chicken

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Bingo

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

“It comes with great shock, to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance... has not pledged allegiance to you.”

—James Baldwin

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

This image of a football match in Gaza 🇵🇸 was removed from a French sports photography festival last month due to pressure from the Israeli government, who did not want the world to see it.

[Nyrae @TemiXo_1]

"Underage girls testing positive for pregnancy at detention centers."

Let me fix that for you.

“ICE officers are raping little girls in detention centers.”

There you go.

[Robert J Ellingsworth 🆓 @BY1959]

But he's a businessman.

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

Ichiro Suzuki is 52 years old.

He last played in the Majors in 2019. He's already in the Hall of Fame. He has nothing left to prove to anyone on a baseball field.

On Sunday at the Tokyo Dome, he threw a complete game shutout.

127 pitches. 17 strikeouts. Zero runs.

Here's what the game is. Every year, Ichiro hosts an All-Star game against the best high school girls baseball players in Japan. It was created to grow women's baseball in a country where girls have had almost no path in the sport, and it's become one of the biggest showcases they get. Ichiro doesn't show up for an inning and wave. He pitches the whole thing, at full effort, because he believes treating them like real competition is the entire point.

And he was better this year than last.

In 2024 he threw a 116-pitch shutout with nine strikeouts. This year, two years older, he threw eleven more pitches and struck out eight more batters.

One Japanese fan summed it up perfectly online: what's most monstrous isn't the strikeouts, it's that after 127 pitches his velocity and command never dropped off.

Then he walked off the mound, sweat still on him, and did a 30-minute talk show, cracking jokes the whole time.

This is the same guy who, last month, hit eight home runs in the Mariners Alumni Home Run Derby. At 51.

Afterward, he explained why he keeps doing it.

"I wanted to see what my current limits were, and this gave me confidence in myself."

Ichiro collected 4,367 professional hits between Japan and the Majors. He's one of the greatest hitters who ever lived. And somehow, at 52, the more interesting story is what he can still do with his arm.

The man simply refuses to be done.

For more stories like this, follow us on any platform @thesportsontap

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

What a joke. This guy is bankrolled by Big Pharma, he voted 19 times against lowering drug prices.

[chicken @chickenthebard]

@SleeperNFL

[Sheree’ Woke AF @ShereeWokeAF]

THIS 👇🏽👇🏽 TRUTH 🔥🔥

I’ll join HIS CHURCH ASAP!!

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

For Republicans, this is called an INCONVENIENT FACT.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

You cannot accidentally do this much Nazi shit.

[Tuta @TutaPrivacy]

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this.

Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how.

Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

1. The Main Switch

This is the main setting Google shows you, but it's not the only one.
Gmail (Desktop):
⚙️ Settings → See all settings → Smart features and personalization → Uncheck "Turn on smart features in Gmail, Chat, and Meet" → Save Changes.

2. The Hidden Switch

Turning off the first setting isn't enough. Most people stop there.
On the same settings page: Google Workspace smart features → Manage Workspace smart feature settings → Turn off both checkboxes → Save.
Both settings need to be turned off.

3. Your Phone

The settings don't always sync between devices, so check the Gmail app separately.
Gmail app → Menu (☰) → Settings → Select your account → Turn off "Smart features and personalization" → Confirm.

4. Delete Gemini History

If you've used Gemini before, your chats may be saved, and some could be reviewed by humans.
Go to https://t.co/L7GOsTS1wM
→ Turn off Gemini Apps Activity → Delete Activity → All Time.
This removes your past Gemini chat history and stops future conversations from being saved.

5. Move Sensitive Emails

Turning off Gmail's smart features helps, but for truly private emails, consider using a separate service.
For medical, legal, or financial emails, use a free Tuta Mail account. It offers end-to-end encryption and doesn't use AI to scan your emails.

Keep Gmail for newsletters, promotions, and less sensitive messages - if you must.

More: https://t.co/WypCappyfa

[Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024]

NOTUS: Adam Hamilton, the Democratic US Senate nominee in Kansas, recently hired a longtime Republican staffer to lead his campaign’s digital operations.

Austin Gilpin, who worked for Rep. Ron Estes (R-KS), said that Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) has chosen “his party and his president over Kansas.”

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Hey Rudy, tell us about the $300,000 that Pavlo Fuks paid you in 2017.

According to press reports and an FBI whistleblower disclosure to the Senate, the man who paid you was a Russian intelligence asset and Putin bag man. Within a year you were flying around Europe working with other Russian intelligence assets accusing my family of corruption. You can’t make this shit up.

Who is Fuks? The FBI assessed him as a co-opted asset of Russian intelligence who laundered money for sanctioned Russian entities. He ran propaganda for Moscow inside Ukraine, including funding a false flag operation that painted swastikas across Kharkiv so the Kremlin could tell the world Ukraine was run by Nazis.

The U.S. banned Fuks from the country over ties to Russian organized crime. Zelensky sanctioned him. He was also Trump’s would-be partner on a Trump Tower Moscow, by his own account to Bloomberg.

That man hired you. He called you his lobbyist. You called it “security consulting.” Then you flew to Kharkiv.

You took money from a Russian intelligence asset and Putin bag man and ran an operation to malign me and my father for the benefit of Trump.

Sue me, @RudyGiuliani. Discovery starts with the Fuks payment.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

They're literally the ones that broke everything in Florida, but they're running campaigns that say "vote for us so we can fix everything we broke."
This is how stupid MAGA & republicans are. This isn't satire... it's just sad.

[𝕷𝖚𝖈𝖎𝖋𝖊𝖗 @LucifersTweetz]

There’s been 24 African Americans found hanging from trees since last March.

All ruled suicide.

Black people don’t hang themselves.