Athan Manuel

Trump’s endorsement of Paxton should put to rest the fantasy Trump cares about the GOP as a whole. What he cares more about is building a party that’s loyal to him, not building or sustaining a party that can win. There’s a HUGE difference which is why he regularly endorses the more flawed candidate as they’ll always be more loyal.

Women were given the right to vote a few weeks later

As a Greek and an American I couldn’t be more embarrassed. THIS is American culture? And does that moron really think fast food is more delicious than Greek food?

I simply cannot believe I live in a timeline where journalists helped force the last president out of his reelection campaign for being too old, so the country put an unstable 79 year old who falls asleep constantly in office and none of the same journalists care at all.

The Washington Nationals will debut their new team dog, Natty, an 8-week-old golden retriever and Labrador retriever mix, this Friday at home against the Orioles. wtop.com/washington-nat…

More than 80,000 attend Metallica concert dlvr.it/TSSnR8

The Nationals played their 38th game yesterday. Blake Butera ran out his 32nd different lineup. On a new approach from the new regime, a small indication of the organization's seismic shift. nytimes.com/athletic/72616…

This is a monarch butterfly migration arriving in the oyamel fir forests of central Mexico. None of these butterflies has ever been here before. Their great-great-grandmothers left this exact grove in March. By July those grandmothers were dead. The butterflies you're watching are four to five generations downstream, born somewhere between Texas and Ontario, and they just flew up to 3,000 miles to a tree none of their parents ever saw. The brain doing the navigation is smaller than a grain of rice. The mechanism is a sun compass time-compensated by a circadian clock running in the antennae. Cut the antennae and the monarch loses orientation within hours. The clock corrects for the sun's position drifting across the sky as the day moves. Add iron-bearing magnetite particles for magnetic field detection on cloudy days, and a 0.5 gram insect is running redundant inertial guidance. The destination is more specific than the navigation. They cluster on a few dozen oyamel fir groves in the Sierra Madre at 9,000 to 11,000 feet. The microclimate has to sit between 32 and 41°F. Below freezing kills them. Above 41°F burns the fat reserves they need to survive five months without feeding. The right band exists a few hundred meters thick on a few specific mountains. Outside it, the migration ends. One generation each year is built differently from the rest. Summer monarchs live two to six weeks. The fall generation lives eight months. It postpones reproduction, fattens up, and carries the entire round trip in a single body. The map is genetic. Nobody has fully decoded how. A monarch hatched in a backyard in Toronto in September has never seen a mountain, never smelled a fir, never met an ancestor. It flies south for ten weeks, picks the right peak, and lands on the tree its bloodline has been returning to for tens of thousands of years. The forest knows the families that come back.

We are announcing today that The American Revolution will stream for free in its entirety on all PBS platforms from May 25th through July 12. Hope you have a chance to watch, ideally with friends and family, as you think about our 250th anniversary this July 4th. pbs.org/kenburns/the-a…

New gig. New gear. Let's go.

It’s a LOCAL course and park meant for LOCAL people and heavily used by LOCAL people and everything possible should be done to keep it LOCAL.

@Cat5SMASHICANE Only people with slow minds think baseball is a slow game (and that clip is old)

Baseball can sometimes feel a little boring. This play was absolutely the highlight of the week when it happened. We definitely need to see more of this. 💯😲🤣

#News Ben’s Chili Bowl is back! After renovations (that didn’t destroy its historic character) it reopened today with matriarch Virginia Ali sharing a table with Mayor Bowser and former Mayor Sharon Pratt. Half-smokes still the same & grill looked it, too! @wcp

There really is only one way to improve representation for all Americans in Congress: UNCAP THE HOUSE! It’s what the founders intended; they did NOT want to see Congressional Districts that were bigger than most major cities. Want to dilute the influence of courts and partisans, UNCAP THE HOUSE!

ANOTHER MIGUEL SIME JR. GEM 💎 he strikes out NINE in 3.2 scoreless innings of work!