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Could the Yankees end up replacing Jazz Chisholm with Ketel Marte after the season? 🤔

One of the largest U.S. studies ever conducted on the MMR vaccine and autism has just been published, analyzing more than 2.5 million children. Once again researchers found no association between receiving the first MMR vaccine before age 2 and childhood autism.

No, the opposite my friend. More than 85% of all Covid deaths occurred among the unvaccinated, with many of those deaths sadly before vaccines became available in 2021. But in addition at least 200,000, possibly 300,000 died because they refused vaccines after they were made available. Most of those deaths from vaccine refusal occurred with delta and BA.1 omicron waves in 2021-22

“One reason behind the change was that the Trump administration decided to remove four service members killed this past weekend from the list because their deaths occurred after President Trump declared a cease-fire in the war in April” nytimes.com/2026/07/23/us/po…

President Trump said the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was drained for repairs, after weeks of railing against alleged vandals. "We drained the beautiful 'Reflecting Pool' today in order to fix the scars and damage that was done by the Vandals two weeks ago," Trump wrote on Truth Social late Monday. "The Parks Department had to empty the water in order to fix the water tight basin," he said. "It will be refilled and put back into service soon."

MLB is counting on being able to lie right to your face and you being too (rightfully) tired or distracted to hold them to any standard of reality.

Fuck off queer. Stay in your gay lane. You like balls. Not baseballs.

I wish the Times took apart Obama’s deal like this. Still, worth a read. nytimes.com/2026/06/18/us/po…

Marco Rubio, Senate floor, September 2015 “I do want to be recorded for history’s purposes, for I know what is going to happen with regards to this, if it goes through. Iran will immediately use the money it is receiving in sanctions relief to begin to build up its conventional capabilities. It will establish the most dominant military power in the region outside of the United States and it will raise the price of us operating in the region. They’re going to build anti-access capabilities, rockets capable of destroying our aircraft carriers and ships, continue to build these swift boats that are able to come on us, these fast boats that are able to swarm our naval assets, and they’ll make it harder and harder for U.S. troops to be in the region. “They’ll also work with other terrorist groups in the region to target American service men and women, and they may or may not deny that they’re involved but they will target us and raise the price of our presence in the Middle East until they hope to completely pull us out of that region. “They’ll also continue to build long-range missiles, missiles capable of reaching the United States. Those are not affected by this deal, and they’ll continue to build them as they have been doing. “And then, at some point in the near future, when the time is right, they will build a nuclear weapon, and they will do so because at that point they will know that they have become immune, that we will no longer be able to strike their nuclear program because the price of doing so will be too high. “This is not just a work of imagination. It exists in the world today. It’s called North Korea, where a lunatic possesses dozens of nuclear weapons and a long-range rocket that can already reach the United States. And we cannot do anything about it. An attack on North Korea today would result in an attack on Tokyo or Seoul or Guam or Hawaii or California. And so the world must now live with a lunatic in possession of nuclear weapons. “And this is the goal Iran has as well, to reach a point where they become immune to any sort of credible military threat because the price of a military strike would be too high. And then they become an established nuclear weapons power. And never in the history of the world has such a regime ever possessed weapons so capable of destruction. Iran is led by a Supreme Leader who is a radical Shia cleric with an apocalyptic vision of the future. He is not a traditional geopolitical actor who makes decisions on the basis of borders or simply history or because of ambitions. He has a religious apocalyptic vision of the future, one that calls for triggering a conflict between the non-Muslim world and the Muslim world, one that he feels especially obligated to trigger. And he’s going to possess nuclear weapons? “This is the world that we are on the verge of leaving our children to inherit, and perhaps we ourselves will have to share in. “So I want to be recorded for history’s purposes, if nothing else, to say that those of us who oppose this deal understood where it would lead, and we are making a terrible mistake. And I fear that passage of this deal will make it even harder for us to prevent it. “And I hope there’s still time for us to change our minds, but here’s the good news: Iran may have a Supreme Leader, but America does not. In this nation we have a republic, and soon we will have new leaders, perhaps in this chamber, but also in the executive branch. And I pray that on their first day in office they will reverse this deal and reimpose the sanctions and back them up with a credible threat of military force, or history will condemn us for not doing what needed to be done at this critical moment in the world’s history.”

‘World’s richest nations’ facilitating ‘undisguised genocide’ in Gaza, says Sally Rooney irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/…

Clips are going viral of the new $14M paint on the Reflecting Pool peeling off just 12 days after the pool reopened. nitter.cf/LePapillonBlu2/status/…

I don’t see much value in comparing the MOU and the JCPOA. They are fundamentally different agreements that emerged from starkly different contexts. Best to leave that debate to hardline critics of both the 2015 deal and the current understanding, who seem perfectly capable of carrying it on themselves. The bottom line is that the MOU is far preferable to any of the alternatives on offer. Period.

"Unless you were homeschooled by a day drinker, no one's confident that Iran is going to do anything." Sen. John Kennedy gives his blunt assessment about how he thinks Iran will behave after the Trump administration's new agreement with the regime. The Louisiana senator says it's impossible to know what the Islamic Republic's next move will be as the U.S. tries to curb its nuclear ambitions.

"America lost the war...We will exit the war with none of those goals achieved, and in order to end the war, America had to submit to a host of Iranian conditions. We lost and there is no reasonable way to hide this fact." open.substack.com/pub/thebul…

Trump promised an unconditional surrender in Iran. Today, he delivered on that promise.

I don’t think a nepo baby whose mom got him into Goucher is going to be curing cancer anytime soon. Maybe start by seeing if you can get the Wordle a couple days in a row.

Seems to be a very good chance that the last two nights of the US bombing Iran was Trump trying to look all tough before throwing in the towel to the Iranian government.