Former Chicago White Sox All-Star pitcher and 2005 World Series Champion Bobby Jenks passed away yesterday, July 4, in Sintra, Portugal, where he had been battling adenocarcinoma, a form of stomach cancer. He was 44 years old.

That Matt Olson RBI single is the first run the Braves have scored on something other than a home run since last Saturday.

As these political and personal purges continue, important agencies will become unable to perform their basic functions, and at some point will only be able to spread the purges into the larger society. lawfaremedia.org/article/goodby…

Eight stages of a major exchange. Since the beginning of June, hundreds of our people have returned home. Our youth, the defenders of Mariupol, those who held the line in the Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk, Kharkiv, Sumy, Chernihiv, and Kyiv regions. The wounded, the severely

Trump’s Politicized F.B.I. Has Made Americans Less Safe nytimes.com/2025/07/05/opi…

Goodbye to All That My resignation from the FBI, from Michael Feinberg. lawfaremedia.org/article/goodby…

Sunday squad. #BravesCountry

The Braves are 11 games under .500 for the first time since finishing the 2017 season at 72-90

New report reveals Hamas' "widespread and systematic" sexual violence on October 7 haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Chris Sale gains his second straight All-Star selection and ninth overall. He won’t be available to pitch because of the broke ribs suffered on June 18

Matt Olson was six years-old when he attended the Home Run Derby when the All-Star Game was last in Atlanta. Twenty-five years later, the lifetime Atlanta native will be an All-Star in his hometown

Chris Sale and Matt Olson join Ronald Acuña Jr. on the NL All-Star team. Sale made it for the second year in a row with the #Braves. He was a 7-time All-Star in the AL. Olson is a third-time All-Star including twice in past three years.

Abstract rule learning promotes cognitive flexibility in complex environments across species nature.com/articles/s4146… #neuroscience

Good account of a KGB "dangle" to the CIA in the cold war. "GTPROLOGUE exemplifies CIA’s troubled experience with hostile double agents during the 1980s, when a few select services—particularly the Soviets, East Germans & Cubans—badly burned the agency." cia.gov/resources/csi/…

Pretty interesting. Some guy found a book that shared a list of bands that were banned from the USSR in 1985

What’s it like to parachute into Truist Park? Answer:

ESPN presents three hypothetical trades for Ronald Acuña Jr. sportstalkatl.com/espns-three-hy…

Harris sits against another lefty

Secretary of State Marco Rubio was overseeing a deal to free Americans and political prisoners held in Venezuela. But it never happened. nyti.ms/44E01A6