Philip Bump’s choice is SO important, and his reasons are the keys to rebuilding the commonweal and our institutions which have broken down.
Pointing also to the work of @davidplotz.bsky.social at City Cast, working to bolster local coverage in cities around the country.
Kudos to you both!
And they play Nebraska for the Elite Eight, which sounds like a January Tuesday night game on BTN or Peacock.
Iowa’s old coach could never get them past the 1st round. New coach has them in the Sweet 16 for 1st time this millennium. He must be your cousin.
Hmmm @benjaminoc.bsky.social your 🔮 Iowa pick not such an outlier given their game today! Ousting a #1 seed and last year’s champion! 😳 Hmmm!
😄 Well it’s the tournament - anything can happen! 🏀
Though … Iowa? 🤔
Well @benjaminoc.bsky.social, this WL-native Boiler alum endorses your brilliance! #thiscouldbeouryear 💗🚂 Excellent choices!
My heart and BP cannot take even 1 overtime
Dmytro Drahun of Team Ukraine competes in the Men's 50km Mass Start Classic on day 15.
Alex Fiva of Team Switzerland leads Erik Mobaerg of Team Sweden, Daniel Paulus of Team Czechia and Jared Schmidt of Team Canada in Men's Ski Cross Quarterfinals on day fifteen of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic games at Livigno Air Park on February 21, 2026 in Livigno, Italy.
Athletes compete in the Men's 4 x 7.5km Biathlon Relay on day eleven of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic games at Anterselva Biathlon Arena on February 17, 2026 in Antholz-Anterselva, Italy.
Abbey Willcox of Team Australia competes during Women's Aerials Qualification One on day twelve of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic games at Livigno Air Park on February 18, 2026 in Livigno, Italy.
How about one last thread of awesome Winter Olympics photos? All via Getty Images. Photogs will be ID'd in each post.
Top left: Alex Pantling
Top right: Cameron Spencer
Bottom left: Michael Steele
Botom right: Patrick Smith (wow)
Wow.
In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
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I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day.
Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me.
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It all started in 1955 with a misprint in a Colorado newspaper and a call to Col. Harry Shoup's secret military hotline. Shoup played along with the tiny voice who called, and a tradition was born. From the NPR archives.
Turn of the century city scene with blowing snow
Childe Hassam, "Late Afternoon, New York Winter," 1900, from collection of the Brooklyn Museum of Art www.brooklynmuseum.org/objects/1202
Patriots to play as Somerset Semiquincentennials to celebrate America's 250th. Picture of bald eagle in red, white, and blue top hat.
Lots of America rah rah crap
Of course the Somerset Patriots are rebranding their alts to become the Semiquincentennials for next year.
And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies
If you're looking for some food banks to donate to, we vetted a ton all over the country back in 2020, in conjunction with our marble league sponsorship, a sentence that I swear made sense in context. Anyway -- there are links to 17 of them in this thread. (And apologies for linking to... y'know.)
Amazon's website in 1999
Full performance here:
Frédéric Chopin, Nocturne in C minor, Op. 48, No. 1.
Tiffany Poon, piano.
Fryderyk Chopin Institute, Warsaw, Poland.
Chopin Institute©️
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youtu.be/xZ83Lwnhkj0?...
Genius coaching job this year
I’m sorry??!! He actually says “Just kill them.” What??!!
Feel you. I was so in love with Le Creuset for awhile. The passion lessens but doesn’t abate.
The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the 46th school shooting of the year. The 47th one happened moments afterwards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...
Also, no. The Dept of War was something entirely different — it was just the Army. There was a separate Dept of the Navy. (Also, it was never an agency.) The DoD brought together both and added the Air Force and the structure of the Joint Chiefs.
This tweet is wrong in a bunch of ways that matter.
Cleanse your timeline with the most wholesome Velvets cover ever. Worth watching all the way through.
Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!”
Cities:
