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Utah, this year, legalized open carry of firearms on college campuses. And the FBI head in Salt Lake City, experienced in anti-terrorism, was female and from Asia so she was recently fired.

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Is it possible we're ... underrating Paul Skenes? Paul Skenes can’t really ever be underrated, because he was the No. 1 overall pick in the 2023 Draft, and then barely more than a year later was named the 2024 National League Rookie of the Year. He s...

Wrote about Paul Skenes .. who has a 1.99 ERA career ERA in his first 46 career starts .. which is the lowest in the Live Ball era.

Feels like we're kind of just acting like that's normal.

(Fun fact: He's allowed a .574 OPS in his *losses.* It is the lowest ever.)

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Generative AI needs to be burned to the ground and then salted.

White hat hackers: These applications are not safe. They are not private. They can be exploited. They do harm. It's actually pretty easy to do. No code, no supercomputer needed. Just a calendar invite.

Google: Welp. Security is hard

Meanwhile, the Republicans fundraise off rural Americans by painting cities as death traps.

Even this year, he’s +2 runs so far. If the decline continues, he’ll become a liability. But taking an average weighted toward recency, he still looks comfortably above average.

Below average hitting for all players. Above average hitting on his career for shortstops. And well above average defensively for shortstops.

This was part of AOC clapping back at Trump, who had insulted her. But I don't think Trump was the only Queens boy she had in mind. It seems likely Andrew Cuomo's electoral career is finally done.

Stanton should be high on that list as soon as he stays off the DL long enough to have 80 batted balls.

📊The new Quinnipiac poll asked voters about antisemitism — and it turns out the more that a group believes antisemitism is a serious issue, the less likely they are to approve of how Trump is approaching it.

I agree wrt legislators. I think they do accomplish a good bit of what they're supposed to with executive positions, and many of New Jersey's municipalities would be less corrupt would better serve those residents not participating in the political machines if term limits applies to mayors here.

Lander doing the right thing.

Phone companies failed to warn senators about surveillance, Wyden says Government surveillance of lawmakers, though legal, raises concerns that members of Congress cannot effectively legislate when they are being spied on.

The government is surveilling US senators and the phone companies are illegally failing to report it

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Chicago Police Dismissed a Recruit’s Claims That a Colleague Sexually Assaulted Her. Then He was Accused Again and Again. The Invisible Institute and ProPublica reviewed over 300 complaints accusing Chicago officers of sexual assault and misconduct. Time and time again, the police department downplayed or ignored claims,...

“He sat back in his chair and he had a slight smile on his face with his hand up to his chin ... It looked to me like, I don’t know, like he was proud of what he did.”

via @invisible.institute / @propublica.org

Trump Justice Dept. considers removing key check on lawmaker prosecutions The Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section is charged with ensuring cases against elected officials are not politically motivated. The Trump administration is considering changing that.

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Musk Adviser May Make as Much as $1 Million a Year While Helping to Dismantle Agency that Regulates Tesla and X Records show that Chris Young is simultaneously working as a political adviser to Musk while serving in the Department of Government Efficiency, helping to gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...

Read more about Christopher Young, a political adviser to Musk who also serves in DOGE, helping to gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

How the Trump Administration Is Weakening the Enforcement of Fair Housing Laws Starting with cases involving sexual orientation and identity, the Department of Housing and Urban Development is hobbling enforcement of the Fair Housing Act. Said one HUD attorney: “People are…

Those accused of housing discrimination “know that we don’t have those resources anymore,” one HUD official said. “They also feel emboldened that this administration will not consider the things that they are doing to be illegal.”

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"Celgene had kept the price of Thalomid low when it was initially intended for AIDS patients...as the company “didn’t want huge numbers of people demonstrating in front” of its office.

That wasn’t a problem with cancer patients. There was “plenty of room for very substantial increases”..."

Hey! Press covering Trump!

The statute that lets him impose tariffs at will? It EXPLICITLY excludes movies.

He has no authority to do this. Not just bc of an absence of authorization, but bc the law says “you CANNOT do this.”

Do NOT say “Trump has imposed movie tariffs,” bc he did not. He CANNOT.

"The people who’ve been able to get back out of the pit of despair and disinformation have all described one thing that was critical to allowing them to do so: a friend.

Having someone in their life who was willing to give them the space to come back with dignity and not be treated as a fool..."

Ahem. Maybe he saw your posts and got mad.

Particularly degenerate homophobia at the highest court in the land this week

@kateshaw.bsky.social please consider.

I have rarely seen the shortcoming of Democratic/left messaging worse than seeing "due process" over and over and over and almost never "a fair hearing" or "facts presented to a court."

Some DOGE staffers hold high-powered jobs at multiple federal agencies The practice, which has been questioned by ethics experts, may give Elon Musk’s allies influence well after he formally leaves the White House.

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Scary things that you may have recently read headlines about that it turned out you didn’t have to worry about include: microplastics in your brain, black plastic spatulas, intermittent fasting, and plant based meat alternatives.

Also, no, you do not eat a credit card’s worth of plastic a month.

Consecutive headlines in WaPo daily email:

In the rain-soaked South, a warning to prepare for ‘generational’ floods still to come

National Weather Service halts automated translation for alerts

It’s so important that this story is being told - a truly terrible thing happened to Becky and people need to know. It’s also important to emphasise that every person who ended up at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, or crossing the Darien Gap, or in a detention centre is somebody’s Becky.

So you're saying of the 30 teams, the best 3 are all in the same 5-team division. Could be, but playing Colorado a lot does make them look better. OTOH, they don't play the White Sox much.

Definitely read this.