PUT IT IN THE RAFTERS

DETROIT BASKETBALL

I can’t believe this has to be said, but: You cannot tell the story of Jackie Robinson—as a ballplayer, serviceman, or human—without discussing our country’s history of racism.

From Around the Horn:

regardless of politics, i think we can all agree that joe biden’s secret service-biting dog should have the opportunity to challenge trump for the presidency like this

our nation has a Kennedy missing his brain and now a white man from Dallas is about to help LBJ win. welcome back, 1963

i was a trans kid who almost killed themselves.

at age 11, i nearly threw my body down a giant hill into a busy street after school one day.

i was saved but by people who told me being trans didn’t really exist and threatened to out me.

now 14 years of my youth can never be remembered again.

The Detroit Auto Show used to be the future:

I blogged about the Democrats again

defector.com/the-old-rule...

Years before the Gaza war, Israel transformed its intelligence unit into an AI testing ground, triggering a debate among top commanders about whether humans were sufficiently in the loop.

So cool that the refs are just letting OSU get away with whatever penalties they like

They are rigging this game so hard for the bears

How dumb is Trump 2.0's education policy going to be? Look to states like Oklahoma, where trial runs are already proving unpopular, even with Republican voters.

New from me in MomLeft **which will have one more post, then hiatus till Jan!**:
www.momleft.com/p/get-stupid

Why does Doug Pederson still employed?

this is like something a character in Animal Farm would say, and every 6th grader in the classroom would understand why it's wrong www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o...

Wrote about how four years of “Fund the Police!” did zero for the Democrats except legitimize GOP talking points, depress Dem voter turnout, hand Trump a well-funded police state, and make the world a crueler, more violent place. An abject failure. theappeal.org/fund-the-pol...

Newsletter: Blame the tech industry for the rise of authoritarianism. Blame a news media handicapped by a deference to power and a fear of bias. Blame the fact that our digital lives are unchecked ecological disasters.
Something must change.
www.wheresyoured.at/lost-in-the-future/

In my new op-ed for @tnr.bsky.social: Democrats abandoned their base for a neoconservative pipe dream.

That's why we, the people, must come in and transform the party, whether its entrenched leadership wants it or not: newrepublic.com/article/1881...

the nfl wants you to take a timeout on hate. anyway here’s seventeen ads about transgendered immigrants

The Chiefs are really giving the niners every opportunity to win and they have just not been taking them