My 11 yo daughter used @kenpom.com ratings to guide her bracket decisions this year. 🥹

This has to be the hardest piece of figure skating-related art in the history of figure skating

Really photo editing here by Hector Vivas of Getty Images. Composite of the women's snowboard halfpipe final, depicting all the female Olympians who competed.

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

"Watching America Unravel in Minneapolis." This is oustanding journalism by a New York Times reporter. It helped me realize what is happening there, and just how bad everything is. I recommend it, which doesn't mean I endorse every line. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/m... [gift link]

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

Might be a good time to re-up this @lawfaremedia.org piece by @bgodar.bsky.social www.lawfaremedia.org/article/are-...

The bandage is barely touched by a handshake.

@bubbaprog.xyz don’t know if you saw this story, but it brought me so much joy being able to watch myself play in the high school state championship from over 25 years ago! Archiving these type of things can bring so much joy! tssaa.org/article/tssa...

The MAHA "autism cause" BS checks a lot of MAGA boxes: - Simplistic & wrong.✅ - Blame women & mothers. ✅ - Blame "evil biomedicine." ✅ - Fearmonger & stigmatize. ✅ Ignore the noise. #ScienceMatters!

Military lawyers within the Pentagon have taken issue with the legal justifications for the strikes, warning that the soldiers involved could be held personally liable for the killings.

From @theathletic.com: American kids spend twice as much time in organized sports as playing for fun. Many parents fear that their children will fall behind if they don't specialize in a sport early. But research argues otherwise. nyti.ms/4mc1Lar

On Tuesday on the hill, Sen. Ron Johnson touted results from an unpublished study commissioned by an anti-vaccine group as showing the risk of childhood vaccines. I asked why the study hadn't been published of Henry Ford Health, where the author who did not testify worked.

TRUMP on EPSTEIN in 2002: “I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.” nymag.com/nymetro/news...

Dachau in July 1933... reported in the New York Times timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine...

New Pediatric Sports Lab episode discussing recent research from the Patellofemoral RIG out now. We chat with Dr. Curtis Vandenberg and Dr. Shital Parikh Listen Apple apple.co/4ePasne Amazon Music amzn.to/4hZVayW Spotify spoti.fi/4iQzKVF

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LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

It might not have gotten through to Hawley, but this great line from @kateshaw.bsky.social really landed with the Hawley aide sitting behind his chart as she said it:

I need you all to see the hype video that this person made to sell their 1994 Geo Metro

Tim is a must follow for those wanting to fight health and vaccine misinformation. He is able to clearly explain the illogic in many incorrect viewpoints like below.

Ming Li Hui, who has lived in a Missouri town for 20 years, is getting deported. This has shocked and angered the locals, many of whom back Trump. She spoke to us on our podcast straight from jail. She broke down in tears and made a wrenching appeal. Listen: newrepublic.com/article/1959...

JONI ERNST: When you are arguing about illegals that are receiving Medicaid benefits, they are not eligible CROWD: People will die! ERNST: Well, we all are going to die

Removing fluoride = "an increase in tooth decay of 7.5% points & cost approximately $9.8 billion over 5 years." But, alas, this is now all about politics & spin. The data won't help. Projected Outcomes of Removing Fluoride From US Public Water Systems jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Removing fluoride from public drinking water may lead to millions more cavities in US children, study estimates: cnn.it/3Fgdzcv

We just updated our story about local Catholic parishioners circulating a petition demanding Edgardo Campos' immediate release with some pretty harrowing photos of Campos being arrested by ICE/Tennessee Highway Patrol by Seth Herald with Reuters. www.tennessean.com/story/news/l...

Put it in the Louvre and/or the Nelson-Atkins.

President Trump at once appoints the nation's top financial regulators & profits from one of the world's fastest growing crytpo companies. It's one of the most explicit financial conflicts of interest in presidential history. A NYT investigation published today digs into this nyti.ms/44KUVn8

Anyone from the #SportsMedSky community going to be at #AMSSM in KC the next few days?

Run this back verbatim for SNL

Seeking to provide a fuller picture of who was imprisoned in El Salvador, an NYT team ran the names of the 238 men through US databases, checked backgrounds in Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Chile, scoured court docs and news articles, and spoke to relatives. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/w...

Breaking News: Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia student activist who is a legal permanent resident, was arrested by ICE at a meeting he thought was a step to becoming a U.S. citizen. nyti.ms/4cxlwG4

NEW: DOJ finally files its response. They continue to refuse to provide any information about any steps they are taking to bring him back, suggesting they are not taking any. They again offer nobody with personal knowledge and simply cite Bukele's (utterly false) claim that he can't do anything.

james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country "...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."

The Trump administration has acknowledged that it mistakenly deported a Maryland father with protected status to El Salvador—but claims that the courts cannot order him back. A @nickmiroff.bsky.social exclusive:

“The truth is that a tattoo identifying Tren de Aragua does not exist,” she told me. “Tren de Aragua does not use any tattoos as a form of gang identification; no Venezuelan gang does.”

NEW: In a court filing this evening, the Trump administration said that it had mistakenly deported a Maryland father to a notorious Salvadoran prison due to an "administrative error." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

An international graduate student at Tufts University was taken into federal custody on Tuesday outside an off-campus apartment building, the university’s president said. The university was told that the student’s visa had been terminated. nyti.ms/4hRzPq1

This is a must read this to understand horrible ICE detention centers conditions and how innocent people are getting kept for weeks and months.

Francis Collins, longtime NIH director with bipartisan bona fides*, retires as of yesterday. He returned to NIH in 2023 to focus on research in his own lab, in the NIH in-house intramural research campus. His letter seems to imply he wasn’t ready to leave. NIH is being torn down. 1/🧪 #academicsky

I discovered the Sports version of Connections this week and have been highly enjoying it! Check it out below!

Can CBS flex out of the 2nd half to a different game? #NFL