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Trump administration sues California over transgender athletes in schools

US Politics · California

Trump administration sues California over transgender athletes in schools

46% Center coverage: 219 sources

The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday sued California over state policies allowing transgender athletes to compete in girls' school sports, alleging that their participation violates federal anti-discrimination laws.See the Story

Musk’s AI company scrubs inappropriate posts after Grok chatbot makes antisemitic comments

Antisemitism · United States

Musk’s AI company scrubs inappropriate posts after Grok chatbot makes antisemitic comments

41% Left coverage: 159 sources

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company said Wednesday that it’s taking down “inappropriate posts” made by its Grok chatbot, which appeared to include antisemitic comments that praised Adolf Hitler. See the Story

Tour De France: Healy Wins Hilly 6th Stage, Van Der Poel Takes Yellow Jersey From Pogačar

Tadej Pogacar · Normandy

Tour De France: Healy Wins Hilly 6th Stage, Van Der Poel Takes Yellow Jersey From Pogačar

37% Center coverage: 64 sources

Irish rider Ben Healy won a hilly sixth stage of the Tour de France after a long solo breakaway while Mathieu van der Poel took back the yellow jersey from defending champion Tadej Pogačar by one second. American rider Quinn…See the Story

Detained immigrants at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ say there are worms in food and wastewater on the floor

49% Center coverage: 49 sources

At the brand new Everglades immigration detention center that officials have dubbed “ Alligator Alcatraz,” people held there say worms turn up in the food. Toilets don’t flush, flooding floors with fecal waste, and mosquitoes and other insects are everywhere.US Immigration · Florida See the Story

Katie Taylor vs. Amanda Serrano Fights History: Explaining Results, Controversies Heading Into Boxing Trilogy

54% Center coverage: 22 sources

Was there any true controversy in the first two Katie Taylor-Amanda Serrano fights? Who landed more shots? The Sporting News reflects on the series between the two heading into the trilogy fight at Madison Square Garden.Jake Paul · New York See the Story

Defector Reads A Baseball Book

100% Left coverage: 1 sources

Sometimes you find yourself remembering a book. Such was the case a few weeks ago, when someone dropped this tweet into our DRAB Slack channel. "In 2012 it seemed like every single person in New York City was reading The Art of Fielding," it read. "On Goodreads it has 30,000 more ratings than Infinite Jest, and almost 3x as many readers as 2666. And yet it’s just completely gone. Never discussed. Zero impact." Well guess what, buddy: We're going…Books · New York Read Article

Private Equity Now Owns More Than 40 Minor League Baseball Teams, And The Number Keeps Growing

100% Left coverage: 1 sources

Private equity is the steamroller that crushes all your favorite things. Journalism, for one, and also a once iconic toy store; even bowling these days. Now it has come for minor league baseball, where in little more than three years one private equity firm has managed to buy up a healthy percentage of the MiLB teams in the United States. Diamond Baseball Holdings, a company backed by the private equity firm Silver Lake, has acquired 45 Minor L…White Sox · United States See the Story

Bullied For Bacon, With Michael Schur And Rohan Nadkarni

100% Left coverage: 1 sources

Fair warning: This article is a podcast. I didn’t want you coming into this thinking I was gonna reel off 2,000 touching words about my family or whatever. No, this is a mercenary post. Distraction co-host David Roth is out this week on vacation, fondling gross gas tanks and politely eating lobster rolls. The usual Roth in Maine shit. That means that I got to be in charge of the proceedings this week, so I recruited both longtime pod favorite Ro…Maine, United States · Maine Read Article

30-Year-Old Man Hits Athletic Peak

100% Left coverage: 1 sources

I recently started the seminal baseball book Ball Four, Jim Bouton's diary of the 1969 season. As the book opens, Bouton is staring down the last days of his career. He was a young star for a couple of seasons with the Yankees, but his failure to live up to that early promise got him banished to the godforsaken expansion Seattle Pilots. From the very first pages, Bouton writes like a grizzled old man who's seen it all, rueful about past contract…Seattle · Seattle Read Article

NFL, Players Union Colluded To Hide Results Of Collusion Investigation From Players: Report

Coverage: 2 sources

NFLPA-logo Leaders of the NFL Players Association reportedly colluded with the NFL to withhold key information about an arbitration decision from its very own players. Ironically, the arbitration decision was centered on whether NFL owners had colluded on contract negotiations with quarterbacks. Making that even worse is the fact that the arbitrator ruled in January, according to ESPN, that the NFLPA showed “by a clear preponderance of the evide…Roger Goodell · United States See the Story

Make It Nice: Ceiling Fans And Tricky Layouts

100% Left coverage: 2 sources

Welcome back to Make It Nice, Defector’s best design advice column. This month: A search for an attractive ceiling fan, a layout for a tricky bungalow bedroom, and ideas for making the most out of a multi-use workspace. Alyssa asks: Thank you for this column!! I bought some window film for my bathroom from the […]Bucks County · Bucks County See the Story

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