Ben Heisler

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

“I hate goodbyes!”

Jake M🧅🧅dy

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

YouTube video by Central Synagogue We Are Family: Rethinking Race in the Jewish Community | Rabbi Angela Buchdahl |Yom Kippur 5781/2020

So happy you shared this. I came across her Yom Kippur sermon several years ago during the pandemic and found her message (and their services) to be incredibly meaningful and resonant. Have streamed in from our home in KC ever since. youtu.be/FNhG8aW6gbI?...

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

Imagine this conversation just months ago:

“I don’t think Bill knows what he’s doing when it comes to winning football games, but he’s exactly the marketing personality we need to get excitement for the program.”

This was INSPIRING! I tried my best to do this for the 2000s Cubs guys.

Roughly a year ago today, Ryne Sandberg announced his cancer was in remission.

Fuck cancer.

The newspaper that told the truth about Watergate and the Pentagon Papers will now “communicate with optimism about this country” in its time of rising fascism

Me telling my son to just have a little sip of water before bed.

My son:

I’m not a NYC resident, but Brad Lander’s steadfast leadership, empathy, and ability to hold people in power accountable has been impressive.

I know many NYC & American Jews have real concerns about Mamdani, but watching him and Lander truly support one another gives me hope.

Everyone who has ever come into contact with Donald Trump has been screwed over by him. But I never thought it would happen to me.

Raskin: You are not our king, and we are not your subjects. We will never be your subjects. All of us born here on this land are citizens and your executive order is nothing but bad graffiti on the Constitution, and we're going to wash it off today

Hey KC folks… would love for you to join us next Sunday morning to start your Father’s Day off right!

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NBA teams were 0-121 when down by 7 or more points in the final 3 minutes of regulation in the NBA Finals over the last 28 postseasons.

They are now 1-121.

Another stunning Game 1 comeback…

You gotta be shitting me, Tyrese

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

My 6 and 4-year old are playing while wearing their Pete Crow-Armstrong and Seiya Suzuki shirts, and will only refer to each other by their full Cubs names…

“Mama, we made it!”

Let’s do this! #FlyTheW

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Karen Dunn and Other Top Lawyers Depart Paul Weiss to Start Firm

Four top partners at Paul Weiss announced they are leaving the law firm, a major blow following its decision to cut a deal with President Trump to head off an executive order that would have restricted its business.

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ok so an important thing i really think people on bluesky need to hear about the anti-trans megabill

the tl;dr is that you could actually turn the tide of trans rights in america right now

but if you don’t act now, then we’re all cooked indefinitely

please read on

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House Republicans have passed Trump’s budget bill that cuts Medicaid, food stamps, and vital government services to give tax cuts to billionaires.

The bill would kick 9 million Americans off their health care coverage, 3 million off of food stamps, and add $3.8 trillion to the federal deficit.

A bill to make sure poor people stay hungry, sick, and dying so rich people can be slightly richer. Actually evil. We need to make people understand it in those terms and not something about “budgets” or “house reconciliation bills”

When they say, “is Pepsi ok?”

My quick research suggests it happened three times during the 2024-25 regular season out of 814 three-shot fouls. Bizarrely, two of them were by Quentin Grimes.