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Sports at Bloomberg.
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Danny Groner
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"Bon Jovi has eaten two bowls of pasta. I am struggling to keep pace. I feel supremely conscious of his fame. Stardom means there is always a schedule, a car, a plane. Our conversation continues only at his discretion. If he wanted, he could slip away more easily than the spaghetti on my fork."
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Jon Bon Jovi: ‘Fame is a liar and a thief’
The rock legend on making peace with the critics, the business of running a band — and his history with Donald Trump
https://www.ft.com/content/25f256b1-2c3e-453b-abd3-0635a7af8a67?accessToken=zwAAAZo7G_MVkc8l8laxLD5FO9Or0wY1p6-KZw.MEUCIEMpBT43db4-vlNY3KU2-Eo1OeoZ-5EFNe8nbqNny2suAiEA68PYFKkJris6V2NZmT4JlM2GCalRMosVs75HZZfaDkc&segmentId=e95a9ae7-622c-6235-5f87-51e412b47e97&shareType=enterprise&shareId=8a89f714-ba36-4050-962c-8b3eb7801c70
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To all the Dick’s I’ve loved before
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Inside the Empire That Sports Parents Built
Moms and dads with coolers, cleats and credit cards are powering a $40 billion US youth-sports industry and its unofficial home base, Dick’s Sporting Goods.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-10-10/how-dick-s-sporting-goods-loyalty-program-helped-spur-a-13-billion-boom?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2MDEwNDc4MywiZXhwIjoxNzYwNzA5NTgzLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUM1dVR0NHUFFRRkUwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI0NTI0NTM5OEREMTU0RDE0Qjg2QjZBMUI5REIxQTBDQSJ9.ZELnkQ3eQuK7jJYbCsnlX2SGvcRt0oFscEdXp2Qp2Ww
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Bloomberg News
about 1 month ago
If you’ve ever spent a Saturday shouting from the sidelines, you’ve probably helped build Dick’s Sporting Goods’ $13 billion empire.
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Inside the Empire That Sports Parents Built
Moms and dads with coolers, cleats and credit cards are powering a $40 billion US youth-sports industry and its unofficial home base, Dick’s Sporting Goods.
https://bloom.bg/3J5KWjV
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Stacey Shick
about 1 month ago
Dick’s Sporting Goods — "which began life in 1948 as a fishing and camping store in Binghamton, New York — has become the Levi Strauss of the youth sports gold rush. It’s the leading supplier for young athletes searching for glory." Happy weekend, to my fellow sports parents out there!
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Inside the Empire That Sports Parents Built
Moms and dads with coolers, cleats and credit cards are powering a $40 billion US youth-sports industry and its unofficial home base, Dick’s Sporting Goods.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-10-10/how-dick-s-sporting-goods-loyalty-program-helped-spur-a-13-billion-boom?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2MDEwNTgxNCwiZXhwIjoxNzYwNzEwNjE0LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUM1dVR0NHUFFRRkUwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDQjhERDAxRjBGMEU0MkE1QkUyREM4NEU5MUUyRDAwRSJ9.6OVCn6_oxu8KOiWgtPsdrL75eSqqIeH5Dt7OuVEOHJ8
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Inside the Empire That Sports Parents Built
Moms and dads with coolers, cleats and credit cards are powering a $40 billion US youth-sports industry and its unofficial home base, Dick’s Sporting Goods.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-10-10/how-dick-s-sporting-goods-loyalty-program-helped-spur-a-13-billion-boom?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2MDEwNDc4MywiZXhwIjoxNzYwNzA5NTgzLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUM1dVR0NHUFFRRkUwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI0NTI0NTM5OEREMTU0RDE0Qjg2QjZBMUI5REIxQTBDQSJ9.ZELnkQ3eQuK7jJYbCsnlX2SGvcRt0oFscEdXp2Qp2Ww
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Guardian Australia
about 1 month ago
You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned
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You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned
Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/10/you-wont-believe-what-degrading-practice-the-pope-just-condemned?CMP=aus_bsky
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Robot umps are coming to MLB next year. I wrote about testing them in the Atlantic League a few years back:
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MLB Is Testing Ways to Fix Baseball’s Boredom Problem
The league is using the independent Atlantic League as a laboratory for changes that could speed up games and add more drama.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-10-11/mlb-rule-changes-atlantic-league-tests-tweaks-meant-to-save-baseball?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1ODY1MzIyNCwiZXhwIjoxNzU5MjU4MDI0LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJSMFQ3VzRUMEFGQjkwMSIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI0NTI0NTM5OEREMTU0RDE0Qjg2QjZBMUI5REIxQTBDQSJ9.APA-Yevfs7OdVkskoCJTnOzsOYFQxHFV3iySF870eBY
about 2 months ago
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Ben Mathis-Lilley
about 2 months ago
It’s a true fact: I got a Business Job in the Business World, which I start next week. But on my last day, Slate let me do one last job: A post about [portentously] all that I’ve seen.
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The Biggest Difference Between the Trump Era and the Obama Era
How did literally everything go up for debate?
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/09/trump-era-vs-obama-era-politics-lessons-democrats.html
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I wrote about Ballhalla with Vanessa Perdomo:
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How the Golden State Valkyries Became the Hottest Team in the WNBA
They entered the league at the right time, in the right city—and with the right amount of swagger.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-12/how-the-golden-state-valkyries-became-the-hottest-team-in-the-wnba?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1NzcwMTc0MCwiZXhwIjoxNzU4MzA2NTQwLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUMkg1Q0tHUEZIVFEwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI0NTI0NTM5OEREMTU0RDE0Qjg2QjZBMUI5REIxQTBDQSJ9.G25Ynf_zZu3cywtN77oZ95f35wZcaGpLlE1Lc6GXyng
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Jeff Zillgitt
2 months ago
After 30 years at USA TODAY, it's -30- for me. I have taken a buyout. It's been the thrill and dream of a lifetime. Being a newspaper person was all I ever wanted out of work. There's not enough room to acknowledge everyone who deserves it but my gratitude runs wide and deep.
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Aaron W. Gordon
3 months ago
NJ Transit's official data makes it difficult to tell just how bad it is. So
@suryamattu.com
and I spent three months collecting the raw location data for more than 190,000 trains on NJT, Metro-North, and LIRR. Then
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made the graphics to show you. The answer: Very bad.
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NJ Transit Is NYC’s Least Reliable Commuter Rail — By a Long Shot
An analysis of real-time train data shows its passengers face major service disruptions at six times the rate of riders on other NYC commuter railways.
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I wrote about the problem of prop bets:
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Leagues Are Struggling to Deal With a Certain Type of Sports Bet
“Player prop” wagers are raising concerns about integrity.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-08/sports-betting-is-wrestling-with-a-certain-type-of-wager?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1NDY3NzU5OSwiZXhwIjoxNzU1MjgyMzk5LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUME85OFdHUTFZWDUwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI0NTI0NTM5OEREMTU0RDE0Qjg2QjZBMUI5REIxQTBDQSJ9.4dNm_vap2aTNYb6YfVAHOWvRXRTj9VUyI7V2exyOKTQ
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Nolan Hicks
4 months ago
“Last season’s numbers, Dinnery says, show that Tottenham Hotspur, for example, played the most minutes of any team in the league, at 5,430, and suffered the second-highest number of injuries, at 41.”
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Soccer Players Are Being Seriously Overworked
FIFA Club World Cup matches have been mostly forgettable, and worries persist about injuries and fatigue.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-11/fifa-club-world-cup-shows-how-soccer-players-are-overworked
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Ziad Daoud
4 months ago
"DAZN agreed to pay $1 billion for the rights to the [FIFA Club World Cup] tournament—a princely sum for a TV property with virtually no track record .. DAZN subsequently had its balance sheet bolstered by a $1 billion investment from Saudi Arabia"
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Soccer Players Are Being Seriously Overworked
FIFA Club World Cup matches have been mostly forgettable, and worries persist about injuries and fatigue.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-11/fifa-club-world-cup-shows-how-soccer-players-are-overworked
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I checked in with Steve Ballmer about the Intuit Dome after the Clippers first season there. Ballmer, as always, a fun interview:
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How the Clippers Engineered the NBA’s Best Home Court Advantage
Reward the loudest fans and make sure there are lots and lots of bathrooms.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-13/how-the-clippers-engineered-the-nba-s-best-home-court-advantage?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc0OTgyNzA2MCwiZXhwIjoxNzUwNDMxODYwLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTWFNNT1ZUMVVNMFcwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI0NTI0NTM5OEREMTU0RDE0Qjg2QjZBMUI5REIxQTBDQSJ9.Z4Sc0fAz2_fLQvb-HhRIg1eFpJMX-uH7f8VOrXr4eeg
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This is the future for a lot of places. I wrote about beer as a gateway a couple years ago:
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Agree. The clearinghouse is going to take college sports backwards:
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I wrote about the sports doc glut
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Not Every Team Deserves a Netflix Sports Documentary
Customers love them, but streamers are getting choosier in what they say yes to.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-21/not-every-team-deserves-a-netflix-sports-documentary?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc0Nzg1MzY3OCwiZXhwIjoxNzQ4NDU4NDc4LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTV00xQ0dUMEFGQjQwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI0NTI0NTM5OEREMTU0RDE0Qjg2QjZBMUI5REIxQTBDQSJ9.oxqklr1S6JtS7JCQJiv9Xyrs5Iz-2gpHsl8d14ZZHi8
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Danny Groner
6 months ago
“There was a moment in the sports doc world when a lot of big athletes could sell something based simply off of their name,” he says. “But it’s become more about, ‘What’s the story? Is it going to provide something new and interesting?’”
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Not Every Team Deserves a Netflix Sports Documentary
Customers love them, but streamers are getting choosier in what they say yes to.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-21/not-every-team-deserves-a-netflix-sports-documentary
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Steven T. Dennis
6 months ago
This is a top priority of Donald Trump, and does not include a ban on Trump profiting off of his many family crypto ventures, which have netted them many millions of dollars since his election.
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Good to see leagues arriving:
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Joe Weisenthal
6 months ago
Consumer sentiment collapsing even among Republicans, and Republicans are also expecting higher inflation
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Aaron Sojourner
6 months ago
IANAL but when these federal agents took custody of the adult, seems like they also assumed custody of the child. Then they abandoned the child. Is that a state crime that local or state prosecutors could charge?
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12-year-old boy left alone on sidewalk after ICE raid in Massachusetts
A 12-year-old boy was left behind on a street after an immigration raid in Waltham, Massachusetts.
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/waltham-mass-ice-arrest-boy-left-alone/
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Olga Nesterova
6 months ago
As part of the red-carpet treatment, Saudi officials arranged for a fully operational mobile McDonald’s unit to accompany President Trump during his stay. According to local reports, the unit was set up near the Saudi Royal Court.
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Prem Thakker ツ
6 months ago
NEW — Trump’s ICE has just arrested Newark Mayor Ras Baraka. Alongside residents and other officials, Baraka has been protesting outside a detention facility that’s set to help Trump’s mass deportation regime.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
6 months ago
The 16-year-old was dragged away and arrested by Worcester PD because she kicked the car ICE was holding her mother in as her mom was taken away. The day earlier, ICE had taken her dad as well.
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Kalshi bettors seem to be confident in next Pope:
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Gregg Carlstrom
6 months ago
World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in
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World Central Kitchen | WCK Forced to Halt Cooking in Gaza as Supplies Run Out
After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza.
https://wck.org/news/gaza-update-5-7
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Ted Mann
6 months ago
State and local governments are bracing for a recessionary shock, as the Trump administration slashes federal funding that underpins local budgets, nonprofits and infrastructure. You’ll feel it everywhere. w
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www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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States, Cities Face Funding Collapse Threat with Trump Cuts
Officials are confronting deep uncertainty about funding for programs that undergird their economies — just as Trump’s trade war has raised fears of a recession.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-05-07/trump-budget-cut-threat-leaves-state-local-government-funding-uncertain?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc0NjYxNDg0MCwiZXhwIjoxNzQ3MjE5NjQwLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTVlZZSDREV0xVNjgwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDN0Q1NUU0NURDNTA0QUE3ODg0ODkxRjMxMjVDRjQ5NSJ9.0xvilmcsamOLLTFsPxBmPVaRf3X54xpIk6-kuEJJmdk
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Kyle Cheney
6 months ago
NEW from
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: You’ve heard of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Now meet the second man erroneously deported to El Salvador in violation of a legal settlement: Daniel Lozano-Camargo. Until now, he’d only been identified by a pseudonym in court.
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Mike Vorkunov
6 months ago
Gregg Popovich announces he has a new job title: El Jefe
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Shawn Donnan
6 months ago
Lots of companies want to launch or expand factories in the US. One barrier: Trump’s tariffs on the Chinese machinery they need to do so… My latest for
@bloomberg.com
with a cast of great colleagues:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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US Factories That Need Machinery From China Are Playing the Tariff Waiting Game
Almost as swiftly as he has erected his tariff wall around the US over the past 100 days, President Donald Trump has issued exemptions for a select but growing family of products like auto parts and s...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-02/factories-key-to-trump-s-golden-age-urge-china-tariff-relief?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc0NjE5MTYzMCwiZXhwIjoxNzQ2Nzk2NDMwLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTVkpYUzhUMEFGQjQwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI2NTI4REQ5RTU2RTM0NjcyOEM1NEMwNDIzREJCRDAyNSJ9.T6YVTvUt62uaoqEjtwY8sX33ZxhCLlbCnsX_hsLI3cA
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Re-upping this old piece on the news that Gregg Popovich is stepping away from coaching:
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The Five Pillars of Popovich
Gregg Popovich, the crusty, ingenious NBA coach, will never write the management advice guide that business needs.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-10/the-five-pillars-of-gregg-popovich?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc0NjIwMjQ1MSwiZXhwIjoxNzQ2ODA3MjUxLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJQMkI1RjM2SklKVVAwMSIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI0NTI0NTM5OEREMTU0RDE0Qjg2QjZBMUI5REIxQTBDQSJ9.caQr9OrvLjn-OS6_aU5vIowo3X1huOaS3GEggGbPjQs
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Andrew Couts
6 months ago
Damn good data reporting from the
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www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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The Rising Cost of ICE Flying Immigrants to Far-Flung Detention Centers
The increase in long-distance transfers makes it harder to fight deportation and boosts taxpayer expense.
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Judd Legum
7 months ago
1. Clay Jackson, a Texas lawyer, provided basic legal advice to an immigrant family fearing deportation Then, two officers visited him at his home, accusing him of "obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation" Then, after speaking publicly, he was fired from his job at a Fortune 500 company
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Fortune 500 company abruptly fires lawyer who helped immigrant family
On March 4, Clay Jackson, an attorney in the Dallas area, was at a gas station near his home when the attendant asked if he would help a local immigrant family.
https://popular.info/p/fortune-500-company-abruptly-fires
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Bob Burgess
7 months ago
Trump's first 100 days in office can by summed up by just this one chart. This is the consensus estimate for GDP growth in 2025 among 79 economists surveyed by Bloomberg. As you can see, forecasted growth has collapsed:
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Shawn Donnan
7 months ago
On his 100th day in office in 2017 Trump headed to a PA wheelbarrow factory to launch his trade policy and put the US on the path to today’s tariffs. Eight years on that factory is closed. The wheelbarrows are now made in China. My latest for
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The US Factory Where Trump Previewed His Tariffs in 2017 Is Now in China
The president celebrated the first 100 days of his first term at a Pennsylvania factory that’s since closed.
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Rodger Sherman
7 months ago
I’m sure somebody has done this before but here you go
add a skeleton here at some point
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JW Mason
7 months ago
And people say cryptocurrencies are socially useless.
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Timothy Snyder
7 months ago
2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.
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Brian Tyler Cohen
7 months ago
Trump has just replaced President Obama’s official presidential portrait in the White House with a painting of himself.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News
7 months ago
"Pete Belton, 44, from Ilkeston says he was shocked to find his forearm featured in a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) document used to help identify alleged members of Tren de Aragua (TdA), a transnational criminal organisation."
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British man's tattoo wrongly linked to Venezuelan gang in US government document
A tattoo belonging to a man from Derbyshire has appeared in a US government document used to identify members of Tren de Aragua, a notorious Venezuelan gang, despite the man having no connection to th...
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly22xm8kx1o
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talked to baseball guy Scott Boras about being a baseball guy for 40 years—and about negotiating $15 billion in contracts:
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Baseball’s Biggest Agent Scott Boras on MLB’s Pay Gap and Salary Cap
Boras had another record offseason, reigniting calls for a salary cap — and threats of a lockout.
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Bradford William Davis
7 months ago
when MLB dropped "diversity" from its career site, I reached out to every team, including those with live DEI pages. None committed to their current efforts. Almost nobody responded! One week before Jackie Robinson Day, my take on the leaguewide silence:
www.miamiherald.com/opinion/arti...
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Most MLB teams have DEI programs. Why won’t any commit to them or talk about it? | Opinion
In the Trump era, when even Jackie Robinson is at risk, the sport is quiet about diversity efforts it used to tout. | Opinion
https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/article303535836.html
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