It’s like Iran On your wedding day

With Tulsi Gabbard’s resignation, the U.S. has opened up a $3 million in cap space that might be used to address a number of needs across the cabinet.

Alex Caruso really wasted the final years of his 20s on Arturas Karnisovas’ Chicago Bulls

A few months back I wrote this in the newsletter as a tribute to Jason Collins after he detailed his battle with cancer. Never had the chance to meet him, but he impacted my life in a lot of ways. Rest in peace.

Rest in peace to Jason Collins, an unthinkably brave person and incredible leader for the LGBT community. Over a decade later and his coming out column is still an astonishing piece of writing. Wish the sport had caught up more and that he could have lived to see it.

Are we sure Louis DeJoy isn’t the postmaster general still? #mailfail

Beloved former Braves manager Bobby Cox has passed away at the age of 84. Here's the team's message on social media

The Cubs are the first team with 3 straight walk-off wins since the Marlins in June 2024 last time for the Cubs: June 18-20, 2009

SCOOP: The F.D.A. blocked the release of studies finding that Covid and shingles vaccines were safe. In the case of Covid, FDA staff had to withdraw studies heading toward publication: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...

I wrote about the surprise drop of "Gary," what it means for the story of the series, and why FX and Hulu might have chosen to release it this way:

SHAFT

What an evil piece of shit. I cannot wait to take over.

Headlines saying this Supreme Court decision "curtails the use of race" in voting are going to make me have a stroke. It empowers white supremacy. It does not curtail the use of race.

I can't believe this. @normcharlatan.bsky.social you're a Minnesota Legend, my man.

Michigan won it all. The celebration never really came. I spent time this week w/ Dusty May to get an up-close look at the reality of what it means to win an NCAA title—and why the portal is muting what should be the peak of his career. Fascinating transparency from one of the game's top coaches.

Yes, live streaming this is pretty great

In head coaching terms, this is the point when all the reporting would start to include a reference to his contract buy-out.

What a fucking shot holy shit

This is Pulitzer shit right here.

honestly this clip of Dan Hurley's parents yelling HOLY SHIT in unison is the most romantic thing I've ever seen

truly, nobody is feeling more vindicated this week than airport dads

ICE at airports? They're like middle-schoolers at their first school dance. ➡️Not sure what they're doing there. ➡️Standing around talking only to the friends they came with. ➡️....Likely to cause trouble pretty soon.

Gasolina

This is dope.

NCAA TOURNAMENT TIP TIMES. FIRST ROUND, CHANNELS AND ANNOUNCING TEAMS

SGA

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

THREAD: Weirdest athlete/president combos from Leaf’s bizarre President’s Day set Dominik Hasek/Bill Clinton

it’s so cool how the whole country is run by weird grifters like the dad from little miss sunshine now

I don’t care what they say this is a good website

this is ruining the bit he meticulously scheduled with tweets but gotta admit it’s hilariously on brand

Even more than usual I hope he fuckin dies

ALYSA MF'N LIU GOLD MF'N MEDALIST

The gold medal run from USA's Elana Meyers Taylor in Monobob

Me when we are dominating at curling

i can’t stop laughing

Happy Love Day! 💸

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

Sunday's Shiver. Today along the Chicago Lakeshore.

This just confirms the greatness that is MacKenzie Scott.

So flourishing is a crime now

Huh, @klobuchar.senate.gov where were you?

NYT’s obit of Catherine O’Hara ends with this quote, which nicely describes the heart of what she did so well. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/a...

RIP Queen

friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there

I love Dan McQuade dearly and will miss him terribly. No one else like him. defector.com/dan-mcquade-...