Earlier in the offseason, St. Louis acquired right-handers Richard Fitts and Hunter Dobbins, pitchers with MLB
experience who can either start or provide long relief.
=====In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to
industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value
of saving human lives, documents show
Long-term exposure to both pollutants
is linked to asthma, heart and lung disease, and premature death.
Even moderate exposure to PM2.5 can damage the lungs about as much as smoking.
=====At that moment when the players were the most vulnerable Jorge
Pasqual, a Mexican importer-exporter who owned the Mexican League decided to offer Musial a
$125,000 five-year guaranteed salary sweetened by a $50,000
signing bonuses. Musial turned Pasqual down flat. In today’s
dollars, Musial turned down about $7 million for the entire deal."
====="The Trump administration has officially moved to seize control
of the municipal golf courses in Washington, D.C.
National Links Trust, the nonprofit that holds a 50-year lease
with the National Park Service to rehabilitate three historic
public golf courses — East Potomac Golf Links, Langston Golf
Course and Rock Creek Park Golf — received a formal notice of
termination from the Department of the Interior (DOI) on Tuesday,
according to a statement from the organization. The termination is
effective immediately."
"The
vice president knows what ICE means to MAGA."
"ICE is violence-prone in part because the
agency
has lowered its training standards and
ditched much
of its background vetting to meet the president’s grandiose
deportation targets. But more fundamentally, ICE is violence-prone
because its main purpose has become theatrical. Under present
leadership, ICE is less a law-enforcement agency than it is a
content creator."
"MAGA is many things, but above all it’s a movement about
redistributing respect away from those who command too much
(overeducated coastal elites) to those who don’t have enough
(white Americans without advanced degrees who feel left behind).
You see that redistribution at work in the Trump administration’s
project to devalue medical experts and empower wellness gurus and
vaccine
skeptics, and in its dismissal of “deep state”
national-security professionals in favor of
TV
pundits."
=====
Judge:
Trump violated Fifth Amendment by ending energy grants in
only blue states
"The Trump administration violated the Fifth Amendment when
canceling billions of dollars in environmental grants for projects
in “blue states” that didn’t vote for him in the last election, a
judge ruled Monday."
...
"On X, the director of the Office of Management and Budget,
Russell Vought, bragged that nearly “$8 billion in Green NewScam
funding to fuel the Left’s climate agenda is being cancelled,”
then listed only states that did not vote for Trump. Meanwhile on
Truth Social, Trump confirmed he met with Vought to “determine
which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political
SCAM, he recommends to be cut” during the shutdown."
=====
House Republican introduces bill to let Trump annex
Greenland
A House Republican on Monday introduced legislation that
would give President Trump the authority to annex Greenland and turn it into a U.S.
state.
"Why it matters: The bill is an extreme
long-shot, but it serves as a stark display of Republicans'
eagerness to prove their loyalty to the president as he muses
publicly about acquiring the island territory by force."
=====
How
America made it impossible to build
A system built to stop government from doing harm
stopped it from doing anything.
"There’s a familiar mood in American life right now, a
frustration that feels both personal and ambient. The bridge
doesn’t get fixed. The train line doesn’t get finished. The
housing never gets built. The permits drag on. The timelines
slip. The price tags balloon. And even when everyone agrees in
principle that we really, really need to get things done, the
system
still can’t move.
Marc Dunkelman thinks that sense of paralysis isn’t a mystery,
and it isn’t just a product of polarization or bad politicians.
In his 2025 book
Why
Nothing Works, he argues that the deeper problem is
structural.
Over the last
half-century, we’ve built a governing regime designed to stop
government from doing harm. And it largely succeeded. But it
also made government far less able to do good, especially at
scale. Progressives, Dunkelman argues, can’t explain away this
crisis by pointing only at conservatives and lingering
Reagan-era anti-government ideology. If the left wants to use
government to solve big problems, it has to be willing to
rebuild government’s ability to execute."
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