Ol' Murph

Ted Williams and John Glenn during the Korean War in 1953. Williams served as Glenn’s wingman on nearly 40 combat missions, forging a friendship that began in combat and lasted for more than 50 years.

"Old School" on the road visiting the original Quincy MA. @dunkindonuts

I I’ll never forgive people who voted for Trump. This is on them. The Lincoln Memorial is hallowed ground. Where our greatest president, who gave his life to end slavery, is commentated. Where the Gettysburg Address is written. We live as graffiti now.

JFK gave best speech of his life, this week 1963, at American University: “If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. . . .We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."

Breslow and Henry want to get back to the Red Sox historical roots as a mediocre team in a rich media market featuring high financial returns, low investment, and attractive, hopeful ambiance.

Good to see the reflecting pool back to its normal color. 💚✅🍀

It’s the peoples house. Everyone is invited to crash here tonight!

How long before every MLB team gets a robot on the roster?

I had to watch this five times to be sure it’s not AI. Nope. It’s real. Just one of Boston’s Finest being ambassador to the world.

BREAKING: Iran directly rejects Trump's new claim of a deal being signed tomorrow, saying the insistence on signing the deal on specifically Sunday is engineered around his own birthday, calling it a "propaganda event" that Trump is trying to turn into a unilateral "symbolic occasion" for himself, along with his UFC White House event, per Fars. The Iranian negotiating team says it "will not permit such a media and ceremonial manoeuvre," explicitly stating that the memorandum of understanding has not been finalized and no signing will happen.

The Irish playright George Bernard Shaw, photographed 119 years ago, at the age of 51. I have cleaned and enhanced this very striking Autochrome portrait by Alvin Langdon Coburn, taken in colour in 1907 via the Lumiere brother's newly-patented colour glass-plate process.

ICE tackle U.S. citizen—shoot him with taser after already pinned to ground. 4 agents hold the man face down—while 5th agent tazed him in the back. Another agent points a weapon at a witness. "Don't point that at me again," man says. "I don't feel safe," agent yells back. "It's whatever I say—Get back!" The man detained was a community volunteer with VC Defensa. Incident occurred in an area open to the public at the Ventura County Government Center in Ventura, California.

FBI shows up to interrogate a U.S. citizen at his house—for writing an anti-ICE social media post. "This is about comments that you posted online," said agent. Orders homeowner to stop recording—refuses to even tell him which comments. Agent wearing unique World Cup uniform to indicate he is currently assigned to work with ICE on immigration issues. Craig Brittain has been actively documenting and participating in protests at the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility in Newark, New Jersey. His social media posts videos of demonstrations, conflicts with agents, and calls for the facility’s closure.

Iran's foreign minister says joint statement with Oman on Strait of Hormuz coming “soon” cnn.com/2026/06/13/wor…

OTD in 1864: 100,000 men vanished overnight, and the greatest general of the age had no idea where they went. This might be the most underrated move of the Civil War. Context: Grant had just spent ten days locked in trench warfare at Cold Harbor, Virginia, after a frontal assault on June 3 that cost him thousands of men in under an hour. He admitted it was the worst mistake of his career. The armies were so close that soldiers could not lift their heads above the dirt in daylight. Everyone, including Lee, expected Grant to do what every Union commander before him did after a bloody repulse: retreat north and regroup. Instead, on the night of June 12, Grant did something audacious. He pulled the entire Army of the Potomac out of trenches that were in some places only yards from Confederate lines. No bugles, no fires, wheels muffled. By morning the Union trenches were empty and Lee's scouts found nothing but abandoned earthworks. The army marched south, away from Richmond, which made no sense to Confederate observers. Then Union engineers did something almost nobody thought possible: they threw a pontoon bridge across the James River, roughly 2,100 feet of it, over water up to 85 feet deep with a four-foot tidal swing. They built it in about eight hours. It was one of the longest floating bridges in military history. For three full days Lee was effectively blind, unsure whether Grant was north or south of the James. By the time the picture cleared, Grant's army was across the river attacking Petersburg, the rail hub that fed Richmond. The siege that followed lasted nine months and ended with Lee's surrender at Appomattox. Everyone remembers Cold Harbor as Grant's worst day. Almost nobody remembers that one week later he pulled off the maneuver that won the war.

😆 I may be a fool but yeah!

He’s soft

Sorry. You’ve been cancelled.

2/ More significant and chilling is how far you have to read down this Trump post to learn the individual was not extrajudicially killed inside the U.S. If they're this "army," what's the limiting principle for stopping that use of state lethal force?