Considering History: Jackie Robinson, Japanese Americans, and the Best of American Sports and Community | The Saturday Evening Post Jackie Robinson can help us better remember a largely forgotten teammate and childhood friend, Shigeo “Shig” Takayama, and the connections between African American and Japanese American baseball.

Jackie Robinson grew up in a diverse Pasadena neighborhood, & when one of those neighbors, his baseball teammate Shig Takayama, was incarcerated at Manzanar with his family, the Robinsons helped take care of their home. For my new column, a story of the worst & best of America through baseball. 🗃️

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is ready for launch! Once operational it will help us see further into the depths of our universe than ever before.
 
This revolutionary telescope was assembled by the team at NASA Goddard, right here in MD, ahead of schedule & under budget.

This is straight up, Nazi "dual state" shit. If a naturalized citizen commits a crime, we have mechanisms in place to hold them accountable. It's called the legal system and it applies to all of us. This extra targeting of only *some* people accused of crimes is part of a broader, expulsive project.

If you're a journalist who was planning to go to the WHCD, you can still change your mind.

see also: the 35 years and $32 billion in funding of basic research that gave us mRNA vaccines

Wendy Vega Lores dreams of becoming a pediatrician. She finished high school in two years and began intensive prep to become a doctor.

She has a pending asylum case. On her 19th birthday, ICE detained her anyway. She has been locked away for 10 months.

The List and Awards | North America's 50 Best Bars The World's 50 Best Restaurants

The new list of North America's Top 50 Bars is out. Congratulations to DC's Press Club for debuting at no. 34. Service Bar is ranked no. 39.

They join the previously announced Silver Lyan (55) and Allegory (57) in the top 100.

See 1-50 here: www.theworlds50best.com/bars/northam...

Virginia Bans ICE Contracts, Unless the Feds Agree to Obey the Law. No One Expects Them to. A new law does not outright bar local contracts with ICE. But they can continue only if ICE accepts due process rules and state courts having power over its officers.

JUST IN: Virginia adopted a new law yesterday to forbid sheriffs & local police from contracting with ICE — if ICE doesn't say it'll follow state laws & agree to let its agents be prosecuted.

Everyone seems to agree ICE won't promise that, and that this spells the end of ICE contracts in Virginia.

Chemical leak at a West Virginia plant kills 2 people and sends 30 more to hospitals, officials say Authorities say a chemical leak at a West Virginia plant has killed two people and sent about 30 others to the hospital, including one person in serious condition.

There should be regulations and company protocol to make such things impossible, short of a major natural disaster causing some unforeseen situation.

Elizabeth Williamson once wrote about me, and I can attest she's a skilled, thorough, and honest reporter. If you're in the public eye, you should expect journalists to write about you—especially if you hold public office.

Kash Patel is pure garbage, even when he's sober.

This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement. Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece ↓
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Ages of congresspeople in ranking positions in charge of overseeing the Trump admin 👇
Homeland Security: Bennie Thompson (78)
Judiciary: Dick Durbin (81)
Appropriations: Rose DeLauro (83)
Ways and Means: Richard Neal (77)
Armed Services: Jack Reed (76)
Intel: Mark Warner (71)
Finance: Ron Wyden (76)

Fun fact: the guy (Hung Cao) who now leads the US Navy claimed that Monterey, California (median home price $1.2M) had been taken over taken over with witchcraft.

www.montereycountynow.com/opinion/mcno...

Joaq from Port City, Justin and Dan from Atlas. Jake yelling in the background

Did Atlas just win gold for bullpen pills at the world beer cup? You know they did.

Georgia's women's tennis team is the new Waldo and whatnot.

Two Iranian Women in ICE Detention Are Not, In Fact, Related to Qasem Soleimani, Documents Show After Laura Loomer pointed to two women she claimed were connected to the late Iranian military commander, they were arrested and remain in immigration detention. One is now gravely ill.

HUGE scandal if true. Laura Loomer got Marco Rubio to throw two Iranian women with green cards in ICE jail to be stripped of status and deported, claiming they were related to Qasem Soleimani.

Official documents provided to @dropsitenews.com appear to show they are NOT related; they're innocent.

This will not end well for the Navy, or the US

Are you feeling hopeless about the environment? Listen to this This Earth Day three environmental experts share stories about times when environmental action succeeded in saving the planet—and explain why this can be done again

Are you feeling hopeless about the environment? Listen to this

Pentagon Erases Wounded U.S. Troops From Iran War Casualty List: “Definition of a Cover-up” The U.S. government altered its tally of American casualties — inexplicably scrubbing 15 wounded-in-action troops from the count.

EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon Erases Wounded U.S. Troops From Iran War Casualty List: “Definition of a Cover-up”

The U.S. government altered its tally of American casualties — inexplicably scrubbing 15 wounded-in-action troops from the count.

theintercept.com/2026/04/22/i...

Trump’s Fed Chair Nominee Fails the Big Test The senators grilling Kevin Warsh didn’t cover themselves in glory either.

Trump's nominee for Fed chair, Kevin Warsh, had his confirmation hearing yesterday. He needed to answer 2 questions:
1) Is Trump’s criminal investigation into Powell appropriate?
2) What would Warsh do if Trump threatened retribution against *him* as well?
He couldn't answer 1. Wasn't even asked 2.

this is how Utah's Congressional map deals with Utah's largest city, cracking it through to the middle into 4 different districts in order to deny it Congressional representation to make sure Dems get 0 seats

A lot of public service work is task specific, i.e. there is not a big private market for it. So one logic for civil service protections to recruit and retain people who see it has their career, and invest in improving their expertise. Harder to do that now.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Hope John Roberts, who assured us that absolute immunity would prevent presidents from going after their predecessors, sees this

screenshot of WashPo editorial board August 20 2025 "The Texas Gerrymander freakout What's happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy"

screenshot of April 21 Wash PO editorial board: "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss The redistricting scheme was always a power grab by Democrats. Voters went along with it."

listen hun if you can't handle the Washington Post editorial board at their the Texas gerrymander "freakout" is "not a threat to democracy" you don't deserve them at their "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss"

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

Photo of large ward of soldiers stricken by the 1918 influenza pandemic

Pete Hegseth: "No more mandatory flu vaccines."

History: "Well Pete, In WW1, influenza killed as many American soldiers as died in combat, about 50,000".

And the Supreme Court is sitting on a Alito-authored decision that could throw 19+ minority-majority districts in the South to the GOP in this election or the next, in blatant defiance of a Voting Rights Act overwhelmingly renewed by. Republican Congress.

Top law firm Sullivan & Cromwell told a US federal bankruptcy court that a major filing it made in a high-profile case contained multiple AI hallucinations (Financial Times)

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The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.