I ranked the top 60 prospects in the minors, including recently drafted players, for subscribers to the Athletic, and then answered a bunch of reader questions on Thursday in a Q&A that happened on a delay of sorts due to a site outage. You may still have issues accessing the articles; it’s a server issue of some sort and beyond my control.
Over at Endless Mode (ex-Paste Games), I spoke to four board game publishers about how the arbitrary and capricious Trump tariffs are likely to affect the board game industry. I’ll be writing for them once a week, with another review dropping this Wednesday.
I sent out a fresh edition of my free email newsletter on Friday, now that I’ve recovered from the mid-July content crush.
In lieu of links this week, however, I am going to repeat the call at the end of my newsletter and ask all of you to make three phone calls – one to your Representative plus one to each of your Senators. There is a mass starvation happening right now in Gaza, with at least a third of the population there having nothing to eat for days, the result of Israel’s illegal blockade of that part of the Palestinian state – which isn’t a new act by Israel, but an intensified version of the blockade they’ve had in place since 2007. (Israel, of course, is claiming Hamas is stealing aid, which international aid groups say is not true.) This is a genocide happening in real time, in front of us, and the United States in particular is doing nothing to stop it.
You can do something. All you need to do on Monday morning is take less than ten minutes and call your representatives in Congress to demand that they act. I called mine on Friday – total elapsed time, under six minutes – and asked all three to block any new aid to Israel until the blockade was lifted. (Sen. Chris Coons has made public statements to this effect; Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester has not said anything recently, and Rep. Sarah McBride didn’t so much as mention Gaza in her recent newsletter to constituents. All three are Democrats.)
I haven’t read Omar El-Akkad’s book One Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This yet, but the title seems like a warning to the complacent and the silent. Many people will claim they opposed the war on Gaza, even though they didn’t raise a finger or voice to stop it. Will you be one of the ones who took action?
Thanks for speaking with moral clarity on this, Keith.
I have Peter Beinart’s ‘Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning’ sitting on my table unread. I don’t have the mental strength to read it (or Omar El Akkad’s book) while this is ongoing.
Also kudos for saying war ‘on’ Gaza over ‘in’. It’s a meaningful difference.
Thanks for this, Keith. Proud of you.
politicians don’t give a shit as to what their constituents want.