https://twitter.com/DanLamothe/status/1511747238879543304

From Politico Playbook PM:


WAIT, THEY KILLED THE FOX?!? — NBC’s @frankthorp just tweeted that officials put down the poor fox that was spotted and captured on Capitol Hill on Tuesday: “SAD NEWS on the Capitol Hill fox beat, per DC Health: ‘The fox responsible for 9 confirmed bites on Capitol Hill yesterday was captured and humanely euthanized so that rabies testing may be done. The fox was an adult female and her kits were found and captured this morning.’”

We’re animal lovers, so this officially ruined our day. Maybe our week.

I need to start picking horses for the Kentucky Derby!

From this morning's NY Times newsletter The Morning:


4. Another mystery
Throughout the pandemic, Osterholm — the Minnesota epidemiologist — has lamented that many scientists, journalists and laypeople exaggerate how much we actually know about Covid. His favorite example: The Alpha variant swept through Michigan and Minnesota last year and then largely died out, without causing case increases in other parts of the U.S. Another example: BA.2 has recently become the dominant variant in India, South Africa and some other countries without causing a spike in cases.

When I called Osterholm yesterday to ask why cases had not surged over the past few weeks, he simply said: “I don’t know, and I don’t think anybody really knows.”

Of all the variants, only the original Omicron was so contagious that it spread around the world in predictable ways, he said. Other versions of the virus have surged and receded in mysterious ways, much as a forest fire can die out without burning down an entire forest.

https://twitter.com/PhillipsPOBrien/status/1511593064007090180

That's not going to work either.
Medium thread.

https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1511417219674161158


Medium thread.

https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1511108357712719872


Medium thread.

https://twitter.com/NathanGrubaugh/status/1509605569140871174

https://twitter.com/NathanGrubaugh/status/1509605571691008003


Cases in CT are up a bit but still at very low levels.

retreating from the east of Kyiv. There is an awful lot of video on twitter of abandoned and destroyed Russian vehicles today.



https://twitter.com/pollack_steven/status/1510689850265063433

https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1510708646509961217

https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPR/status/1510746465282318337

Somebody posted a list of damaged ships in the Ukraine war today. A fair number of patrol craft on both sides have been hit.