Weekend photos

As threatened promised, here are a couple of photos from the weekend. First, sunrise yesterday:

Second, Cassie at Horner Park DFA:

She had a great time. There were more balls on the ground at the dog park than in the entire House Republican caucus. Speaking of those wonderful servants of democracy:

• "Friends don't let friends watch the early vote:" "There’s lots of interesting information in the early vote but not about who is going to win."
• Right-wing candidates in Brazil and Serbia lost elections to the center-left, to the great joy of democrats everywhere.
• Michael Tomasky peers into the rotting Swiss cheese inside the OAFPOTUS's skull and concludes he wants his own party to lose next week's elections for his own personal gain. ("For a president to say 10 days before an election that he doesn’t give a damn that people are paying high prices—which is what he said, no matter how his apologists try to spin it—is, well, unusual.")
• Brian Beutler once again chastises the Democratic Party for downplaying the OAFPOTUS's threat to democracy this close to the election.
• Matt Yglesias chastises the party for really annoying fundraising.
• A federal judge has ordered that Maurene Comey be reinstated as an assistant US attorney following her unlawful firing last year.
• The FAA has certified Boeing's 737-10, an airplane that is finally cost-competitive with Airbus's A321neo.
• Chicago's far north side Rogers Park neighborhood will soon get self-cleaning restrooms in hopes of getting people not to shit on the sidewalk.

Finally, today is the 40th anniversary of Bill Buckner's fielding error in game 6 of the 1986 World Series that allowed the Mets to win and forced a game 7, which Boston wound up losing. Astute baseball fans noticed that Buckner was a former Chicago Cub, playing for the almost-as-cursed Red Sox, so some kind of error was almost inevitable. That said, Buckner didn't lose Game 6; pitcher Calvin Shiraldi gave up two runs in the bottom of the 10th, which relief pitcher Bob Stanley followed up with a wild pitch that put a runner on third.

Buckner played 2,517 games, scored 1,077 runs, stole 183 bases, and had a .991 fielding percentage (only 128 errors in 13,901 chances), which is one of the highest in history (and higher than anyone's in the 2026 season). That's quite a career.

Still, if you were alive and a baseball fan in 1986, you will never forget that error.