Rickthanielo

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

Installing someone like Bari Weiss as the head of a major news organization isn’t even about profit or longevity. In effect it’s about continuing to shrink the traditional news industry smaller and smaller and weaker and weaker and less and less journalism based until it ceases to exist

Jackie Young is absurrrrrrd lol

#wnba

Jackie Young is absurd

But when you see the Chelsea/A’ja connection and Jewell Loyd off the bench for them? How can you call the Mercury a superteam and act like the two aren’t similarly stacked with stars.

#wnba

This isn’t meant as shade but I think it’s kind of wild how the Aces so rarely get the “superteam” label because two of their stars (and three when KP was there) were draft picks.

Nevermind they were all #1 picks. The ethical preference for lottery luck over free agency is still odd to me.

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

This is not a fight about tax credits.
This is a fight over your ability to go to a pharmacy and afford your insulin.

BlackRock will buy AES, one of the largest publicly traded utility companies in the U.S.

AES is a major power provider for Big Tech companies building out data centers.

Yes: while these data centers drive up your electricity costs, wealthy financiers are going to make a killing.

building our entire society around cars is, in my opinion, the stupidest thing any species on this planet has ever done

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

The WNBA Is at a Breaking Point Napheesa Collier went scorched earth on Cathy Engelbert for a reason. The players are fed up—and the firestorm is here.

I wrote about Napheesa Collier's power play, Cathy Engelbert's puppet leadership, a changing ownership landscape and how the next commissioner should take a collaborative approach to the WNBA entering its player empowerment era:

theringer.com/2025/10/02/w...

Mercury in 6

Alyssa Thomas may never get an MVP but she’s about to get a Finals MVP mark it

If Odyssey Sims has 1,000 fans I’m one of them.

If Odyssey Sims has 1 fan it’s me.

If Odyssey Sims has no fans I have been eliminated from playoff contention

#EnterTheSimulation

We are all in the Sim-ulation now.

I need Sims merch. I need a crossover with Sims 4. I need a Nike commercial and a makeup line.

All the pieces in place for Alyssa Thomas to complete the Stewie/Phee/A’ja revenge tour and there’s nothing I want more at this point.

It’s amazing what happens when a team actually puts real offensive weapons around her.

Hard to complain about Vegas/Phoenix Finals, especially given the A’ja/AT and Jackie/Kahleah matchups. But it’s tough to see The GOAT (Odyssey Sims) denied the win with that Kelsey Mitchell injury

This Odyssey Sims game is what Liberty fans (see: me) will tell you the Nyara Sabally game was (I love you Nyara)

What the actual hell man

Your crashout here tonight has made me feel better about my Game 5 Liberty crashout last year so thank you for that

This game is so good it’s got me rooting for the Fever lol

Odyssey Sims turning into Cynthia Cooper is one of the greatest things I have ever seen #wnba

They should let Aliyah Boston play in this overtime #wnba

Odyssey "Kelsey Mitchell" Sims.

It’s a mistake overshadowed by other ones but Chicago letting Dana Evans walk away is on the damn list. #wnba

The thing that frustrates me the most about this is not that the specific play at the end was in fact clean (bad luck for Phee, obviously hope she’s okay), but that Cheryl had NO ISSUES absolutely throttling the liberty through every scheme last year in the Finals. The double standard is crazy.

Tyler, the creator with the text "so that was a fucking lie"

Cheryl Reeve saying "I can take an L with the best of em"

Liberty fans:

Yeah yeah Liberty fan bias but I just don’t think “she’s standing up for her team” will ever justify the utter disrespect she showed in the wake of last year’s Finals.

I understand she’s a legend but Cheryl Reeve isn’t beating the sore loser allegations anytime soon. That was a “This game is over, let me dodge the loss with rage” ejection if I’ve ever seen one #wnba