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Here we are, winning the race to 1K.

Sounds like the M’s want Torey if he does not come back to the D-Backs. Can’t blame them.

“August has been the month in 2026 with the most new measles cases, with more than 300 cases being confirmed since the beginning of the month.”

Geggy Tah - Whoever You Are (1996)

From Songs in the Key of X: Music from and Inspired by the X-Files (1996).

The weasel is up to it again.

Hello fellow Soundgarden and Chris Cornell fans.

Over the weekend, I purchased the Euphoria Mourning (1 LP) from uDiscover Music and the vinyl was advertised to come with a digital download card for the remastered album.

The vinyl arrived today but there was no digital download card in the package. I contacted the company and they told me to return the vinyl to them.

Has anyone else ordered and received this vinyl and did it come with a digital download card?

Thanks in advance.

“Bresnahan responded to Cognetti's campaign event in a statement saying, in part, "It's out with "Paige Against the Machine" and in with "Paige Embraces the Machine" today as Governor Josh Shapiro campaigns for establishment choice and failed mayor Paige Cognetti at a super-secret press event at the Avenue Diner in Wyoming, PA." 

Governor Josh Shapiro's challenger in the general elections, Republican Treasurer Stacy Garrity, also released a statement responding to the campaign event, saying, in part, "Josh Shapiro is more focused on his dreams of living on Pennsylvania Avenue than helping northeast Pennsylvania families achieve theirs. Under Josh Shapiro's failed administration, Pennsylvania ranks 38 th in the nation economically, 39th in education, and 41st overall, and those rankings have real-world consequences.”

"The fertilizer is probably the biggest thing because that has doubled in price. and the diesel fuel also has doubled," said Lucas.

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Sports Gambling related group places bet on NEPA Senate race

By Christopher Doyle

An organization with close ties to a multi-million dollar sports-gambling super PAC is wagering on a local state Senate race.

The group, Win for Pennsylvania, is distributing mailers and airing a television advertisement supporting the reelection of Sen. Lisa Baker. The advertisements tout Baker’s tenure in the Senate and brandish what it contends to be her right-wing political stances and reputation as a “pro-Trump conservative,” amidst an increasingly acrimonious Republican primary challenge in the 20th Senatorial District. (Disclaimers emphasize that the advertisements are not authorized by any candidate or a candidate’s committee.)

Baker, R-20, Lehman Twp., has not responded to several requests for comment. However, an advertisement that ran in The Citizens’ Voice on Friday for “Volpe Report” on Fox56, where Baker is scheduled to be a guest Sunday, indicates that Baker believes her primary opponent is being backed by “dark money from an unregulated gambling concern out of Georgia.”

Win for Pennsylvania

On the website listed on its advertisements, Win for Pennsylvania bills itself as an advocate for “access to transparent, legal sports betting and online gaming options that include strong consumer protections and responsible gaming tools.”

The role of Win for Pennsylvania in the commonwealth can be traced back to a super PAC, called Win for America. According to filings with the Federal Election Commission, three major online sportsbooks, the companies operating as DraftKings, Fanatics, and FanDuel collectively contributed $43 million to
Win for America between Nov. 18 and March 30. They are Win for America’s only listed donors.

Win for America then disbursed $26.6 million to the super PAC the American Conservative Fund, between Nov. 21 and March 23. With these contributions, Win for America was the American Conservative Fund’s only listed donor and the two super PACs both have a listed treasurer by the same name.

The American Conservative Fund has in turn disbursed around $22.54 million to different groups around the country, including two donations to Win for Pennsylvania — one of $728 on Jan. 5 and another of $3 million on March 23. Win for America, the American Conservative Fund, and Win for Pennsylvania are all listed as having the same mailing address in Alexandria, Virginia in FEC records.

This activity comes as Pennsylvanians’ gambling with online sportsbooks continue to increase. Already in the 2025-26 fiscal year, which ends in June, their sportsbook wagers reached $6.64 billion, with $6.35 billion being handled via online sportsbooks, according to state Gaming Control Board records. Win for America and the American Conservative Fund did not respond to requests for comments sent to email addresses listed on their FEC filings Friday; Win for Pennsylvania’s contact box on its website does not allow people to leave messages.

Different Strategies

One of the mailers from the Win for Pennsylvania emphasized Baker’s experience, saying she brought in over $7.6 million in state funding for several projects in her district.

A Win for Pennsylvania television advertisement hails Baker as champion for nationwide, cultural conservative issues. It said she would take immigrants living in the country illegally and “round them up and roll them on out,” be a senator who “fights back against the they/them agenda, protecting girls’ sports and standing up to the woke left” and “delivering on the America First agenda.”

On Facebook, the Baker campaign itself has highlighted her appearances at local events, the endorsements she has received from figures such as the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge No. 36, state Attorney General Dave Sunday, and the National Rifle Association; as well as her support for a recent Senate bill to ban transgender female athletes from girls and women’s school sports.

A Challenge from the Right

Tyler Meyers, an Army veteran and Baker’s primary challenger, has centered his campaign on challenging the senator’s conservative credentials. Meyers has been particularly critical of Baker’s votes for state budgets he said gave free rein to reckless spending; as well as her positions on abortion and gun control, which he has denounced as too liberal. He said in an interview Wednesday that the Win for Pennsylvania advertisements did not reflect Baker’s beliefs or record.

“Conservative Republican, conservative fighter (these) things aren’t in keeping with the way that she votes,” Meyers said. “Nothing about her says ‘conservative.’”

Meyers said that Win for Pennsylvania’s support for Baker was indicative of how the G.O.P. establishment is being too deferential to special gambling interests.

“They want to protect their monopoly,” Meyers said.

Meyers discussed how he has also been targeted for his backing from a related special interest – the industry for skill games, consoles at corner stores where people can try to win money outside of a casino or sports-betting setting. The firm POM of Pennsylvania, a Georgia-based skill-game manufacturer, is one of the top donors to the Citizens Alliance, a PAC which has been running advertisements in support of Meyers. According to FEC records, POM has donated $1 million to the Citizens Alliance PAC so far in 2026. The company’s 2026 donations to the Citizens Alliance come after a year in which Gov. Josh Shapiro unsuccessfully tried to persuade the General Assembly to impose a 52% tax on gross terminal skill game revenue.

Meyers acknowledged that the Citizens Alliance receives money from skill-games interests, but said it supports local, statewide, and national candidates based on conservative principles. He rejected the allegation that he was at all beholden to the skill-game industry.

“I don’t gamble and I don’t have a dog in this fight,” Meyers said.

Meyers also questioned whether concerns over skill games were held in good faith. He argued organizations with ties to gambling interests airing ads in support of Baker’s reelection may view skill games as competitors and have a vested interest in seeing a proposed tax on skill games enacted, affecting the businesses that house them.

“Keep in mind, I am a conservative Christian. I would never put a single dollar into any one of these machines, but I am also a free-market capitalist,” Meyers said. “This battle needs to be aired out in the free market.”

The Other Baker

Jackie Baker, the one Democratic candidate for the 20th district, who has worked as a teacher and is of no relation to the senator, said she was disturbed by the language employed targeting immigrants and the LGBTQ community in the Win for Pennsylvania advertisement, saying it betrayed an ignorance of “what this country’s been built on.”

She said said the advertisement’s focus on cultural controversies were meant to distract from material issues affecting Pennsylvanians, which she accused Baker and other Republicans of failing to adequately address.

“I don’t appreciate all these really bad, negative ads, because they’re not telling us anything you’re going to do to help the people of Pennsylvania,” Baker said. “The Democratic agenda is working on lowering costs, saving healthcare, protecting our right to vote….That is not ‘woke.’ That is what everyday Americans need.”

Seizing on the Election Environment

Misericordia political science Associate Professor Matthew Thornburg, who studies election laws, said the involvement of Win for Pennsylvania at this stage likely reflected their views about the comparative prospects of Baker’s primary and general-election challengers. He added that the closed primary system of states like Pennsylvania in which only voters registered with a party can vote in that party’s primaries, incentivize the partisan stances like those taken in the Win for Pennsylvania television advertisement.

“Really what this boils down to is interest groups such as this one here are looking to make an impact,” Thornburg said.

© 2026 Scranton Times-Tribune

I posted yesterday that I am selling two tickets to the upcoming Failure show in Allentown, PA. Instead of listing them separately, I grouped them together, but realized it’d be better to try and resell them separately. Selling them for $38 (instead of the retail $39), hoping to make most of my money back since I couldn’t find a babysitter for the night of the show.

You can purchase the tickets directly on the TicketMaster app.

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Bought two GA tickets for the May 16, 2026 show in Allentown, PA.

Unfortunately, I can’t find a babysitter for the night so I need to sell them.

Asking for 39.98 X 2 which is a whopping 2 cents cheaper than retail.