Morning Reads for Tuesday, March 28

Good morning! The special Mass intention at an Atlanta-area Catholic school this morning is for the repose of the soul of Jon Richards.

• The stakes are higher as the amounts of small pickups and SUVs manufactured in Mexico rose sharply.
• The “religious left” gains prominence. (NB: just because you’re just now aware that there’s a religious left doesn’t mean it’s anything new.)
• Bless your heart, Jared Kushner. Taxpayers aren’t “customers.”
• Meanwhile, Barty Crouch, Jr. Alex Jones apologized for Pizzagate and acknowledged that it’s total BS.
  • I wonder when he’ll apologize for perpetuating the lie that Sandy Hook was fake?
  • Or that 9/11 and Oklahoma City were inside jobs?
  • Or that the moon landing was fake?
• I can’t improve on this headline: “Plastic bantastic: Kenya tries to ban plastic bags – again.”
• Norwegian Air offers $65 international fares from select smaller hubs. Huh. We haven’t had conversations in Georgia about bringing commercial air service to smaller airports in Georgia, have we?
• Georgia to explore expanding Medicaid.
• Bird flu is confirmed in a Chattooga County flock.
• Delta casts shade at United on Twitter.
  • In fairness to United, those girls were flying non-rev and anyone who’s ever flown non-rev knows that the non-rev dress code is not to be trifled with.
  • In fairness to Delta, their non-rev dress code is pretty chill.
• The AJC sent a squadron of writers and editors out to demonstrate just how awful the drive to SunTrust Park will be. (SYAC: it wasn’t nearly as bad as they expected.
  • Honestly, traffic can only improve once the road construction is finally finished.
• City of Atlanta residents, are you satisfied?
• Hey, did y’all know that part of the Tennessee River is technically in Georgia? And there’s, like, water in that river? NO WAY!
• The art of the Braves.
• There are a lot and I mean A LOT of Bulldogs here and that’s fine, I guess, but let’s take a moment to consider Georgia’s four women’s colleges. Bonus points if you can name them before you click the link.
  • Related: Go Jackets and Hail State and/or Southern!
• The Trump White House is Season 5 of Arrested Development.
• For more than a year, I shared a Hamilton link every week, and Jon never complained. One time on Twitter, he told me that he heard that Hamilton was “boring” but I am (mostly) certain he was just messing with me. This is for him.