Dave Battagello

I paid 95 bucks to fill my tank today and it definitely wasn’t Jimmy Kimmels fault

The guy who threatened to annihilate an entire civilian population would like us to ‘tone down the rhetoric’.

PM Carney on the Americans calling the alcohol ban an irritant: "You know what's an irritant? 50% tariffs on steel. 50% tariffs on aluminum. 25% tariffs on automobiles. All the tariffs on forest products. Those are more than irritants, those are violations of our trade deal."

For those attending the White House Correspondents' Dinner this weekend, a small question: When you're sitting there at your table, do you think it'll cross your mind that the guest of honor is actively covering up his role in a massive child sex trafficking operation?

BREAKING: U.S. Military veterans are occupying the Cannon building in the nation’s Capitol to protest the US’s war on Iran and Israel’s genocide on Gaza.

I know I've said it before, but I'll say it again. Very few people appreciate what America lost when we lost newspapers. Just being able to sit down every morning in silence and peruse news, opinion, sports, advice, recipes, interesting human interest stories all in one place was such a pleasure. The Internet has never produced anything that comes close.

"Ramble On" is 56 years old and Robert Plant just walked onto The Late Show and made it sound like he wrote it this morning.

Sad state of affairs: the team about to win the national championship is just the best batch of transfers money can buy. Not much integrity in that.

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC. May God bless America.

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@JoyceCarolOates Did you live on Riverside Drive during your time in Windsor? I believe my mother spent her final years in your former home. When she moved in was told you used to live there.

many young American men, fleeing the US at the time of the Vietnam War, became Canadian citizens & adapted well into their new, less bellicose country. when I taught at the U. of Windsor, Ontario some of my very best graduate students were Americans who objected to the war & saw no purpose to risking their lives in a morally despicable undertaking.

This image of rows of freshly dug graves for schoolgirls and their teachers is heavy for humanity. Each grave represents a child who should have been safe in a classroom, a future interrupted, a family changed forever. My father, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., warned that war robs us of both the present and the promise of tomorrow. When children become casualties of conflict, we must confront the moral failure at the heart of violence. Nonviolence is not naive in moments like this. It is necessary. It calls us to protect innocent life, to restrain the impulse toward destruction, and to pursue justice without sacrificing our humanity. In our shared World House, the loss of these girls is not distant. It is a wound to us all. #MLK #Nonviolence #Peace #ProtectChildren

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@FastbreakHoops5 Montreal

Which city deserves an NBA team the most?

I lol’d

Full Justin Verlander Press Conference Recap: • Justin said he called Scott Harris, Chris Ilitch & AJ Hinch immediately after the season to express his intentions of wanting to come back. • JV clearly REALLY wanted to be back. He straight-up said things didn’t look good for a return when he initially reached out, but injuries changed the equation. Without saying it — Reese Olson getting hurt is likely why it came to fruition. So JV basically waited out the entire offseason hoping things would change, & they did. • Says the one thing he still wants to accomplish is winning a World Series in Detroit. Says the previous era gave it everything they had, and they just needed one bounce to change the course of history. Calls the playoffs a crapshoot. • JV says the Tigers have a great ball club and should not shy away from the fact that they can win a title. • Calls his return surreal. Said Tarik Skubal showed him around the club house & he had a laugh when Skubal was pointing out pictures of him around the facility. • Refers to Tarik Skubal as “Scoob” • Says he wanted to introduce himself to Skubal last year & did when Tigers came to SF. Says their names will always be linked together in Tigers history. • He can’t wait to watch Skubal every 5th day, and hopes he can learn from him & vice versa. • Wants to play until he’s 45. Has talked to Tom Brady & Tiger Woods about how to extend his career. • Answers “Absolutely” when asked if he had doubts a return would ever work out. Talks about the Tigers rebuild & his injuries, but also said he had the idea even when he was first traded that he wanted to come back when the team was competitive again. • Said he has felt Detroit’s presence in his life since he left. Says he got just as many texts/calls when the news broke that he was returning than he did when he won a World Series or Cy Young. Says that made him feel great. • “That really meant a lot to me” he says in reference to his early years in Detroit when the city was going through tough times & people would spend money to watch the Tigers play. • He’s really looking forward to being in the city now that he’s been married for years & is a dad. Says he’s a different person now than when he was in his young 20’s & didn’t have anything figured out. • Says his daughter has changed him to his core. He was a horse with blinders on, but now he’s more present & has learned to remove those blinders & take in the bigger picture. • Laughs his 7-year-old daughter doesn’t know anything about his days in Detroit since she wasn’t alive yet & says she wore a Verlander Mets jersey to school the other day. He hopes she can have some Detroit memories now. • Laughs & says the video of his brother taking him deep is an old story, but maybe not an old story for Ben. Says he’s sure Ben will be around in Detroit. • Pro-actively has worked on & made it a point to share things, mentor guys & communicate better as a teammate. Wants people to know he’s available & not scary to talk to. He relishes the role, whereas early in his career he admits he wasn’t great at it due to his drive/focus, which he says he needed at the time, but is happy now to fully embrace that role. • Says Leyland & Hinch have many similarities. Calls it a great question. They are both great at connecting with players, but still being leaders. • Says the pitching staff has a chance to be one of the best he’s been a part of. • He doesn’t want to be a mercenary. Wants to play somewhere that means something to him. • Says Brad Ausmus opened his eyes to analytics in 2017 & then when he went to Houston he dove head first into it all & was mind blown. It helped him tremendously & he acknowledges Detroit has improved in that regard since he was last here. • Stopped eating Taco Bell in 2017.

U.S. trade with Canada is in the headlines, so it's good to review the facts about this mutually beneficial relationship:

219-211, House votes to pass the resolution by @RepGregoryMeeks to terminate Trump's tariffs on Canada. Six Republicans join Democrats in voting YES, while one Democrat votes NO.

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