Happy Ohtani day! 💙⚾️💙

Hmm, I wonder why…

The Washington Post editorial board under Jeff Bezos is exactly who you think they are.

Lot of people on the right crying about the Virginia redistricting vote. We told you this would happen while you were celebrating the illegal off-cycle seat grab in Texas. Stop playing stupid games if you don’t want to win stupid prizes.

JFC Call.

I gotta find the video, but there’s a great bit in Ken Burns’ Revolutionary War doc from last year where one of the historians talks about how probably Washington’s best strategic decision of the entire war was getting his army inoculated for small pox. So this tracks.

FYI you can watch Kornacki Cam live on YouTube

Fairfax is gonna push it over. #Virginia

alt text is great, even when images are working

Reminder to make sure your Bluesky settings require alt text on every image!

In almost no county is the 'NO' getting the swing it'd need, even if in most of the completed counties so far it's closer than the AG race. But the best sign for the 'yes' so far is the result in Loudoun County, which is almost done & the result is a touch bluer than AG race.

There were two questions in Virginia coming into today: 1) turnout 2) persuasion. Still have to wait for wider returns to know for sure on 1, especially for Election Day results, but the Republicans needed both to go their way and so far the results say 2 is a huge problem for them

Aside from who started it, states like CA and VA putting a counter-gerrymander up to a referendum, where people are told and can make a decision on the context for why it's being done, has vastly more democratic legitimacy than state legislators rushing it through because they got bullied by POTUS.

Incredible shots of the exchange between Rep. AOC and RFK, Jr. at today’s congressional hearing. (image credit: WSJ reporter @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social)

A great follow for Virginia election coverage @samshirazi.bsky.social

This morning’s pretty sky 🌞🩷

The Dodgers rookie backup catcher who plays twice a week has seven homers. The entire Giants and Red Sox rosters both have 13 homers total. 😬😬😬

Most home runs in first 8 games played in a season, since at least 1900: 1976 Mike Schmidt: 8 2026 Dalton Rushing: 7 2016 Trevor Story: 7

Today I got to see monarch butterflies and a perfect magnolia blossom 🌱

Oh wow hey who could have seen this coming other than everyone except for the stock market bros who all think they’re Jordan Belfort!?

Larry Ellison’s TikTok forcing “AI Remixing” onto their entire user base without their knowledge or consent is a really great microcosm of what US tech overlordship looks like — and why the backlash against this technology is only growing.

April 26th, 2024, Waverly, Nebraska

Wait until CNN hears about cars. Their heads will explode.

What’s a word for way beyond done? Cuz that’s what I am with Blake f’ng Treinen

I deleted my Amazon account which was almost a quarter century old about three months ago and have never had a problem finding books since then (and I’ve ordered plenty)!

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Ok, now I’m asking for WhatsApp, where ‘Meta AI’ has just appeared in the bottom right corner of my messages floating there no matter what I do to shut it off. I DO NOT WANT THIS

It'll be Tuesday. Need the market to tank again on Monday so they can scoop up shares for less and sell them on Tuesday when the "talks resume".

Gosh Trump sure made a big deal yesterday morning about it being open and now it’s not almost like something else was open yesterday that reacted to that news that’s not open today…

A VCR never sold my private info to a nazi

What the ever living hell is he talking about?!

Exactly one year ago today:

various reasons academic doesn't lean conservative (it is hardly the lefty bastion people imagine), and one is conservatives expect special treatment and higher salaries

(...) It is not revolutions and upheavals That clear the road to new and better days, But revelations, lavishness and torments Of someone's soul, inspired and ablaze. Boris Pasternak, "After The Storm" #Iowa #USA

Yesterday I posted a pic of Colonel Armstrong, a famous California Redwood tree. But in rare circumstances, these giant sequoias can be found elsewhere...such as this one in northern Michigan! There are about six of them up there that were planted in the 1940's and I visited in 2023.

Bears GM Ryan Poles had a challenging March as he dealt with a surprise retirement, two trades, the signings of nine newcomers and the exits of 12 players who started at least once last year. Now: the draft. By @danwiederer.bsky.social Free to read. www.nytimes.com/athletic/719...

I just called and left messages at both offices. Ernst (202-224-3254). Grassley (202-224-3744). Iowans love the Boundary Waters and want to protect a special place like that.

Morning views from Iowa City, IA

Um that’s one way to start a game

Let’s go Dodgers!

Storm PTSD kicking in. Already sounds like the interstate. I strive to be Bill Paxton “Twister” with storms, but it’s always Bill Paxton “Aliens.”

Two shots, and CBS shows empty green back to back. Wonderful.

Great work CBS on that McIlroy 2nd at the 18th. We can just theorize where it is no worries it’s cool.

So this is 4D chess. Finally, an explainer.

So we're blockading something that's already blockaded to try and get it unblocked even tho it will stay blocked because we're blocking it. Of course. That makes total sense.

One out left and you get removed you maga pos

I dropped a short thread last night on PAUL ROBESON's historic football career: * First Rutgers player named 1st team All-American by Walter Camp * Camp: "greatest DE who ever trod the gridiron" * Among first four Black players in NFL * Played with/for Fritz Pollard, NFL's first Black coach