Technically he was, but I never think of Stephen Strasburg as part of the City Connect era, so seeing a woman wearing a City Connect Strasburg jersey is a little surprising.

I will never apologize for muttering "Dundalk trash" when someone shouts "O!" during the National Anthem. Want to do that? Go to Camden Yards. This is Harrisburg.

Iran now has the very best incentive for building nukes. And you don't need missiles to get them here. One hidden in a lead-lined container on a container ship and equipped with a timer could take out a port with the greatest of ease.

I don't think Kamala Harris would've threatened to commit genocide in Iran on a random Tuesday morning a month after starting an unwinnable war with them for no reason

After Trump wrote, in reference to Iran, “A whole civilization will die tonight,” the entirety of the House Democratic leadership issued this joint statement:

23 people could stop this genocidal war criminal. That’s it. 23. 20 Republican senators and 3 republican reps in the house and he’d be out of politics forever. But they won’t. They’re addicted to power. A drug so strong they’d rather see a civilization die than give it up.

This is it exactly. Nothing may happen today but we should not have to be worrying that it might. We shouldn’t have to be playing these games. It’s ridiculous that Republicans have accepted that this is a sane way to live. Because while he’s backed away from a lot, there’s also a lot he hasn’t.

These are orders given "under a black flag," and US military personnel should refuse to carry them out.

You can be opposed to the Iranian regime AND the reckless bombing of school kids. You can support the troops AND be opposed to sending them into senseless wars. You are not an antisemite if you decry the Israeli regime’s genocidal rampage. Don’t let morons impose their idiotic view of the world.

Just discovered that my Dropbox account was tied to my Diamond work email. I went to access it, it sent an authorization token my Diamond address, which I no longer have access to. So, that Dropbox account is gone to me. 'Sokay. Not any kind of loss, really.

Really. Really?

Always fun to get a rejection email less than two hours after applying for a job. I applied outside of regular business hours (6:18 is the time of the email confirming my application), and it's now well outside of business hours, so I know that no human eyes were harmed in the process on their end.

Getting dizzy listening to these yahoos complain that Iran is a hotbed of religious fanaticism and then turning right around and acting like religious fanatics themselves.

Okay, let's solve for A. We'll take it by columns. 1000A + 200A + 30A + 4A = 9872 1234A = 9872 A = 9872/1234 A = 8

In his latest essay for @thestranger.com, Charles Mudede (@mudede.bsky.social) tackles the dread that only comes from the threat of nuclear apocalypse (a dread Gen X is all too familiar with), referencing and quoting my recent book POST-SELF 💙📚 #booksky #iran #war www.thestranger.com/news/2026/03...

Losing a loved one to dementia is a hell of a thing. I would not wish it on my worst enemy.

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

In 1945, before the Tokyo firebombing, Curtis LeMay said, "If we lose, we’ll be tried as war criminals." LeMay "got away with" the Tokyo firebombing, and the United States has acted with impunity ever since. That mistaken sense of impunity has led us to this point.

I know Trump thinks “Allah” is a Muslim-only name for God, but actually it’s widely used in other religions as well when speaking Arabic, Aramaic, and other languages that use the word for God. It’s notably used in Judeo-Arabic, and its Hebrew variant “Eloah” is used in the haftarah for Pesach.

The President of the United States commemorates Easter by threatening war crimes and dropping an F-bomb We need a new president, immediately, insomuch as this one has lost all control over his faculties

Trump keeps disappearing at the first of the month. Will he come back with a new giant bruise on his hand?

Is Trump at Walter Reed hospital?

voters elected decadent money man to make them rich, what they've gotten is warmongering fanatic who wants to cut their health care to pay for more bombs

Christian nationalism sees war as holy and empathy as toxic. This should tell you everything you need to know about the movement.

This is that same amazing view, but with camera settings set that really show this is a backlit photo of Earth—only a thin sliver of it illuminated by the Sun. Source: www.nasa.gov/image-detail... Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

They are either war crimes or not. Let’s just stop with this “maybe” BS! Over 100 International Law Experts Warn: U.S. Strikes on Iran Violate UN Charter and May Be War Crimes www.justsecurity.org/135423/profe...

About fifteen years ago on a Sunday, my parents were driving around and looking for wineries, got lost, and drove up by accident to the gate of Camp David. The guards were polite about it, did a search, turned them around, and sent them back on their way.

People really memory holed-covid, due to a huge far right propaganda effort. That's why all you hear about is lockdowns, and not: - hospitals out of capacity - Skype calls with family members in quarantine as they died - bodies stored in freezer trailors - mass graves in NYC

The birthright citizenship case shows how Trump-era Republicans have embraced the convictions of the proslavery Senator John C Calhoun, who believed America was a “white man’s government” and the integration of nonwhites onto the polity would destroy the country www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

None of this had to happen. Republicans can stop it all right now, but they won’t.

The Iranian LEGO social media troll game is amazing. This is exactly what it looks like, a depiction of LEGO Donald Trump about to perform a sexual act on LEGO Bill Clinton, as described in the Epstein Files. Wow, they went there. What amazing times!

Having 24 hour, near-instantaneous access to every bit of information about how the most ethically challenged people alive are actively dismantling the society you're living in is probably more than the human psyche was designed to handle.

The US reportedly waited to strike the bridge in Iran a second time until rescue workers and others in the area gathered to help the wounded, which then killed at least eight people. Authorities in Iran are describing it as an act of terrorism.

Family doc here: Patients are testing positive again for Covid-19. These are sick children, adults, and seniors because someone else went out and infected them. If you have any plans over the long weekend, please test, isolate, and mask if you must go out. Your friends and family will thank you.

True story!

This is the thing that has puzzled me for fifteen years—why are Republicans pursuing policies that will lead to America's decline and cede the future to geopolitical rivals? I feel like I'm missing something.

Text from a friend: "This is John Gill territory"

Did you watch Trump's address tonight? You may be entitled to financial compensation.

About a month before my mom died, I was in the kitchen at her house, and I was whistling "Fly Me to the Moon." She came in the kitchen and asked me why. I didn't know. I just felt like it. We then talked about Sinatra's wildly misjudged version of "The Girl from Ipanema."

Several years ago I tried to use ChatGPT for research. Could it give me a list of chapters in which certain characters appeared in Tolstoy's War and Peace. It could not. And when I told it it was wrong, it made up more chapters. I reread War and Peace to find what I needed for a short story.

This is the only good April Fools post.

I succeeded in making a glass Pyrex measuring cup explode. How's your day?

The Trump administration and its critics are waging a war of images on the National Mall like none before. The president's face stares down from federal buildings while statues and posters mock him below. n.pr/48bpZxl

If Vance wanted a Catholic church in Appalachia for his book cover, I can think of several that would have sufficed. St. Mary's in Livingston, Virginia, for example.

A 70-ish woman, in an orange Mustang, just drove off blasting "Purple Rain." That's the way life should be lived.

What's making me happy right now is thinking of Trump sitting/sleeping there, with ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA how hard he's losing.

Like Covid, a delusional Trump is meeting a problem he can’t bullshit his way out of or declare bankruptcy from or negotiate a friendly deal for. It’s pure and simple reality meeting him like a brick wall at 100 mph. And we’re watching what happens when an unworthy leader has to lead. Not good.