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As retired as humanly possible. Fan of the sport of professional cycling. I miss Paul Sherwen.
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My work day started with getting to pet and play with Shohei's dog. The evening only got better from there. Here's my piece on what it was like to witness Shohei Ohtani's return up close: mollyknight.substack.com/p/what-it-wa...

Elton John’s early albums were amazing.

Trump has been walling us off from foreign-made goods, ideas, and most significantly, humans. This month, Trump banned entry from most or all nationals from 21 countries; leaked memo suggests another 36 to be added. Trump is finally building his wall, and Americans will pay for it.

Some rider transfer news via HLN, Yves Lampaert staying at Soudal-Quickstep and Jasper Stuyven leaving Lidl-Trek to join them. Q36.5 signing Hermans and Meurisse from Alpecin-Deceuninck, and Brent Van Moer from Lotto too www.hln.be/wielrennen/l... (🇳🇱)

3 World Championships 11 Grand Tours 19 Monuments 525 wins Simply put, the greatest of all time! 𝗛𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆 𝟴𝟬𝘁𝗵 𝗕𝗶𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗘𝗱𝗱𝘆 𝗠𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗸𝘅!

So did Alcatraz reopen as a prison yet or what?

ICE agents are out here manhandling elected officials—yet again. They arrested NYC Comptroller Brad Lander for asking if they had a warrant—which is his constitutional right. (1/2)

Lindell's declaration of victory, after a jury ruled against him, shows the Republicans' total lack of respect for truth. They lie literally all the time about everything, even when it's completely obvious to everyone they are lying.

Mike Lee Stresses He Would Have Posted Same Thing If Own Family Savagely Murdered

"Potential changes included eliminating long-term housing assistance for disaster survivors, halting enrollments in the National Flood Insurance Program and providing smaller amounts of aid for fewer incidents..."

HAPPENING NOW: A Ninth Circuit panel hears arguments on whether President Trump had the authority to federalize the California National Guard—and whether Judge Breyer's order blocking him from doing so should be stayed during appeal. 🧵

Trump just shared this alarming text from Israeli Ambassador Mike Huckabee, effusively praising him while telling him that no president has been in his position "since Truman in 1945" (when the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Japan) & that he "will hear a voice from heaven" telling him what to do.

Trump’s appeal of a federal judge’s ruling finding his federalization of the National Guard illegal heads to court minutes from now (noon Pacific Time). Follow along for analysis, and watch live on the court’s YouTube page. Background on the lower court's ruling www.allrisenews.com/p/trump-troo...

Padilla: The President, VP, and their allies have continued to call all the protesters out there insurrectionists. Yes, this is the same man who provoked an actual insurrection at our capitol on January 6.

administration should just put up a “no niggers” sign and save themselves the trouble of writing out each country

Everything that is happening and will happen with Iran is a direct consequence of Trump’s first-term decision to shit on American diplomatic credibility by impulsively shredding a hard-won nuclear agreement.

🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

If a pregnant woman is brain dead, in a coma, and no longer has rights to make decisions about the pregnancy according to E. Bruenig, that means we don’t have a say in what happens to our organs and corpses after we die. We are public property upon death. Quite an argument!

Last February, I led a proposal submission that encompassed six months, hundreds of hours, four institutions, a massive team, and and 256 pages. NSF just informed us that the entire Biology Integration Institute program was archived and our proposal would not even be reviewed. With a form email.

FIFA Club World Cup ticket sales tank dramatically after the Dept. of Homeland Security bragged that agents would be “suited and booted" at the stadium in a now-deleted social media post

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

Seems @senmikelee.bsky.social didn’t want to talk about his ugly tweets blaming Dems for the shooting of Dems in Minnesota

The G7 Summit is an opportunity for good and deep talks between partners. I discussed with President Trump critical issues, from Ukraine to trade. On trade, we instructed the teams to accelerate their work to strike a good and fair deal. Let’s get it done.

When I tell you Los Angeles is an occupied city/county, this is what I mean… Yesterday, ICE agents showed up to a regular Saturday swap meet with armed Marines and a military helicopter overhead, like it’s a fucking war zone.

Trump: "We all know the Prime Minister of the UK and we just signed a document...So we have our trade agreement with the European Union." The UK is not a member of the European Union.

so yesterday trump said he would go to war against democratic-led cities. coincidentally i had a piece published over the weekend specifically on this issue. Why do Republicans hate American cities? www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Trump Mobile, like Patriot Mobile and other cell networks made for the far right, will be running on T-Mobile’s network, in case you feel a need to change your cell phone plan!

The first team for Tour de France #TDF2025 has been announced as Uno-X Mobility just confirmed their team

A new champ for the Tour de Beauce! cyclingmagazine.ca/sections/new...

What the fuck

The Critérium du Dauphiné will change its name and become the "Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes"

Trump is now directing ICE to focus on Democratic-led cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago and New York:

The Minnesota assassin appears to be a hate-filled right winger. So can we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA's legitimization of political violence? Yes, Republicans have also been the target of inexcusable violence, but this isn't a "both sides" issue. 1/ A🧵on the danger.

I'm afraid he might occupy a few more cities because of the tantrum he throws because of this parade.

Marlen Reusser (Movistar) wins Stage 4 of the Tour de Suisse and wins the race overall

Evenepoel searching for answers about his performances in the mountains, looking at pollen allergy and his disrupted winter training www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20250... (🇳🇱)

Paul Seixas getting the weight of French expectations, "the Gifted One" two page spread in L'Equipe. Impressive week in the Dauphiné by the 18 year old even by high standards hoped for. He's been hot property for some time, was French U-17 champ at the age of 14, got an agent at 15 etc

Six takeaways from the women's Tour de Suisse escapecollective.com/six-takeaway...

Top-10 on Stage 1 of the Tour de Suisse. Ben O'Connor at one minute, a lot of GC contenders over three minutes down