you know, I'm examining how sports leagues handle allegations of abuse. I want to share an alleged recording I believe to be credible from a recent MLB domestic violence investigation I obtained that, if true, offers rare insight into an opaque process. 🧵 CW: domestic violence

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders. Aluminum is an ADJUVANT. It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine. That’s it.

In 1979, Mattel sold toy Battlestar Galactica fighter ships that fired a tiny spring-loaded "torpedo." One 4-year old choked on it, and the entire line of torpedo toys was recalled and never sold again.

Palestinian Football Association VP Susan Shalabi on football in Gaza after the athleticide: "We lost so many hundreds of footballers; we lost most ​of them children. So football now in Gaza, there is no football at all." www.reuters.com/sports/socce...

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

And here’s some more context: the pandemic misinformation the Biden administration wanted social media companies to do something about… WAS LITERALLY KILLING PEOPLE BY THE THOUDANDS. It must be said. They should have done *more* to combat it.

It’s not a “well you didn’t like it when Biden did it, so don’t support it when your guy does it” situation. It’s a “you guys hyped up something that wasn’t this, and now that this is actually happening under your guy, you’re nowhere to be found” situation.

It is extremely bad that the Freedom of the Press Foundation is equating the meritless right-wing claims that the Biden administration engaged in jawboning during the pandemic—going so far as to cite the 5th Circuit’s wild and overturned opinion in Murthy v. Missouri—with Trump’s very real jawboning

The Kushners, eh? Well, I feel Buster moving from Georgia because of ideological reasons is speculation that no longer holds water.

last year, I wrote about a Palestinian woman that ICE arrested during her honeymoon and locked up for months. Today, I ran into her at the cafe!

Politicians just seem to have given up trying to explain the world as it is to people. It's a huge problem.

“Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial. Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.” This is why we should fund science. 🧪

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Really such a terrifying reality that dudes will kill their wives or girlfriends over rejection or a break up. It happens so often that it’s barely a topic of conversation or seen as the epidemic that it is.

I think you could make a pretty strong case that Steph Curry and Draymond Green understand each other on the court better than any two teammates in NBA history

Anything is possible with Steph Curry.

Michael Jordan never did this

"No matter how dark or distracted NBA fandom can be by discourse and debates, nothing has unified everyone for more than a decade than Steph Curry with a basketball in his hands dancing on defenses." Read my full story on the Warriors incredible win: www.goldenstateofmind.com/general/1101...

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