this junkballing Czech electrician is a folk hero in Japan for striking out Ohtani in the last WBC (stopped for photos/autographs etc) but he's retiring after this bc Czech league ball doesn't pay the bills.
I love the way he took in in this one last surreal moment before going back to normalcy
In 2017, it was Rust Belt diners. Today, it's a restaurant that serves bone marrow on Capitol Hill. slate.trib.al/Z7u281U
In 2017, reporters flocked to Rust Belt diners to understand Trump voters. Now, they just have to take the metro to Capitol South for their safaris. I write about the Butterworth's phenomenon for @slate.com slate.com/news-and-pol...
A Pew Research survey found that 53 percent of Americans view their fellow citizens as morally or ethically “bad,” the only country with such a majority.
In the 24 other countries polled, most people said they see other residents as ”good.”
Iranian women’s soccer team labelled ‘wartime traitors’ by state TV after anthem silence www.nytimes.com/athletic/709...
Trump says he will soon endorse in TX-Sen and will ask the other candidate to drop out
Was away for a bit, see that some on here decided to outrage farm about a tweet I didn't write for an article of mine they didn't read or link. Since that seems to be the preferred mode of consumption, here are a few other headlines! Always do the reading; don't let the engagement farmers con you.
Last Monday, Netanyahu gave Trump a stunning tip: the ayatollah could be killed in a Tehran sneak-attack
The CIA confirmed it
Trump ordered the strike Saturday, altering the Middle East
The inside story of this historic week w/@barakravid
www.axios.com/2026/03/03/t...
Trump just posted on Truth Social that the U.S. has sunk nine ships in the Iranian Navy
Amazing scene by White House. There are couple of hundred people rallying supporting strikes in Iran holding either American flags or Lion and Sun Iranian flags, many with pictures of Reza Pahlavi. Handful of counter protesters, one of whom is vainly shouting “Trump is a pedophile” into a bullhorn.
I talked to @benjudah.bsky.social for @politico.com about the Chagos Islands deal and why he thinks it is good for both the UK and the US www.politico.com/newsletters/...
Retiring Iowa Senator Joni Ernst is going to New Hampshire next week for Politics and Eggs
Rep Troy Nehls, wearing a tie with Trump’s face on it, tells me he hopes the speech is three hours long
A 30-year search for a long-lost baseball player comes to an unexpected end: ‘I could finally exhale’ www.nytimes.com/athletic/704...
How the sewer line collapse unfolded and spread millions of gallons of wastewater into the Potomac River www.thebanner.com/community/cl...
Trump withdrawing his endorsement from Jeff Hurd, the Republican who won the competitive district in Colorado abandoned by Lauren Boebert, and backing a primary opponent. This comes after Hurd voted against Trump's tariffs on Canada
Question for the room, testing how much the normal information flow has changed:
Are you following the congressional GOP's push for the SAVE Act? The effort to blow up the Senate filibuster to pass it? This is top of every hour on Fox, all over X, but I check newspapers and it's a small story.
The steamer Lac La Belle, which was carrying passengers and cargo, sank in a storm in 1872. Eight people died when one of its lifeboats capsized. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u...
Why are you assuming that they still think you are sane?
Baltimore’s overrun by deer. The city plans to kill them. www.thebanner.com/community/cl...
I talked to Carrie Prejean Boller about the attempts to remove her from Trump's Religious Liberty Commission, why she rejects charges of anti-Semitism, her views on Zionism, and why she insists Candace Owens has never said anything anti-Semitic. I recommend reading to the end. It takes a turn.
BREAKING: DOJ moves to drop criminal charges in alleged shovel/broom attack in Minneapolis that led ICE to open fire. "Newly discovered evidence in this matter is materially inconsistent with the allegations in the Complaint Affidavit," prosecutors say. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Not saying this is why DOJ failed to indict the six Dem lawmakers it targeted...but one of Pirro's prosecutors is a dance photographer specializing in "Dance Puppetry" and circus performers.🤔
Via Bloomberg: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
War Came to Ukraine and Its Dogs Are Not the Same www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/s...
According to the Financial Times, it was the Super Bowl photos.
Any thoughts on the trade overall?
Honeybees were never in existential trouble.
Well-meaning efforts to boost their numbers with backyard beekeeping have accelerated the decline of native bees that actually are.
Scoop: As Washington Post leadership laid off hundreds of staffers this week, exec editor Matt Murray blocked the paper’s media desk from covering the cuts, spiking a pre-written story despite internal lobbying
www.status.news/p/ms-now-cro...
