Alison Masemann

AL Batting Average Ranks
5 Bichette
6 Kirk
9 Springer
10 Guerrero Jr.
11 Clement

Many of the places under a tsunami warning or watch are *only* served by public broadcasting.

Thanks to Congressional Repubs, including AK's Sullivan & Begich, the stations that disseminate warnings could run out of money to operate w/in a few months.

Because who needs tsunami warnings, amirite?

Headline "Harvard and Trump Restart Talks to Potentially End Bitter Dispute."

Stop me if you've heard this before™ dept:

1) "Bitter dispute"? This is like ending "bitter dispute" betw Russia and Ukraine. This is 100% Trump/MAGA assault on universities, under insulting pretext of "fighting antisemitism"

2) "Two sides might reach a settlement." Got to have your both sides.

Tesla is in constant finesse mode with the often-touted but much delayed rollout of its robotaxi service. After a limited launch in Austin, Texas, the company said it would offer the service in the San Francisco Bay Area. But according to Reuters, that ain't gonna happen because a key California regulator hasn't given Tesla the go-ahead. Instead, Tesla will provide a "chauffeur-style service operated by human drivers," in Reuters' exceptionally diplomatic parlance. Translation: taxis driven by cabbies

okay this is actually hilarious

www.jalopnik.com/1923966/tesl...

The man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too

New from AFP, AP, BBC, and Reuters:

“We are desperately concerned for our journalists in Gaza, who are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families…Journalists endure many deprivations and hardships in warzones. We are deeply alarmed that the threat of starvation is now one of them.”

One more example of an out of control police state.

And yet American governors can't figure out why Canadian stopped crossing the border, and US senators went to Ottawa with friendship bracelets to convince us we should travel again.

Find a job with a coworker who pumps your tires like Springer does here.

I'm no lipreader, but that's a definite WTFG at the end there.

Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.

I’m really gonna ask you please not to turn your nose up at the WSJ story and sneer that it’s a distraction.

These men harmed real people. They used their power and money to trap and abuse them.

That’s not a distraction, actually. That’s central to what matters.

Realized I hadn’t looked at public opinion on support for federal funding of NPR and PBS yet. Turns out it’s very popular!

According to a Harris Poll poll, 66% of Americans support federal taxpayer funding for public media. Including 58% of Republicans! www.npr.org/2025/07/15/g...

"A Black man is getting a standing ovation in the Deep South for breaking a record of an all-time baseball idol. What a marvelous moment for baseball. What a marvelous moment for Atlanta and the state of Georgia. What a marvelous moment for the country and the world.”

This was Vin Scully's call of Henry Aaron's 715th home run. Tonight Major League Baseball cut off the first sentence, starting it with the "What a marvelous moment" part because they don't want to anger the white supremacists who run our country and of whom Rob Manfred is an ardent supporter.

This is such an interesting thread

WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Seriously - there is no turning back after this.

#SaveVOA #4thofJuly

"Alligator Alcatraz" is wrong and media should not use it. It's propaganda. Alcatraz held people convicted of crimes, particularly violent crimes.

The Florida camp holds people *not* convicted of any crime. If they had been, they'd be in prison elsewhere.

The site is a textbook concentration camp.

The Washington Post is doing a MUCH better job than the NYTimes on framing and headlining RFKJ stories. Compare this WaPo hed & dek to the NYT's "RFK Jr. Accuses Gavi, Global Vaccine Agency, of Ignoring Science." There's only one side ignoring science & it is this sociopath who is killing children.

Parks Canada just called to ask if we can delete the word "heck" from an article in which an employee, promoting a mushroom-spotting contest, says: "I had an opportunity arise to create my own project. I was like, heck yeah, it’s gonna be mushrooms.”

That request is not going to fly.

brilliant

A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.

Authoritarian extortion is not a "bitter dispute". Do better @nytimes.com

a photo grid of dolls with protest t-shirts and signs.

I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.

A bit of brightness in this world: the Edmonton Oilers apparently play Pink Pony Club in the locker room whenever they win, and it’s become a sort of unofficial playoff anthem. Love these burly hockey dudes embracing it. Love the overalls. Love it all. Go Oilers!

Any time a woman thinks she's unqualified to run for office, show her this