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…shut the Sports desk? No Books section? Nightmare fuel. Despicable.

It’s just racism. There’s no immigration problem

HAPPENING NOW: A massive crowd is gathered in freezing temperatures outside ICE headquarters in DC to demand ICE OUT OF ALL COMMUNITIES NOW.

All I wanted was for Tim Walz to be all our dads 🥺

At a work mtg that went into generations, a Zoomer got VERY VERY upset when someone said “Xennial” and was like “No, that’s for Z/Millennial cusp!” and there was a LOT of googling. I don’t know that she accepts that one is Xennial and one is Zillennial. This lives rent free in my head.

I had some thoughts on The Man on the Inside and The Thursday Night Murder Club and reflections on retirement communities in general popcultureobsession.blogspot.com/2025/11/livi...

FDR Memorial, Washington DC. -RIP East Wing-

The people who decided season-ending ties should be decided based on a hierarchy of tiebreakers rather than in an actual ballgame do not like baseball. Some of my best baseball memories involve Game 163, watching two teams who 6 months haven’t separated play just 9 more innings for everything.

Excited to get the take from all the Trumpsters who parroted the “He stops wars!” line

The organ player at Fenway just did “Good Morning, Baltimore.” Excellent. #orioles #birdland

As we head into the school year, I’m as grateful as ever for our nation’s hard-working educators. If you agree, please let the teachers & homeschoolers in your life know about Rick Steves Classroom Europe—a free & ad-free library of 600 video clips covering history, art, music, culture & geography.

This is truly the dumbest timeline. #wewantbeavers #birdland #orioles

V upset about loss of Laureano #Orioles

Everything about this is /chef's kiss/ perfection 🐮

FANTASTIC #birdland

Disgusting. Multiple times a week I see cars line up for hours for food they need. This shouldn’t be allowed to happen

Thank God--Pat McAfee gone, Kevin Brown back #HomeRunDerby

Pat McAfee can't get off my screen soon enough. #HomeRunDerby

rooting for the 2025 baltimore orioles

Related: When people learn about some story from history that’s particularly moving and/or powerful and people say they’ve should’ve learned it in school. I don’t totally disagree but you only have so much time.

If you’re recreating at parks this weekend and through out the summer, you’ll likely run into one of these signs. They are part of out the Park Service is complying with EO 14253, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.”

Not OK with this win for NS. #TonyAwards

I mean, Operation Mincemeat WAS a movie #TonyAwards

I love that like once a decade we make a titan of the stage perform “Rose’s Turn” completely devoid of context. A beautiful tradition. #TonyAwards

ALL OF MY HAMILTON LOVE JUST CAME FLOODING BACK AM DYING #TonyAwards

Also, was lucky enough to see Leslie Odom Jr. as Burr--folks, get your tickets for when he's in it this fall! #TonyAwards

Wonder if Lin was stressing over doing "My Shot" again #TonyAwards

Yeah, still no interest in this production of Sunset Blvd. (LOVED the Stephanie J. Block version at the Kennedy Center /sniff/) #TonyAwards

Jonathan Groff is just such a delight. I love him. #TonyAwards

Stokes doing the announcements! #TonyAwards

I refuse to accept the end of #DoctorWho. No thank you.

No. Universities do not have to be "in sync with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish." They are institutions of learning led by scholars who follow their research in search of knowledge. They support free inquiry and learning. They are not political pawns.

I hope the people who kept saying that Hyde lost the clubhouse watched the interviews with ADLEY, etc., and realized how wrong the were. (I know they didn’t. But still.) #orioles

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

Thanks to @vanhollen.senate.gov for his continued work! We need @sen-alsobrooks.bsky.social on board too

I was assigned this in college but didn’t feel like reading it. A friend described it as “I love you so much, I’ll sled to my death.” That is my entire knowledge of Ethan Frome.

Looks like someone was doing good work in 2022. Almost as if they could foresee potential future issues here.

Looking at my journal entries from various trips to England--1997, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2013, 2015--really highlights how my handwriting has gone downhill. More typing has led to worse penmanship.

Owners and GMs may come and go, but the Orioles physical is forever.

David Ortiz career stats vs Brian Matusz

Devastated to hear about Brian Matusz's death. He was a particular favorite. Forever striking out David Ortiz in my heart now.

I have that pre-snowstorm excitement…but know that it doesn’t matter because I work remotely. Love that I do but I really really miss snow days.

Bummed #AllCreaturesPBS isn't back until next Sunday. Yes, I can binge it all on Passport, but I find the ritual of watching it live on Sunday evenings in the winter very soothing.

Good riddance 2024. Hoping for a better 2025, personally at least.

WaPo is not making me regret canceling my subscription

You get to rest. You get to need rest. You get to enjoy rest. (Or, to have mixed feelings about rest.) You're not "lazy." You're not "letting anybody down" by resting-- at least, not anybody who matters. And rest isn't "avoidance." It's rebuilding-- literally, physically.

Realized that one of the reasons I love Hallmark Christmas movies is because watching them is a holiday tradition with my friends. I love my family but it’s good having something holiday-associated that’s doesn’t involve them.

Watching the Leading Men of Broadway concert on PBS and pleased that during the song from The Last Five Years, the audience is all clearly thinking how much Jamie sucks. (The singer is lovely, of course.) (But what an interesting song choice!)