Transphobia is not only morally cancerous and ideologically bankrupt, it can also lose you money.

Mike Grier, Ryan Warsofsky, and the rest of that crowd frequently talk about wanting the Sharks to be “hard to play against” And it’s a whole different sport, but my goodness don’t the Valkyries exemplify what it means to be hard to play against?

i worked in several casinos and later for an online sportsbook. the best advice i can give you is to stay the hell away from all of it.

✍️ SIGNED Connor Bedard has agreed to a 5 year contract extension worth $15m per season. #Blackhawks

Lots happening this offseason 👏 Join us in congratulating our players on all the exciting life updates they've shared this offseason!

CBS is running two NWSL matches back to back (Denver/Portland and Bay/North Carolina) and the second match started before the first match finished. Rather than go straight to Bay/NC viewers were treated to no less than five minutes of commercials 8 minutes of play had gone before we got to the game

New: Late last night, Taylor Farms quietly posted an official recall notice We now know that the parasite-linked iceberg lettuce was shipped to Walmart & food distributors in 27 (!) states It was for some reason still being sent out up until Thursday July 16 www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

amen

Ted Gioia covers a lot of ground working as a musician, composer, and (principally) writer. Here he synthesizes the consequences of customer frustration with Netflix, and apparent consequences www.honest-broker.com/p/the-collap...

the second Lavender Scare

THREAD: The boy is called a liar. He’s told not to defend himself. Then the private school owner encourages all of his peers to attack him, one by one. She hits him, repeatedly, with a plastic pipe-like object. How does this school still exist — and receive state funds? 🧵

Cheryl Reeve is a fucking real one. We need more leaders in the WNBA like her.

Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.

My favorite sugar-free fruit soda comes in many flavors, and today I wondered if the Orange Mango sells poorly in some areas (and perhaps better in others) because it reminds shoppers of somebody

What in the wide world of sports does the governor mean by this? I know he’s given to meaningless platitudes, but this seems like an exceptional example Meantime the sole terrestrial provider here (no, I’m not doing business with SpaceX, sorry) craps out constantly despite millions in subsidies

an absolute banger of a three-post thread

However you feel about Fox (in all it’s dimensions), if you’re into the minutiae of putting a humongous sports event on American television, this is an interesting piece far beyond dishing about specific commentators

This is why, speaking as a reporter who has covered a lot of this stuff, I find it bizarre that a lot of the commentariat don't see where anti-trans stuff is going. Gaines et al are pretty clear about how they see sports as a way to win battles that bathroom stuff didn't like a decade ago.

Not only do we stand by our reporting. Madison Square Garden’s ridiculous lawsuit actually confirms it, noting the company did, in fact, track the sexual orientation of LGBTQIA celebrities in its talent database.

I have reached the conclusion that turning a baseball game into a television chat show is a bad idea

KQED breaks it all down in very readable fashion in this report Peter Chin-Hong at UCSF is an absolute public health treasure

I didn’t want to schedule that appointment with my cardiologist anyway

I love how of all the outcomes for this change they pick the dumbest one.

I avoid AI for similar reasons that I avoid meth: maybe I'd become more productive in the short term, or maybe I'd spend 36 hours disassembling a lawn mower and sorting the parts into neat little piles and develop a crippling addiction. Who's to say!

The irony of the World Cup's sponsorship by oil state companies is hard to ignore, as the climate crisis is already affecting players in real time. Read more from @sammyroth.bsky.social

It’s Bastille Day 🇫🇷 and E. Jean Carroll got (some of) the money owed to her by the orange menace so happy anti-tyranny day 🎉

🚨 Cyclosporiasis cases are rising nationwide. Here’s what Californians should know: No local outbreaks and no links to CDC‑investigated multistate outbreaks. California has 41 cases so far in 2026, down from 80 last year. More info: cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID... 🧵1/2

📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.

Fair comment (there’s a couple more posts) I think people underestimate the desire of Netflix to be indispensable when it comes to entertainment. They see themselves as a peer to anybody (Disney, NBCU, Fox) I can’t shake the feeling that it’ll get ugly in a year when the Women’s WC rolls around

Annie from Propublica breaks it all down in this excellent thread Parasites are a real problem, in the food supply as well as in government

Tom Dundon, who had the names of his small children engraved on the Stanley Cup recently because no one would stop him, is showing the same fuck you approach to doing business in Portland Not quite at the John Fisher level of team owner malfeasance, but getting there

This very worthy essay reminds us, among other things, that Postmedia in Canada, the McClatchy papers in the USA, and the National Enquirer are all under common control Extra points for spotlighting Postmedia’s hostile treatment of trans people

This figures to be the greatest book published since Gutenberg was in the business

I think KQED did a fine job summing up the ticketing experience for the World Cup It’s still hard for me to believe California consumer protection laws were followed by FIFA throughout the time they did business here, let alone resale platforms; we’ll probably never know www.kqed.org/news/12090613

I’m otherwise committed on Wednesday but given the way the Fever just handled Las Vegas I have a feeling the Valkyries visit to Indiana that night will be worthy of your attention

What’s interesting to me is that the Sharks appear to have bought 450 W. Santa Clara St. outright from Alphabet/Google. If they only needed it short-term to facilitate the renovation of the Tank over the next few years I’d think they’d work out a lease. Feels like there might be more going on

more matches more tickets more broadcasts more money if there are other considerations involved I’ll be surprised www.espn.com/soccer/story...

prescient!

Well what a fine kettle of VAR fish we have now 🤢

FIFA goes to incredible lengths to apply technology that eliminates human error, including sensors in the ball And yet

With temperatures in the high 80’s, relative humidity up close to 70%, and triple digit heat index, I just hope no one has to go to the hospital today while England plays Norway It would be a lousy way for fans to end their dream vacation to the World Cup

Laura Jedeed fulminates for us all (for me, anyway) 🫶

My affection for UP 4014 and its crew is great and sincere, but I hasten to point out (NPR didn’t) that this summer’s national tour is to build goodwill as the company is trying to push through a merger of 2 of the 4 Class I railroads left in the US, which figures to upend the economy in many ways

The hard and fast rule for events is one bathroom per 65 people, per every 50 if there’s alcohol. As far as I can tell, the average for SF’s 4th of July was one bathroom for every 787 people. “ It’s almost like it wasn’t planned,” an event planner told me. More here www.kqed.org/news/1209051...

keepers keep not keeping

love this

"why don't you win hearts and minds first?" Yeah, that's exactly the reason the right goes after any representation in film. They don't want trans people in media because they don't want people to empathize with trans people at all or know their struggles.

This comment links to Evan Urquhart’s excellent follow-up for @assignedmedia.org on the police activity at the SF Trans March A few days later I was at the first Pride March ever held in a small NorCal town (they were recruiting participants). Very purple politically, right on Cali’s red/blue edge

Rockin’ good news!

Cory goes deep here on the logical extension of the nonsensical debris flow pouring forth from the advocates for rapid embrace of AI. Heck of an essay