Kyle Cooke

Man, the Orioles front office is either really stupid (possible!) or they feel very confident that Grayson’s arm is never going to be the same.

For his sake, I hope it’s the former.

Elon Musk is set to make more than every U.S. elementary teacher combined See how Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s new payment package compares with other occupations in the United States.

Tesla shareholders approved a $1 trillion pay package for Elon Musk.

The combined paychecks of all 3.2 million cashiers in the U.S. are about as valuable as his annual compensation.

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Public Media: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Pretty cool: John Oliver used reporting from Rocky Mountain PBS as part of his segment on public media this weekend (The 5:30 mark)

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Not sure it "upended her career" considering she got a book deal and a job with Vanity Fair

What do you think the most likely outcome is here, assuming it gets appealed to SCOTUS?

I like how the NYT tried to do a “some experts say” framing, and the expert was like, you do not need an expert opinion to see this is bad.

Colorado Springs teachers speak out against textbook censorship and anti-LGBTQ+ policies | Rocky Mountain PBS Ignited by the termination of their master agreement last spring and the slew of anti-LGBTQ+ school board policies that followed, teachers went on strike last week ahead of this year’s school board el...

The largest school district in Colorado Springs is removing pages from text books: www.rmpbs.org/blogs/educat...

Interestingly, the guy on the left, Blake Neff, was fired by Tucker Carlson in 2020 because he was revealed to be gut bucket misogynist and white supremacist. www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/m...

The Politico piece from this morning said that a VRA “ruling in time for next year’s midterms is unlikely.” Do you agree? I haven’t seen any reasoning behind the suggestion that this wouldn’t affect 2026.

Zero bald men in the Denver season of Love is Blind. Smh.

Can Liberalism Be Saved? The legal scholar Cass Sunstein argues for a more expansive definition of an ideology under threat.

Sublime
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The United States Of Snitches | Defector On Saturday, the chairman of the Republican Party in Michigan’s Oakland County spent his afternoon directing his online followers’ attention to local businesses that had not lowered their flags to hal...

“In the absence of governance, or just in its place, the state has taken up a grim and shameful kind of content creation.”

Great piece from @davidjroth.bsky.social

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The Official Charity Of The Savannah Bananas Has A Hard Time Explaining How Its Money Is Spent | Defector Bananas Foster describes itself as “the official non-profit of Banana Ball,” the barnstorming baseball league that hosts the Savannah Bananas. Its mission, per executive director Jolie Chabala, is “ce...

"Not everyone should be running a donor-funded nonprofit, is what I'm saying. Some people—the people who have lots of money, say, because they own an entire baseball league—should stick to spending their own money, instead."
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Okay I guess 99 down the middle is what he needs

I mean at what point do you send him to Norfolk for a reset:

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This slump from Cowser is… concerning. Working a count full and getting blown away by 92 right down the middle is not what you want to see from your CF of the future

Guys, be nice to Brent Pry. All those notes he’s taking are updates to his resume

I missed something lol what is this a reference to?

Certified bums, lol

Cano and Akin are NOT invited to the 2026 parade

Dylan Beavers

Texas Professor Fired After Accusations of Teaching ‘Gender Ideology’

What’s that about free speech on college campuses?

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...

I think limiting the definition of “political violence” to mean “bodily harm from a single assailant” helps downplay the many ways in which governments brutalize people.

Is starving children not political violence? Is forcing a woman to carry a high-risk pregnancy to term not political violence?

being totally comfortable speaking this way to millions of people is one of many signals that we're in an extremely dark place

Cowser has 50 strikeouts in his last 30 games

Orioles have so much work to do in the bullpen in the offseason

Yennier Cano 🫣

Orioles magic

Hey now

Jackson Holliday stop rolling over to second base challenge