This time for real? U.S., Iran have reached a deal to end fighting, Trump and mediator Pakistan say. Iran hasn’t confirmed. washingtonpost.com/world/202…

Have never seen a government project go so badly so fast as this one. Literally hours after completion.

Tarp of shame.

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving. Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free. I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these." "They just come with the table, man." They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner. This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat. I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared. "Did we…?" "Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless." Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined. My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude." Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man. I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy. Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived. I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most. Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

Towns did a great job on Wemby. Brunson dominates the highlight film but KAT is key to this game.

Spurs about to blow another double-digit lead.

This one is rougher than usual. Someone’s gonna start throwing fists.

Literally a cover up.

Hasn’t been this much interest in a wall since Berlin, 1989.

Man. The NCAA finals are turning out to be as competitive as the Olympics or World Championships.

Wonder how many people can conceive what a trillion (of anything) is. A million million.

The amount of resources—financial, legal, political, emotional—that have gone into putting his name up there and fighting to keep it up there is amazing. Priorities.

The number of live streams of Trump’s name being taken off the Kennedy Center is really something.

New: Judge denies last-ditch Kennedy Center bid to delay removing Trump’s name washingtonpost.com/style/202…

“You were just happy to be there:” @ibogost on the last days of the thrilling Boeing 747 and the end of an era in flying. theatlantic.com/magazine/202…

A gift that requires a subscription to a streaming service for the low, low gift price of only $89.99 a year (broadband service not included).