Kevin Baron 🧙🏻‍♂️😈☠️⚾️

I also recognize this is not just a southern thing, it’s just more stark in the south. Also this is bipartisan as both Dems and Repubs make policy choices that screw over most of the population

The last part of this headline is so important. After living in the South for 12 years, so many people do not realize how bad off they are and how better off they could be by changing policies…it’s a choice and one the people they keep voting for make but realizing your being fucked is step one

Happy anniversary of Nixon’s resignation eve for all who celebrate

History is a flat circle

After Sony's social media tease, Tom Holland spoils the new Spidey costume for Spider-Man: Brand New Day on social media In pure Tom Holland fashion, get a look at the new Spider-Man suit from the upcoming Brand New Day movie

I am looking forward to the new Spider-Man while at the same time irritated that Sony will not allow Marvel to have a live action Miles Morales in the MCU until after the final Spiderverse movie comes out which who knows when that will happen www.thepopverse.com/movies-spide...

Oh ffs…I’m old enough to remember Gingrich running in the 2012 primaries promising military bases on the moon…somehow this is far worse

Remaining hopeful that today is the day the #Yankees begin to turn things around to go 35-16 for the remainder of the season…right!?! It’s bound to happen, right? Boone says it’s right in front of them, but what’s right in front I’m not sure

Frustrating is the best descriptor for this Yankees team

This is nice but it’s also great to see Luis Gil back on the mound for the first time this season

Checking in on the #Yankees game and Grisham’s lead off homer means they’re doing better than yesterday although that bar is about as low as it can go

When the country prioritizes anonymous goons to disappear people off the streets while getting rid of funding for public media - PBS/NPR and other public goods like Amtrak, food assistance, and numerous other programs designed to help everyone, then the country is neither free or democratic

Head scratchingly stupid

Dude…this fukin #Yankees team is killing me

I’ll clarify by saying Obama of course had his issues too, but his rhetoric and calls for improvement and coming together is so refreshing in this current moment of constant chaos and attacks on everyone over every little thing to stoke the outrage and division to ensure status quo power remains

I’m coding data on presidential weekly addresses, currently doing Obama’s from 2009-2010 and I’m reminded how big he tried to push the country in so many different policy areas for reforms and how little was accomplished because so many lost their fukin minds because he wasn’t a mediocre white guy

a woman is sitting on a couch with the words " i have to go scream into a pillow " above her ALT: a woman is sitting on a couch with the words " i have to go scream into a pillow " above her

Excuse me for a moment…

I’m soooooo exhausted

Yeah…erasing the East Wing to build DC’s version of Mar a Lago doesn’t exactly scream The People’s House. It reads more like a king expanding his castle

This is so devastating and really a sad commentary on the state of American society. Also, living somewhere where trains are a great option, Amtrak prices for tickets have tripled in cost while the number of train options have shrunk by half. At least for trains that I use, being Albany to NYC

I recommend the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social has the new books in political science, I’m pretty sure that @gorenlj.bsky.social still hosts some of those which I have always found to be really good plus Lilly’s awesome, and for your book would be a great convo

Yeah probably. It’s one of Alastor’s favorite musicals and it’s an off broadway traveling company that’s been performing the show in London for the last year, and they’re only in NY for a couple months so we thought we’d take advantage

Nope…we came down to the city yesterday for the game and we’re seeing Heathers the Musical tonight

Got this shot last night of one of my happy places…bottom of the 4th as the Yankees took (and then held) the lead on Tampa

My favorite is the Hudson Valley Renegades (high-A of NY Yankees) that on occasion goes by the Hudson Valley Cider Donuts…got a matching jersey that goes with the hat

As higher ed in the US continues to implode, I’m now considering my next career path…and I think there’s a market on a C-level cable channel for my new reality tv idea: Political Science Paranormal Investigator

Okay…saw Fantastic Four today and it was really good on a lot of different levels, it was quite different in some ways for a Marvel film, following on how good Thunderbolts is. Perhaps a new era. And how good Superman is, it seems like the DCU is also moving in a good direction

Comedy and comedians, especially late night teevee comedy has and always will be political…sticking to politics is exactly comedians lane and they should never ignore it. Look at even a bit of history with folks like Bruce, Gregory, Pryor, Carlin who broke barriers and norms to stand up for rights

Which is why it is probably for the best that comics avoid this kind of historical crossover story as you can't change history and having the Avengers save America is great an all, but not sure how they can square reality with the fiction...I will remain hopefully optimistic with this one but...meh

Captain America is traveling through time to save the U.S.A. ahead of country's 250th birthday in Marvel's 1776 Captain America is going to team up with America's founding fathers.

so the political scientist who loves American history in me is wanting to be excited by this special run next year, but the problem being sending an Avengers team back in time to save America's founding but they do nothing about ending slavery ...
www.thepopverse.com/comics-1776-...

Okay, I’ll throw two out for the day just because for #Marvel …current/new run of @stephsmash.bsky.social Ghost Spider is frickin amazing. Followed by the classic Miller run Daredevil with blind Matt Murdock pointing a gun at you