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"I plan to give you reasons for your jumpy fits and facial tics" Fort Worth Star-Telegram editorial board/columnist [email protected] for Texas stuff bwdsecrets.43 on Signal for secure tips [email protected] for everything else
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SINNERS (2025 dir: Ryan Coogler)

shinners

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eugenics aside, a Major League Baseball bullpen the most autistic (and least vaccinated!) workplace in America. Bobby doesn't know ball.

Van Hollen says that he asked the VP of El Salvador why his government continues to hold Abrego Garcia even though he’s not charged with any crime and there’s no evidence that he’s MS-13. “His answer was that the Trump administration is paying the government of El Salvador to keep him at CECOT”

millions of people around the world wear fitteds with absolutely no connection to the city they're from or teams they cheer. might as well lock up every Black man tryna get a fit off

Welcome to the free thinker’s podcast, the last space where you can say anything in this woke culture. Please refrain from criticizing the President of the United States and the richest man in the world because those guys are my friends. Here’s six hours about how hard it is to be a cop.

At the risk of posting in front of mixed company, absolutely wild Marcus Morris called Ja and them YNs

my day on X the everything app

our perilous times did not fall out of a coconut tree!

Over at NYDN, @garyhphillips.bsky.social and Fiifi Frimpong parsed the Yankees’ quiet operation of its DEI policies in the age of Trump. www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/15/y...

happy Jackie Robinson Day

look at least the planes weren’t crashing

Lakers going from Steph to Julius Randle in round 1

This is literally how my career started. I had a take about MLB punishing a black player for saying the n word. NYDN asked me to write a column off the take. They hired me to be a column-ist. (Yes, I am using this prompt to flex. But also to mourn.)

Blue Sky! The Kicks You Wear is in your inbox. Today, I dive in on Trump's tariffs again with Matt Priest, the president of the Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America. We talk about the negative impact on the industry and how realistic the administration's goals are here! Enjoy!

I'd like to speak to public health workers in Texas (including Tarrant County) who can speak about the recent furloughs from federal funding cuts. If you're this person or can connect me to this person let me know! Happy to keep everything we discuss anonymous.

Aftermath Inside Baseball Week: 1.5 + 2.5 ReMIX

real hooper 👇🏾

was reading the Dallas Morning News and this anti-tariff column from a Trump supporting car dealer makes me think his trade war will actually turn his base www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

We already know that A Goofy Movie is known as a canonically Black movie within the Black community — but Disney+'s latest documentary about the making of A Goofy Movie sorta explains why. In my latest for Slate: slate.com/culture/2025...

bluesky addicts explaining bond market stuff that they just learned to their offline partners

“I think that if more white male millennial writers wrote more white male millennial novels instead of think pieces about why said novels are missing, we’d probably be having a much different conversation.” open.substack.com/pub/borywrit...

Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after US aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said reut.rs/3E9kB27

To be a teen in NYC right now, especially an immigrant teen, is to face a series of threats from the federal government and a mayor that isn't only capitulating to the Trump administration, but engaging in his own form of diminishment. These teens have had enough. hellgatenyc.com/teens-agains...

canned salmon pros: Flavorful Lean 85 grams of protein in a can Cons: opening the can releases a fart smell that stains your kitchen for 20 minutes.