Mike Vogel

Cover the Caps for Love hockey, baseball, music, writing, reading. Dylan. Kerouac. Replacements. Tom Waits. YLT. DBT. Film noir, more.

[Dan Connolly @danconnolly2016]

It's official. The Montreal Canadiens are out of the playoffs and my favorite stat holds for another year. A U.S. team has won the Canadian Football League's Grey Cup (Baltimore Stallions, 1995) more recently than a Canadian team has won the NHL's Stanley Cup (Montreal, 1993).

[Steve Politi @StevePoliti]

We talked to nearly 100 people about youth sports in New Jersey and found a predatory industry that is leaving parents broke, exhausted and wondering how the games of their childhood took over their adult lives. Our six-month investigation: https://t.co/plE3w618qt

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

“If we erase January 6th, it didn’t happen”

“If we don’t release certain inflation data, there’s no inflation”

“If we don’t measure food insecurity, no one’s hungry”

“If we delete research on right-wing violence, there’s no right-wing violence”

“If we stop Covid testing, we’ll have fewer cases”

The Trump administration wants you to believe their propaganda is fact, and control the majority of mainstream media and social platforms to reinforce their lies.

This is what authoritarianism looks like.

[Mike Vogel @VogsCaps]

Caps Sign Liljegren to Two-Year Extension — Caps begin to tackle offseason “to do” list, signing Liljegren and adding Bennett to coaching staff: https://t.co/6zv8SEbWCr #ALLCAPS

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

If you see a helicopter towing one of these over your neighborhood, bad news: your town is getting a data center. They’re running airborne electromagnetic surveys to map groundwater in the area.

TRANSLATION: figuring out how much water they can divert before people notice.

[Mike Vogel @VogsCaps]

Caps Sign Sikora, Niederbach — Caps sign pair of pivots, Leonard named to Team USA roster, and remembering 1970s Caps reporter Russ White: https://t.co/vrFfszO236 #ALLCAPS

[Mike Vogel @VogsCaps]

I’m sure there is a full presidential pardon in their future.

[Lil Rico ⑨ @IAmLilRico]

A Georgia couple who terrorized a Black family at a child’s birthday party with Confederate flags, racial slurs, guns, and death threats were sentenced for a hate crime. Joe Torres got 20 years; Kyla Norton got 15..😳🚨

[Mike Vogel @VogsCaps]

So much for “draining the swamp.”

[Viral Reel Addict @ViralReelAddict]

People convicted of fraud who received pardons from Trump this year:

• Jason Galanis — $200M+ fraud
• Joseph Schwartz — $38M scheme
• Lawrence Duran — $205M Medicare fraud billing
• Carlos Watson — $60M investor scam
• Trevor Milton — $20M+ investor losses
• Todd & Julie Chrisley — $30M bank fraud
• Devon Archer — $60M bond fraud scheme
• George Santos — multiple fraud cases ($44K–$1M+)
• Michele Fiore — charity fraud
• Brian Kelsey — campaign finance fraud
• Scott Jenkins — bribery and fraud scheme
• Paul Walczak — $10M+ tax fraud
• Adriana Camberos — counterfeit/fraud operation

[Anna Kramer @anna_c_kramer]

22,000 gallons of jet fuel leaked from Joint Base Andrews into a Potomac tributary sometime this spring.

We still don’t know when it happened, or the extent of the damage.

Internal docs show that the base knew there were problems and didn’t report them. https://t.co/CHjP3GxngS

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Associate Press wins a Pulitzer for showing how across the world, surveillance technology – often made by Silicon Valley and sold with US government blessing despite sanctions – is increasingly monitoring the moves of citizens who have done nothing wrong. https://t.co/HwpOvunOwV

[Vagabundo ilustrado @vagoilustrado]

La democracia muere en la oscuridad...

La periodista del Washington Post Hannah Natanson, fue amenazada, demandada y el FBI hasta allanó su casa. Hoy ganó el Pulitzer por su trabajo sobre el desmantelamiento del Estado (Trump/Musk con DOGE). El periodismo es luz en la oscuridad.

[Books Behind Borders @MHTruthUltra]

If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to figure out what was wrong with it.

When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes.

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

18 months ago, noted lefty rag The Economist had this cover. Cut to today and nearly 3/4 of households are struggling to buy basic necessities but I guess there was no choice, Joe Biden was boring and the $1 street vendor hot dogs went up to $1.50 in NYC 🙃

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

As America descends deeper into authoritarian fascism under Trump, all six conservative Supreme Court justices attended his state dinner with King Charles — thus removing any pretense of neutrality.

[Aaron Blake @AaronBlake]

61% of Americans say the Iran war is a "mistake," per new WaPo-ABC poll.

In Iraq, it took more than 3 years to reach that high.

In Vietnam, it took 6 years.

[Lazzyyyyyy @em_Lazzy]

The fact we are going to have our first trillionaire before everyone has access to clean drinking water is proof our current system is not for the greater good but for the greedy.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

There it is. Any questions?

[Historical Africa @historical_Afr]

In September 1946, Albert Einstein called racısm America’s “worst disease.” Earlier that year, he told students and faculty at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, the oldest Black college in the Western world, that racial segregation was “not a disease of colored people, but a dısease of whıte people, adding, “I will not remain silent about it.”

When Albert Einstein moved to America, he was disappointed to see how Black people were being treated. Even in his new hometown of Princeton, he observed separation of the whıte and bIack societies. Einstein thought of segregation as “unacceptable.”

Albert Einstein rarely accepted honorary doctorates, but he did so for Lincoln University, a small historically Black college in Pennsylvania in 1946. He also gave a lecture before a small group of students who were seen with him in the photo. Also taught Black university students, but the press didn't like to publicise it as the idea of educated equal Black people scared the establishment.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

How is this being treated as normal?

A Republican governor is declaring a state of emergency to cancel an ongoing election for Congress. If you think this is ends with redistricting, you are not paying attention.