¡matt! ✶✶✶✶

@mattfromchicago.bsky.social

just an idiot ✶✶✶✶ he/him

The WNBA has never had a trans woman play in the league’s 30-year history and now the right and other anti-trans activists are hammering the league over something that has never been an issue, proving once again it isn’t about protection but exhibiting cruelty toward trans people.

This is a story about the President and several of his hand-picked appointees all committing crimes and blatantly lying to the public while stealing public funds and abusing the criminal justice system, but the NYTimes describes the situation like they're recapping a soap opera.

Larry Glickman@larryglickman.bsky.social · 3d ago

Another example of the problem with the fixation with Trump’s putative emotions: here a story about the Trump administration’s corruption, incompetence, and venality is framed as one about Trump’s “wrath.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u...

yeah, I mean I get this. they also gave up Yordan Alvarez and Oneil Cruz for relievers. I think in general rentals, even big ones, just aren't going to have a high hit rate. I also don't know that any one of those deals were well received at the time. idk.

TheNorge@norseofbroad.bsky.social · 4d ago

The Dodgers have gotten Betts, Scherzer, Turner, Darvish and Machado for jack shit. When are teams gonna learn Dodgers prospects are overrated af.

Whatever you think of the Castillo deal what's impressed me about Getz is how he does not get beholden to anyone and can easily admit a mistake and move on, so refreshing from the Williams/Hahn era where they clearly had their preferred guys and would refuse to see the things the rest of us did

It's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that