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The Tea, Spilled by Morning Joe: Friday edition
This is the March 27, 2026, edition of “The Tea, Spilled by Morning Joe” newsletter.Subscribe hereto get it delivered straight to your inbox Monday through Friday.
JOE’S NOTE
Five minutes in to a seven-month season, Varnish, Lemirand I have already convinced ourselves the Boston Red Sox might be onto something. Johannah’s father is not that far behind us in this year of magical thinking.
The Sox continue their season-opening series against the Cincinnati Reds this weekend, coming off a 3-0 win. And yes, this is exactly how the hope — that will likely break us all — begins.
Now, if you can pull yourself away:
The Blossom Kite Festival is taking over the skies near the Washington Monument — red, white, and blue kites, big crowds, and actual spring. Go while it lasts.
In New York City, the Whitney Biennial 2026 brings together 50-plus artists wrestling with what “American” art looks like right now — results may vary.
In Philadelphia, “Candlelight: Hip-Hop on Strings” does exactly what it sounds like — reimagine rap classics with live strings, by candlelight. A surprisingly compelling way to hear songs you already know by heart.
Across the country, thousands will hit the streets for “No Kings Day of Action” rallies and protests, with major turnouts expected in Chicago, Los Angeles, and beyond.
Down in Miami, Ultra Music Festival is back at Bayfront Park — three days, multiple stages, global headliners, and the next wave of names you’ll be saying later. Loud, packed, and exactly what you signed up for.
And in Houston, the Texas Children’s Houston Open returns to Memorial Park Golf Course, with Brooks Koepka and defending champ Min Woo Lee in the field as the PGA Tour heads into its spring stretch.
Go enjoy the weekend. The Sox are 1-0, and it’s only April — which means there’s still plenty of time to believe. We’ll take it.
LETTERS FROM OUR READERS
Thank you again to all our readers who wrote in this week. As always, you’re welcome to write to usany time.
There are 435 representatives in the house and 100 senators paid and elected by us to do a job. Anytime they, as a whole, delay to come to agreement to pay government work groups, they should withhold their pay; each time they delay showing up to work, they should not be paid. It is their duty: Like firemen are hired to put out fires, congressmen are hired to see the government works or face not getting a paycheck like everyone else. The job comes with personal liability and risk for its grandeur.
— Anonymous
For Mika. Thank you for standing up and having a clear position on the chaos and what is right and wrong. It gives me comfort.
— Iora Z., Los Angeles
I rewatched “Field of Dreams” after listening to your talk on it and cried the whole way through. Aside from the baseball, I found the political part re: censorship and the Constitution surprisingly topical.
— Marianne D., Rockville, Md.
Just a comment: Gas in Dana Point, California, on Wednesday for regular at local Mobil station was $6.35!
— Lucinda S., Dana Point
Joe, gas in Las Vegas at Sam’s Club $4.36 a gallon today at noon.
— Judy R., Las Vegas
I will be giving out Andrew McCarthy’s book to my male friends at Christmas. A GREAT idea for a book for “guys.”
— George J., Hatfield, Penn.
Joe, you, Mike, Willie, and Jonathan talking about opening day also made me think of my dad. We have been Braves fans since they came to Atlanta in ’66. My dad was in the Navy with Eddie Matthews on the USS Valley Forge during the Korean War. Our first game was the summer of ’66, when the Giants came to town … with Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, Juan Marichal, and Gaylord Perry. Also Alou brothers on both teams. Of course the Braves with Hank Aaron, Rico Carty, Joe Torre, and Eddie Mathews. Just a great day and memory with my brother and dad. “Field of Dreams,” best baseball movie.
— Brent S., Whitsett, N.C.
Your rant on the SAVE Act was great. If the conservative Bible says it’s bad, you know it’s bad. One point you neglected to mention: The act would take effect immediately, supposedly in time to save both houses of congress for Trump. How on earth are state and local election officials to enact all the law demands? And where will the money come from to pay for the return to the last century’s pencil-and-paper voting? Trump is rightly scared, but I don’t think the Dems should impeach him. The next-in-line people like Vance and Johnson are worse. Leave him be to twist in his own whirlwind of trouble. Great shows and congrats on shifting back to three more manageable hours.
— Mark F., Melbourne, Fla.
BEFORE YOU GO …
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Sara Teasdale wrote of nature’s beauty and the coming of spring in this classic poem. Written in 1918 during the height of World War I, the poem highlights nature’s indifference to the madness of war and to mankind itself.
There Will Come Soft Rains
(War Time)
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white,
Robins will wear their feathery fire
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.
ONE MORE SHOT
Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach of “The Bear” famejoined usthis morning to discuss their Broadway show, “Dog Day Afternoon.” Bernthal and Moss-Bachrach star as Sonny and Sal, respectively.
That’s all the time we have, folks.
Thanks so much for your letters and for readingThe Tea, Spilled by Morning Joe.
Have a great weekend.
Joe
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Former Rep. Joe Scarborough, R-Fla., is co-host of MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” alongside Mika Brzezinski — a show that Time magazine calls “revolutionary.” In addition to his career in television, Joe is a two-time New York Times best-selling author. His most recent book is “The Right Path: From Ike to Reagan, How Republicans Once Mastered Politics — and Can Again.”