You can’t get to affordability without defeating corruption and if you pretend otherwise you will fail at both.
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Christian, husband, dad, fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Lakers, Kings & Rams. Black Lives Matter. Pro-democracy. Destroy white-supremacy.
This is from @froomkin.bsky.social. "What’s missing from every story about Tuesday’s anti-Trump rout."
It is the same issue. You cannot get to affordability without going through corruption. It’s not even walking and chewing gum. It’s using each of your two legs to walk.
Sean@stholeary.bsky.social · 2d agoSen. Warnock was just asked on CNN if Dems will focus on costs *or* corruption, and he responded "We can walk & chew gum at the same time." Hell yes, that is the message.
ESPN producer Nicole Noren quits over sports broadcasting's increasingly predatory promotion of gambling: “I’m not going to work for a gambling company and have blood on my hands.”
Nicole Noren: “I’m not going to have blood on my hands.”
Why Nicole Noren, a decorated ESPN producer, quit in protest.
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When people say “the government will never do that” they already have to black people
#RamsWeeng! Fly higher for a huge comeback win in Philly! 🐏 #LARams 24 | 20 #Eagles TD: P. Nacua, K. Williams (x2) Record: 2-2, 3rd #NFCWest #RamsWin #HornsUp #LARvsPHI
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With a never-die fourth quarter, Kyren Williams saved the Rams on Sunday. Not just a win, but potentially the season www.dailynews.com/2026/10/04/k...
Kyren Williams powers Rams’ comeback win over Eagles
Williams scored the second of his two fourth-quarter touchdowns with just over a minute left to complete a 10-point comeback in the 24-20 victory.
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It's a myth that's more unbelievable than Bigfoot, crazier than CRT and wilder than "wokeness." Its existence can't be supported by scientific, historical or biblical evidence. Yet we believe it. There is no such thing as an "evangelical Christian"
Media’s Little White Lie: There’s No Such Thing As an ‘Evangelical Christian’
How evangelical Christianity became part of the biggest myth in American media.
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Public Enemy stars Flavor Flav and Chuck D are known as rap pioneers who helped create a platform for political expression and advocated for social justice. The two say they want to see more "inspirational groups" in modern music. #PublicEnemy #FlavorFlav #ChuckD
The best new songs of 2026 are unheard, half-century-old tracks that Stevie Wonder recorded during the "Songs in the Key of Life" sessions. DJ Short goes deep on this peek into Wonder's vault. www.powmag.net/p/the-lost-s...
The Lost Stevie Wonder Sessions
Fifty years after Songs In The Key Of Life, four songs from Stevie Wonder’s famously impenetrable vault have been made public.
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I only got to speak with Lawrence Tanter a few times after I started on the Lakers beat in February. He was the voice of most of our childhoods if you grew up in LA like I did. Tanter was a baritone original. A giant of a man, but so down to Earth in every way. RIP.
Terrible news. If my youth had a PA announcer, it would undoubtedly be Lawrence Tanter. I'll be replaying 'Wuuuur-thy' or 'Tooooo many steps', etc. in my head for the rest of my life. #RIP #LALakers
Benjamin Royer@thebenroyer.bsky.social · last mo.Lakers announce that longtime PA announcer Lawrence Tanter has died. Heartbreaking.
wow being a los angeles baseball fan, nothing but TITLES
🎂 HAPPY 245th BIRTHDAY, LOS ANGELES! 🎂 El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río de Porciúncula was founded #OTD in 1781 by a group of 44 pobladores of comprising of Indigenous, African and European ancestries.
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Ian Rapoport@rapsheet.bsky.social · 2mo ago🚨 🚨 🚨 AD is B-A-C-K: Rams star Aaron Donald is coming of retirement to play for his old team with a 1-year, $20M deal with playoff incentives up to $30M, per me and Adam Schefter. After two seasons away, Donald will play alongside Myles Garrett in a star-studded D-line.
John C. Reilly questions why human rights have become political "Why aren’t people on the right wing concerned about human rights?" "Elon Musk says, 'don’t be fooled by the empathy trap'. ... Empathy is not a trap, empathy is a superpower ... our ability to look outside ourself” 🎙️ It's Open Pod
The graphic below is a side-by-side comparison of what America 250 and Juneteenth each say about freedom, history, and what this anniversary truly represents. When you think about Juneteenth and the Fourth of July, do you celebrate one, both, or neither? What shapes that decision for you?
My best yet. Oscar, LeBron, Dominique, Rasheed Wallace & Olajuwon. I just went 75-7, think you can go 82-0? Play 82-0: www.82-0.com/share?id=GYd...
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Build the ultimate NBA all-time team and see if you can go 82-0
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Christ told us the cause of the Gospel would force us to forsake mother and father. How much more then should we be willing to forsake a temporary man-made construct like our nation? Do what one can as a citizen but remember that America is temporary and has no eternal value.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but what’s going on in the south right now with voting rights and erasure, is a “kitchen table issue” — for Black families. And it should be for everyone.
It’s telling that Alabama took 14 years to implement Brown (you MUST desegregate) and < 14 days to implement Callais (you CAN eliminate Black districts if you call them Democratic, but you don’t HAVE to).
Meg Kinnard@megkinnardap.bsky.social · 6mo agoMONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers approve a plan for new US House primaries if courts allow different districts.
