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[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Tesla has just officially introduced Powershare Home Backup for new Model 3 and Model Ys with Powerwall 3 (orders October 1, 2026 or later).

Model 3 and Model Y vehicles can extend your backup duration by over 2 days. For homes equipped with Powerwall 3 and Wall Connector, no additional equipment is required.

Powerwall 2 and Powerwall+ support is coming soon. Compatibility with Powerwall is enabled via over-the-air update.

Learn more: https://t.co/BIxvf7H8Hs

[SFGATE @SFGate]

A deeply serious look at the SF Giants' growing chicken tender problem https://t.co/W8pkQobDH8

[Alex Simon @AlexSimonSports]

New at @SFGate:

A deeply serious look at the SF Giants' growing chicken tender problem
Or, as @PavlovicNBCS put it this summer: "The chicken tenders are thinner than they've ever been"
https://t.co/UVd7Rob7XE
#SFGiants

[Leb @Leb_Zeppelins]

BREAKING: The Los Angeles Dodgers are saying that Ippei Mizuhara, Shohei Ohtani’s former translator, is to blame for the years of financial fraud from the organization.

[Jack Loder @JackLoder_]

Literally everyone who covers the sport on a national level spent the last three years telling us that anyone can do what the Dodgers do, and that we were simply being petulant children for objecting to gluttonous spending that the signer wouldn’t even be responsible for in two decades. Oops.

[Warren @swd2]

Everyone feel good about this? Dude with the nuke codes is sleep farting while dude with a brain worm is making health care decisions for your kids.

[Zach W. Lambert @ZachWLambert]

There are more active Ku Klux Klan chapters than trans athletes in America.

There are more states where child marriage is legal than trans athletes in America.

There have already been more school shootings in 2026 than trans athletes in America.

There are more antigovernment extremist groups in almost every single state than trans athletes in America.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

“I didn't vote for this!”
Yes you did. You just voted for it to happen to someone else. Not you.

[aether @bluewdrift]

Keep your problems smaller than your life. A flat tire is a flat tire. A bad meeting is a bad meeting. A canceled flight is just an extra two hours. These things become catastrophes when you let them. But they stay manageable when you remember the depth of your real life- the people you love, the work you care about, the beautiful years still ahead. Zoom out. Fit your reaction to the size of the problem.

[Joon Lee @joonlee]

Because the Dodgers went bankrupt, MLB agreed to tax their TV money as if they were still a broke.

That lets the Dodgers keep about $66 million more every year than they otherwise would.

This exception runs through 2039, according to a league source.
https://t.co/iRSaxeDoyT

[George Jarjour @GeorgeOnTap]

The Dodgers already have Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman, Mookie Betts, among more. Jeff Passan says they are the favorites to add Tarik Skubal, the reigning two-time Cy Young winner. Four months later, the CBA expires. This trade might be the last piece of evidence the owners need to shut the sport down.

On pure baseball logic the move is inevitable. Passan reported the Tigers will trade Skubal and named the Dodgers the favorite. Los Angeles has the best record in baseball and arguably the best farm system in baseball at the same time, which is not supposed to be possible. They can absorb the roughly $10 million Skubal is owed without blinking. Bob Nightengale reports the Dodgers are also Skubal's preferred free agency destination this winter, so this is not even a rental. It is a pre-acquisition.

Now the calendar. The collective bargaining agreement expires December 1. The owners have proposed the first salary cap since 1994. Multiple owners have told Passan the only real path to a cap runs through missing the 2027 season. One official said they are ready to burn the house down.

The mechanism connecting the trade to the lockout is simple. The Dodgers are the owners' entire case.

Buster Olney wrote it plainly. The spending of the top teams has reinforced to the other 28 that change is necessary, and they believe that change is a cap. Every argument the owners will make across the table this winter is a picture of the Dodgers roster. Ohtani's $700 million. Deferred money. A rotation of aces. And now, potentially, the reigning two-time Cy Young winner added at the deadline for prospects, because they have so much talent they can buy the best pitcher alive with their surplus.

The Dodgers adding Skubal does not just improve the Dodgers. It hands the owners their closing exhibit, timed four months before the negotiation.

The competitive balance argument is empirically wrong. Baseball has produced 16 different champions since 2000, more than any capped league. The Dodgers are not breaking a rule. They are excelling within all of them, drafting, developing and spending at once. The punishment for running the best organization in the sport is that the other 29 owners get to point at you and demand a system that makes you impossible.

But being wrong does not make the argument weak. It makes it convenient. Small market owners do not want to outspend the Dodgers. They want cost certainty, because cost certainty raises franchise values, and the Dodgers roster is the best sales brochure a cap has ever had. Every superteam headline between now and December 1 is worth more to the owners' negotiating position than it is to the Dodgers' World Series odds.

Follow the incentives to the uncomfortable place. The 29 other owners benefit from the Dodgers getting Skubal. Not on the field. At the table.

The Tigers get prospects. The Dodgers get the best pitcher in baseball. The owners get their exhibit.

And the sport might get a season-long lockout, argued on the back of a roster that did nothing except win too well.

The Dodgers can survive a salary cap. What baseball might not survive is the year without games it takes to get one.

[riley s @rileyWschoeben]

@Sam_Lushtak @seanta___ Bump

[vincenzo @alargemike]

This loan sales guy found my highschool football tape on Youtube and thought talking shit would get me to refinance my house.

Honestly respect.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Adults whose spicy food intake averaged six or seven days a week had a 14 percent lower relative risk of dying than those whose intake averaged less than once a week.

Here’s what else we know about how spicy foods affect our health: https://t.co/gEpjgVxjf1

[lynz ✭ @lynziekate]

My run as a soccer watcher

[Paul Anleitner @PaulAnleitner]

The Sandlot has the single greatest vision of American life ever put on film.

This scene is what it’s all about. 🇺🇸

[Big Timi @OrevaZSN]

Fox News and Facebook did to our parents exactly what they said video games would do to us.

[SFGiantsGuy @SFGiantsGuy_]

The Pride Night controversy proves several things:
1) The #SFGiants have lost their way completely. They're no longer pioneers, they're no longer progressive. They are run by conservatives and their new values reflect that.

[austerity is theft @wideofthepost]

you guys are arguing before scotus right now that your own top goal scorer shouldn’t be eligible for US citizenship