Turns out THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME is a documentary. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/b...

The ‘Monster’ Behind Russia’s Global Effort to Evade Western Sanctions

A Moscow firm uses shell companies and cryptocurrency to launder money, and a custom app to forge trade records, to help Russia bypass sweeping financial restrictions.

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Snake oil salesman and not a very good one.

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Trump: Right after the election, gas prices are gonna be tumbling down

From Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown to Dizzy Dean, everybody loves baseball names. We welcome Gordon from Athlete Archives to share our favorite baseball names and some of the stories behind them. And in a bonus plot twist: one of them is a fake, a fraud, a bamboozle. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Celebrating the "Baseball Name"

Gordon from the Athlete Archives joins us to name names--but there's a twist.

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I mean, I'm GONNA watch any new live Bright Eyes... www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFe9...

Bright Eyes: Live From KCRW HQ

YouTube video by KCRW

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Bald-faced, blatant corruption, all the time. "Trump Cashed In One Day After Handing Tech Firm Major Deal" archive.ph/IGUEZ

Online baseball fans act like eliminating all friction from umpiring would make the game better, lacking the realization that the friction is the whole point.

The YouTube algorithm giveth: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WIR... Shout out to the cool people out there adding amazing stuff to YouTube all the time.

Willie Nelson - Teatro VHS featuring Daniel Lanois & Emmylou Harris, Directed by Wim Wenders

YouTube video by John Ruhl

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The shock when a lame reboot idea turns into a lame reboot.

The Astros have been fun to watch this year! Hunter Brown on the DL is terrifying, and I wish Framber was still in orange and blue.

NYTimes homepage is like: deranged nut spews unhinged war threats and, hey, have you thought about a few nights in Tucson?

If I’m the proprietor of Dino’s bar and Grill, I’m not so sure I’m all that happy that the boys are back in town

Imagine if all of these resources and human capital were invested in decarbonization?

Running this country about in line with someone who would run a country from a golf course.

What's the positive spin on starting a war with Iran?

The ABS challenge system is just the latest baseball innovation tested in Spring Training. On Clear the Field, we look back to spring training in 1971. One of the new ideas is still with us today. The other is where it belongs, on the scrap heap of history. open.spotify.com/episode/4xzY...

MEGAN KELLER WITH A DIRTY DRAG MOVE AND A GOLD MEDAL WINNING GOAL 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

Imagine a world in which the American president makes a billion dollars off of cryptocurrency during his administration and nobody does a thing about it.

Hemingway’s cursive script in the first draft of The Sun Also Rises is quite inspiring. Legible but loose. Emotive but functional. Lots of white space for editing.

Struggling with that voice in my head saying: there's nobody better than Bob Seger

Yes, I am old, but I still think that "tennis player whining at their coach in the middle of a match" is like the worst look of all time.

Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen, was put in a chokehold by ICE agents. Agents took his phone, which he tracked to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center. Yes: ICE is stealing and selling people’s things after brutalizing them. There are no words.

We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing

Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to p

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The difference, from an MLB fan's point of view, between something like Mike Trout's or Bryce Harper's long-term deal is so vast when compared with the short, opt-out deals of today. Shades of the NCAA environment and its constant NIL jumpers. www.mlbtraderumors.com/2026/01/the-...

The Opener: Tucker, Roster Moves, Fan Events

Today's baseball news is highlighted by the fallout of the Kyle Tucker signing and a handful of upcoming roster moves. Read more at MLBTR.

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Normalization of the US president "joking" about not holding elections says quite a bit about where we are as a society.

Most of us want to know how to tie cool knots but absolutely don't want to do what it would take to learn them.

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The Night They Caught Gaylord - Part 1 of 2

In 1982 baseball’s most accomplished spitball pitcher was finally brought to justice.

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Rewatched Forrest Gump with the kid. I was choking up as the feather floated toward the bus stop in the intro.

The American president was best friends for a long time with a notorious depraved pederast who kept none of it secret. If you can defend that, boy howdy.

Need everyone to stop making new movies, writing new books, or recording new albums until I get caught up. Thanks,

lol it’s so genuinely fun seeing Cory take decades of fluency in how these systems are broken and serve it up for a mainstream audiences. Even if you know “enshittification” well, this is worth the watch. And love to @eff.org! youtu.be/d2e-c9SF5nE

Cory Doctorow - Rescuing the Internet From “Enshittification” | The Daily Show

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The stories that my friend Paul finds in the annals of baseball history, seriously. In this edition, we discuss a coach who literally brings a WHISTLE with him to the third base coaching box. www.project-318.com/p/whistling-...

Whistling Past the World Series

Hughie Jennings brought a whistle, so some other guy brought a car horn. From there, things got silly.

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