Meidlinger gets the ground out to win it 10-8 for the Queens. Villareal hit a pinch hit two run double to win it in the top of the seventh for the first WPBL win ever.
Denae Benites hits the first home run in league history to straight away center. At 330 feet
What happened at the Supreme Court is about anti-Blackness and curtailing Black political power. Trump as a corrective to Obama. Anti CRT/ DEI as a corrective to Black Lives Matter and Black progress in education and the workforce. Anti-Blackness is America’s favorite manner of self-harm.
Many good reasons [eyeblack] doesn’t run on Substack. The latest? @beehiiv.com selected us for its Media Collective: a two year residency supporting independent journalists build sustainable publications. Our complicated DV in sports story wouldn’t be possible without beehiiv’s partnership!
'Your life is over, bitch'
MLB decided against suspending a former baseball star accused of choking his ex-fiancée. She says the league's choice enabled his continued abuse
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Kelly Dwyer@kdonhoops.com · 4mo agoI don't know what @bwd.bsky.social's next major breakthrough story will be but I know it won't be on a substack
For years, Microsoft had failed to fully explain how it protects sensitive information in the cloud as it hops from server to server. Given that and other unknowns, government reviewers couldn’t vouch for the tech’s security. It was approved anyway.
Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway.
A federal program created to protect the government against cyber threats authorized a sprawling Microsoft cloud product, despite the company’s inability to fully explain how it protects sensitive dat...
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Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
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Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be
Spent the afternoon learning about regenerative urban farming from Talia Dotson, Shante Walker, Ron Cooper and Imani Gardens. #LAClimateWeek
latest on the NYC casino beat, from @katiehonan.bsky.social:
Mets Owners Are Already Drilling at Citi Field — Without NYC Casino Bid Settled
Mets owners have started exploratory work on Queens park land — and Sen. John Liu has committed to help win state support to build at Flushing Meadows.
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Separate Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have killed two media workers, including Al Jazeera journalist Hossam Shabat aje.io/ylcl1j
Are you affected by the @noaa.gov layoffs? I'm a longtime environment reporter interested in NOAA, EPA and USGS. Send me tips: lisasong.42 on Signal Here's what I cover and some examples of my work: www.propublica.org/people/lisa-...
I'm looking to see if the cuts & chaos at CDC and NIH have affected any clinical trials or research for drugs for the treatment of cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, or other serious diseases. If you know anything, please contact me at DavidCorn.99 at Signal. Or if you have any other good stories.
Federal employees, I would love to speak with you about how DOGE is using technology to reshape your agencies… spot a new AI use? FedRAMP request? Code rewrite? Here’s my work: juliablackwrites.com Secure Signal contact: @mjnblack.09 @altusds.bsky.social @fedworkersunited.bsky.social #altgov
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Want to make progress on climate? Annoy your friends and family. Talk about climate. My latest for @latimes.com, on new polling from @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social & @mason4c.bsky.social finding that most Americans worry about climate, but hardly anyone talks about it: www.latimes.com/environment/...
Boiling Point: Want to fight climate change? Then talk about climate change
Most Americans are worried about global warming. So why are they staying quiet about it?
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Doing the unthinkable: The deep cuts to the #CDC's workforce today are expected to decimate the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a program that has trained public health rapid responders for decades. Envy of the world. Poof! www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...
CDC cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health
Members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service were warned Friday that many of them were about to be fired
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Several DOE staffers told @propublica.org that they've been told not to communicate with students, families & schools involved in civil rights cases launched in previous administrations. “We’ve been essentially muzzled,” one attorney said. New @jsmithrichards.bsky.social @jodiscohen.bsky.social
“We’ve Been Essentially Muzzled”: Department of Education Halts Thousands of Civil Rights Investigations Under Trump
Since Inauguration Day, the Office for Civil Rights has only opened about 20 investigations focused on Trump’s priorities, placing more than 10,000 student complaints related to disability access and ...
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"For a political photo op and a social media post, the Trump administration has thrown away billions of gallons of California water." @petergleick.bsky.social says it was “a needlessly self-destructive action purely for political showmanship.” www.latimes.com/environment/...
The water unexpectedly released from dams on Trump’s order didn't help farms or L.A.
The Trump administration abruptly sent water flowing from two California dams. The action could leave less water in dams for the summer, when farmers typically use it.
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