Chris Smith

To a certain extent they are. They created the url isthatreallyrachel.com. It redirects to her shows blog post about AI slop about her. The problem is there is so much it is hard to find what story you are looking for.

Do you hate baseball or baseball fans?

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Sorry, to the topic at hand, I wouldn’t think you were a fan, but I have seen stranger things than this.

Mmmm, tacos. 🤤

One summer when I was working at a museum, I played a game of how many photos can I get in the background without people noticing. On slow days, I would stand in the door when people were in the parking lot taking pictures of the museum and make poses they could only see if they zoomed in later.

This is pretty high praise coming from Chris Jones!

Yep. Even now the majority of the home games at Wrigley are day games thanks to the neighborhood restricting the number of night events. If I had more characters, I would talk about how it is a mistake to not making it easier to watch the Cubs now. I wouldn’t be a Cubs fan without WGN.

I would get home from school and catch the end of the Cubs games. It didn’t matter that they were seldom in the pennant race, I enjoyed watching Ryno, Dawson and Grace on WGN.

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I had a hunch when Erik said he liked Eddington less than Beau is afraid this would be your take.

Here's Colbert on July 14 making fun of Paramount for paying Trump $16 million. It's hard not to see CBS canceling his show through this lens.

"I believe this kind of complicated financial settlement with a sitting government official has a technical name in legal circles. It's big fat bribe."

“Colbert isn’t going anywhere for 10 months and it’s hard to imagine him agreeing to stick around for a swan song in which his content is being restricted by the network that canceled the show. So let’s assume that he’s going to spend a season lampooning Trump, even as a lame duck.”

"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.

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A Canadian doctor explains the difference between the universal health care system in Canada, where everyone is covered and there are no out-of-pocket costs, and the American system where people go bankrupt in order to receive cancer treatment.

They do two alert tests a year here. Both of them occur 20 minutes into the Wednesday matinee. We work to try and get as many people to turn off their devices as possible. We are normally pretty successful.

I don’t think I knew that people threw their programs at you, but not surprised. I do remember people storming out, but there is another production that makes me think of people storming out. This production makes me think of people joyously talking about the ending. Easily in my top 10 shows.

To this day, I can’t hear “Last Dance” without thinking of this production. I have many great memories from the Goodman, and the 1st preview audience buzzing coming out of the theatre at intermission and the end show is one of them.

What's the Matter with Kansas? (book) - Wikipedia

That is the the topic that Thomas Frank talks about in his 2004 book “What’s the Matter with Kansas”

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Thank you Sean!

“Magic Tree House author Mary Pope Osborne, children’s poet Shel Silverstein and Calvin and Hobbes cartoonist Bill Watterson have joined Judy Blume, Sarah J. Maas, Eric Carle and Kurt Vonnegut” have been banned from some Tennessee school libraries.

TLDR: Fahrenheit 451 is on this list.

this is exactly what Trump said they were going to do. “Mass Deportations Now.” thank you @nicollewallace.bsky.social for sharing this story.

Forgiveness is a gorgeous snapshot of Japanese-Canadian resilience – and a harrowing warning In Hiro Kanagawa’s play, a community of Japanese-Canadians must come to terms with a home country that will no longer tolerate their existence

I was blown away by Forgiveness at the Stratford Festival, an overdue import from western Canada that’s been given a stunning production in the Tom Patterson Theatre.

Another Critic’s Pick for this one — gosh, what a season so far.

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I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.

Sound familiar?

I lost a parent to glioblastoma in May. While this wouldn’t have helped them, having a better way to treat it would help anyone who gets it in the future.

The Gutting of America’s Medical Research: Here Is Every Canceled or Delayed N.I.H. Grant Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.

"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated.

“I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”

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Text card saying: "Don't be a bystander: Share the rules" With a QR code and below that a weblink: timothysnyder.org/resources

"On Tyranny" free resources linked here:
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