“This place itself, if it wasn’t around, if there wasn’t a [rugby] team, if there wasn’t a sport and the community of the sport, I don’t know where I would’ve ended up,” Siya Kolisi tells Jon Wertheim as they visit the rugby field Kolisi first played on. cbsn.ws/3y8jwRG

🧵Want to know why rents have been skyrocketing? This jaw dropping ProPublica investigation has one answer--collusion. RealPage's YieldStar proprietary software is helping the nation's biggest landlords and property managers jack up prices together. 1/10 propublica.org/article/yields…

Bigger corporate profits account for *over half* of the higher prices people are paying.

A potentially extended wet pattern looks to develop next week across California that will end fire season in NorCal. In what seems likely a nearly impossible scenario, the 2022 California fire season will end up being the 2nd least active fire season of the last decade.

If you're a Bruce Springsteen fan (as I am), this is priceless – Bruce doing Thunder Road on the piano while reminiscing. Brings Howard Stern to tears. youtube.com/watch?v=uZi79u…

The best of humanity in a difficult and unusual situation x.com/Imposter_Edits…

Almost time for primetime 🌟 RT for the chance to win two tickets to #LACvsSF! No purchase necessary. Official rules: 49rs.co/3QgcMbu

It’s the fucking guns.

American children (0-11) & teenagers (12-17) killed or injured by gunfire since 2014: 2014: 2,859 2015: 3,378 2016: 3,819 2017: 3,982 2018: 3,545 2019: 3,825 2020: 5,160 2021: 5,708 2022: 5,805 [in 342 days]

Celebrating nature’s capacity to make us chuckle, the annual photography gong has revealed its latest winners positive.news/environment/wi…

FYI: This is the number of people killed and injured since #SandyHook 12/14/12, according to the Gun Violence Archive. Killed: 159,689 Injured: 400,000+ Suicides: 235,986

300 players representing 105 colleges from 34 states split among 13 teams. 📰 FULL ROSTERS: ncrugby.org/teams/mens-all… #NCRAllStars

Mark Kearney from Georgetown gets some points on the board for the Sharks ♦️Independent Red: 17 🦈 Mid-Atlantic Sharks: 7 📱/ 📺: youtube.com/@nationalcolle… #NCRAllStars

All-Tournament Team 🏅 #NCRAllStars

Utilities can't blame inflation. The cost of wholesale natural gas across the country has dropped 50 percent in the past year, but here in California, it has gone up 63 percent during that same period. ktvu.com/news/newsom-wa…

Western countries’ failure to come to the BBC’s defence is pathetic econ.st/3KpFxmf

In November, it's the US Presidential election. Donald Trump wants to be the Republican Presidential nominee. Here's 7 mins on Trump and America's democracy. Produced by Mary Fuller and Michael Cox. bbc.co.uk/news/world/us_…