Tweet from Pete Hegseth: "The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately."

In World War I more U.S. soldiers died of influenza than from combat. In America's first 145 years of war more soldiers and sailors died from infectious diseases than from enemy action. In every single war in human history more combatants have died of illness and disease than bullets and the blade.

KEYS TO THE GAME The 2026 EDSBS Charity Bowl will kick off (football term) on Monday morning, April 20, at 10 a.m. ET, with regular updates to follow on the New American Pathways Bluesky feed and Instagram grid. The game officially concludes on Friday evening, April 24 (although we have been known to extend the contest into the weekend in pursuit of stretch goals). The New AP Bluesky feed serves as trash talk central during Bowl week. Our team of volunteers will be camped out there for a minimum of 12 hours each day to deliver scoring updates and celebrate especially creative donations and dedications from coast to coast. Money Cannon is back! Thanks to some incredibly generous friends of the program, last year we launched MoneyCannon.org, where you can view the latest Charitibundi Bowl scoring updates, see where your team ranks in conference standings, and even create your own custom leaderboards to track. You can read more about how Money Cannon works at MoneyCannon.org/about. The Help Desk Dan is back! You can get answers to questions you can't find here, or flag any issues you run into, at our dedicated donor help desk, manned by local Atlanta hero JacketDan. You can reach him on Bluesky or by emailing dannewampathway@gmail.com. New this year: Concierge team assignment services! Don't have a college football team? Spencer Hall is here for you, neighbor. Tell him a little bit about yourself, and he'll assign you a college football rooting interest. You can reach him on Bluesky or by emailing harumphharumph@gmail.com. That's right: Spencer cares so much about this contest that he's agreed to read his own emails. Truly, we live in unprecedented times. Befinning Monday morning on, EDSBSCharityBowl.com will be your home for everything else: A portal to submit your actual donations, a running grand total display of all the money we've raised so far, and links where you can learn more about BOWL New AP and their work.

The pettiest and therefore the best fundraiser in the world is back. Help refugees in their time of greatest need and also celebrate your favorite* team’s greatest victories/their rival’s most humiliating defeats

*or second-favorite, if your alma mater is not on the list

I should admit that I turned to Stanford (my husband’s alma mater) because my school got benched this year, but those those games were fun even for a fan by proxy. Go Card!

Screenshot of a thank you/receipt for a donation to New American Pathways featuring a hilariously low-res picture of @edsbs wearing a blue checked shirt and overalls

Remember when Stanford beat USC 5 times in 6 years? Total points scored in those games, plus that 41-point spread, plus the end of USC’s 35-game home winning streak. Plus $50 for 50 straight years with a Stanford natty, shoutout 2026 men’s gymnastics! @newap-georgia.bsky.social

the thing about our current moment is that yes, the anti-AI and anti-big tech people are getting very reactive nowadays - but have you seen what they’re *reacting* to?

I feel like "anti rich current reaches crescendo" is when the guillotine operators are getting OT not when you find a way to levy a new small tax on an undertaxed upper class

I saw this in person and thought it was very funny that the outfielders moved!

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international news anchors, daily:

On multiple occasions in the past year, members of his security detail had difficulty waking Patel because he was seemingly intoxicated, according to information supplied to Justice Department and White House officials. A request for "breaching equipment" —normally used by SWAT and hostage-rescue teams to quickly gain entry into buildings—was made last year because Patel had been unreachable behind locked doors, according to multiple people familiar with the request.

Every story about Kash Patel is like "he frequently arrives at work dressed as a Teletubby, likes to huff aerated phenobarbital through an inhaler, and once interrupted a hostage negotiation to ask his aides what 'FBI' stands for. But West Wing insiders now worry he might someday go too far"

Someone is going to have to sneak into St. Peter’s and add a thorn poking out of the US to Bernini’s sculpture of Truth

Waiting for them to lock the exits like it's the goddamn triangle shirtwaist factory

a man with long white hair and a beard wears a brown vest Alt: a man with long white hair and a beard wears a brown vest

If any more awful men wish to file their resignation from Congress, for heaven’s sake, send them in. I’m quite at my leisure.

NYT article on Mrs. Bezos and this in screenshot: ‪More Perfect Union‬ ‪@moreperfectunion.bsky.social‬ · 21m A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social .

Your post about the World's Longest Press Release appeared like this in my feed.

as a non Christian I am wildly impressed by how well they predicted Trump in the Know Your Antichrist section of the Bible

“i hope you meet jd vance” is about to become an actionable threat

Loved hearing you say his name again, whether or not it’s for the last time. Thanks for being such a great part of the Ovi Era!

Once again

I took my college-aged kids to Caps practices starting almost 20 years ago, when Alex Ovechkin was around the ages they are now. Watching him play one more time made me more emotional than I expected. Thanks, Ovi!

went to check out the techno rave outside Parliament and I don't think I have the data allowance to share a video from it but let me tell you: there sure is a techno rave outside Parliament right now, celebrating Orban getting ousted

Viktor Orbán to join Harvard University’s Institute of Politics.

i hope the white house sends vance to campaign for Reform in britain

historic rejection of JD Vance

Alex Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby posing for pictures at center ice during pregame warmups

Only Ovi could get my husband out of the house on Masters Sunday

:sobbing: the taxation of trade routes is in dispute ::

was once New Amsterdam.

In Bruges scene where Colin Farrell is pointing a gun at his head and Brendon Gleeson is also pointing a gun at Colin Farrell's head

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute