Smallpox too…

To wit:

I doubt 2% of voters could describe what was in the law with any accuracy. This seems more likely another way of expressing general disapproval of (gestures broadly) all this.

It’s like the entire country is being held captive in an abusive relationship.

Where Americans live. (From my new column/newsletter.)
www.ctinsider.com/news/article...

“Really looking forward to him behind the plate tomorrow night.” He had 6 calls overturned in the Red Sox-Reds game the other day!

Outstanding example yesterday by Roman Anthony in the Red Sox game. Sox lead 1-0, two outs top of the eighth, 3-2 pitch, Sox Anthony challenged strike 3/end of the inning, call reversed, extends inning, Sox score 2 insurance runs, win 3-0

They renamed the Secretary of Defense the "Secretary of War" and now they're embarrassed to say they launched a war.

I don't understand these people.

Play of the game

Watch the Red Sox?

Gladiator “People should know when they are conquered.” “Would you Quintus, would I?” YouTube video by Yet Another Old White Guy

youtu.be/QDW5wmT1yAc?...

Live the kind of life that makes people like Donald Trump welcome your death.

During the transition, Lewandowski told Zoley that he wanted to be paid in exchange for protecting and growing GEO Group's DHS contracts, according to a senior DHS official and three people familiar with their discussion. Zoley, concerned about the propriety of the ask, told Lewandowski he would have no part of it, the sources said, describing the confrontation as tense. Lewandowski took a role as an unpaid "special government employee" at DHS once the new administration was sworn in, where he advised and acted as a "de facto chief of staff" to Noem and, sources said, influenced contract awards. Zoley scrambled to find a way to assuage tensions from the meeting during the transition, two industry sources familiar with the matter said. He secured a follow-up with Lewandowski in late February or early March 2025. That second meeting did not go much better. Zoley offered to put Lewandowski on retainer - a recurring consulting fee - with GEO Group, according to two industry sources familiar with the matter. Lewandowski balked, saying he wanted to be compensated based on the company's new or renewed contracts with DHS, the two sources said. "He wanted payments — what some people would call a success fee," said a person with knowledge of the meeting. Zoley declined, the two sources said. In the months that followed, the length of two of GEO Group's federal contracts shrank, and currently several of its facilities that could house migrants sit idle,

One senior White House official raised the issue with Trump during an unrelated meeting in October, two current administration officials said, before the conversation was cut short by superseding business. And another senior White House official told NBC News they had received a "dozen" complaints from at least four companies about Lewandowski's involvement in the contracting process during the second Trump administration. Such complaints are rare in the defense contracting industry, in which relationships are often carefully built over years and across political parties. The reports of requests to pay Lewandowski, a government contracting expert told NBC News, raise "red flags." This account is based on seven months of reporting, including interviews with nearly two dozen people who expressed concern about Lewandowski's role in the contracting process - including current administration officials, current DHS officials, industry sources who have done business with DHS and lobbyists. These sources were interviewed on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media or because they wanted to protect their relationships with an agency critical to their business.

The NBC News story about Corey Lewandowski is very important.

The GEO Group-related claims are astounding, and later reporting in the story suggests that those allegations were not some one-time thing.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

It works like the portraits of deceased headmasters at Hogwarts

The evacuation

March 17, 1776 (Morning): The British give up Boston without a fight. Gen. William Howe leads over 6,000 redcoats into transports docked at the harbor, unmolested by Washington’s Army observing them from the heights. After 334 days of siege and suffering, the cradle of the Revolution is free. 1/7

Touchdown Jesus

He’s aged well. What the hell happened to you?

Abenaki did not wear headdresses like those.

I think the fact she has a spotless mind when it comes to lived history pre-Obama is key to understanding her view of the world. In that sense, there’s a certain authenticity to her convictions. Reagan-Bush era conservatism? Might as well be talking about the Coolidge administration

🎯🎯

Saw her struggle in a race at BU in early December. Really glad to see her back on track

Doubtful there’s much buy-in from either party

From the TheSimpsons community on Reddit: Surely you don’t expect us to swallow this tripe? Explore this post and more from the TheSimpsons community

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No amount of assurance will convince conspiracy theorists about the existence of voter fraud and the Secretary of State should not humor those conspiracy theories

The Disappointment of Young Trump Voters Americans under 30 swung to the right in 2024, but they’re not getting what they voted for.

"Most members of Generation Z were still children when Trump came down the escalator…They don’t view Trump as sui generis or beyond the pale, because he’s been the dominant force in our politics for as long as they’ve been politically aware."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

This is such an important point. And this group includes a lot of the military. My oldest kids are 22 and 16 and I tell them “This is not normal!” and they kinda believe me, but not based on anything they have personally seen.