Four straight balls = Batter goes to second. Fixed.

Credit to that magnificent weirdo Jarvis Cocker

The first rule of economics: Unhappy people, they spend more.

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Dow drops 1,500 as US stock market leads a worldwide sell-off following Trump's tariff shock Financial markets around the world are reeling following President Donald Trump’s latest and most severe volley of tariffs, and the U.S. stock market may be taking the worst of it.

Boy, sure do wish the U.S. had more than one branch of government right now. apnews.com/article/stoc...

Might want to ask the copy desk to fix that egregious “the MLB” in the dek

I don’t have the existential bandwidth for this.

This is absolutely harrowing to watch. If you've seen the Brazilian film I'm Still Here, it's exactly that: armed men from an unnamed agency coming to a couple's door to take the man away, with no charges, no due process, no response to the wife's pleading questions. Completely unconscionable.

If we want Trump to rein in or fire Elon, all media should begin referring to Acting President Musk on first reference in all stories.

In Mexico’s Mountains, a Houston-Based Nonprofit Offers Health Care to an Isolated People Mike and Maci Berkeley have spent more than twenty years bringing medical and spiritual attention to the impoverished Tarahumara.

Mike and Maci Berkeley could be comfortably retired in Aspen. Instead they've chosen this life: "the area's poverty and attendant medical problems have created an atmosphere of hopelessness. And then there is the constant danger of the menacing and omnipresent Sinaloa drug cartel."

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Yet another reminder to the media: the tech giants are not in the business of helping us.

The Country’s First-Ever Holographic Doctors Are In A small medical center south of Dallas is the nation’s first to offer 3D telehealth visits, and its CEO believes the technology is a “game changer.”

Consulting with Dr. Hologram once or twice would be kinda fun, but isn't the fact that we often can't easily get doctors in the same room as their patients a sign that we need much bigger, systemic fixes to health care?

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Russell reported this from the community of Notrees, Texas. Which prompted me to look it up and learn that the place originally had one native tree—until a Shell gas plant removed it: www.tshaonline.org/handbook/ent...

Is this where we’ve all decided to flee?