Dodgers won.

Oh wow, you drink beer and you DON'T like the popular type?
I bet you're very interesting.

Dodgers won.

Man, we have the same conversations every time a major story like this breaks. It’s exhausting. It is SO HARD to publish a story about gendered violence for a whole host of reasons, a main one being that victims (rightly so!) don’t want to talk.

Always a fun moment when your next flight starts boarding before you've even got off your first flight.

to me the pitt is a love letter to new york city – a town it lovingly accepts, warts and all. in a sense, new york is almost the show's main character

In the current college basketball landscape, any time you have a player who is TOO good, they'll probably end up leaving your team.

Finally some GOOD news? The national average price of gasoline is down 4c/gal so far today- it's not a ton, but it's a start. declines should continue into the weekend- but what happens starting Monday will be heavily influenced by US/Iran talks so stay tuned!

FIFA faces new crisis as SoFi Stadium workers in LA threaten strike action The union UNITE HERE Local 11 has made a series of demands to FIFA and voiced major concerns about ICE agents around World Cup venues

From @theathleticfc.bsky.social: With just over 60 days before the World Cup begins, FIFA has a new crisis on its hands: strike threats from thousands of workers at SoFi Stadium, the tournament’s host venue in Los Angeles and the site of the opening USMNT game.

I am deeply concerned about the fact that Iran is really good at propaganda, they’re antisemitic as fuck, and they’re aiming they’re incredibly good antisemitic propaganda at us at the exact time the American populace is most primed to receive antisemitic messages.

The Board of Peace isn't doing a very good job.

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Consumer prices jumped 0.9% in March as Iran war sent gas prices soaring The annual rate of inflation hit 3.3%, led by a 21.2% increase for gasoline — the largest one-month increase at the pump since 1967.

Prices of everything went up thanks to the war in Iran.

No involvement in day to day operations, story says.

But... still a good sign of prying the Rockies out of the hands of the Monforts at some point.

HEadline: Southern white rhino calf born at Ohio zoo for 2nd time this year

This headline makes it seem like a single rhino was born twice.

It's Time For The Scariest Part Of Artemis | Defector Spaceflight is a lot like airplane travel in that the vast, vast majority of incidents happen on takeoff or landing. More things are happening; more things can go wrong. On liftoff and reentry,…

It's time for the scariest part of Artemis: defector.com/its-time-for...

Yeah, I hear that. Should be a fun time!

Dozens of Epstein's Zorro Ranch guns were stolen in 2018, but staff wouldn't work with police It's not clear why staff stopped cooperating after an initial report, but as a felon, Epstein wasn't allowed to possess firearms.

Dozens of guns vanished from Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch in 2018 — and his staff never told police what was taken. Epstein’s staff stopped cooperating with the police and the case ran cold, according to records obtained by The New Mexican. sfnm.co/4cj3GqI

Playing in any tournaments or just hanging out? Either way, have fun!

Gianni Infantino gonna charge him twice as much to use the name as he initially said he would.

BREAKING: New Mexico has just joined 8 other states in setting a new all-time record high for the price of diesel, at $5.61/gal today.

Larry Mullen WHOSE son?

If they don't, I fear I might forget the names of all four members.

My "No knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein's actions" press conference has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my press conference.

There are a lot of pinball locations who have turned to AI to make social media posts. It immediately makes me think that if they're too lazy to even just post a short unedited video or a pic or two, there's no way they're taking the time to maintain their machines.

My 100% Certified Good Boy badge is still valid though, right?

The pure amount of people who want to come out of the woodwork to just slam every little think Jon Gruden did is beautiful.

Scrubs, named after the main character, John "JD" Scrubs.

But most Southern volunteers believed they were fighting for liberty as well as slavery. “Our cause,” wrote one in words repeated almost verbatim by many “is the sacred one of Liberty, and God is on our side.” A farmer who enlisted in the 26th Tennessee insisted that “life liberty and property [i.e., slaves] are at stake” and therefore “any man in the South would rather die battling for civil and political liberty, than submit to the base usurpations of a northern tyrant.”17 One of three brothers who enlisted in a South Carolina artillery battery believed that “a stand must be made for African slavery or it is forever lost.” The Confederate states were united by the institution of “slavery[,] a bond of union stronger than any which holds the north together,” wrote the second brother. Therefore, added the third, the Souths “glorious cause of Liberty” was sure to triumph. A wealthy planter who married one of Mary Todd Lincoln’s sisters became an officer in the 4th Alabama to fight for “Liberty and Independence.” “What would we be,” he asked his wife, “without our liberty? . . . [We] would prefer Death a thousand times to recognizing once a Black Republican ruler . . . altho’ he is my brother in law.”18 Southern recruits waxed more eloquent about their intention to fight against slavery than for it—that is, against their own enslavement by the North. “Sooner than submit to Northern slavery I prefer death,” wrote a slaveowning officer in the 20th South Carolina. The son of a Mississippi planter dashed off a letter to his father as he rushed to enlist: “No alternative is left but war or slavery.” Subjugation was the favorite word of Confederate recruits to describe their fate if the South remained in the Union or was forced back into it. “If we should suffer ourselves to be subjugated by the tyrannical government of the North,” wrote a private in the 56th Virginia to his wife, “our property would all be confuscated ... & our people reduced to the most abject bondage & ut…

Some Confederate volunteers did indeed avow the defense of slavery as a motive for enlisting. A young Virginia schoolteacher who joined the cavalry could not understand why his father, a substantial farmer and slaveowner, held out so long for preservation of the Union when reports in Southern newspapers made it clear that the Lincoln administration would “use its utmost endeavors for the abolishment of slavery.” After all, Lincoln himself “has declared that one of the peculiar institutions of the South, which involves the value of four billions . . . is ‘a moral evil.’ “ No true Southerner could hesitate. “Better, far better! endure all the horrors of civil war than to see the dusky sons of Ham leading the fair daughters of the South to the altar.” A slave-owning farmer enlisted in the 13th Georgia because “our homes our firesides our land and negroes and even the virtue of our fair ones is at stake,” while a young Kentucky physician told his slaveholding relatives that he would join the Confederate forces “who are battling for their rights and for an institution in which Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee are [as] interested” as the lower South. “The vandals of the North . . . are determined to destroy slavery . . . We must all fight, and I choose to fight for southern rights and southern liberty.”

Why'd the Confederates fight? They told us