Rich Domich

The SF Giants already have black hats. Now they're earning them. I love it. mercurynews.com/2026/04/17/kur…

@dieter Spot on!

After Trump’s Attack on Pope Leo, a Bomb Threat Came for His Brother in Suburban Chicago John Prevost is a retired Catholic school principal who plays Wordle with his brother the pope every morning. On Wednesday night, police evacuated his neighborhood. open.substack.com/pub/lettersfro…

Today marks 79 years that #JackieRobinson made his MLB debut and broke the colour barrier. Take two minutes to watch this special video of Buck O’Neil talking about #Jackie42 - at the end he says #ThankYouJackie - we should get that trending day today. @nlbmprez

He lies so easily, and his cult believes him.

AOC: You see the difference here. We held a member of our own party accountable. Tony Gonzalez has had this issue in the public eye for months. The only reason we’re seeing a resignation today is because the Speaker thinks he can play politics with the vote count. The fact that we have victims of abuse and that these issues are being handled this way is disgusting.

@OurSf49ers Do better Commish!

Roger Goodell responded to #49ers HC Kyle Shanahan about his lack of enthusiasm playing in Australia: “His job is to win. His job is to play….We’ll make it a great experience for the team.” Goodell also noted that he can send Shanahan an app to help with jet lag. “I have not felt any jet lag at all. I thought it was a relatively easy trip.” Via: @MySportsUpdate || @ESPNAusNZ

I’m sorry - the Pentagon threatened the Catholic Church, currently led by the first American pope??

Per Giants, Daniel Susac is the first MLB player to start his career 5-for-5 since Ted Cox in 1977. There hasn't been a Giant to do it since 1974.

@robincarr Fantastic Robin!! Congrats!

Awww shucks...

Wake up: he is calling for A NUCLEAR STRIKE. Seek his removal immediately.

NEW: Pope Leo XIV teared up this morning while paying homage to his friend and predecessor, Pope Francis, who died one year ago this Easter Monday. Few people know that for years before he became pope, Robert Prevost met most Saturdays with Francis inside the Casa Santa Marta. And in the final weeks of his life, from a hospital bed at Gemelli, Francis elevated him to the highest rank of cardinal — the act that placed him at the center of the conclave that would soon elect him pope. Pope Francis's last and best gift to the Church and the world was Pope Leo XIV. thelettersfromleo.com/p/pope-leo-xiv…

This @WhiteHouse really believes writing nonsense like this for this apostate is supposed to do what again? His words underscores his ignorance of the bible and his idolatry of himself. Y’all just need to stop this foolishness. It’s insulting.

Breaking on NYT: An Air Force officer whose fighter jet had been shot down in Iran was rescued by US Special Operations forces in a risky Saturday night mission that took commandos deep into enemy territory

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Let me walk you through what happened one hour before Trump announced the five day moratorium on Iran strikes. $1.5 billion in notional S&P E-mini futures contracts. Four to six times normal activity. One hour before the announcement. Simultaneously, $192 million in crude oil futures purchased at the same time. They made between $300 and $400 million dollars off those trades. Trump claimed he spoke to an Iranian official to negotiate the moratorium. The Iranians said that person doesn't exist and the conversation never happened. This is not the first time. It has happened multiple times. He says something. The trade goes on. He says another thing. The market moves. But whatever you call it — they are laughing at you and they are laughing at me while they do it. Hunter Biden sold a painting and Washington lost its mind. These people are making hundreds upon hundreds of millions of dollars trading on information that only exists inside the most powerful office in the world. I think we are dramatically underreporting how much money is actually being made here. This isn't politics anymore. This is a financial operation running out of the White House.

This is the shot you can’t get from the press site. This camera was sitting a few football fields from the SLS rocket at Pad 39B for days before launch, baking in the Florida sun, surviving rain, humidity, and whatever else the Cape threw at it. No photographer behind the viewfinder. Just a camera, a sound trigger, and a bet. The way pad remotes work: you set your camera up days in advance, dial in your composition, lock everything down, and walk away. You don’t touch it again until after the launch. The shutter fires on sound activation with a @MiopsTrigger smart+ trigger. With SLS, the four RS-25 engines ignite six seconds before the solid rocket boosters, so the camera is already firing before the vehicle even leaves the pad. You get home, pull the card, and find out if you nailed it or if a bird landed on your lens two days ago and left your a present and you got 400 photos of soemthing crappy. There’s no formula for protecting your gear this close. Some photographers build wooden boxes with doors that pop open. Some use plastic bags and tape. Some do plastic or metal barn door rigs on hinges. I tend to leave mine open just in plastic rain covers because boxes limit my composition and setup time, but that means your cameras are more exposed to the elements and whatever energy and debris comes off the pad. You’re basically gambling a camera body every time you set one. That’s what I love about this genre. There’s no playbook. You make it up as you go. Every time is an adventure. 📸 credit: me for @SuperclusterHQ - Artemis II pad remote | ~1,000 ft from Pad 39B | Kennedy Space Center

“Trump’s ‘work weeks’ in DC are nothing more than managed care for an almost octogenarian drug addict, replete with made-for-TV cabinet meetings and golden baubles such as the inaugural ‘America First’ award that House Speaker Mike Johnson presented him this week, where his sycophantic lieutenants slather praise on their idiotic and out to lunch boss over his every ill-informed action. It is perhaps the best example of how broken Trump is as a human being that he sits there luxuriating in the insanity and accepting such counterfeit accolades; all while refusing to address in any meaningful way the multiple crises our nation faces in this moment. All of which, of course, he himself started. When I worked on ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ the producers would advise the contestants to praise Donald Trump in their phony ‘boardroom’ meetings to increase their chances of victory. He was in his sixties at that point and still needed made up adulation and constant flattery to make himself feel better and those around him were sadly only too happy to oblige. Donald also used these occasions to essentially shake down the celebrity contestants by asking them to call up their wealthy friends and cajole them ‘on air’ into making donations to the charity they were playing for on that week’s episode. Often he would make the boisterous proclamation that the Trump Organization would match the funds raised, which of course they never did, and NBC would have to follow up for renumeration so the worthy causes wouldn’t get short changed. It was a great example of both his fraudulent nature and his pathological mendacity - and it earned him ratings gold and the acquiescence of the network brass; the same execs he would lavish with free rooms at his Las Vegas hotels during sweeps week promotions. You can easily guess at what other perks and kompromat arose from those unethical transactions. What he was essentially doing was looking for future marks for his own grift.” open.substack.com/pub/noelcasler…

If you're under 53 years old, you have never once been alive while a human was farther than 250 miles from Earth. Tonight, four astronauts are heading 252,000 miles out. That's a thousand times farther than any person has gone in your lifetime. The 250-mile ceiling is where the International Space Station floats. Every astronaut since December 1972 has been stuck in that zone. Spacewalks, science experiments, cool photos from orbit, sure. But nobody left the neighborhood. The last crew to go farther was Apollo 17. December 1972. Nixon was president. The internet didn't exist. Cell phones were 11 years away. The youngest member of that crew is now 90 years old. The farthest any human has ever been from Earth is 248,655 miles. The Apollo 13 crew set that number in 1970, and they didn't mean to. Their oxygen tank blew up, and the emergency route home took them farther out than anyone before or since. Tonight's crew will break that record on purpose. And the crew itself. Victor Glover becomes the first Black astronaut to leave Earth's neighborhood. Christina Koch becomes the first woman. Jeremy Hansen, a Canadian fighter pilot, becomes the first non-American to do so. When they come home, they'll slam into the atmosphere at 25,000 mph, faster than any human has ever traveled. The Moon's south pole has ice. Water ice, sitting in craters so deep that sunlight hasn't hit them in billions of years. A 2024 NASA study found way more of it than anyone expected. You can split water into hydrogen and oxygen, which gives you rocket fuel, breathable air, and drinking water, all made on the Moon instead of hauled up from Earth. George Sowers at Colorado School of Mines calculated that Moon-made fuel could shave $12 billion off a single trip to Mars. The Moon is a gas station on the road to Mars. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced last week a $20 billion plan to build a permanent base at the South Pole over the next seven years, with landings every six months. China is developing its own lunar lander and spacesuit, aiming for a crewed landing by 2030. The Artemis program has burned through $93 billion so far, and the first actual surface landing is penciled in for 2028. There's a real question of who gets there first this time around. Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon in December 1972 as part of Apollo 17. He's 90. Asked about it this week, he sounded pretty relaxed. "Mars is attainable," he said. "We're humans. That's what we've always done."

"Adames looked really good last night... For the Giants, everybody obsessed about lineup order way too much because with this team the same guys are gonna be in there. This is a team that is not gonna be doing a lot of platooning mixing and matching." Dave Flemming on Willy Adames leading off (@MorningRoast957)