Along a Lane

“May diplomacy regain its role and the good of the peoples who yearn for a peaceful coexistence founded on justice be promoted. And let us continue to pray for peace." - Pope Leo

“In the face of the possibility of a tragedy of enormous proportions, I address an urgent appeal to the parties involved to assume the moral responsibility to stop the spiral of violence before it becomes an irreparable chasm. “ - Pope Leo

Pope Leo: "I am following with deep concern what is happening in the Middle East and in Iran in these dramatic hours. Stability and peace are not built with mutual threats or with weapons, which sow destruction, pain, and death, but only with reasonable, authentic, and responsible dialogue.”

Pope Leo at Roman parish this afternoon: “I'm deeply concerned, and we don't know how many days it will last, about the situation in the Middle East. War again! We must pray much for peace, live in unity, and reject the temptation to harm others; violence is never the right choice.”

And, at last, it is baseball season!

🚨🚨IT IS BASEBALL SEASON

Mpls: If you are working to support neighbors right now I *highly* suggest avoiding the generic "let me know what you need" and instead asking/offering directly:

"I'm going to the store. Send me a list."

"Do you need shampoo? Fruit? Toilet paper?"

"Can I help with your laundry?"

hell fuckin yeah

Dave Roberts Calls Shohei Ohtani 'Best' Player Of All-Time Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts proclaimed Shohei Ohtani as the greatest player in Major League Baseball history.

Is Shohei Ohtani the best player of all time? Dave Roberts thinks so.
dodgerblue.com/dave-roberts...

Memory-Holing Jan. 6: What Happens When You Try to Make History Vanish? The Trump administration’s decision to delete a DOJ database of cases against Capitol riot defendants places those who seek to preserve the historical record in direct opposition to their own governme...

Despite the Trump administration’s efforts to memory-hole Jan. 6, thousands of videos from the riot live on ProPublica’s website and other places.

Additionally, much of the deleted DOJ database can be found on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.

(Published Jan. 2025)

because intersectionality is too woke?

Toronto Will Never Get Over This | Defector Baseball makes you feel bad. I don’t mean that in a literate sense ripping off Bart Giamatti’s lede, the sense of dreading a sullen winter spent longing for the sensory pleasures of the game. I mean t...

💙 Great take on the recent ball game and the past time we love defector.com/toronto-will... by @barryp.bsky.social

GitHub - samhenrigold/LidAngleSensor: tfw when you when your lid when uhh angle your lid sensor tfw when you when your lid when uhh angle your lid sensor - samhenrigold/LidAngleSensor

Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself: github.com/samhenrigold...

I have so much free time it’s unbelievable. I’m open to full-time work in NYC or remote. Senior product designer/design engineer. samhenri.gold

It's from 2018 but this is still my favorite map because it's a completely different way of looking at the world: Each square represents 500,000 people, so size is determined by population rather than territory. If you zoom in a little, it's pretty wild

Robust research led by a team out of UCSD shows space stresses the biological bedrock of our bloodstream and immune systems #noplanetb

Did you just read about how traditional Medicare is about to require prior approval - and they’re going to hire **AI companies** to dole out those approvals?

Then you need to learn about Dr. Gary Bent.

Getting mad at data analysis and the people who lead the work is not the way to inspire confidence

Whoa! Ke’Bryan Hayes is 28? They grow up so fast!

Lengthy psych evals are required for wannabe contestants auditioning for reality TV shows but not candidates running for POTUS - yeah, why am I even surprised

It’s interesting to find out that relievers are worth A LOT considering they are not paid a lot.

So what’s with the City Connects? As long as fans keep buying them, teams can have as many versions of them as they like?

Does anyone still say, “gimme the straight dope” - euphemistically, of course - or is it all “hashtag real tea”?

Inside the Red Sox’s Hitters Meeting Shift: Accountability, Learning, and the Next Step

"Too often, coaches talk, players nod, maybe a veteran chimes in, and everyone walks out hoping they’ll remember enough when the game starts.

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I'd really like someone to ask Rob Manfred to comment on this.

Hope dies last

My mom has gotten more conservative as she’s aged, but she still won’t wear florals

If you’re not making yourself laugh, what even is the point

The DeSantis administration has not made public a list of names of the immigrants held at the facility in heavy duty tents at an airstrip in the Florida Everglades. Individuals sent to the makeshift detention center do not show up in an online government database that allows the public to search for immigrant detainees' whereabouts. Lawyers say they have had difficulty locating clients sent to the site, often learning that they are there when detainees call family members.

An enforced disappearance is considered to be the arrest, detention, abduction or any other form of deprivation of liberty by agents of the State or by persons or groups of persons acting with the authorization, support or acquiescence of the State, followed by a refusal to acknowledge the deprivation of liberty or by concealment of the fate or whereabouts of the disappeared person, which place such a person outside the protection of the law (Article 2 of the ICPED and Preamble of the Declaration on the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance) It is characterized by three cumulative elements (defined in A/HRC/16/48/Add.3): 1. Deprivation of liberty against the will of the person; 2. Involvement of government officials, at least by acquiescence; 3. Refusal to acknowledge the deprivation of liberty or concealment of the fate or whereabouts of the disappeared person.

Florida is committing "enforced disappearance," a very serious violation of international human rights law.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...

The desperate guarding the disappeared all to enrich the depraved and deranged with very deep pockets

Local officials facing questions over lack of preparations in the years and hours before deadly Texas floods | CNN As Central Texas reels from flash floods that killed over 100 people this weekend, questions are sharpening about whether officials could have done more to avert the tragedy – both in the decades lead...

"A review of... communications from a real-time messaging system operated by the NWS showed that no emergency manager from Kerr County was sending messages or interacting with NWS staff on the platform, even as emergency officials from other counties were doing so."

www.cnn.com/2025/07/07/u...