some people you can recruit, other people you have to simply defeat. politics makes more sense when you accept this

"first it was the gays" is the strategy of this "Trojan Horse" and basically any "pro-child safety legislation". They lure you in with "oh, it's about kids" and then you gotta show ID to watch YouTube. Meanwhile, Palantir collects all that info....

Absolutely egregious paraphrase

Genocidal rhetoric. Identical to the language used by Israel's defense minister in 2023 referring to Palestinians. When people say Gaza was the blueprint, this is what it means.

Melton been solid this season, but think his market will be more attainable for the Warriors (even if they re-sign Porzingis) than folks think. Of course he'd have to wait on any Kawhi/LeBron sweepstakes which may lead him elsewhere.

It's really this simple and lazy. The NYT bought into transphobic hysteria that children were being given surgeries at the drop of a hat and subsequently saw a brief glimpse of reality as a change. Pathetic shit.

I haven’t written about the IOC ban or waded into any of the discourse bc I also feel defeated. I feel gutted. I have nothing left to say tbh. But you’ll never convince me the answer is to rollover & accept that the human rights of a marginalized community are worth giving up bc it’s “just sports.”

Not concerned as much about whether the protests mean or are asking for anything as much as I am with how everyone is happy to defend protests and their power now, but not when Black people and pro-Palestine activists were putting their body on the line to challenge the state and its institutions.

I think Tony Vitello will be a good manager but that was just an utterly baffling move. Borucki is almost unplayable against right-handers and you bring him in, in a 1-run game, to face the best right-handed hitter in decades. Awful.

Criminalizing peeing is extraordinarily damaging to public health—in 5️⃣ main ways A 🧵, based on NC’s experience (its HB2 bill) & on published literature 1/n www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...

We need a new civil rights act to protect transgender Americans from bigots with power. Republicans are trying to create second class citizens.

I do NOT want to be an editor to "improve AI generated texts" i do not want to be a "storytelling AI-prompt writer" i do not want to "transcribe and correct AI generated texts to improve AI learning of language" i do not want to feed quotes into AI so it writes stories for me.

Thanks to everybody who shared and engaged with this piece! I'm closing socials for the day to protect my sanity a little, but I really do appreciate all the comments and thoughts and questions (less so the extremely aggressive emails, fix your hearts folks). www.coyotemedia.org/the-olympics...

The ppl who deliberately did this to him should be tried for murder.

just saw that Boston University took down Pride flags over spring break. this is why this work matters: the academic repression and exclusion of marginalized identities on campuses was piloted in states like Florida—and it's already happening in states that people assume are "different", exempt.

It was an Air Canada flight from Trudeau airport to LaGuardia.

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Even in a world of extremes, some events still stand out to me. This is one. All-time monthly records are being shattered. The size of this ridge across the western U.S. is truly striking for March, and we see a very clear climate change connection. Explore: csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...

Super excited for the major salary increases in the new W CBA, but I can't help but cringe at seeing the revenue share reported at "nearly 20% across the length of the deal." The PA started negotiations asking for 40% (already significantly lower than NBA players) & got forced down to less than 20?

An overconfident Team USA getting embarrassed by a much smaller country in front of a global audience is their last and most beautiful tribute to the American military yet

May that win foreshadow an equally resounding victory for Venezuela against the U.S.'s latest imperial attacks.

It doesn't change what the U.S. has done/continues to do to Venezuela, but really cathartic to see Venezuela beat that specific team for the WBC championship.

Strike has begun, 3,800 meat packing workers in Colorado have walked off the job

ICE has killed someone new.

EXCLUSIVE: Surveillance video obtained by an activist shows Liam Conejo Ramos and his father being taken to a detention center in Texas via a Delta Airlines flight, the morning after ICE allegedly used the boy as bait. gillianbrockell.com/video-proves...

The contrast between USA & Italy at the WBC, 2 teams w/mostly white US-born players, really shows there is no substance to white culture. It replaces European ethnic traditions with American hegemony, leaving a culture devoid of anything unifying other than anti-blackness and imperialism.

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

wow. wow wow wow.

I cover a lot of the mind-numbingly frustrating things about baseball. a lot of the time, it sucks the fun out of watching a game and it's just ... whatever. but goddamn if the World Baseball Classic doesn't remind me why I fell in love with baseball in the first place

The president’s spokeswoman going on the president’s daughter-in-law’s interview program to lie about the effects of her efforts to strongarm other media outlets into changing a report damaging to the regime would be very recognizable to anyone who’s lived under authoritarianism.

Donnie Wahlberg? Married to Jenny McCarthy, served on the board for and raised money for their anti-vaccine organization Donnie Wahlberg? Super neat @nwslsoccer.com

THREAD. I have to say that I am very disappointed with John Oliver. I finally watched his segment on police body cameras, and it was abysmal. Missed the whole point, and in the process bought into some of the worst copaganda about them.

I think there is something to explore that many nations at the WBC have come showing what they love about their country (dancing, celebration, tradition) to represent the people while the American team has shown up representing and only celebrating the military

Put another tick mark down by this ending up as the baseball post of 2026

today all 9 people federally charged with "materially supporting terrorism", rioting, carrying an explosive, as part of an "ANTIFA cell" were found guilty on some or all charges. the case was based in part on being in Signal organizing group chats and possessing political leftist zines. important:

so I am once again loudly tapping the sign: please support independent, worker-owned, billionaire free media. if you're local to DC that of course includes @51st.news, which @russ41.bsky.social can help you get across the finish line via 2Xing bsky.app/profile/russ...

I saw people saying "Kobe dropped Pau Gasol to the floor in the Olympics! Arozarena needs to stop being soft!" Folks: Kobe was an asshole.

This is such a critical point, and it’s something I’ve tried to highlight in my reporting. The right-wing groups and operatives who politicized COVID have also been pushing anti-trans shit. Moms for Liberty is a classic example. It’s helped create new GOP voters/activists.

A consistent theme across the discourse is that people simply do not appreciate the baseline destructivness and horror of war.

The basic tools of military action are things that would be horrorific crimes in civilian life. A war crime is an act so egregious that it stands out against that background. Somehow we never have that conversation honestly before we go to war.

what fresh hell

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

They are torturing and killing people in our concentration camps, and I wish more people were actively bothered by that

I wrote about the first national book banning bill, which effectively seeks to erase trans people. At the end I include a link to let your reps know that you oppose this bill and all it stands for. lithub.com/why-we-must-...

a source has informed me that Let Cuba Play was outside Surprise Stadium prior to the Cuba/Royals exhibition game. members of the Team Cuba delegation were denied visas to enter the U.S., including the team's pitching coach, Pedro Luis Lazo. (photo from Let Cuba Play)

the Giants are really trying to make this stupid unnecessary comeback a thing huh (from the Giants media guide)

In my own life, I also observe fewer people willing to stand up for fat people, and more people willing to defend or explain away anti-fatness. Like, solidarity with people who are fatter than oneself really feels like it has evaporated in a way that's both heartbreaking and frightening.