Jane Daas

Love Joel, our three wonderful kids, classic movies, sports, rereading Jane Austen, Seinfeld reruns, and my cats Ellie and Theo. Teacher.

[Jane Daas @JaneDaas]

Dad & I last night. I am SO happy my dad finally got to see this! Thank you @Cubs 💙❤️⚾️!! #CubsWin #FlyTheW #CubsFanForever

[Chicago Cubs @Cubs]

how can you not be romantic about baseball?

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

America burned Japan's first gift of cherry trees. All 2,000 of them, on President Taft's direct order.

The 1910 shipment arrived in DC crawling with insects and nematodes. Agriculture inspectors condemned the lot, Taft signed off on the bonfire, and the State Department braced for a diplomatic disaster. Tokyo's mayor, Yukio Ozaki, responded by sending 3,020 more, grafted from the famous grove along the Arakawa River.

Those trees have spent a century paying the friendship back.

Four days after Pearl Harbor, vandals chopped down four of them. Park officials renamed the survivors "Oriental" cherry trees for the rest of the war to protect them from axes.

Then came the twist. By 1952 the original Arakawa grove in Tokyo, the parent stock, had nearly died from wartime neglect. Japan asked Washington for help. The Park Service shipped budwood from DC's trees back across the Pacific and restored the grove that created them. When a flood wiped out more Japanese trees in 1982, horticulturists took 800 fresh cuttings from the Tidal Basin.

These 250 new trees solve a real problem too. The Tidal Basin is sinking, and a $133 million seawall rebuild forced crews to rip out roughly 150 trees. Japan offered replacements before anyone asked, timed to America's 250th birthday.

So the genetics run in a loop. Tokyo's grove seeded Washington's. Washington's saved Tokyo's. The saplings going in this spring descend from both.

114 years of diplomacy, running on grafted branches.

[Chicago Cubs @Cubs]

The 13th player in Cubs history to hit for the cycle.

[Darren Hill @DarrenJohnHill]

There’s something quietly reassuring about this. Technology is a tool, not a creed. If evidence suggests that deep reading and sustained attention suffer under constant screen exposure, then restoring books to the centre of the classroom isn’t nostalgia — it’s pedagogy. Progress isn’t always about adding more devices; sometimes it’s about recovering what worked and using digital tools with restraint.

[The Beatrix Potter Society @BeatrixPotterSo]

In October of 1902, Beatrix Potter’s ‘The Tale of Peter Rabbit’ was first published by Frederick Warne & Co.- a moment that forever changed the landscape of children’s literature.

Here’s to Beatrix, who taught us that even the smallest creatures can make the biggest mark. 🐇

[MLB @MLB]

2016 World Series champion Anthony Rizzo returns home ⚾️

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Exactly

[Marquee Sports Network @WatchMarquee]

Remembering Ryno ❤️

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Super Sky Point to Ryne Sandberg, my favorite second baseman of all time. I will never forget the countless hours tuned into WGN with Harry Caray and Steve Stone during those beautiful childhood summers that lasted forever. Before we knew how fast time actually flies and that our heroes don’t live forever. He could hit, he could field, and he did it all with class. Ernie Banks may be Mr. Cub but Ryno capably took that mantle for my generation. Somewhere in my heart it’ll always be 1984, Harry will always be three sheets to the wind while looking for blondes in the bleachers between pitches, and Ryne Sandberg will always get the clutch hit or make the great defensive play to save the day. That’s how I remember it because that’s how it was. Nobody ever wore Cubbie blue better. St. Peter, don’t throw this man fastballs. But I’m sure Bruce Sutter already told you that. #RIP

[MLB @MLB]

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Hall of Famer Ryne Sandberg.

The beloved Cubs second baseman was a five-tool model of consistency in the 1980s and early ’90s, making 10 consecutive All-Star teams and winning 9 straight Gold Glove awards.

On June 23, 1984, a national TV audience watched Sandberg hit a pair of game-tying home runs in the 9th and 10th innings off Cardinals closer and future Hall of Famer Bruce Sutter. Part of a magical Cubs Postseason run, the game is forever remembered in Chicago as “The Sandberg Game.” He went on to win the 1984 NL MVP Award.

Over 16 seasons, Sandberg slugged 282 home runs, 277 of which were as a second baseman, then a Major League record. He hit 25+ homers five times and stole 30+ bases five times.

Sandberg made his Major League debut with the Phillies in 1981 and later managed them for parts of three seasons.

On June 23, 2024, the 40th anniversary of his iconic moment, the Cubs unveiled a statue of Sandberg outside Wrigley Field.

Sandberg bravely battled cancer the last two years. He was 65.

[Chicago Cubs @Cubs]

With great sadness, we share that Ryne Sandberg has passed away today.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

America hasn’t been perfect. It’s made grave mistakes. But there is no country that has ever done more for improving the world. It breaks my heart how unappreciative Americans across the ideological spectrum are of that. Much of the left rejects we’ve ever been good for the world, much of the right wants to stop being good for the world. Shame on all of them.

[Jane Daas @JaneDaas]

What National Review Loves About America https://t.co/NQQ9Nv2mBK

[Dick Vitale @DickieV]

GOD BLESS THE USA! Have a happy & safe 4th of July !
Source: HISTORY https://t.co/rtwKPGC4rj

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

I don’t want to connect my coffee machine to the wifi network. I don’t want to share the file with OneDrive. I don’t want to download an app to check my car’s fluid levels. I don’t want to scan a QR code to view the restaurant menu. I don’t want to let Google know my location before showing me the search results. I don’t want to include a Teams link on the calendar invite. I don’t want to pay 50 different monthly subscription fees for all my software. I don’t want to upgrade to TurboTax platinum plus audit protection. I don’t want to install the Webex plugin to join the meeting. I don’t want to share my car’s braking data with the actuaries at State Farm. I don’t want to text with your AI chatbot. I don’t want to download the Instagram app to look at your picture. I don’t want to type in my email address to view the content on your company’s website. I don’t want text messages with promo codes. I don’t want to leave your company a five-star Google review in exchange for the chance to win a $20 Starbucks gift card. I don’t want to join your exclusive community in the metaverse. I don’t want AI to help me write my comments on LinkedIn. I don’t even want to be on LinkedIn in the first place.

I just want to pay for a product one time (and only one time), know that it’s going to work flawlessly, press 0 to speak to an operator if I need help, and otherwise be left alone and treated with some small measure of human dignity, if that’s not too much to ask anymore.

[Jane Daas @JaneDaas]

@HollywoodYeste1 Natalie Wood, Splendor in the Grass and Glenn Close, The Natural

[Jane Daas @JaneDaas]

Big Money Pushes Voucher Expansion But the Public Is Poorly Informed About the Danger | janresseger https://t.co/vHrf2ozcUw

[Dean Phillips @deanbphillips]

I never imagined seeing the flag of a terror group holding eight Americans hostage for 292 days waved in the streets of our nation’s Capitol.

Over a million Americans have given their lives to protect that right - including my own father.

[Condoleezza Rice @CondoleezzaRice]

Today on Juneteenth we celebrate something we hold in common — our belief that all men and women are created equal. Our founding documents said that, and it would be many years before we would begin to deliver on that. May we come together today in celebration of our progress.

[LiterateIndy @LiterateIndy]

June 1, 1874.
Indianapolis Times.

State News.