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Trump gave Interior nominee one directive for a half-billion acres of US land: ‘Drill.’Trump gave Interior nominee one directive for a half-billion acres of US land: ‘Drill.’That dictate sets the stage for a reignition of the court battles over public lands and waters that helped define Trump’s first term.

The world has gone crazy, we’ve recently discovered, and nowhere is that more evident than in the Major League Baseball offices in New York. In the media capital of the world, you’ll find Commissioner Rob Manfred, the nuttiest top executive in professional sports, who always seems to go that extra mile to troll baseball fans . Manfred’s mind is on his money, and the money is on his mind. His brilliant idea of having All-Star players wear generic jerseys representing their respective leagues instead of the time-honored tradition of wearing one’s team jersey was so reviled that MLB rescinded the plan in September. MLB also agreed to ditch the horrid uniforms used in 2024 — with the mismatched jerseys and see-through pants — that Manfred implemented. Manfred’s vision is so short-sighted and lacking in common sense he’s easily the most disliked baseball commissioner in history, surpassing Bud Selig, Bowie Kuhn and the rest. He said in February he plans to retire when his term is up in January 2029, adding: “You can only have so much fun in one lifetime.” Manfred’s version of “fun” is changing everything you know and love about baseball just to leave his mark on the game. Ads on helmets? Check. Ghost runners? Check. American League starting pitcher Corbin Burnes, of the Baltimore Orioles, right, hugs National League’s William Contreras, of the Milwaukee Brewers, during the MLB All-Star Game on Tuesday, July 16, 2024, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) Now comes his latest inane idea, referred to by the commish as the Golden At-Bat. When he mentioned it on a podcast in October, it was so stupid that no one paid much attention. But when The Athletic chimed in this week with a lengthy story on how it might look, the idea was universally panned and Manfred’s already soiled reputation took yet another hit. In case you missed it, the Golden At-Bat rule would allow managers to pinch-hit for a player with another player who already is in the game. It would be a one-time-only move, so managers would have to pick the right situation. For example, if the 2016 Cubs wanted to use No. 2 hitter Kris Bryant in a clutch situation instead of No. 8 hitter Jason Heyward, manager Joe Maddon would’ve simply called on Bryant to take the Golden At-Bat. If the game continued into the next inning, Heyward would still go back to right field and Bryant would be back in his normal spot in the lineup. The idea is supposed to create a “magical” moment where one of the team’s best hitters can bigfoot his light-hitting teammate in a crucial situation, creating more strategy and fan excitement. The details aren’t available on exactly how it would work, and maybe we’ll never know. Hopefully, Manfred will get the message fans have sent by informing us he was just kidding. But so far, he hasn’t shot it down. Manfred, in fact, told the podcast there was a “little buzz” about the idea at a recent owners meeting, which suggests the owners are as ignorant about the game as him. The Athletic’s Jayson Stark, a fine baseball writer with good sources, didn’t completely dismiss the idea in his long explainer, writing that “if the goal is to create moments and memories, the Golden At-Bat could be a vehicle to create more of those. So who could possibly complain?” Of course, Stark already knew the answer: Everybody. The reaction on social media was swift. Only a few appeared to be in favor of implementing a drastic rules change that would forever alter the way the game is played. Many pointed out that baseball’s biggest moments are organic and frequently feature players who aren’t stars. That’s why we love the game. Chicago Cubs third baseman Tommy La Stella is congratulated after hitting a home run in the fourth inning against the Milwaukee Brewers on Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018, in Milwaukee.(John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune) Tommy La Stella was an average player who mostly came off the bench during a 10-year career, finishing with a 3.6 WAR. La Stella would be a perfect candidate to get bigfooted in a Golden At-Bat situation. But in 2018 he arguably was the best pinch-hitter in the game, hitting .312 in the role and setting a Cubs record with 24 pinch-hits in 90 appearances. La Stella was a cult hero on the North Side, as beloved as some of the biggest stars. Not everyone can be Juan Soto or Shohei Ohtani. The game needs its Tommy La Stellas, too. That’s what Manfred and the foolish owners buzzing over the idea don’t understand about baseball. Size doesn’t matter in this sport. A hero can be 5-foot-4 or 6-foot-7. I don’t expect the Golden At-Bat to be adopted for anything outside of an exhibition like the All-Star Game, so no worries. Even then you’re possibly depriving someone who could be making the only All-Star appearance of his career of an at-bat for a superstar who probably prefers to leave the park and take his private jet home once he exits in the fourth inning. Related Articles MLB | Chicago Cubs agree with left-hander Matthew Boyd on a 2-year, $29 million contract MLB | Will Garrett Crochet be traded — and how will the rotation be filled out? 3 questions for the Chicago White Sox. MLB | How Chicago Cubs lefty Shota Imanaga found success as a rookie — and how he’s looking to build off it MLB | Chicago White Sox’s fan festival returns for 1st time since 2020: ‘SoxFest Live’ will be at Ramova Theatre Even if this isn’t adopted, Manfred still has four more years to come up with idiotic rule changes similar to the Golden At-Bat. I’m sure he’s already brainstorming. How about an extra run for home run balls that barely clear the wall, or land in the basket of Wrigley Field? Maybe allow fans to grapple with outfielders for foul balls, like the New York Yankees fans did to the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Mookie Betts in the World Series? Sounds crazy? Remember, only a few years ago, MLB executive vice president Morgan Sword admitted: “We’ve never talked about this in any serious way, but we talked about allowing fans to throw home-run balls back and keep them in play. That’s one that I don’t even like.” Give him time. There’s no telling what kind of damage Manfred and his cohorts will do to the game if left unchecked. If ruining baseball for his own amusement is Manfred’s idea of “fun,” these next four years are going to be very painful.

House of Lords reform may have taken a sinister turn. Lord Young of Cookham (Sir George Young as he was) says the cold snap has been particularly biting for peers as their heating was simultaneously switched off for urgent maintenance. He wonders whether this is an attempt to reduce numbers in the upper house, and there are other signs that reform might be turning lethal. If you pop into the House of Lords shop, you will see a rather alarming item called “Leather body bag”. I’m told this is a fashion item, not a mortuary accessory. Either way, you can go out peerlessly for just £48. Nuclear meltdown Lib Dem deputy leader Daisy Cooper was political from a young age . Aged six, her mother took her on a CND march and Cooper tells Political Thinking that there is footage of her doing so. Organisers sought to exploit her by giving her a little white dove, shoving her in front of camera and having her say “I don’t want to grow up in a world full of nuclear weapons”. It was powerful stuff, until Cooper added: “Mum, what’s a nuclear weapon?”None

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Aurora City Council member Danielle Jurinsky says the Trump transition team has spoken to her about Operation Aurora, but the details of to deport an unknown number of undocumented immigrants remain scarce. Last week, Jurinsky took the opportunity of a monthly meeting of the council’s public safety policy committee, which she chairs, to remind city leaders that “Operation Aurora is coming.” “This is the real thing,” she said. “On a very serious note, there seems to be a disconnect between the incoming administration and the City of Aurora, so I hope that we are taking this seriously. This is coming.” when he visited Colorado’s most diverse city while on the campaign trail in October. Before a crowd of thousands, Jurinsky promoted claims of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua running rampant in the city and commandeering . Jurinsky said Friday that she has spoken with Trump and campaign staffers about , which she said will focus on undocumented immigrants with gang ties and those who have committed crimes in the United States. Beyond that, she and others said it’s unclear how the federal government would enact deportations. “As far as what Operation Aurora really means or what’s going to happen, I don’t have a really clear picture,” she said. “Something’s got to happen.” Karoline Leavitt, a spokesperson for the Trump transition team, said the president-elect would “marshal every federal and state power necessary” to start deporting criminals, without offering additional specifics. During the Nov. 14 committee meeting, Aurora city attorney Pete Schulte asked that communications from the Trump administration about Operation Aurora be forwarded to his office. As of Friday, he said it had not been contacted about the plan. “We’re going to make sure the laws are followed. It’s not the city’s place to participate,” he said. “Just from a legal perspective, I don’t expect a mass deportation to occur here in Aurora or anywhere else.” Jurinsky said she was hopeful that police would help deport criminals by sharing information with federal immigration authorities. However, city spokesman Matthew Brown wrote in an email that state law limits what information local law enforcement can share with federal agencies because immigration is regulated by the federal government. “The city and Aurora Police Department focus on enforcing state and local law. As we always have, we will work with our federal partners and follow federal law and directives as they apply to our community,” Brown said. “We do not have anything specific to review or respond to at this time, and it would be inappropriate for us to speculate on next steps.” Aurora Police Sgt. Marc Sears — the president of one of Aurora’s two police unions, Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 49 — also pointed out that department directives prohibit police officers from asking members of the public for documents “for the sole purpose of determining someone’s immigration status.” Jurinsky mentioned Sears as a candidate to oversee the cooperation between Aurora police and immigration authorities during Operation Aurora. Sears said Friday that Jurinsky hadn’t mentioned the matter to him beforehand, and the announcement came as a surprise. He also expressed frustration about Jurinsky’s claims that police had turned a blind eye to crime in some corners of the city as well as recent social media posts where she challenged the Aurora Police Department’s efforts to crack down on gangs. Jurinsky said Friday that it’s not true that there is “nothing to see” about Venezuelan gang activity in Aurora, despite what the Aurora Police Department has said. “I wish she would respect the direction this police department is going, because we finally have a strong, solid rudder guiding this ship forward,” Sears said, referring to Aurora’s new police chief, Todd Chamberlain. “The majority or close to a majority of our officers are very upset with her because of the stances she’s made.” Jurinsky said she is likely to become a point of contact for the Trump administration because of the president-elect’s history of conflict with Aurora’s mayor, Mike Coffman. While Coffman wrote in an email Friday that the city would “continue to cooperate with ICE to the fullest extent allowed under state and federal law,” he said he would not support adding immigration enforcement to the understaffed police department’s list of duties. “I’ll push back as hard as I can if the plan is called ‘Operation Aurora’ because of the reputational and economic harm that naming such a program after our city would have,” he said.Denmark’s digital ID receives proximity check update