John Henry prob gonna charge 500 bucks for a beer tonight

Fenway Park is sounding like Hampden Park tonight 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿⚾️

I am so sad to be missing this.

FANS ARE TAKING OVER AMERICAN LANDMARKS 🇺🇸 From Scotland in Boston Harbor to Brazil in Times Square, landmarks throughout the US are getting the World Cup treatment 😍 📹 IG/calbell1, IG/paparazzorubronegro, @FootyCondor, @FOX4, @FreddyLA7

GOOSEBUMPS 💙 Flower of Scotland is an anthem made for the world’s biggest stage 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Bringing the Scotland fans together after the FIFA World Cup win 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (via IG/steviejukes)

The Flower of Scotland is echoing across Boston Stadium and its electric

“Flower of Scotland” from the stands.. Some support from the Scottish 👏🤩 JUST listen to that noise…

The Corporatization of U.S. Health Care by Jatin M. Vyas, MD, PhD: From Mission to Margin in Academic Medicine — The Impact of Corporate Medicine on Medical Training nej.md/42nZ2Do #HealthPolicy #MedEd

A man with no working truck convinced Wall Street he had built the next Tesla. His company hit $30 BILLION. All he did was push it down a hill with no engine. > Trevor Milton founded Nikola in 2014, named after the same inventor as Tesla. > The goal was to build hydrogen powered trucks that would make diesel obsolete. He had no trucks. > In 2018 he released a promotional video called Nikola One In Motion. It showed a sleek semi truck accelerating smoothly down an open highway. Investors went wild. > What nobody knew was that the truck had no engine, no fuel cell, and no propulsion system of any kind. > Milton's team towed it to the top of a hill, tilted the camera to hide the slope, and let it roll. > He spent the next four years doing the same thing with words. On podcasts, television and social media. > Investors were told Nikola could produce its own hydrogen. It could not. They were told the trucks were ready for production. They were not. They were told orders were flooding in. They weren't. > In June 2020 Nikola went public. Within days the company was worth $30 BILLION, more than Ford. > Milton's personal stake hit $7.3 BILLION overnight. > A $32.5 MILLION ranch in Utah followed. A record for the state at the time. > In September 2020 Hindenburg Research published a report calling Nikola "an intricate fraud" built on "an ocean of lies." Milton resigned within ten days. > A federal jury convicted him of securities fraud and wire fraud in 2022. Sentenced to four years in prison the following year. > He never went. He was free on $100 MILLION bail pending appeal. > He and his wife donated $3.2 MILLION to Donald Trump's 2024 campaign. > In March 2025 Trump gave him a full pardon. The pardon erased $168 MILLION in restitution to defrauded shareholders. > Nikola filed for bankruptcy the following month, leaving thousands of investors with nothing. The company never had a product. The only thing that was real was the $30 BILLION valuation, the $7 BILLION that landed in his pocket and the pardon that made sure none of it had to be returned.

Woke up to a text from a former Red Sox player who summed up Saturday's moves: 'It's like shitting your pants and changing your shirt.'

Very happy to announce I have accepted the role as Manager for the @RedSox. Let’s get to work

How does AI and Medical Reversal interact? substack.com/@alexknapp1/not…

Tough sequence brewing here: The Red Sox ruined their relationship with Rafael Devers in the name of making Alex Bregman their 3B. So they traded Devers for a package centered around Kyle Harrison and James Tibbs. Despite that, they let Alex Bregman walk just 7 months later over a no-trade clause. So they gave that money to Ranger Suarez (8.64 ERA in 2 GS so far) despite having a full rotation. And made Caleb Durbin (.204 OPS so far) the new 3B. And traded Kyle Harrison (2.61 ERA in 2 GS so far) and more to the Brewers to get him. James Tibbs (7 homers in 9 games this year in AAA) was traded last year for half a season of Dustin May (5.40 ERA in 6 games for BOS).

Reporter: Deliberate attacks on civilian infrastructure violate the Geneva conventions and international law.  Trump: Who are you with?  Reporter: I'm with the New York Times Trump: Failing New York Times. Circulation is way down. Reporter: Are you concerned that your threat to bomb power plants and bridges amount to war crimes? Trump: No, not at all. These are disturbed people. Quiet. You no longer have credibility. You’re fake.

JUST IN: You do not fire your Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war for no reason. You fire him because of what comes next. Pete Hegseth called General Randy George on April 2 and told him to retire immediately. The Pentagon confirmed it within hours. No reason was given. Not publicly. Not privately. A senior Army official told Fox News that Hegseth offered George nothing: no misconduct, no operational failure, no policy disagreement on the record. Just a phone call and a career ending in the middle of the most significant American combat operation in two decades. George is the 24th general or admiral Hegseth has removed. But he is not the 24th. He is the one that matters. The Army Chief of Staff. The man whose signature sits between a president’s intent and the order that sends soldiers across a beach or into a tunnel complex. The 82nd Airborne is deploying right now. Marines from the 31st MEU are staged on the USS Tripoli. JSOC operators are at forward bases in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Kharg Island, 90 percent of Iranian oil exports, sits 16 kilometres off a coast that someone will have to decide whether to approach. And the four-star general whose job it was to advise whether that approach should happen was removed 48 hours after Trump told the nation the war would continue for two to three more weeks. The replacement is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve. He was Hegseth’s senior military aide before this appointment. The man who carried the Secretary’s briefcase now commands the Army the Secretary is reshaping. The chain of command did not break. It shortened. The distance between a television studio and a combat order just collapsed to zero intermediaries who were not personally selected by the man giving the order. No reason was given. That is the tell. When someone is removed without explanation during a crisis, the explanation is the crisis itself. George either objected to something or was about to. The ground option. The power plant strikes. The Kharg raid. The escalation that turned a highway bridge in Karaj into rubble on the same day he was told to leave. Something in the next two weeks requires a chief who will not push back, and the Pentagon solved that problem by installing one trained as Hegseth’s aide. A former Fox News weekend host just fired a four-star general with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, replaced him with his own former assistant, and did it during a live war in which the next decision could put American soldiers on Iranian soil for the first time in history. No hearing was held. No misconduct cited. The Army woke up on April 3 with a new chief it did not choose, in a war it did not start, preparing for a phase the previous chief apparently could not be trusted to execute. The question is not why George was fired. Every general in the building knows why. The question is what order is coming in the next fourteen days that required removing the one man in the chain of command who might have said no. The war has no perimeter. The chain of command has no objectors. And the next phase has no one left to stop it. open.substack.com/pub/shanak…

Sigh 🤦‍♂️. Van Swol, you’re one of the most pathetic purveyors of MAGA lies on X. Aside from the fact that this entire post reads like a press release written by a lethally stupid & gullible MAGA cultist who thinks Facebook memes count as primary sources, let’s walk through how spectacularly wrong this is. That “80% of FEMA cases resolved in 5 days” claim is complete fiction. Not exaggerated. Not spun. Fiction. There is no FEMA data release, no DHS statement, no state confirmation. It exists in the same ecosystem as chain emails and “my cousin’s friend works at FEMA” nonsense. You led with a number you can’t source because it doesn’t exist. And then you pivot straight into one of the oldest MAGA tricks in the book: take funding that was already authorized, already appropriated, already flowing, and slap Trump’s name on it like he personally Venmo’d the state. That $1.4 billion HUD recovery fund? Passed by Congress and signed into law in December 2024. Before Trump. The state of North Carolina built the plan. HUD approval is a procedural step. That’s it. You’re applauding a rubber stamp and calling it leadership. Same thing with the “$2 billion from DOT.” You conveniently bundle together a cumulative funding total that spans multiple allocations, including money that started going out in 2024 and early January 2025 before Trump was even in office. Then you present it like he walked in, dropped a bag of cash on the table, and saved the day. That’s not reality. That’s branding. The I-40 line is just embarrassing. That road didn’t magically reopen because Trump willed it into existence. NCDOT crews, engineers, and contractors started emergency work immediately after the storm in 2024. Contracts were issued. Work was underway. The timeline you’re bragging about was already in motion. You erased every single person who actually did the work so you could credit a politician who showed up after the machinery was already moving. And then you completely faceplant on FEMA cost sharing. You’re praising Trump for giving North Carolina six months of 100% federal coverage. In reality, that coverage was already limited and when the state asked Trump’s FEMA to extend it, they said no. Flat out. The governor appealed because it was denied. So you’re literally applauding generosity that never happened. The USDA number? Same pattern. It’s a block grant agreement routed through the state using existing disaster frameworks. Not Trump personally handing checks to farmers. You’re turning standard federal-state coordination into a personality cult story because that’s the only way this narrative works. Here’s the underlying problem with everything you wrote. You don’t understand how ANY of this works. Or worse, you do, and you’re hoping your audience doesn’t. Disaster recovery is not one guy. It’s legislation, appropriations, agencies, state governments, local crews, contractors, and months of coordinated work. By the time Trump touched any of this, billions were already authorized, projects were already underway, and systems were already in motion. So what you’ve done is strip out all context, erase the timeline, invent a stat out of thin air, and then build a hero narrative on top of it. And then you have the nerve to call other people “out of touch” and “ungrateful.” No. What’s actually happening i gullible clowns like you keep pumping out this shameless, easily debunked garbage, hoping nobody bothers to check where the money came from, when it was approved, or who actually did the work. This isn’t giving credit where it’s due. It’s laundering reality into hilariously weak, easily disproven propaganda.