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"Trump’s Gallup approval rating as of last December was among the lowest the organization had found since it began taking the poll in the 1930s."

One of the nicer celebs I met as a journalist. Doesn't always mean anything, but he was genuinely kind and interested in my work the couple of times we chatted. Loved him in Don't Trust the B----. RIP

Willie McCovey, 1978 #SFGiants

#SpringTraining #Baseball

Going out on a limb to say 'ideally yes'

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

1977 Kelloggs Bake McBride

Bake McBride is super underrated in the baseball card community
If you have a pick in the mid 1st round in your baseball card fantasy draft this year and Don Mossi, Cookie Rojas, Dock Ellis and Oscar Gamble are already gone, take a chance on Bake
grab Bill Lee in the 2nd round and go win that title

photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann's Havfrue, showing a mermaid on the roads, her lower half obscured in seaweed but shown to turn into a tail, as behind her cliffs are wrapped in storms: watch out, sailor

Scandinavian mermaids, called havfrue, sjörå, and other names, are harbingers of storms and are seen as fatal omens, sometimes even kidnapping sailors: better to avoid them at all costs, and avert ye eyes. #WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday

🖼️: E. Jerichau-Baumann

A White Historian Claimed That Black People 'Had No History.' This Trailblazing Scholar Dedicated His Life to Proving Otherwise Carter G. Woodson, the "father of Black history," founded the celebration now known as Black History Month in 1926. A prolific writer and activist, he viewed his efforts to educate the public as a "li...

A White Historian Claimed That Black People ‘Had No History.’ This Trailblazing Scholar Dedicated His Life to Proving Otherwise www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-... “If a race has no history... it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, & it stands in danger of being exterminated"

TICK BONESTEEL

Ireland’s basic income for the arts scheme becomes permanent

When piloted, initiative that provided €325 a week to eligible artists recouped more than its net cost, study shows

Colored-pencil card drawing of Frank Drebin

Remembering Leslie Nielsen, born 100 years ago today

Imagine a President bulldozing 1/3 of our Historic White House pocketing $300 million and that doesn’t even crack the top 100 most destructive, vile, disgusting things he’s done, yet here we are

here it is
the saddest comic strip in the world

the whole statement is worth a listen. it gets real, real hard lately, but i try not to cede ownership of patriotism to the worst mfers in this country, because they don't deserve any of it

The proper mood for delivering an existential Cookie message

Rare 1976 Bicentennial New York #Yankees pillbox pennant.

#Baseball

And now right-handed:

Currently throwing a bullpen — Jurrangelo Cijntje, left-handed:

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

Photo, perched on branch, description from ebird: ‘A striking medium-sized kingfisher of lowland and foothill forest. Whitish below with dark scaling and dark green above with buff spotting. Bill bicolored, black above and orange below. Note the broad black band through the eye, reaching the back of the head, and the green crown and rump. Male has a full rufous collar, throat, and band below the eye, as well as a bright blue moustache and band behind the eye that are green in the female. Unmistakable in its range. Song, given at dawn, consists of a single downslurred whistle, “wee-ooo,” repeated every few seconds.’

Kingfisher of the Day:
Spotted Kingfisher
📷 Mhark Gatela

A parody of a Peanuts cartoon strip in which Lucy says, "I feel torn between the desire to create and the desire to destroy..."

Good morning

Possibly the biggest upset in the Olympics. Raimund had zero wins in 80 career World Cup starts, ranking 30th, 20th, and 24th in the World Cup standings over the last three seasons. And then there’s the fact that … … Raimund actually withdrew from a ski flying event in Slovenia last March citing acrophobia. “As some of you may know, I am scared of heights,” Raimund posted on Instagram. “I usually have it under controll, and it usually isn't a Problem while ski jumping, but from time to time, I have the issue (mainly while ski flying) that my body is reacting without me controlling it.” HE IS SCARED OF HEIGHTS. THE OLYMPIC SKI JUMPING CHAMPION. IS SCARED OF HEIGHTS. The Olympics are so good, man.

new greatest underdog story in Olympic history: Germany's Phillipp Raimund, new Olympic gold medalist in ski jumping, WHO IS SCARED OF HEIGHTS
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Harold Baines 1983 Kellogg's 3D baseball catd

Random card of the day:
Harold Baines 1983 Kellogg's 3D Superstars

Periodic reminder that Keir Starmer's brand of reactionary "centrism" got incredibly unpopular very quickly

I really want people to think about this. After all the insane lawsuits, all the threats, all the bullshit weve seen from this admin and the targets who kneeled in fear, an average Joe called the president a Pedophile protector to his face and didn't get touched. That's the Power of a union.

Holy crow these are SO GOOD. I'm a big fan of #SciArt especially when owls are featured. 🪶 🧪