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Sometime TennisWorld contributor, Sylvia’s husband, Cathleen’s dad. Known to cook. New here.
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submitted 8 hours ago • 41 comments

Huh. Where’d he get that idea? “The “sandwich generation” of men’s tennis increasingly looks like a group of lost boys.”

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

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submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

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submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Shot. Chaser. (So many examples like this from the GOP!)

submitted 8 hours ago • 66 comments

The CBO director, Philip Swagel, is a former Bush political appointee and was reappointed in July 2023 by the leaders of both houses of Congress, including Speaker McCarthy. www.cbo.gov/about/organi...

submitted 9 hours ago • 153 comments

First NO ONE was the administrator of DOGE, now EVERYONE is the administrator of DOGE #WITAOD

submitted 9 hours ago • 181 comments

how Amy Gleason finds out she's been fired

submitted 9 hours ago • 17 comments

Bourdain educated Americans about other countries while treating the people who live in those countries with dignity and empathy. He believed in learning from other cultures, and in letting people tell their own story. So *of course* these ghouls hate him.

submitted 11 hours ago • 20 comments

submitted 12 hours ago • 38 comments

Heard this happened yesterday as well. It's completely unacceptable. By law, the courts are open to the public and the media.

submitted 12 hours ago • 56 comments

The NYT is pathological and irredeemable (and going to put @nytpitchbot.bsky.social out of work).

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

You genuinely can't make this up. The acting head of the immigration courts (a partisan who has spent months ranting about perceived injustices of the Biden years) said the courts were permitting ICE arrests in courtrooms because there was no reason people needed to fear that in normal cases. Oops.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

“Their appeal is becoming more selective.”

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

As I’ve said before, in order to build a mass deportation operation to root out 4% of the population you must first build a police state.

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

More of this, please.

submitted 15 hours ago • 15 comments

It’s sort of funny the article stops short of drawing the obvious conclusion: RFK asked an LLM to cook up a phony report supporting his crackpot notions, and it churned out the usual slop full of hallucinated citations.

submitted 15 hours ago • 14 comments

the inexplicable core of Starmerism, as a truly new formation in world politics, is seeing governance as wholly an extension of general election campaign messaging

submitted 17 hours ago • 7 comments

I have been logged out of my toothbrush.

submitted 16 hours ago • 615 comments

A tiny but wild snapshot of the current chaos

submitted 16 hours ago • 59 comments

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submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Thread. Biden won the nomination in 2020 because Black voters turned out in droves for him in South Carolina. Had the Democratic Party passed over the first Black woman VP in 2024 to get to Newsom or Whitmer the floor would have fallen in.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Thread. “One billionaire was doing another billionaire a solid. Forget it, Costa. It’s Washington.”

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Telling how when the attacker is a middle class, white company director who "lives in a cul-de-sac" it's automatically framed as an "out of character" moment of madness

submitted 18 hours ago • 145 comments

On Earth 2.0, folks on the other side of the aisle would say loud and clear that if "everyone involved in the deal understand the payment as the price of merger approval" then it is a bribe, and all of those people should expect to go to prison if it goes ahead in the next administration

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

This team’s work is why we know how disinformation spread on Twitter. When I teach my class on conspiracy theories, Kate Starbird’s work always sparks the most “aha!” moments. It’s hard to describe how demoralizing this all feels, esp (as she says) for jr scholars whose ideas won’t get a chance

submitted 23 hours ago • 9 comments

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submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

We know not only that most American Jews do not support this administration’s use of antisemitism to justify its xenophobic policies, but that it is wrong and frankly dangerous to conflate Israel with all Jews.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Womp, womp.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

WE ARE RELIEVED TO HEAR A U.S. COURT HAS RULED THAT TARIFFS AGAINST OUR ISLAND WERE ILLEGAL AND A SPECTACULAR MISUNDERSTANDING OF GEOGRAPHY, BIOLOGY, AND REALITY. FLIPPERS UP UNTIL WE ARE PERMANENTLY SHOWN DUE RESPECT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER -PM Tuxley II

submitted 1 day ago • 180 comments

To understand America right now, you must understand the South and in the South, universities are just sports teams and places for your kids to meet their spouse.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

This seat is open because asshole Democrats in the Senate wouldn’t confirm Biden’s pick for the 3rd Circuit because Biden’s pick was Muslim and did pro bono work for Muslim clients.

submitted 1 day ago • 99 comments

cc: @annabower.bsky.social #WITAOD?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments