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Airbnb is spending over $7 million — and much, much more than that, actually — to control City Hall ahead of 2028. Torched is here to explain all the ways that Olympic and Paralympic sponsor is showing up on your ballot this year — including in some ways you probably didn't expect

Well that’s a new twist on “protect women’s sports”

Marisa, as is regularly true, is pitch-perfect here – at least in reflecting my consternation/dismay/outrage

Pretty great piece that would have been mega reassuring for me a few years (decades) ago Trans people who understand and can explain biology are 💞

For the third time in the Finals, the Valkyries hold the Dream to their lowest point totals of the season. 64 points in game 1, then 62 points in game 4, now 55 in game 5. Valks were also responsible for Dream’s regular-season low of 66. Their regular season average was 91.3 ppg.

That’s a heck of a win. It’s a heck of a basketball team

the knee-jerk nature of so much WNBA discourse really sidelines fans from leveling legitimate criticism at the most gendered disparity in women's sports — the *extreme* lack of bureaucratic aptitude within these front offices and ownership groups

When your friend transitions but they keep their name

On the field, you say? Tell us more, Rob…

When the Laver Cup booking messed with the Valkyries’ first round home game in 2025 I kind of understood – it seemed like the basketball team didn’t exist when they inked that deal, and Lacob vowed never to let that kind of thing happen again The shenanigans in ATL this time though? Come tf on. 🤢

Just in case you need it all spelled out for you

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

Hey @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov, did you read this? Even if you’re not the Attorney General of California, I think you ought to read this. I’d like to add that a recent visit to @sfchronicle.com led me into an equally indecipherable Privacy Policy and Terms of Service that seemed, well… bad

I will never understand “if you can’t beat them, join them” when it comes to poison.

Seven former staffers of Rep. Mike Thompson demand that challenger Eric Jones’ campaign remove a commercial targeting the North Bay legislator.

Hi. I, a trans woman, am the Executive Producer of this show. I wrote the question. He called trans girls men. He has now said it in three different places in the past week.

I live in a rural town and, like, I don't know how to tell you this, but the girls play on the boys team and vice versa all the time because otherwise we don't have enough players for a game and it's literally always fine so stop being weirdos about kids sports and just let trans kids play.

Just an incredible story from @roughnotes.bsky.social and so honored to have it here at @sfgate.com: Love and grief turned a sports skeptic into a lifelong Valkyries fan www.sfgate.com/sports/artic...

In the first good hiring decision I’ve heard about lately at TNT Sports, Reavo is joining their studio crew (part-time, I’m assuming). He’s hanging out at the Heritage Classic which is on TNT right how Smart and funny is a good television combination

The kicker is right at the end of this 7 piece thread, and I recommend you follow it to the end

This is about the signs people put up on their farmland along the major highways in the Central Valley (I-5, 99, etc) While the thinking regularly infuriates me, I find it to be a helpful barometer to measure what the always-a-victim landowner class there has on their mind

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A WNBA Finals report on NPR got me thinking about the fact that the Bay Area has two venue nicknames that (I think) arose organically, though the teams adopted them – Ballhalla and the Shark Tank Seems unusual, and cool. College football has some (Death Valley, the Big House, etc); rare in the pros

assuming those employees will be among the ring recipients (and it sounds like they will), the right thing happened here — even if dolan had to be shamed into it www.nytimes.com/athletic/771...

In recent years, the population of swine in Iowa at any given time has been around 25 million This year one is running for Senate on the Democratic ticket Shame on you @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social

Here’s something you should know about minks: They have lungs and airways remarkably similar on a cellular level to those of people. They’ve spread flus and infected humans before with COVID-19. Right now, bird flu is spreading on a Utah farm filled with thousands of them… 🧵

This is a five-alarm warning to every job and industry that relies on our sandy beaches and beautiful bluffs for its livelihood. Soon, you too could see your environment for sale to Big Oil, Elon Musk, and any other high bidder that buys its way into the White House ballroom.

Drama in Portland, a short thread

The ever-perceptive @susiebright.bsky.social turns in a reminder of how it was, and how it is When I was young, curious about politics, and even more naïve than I am now, it would have been so nice to have a Susie take me aside and clue me in about such things open.substack.com/pub/susiebri...

Medi-Cal cuts could push seniors and people with disabilities off of coverage A second cut in two years forces seniors and people with disabilities to spend down savings or risk losing care.

Very unfortunate the Sparks news was a patented late Friday news dump because all PWHL fandom is going to do is reheat the Summer nachos this weekend.

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Billionaires are awful people. Oh, and they’ve been ruining professional sports, a necessary distraction in times like these, for a while now too.

Yaroslav Askarov’s lunging save tonight vs. Ottawa was Scott Van Pelt’s “best thing I saw today” and that’s affirmation, baby

Out today: U.S. Postal Service’s cost-cutting measures have endangered the validity of ballots cast in rural areas, where late-arriving ballots soared in the primaries. With @kbmorales.bsky.social and @msweetharris.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/mail...

zut alors

We keep seeing the young man on short lists with these guys and it still feels kind of crazy

As upsetting as this is in the first instance, I can’t help wondering how far things have to go before major national news media are ready to question his mental fitness At this point I’m inclined to think “never”

The science research institute that would likely receive $4.2 billion in public taxpayer money if voters approve Proposition 38 this November had only three employees as of last month — far fewer than the 51 staffers it planned to have hired by last year. cal.news/4shghlR 📸 Brian van der Brug