UF alum in Connecticut via Chicago, Orlando, and Los Angeles. Metro-North and MBTA Napper. Big brother to Puddles the Shih Tzu. Sometimes I write at http://www.bryanhg.wordpress.com.
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Access journalists confuse “access” for “transparency”. Sure Semafor/Politico/TheHill/Axios/NYT have “access” to Trump, but they learn & tell US nothing important or meaningful, just get fed disinformation to amplify to US. They are, at best useful idiots, but really willing collaborators against US
Absolute garbage person www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Won't see Sarr or Wharton play when I'm back in London because of those injuries 😭
#BREAKING Afghanistan earthquake toll rises to more than 1,400: govt spokesman
This is very good news. BUT, as we saw this year when NIH was operating under a flat budget, Trump and Russell Vought can effectively destroy NIH even if Congress holds the budget flat. To stop Vought and make sure NIH can function, Congress must go much further than “no cuts to budget.” 1/
Lazy analysis at its finest by those pushing that story
Good dog
Actually this is better, leave the dog on
I am all for annoying him so much with death rumors that he finds it necessary to keep saying he's not dead every few days. Because that's real strength baby. bsky.app/profile/cono...
UNC hasn't completed a pass in two hours.
Jesus Christ of course the Sinner-Bublik match ends with a double fault.
100 percent
As Trump attacks unions and occupies our city, we’re called to remember how we got here. Labor Day would not exist without the workers who fought and died at the Haymarket Massacre and the Pullman Strike in Chicago. It’s not a coincidence he’s targeting Chicago:
Still wish we had a shot to take on Hwang on loan.
Bublik used up all his fuel against Tommy Paul 48 hours ago.
Venus lost to Serena in the 2002 US Open Final a day after her current doubles partner was BORN.
Venus’s first grand slam final appearance was the 1997 U.S. Open on Sept 7th where she lost to Martina Hingis, who retired back in 2017 This was *the same exact day* Final Fantasy 7 came out in the U.S. on PS1 lol www.usopen.org/amp/en_US/ne... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_F...
No on Solomon; Villarreal are looking to sign Solomon now. JRS could still go out on loan if Glasner really wants to shift him, but I don't see that happening because the club want that transfer fee.
Big opening for, say, Brad Lander www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
More than 445,000 federal employees saw their union protections disappear in August, as agencies moved to comply with an executive order President Trump signed earlier this year that called for ignoring collective bargaining contracts with nearly one million workers.
This is what patriotism and true egoless leadership looks like. Thanks for your service, Rep. Nadler. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
OK, I gave in after all the internet chatter and tried the McDonaldland Shake--and I liked it. Really great drinking this as I watch two men about to play 2+ hours of tennis.
Venus at the net
This Venus and Leylah Fernandez team-up has been the most fun surprise of the US Open.
Glasner to Parish
If you refuse to vaccinate your dog for rabies, you should lose the right to have a pet.
It took 24 minutes for a caller to want to fight Paul Finebaum.
hey man I don't give a shit what Nate Silver says
Welcome back, vintage Osaka. Come back strong, Coco.
Appreciate Parish for the foundation he built, but anything that Palace achieve from here on out is solely down to the manager, the staff, and players. Unprecedented mismanagement with Guéhi and the deadline so far. #cpfc
Yeah, exactly. I mentioned elsewhere that selling Marc seemed short-sighted, and that hinged on winning the Conference League this season for an automatic berth in the Europa League next year. I wish we could see numbers for that included in this math I'm talking about.
I'd be more inclined to agree if they kept us at the Europa League instead of the Conference League we find ourselves in.
All this foundation-building to establish the foothold in the Prem and teaming up with American co-owners feels for nought if that's the case with this once-in-a-lifetime set of coaching staff and players.
(I'm thinking Arsenal when Arteta fails to win the title again...)
That's the logic I'm using, too. Won with this shit-spent-on squad in Europe on top of what he already won at Wembley, then use that as a base to agitate for a move next summer where you have more control over how to spend through an entire window.
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.
With this squad and manager and if we added depth, it's the rare sporting/business gamble worth taking for a club of our stature.
That's fair, but he would have also lost a transfer window to mold that squad in his image.
I don't think Glasner would view Leverkusen as a step up when he left Germany in part because English clubs (well, most of them...) are more willing to splash the cash for transfers. He can use this season with Palace in Europe to push for a job with a higher spending club in England next season.
I wish there were numbers out there that showed how much is Europe actually worth if we made a real push to win the Conference League by keeping Guéhi rather than sell him today. Selling on deadline day feels short-sighted and that none of the owners want to invest more than the bare minimum. #cpfc
I had dinner at 5 pm yesterday. On a long weekend! Glorious.
Two years away from their 30th anniversary 😂😭
Yeah, my head hurts when a pop culture phenomenon or iconic sports moment announces it's their 45th anniversary this year and then I do the math to get back to 1980.
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
WE ARE LEAGUES CUP CHAMPIONS!
Another assist for Kamada
What a potential farewell gift from Marc. #cpfc
That's a fantasy assist for Daichi
Arteta isn't it
9/11 was a massive boon to conservatives, rescuing Bush's floundering Presidency and leading to a midterm wipeout for Dems and Bush's reelection. They are actively rooting for more terrorist attacks.
“agencies where minorities and women were the majority of the work force, such as the Department of Education and U.S.A.I.D., were targeted for the largest work force reductions or complete elimination.“
“If the model employer, the federal government, is unilaterally terminating high-performing Black employees, what hope is there?” President Trump’s efforts to shrink the federal work force have disproportionately affected Black women. Those losses are also rippling through the private sector.
Arsenal have more talent than Palace, but Palace match wits with Liverpool better than Arsenal every time.
I have more fun watching games below the Prem or outside the UK when I watch games as a neutral.
MLB and the MLBPA have agreed to extend the non-disciplinary paid leave for Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz “until further notice,” as the league continues its sports betting investigation into both Guardians pitchers.
For my newsletter this week, I look at how AI is affecting (or how AI companys *want* it to affect) what we're watching It's bad for MANY reasons, but one I particularly focus on is the fundamental project of AI to short-circuit the imagination. It's deeply fucked! Read! Subscribe! It's free!
It's often said he sounds terrible because he has spasmodic dysphonia but that's not the whole story. He's had that for decades but his voice used to be much better; the dumbass didn't "trust the experts" so stopped his approved Botox treatment that was working and got an unapproved useless implant.
Cue the Glasner to Arsenal rumors 😅😭
Man, Arteta is gonna put Eze back on the World Cup bubble with his negative tactics.
Pritzker out here giving a master class in countering the right wing propaganda machine’s efforts to justify further federal invasions and occupations of American cities: he’s effectively reframing the discussion (beyond debates re: crime rates) to one of rising authoritarianism & federal overreach.
Wrong RFK that's going down
A dramatic, extremely worrying moment; over 61,000 people held in ICE detention. That is the highest number ever on record in United States history; roughly 6,000 higher than the previous record set under Trump six years ago, and over 21,000 higher than when Trump took office just seven months ago.
Pritzker: "National Guard troops, any kind of troops, on the streets of American city don't belong unless there is an insurrection, unless there is truly an emergency. There is not."
Gonna start a conspiracy theory that Nuno tanked this game to force Marinakis's hand and sack him over the break.
trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa
Our news media are so broken. There's a way to challenge someone in an interview without looking like you're the press secretary for the other side. ABC's Martha Raddatz badly misses the mark. "Why fight with the president?" she asks.
I have friends everywhere
this questioning is credulous and doesn’t actually have any substance except a stammering “but … but … these very small sample size statistics.” it’s just a stammering interviewer who got her wallet stolen by the inspector again
This Yokohama F. Marinos supporter would like to thank Gamba Osaka for making the use of their man advantage over Bellmare in the second half.
every day we, but especially the editors of the new york times spelling bee, stray further from god's light
New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
African media have quizzed FIFA president Gianni Infantino if people from the continent will be safe and welcome in the United States at the 2026 World Cup.
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
Naomi Osaka v. Coco Gauff, oh man what a Labor Day we're blessed with
Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀
Alexandra Eala 🤝 Iga Swistek Overcoming 1-5 deficit to win a match
There are very few things I experienced as a kid where I’m like “the youngs are missing out, it built character” but this is absolutely one
Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)
That was a painful way for Kalinskaya to lose that mstch.
“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group.” This is on Trump. Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
My heart. Members of the US Public Health Service (the uniformed service branch no one has ever heard of, who serve at the CDC and elsewhere in the US), massed within the CDC property, saluting their departing uniformed leaders who were escorted out by security today after resigning on principle.
Imagine trump starts clearly having a stroke and then violently refuses any medical treatment other than from RFK, who immediately leaps into action with mercury enemas and leeches and such. Trump, definitely dead and already decomposing, as RFK stuffs another giant land snail in his mouth
Would be a fun excuse for me to finally visit Montreal.
Health officials under JB Pritzker, who is showing how to take on Trump, are moving forward. They're exploring buying vaccines in bulk themselves. Mass. Gov Maura Healey is in talks with multiple other states about coordinating purchasing of pediatric vaccines. newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Looks like I have extra plans when I go home for Thanksgiving
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Tonight belongs to Taylor -- Townsend and Fritz, that is.
Trump wasn't seen yesterday by the White House press pool. He wasn't seen today. He has no public events scheduled this weekend. Trump hasn't been seen in public since Weds, and it's unclear if he'll be seen in public until Tues. That's pretty damn weird.
I go away from the US Open for a few hours and return to find that Tiafoe and Navarro were eliminated and Shelton withdrew after injury. Brutal day for the Americans.
The bad faith actors will dishonestly draw a through line connecting trans people to mass shootings but will skip right to over the fact that many of these mass shooters are racists, antisemites and misogynists because they harbor some of the same sentiments as the shooters.
People are often surprised to learn that Lee was an officer who never made it past colonel. The purported promotion to general was awarded by a treasonous cabal calling itself the "confederate states of america" which was put down by force by the Union army, which also had superior generals.
You're in holiday weekend mode pretty early haha
lol Joni
I'm just saying, I'll plunge myself into financial crisis to go to Slovakia if we get an away fixture at Bratislava.
this company is very interested in continuing to align with our current national ethos, which is very bad
I despise the Cowboys and Packers
I'm having so much fun watching Venus and Leylah play Doubles together.
This is probably the silliest story I will ever write for MLB dot com, and I had so much fun with it. Find out how baseball shaped the career of Matt Farley, writer of over 26,000 songs and counting! www.mlb.com/news/musicia...
🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”