Joel Siegel

Jaxson Dart, Cam Skattebo fumble away a Giant opportunity vs. Saints The Giants looked like they were building toward their second straight victory keyed by their young talent. Until they weren't.

“… it takes a special kind of failure to lose to the shambling mass of hot garbage that is the 2025 New Orleans Saints.”

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"Russ takes no pleasure in this...He doesn't want to see people lose jobs" - Speaker Johnson, on OMB Director Russ Vought.

Rep. Lisa McClain, on CNN, praising President Trump for deploying the National Guard to Washington:

"My daughter could actually ride the Metro for the first time since she has been in DC."

[Her daughter is 22]

This is the administration taking a huge shot at Schumer, who has been a huge champion of the Hudson rail tunnel project. Probably not a coincidence this is happening the same day as the shutdown.

But a predictable ending.

I’m sure the manager and GM will be back next year, though. Because maybe the 15th time will be the charm.

Going down meekly … at home…to the Red Sox… against a reliever who often melted down in similar situations when he played for the Yankees … is just icing on the cake.

Yankees loading the bases with nobody out in the bottom of the ninth - and then failing to score to go gentle into that good night … perfectly captures everything that’s been wrong with this soulless team for 10+ years.

Stanton striking out with the bases loaded. Classic.

It’s getting late early for the Yankees.

Amazing.

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100 Hardy, a lieutenant colonel, became the youngest Tuskegee fighter pilot at 19, and was among the first Black military pilots in the United States.

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say.

Pillow Talk

Opinion | Take care of our city, our country — and one another My time is passing, and the hour is dark, but I hold faith that wrong will be righted in the end.

WashPo columnist Colbert King, 86, signs off:

“As my dad said, dear reader, I say to you: “Take care.”
Take care of yourselves and one another.
Take care of our city.
Take care, dare I say it, of our country.”

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I’ll cut to the chase. This is common for a very simple reason: People don’t want traces of dog 💩 and pee in their homes. (I’ve lived in Manhattan 30+ years).

Neil Young opens with Big Crime…
“Big Crime in DC at the White House”. (And normal camera angles!)

Watching CNN’s Farm Aid broadcast. Once Dylan came on, just two cameras, both fairly wide shots. No Dylan close-ups. Guessing this has to be on his orders (last Dylan show I attended, no cellphone shots allowed). Anyway, his set is quite good so far: All Along the Watchtower, Ramona, Highway 61…

Clarke is also chair of the Congressional Black Caucus

Kash Patel's notes during his congressional testimony as photographed by Getty: "Good fight with Swalwell"

Fight Erupts Over Fate of U.S. Attorney Investigating Two Trump Foes Trump officials told Erik S. Siebert that he was likely to be fired. He had hit roadblocks investigating New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, and the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey.

Breaking News: A fight is said to be playing out over the fate of a U.S. attorney who hit roadblocks while investigating New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, and the former FBI director James B. Comey, two Trump foes.

Trump poised to fire US attorney for resisting effort to charge NY AG Letitia James: Sources President Trump is expected to fire the U.S. attorney in Eastern Virginia after he was unable to find evidence of mortgage fraud against NY AG Letitia James, sources say.

“Trump poised to fire US attorney for resisting effort to charge NY AG Letitia James: Sources
Trump officials had pushed Erik Siebert to bring criminal charges against James.”

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Schumer, Jeffries call for FCC chair's resignation following Kimmel's suspension President Trump brushed off Kimmel’s suspension as a business decision.

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer are calling for the resignation of the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, following Jimmy Kimmel's suspension.

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IN BOX: "Is Your Pet Having a Midlife Crisis? (Sept. is Pain Awareness Month)"

Trump officials pressuring federal prosecutors to bring criminal charges against NY AG Letitia James: Sources Top Trump administration officials are pressuring federal prosecutors in Virginia to bring charges against New York AG Letitia James for mortgage fraud, sources say.

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CBC Chair Clarke: Trump admin in 'denial' about U.S. history “The American people have a right to know history" Clarke said.

Rep. Yvette Clarke, chair of the influential Congressional Black Caucus, says President Trump is trying to “whitewash” American history, adding his administration is in “denial” about the “accurate” history of the U.S.

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Bob Woodward Remembers Robert Redford

[In 2021] "Mr. Redford reflected on his mortality, telling Mr. Woodward ...
At one time there was a long road ahead of me and now that road is a lot shorter, and I don’t have a lot of time to mess around. So you do the best you can with what you’ve got left.”

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They’ve been so bad so so long, I’ll call this a moral victory for Giants.

I might vote for him twice.

I am writing in “Russell Wilson” for mayor.