Playing a Modern Baseball song in the car on a typical Tuesday has a subtly depressing effect. For a brief moment, you’re not driving home from a job that pays the bills but doesn’t provide for anything else as Jake Ewald’s voice fills the room. You’re back in a disorganized dorm room with half-drawn blinds, moving slowly, and feeling everything at once. Seven years have passed since the dissolution of Modern Baseball. Seven years have passed since the Philadelphia five-piece, which never quite made it into the mainstream but managed to leave its mark on the inner lives of a…
Author: Sierra Foster
Sierra Foster
Born in Kansas City, Sierra Foster writes about politics and serves as Senior Editor at kbsd6.com. She was raised paying attention to this city, not just living in it. Sierra has a strong, deep connection to Kansas City, from the neighborhoods east of Troost to the discussions that take place in the city hall halls. Sierra, who is presently enrolled at the University of Kansas to pursue a degree in Political Science, applies the rigor of academic study to her journalism. She writes about politics in Missouri and Kansas as someone who genuinely cares about what happens to the people in these communities—the policies that impact them, the leaders who represent them, and the civic forces influencing their futures—rather than as an outsider watching from a distance. Her editorial coverage encompasses state-level policy, local government, and the national political currents that permeate bi-state regional life. Whether it's a city council vote or a Senate race, she has a special gift for turning complex policy language into writing that feels urgent, relatable, and worthwhile. Sierra seldom sits still off the page. She claims that playing soccer on a regular basis has sharpened her instincts for political reporting because of the sport's teamwork, strategy, and requirement to read a changing game in real time. She's probably somewhere in Kansas City with her friends when she's not writing or on the pitch, discovering new reasons to adore a city she already knows so well.
Like a lot of things these days, it began in the comments section. Fans of Nick Wilkins, an American TikToker in his twenties who is well-known for his humor and striking likeness to JJ Maybank from Outer Banks, started to notice something. Cassie appeared to be his match; she was a bookish content creator who had a soft spot for hopeless romantic clichés. They were strangers. They hadn’t even started to follow one another yet. However, the internet is remarkably difficult to reroute once it makes a decision. The flirtation was made public by January 2025. When Cassie talked about…
Finding out that a business you’ve trusted with your email, searches, and login information—possibly for more than ten years—has been compiling a comprehensive profile of your identity, purchases, online activities, and TV viewing habits is subtly unsettling. Until a lawsuit comes to light, most people are unaware. And that has occurred multiple times with Yahoo. Unbeknownst to most users, the Yahoo class action lawsuit has a longer history. A significant $117.5 million settlement was reached in a lawsuit related to a number of data breaches that happened between 2012 and 2016, impacting users who were residents of Israel or the…
Many people currently have an email in their inboxes with the subject line “Facebook User Privacy Settlement – Settlement and Second Distribution Status Update.” Most people would probably just glance at it and delete it. It seems like a fraud. It appears to be something you would report as spam. However, it is real, and it might contain your name if you used Facebook between May 24, 2007, and December 22, 2022. For those who need a refresher, the history dates back to 2018. At that time, word leaked out about Cambridge Analytica, a political data company that secretly collected…
A Facebook user is opening their email somewhere right now and discovering an unexpected message. It’s not a friend request. Not a 2014 recollection. A second payment related to a class-action lawsuit that most people had already forgotten about was announced as being on its way. It’s not a lucky break. Nobody’s month will be altered. However, it is true, and it is interesting to learn the backstory. The formal name of the lawsuit is In re: Facebook, Inc. Facebook was accused in the Consumer Privacy User Profile Litigation of disclosing users’ personal information to thousands of third parties over…
Standing at an ATM, tapping through a balance inquiry at a 7-Eleven, and not realizing you’re being charged twice for the same request is a subtly unsettling experience. Never once. twice. For one glance at your own balance. Customers of Bank of America essentially claim that this is what happened to them, and it is the main allegation of a $2.25 million class action settlement that is presently awaiting final approval. The case centers on the period from May 1, 2018, to November 16, 2021. During that time, some Bank of America customers were allegedly charged multiple out-of-network fees for…
You approach an ATM that isn’t connected to your bank, enter your PIN, and before your own money even reaches your hands, you are hit with a $3 or $4 surcharge. It’s almost routine. Most people shrug and move on. Few people pause to consider whether those fees were ever valid in the first place because they have become so commonplace. In the end, a significant federal lawsuit that took years to proceed through the legal system revealed that they weren’t. In order to resolve allegations that they took part in an illegal scheme to artificially increase ATM surcharge fees,…
Watching America’s most reputable public health organization become the target of lawsuits brought by the very physicians and states it is meant to assist is almost disorienting. The fact that the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Physicians, and fifteen state governments are suing the CDC rather than fringe organizations or political outliers illustrates how drastically things have changed in a short period of time. The legal dispute began in January when the CDC discreetly declared that it would no longer recommend seven childhood vaccines. Flu, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, rotavirus, some meningitis protections, and RSV have been…
A certain type of frustration develops gradually. Attracted by a marketing campaign that promises something truly novel, such as a smarter phone, a more capable assistant, or an AI that truly understands you, you enter a store or place an online order. The money is paid by you. The package shows up. Then, week after week, the promised feature just doesn’t show up. With Apple Intelligence, that is basically what took place. Apple placed a strong focus on artificial intelligence (AI) when it unveiled the iPhone 16 lineup in late 2024. This included an enhanced Siri that could function as…
It’s difficult to forget the scene Nate Quarry described outside a federal courthouse in Las Vegas. A federal judge ultimately approved a $375 million antitrust settlement between the UFC and more than a thousand of its former fighters after twelve years—twelve years—of depositions, appeals, setbacks, and a near-collapse of the entire case just a year earlier. Quarry reported that the room burst into cheers and embraces. As he described it, he acknowledged that he was still on the verge of tears. Veteran fighters cuddling in a courtroom hallway conveys a message that the court documents are unable to fully convey.…