Jeff Domingues

Quite consistent.

MAGA: Children shouldn’t learn about slavery.

Also MAGA: We’re reinstalling this monument of a confederate general who fought to preserve slavery.

Crushey Schmitt. #SFGiants

Exclusive | Two Big TV Broadcasters in Advanced Deal Talks A deal between Nexstar and Tegna could be a litmus test for the FCC’s deregulation push

Nexstar Media Group is in advanced talks to acquire rival Tegna, according to people familiar with the matter.

www.wsj.com/business/dea...

Rafael Delivers. #SFGiants

Same. It was a hit on my last Zoom call.

Those are just as phony.

A moment of silence, please, and one last understated “problem” to report to Houston, setting in motion the baddest of badass improvised space missions with the passing of NASA legend Jim Lovell.

“So we go back to the locker room and Yaz had just gotten off the phone with Buster,” Flemming said. “And I think his actual words were, `I’m gone.’ It’s just me and him standing there. I said, `You’re gone?’ He said, `I got traded.’ … And then it was chaos for the next hour.” #SFGiants

This is a nice piece of writing.

Connections
Puzzle #789
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Huh? Zero clue what the purples are trying to say.

Also:
Connections: Sports Edition
Puzzle #319
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That got a tad tricky.

When you think of it.

I was down an inventors/scientist rabbit hole and “mistakenly” stumbled into it.

Connections
Puzzle #788
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I was on a completely different blue/purple wavelength, but got there.

Also:
Connections: Sports Edition
Puzzle #318
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Trent Dilfer, Fresno State ’93.

Opinion | The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away

Required reading:

“Going forward, how many government bureaucrats are going to dare to pass along bad news when they know that their bosses … will not only fail to defend them but will actually offer them up as a sacrifice to Trump to keep their jobs?”

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...

L.A. agrees to pay $500,000 to reporters arrested at 2021 Echo Park protest The city of Los Angeles has tentatively agreed to a settlement with two Knock LA journalists who claim their constitutional rights were violated when police arrested them while covering a protest four years ago in Echo Park.

L.A. agrees to pay $500,000 to reporters arrested at 2021 Echo Park protest

SUV strikes 13-year-old bicyclist in Antioch. Victim in critical condition A 13-year-old boy riding his bike in Antioch was struck by an SUV and flown to a nearby hospital, police said. The boy was last listed in critical but stable condition.

Let’s be careful out there:

A 13-year-old bicyclist is in critical condition after being hit by an SUV in Antioch on Monday, police said. The victim in critical condition.

www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

“I’ve had reporters turn down assignments, request the removal of some of their articles, and even quit the paper because they fear deportation for being associated with speaking on political topics, even in a journalistic capacity,” the newspaper’s editor-in-chief, Greta Reich, said.

as the inventor of slicing a sandwich at a deli just enough that it looks like you have two clean halves but the bottom slice tears in a fucked up way when you try to separate the halves, i am honored to be nominated by our beloved president to head the food and drug administration

“And none of that fancy book learnin’.”

Jerar Encarbombion. #SFGiants

Great add by the Red Bull-Boras, perhaps pushing Primoz Roglic back to second banana. Or third behind Florian Lipovitz?

At the start of Trump's second term, Voice of America was broadcasting to the world in 49 languages. Now it's down to 4, with a skeleton staff, and barely producing any content at all. While court battles over VOA's fate continue, Trump's shut-it-down effort has succeeded. 🧵

WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.

Willy Acrushes. #SFGiants

A person uses their laptop at the UCLA campus in Los Angeles on Feb. 18, 2022. Photo by Raquel Natalicchio for CalMatters Hed: ‘Immediately rescind’: UC researchers ask judge to undo Trump’s UCLA grant suspensions

A federal judge today ordered lawyers for the Trump admin. to explain why last week’s suspension of about 300 UCLA grants by the National Science Foundation does not run afoul of that judge’s June order barring the agency from terminating additional grants. cal.news/41uD9C9

📸 Raquel Natalicchio

Jerar Bombcarnacion. #SFGiants