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May 8, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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On the merits this is just one instance of administrative vandalism among many, but I'm always struck in stories like these by how inexpensive/efficient these legacy government programs are. A year of funding Energy Star is more or less Blake Snell's annual salary. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/c...
E.P.A. Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program
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May 7, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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the president's hostility to energy star is believed to trace to his opposition to low-flow showerheads, a matter of great concern as he is the first president in the modern era who can not reach his own asshole with a cloth from a standing position.
davidjroth.bsky.social David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · May 7
On the merits this is just one instance of administrative vandalism among many, but I'm always struck in stories like these by how inexpensive/efficient these legacy government programs are. A year of funding Energy Star is more or less Blake Snell's annual salary. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/c...
E.P.A. Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program
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May 7, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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This brought a much needed smile to my mien this morn.
mcsweeneys.net McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · May 5
"Many of you may be feeling discomfort. That’s totally okay! Discomfort is a gift. It’s the body’s way of telling you there is more for you to learn."
This Bank Robbery Is a Safe Space
Attention, bank employees and patrons! This is a robbery. Remain calm, lie down on the ground, and check in with yourselves. Do you have the emotio...
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May 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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The catalyst for Nancy Faust's return to the Chicago White Sox is thanks to her “Superstar” friend Dick Allen, who will be posthumously inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame on July 27.

“It’s special for me because I’ve been championing for so long"
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Nancy Faust on her Chicago White Sox return after a 15-year absence: ‘I never expected a resurgence like this’
Nancy Faust will return to Chicago White Sox games with her organ for six home games on select Sundays.
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May 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Mom said get your weight up
akgrl33.bsky.social Dirty D @akgrl33.bsky.social · May 3
I called my mom crying when I won a superfecta. It was only like 13 bucks and she made fun of me because she was like Those are the type of bets you win hundreds on and you won 13 bucks. Lol.
May 3, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Elon Musk may be stepping back from the federal government, Julia Angwin writes, “but his legacy there is already secured. DOGE is assembling a sprawling domestic surveillance system for the Trump administration — the likes of which we have never seen in the U.S.”
Opinion | ‘This Is What We Were Always Scared of’: DOGE Is Building a Surveillance State
DOGE is rapidly assembling a sprawling monitoring system, the foundation of many authoritarian regimes.
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May 1, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Judge Hannah Dugan, the Wisconsin judge who was arrested on Friday morning on charges of obstructing immigration enforcement, spent most of her legal career working on behalf of low-income people and marginalized groups. Here's what to know.
Who Is the Wisconsin Judge Arrested in Immigration Dispute?
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April 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Mavericks GM Nico Harrison 'didn't quite know' how important Luka Doncic was to Dallas fans
Mavericks GM Nico Harrison 'didn't quite know' how important Luka Doncic was to Dallas fans
Mavericks general manager Nico Harrison says he underestimated the level of outrage fans would feel before trading superstar Luka Doncic to the Lakers.
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April 23, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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President Trump is threatening to push the Senate from ineffectiveness to obsolescence. Will John Thune, the new Majority Leader, let him?
The Senate’s Age of Irrelevance
Elon Musk’s DOGE and Trump’s executive orders are pushing Congress’s upper chamber from ineffectiveness to obsolescence. Will John Thune, the new Majority Leader, let them?
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April 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Pope Francis, who died on Monday at 88, was a strong and vocal environmental advocate and used his papacy to help inspire global efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions. He framed climate change as an urgent spiritual issue and helped push the world to take action.
How Pope Francis Helped Inspire the Global Movement Against Climate Change
Francis framed climate change as an urgent spiritual issue and helped push the world to take action.
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April 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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The Trump administration plans to eliminate the IRS’ Direct File program, an electronic system for filing tax returns directly to the agency for free, according to two people familiar with the decision.
Trump administration plans to end the IRS Direct File program for free tax filing
The Trump administration plans to eliminate the IRS’ Direct File program, an electronic system for filing tax returns directly to the agency for free, according to two people familiar with the deci…
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April 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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If the rule of law is to survive, the Trump Administration’s defiant position on the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia cannot stand, Ruth Marcus writes.
Will the Supreme Court Stop Donald Trump?
By defying the Justices’ ruling on a man mistakenly sent to El Salvador, the Administration has shown that it is not owed the deference typically shown to the executive branch.
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April 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Breaking News: A judge rebuked the U.S. government for doing “nothing” to bring back a man wrongly deported to El Salvador, after orders to “facilitate” his return.
Trump Live Updates: Deportation Hearing, Harvard Funding Freeze and Tariffs
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April 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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The largest paying crowd in the history of Wrigley Field was the day Jackie Robinson made his debut. Wrigley is the only park left Jackie played a game in. Mike Ryoko was a kid at that ballpark that day and he wrote about it. Take a minute and read this today.

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A newspaper clipping from Mike Ryoko part one: Jackie's Debut a Unique Day All that Saturday, the wise men of the neighborhood, who sat in chairs on the sidewalk outside the tavern, had talked about what it would do to baseball. I hung around and listened because baseball was about the most important thing in the world, and if anything was going to ruin it, I was worried. Most of the things they said, I didn't understand, although it all sounded terrible. But could one man bring such ruin? They said he could and would. And the next day he was going to be in Wrigley Field for the first time, on the same diamond as Hack, Nicholson, Cavarretta, Schmitz, Pafko, and all my other idols. I had to see Jackie Robinson, the man who was going to somehow wreck everything. So the next day, another kid and I started walking to the ballpark early. We always walked to save the streetcar fare. It was five or six miles, but I felt about baseball the way Abe Lincoln felt about education. Usually, we could get there just at noon, find a seat in the grandstand, and watch some batting practice. But not that Sunday, May 18, 1947. By noon, Wrigley Field was almost filled. The crowd outside spilled off the sidewalk and into the streets. Scalpers were asking top dollar for box seats and getting it. Part II: I had never seen anything like it. Not just the size, although it was a new record, more than 47,000. But this was twenty-five years ago, and in 1947 few blacks were seen in the Loop, much less up on the white North Side at a Cub game. That day, they came by the thousands, pouring off the northbound Ls and out of their cars. They didn't wear baseball-game clothes. They had on church clothes and funeral clothes·suits, white shirts, ties, gleaming shoes, and straw hats. I've never seen so many straw hats. As big as it was, the crowd was orderly. Almost unnaturally so. People didn't jostle each other. The whites tried to look as if nothing unusual was happening, while the blacks tried to look casual and dignified. So everybody looked slightly ill at ease. For most, it was probably the first time they had been that close to each other in such great numbers. We managed to get in, scramble up a ramp, and find a place to stand behind the last row of grandstand seats. Then they shut the gates. No place remained to stand. Robinson came up in the first inning. I remember the sound. It wasn't the shrill, teenage cry you now hear, or an excited gut roar. They applauded, long, rolling applause. A tall, middle-aged black man stood next to me, a smile of almost painful joy on his face, beating his palms together so hard they must have hurt. Part III: When Robinson stepped into the batter's box, it was as if someone had flicked a switch. The place went silent. He swung at the first pitch and they erupted as if he had knocked it over the wall. But it was only a high foul that dropped into the box seats. I remember thinking it was strange that a foul could make that many people happy. When he struck out, the low moan was genuine. I've forgotten most of the details of the game, other than that the Dodgers won and Robinson didn't get a hit or do anything special, although he was cheered on every swing and every routine play. But two things happened I'll never forget. Robinson played first, and early in the game a Cub star hit a grounder and it was a close play. Just before the Cub reached first, he swerved to his left. And as he got to the bag, he seemed to slam his foot down hard at Robinson's foot. It was obvious to everyone that he was trying to run into him or spike him. Robinson took the throw and got clear at the last instant. I was shocked. That Cub, a hometown boy, was my biggest hero. It was not only an unheroic stunt, but it seemed a rude thing to do in front of people who would cheer for a foul ball. I didn't understand why he had done it. It wasn't at all big league. I didn't know that while the white fans were relatively polite, the Cubs and most other teams kept up a steady stream of racial abuse from the dugout. I thought that all they did down there was talk about how good Wheaties are. Part IV: Late in the game, Robinson was up again, and he hit another foul ball. This time it came into the stands low and fast, in our direction. Somebody in the seats grabbed for it, but it caromed off his hand and kept coming. There was a flurry of arms as the ball kept bouncing, and suddenly it was between me and my pal. We both grabbed. I had a baseball. The two of us stood there examining it and chortling. A genuine major-league baseball that had actually been gripped and thrown by a Cub pitcher, hit by a Dodger batter. What a possession. Then I heard the voice say: "Would you consider selling that?" It was the black man who had applauded so fiercely. I mumbled something. I didn't want to sell it. "I'll give you ten dollars for it," he said. Ten dollars. I couldn't believe it. I didn't know what ten dollars could buy because I'd never had that much money. But I knew that a lot of men in the neighborhood considered sixty dollars a week to be good pay. I handed it to him, and he paid me with ten $1 bills. When I left the ball park, with that much money in my pocket, I was sure that Jackie Robinson wasn't bad for the game. Since then, I've regretted a few times that I didn't keep the ball. Or that I hadn't given it to him free. I didn't know, then, how hard he probably had to work for that ten dollars. But Tuesday I was glad I had sold it to him. And if that man is still around, and has that baseball, I'm sure he thinks it was worth every cent.
April 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not.

An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library?
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.
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April 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Read the Naval Academy’s list of removed books.
Read the Naval Academy’s list of removed books
The Navy released the titles of 381 books that were removed from the U.S. Naval Academy’s Nimitz Library on the Annapolis, Md., campus this week because their subject matter was seen as being related ...
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April 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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ELECTION RESULT: A team of city council members in Rolla, Missouri, have been pushing anti-LGTB policies, including a ban on drag shows and book censorship.

Voters just ousted all three of these city councilors who were running for reelection, backing candidates backed by a local LGBT group.
April 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Reading about stuff that’s happened for the first time since 1933 is a lot cooler when it’s about like baseball stats or seeing a rare bird.
April 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Thousands of federal employees are facing job cuts—or working under growing uncertainty. Slate is offering them six months of Slate Plus for free.
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April 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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AOC: I want to live in an America that guarantees healthcare to every person.

I want to live in an America that has a living wage for every person

I want to live in an America where you have free speech to express yourself and not be afraid of being put on a list or deported.
March 21, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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And that’s on that 😌
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Mar 21
AOC: One thing I love about Arizonans is that you all have shown that if a US Senator isn’t fighting hard enough for you, you’re not afraid to replace her with one who will.
March 21, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Sanders: In our form a government, unless you are a coward, you don’t sue the media because they report on things you don’t like.
March 21, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Restoring this website is not and will not be enough. This is an attempt to whitewash our shared national heritage and is an attack on one of America’s greatest citizens. This should be a national scandal and outrage.
miafarrow.bsky.social Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · Mar 19
Baseball great, Jackie Robinson, also served as a 2nd lieutenant in the Army. This week his military history was removed from the Department of Defense’s website as part of Trump wiping out DEI.

www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...
Jackie Robinson’s Army career wiped from military website in DEI purge
Robinson trained as an officer and was assigned to a tank regiment during World War II.
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March 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM