Wait. Have @doge and Elon just been pulling numbers from usaspending.gov ?
Then releasing it as if they discovered it ?
Brilliant if true. Absolutely brilliant. Fooled me.
Very Trump like too.
Any usaspending.gov experts out there that can tell us ?
An #Anonymous message to the people of the United States and Trump. #3E (part 1)
NEW: White House requested a list of CIA employees as part of efforts to shrink the federal government. The list, which included partial names, was sent in an unclassified email. David Sanger and I report: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...
my team-by-team top 20s and org reports begin today with the AL East, for subscribers to @theathletic.bsky.social:
Baltimore nyti.ms/42JadI7
Boston nyti.ms/3WMP1ND
NY Yankees nyti.ms/4hjM1At
Tampa Bay bit.ly/3WLZQPU
Toronto nyti.ms/40H2d7S
Monday.
Another stellar guest.
@officialreds.bsky.social x Over-Slot
Palisades fire video from PCH near Topanga Canyon part 2
🎼 Oh Christmas dog, oh Christmas dog! Do you prefer colored or white lights?
Most days I don’t feel that far removed from being young, but last night my son asked how the internet began appearing on home computers and I tried to explain Prodigy and AOL disks and modems and I checked myself into a retirement home.
I get why the Yankees traded for Cody Bellinger, but I think they could have gone in a different direction for a better fit on offense & defense. My breakdown for subscribers to @theathletic.bsky.social: bit.ly/41yGAZA
Dave Parker was in the same lineups as Rickey, Canseco, McGwire, Hendu, Lansford in their heydays when he was closing in on the end of his career and he still scared everyone. A true HOF. Happy he’s finally recognized as one.
Lol
Going on Twitter now feels unmistakably like watching Uncut Gems.
Quite a few @futurestarsseries.bsky.social Alumni in here.
#WeGotNow
My latest column:
Five things to watch on the Baseball Hall of Fame ballot, including:
How can Ichiro not be unanimous?
www.nytimes.com/athletic/592...
In the pod, I go into the practical reasons why I think sports media should de-emphasize X (I don't focus on the political aspect), what execs should be thinking about and why this site makes more sense.
Sign-up and listen: AndrewMarchand.com
The way content seems to get squashed over at the other place obviously sucks, but I don’t think we’re quite there yet over here on a lot of people who need to have a presence here making the jump/trying it out. Trending well, but so was Threads.
UPDATE: Over at @fssplus.bsky.social I've updated the Top 250 prospects for the 2025 Draft to reflect Hewitt-Trussville SS Steele Hall's reclassification into 2025. I've also updated a handful of scouting reports at the top of the Draft.
futurestarsseries.com/mlb-draft-to...
🔵 From our Cubs Farm Snapshot via @joedoylemilb.bsky.social and @prospectinsider.bsky.social, which is available right here: t.ly/cubssnap
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Young JB.
Peaceful, non hateful, and totally different.
This is….one way to look at it.
This is a trip. Didn’t know this place existed. Much calmer. It’s like, really calm.
Can you now
