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Baseball has chosen short-term financial gain over long-term growing the fan base. TV contracts are lucrative and teams having their own app gives them more control, but when you can't just turn the TV on and find a game, you're missing out on a whole big audience. Hockey, well, ugh.

How can this family ever have any peace in this country ever again.

Great idea.

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This media environment is the worst I’ve seen outside of the runup to the Iraq War but at the end of the day you can’t trick people into finding boring, tired content interesting. They can just change the channel or switch to another tab or app.

Only MLB would try to hire ACTUAL SPIES (!!!), but offer intern salaries… 👀 🤦🏼‍♀️

May this be the best day of the rest of his life.

A Grand Jury Again Declines to Re-Indict Letitia James

There should be a three strikes law: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/u...

A Grand Jury Again Declines to Re-Indict Letitia James

These people really can’t take a hint, can they? There is no there there! Bravo to these ordinary citizens serving as grand jurors with integrity!
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/u...

⚡️ JUDGE ORDERS KILMAR RELEASED IMMEDIATELY…

“A Maryland judge on Thursday ordered the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national mistakenly deported to his home country earlier this year, from immigration custody.” www.cbsnews.com/news/kilmar-...

This has to be the most reckless thing Disney has ever done with their IP and I cannot wait for them to figure out what a bad idea this is.

BREAKING: Republicans blocked our clean, three-year extension of the ACA tax credits—guaranteeing health insurance premiums skyrocket for millions in the new year.

The GOP owns the health care crisis to come.

MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”

From 2005 to 2012, one CBP officer or agent was arrested for corruption, crimes, or misconduct EVERY SINGLE DAY. By 2019, it had slowed to just one every 35 hours. Still a huge problem:

Attention #Gamecock nation.

Sad day. PBS is essential!

Frozen Peaches! #RockfordPeaches #GoRockford

It's not slowing him down, though. Nothing slows down the damage he's doing.

GLAAD 20 Under 20 2025: Meet the Young LGBTQ Changemakers Shaping the World Honoring Zaya Wade, Lara Raj, Megan Skiendiel, and more incredible LGBTQ youth.

While I'm on the topic of people pushing back against book bans...

Two of the teens who helped overturn a ban on books in the Georgia statewide reading bowl are among GLAAD's 20 Under 20 this year.

Please read Ritvik and Vidya's stories:

www.teenvogue.com/story/glaad-...

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Amazon Is the World's Biggest Online Book Marketplace. It's Filled With AI Knockoffs Authors say Amazon's knockoff book problem is leaving them frustrated — and making the internet worse in the process.

Amazon is making money off AI copies of books - and putting the onus on authors to prove they’ve been plagiarised.

Honestly, just stop buying books from Amazon. Get them from an actual bookshop or order them from a reputable book supplier like bookshop.org

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You sure do. Thank you for adding those things. I hope you also have a wonderful holiday!

Glass Walls: Shattering the Six Gender Bias Barriers Still Holding Women Back at Work A new, important, and richly detailed guide to understanding gender bias with practical solutions for leaders, workplace allies, and individual women.

Male gatekeeping is a type of bias against women that we discuss in GLASS WALLS. amy-diehl.com/book

This picture stopped me in my tracks this morning. It's such a small space. I always thought of the barn as a huge barn.

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”

Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

The Enfeebling of the President Trump is showing signs that he’s lost the physical stamina to do the job.

With more instances of Donald Trump appearing fatigued or forgetful, Americans are again seeing evidence of a president who lacks the energy to do his demanding job, @dgraham.bsky.social argues.

Finally, the anchor of my anchor post, That Librarian Amanda M Jones. @librarianjones.com is a pioneering librarian who sued her harassers and won. That Librarian is her book, which you should buy from an indie book shop.

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Naomi L.A ‘Baudelaire’ Smith is a global creative educational consultant.
David Belanger is a library consultant.
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