The incredible rise of the NFL salary cap

1994 – $34.608 million

2024 – $255.4 million (over seven times as much)

The salary cap for the 2024 NFL season has been set at $255.4 million per club (an unprecedented $30 million increase per club) with an additional $74 million per club payment for player benefits including performance based pay and benefits for former players. A look back: pic.twitter.com/2Qmsoc7I4z
— Brian McCarthy (@NFLprguy) February 23, 2024

Tweet on Hail,Caesar!

Hail, Caesar! by the Coen Brothers is underrated.

Just realized that there are people who dislike Hail, Caesar! And just re-realized that there were many more (percentage-wise, to say it like Bud Baxter) who didn't like The Big Lebowski. https://t.co/tkgLMqpPQv
— Richard Brody (@tnyfrontrow) February 24, 2024

Tweet on films with Pepsi in them

I own PepsiCo stock so I certainly approve of this.

I was trying to think of other Pepsi Movies besides Madame Web: I got Back to the Future 2, Cobra, Wayne’s World, Mommie Dearest, but what else is there? pic.twitter.com/FtXm043LzJ
— Jesse Hawken (@jessehawken) February 23, 2024

Here’s a Letterboxd list

More Republican hypocrisy on IVF

Overturning Roe set the stage for the IVF ban. Republicans own this.

You don’t say https://t.co/KvOZ8IkPSq
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) February 24, 2024

The opinion cites Dobbs, and if Roe were still the law of the land, the Alabama constitutional amendment that treats embryos as human beings would be unenforceable. This decision has everything to do with Roe, which is why Biden should be tying it to Trump at every turn. https://t.co/hRMkHS6g6P
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) February 24, 2024

Never seen a party so scared of the consequences of its own actions. Republicans fought tooth and nail for two generations to nuke federal abortion rights; Donald Trump finished the job, paving the way for the bans, restrictions and IVF changes he and others are now running from. https://t.co/UZrRAcsdhY
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) February 24, 2024

🗣️THE ALABAMA SUPREME COURT DECISION AGAINST IVF WAS MADE POSSIBLE BY SCOTUS OVERTURNING ROE V. WADE

In case it weren't clear enough, the majority opinion repeatedly cites Dobbs for the proposition that "the unborn" are "living human beings"! This is a direct result of Dobbs!
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) February 23, 2024

125 House Republicans — including Speaker Mike Johnson — back a 'life at conception' bill without any IVF exception https://t.co/ymp9k3dLYR
— Business Insider (@BusinessInsider) February 24, 2024

He co-sponsored the “life begins at conception act” a year ago!!! https://t.co/T1Nb93rxS8
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) February 24, 2024

Mr. Trash Wheel will be in a book!

The book, which comes out on March 5, showcases eco-friendly inventions from around the world.

https://t.co/hDaDeJnCTo
— WJZ | CBS Baltimore (@wjz) February 23, 2024

The Lorax, famously, speaks for the trees. Mr. Trash Wheel and co. speak for the seas. https://t.co/hWGbO123jH
— Cody Boteler (@codyboteler) February 23, 2024

Baltimore’s Mr. Trash Wheel is ready for his close-up. The semi-autonomous waste collector will be spotlighted in the newest book in Dr. Seuss’s “The Lorax” series. https://t.co/Q8SpkZ41kt
— WMAR-2 News (@WMAR2News) February 22, 2024

Jackson Holliday was not the consensus top draft pick in 2022

The Orioles deserve a lot of credit for picking him with the first pick. They have also done a great job of preparing him for the majors.

Most people, me included, would have picked Druw Jones. Holliday is now the #1 prospect in the minors while Jones is #78 on MLB Pipeline. Holliday has a good chance to be on the opening day roster.

Here are articles from 2022 before the draft:

CBS Sports – 2022 MLB Mock Draft: Orioles take Termarr Johnson with No. 1 pick

2022 MLB Draft Top 100 prospects: Keith Law’s final rankings ahead of Round 1 (He had Jones 1 and Holliday 6

MLB Pipeline: Final MLB Mock Draft 2022 (Both writers had Jones 1 and Holliday 2)

Baseball America

Sportsnaut

CBS analysis of the picks

Jones went second. CBS states: Jones, whose father Andruw is a borderline Hall of Famer, was in the running for the top spot entering the spring. He’s since emerged as the industry’s preferred choice.

Luis Bunuel was a great film director

Bunuel was a surrealist in the 20’s, made films in Mexico in the 1940s and 1950s, made one film in his native Spain in the 1960s which was banned there and finally made films in Europe (mostly in French) with prominent actors.

I would start with Nazarin (1959), Viridiana (1961) The Exterminating Angel (1962) and Tristana (1970), three of his more accessible films.

Then I would move on to The Milky Way (1969), The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), and The Phantom of Liberty (1974).

What a great career. Bunuel had a wicked sense of humor. I remember the cross that folded out into a knife in The Exterminating Angel

I have watched some of his lesser-known Mexican films and recommend El (1953) and The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955).

BFI on where to begin with Bunuel

Remembering Luis Buñuel on his 124th birth anniversary. pic.twitter.com/mYhB6k7a7B
— DepressedBergman (@DannyDrinksWine) February 22, 2024

Luis Buñuel was #BoTD in 1900. Celebrate with his gleefully irreverent TRISTANA, starring the iconic #CatherineDeneuve. #NowPlaying on @CohenChannel with a 7-day free trial: https://t.co/F59UGKz2AP pic.twitter.com/qHm7yG2aFG
— Cohen Media Group (@CohenMediaGroup) February 22, 2024

BOTD Luis Buñuel, who would be 124 years young. Celebrate by listening to this chat with Dave Kehr about Buñuel in Mexico at MOMA https://t.co/9er9KyjBQI
— Nicolas Rapold (@NicolasRapold) February 22, 2024

"There's absolutely nothing Mexican about 'El' (1953); it's simply the portrait of a paranoiac, who, like a poet, is born, not made. Afterwards, he increasingly perceives reality according to his obsession, until everything in his life revolves around it."

— Luis Buñuel pic.twitter.com/w0WwuVBShT
— DepressedBergman (@DannyDrinksWine) October 7, 2024

El has never been issued on any US DVD or Blu-ray.

Republicans own the extremist Alabama IVF ruling

The media has not emphasized that the judges are all Republicans. The Republican party owns this.

This one did it right:

"Every member of the Alabama Supreme Court is a Republican—they are not members of some breakaway theocratic faction, they are Republicans. Their ruling builds upon Dobbs, which was imposed on the country by justices Trump appointed"@brianbeutler on IVFhttps://t.co/CQevRS9Dvm
— Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) February 26, 2024

The Alabama Supreme Court is composed of 9 Republican judges. The Republican Party is responsible for the terrible ruling. They can’t run away from it.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) February 23, 2024

It won’t matter to the extremists who run the Republican Party. They know their Trump cult voter base won’t vote for Democrats.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) February 22, 2024

MSNBC: A poll from Kellyanne Conway's consulting group says 85% of Americans support IVF, including 78% of pro-life respondents and 84% of Evangelical respondents. Meanwhile Republicans are causing IVF access to be shut down pic.twitter.com/fdRttE3vo1
— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) February 23, 2024

Everything is not a campaign tactic, WaPo. Consider the possibility that Americans are sincerely alarmed by right-wing extremists declaring that embryos have the same rights as people. pic.twitter.com/13CtdYKYRS
— Mark Jacob (@MarkJacob16) February 23, 2024

The entire Alabama Supreme Court is Republican. The GOP is responsible for this terrible ruling.https://t.co/CS37xGGuB5
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) February 23, 2024

oh yeah just wait till all the dads have to figure out how to use microscopic tweezers to install a car seat https://t.co/GRZibWnqPR
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) February 22, 2024

BREAKING: Alabama's AG does not intend to prosecute in vitro fertilization providers or families in the wake of a state Supreme Court ruling that embryos should be considered children — a decision that has thrown the whole process into chaos. https://t.co/VBDy8luCxq
— ABC News (@ABC) February 23, 2024

Tweets on right-wing violence

Your tweet, like your article does, should say that 80% are far right.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) October 18, 2024

White supremacists were tied to the overwhelming majority (88%) of extremist-related murders last year, a new ADL analysis finds.https://t.co/gynp0y7eFy
— Axios (@axios) February 20, 2024

In @nytopinion

“If you wonder why so few people in red America seem to stand up directly against the MAGA movement,” asks David French, “are you aware of the price they might pay if they did?” https://t.co/nP9sFja4Sz
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 19, 2024

Since 2008, more than 70 percent of extremist-related fatalities in the United States were committed by members of far-right or white-supremacist movements. https://t.co/JWAI8j4MzV
— The New Republic (@newrepublic) February 10, 2024

NEW: There have been at least 33 instances since 2020 when people or institutions singled out by Libs of TikTok later reported bomb threats or violent intimidation.

The threats targeted schools, hospitals, businesses and officials across 16 states. https://t.co/T1evKNMj4D
— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 7, 2024

Right-wing political violence accounted for more than 90 percent of all attacks or plots in the first half of 2020. Since then, it’s gotten increasingly worse. https://t.co/8khQn2JoRK
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) December 15, 2023

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)

I just watched the Blu-ray of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) this week. Fredric March deservedly won an Academy Award. Miriam Hopkins was excellent, too.

Cut scene from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) pic.twitter.com/cAG7ae0GPX
— Hammer Horror Films (@HorrorHammer1) February 22, 2024

DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE-PARAMOUNT-1931 pic.twitter.com/2JqQQsx4zI
— Hammer Horror Films (@HorrorHammer1) February 15, 2024

Fredric March in a promotional photo for Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (1931). pic.twitter.com/1TrbdevHp1
— Hammer Horror Films (@HorrorHammer1) February 18, 2024