Mark Travers

[Mark Travers @riversideb]

@adamyounggolf I bet Adam had no idea so many of his followers were high school drop outs.

[Anderson Cooper 360° @AC360]

Anderson Cooper takes a look at President Trump's history of commenting on men's bodies after his recent remarks on a senator's body.

[LinksGems @LinksGems]

The Alps at Prestwick Golf Club - on any architecture nerd’s list of the most important holes in golf, the 17th at Prestwick is at or near the top.

Aside from being generally recognized as the oldest hole in championship golf, this hole, and in particular, the large hill fronting and blinding the green complex from the fairway, has inspired countless emulations around the world, following C.B. Macdonald’s adoption of the Alps as an “ideal” hole and his use of the template for the 3rd at National Golf Links.

[Robert Pike @Bob_Pike]

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[Nick Piastowski @nickpia]

For a week in July, I lived inside a homeless shelter.

I ate the donated food, used the showers that had only hot water and lived in a room that had only hot air.

I was there to visit its golf country club. Here is that story.

https://t.co/hJnrphTn9h

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Your dog spends about 20% of the night awake and its sleep quality doesn't drop at all. In the bed-sharing arrangement, you were always the fragile one.

Dogs are polyphasic sleepers. Their sleep comes in short bouts stacked across the whole day, and their brains are built to surface, check the room, and sink back under in seconds. Humans run on 90 minute cycles where a single bad 3am wake-up can cost an hour. Same mattress, two completely different operating systems.

A Mayo Clinic study put activity trackers on 40 owner-dog pairs for a week. The dogs hit 85% sleep efficiency whether they slept on the bed or the floor. The humans managed 81%, and their number moved depending on where the dog was. Dog sleep was bulletproof. Human sleep bent around the dog.

Then wearables blew up the sample sizes. A 2026 analysis of 11,733 WHOOP users across 1.6 million nights found that on dog-in-the-room nights, people slept about 10 minutes longer, resting heart rate dropped about 1 beat per minute, and heart rate variability rose. There were a few extra micro-wakeups, around 0.4 per night. The nervous system downshifted anyway. It read the dog as safety.

A 2025 study ran sleep EEG on family dogs and found the inversion. Dogs sleep measurably worse when their owners aren't in the room. You are your dog's sleep aid, and apparently its main sleep disruption too.

The evolutionary read is that this deal is tens of thousands of years old. Humans who slept near dogs could afford deeper, more vulnerable sleep because something with better hearing was handling the night watch. Co-sleeping researchers think dogs literally expanded how much uninterrupted sleep early humans could get.

The dog takes the broken sleep so you don't have to. The trade predates agriculture, and your heart rate still drops a beat the moment one curls up at your feet.

[tyson brody @tysonbrody]

BREAKING: Roger Marshall stiffed a local Kansas business who baked cookies for his campaign, refusing to pay a $678 bill - a bill larger than debts for which Roger Marshall had patients sued, arrested, and jailed, which ran as low as $114.49!

[Mark Travers @riversideb]

@AustinAbbott Golden or Evans???

[Nathaniel Lindstrom @Nate_Lindstrom9]

Week one highlight tape!
Stats:
9/10
119 Yards
1 TD
149.58 QBR
@JeffHecklinski @PRZcory @CanisiusHSFB @CanisiusSports @CoachKeighron @WNYAthletics @CoachBRam71 @CoachCrandall @Paulwoods2 @CoachGriffith_ @CoachColemanFB

[New York State Golf Assoc. @NYSGA1923]

The League of the Iroquois is a century-plus tradition built in the spirit of the original League of Six Nations. Since 1913, Bellevue, Oak Hill, Wanakah and Yahnundasis have gathered to carry forward a name rooted in democracy and brotherhood.

Read more: https://t.co/fWyJBkLmvG

[Mark Travers @riversideb]

It’s here: https://t.co/kKORJSMAua

[CatDad @CatDad91677794]

@japan_nobunaga USS The Sullivans (DD-537) won nine battle stars in WWII, and two in Korea. It is currently a museum ship.

USS The Sullivans (DDG-68) was commissioned in 1997, and is in active service.

[Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah]

A wrongfully convicted Black man spent 30 years in prison, won an election to reform the system that stole his life, & Louisiana Republicans eliminated the office he won rather than let him take power.

Then the Attorney General was indicted, the governor promised a pardon, and the Supreme Court intervened.

https://t.co/HlDuO82hEA

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[Kenneth P. Vogel @kenvogel]

NEW: The tobacco company Reynolds American donated $5M to the Trump-backed super PAC MAGA Inc. on 4/30/2026.

8 days later, the Trump administration rolled out a new policy that could be lucrative for Reynolds by allowing it to begin selling flavored vapes https://t.co/tAivofBoaG

[Mark Travers @riversideb]

@BobBrill2 @JeremyWGR STH did NOT get double allotment.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Warren Buffett, in his first sit-down since stepping down as Berkshire CEO, gave the cleanest indictment of legalized gambling in a decade. He called it a tax cut for the wealthy. The math proves him exactly right.

Americans wagered $165 billion at legal sportsbooks in 2025. They lost $16 billion of that. FanDuel pulled $6 billion of the losses. DraftKings pulled $5.3 billion. Every state with legal mobile sports betting collected a tax on the bettor side. New York alone took in over $1.2 billion in 2025 sports betting tax revenue.

Layer the lottery on top. State lotteries generate over $90 billion a year. The bottom half of income earners account for roughly 70% of total spend. The average lottery player makes $38,000. A household earning $20,000 spends three times more on tickets than one earning $30,000. The implicit tax rate, meaning whatever the state keeps after prizes, runs 30 to 50% depending on the game. No other revenue source in America has that base and that rate.

The structural design is the engine. A single straight sports bet carries a hold of 4 to 5%. A four-leg parlay carries a hold above 30%. FanDuel and DraftKings spent five years rebuilding their apps to make parlays the default product. FanDuel's blended hold rate hit 11.4% in 2025, up from roughly 7% in 2022. The product got worse for the customer and the customer wagered more anyway.

Now look at the substitution. Nine US states have no state income tax. Seven of those nine run state lotteries. Seven of those nine have legalized sports betting. The states most committed to never taxing wealth are the same states running the largest extraction machines on people who cannot afford to lose. Read it as policy.

Here is what Buffett is actually pointing at. The state needs revenue. It can raise income tax on the top decile, or it can run a lottery plus a sports betting tax. The second option raises the money from the people who can least afford it. The first option becomes politically optional. New York's $1.2 billion in 2025 sports betting tax is $1.2 billion the state did not have to ask of someone earning $5 million.

DraftKings and FanDuel sell a privatized collection mechanism for a regressive tax that the state never has to defend at the ballot box again. Voters approve legalization once. Collection runs forever. The state takes a cut. The wealthy get a quieter top bracket. The bettor's cut shrinks every quarter as the parlay menu gets pushed harder.

The function of a government, Buffett said, is not to play its people for suckers.

Thirty-nine state governments now do.

[Football @BostonConnr]

As a Bruins fan, this is disgusting

As a fan of fans, this is all time

[Justin🦩Boldaji @justinboldaji]

Telling everyone how impressive my first gay bareback orgy was

[Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 @NickKnudsenUS]

Holy shit this is AMAZING.

[Buffalo Sabres @BuffaloSabres]

This thing of ours is forever, Buffalo.