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The White Sox have a chance to clinch a playoff series in front of their home fans for the first time in 120 years. Bizarre history facts aside, it would be a chance to reward an audience that has been essential to the team taking itself seriously. chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/20...

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White Sox anticipating raucous crowd, seek to clinch first postseason-series victory at home since 1906

Sox players already anticipated a boisterous response from a fan base that endured a brutal rebuild, but a 2-0 lead in the ALDS offers a chance at substantial franchise history.

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Meg Rowley @megrowler.fangraphs.com · 06/10/2026

Terrible defense inspires great headline

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Gummy Arts @gummyarts.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

On this date in 2007, Joba Chamberlain pitched through a swarm of midges.

Colored-pencil card drawing of Joba Chamberlain being swarmed by midges during a Yankees-Cleveland playoff game

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This gets my vote for the best thing I've seen on the Internet today:

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

you could absolutely impeach him for urging Iran to destroy multiple american cities as a "joke."

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James Fegan @jrfegan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

White Sox beat the Guardians, 4-3 A three-run sixth keyed by a Braden Montgomery two-run double flipped the game. Sean Burke was brilliant in bulk. Grant Taylor pitched again. Sox are a win away from the ALCS.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A child molester has died. I am thinking of his victims today.

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Found the perfect screengrab to use the next time someone tries to tell me I’m missing out on important discourse by not using Elon Musk’s mircoblog site

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Where in the law does it say that Constitutionality depends on whether a Supreme Court Justice feels an established right has or has not “engendered reliance interests” in other people?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026

what an asshole

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Americans picked Trump II, and their biggest objection is high prices. Hungary chose Orban, and their eventual big objection was corruption. Erdogan and Modi won multiple terms. Brazilians about to go Bolsonaro again. Not always free and fair, but yeah, millions want it. Wouldn’t work otherwise.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Do their actions merit impeachment? Yes. Many times over. Would impeachment weaken them, and reduce their ability to abuse power? Yes. At minimum by taking up time and attention. Would it stop valuable lawmaking from happening in Congress? No. And the White House is breaking laws. So... why not?

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Removal after impeachment would be better, yes, and there are enough anti-Constitution Republicans in the Senate that convicting Trump, Hegseth, Vought, etc. is unlikely. But why would that make letting crimes slide, and acting like there's nothing wrong, better than investigating and exposing?

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Normalization is treating the president stealing from taxpayers to buy campaign ads and offer bribes to voters like it's just another day. Normalization is reacting with "won't work" or "polls poorly," and not "resign immediately or you'll be removed, we exist because of a revolution against that."

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

America’s biggest political problem is rightwing billionaires

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Trump’s insider trading is, on its own, the worst corruption scandal in US history, with $$$ dwarfing Teapot Dome. So are Trump’s bribes-for-pardons. So is the Qatar bribe plane. So is all the Saudi money he (and Kushner) have pocketed. And the ballroom. And more. Each alone would be the worst.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 04/10/2026

Hi government employee here, who has visibility into how things worked before 2025 and since: This is correct. Rebuild government, prosecute DOGE and Trump officials, and think about contracting reform later.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

the brewers learning how to homer in the playoffs is like in Jurassic Park where the velociraptor figures out how to open the door

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James Fegan @jrfegan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This story on Munetaka Murakami's home run includes references to "big dogs," a "pimp job" that was "impeccable" and the White Sox slugger feeling "something a little bit dirty" at the moment of contact. chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/20...

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Munetaka Murakami's game-changing power keys White Sox' Game 1 victory in ALDS

Saturday in Cleveland was exactly the sort of low-scoring affair that could be determined by a single swing from an elite power hitter, and Munetaka Murakami delivered that swing for the Sox.

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James Fegan @jrfegan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Will Venable defended Miguel Vargas’ judgment on getting doubled off in the sixth inning. Statcast data strongly defended Tommy Pham’s belief that he had made home run-quality contact chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/20...

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Did the White Sox run into an embarrassing double play, or were they victims of a statistical anomaly?

The Sox ran themselves out of the sixth inning on Saturday in a weird-looking play, but the true weird part might have been that Tommy Pham's blast didn't clear the Progressive Field wall.

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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In Grant We Trust

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James Fegan @jrfegan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

White Sox beat the Guardians, 3-0 in ALDS Game 1. Munetaka Murakami cranked a long dinger, Colson Montgomery had a funny-looking RBI double. Grant Taylor and four other Sox pitchers combined for a three-hit shutout One way or another, Chicago will host multiple playoff games.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

MUNE MUNE MUNE

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

But it’s also true that these systems are just misogynistic. And we’re so busy holding victims to an impossibly high standard that we forget to ask the most basic questions about whether people like police did their jobs effectively.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If NFL broadcasters are going to treat Deshaun Watson being ok at QB as a sign that he has been Redeemed For His Past, they must remain ideologically consistent. If he starts playing badly again they have to blame it on his failure to repent for his heinous sexual misconduct

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The problem isn’t that they’re moving past it—it’s that they’re trying to rehabilitate it. Would be better for everyone if people who don’t want to engage with the facts just talked about the play on the field and left it at that.

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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 02/10/2026

The Protect College Sports Act got 77 votes in the Senate. It doesn't do what its backers say it does, but it DOES achieve a lot of other things. One of them is perpetuate the diversion of $$ from black football players to a largely white class of ADs, coaches, and agents slate.com/culture/2026...

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Ted Cruz Is Getting His Way With a New Law. Democrats Are Letting Him. No One Wants to Admit What It Does.

Donald Trump is eager to sign the bill. Democrats shouldn't let it get there.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵

A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Then there’s mobile sports betting, which I think is an absolute scourge on society. www.liberalcurrents.com/portraits-of...

The old Vegas adage that "the house always wins" is a warning to gamblers whatever their luck to cut their losses or take their winnings and leave the betting floor before this statistical fact of nature asserts itself. In other words, get out while you can. And that physical space used to mean something. Once upon a time, sports betting was confined to Vegas, and gambling in general was the province of geographically defined locations like reservation casinos and hotel resorts. But Pearson's experience is what happens when the house comes to you.

There's a grim circularity to betting apps aping the push notification tools of the social media giants considering how social media platforms perfected their own dopamine distribution systems by turning feeds, likes, and comments into a slot machine interaction. The stories of how these platforms and apps have affected true addicts and problem gamblers are harrowing. Take Adam, a 33-year-old Massachusetts man whose story was reported by Patrick Madden and WBUR last year:

With the DraftKings and FanDuel apps on his phone, Adam could bet on multiple games at once. Over time, his wagers got more frequent and riskier as he tried to win the money back.
When he was out with his girlfriend, hed repeatedly excuse himself - sometimes to a restroom - to go use his phone.
"What I was doing was checking scores and putting in more bets, things of that sort," said Adam. "I would be up at all hours of the night
- betting on this sport, that sport, sports in other countries that I knew nothing about."
One night in February 2024, as the gambling losses piled up, he decided to put everything he had left on a single Bruins game.
"I walked into our bedroom where she was sleeping and I woke her up," he said. Boston had lost.

What happens to our country as this cohort of men age into what should be their peak earning years and then into retirement? What will our society and economy look like then? The financial risks are self-evident to the outside observer, but gambling addiction and the toll taken by losing also contribute to depression and suicide.

But instead of fighting what is clearly an emerging crisis, we have some of the biggest names in professional sports acting as spokespeople for DraftKings and Kalshi.
LeBron James and Shaquille O'Neal promote DraftKings. Omnipresent ESPN personality Pat McAfee promotes FanDuel. Giannis Antetokounmpo isn't just a spokesperson for Kalshi, he's a shareholder. The only winners in America's burgeoning gambling crisis are the companies and the already super-rich athletes willing to leverage their status as heroes to millions of fans to hook a generation of young men on a devastating habit.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...

The chief justice used to preside over a Supreme Court whose members were afforded more privacy and freedom than many other public officials. Once, years ago, Mr. Lipson and the chief justice found themselves up the peninsula from Port Clyde without a car, Mr. Lipson recalled in an interview. So he stuck out his thumb by the side of the road and a pickup truck pulled over. He and the nation’s top jurist hopped in the back and hitchhiked back to town.

Now, Mr. Lipson said, he is cautious about introducing his friend to strangers. This year, on an outing to nearby Monhegan Island, people recognized the chief justice as he walked by a brewery and started to chant: You should be ashamed.

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Jim Margalus @soxmachine.com · 01/10/2026

How it started: How it ended:

Chase Meidroth hitting the snot out of it.

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BK? @whitesox.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Important to note any year that the White Sox have won a playoff series, they’ve won the World Series

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Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Luisangel Acuña and Ronald Acuña Jr. are the first brothers with multiple SB each in the same postseason … let alone on the same day! They’re the first bros to each have a 2-SB inning in their PS careers 3rd bros w/2+ career PS SB each (Boones, Gurriels) h/t @EliasSports

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Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is the White Sox first postseason series win since the 2005 World Series, also vs HOU That snaps the second-longest active drought without a postseason series win entering today (CIN 1995 NLDS)

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James Fegan @jrfegan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

White Sox beat the Astros, 7-3 A four-run first against Houston ace Hunter Brown and Chase Meidroth's dramatic three-run blast in the sixth seal up a Wild Card sweep at the site of the last White Sox postseason series victory. On to Cleveland.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I took 70 people to Chase Meidroth bobblehead day on the south side in May this year. True story!

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James Fegan @jrfegan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

White Sox beat the Astros, 6-3 Every member of the starting lineup reached based as the Sox applied consistent early pressure to an Astros bullpen game. Hagen Smith threw three scoreless. Grant Taylor got seven grueling outs. Sox can advance tomorrow.

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Bethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Our students don’t deserve this. For those who don’t understand UT Austin admissions, most undergrads get in bc they were top 5% of their graduating class, from a Texas high school. Anyone calling for more white students is advocating for race conscious admissions - to help out white students.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Given the scale of the forces arrayed against us, it's probably true we cannot save everyone from these monsters. But you make them work for every single innocent victim they take. That's what all the other politics is FOR, abandoning that principle means we have a meaningless politics of nothing.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This has got to be an unimpeachable, unbreakable, red-line principle for anyone who wants a better world. We fight together or die alone. Even if it's a losing fight.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The reason not to triangulate against trans people isn't that it's bad politics (although I believe it is) or unnecessary (although I believe it is). It's because YOU MUST NOT ABANDON THE VULNERABLE TO DEPRAVED PEOPLE WHO WILL DO THEM HARM. If we will, what's the point of anything else we do?

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We talked about the work we can do together to build a more just and peaceful future for our communities here in Michigan. Shana tova and shavua tov!

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It was wonderful to spend Rosh Hashanah last week with Missy and Elaine, two lifelong Michiganders who welcomed me into their home and taught me about the sweet and joyous meaning of Rosh Hashanah.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I would say this: I don't care what you think about trans people. The essence of America is that people here get to live their lives however they want, as long as they're not hurting anyone else. You don't get a vote on that. Trans people aren't hurting you, so leave them alone.

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