Kyle Cooke

not sure how many different ways these guys can demonstrate their utter contempt and disrespect to artists

Not for nothing, the photos in this article are terrible. Everything looks like store brand Myles Hendrik.

Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet releases a statement condemning Netanyahu's plan to occupy Gaza City.

Last week, Bennet (and Hickenlooper) voted against a resolution to block the sale of U.S. weapons to Israel.

This is how it's always been TBH. There's a ruling class and you're not in it.

And yesterday the fucking Arizona Supreme Court used an AI “reporter” to announce that a man’s death sentence was being upheld:

31 members of a white supremacist group arrested near Idaho Pride event Those arrested came from at least 11 states, including Washington, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Colorado, South Dakota, Illinois, Wyoming, Virginia, and Arkansas, White said.

Oh, that’s right:

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Federal agents use Penske rental truck as 'Trojan Horse' to raid Los Angeles Home Depot Border Patrol agents reportedly arrested 16 people at a Home Depot in Westlake on Wednesday. They utilized Penske trucks to carry out the arrests.

Where else do I remember seeing a group of masked men arriving via moving truck?

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Inside Trump’s New Tactic to Separate Immigrant Families

“Officials have begun separating children from their families in small numbers across the country, in what appears to be a more targeted version of one of the most explosive policies of President Trump’s first term.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...

Looking forward to a future where I don’t see Keegan Akin pitch for the Orioles. A better world is possible.

one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules

The Savannah Bananas Make Baseball Boring | Defector “What’s the deal with the Savannah Bananas?” Like five different times over the past few months, someone at this website has posed that question to the rest of the folks who work here. For the uniniti...

“Banana Ball, outside your phone, is a slog, with issues that stem from both the challenges of baseball as a sport and the Bananas' inability to think beyond Hype House aesthetics.”

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Trump fires labor statistics chief after large revision to jobs report Trump orders firing of Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after release of large revisions to employment data

The through line of this and the public media cuts is that if you write something the president doesn’t like, he’ll try — often successfully — to shut you down.

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Corporation for Public Broadcasting says it's shutting down The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funnels federal money to public media stations, says it's winding down operations after President Trump signed a law rescinding all funding.

A reminder that some GOP members of congress — such as Rep. Don Bacon — voted for the rescission bill because they received "reassurances" that PBS would be funded in 2026.

Well, that didn't happen. And now the CPB is shutting down.
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I don’t really see how any of these Orioles trades help them for 2026, unless Elias flips some of these prospects for major league arms.

Would be really cool if Cedric Mullins won a World Series

Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream

I'm very excited that BAD COMPANY entered its third printing this week! You'd better buy it now before you're relegated to a copy from the fourth printing...

I sent this before Nathan Lukes' home run lol

Hard to be upset when the Orioles have won 5 straight but Yennier Cano's regression is really frustrating.

But I'm glad Cedric is putting on a show in what could be his last week as an Oriole.

The Two-Pronged Attack on a Muslim Judicial Nominee How the smearing of Adeel Mangi became a bipartisan exercise.

This is why the Bove seat was vacant, and there’s a real throughline from the forces that defeated the previous Democratic nominee to where we are today.

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Huh, Orioles look pretty good when all their best players are healthy

If this is Cedric’s last series as an Oriole, he’s making it count

Big fan of the 2024 Zach Eflin experience. 2025 not so much.

Baltimore is going to reach the core of the earth in its search for rock bottom.

The Orioles are pitiful. Looks like the players have joined the fans in just wanting this season to be over.

He’s seems so bad when pitching with a lead. Idk if the stats back that up but the vibes do.

Dozens of kids and adults in Gaza have starved to death in July as hunger surges Health workers and aid groups fear hunger that has been building in Gaza for months under Israel's blockade is now reaching a tipping point into accelerating death.

"One after another, the babies and toddlers died over four days."
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Donations to NPR and PBS Stations Surge After Funding Cuts

Rocky Mountain Public Media's fundraising effort gets a New York Times mention: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/b...

Pat McAfee Declares Himself A "Girl Dad" In Apology To Harassed College Student | Defector Pat McAfee ended his daily ESPN show on Wednesday by finally addressing the role he played in ruining a college student’s reputation. To nobody’s surprise, he was extremely annoying about it. Back in ...

"This is crisis management as performed by someone who thinks that watching Ted Lasso qualifies as therapy."
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I’m pretty tired of hearing the O’s broadcast talk about the players learning to deal with adversity this season. Was getting swept in the playoffs in back-to-back years not enough adversity?