Kentucky public media stations to lose millions after Congressional rescission vote www.lpm.org/news/2025-07...

Agent: Fever's Caitlin Clark, WNBA players deserve higher pay

www.espn.com/wnba/story/_...

That’s quite an origin story note.

Postcard from a kitchen counter, Christmas Eve.

This MLB report re: pitcher injuries is really interesting. Contemplates everything from changes in strategy (strikeouts vs ball in play), uptick in physical stress from youth travel ball and, yes, pitch clock (early days, but report says: probably not) www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Much like Freddie Freeman, am happy for Washington but very much regret he left.
www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/... Nothing but facts:

Assad's final hours in Syria: Deception, despair and flight www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Headed to the Georgia-GaTech game. Only one option for pregame meal:

After I moved to Delhi, @rahulabhatia.bsky.social quickly became a journalist whose byline I followed closely. I was lucky enough to later work with him at Reuters. Got his book today — can’t wait to get started:

After nearly eight years of painstaking public records work by Bloomberg's @jasonleopold.bsky.social , the US government has now declassified a closely guarded memo related to the targeted assassinations of Vladimir Putin’s political foes. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

A deep-cover CIA officer spent years underground trying to infiltrate Al Qaeda. But an investigation into his life, work, and death reveals mystery, moral quagmires, and the secret toll of the War on Terror
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Key events in Gautam Adani's US indictment over alleged bribery scheme www.reuters.com/world/india/...

Reading: Saad Eddin Ibrahim spent his life advocating for civil society and democratization in the Arab world. Then he abruptly became an apologist for authoritarian counterrevolution.
newlinesmag.com/essays/the-c...

Reminds me of a piece the NYT did a few years ago, on cost for those unable to afford air purifiers in Delhi: more years of life lost for their children.

By way of context

The air quality index numbers coming out of Delhi right now: