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Mike Ditka was scheduled to sing the seventh inning stretch on July 5th, 1998. This was the year that Harry Caray died and the “guest conductor” was new at Wrigley Field. Ditka got stuck in traffic and was running late. By the time the top of the seventh ended, Ditka was still not there and Steve Stone and Chip Caray stalled for time. Finally Ditka busts into the press box, grabs the mic, and screams Take Me Out To The Ball Game in twenty two seconds! Organist Gary Pressy could barely keep up! The crowd roared with approval! R.I.P. Mike Ditka
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Far from bringing democracy to Venezuela, Trump works with the existing dictatorship (minus its former head) and turns it into a colonial relationship to extract its oil at considerable U.S. profit. trib.al/dMN6lIK
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Imagine growing up in absolute dirt poverty in east Tennessee, daughter of a tobacco farmer, going to school wearing rags your mother stitched into a coat, and when you die the British royal family has its military band play your up-the-workers country-pop anthem in tribute.
Sound on. Listen to all of it.
Why classical music will never go out of fashion!
Maestro Gustavo Dudamel tells me "it's a moment of connection, it's a moment of interaction, it's a moment of empathy and when you understand that, that it's not only the technical thing, that it's not only the historical thing-- it's about feeling-- then it changes everything."
Watch our full interview from London's stunning Royal Albert Hall on our website.
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Sen. @ChrisCoonsforDE: Is Trump eligible to run for a 3rd term under our Constitution?
Trump Judge nominee: Um... I would have to... to review the- the actual wording--
Coons: The language of the 22nd Amendment makes it clear that no, he is not eligible to run for a 3rd term. Anybody else brave enough to say that the Constitution of the United States prevents President Trump from seeking a 3rd term?
Trump Judge Nominees: …
Coons: Nobody? Alright.
Spot on!
Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…
Ted Wynot retweeted
Quite the midterm message: we can afford wars and ballrooms, but not your “daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things”
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No U.S. President should be able to withdraw from NATO without Senate approval.
Thankful my colleagues in Congress passed this bipartisan measure.
Congress approves bill barring any president from unilaterally withdrawing from NATO trib.al/fk7JMkH
Ted Wynot retweeted
6:49am: sudden spike in oil futures trading. no news. no announcement. nothing public.
7:05am: trump announces a pause on iran strikes. markets move.
someone knew. 16 minutes early. $580 million in contracts. the corruption is staggering.
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Strange situation where we await a statement from Iran to check whether there's any truth to what US president is saying.
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Senator Tuberville’s post on Mayor Mamdani is nothing less than blatant Islamophobic racism.
Not only should Tuberville apologize, but the Republican leadership should strongly condemn this kind of ugly behavior.
We must fight racism of all kinds, not condone it.
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Good fact-based reporting is under pressure in our industry. Today, @nytimes publisher AG Sulzberger made his first ad, "encouraging you today to support any news organization." It's a reminder of how important this reporting is, regardless of who produces it. Have a listen here.
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The @WashPost has now laid off its Asia editor, its New Delhi bureau chief, its Sydney bureau chief, its Cairo bureau chief, the entire Middle East reporting team, China correspondents, Iran correspondents, Turkey correspondents, and many more. The world is becoming less America-centric by the minute while the United States is becoming more America-centric than ever. It is just a depressing yet somehow perfect summation of our current moment that one of the most important newspapers in the history of the country - one that has actually shaped the history of the United States - doesn't think reporting on the world is of any use anymore. What an utterly perfect encapsulation of where we have arrived.
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Jeff Bezos wealth in 2024: $194 billion
Jeff Bezos wealth in 2025: $215 billion
Jeff Bezos wealth today: $249.4 billion
Net increase in Bezos wealth since 2024: $55.4 billion
Cost of Bezos’s 417-foot superyacht: $500 million
Amazon investment in "Melania": $75 million
Original Bezos purchase price of the Washington Post in 2013: $250 million
Bezos net worth in 2013: $25.2 billion
Net increase in Bezos wealth since buying the Post: $224.2 billion
Last reported annual losses of Post: $100 million
Number of years Bezos could absorb those losses with what he makes in a single week: 5
@JeffBezos
Ted Wynot retweeted
If someone had told us on Sept 11, 2001 this is where we’d be 24 years later as a nation — domestic political violence/assassinations/civil unrest ripping us apart — I don’t think we would have believed them …
We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health nytimes.com/2025/09/01/opini… via @NYTOpinion
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I can’t speak to anyone under the age of 30. But if there is anyone who was a halfway prominent mainstream conservative TV pundit, radio host, columnist, magazine writer, think tanker etc. 10 years ago who now tells me they wouldn’t have screamed about incipient “socialism!” or “fascism!” about Trump’s Intel “investment” — never mind countless other moves — I presumptively assume they are lying, either to themselves or to the rest of us.