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Long live minor league baseball

Pretty good microcosm of the overall state of affairs on metro this morning: Teenager hops over the fare gate while a handful of National Guardsmen watch ambivalently, eyes glazed over

Yeeeeep. A lot of these guys come from poverty. You can absolutely understand this as an easy way to help their family and friends without having to pay them out of their own pocket

A question I asked of some financial folks I know back in the very beginning of tariff implementation was: Where is the money going, and who is in charge of accounting for it all? I did not get satisfactory answers

You guys I made plantain buñuelos rolled in cinnamon sugar tonight and they were so good we housed the entire plate of them before I even considered taking a photo

Which politician will give us “let them eat mac & cheese” out of this?

Too many people on this site who should know better need to learn what a date stamp is

Love it when Marine One just hovers directly over my house at low altitude

CPL is an absolute palace to the people and these proposed cuts are abominable. Artificial austerity. Chicago folks, read this, check the links to bug the mayor and your alders—this can be fought and won.

Fuck it, dude. Let’s go bowling. #Calgorithm

So, not really. Who wants to win this game less?

The kind of thing I would actually spend money on if I was rich. Proceeds benefit American Public Television, so if that’s you, go for it

We got good Cal for the first half. Could we possibly get it for 4 quarters?

Fernandomania. Catch it.

The footwork by the Indiana receiving corps on this final drive is the best I’ve ever seen

Choosing to look at this as a glass-half-full situation as the funniest possible wrench in getting this stadium built

I just missed getting the screenshot when it was 48-5

Well, now, isn’t that something

If your stance is that your decisions are the only ones that are valid and that you’ll fight any court order that opposes them, this is the natural consequence

As promised, a longer read:

A true American hero. Or gyro.

Baseball’s hottest trend is hiring 2013 Washington Nationals as your new manager

Crazy wind gusts across D.C. the last couple hours. It’s been a while since I remember anything that strong

You don’t say

I don’t often post work stuff on here, but if you’re a journalist working on SNAP stuff this week, we’ve got the two people who literally wrote the book “Food and Nutrition Economics” available for interviews news.vt.edu/articles/202...

2+ million votes and a race called within 10 minutes after the polls close. Wouldn’t ya know

There will be lots of bad analysis about why whatever happens happens, so let me just get this in before the votes are counted: It is unequivocally good that people care about and are motivated to vote in this election, and that is the reflection of a leading candidate that inspires action

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Our green grain bowl. We literally made it tonight. Easy to sub out ingredients for whatever you have on hand or can pick up cheaply. Full recipe at the bottom of this blog pretty-good.ghost.io/choosing-my-...

As a sleep delay tactic, my 2-year-old has started asking to watch football, specifically right after the weekend, when football is on. So we’ve had to break the bad news that, as everyone knows, there famously is no football on Monday night

This security detail costs more every week than I ever made in a year as a journalist

I don’t often post work stuff on here, but if you’re a journalist working on SNAP stuff this week, we’ve got the two people who literally wrote the book “Food and Nutrition Economics” available for interviews news.vt.edu/articles/202...

The Venn diagram of people who said this and those who said they would stop watching the NFL if players kneeled during the national anthem is a perfect circle

I’m not going to repost it, but I cannot believe the photo the AP used for their Jayden Daniels injury story

I know when I’ve got a QB coming back from injury, I want him to be scrambling and getting hit at least every other play on his opening series

Still true. Always true.

So many insane things happened down the stretch of that game that we’re going to be unpacking how the Blue Jays didn’t win for a long time

Oh my god, they killed Kiké

This was the first thing I said, and I’m almost certain he does

lol incredible (and I think also correct)

Going to Yamamoto here is either the worst or best managerial move of my lifetime and it depends on things nobody in the public sphere can know

The longer this game goes and the more commercial breaks I see, the more convinced I am that Ernie Clement is the new host of Fear Factor

Has anyone ever needed an insurance run more than up by 1, headed bottom 8, in Game 7 of the World Series, with Shohei Ohtani guaranteed to hit in the 9th?

Paint me like one of your French Canadian girls

Never bunt

Not sure I’ve ever seen a batter successfully retaliate after a HBP by hitting the pitcher

Gotta get Scherzer. Slider is hanging, missing spots

Watching it again from the home plate angle, absolutely no excuse to be hung up that far off second. If he misread it off the bat and was running all the way, I’d almost understand it more, being the tying run. But that’s “can’t happen” level stuff, there