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Maybe we just let 30 guys who (mostly) got rich enough to buy baseball teams compete the same way in baseball that they competed to get the money they used to buy the baseball teams. Sick and tired of hearing how much help billionaires need. All a cap system is is corporate welfare.

This game is bad. Can we just admit that the kind of "parity" guaranteed by the NFL's extreme salary cap is a bad thing?

Read this article by the Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sanchez: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.

Why are Bill Kristol and George Conway more clear on this incredibly obvious point than some elected Democrats?

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

Democrats must refuse to vote for any funding bill that increases ICE’s budget and refuse to fund DHS until ICE’s abuses of power are stopped. The government funding deadline is January 30th. Call your reps today: (202) 224-3121 https://indivisible.org/campaign/how-rein-ice-now

Using "fighting wokeness" in this way could be an extremely useful attack line.

over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)

It can be done. See also: Bolsonaro, Jair

ice takes out ICE again 😬 🧊

If MAGA was serious about avoiding forever wars and foreign entanglements, this would be a great time to prove it: Impeach and remove Trump, and revoke all outstanding authorizations for the use of military force.

But tell me more about how the team Miami beat should have been here instead www.nytimes.com/athletic/col...

The important things you need to know today.

Public Service Announcement: Don't use AI to redact documents. Unless you work for the Trump Administration, in which case carry on as before.

This is the salary cap everybody wants in baseball. The same team over and over again, just with 32 different color schemes.

It got Bari’d.

My 17 month old is super freaked out by The Wiggles. What can I say? The kid has taste.

Nebuchadnezzar, by William Blake, 1795-1805 (flipped) #NetflixPartner

The most interesting thing about the Epstein files thing to be is this: Think about who has never even been speculated about being in them. They're so focused on Bill Clinton, whose term ended 25 years ago, there's never even been a possible mention of Barack Obama. Not even a thought.

One of the great little pleasures of getting older is revisiting an old favorite and realizing it holds up. music.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBOu... #musicsky

Trump's one genuine talent seems to be that he brings the absolute worst out in people.

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This is what it looks like when somebody gets thrown under a bus and frantically tries to push it off

This manuscript is the culmination of years of discussions and work on how projects that aspire to do participatory research with autistic people can truly be inclusive and neurodiversity-affirming, reflecting our experiences on two initiatives. Nothing About Us Without Us!

#MusicSky I never knew I needed The Notwist remixed by Grizzly Bear until I got it. Maybe you need it too. music.youtube.com/watch?v=T9zB...

You might even say he's been here The whole time

I'm so old, I don't even know what physical medium new music is bought on anymore. Are we still doing CDs? Or did the hipsters win and vinyl made a full comeback?

youtu.be/YgmevxJAat8?... Live now Friends

A New Orleans man who spent three decades in prison before his murder conviction was vacated won election to serve as the city’s chief criminal court record keeper.

So Amazon picked the ending where the rich guy wins? Shocking. www.thegamer.com/fallout-prim...

Counterargument: the United States is regressing into a white supremacist theocracy because establishment Dems are about as good at winning friends and influencing people as...well...a spiked doormat

a big runoff last night, in New Orleans: Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet. So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.

Because individuals have the same bargaining power as the federal government

"Hyde protections" would be a backdoor abortion ban, because health insurance would be unable to pay for abortions even where it is legal.

My old home town.

The average age of a first-time home buyer is 40. Do the math on a 50 year mortgage - it's a lifetime of debt with no discernable benefit. share.google/S2WXx1E9zJQF...

This is a welcoming account. 🏳️‍⚧️

Period.

Mamdani comes out of the gate with a Eugene Debs quote. That's going to make some people so mad and I love it so much.

Everything about this is perfect youtube.com/shorts/2kTxU...

TiVo stopped existing a month ago

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...