Actor Samuel L. Jackson told Rolling Stone that Donald Trump reminds him of the same racist “rednecks” who taunted him as a child.

Said Jackson: “That’s what the Republican Party is to me. They’re doing it to young people, gay people. They don’t care who you are. If you’re not them, you’re the enemy.”

“Former football star Herschel Walker has re-enrolled at the University of Georgia after his failed U.S. Senate bid, taking steps toward earning his college degree as he retreats from the public spotlight following his humbling defeat,” the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.

Will Leitch: “The PGA Tour’s merger with LIV Golf, announced out of the blue on Tuesday morning, could be called a betrayal of every principle the PGA ever espoused. But you can only say that if you were ever enough of a sucker to believe the PGA had any in the first place.”

“The PGA Tour agreed to merge with rival LIV Golf, which is backed by the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund, an entity controlled by the Saudi crown prince,” CNBC reports.

Elon Musk has reclaimed his position as the world’s wealthiest person, Bloomberg reports.

Rick Hasen: “As election nightmares go, Sunday night’s episode of the HBO series Succession, ‘America Decides,’ was a doozy.”

“It was the most uncomfortable hour of scripted television I have ever watched and apparently I was not alone in being triggered. But it was not just a ‘good night of TV,’ the ultimate result of which would be that ‘nothing happens,’ as Roman Roy tries to assure his sister Shiv; it is a warning to us that the next election meltdown is always potentially around the corner.”

“Patrick Krason, the treasurer for Kanye West’s still-active presidential campaign account, told a federal regulator he had resigned on Monday, alleging in a letter to the rapper-turned-candidate that campaign advisor Milo Yiannopoulos had possibly broken federal campaign finance law,” Politico reports.

“Yiannopoulos denied the allegation.”

Daily Beast: “After a winter spent recuperating from his five-point loss to Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA)—and hidden from the internet legions that had gleefully dragged him for months—Oz is slowly re-emerging.”

“Gone is Oz the MAGA-acolyte partisan. Back is the famous, friendly TV doctor—or at least Oz hopes.”

Famed talk show host and former Cincinnati mayor Jerry Springer (D) has died at age 79, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports.

Olivia Nuzzi profiles the Adult film actress and “the long afterlife of a forgettable fling with a reality-television personality.”

Stormy Daniels: “I have so many messages coming in that I can’t respond…also don’t want to spill my champagne… merch/autograph orders are pouring in, too! Thank you for that as well but allow a few extra days for shipment.”

The 2023 baseball season begins today, with all 30 teams playing their first game on Opening Day for the first time since 1968.

The sport has undergone several major rule changes which will likely have significant impact on the game.

It’s one of my favorite days of the year — even though my Red Sox aren’t projected to do very well this year.

Ted Nugent appeared at Donald Trump’s rally in Waco, Texas and inexplicably called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a “homosexual weirdo.”

He then called for a “moment of silence for the political prisoners in the gulags of Washington, D.C., because of jack-booted thugs in our own government.”